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>> 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...

abuses are purged from our political processes. in the years to come. long after i have left this office. >> i looked at my own calendar this morning as i was working on this speech. it showed exactly 1,361 days remaining in my term. i want these to be the best days in america's history. god bless america. god bless each and every one of you. >> central to the problems faced by president nixon is the water gate tapes and tangled history. fred graham traces that story. >> it all began suddenly when an obscure former white house official appeared as a surprise witness before the senate...

Discussions with his advisors and staff. in the execution of his presidential duties. >> this principle of confidentiality of presidential conversations is at stake. in the question of these tapes. i must and i shall oppose any efforts to destroy this principle. >> mix son's taping system was unique. because he had total control over the tapes. there's no way anybody else in the government could get those tapes without going to court and getting an order. >> the president moved to quash the subpoenas and he lost. and the district court before judge he lost in the court of appeals for the distr...

>> in february of 1971, the president told bob his chief of staff that he wanted to install some listening devices around the white house. he said it was up to me to decide who should install these devices. i chose the secret service. >> the system designed only to take conversations in which nixon participated in. so when he would enter a room where there was a taping system. they flswitch on the on switch. when he left they turn it off. >> the listening devices were to record as much of the administrative business as possible. that's why we had the listening devices in so many different area...