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Ordered the break-in. here he is on nbc's the "today" show. >> liddy thought the republicans needed intelligence on the democrats. >> democrats. >> i don't think liddi fought it. i think he was told by the white house to prepare some plans and we had rejected all six of them except the watergate plan and the president got on the phone and said we need to get the information on larry o'brien, so let's go with the liddi plan. >> you actually heard the president? >> yes. >> well, four decades later, fascination with the attempted bugging that toppled a president remains. douglas brinkley is a pre...
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