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>> this room and the next contain my archives. it's magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything relating to watergate. >> i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. >> i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. >> the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. >> we're not on the road to fascism, but we're dangerously close to it. >> these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. >> i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. >> we will never give up. we wi...

Illegally to the offices of a political opponent as richard nixon directed his plumbers unit in the summer of 1972 to do. however, i do think it is worth talking about sort of the shared challenge that investigating the president brings to the department of justice. i think that's where both in richard nixon's case and in donald trump's case as a former president, i really have to disagree with shan here, which is this would not be a straightforward case for the justice department to be pursuing on its own. i really agree with phil that there must be more underlying information about these spe...

The second was to discredit his enemies, one being daniel ellsberg. >> the plumbers unit cooks up the idea of breaking into ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. >> the order from erlichman was to find psychiatric notes and do this discreetly. this was an unchecked white house investigative unit. nixon knew full well that his people were going to engage in a crime against an american citizen. but he's not told details of what's going to happen so nixon had deniability. hunt and liddy's team break in. they look around. and they don't find any psychiatric notes. so they decide to make it look like a...

The reasons that Nixon’s scandal endures when other presidents’ disgraces have not.

They are called the plumbers because they are tracking down leaks. >> the key figures in the plumbers were g. gordon liddy, howard hunt, bud krogh, chuck colson and david young. but the two most dangerous were g. gordon liddy and e. howard hunt. g. gordon liddy, a special agent of the fbi and e. howard hunt had been with the cia. >> in order to protect the lives of our people abroad, we would be justified in a homicide. >> g. gordon liddy used the symbol of the ss when he signed memos so he is no friend of democracy. the plumbers had two objectives, one was to prevent leaks. the second was to ...