republican national committee replacing senator robert dole of kansas. >> i think it's important work and i look forward to getting involved in it. >> it was a job that bush did not seek and did not want. nevertheless, he shared his father's sense of duty. >> and the president wants you to do something kund my kind of system of civics, you ought to do it. >> bush's loyalty to nixon was soon tested by the biggest scandal in american political history. >> watergate, republican national chairman george bush said that president nixon understands the watergate problem fully and will clear it up totally. he did not elaborate. >> i'm concerned about it. deeply. mainly for the system. i don't want to go home at night and see my young kids turned off of this political process by some illegal or alleged lily legal or close to illegal acts. >> you try being chairman of the republican party during the watergate days. you talk about a ghastly