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>> some republicans who voted for the impeachment, some democrats who voted for the impeachment, they were putting their political lives on the line. all of us were putting our reputations on the line. >> aye. >> we voted on the impeachment. it was one of the most sober and solemn moments in my life and i think in the life of everybody on that committee. everybody understood the stakes for the country. that's what this was all about. and it was above party. it was what was good for america and what our democracy required. >> aye. >> it was the republicans that ultimately provided a real measur...

Government documents, forged state department documents and letters, secret slush funds, plans to audit tax returns. conspiracy to obstruct justice. all of this by the law-and-order administration of richard nixon. it sounds bad when you put it like that, huh? >> in the end, some 40 people pled guilty to watergate related crimes. jon ehrlichman, bob halderman, john dean and 16 others went to jail. >> i'm not quite sure when i enter the conspiracy to obstruct justice. that's one of the things i'm trying to figure out. whendy cross the line? when did i enter that illegal conspiracy? no question ...

Possession and the country moved closer to a clash between the white house and the congress and the courts which will be unprecedented in american history. >> it became clear he wasn't going to produce them voluntarily. there's a reason why he's drawing the line. he's taking all this flak, there must be some damaging things on there. i was concerned -- we were concerned that he might dispose of the tapes. that in and of itself could be a criminal offense. burning the tapes, destroying the tapes. >> nixon never thought the tapes that he was making secretly would ever surface publically. they wo...

Suffer a defeat, that all has ended. >> it's really sad, really sad. i don't think any president has been more wrongly persecuted than nixon, ever. i think he was a saint. >> always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them. and then you destroy yourself. >> ultimately, what comes through on the tapes, and what comes through in nixon's actions, is his hate, his vengeful hate. and in that last farewell he gives that self-revealing line that hate will destroy you. >> that this piston, hate, this