think ultimately the truth will come out. >> i think this is our fifth day. >> i was relieved is probably the one word that best captures it. >> john dean was the first member of the cover-up team to lay bare that there was a cover-up and that the president knew about it. >> john was coming in and conferencing to having been involved in the cover-up. >> he went before the public and admitted things that he did were unsavory, that he himself had crossed the line and admitted that in some ways, you know, he -- he was like nixon, and when he admitted it, the truth is you began to believe him even more. >> but maybe 50% more didn't believe dean and nixon's denials, which of course