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this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines, 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 will never concede. we will stop the steal. here we are, 50 years later, and the events of watergate are as relevant as they have ever been. there will not be a cover-up, there will not be an abuse of power. weapons of mass destruction. open up, you traitor! my name is john dean. i was richard nixon s white house counsel. the morning of june 17th, 1972, i got a call saying they ve got this st ....
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, that s what nixon said. i lust for power . the man in the middle in the watergate scandal is 34-year-old john wesley dean, iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i have no prior knowledge of the watergate break-ins. it s going to get worse, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglar ....
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 watergate scandal. it s 34-year-old john wesley dean iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i had no prior knowledge of the watergate break-in. it s going to get worse, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the water building last june. the wh ....
the biggest white house scandal in a century broke wide open today. the president s white house legal counsel john dean has been fired. reportedly dean is implicated in efforts to cover up the watergate scandal. watergate is the largest political scandal in american history. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything related to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i had 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 ....
contain my archives. it s magazines, 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 will never concede. we will stop the steal. here we are, 50 years later, at the events of watergate are as relevant as they have ever been. there will not be a cover-up, there will not be an abuse of power. weapons of mass destruction. open up, you traitor! my name is john dean. i was richard nixon s white house counsel. the morning of june 17th, 1972, i got a call saying they ve got this strange, weird burglary in t ....