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>> the wiretapping of his political opponents. >> conspiracy, extortion, blackmail. >> high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. >> the nixon/agnew team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters, sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. >> as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have. but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. >> it's not just a desire for political power. it's a lust. i mean,...

blackmail. >> high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. >> the nixon team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. >> as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have, but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. >> it's not just a desire for political power. it's a lust. i mean, that's what nixon said. i lust for power. >> the man in the middle in the water...

Neighbor who is an l.a. times reporter that i had somehow been involved in the planning of watergate. >> "los angeles times," without disclosing its course says mccord named white house lawyer john dean and deputy campaign director jeb magruder as having advance notice of the watergate. >> i was shocked. the stories in "the l.a. times" were defamatory. i certainly hadn't, as mccord had suggested, ordered the watergate break-in. but after the arrests, i had gotten increasingly involved. and i had become a target. while i'm at camp david, it's really the first time i'm out of the daily line of f...

Was a fiasco. >> the mccord letter was the first real indication that we had that maybe this thing went high up in both the campaign and perhaps the nixon administration. >> watergate was really a nonissue with the public. it wasn't a campaign issue. it was a big story in "the washington post" when they could find something. but most of the rest of the national press was paying no attention, up until mccord's letter. >> i mean, he didn't say nixon himself was involved. he just brought into it the white house. . >> nixon called me and said what you predicted that somebody was going to blow cert...

One of the things i suggest to the president is that it's very likely that the cover-up is going to blow. i said i don't know who's going to go, who is going to blow. i tell him mccord, for example. mccord was worried. >> mccord decides he's going to blow the whistle. >> this was supposed to be the finale for the seven watergate defendants the day of sentencing. but instead the case broke wide open again. >> mccord wrote judge sirica a letter. in it he says other people not yet named were involved in the break-in at democratic national headquarters. he says the political pressure was brought o...