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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...

>> high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. >> the team received an overwhelming mandate from the american voters leaving every state but one, massachusetts . >> it is not just a desire for political power. it is a lost. that is what nixon said. i lust for power. >> the man in the middle, john wesley dean the third. >> i thought the cover-up was going to and after the election. i was wrong. >> i have no prior knowledge of the water great break in. >> is going to get much, much worse. >> seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged wit...

The power to put people under oat but congress does not have a prosecutorial funk. it's only to investigate, legislate and to inform >> by march 1973 you had the smart select committee pushing for hearings. >> but nixon by and large did not want aides to testify. >> people were very interested in the senate hearings and whether nixon was going to claim executive privilege to keep his top aides from testifying. >> a president can't use executive privilege to shield his own criminal conduct. >> nixon was upped pressure of republicans, and many voters who had voted him in -- the-of-but they were ...

We had the power to put people under oath, but, congress does not have a prosecutorial function. it is only to investigate, to legislate and to inform. >> by march, 1973, you have the senate select committee pushing for hearings. >> nixon by and large did not want to testify. >> people were very interested in the senate hearings and whether nixon was going to claim executive privilege to keep his top aides from testifying. >> a president can't use executive privilege to shield his own criminal conduct. >> nixon was under pressure of republicans and many voters who voted for him and 72 to coope...

State, strategizing out loud for how he thought all his watergate henchmen should handled the congressional investigation into watergate. what they should do to try and make it all go away. he said, on the white house tape, and the really hard to hear, but there's so much that, it can be hard to hear, but we have a transcript of them. he said on the tape, march 22nd, 1973, this, i don't give a bleep what happens. i want you all to stonewall it. let them plead the fifth amendment, if it will save it, save the plan. that's the whole point. plead the fifth. save the plan. save the cover-up. that'...