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>> nixon. >> richard nixon. >> nixon. >> yeah, nixon. >> nixon. >> is anybody else running but nixon? >> the president was a political animal. the president was phenomenally skilled. he was able to handle virtually anything. >> five men wearing white gloves and carrying cameras were caught earlier today in the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. they were caught by a night watchman, and they did not resist arrest when the police came. they were apparently unarmed, and no one yet knows why they were there. the film in the camera hadn't been exposed. in any case, the...

Washington. they were caught by a night watchman, and they did not resist arrest when the police came. they were apparently unarmed, and no one yet knows why they were there. the film in the camera hadn't been exposed. in any case, they're being held. >> the democratic national committee is housed in the fashionable watergate complex. the break-in prepared well in advance. files were ransacked and papers removed. also in this area, ceiling tiles had been removed for the suspected planting of bugging devices. >> it was saturday morning, june 17th. the phone rang, it was about 6:30. a colleague ...

Episode may have never gone down the way it did. >> well, that's the irony of it. if the cop that was assigned to that patrol area that night had shown up, in his -- in uniform in his squad car with presumably the sirens whaling and lights flashing the spotter across the street in the howard johnson's would have had time to get on his walkie-talkie and warn the burglars law enforcement was there and to get out. of course that law enforcement officer had to go up six flights of stairs before getting to the dnc, democratic headquarters, on the sixth floor of the watergate hotel. so if things had...

Public affairs, craig shirley, books include "reagan's revolution, the untold story of the campaign that started it all." >> he writes one a week. >> out with a piece published in washingtonian magazine where he gives details on how the infamous so-called watergate five were arrested. writes, though not reported in "the washington post" police blotter on june 17th five burglars dressed in suits but wearing surgical gloves would be arrested at the watergate complex in foggy bottom by three plains clothed police officers from the bum squad setting off a chain of events that changed the course of...

Bill lacey, vietnam war vet and hero was in the dmz for a number of years and leading a platoon there and bill was with his brother and another fellow rick stewart, owned p.w.'s restaurant right there on the same street as the palm here in washington. and he told me the story years ago, but he didn't want me to write it until a couple months ago. i said look, the 40th anniversary of watergate is coming up, let me write the story and he finally agreed to let me write the story about how the cop that was assigned to that squad car 80, assigned to that patrol area which included the watergate hot...