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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...

The long run they don't work. the truth has its own way of coming out and will come out. the weekend of april 14, 15, 1973 is when the watergate cover-up imploded. i had talked to hauledman and ehrlichman, the fact that i thought we were breaking the law and i showed particularly ehrlichman being had a lawyer the stat tuite that was involved hand why i thought we were violating it. he said i disagree, john. i have no which will intent so i didn't vie hate these statutes. >> i can't believe that had a man who went to law school had to miss school the day they talked about criminal intent. also ...

On the one and he owed his loyalty to the president and he also had an ethics conflict in his own mind about nixon not doing the right thing and he called me on the phone and he said barry. he said i would hike to talk to your dad. could you arrange that so i got john dean and my father senator barry goldwater together in my house and john asked my father what he should do and he said you've got to tell the truth and nate the son of a bitch. >> everybody was watching. everybody was talking about it. and john dean is the one that turned the dial. >> the council will call the first witness. >> i...

John, while you're at camp david, why don't you write the dean report. this was another attempt to get me to write a bogus dean report. way back in august 29th of the preceding year nixon implied that i had written a report or given him a report. i never even talked to the man about it. >> counsel to the president mr. dean, his investigation indicates that no one in the white house staff, no one in this administration presently employed was involved in this very bizarre incident. >> the problem is they didn't want an honest report. they wanted a report that would make everything go away and be...

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...