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>> she described that she had pushed the wrong button. instead of pushing stop, she had pushed record. she also had to keep her foot on the pedal. >> miss woods used the machine to show how it happened. >> when i asked her to demonstrate, she pushed the button, kept her foot on and she supposedly reached back about six feet to get the telephone. her foot came off the pedal just with the mere movement. and there was just no way it was believable. >> the white house contention that the talk betwee...

>> ms. woods said it was a mistake. a record button hit accidentally while she took a phone call. >> she described that she pushed the wrong button. instead of pushing stop, she had pushed record. she also had to keep her foot on the pedal. >> mrs. woods used the machine to show how it happened. >> when i asked her to demonstrate, she pushed the button, kept her foot on and she supposedly reached back about six feet to get the telephone. her foot came off the pedal just with the mere movement. t...

>> ms. woods said it was a mistake. a record button hit accidentally while she took a phone call. >> she described that she pushed the wrong button. instead of pushing stop, she had pushed record. she had to keep her foot on the pedal. >> mrs. woods used the machine to show how it happened. >> when i asked her to demonstrate, she pushed the button, kept her foot on and she supposedly reached back about six feet to get the telephone. her foot came off the pedal just with the mere movement. there ...

>> mrs. woods used the machine to show how it happened. >> when i asked her to demonstrate, she pushed the button, kept her foot on and she supposedly reached back about six feet to get the telephone. her foot came off the pedal just with the mere movement. there was no way it was believable. >> the white house intention that the talk between the president and haldeman was accidently erased would give more ammunition to the presidents critics. >> to hear something so obviously untrue changed a l...

Realist. we got problem. >> on march 21st john dean gave nixon a blunt assessment of the damage that watergate was doing to his presidency. >> he had his feet on the desk when was looking around his shoes at me. >> i have the impression you dont everything i know and it makes it very difficult for you to make judgments only you can make. >> after that remark his feet were solidly on the floor. and i had his full attention. i knew at that point he knew something but i didnt know how much. >> ther...

>> mrs. woods used the machine to show how it happened. >> when i asked her to demonstrate, she pushed the button, kept her foot on and supposedly reached back about six feet to get the telephone. her foot came off with just the mere movement. there was no way it was believable. >> the white house iention that the talk between the president and haldeman was accidently erased would give more ammunition to the presidents critics. >> to hear something so obviously untrue changed a lot of the americ...

Option. we could at that point drag the wagons around of a giant lie that would protect everybody willing to lie. >> i didnt run around trying to bribe anybody or shred documents. we preserved the documents. >> the president, erlichman and i made no attempt to take over the watergate case. the view was that the truth must be told and quickly. >> when i testified -- i knew clearly, was i in or out was the question? and i decided i could not play that game. i made mistakes. d gotten ourselves in a...

>> nixon held his ground. he insisted he knew nothing of the cover up, but among the thousands of hours of tapes one conversation recorded shortly after the break in would destroy what was left of his credibility and his presidency. >> on that investigation the democratic party thing, were back in the problem area because the fbi is not under control and they have their investigation is now leading into some productive areas. >> what finally catches him is when the tapes are released, the smokin...

Firing. >> now youre back to the watergate problem. >> here is the watergate issue. what nixon did was hush money which is bribery, destroying tapes and telling his underlings to lie. any president should be indicted for that. but you cannot indict and should not insight a president simply for exercising his constitutional authority. >> you seem to be having it both ways. you can indict for a crime but cant indict them for anything. >> you cant indict him for simply exercising his constitutional...

That make him look like hes lying or that he is trying to hide something, which may not be the fact but he has created this perception now that i think is going to dog him. if there is any further revelation, this is going to be a very, very slow burn for him toward the end. >> so best case scenario, what could this be? i keep trying to look at the other side of the story because we dont have victims that are speaking out in a very specific way. we have these two elusive stories of women who wer...