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national election. we had left the 1960 election, which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. in a sense, the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons that he always had within him to play during elections. >> it's about lust for power and absence of morality. >> it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this, whatever it takes. >> when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. >> i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. >> there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power in t...

>> and that's really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that's how dictators come to power. . >> within hours of the arrests at the watergate, the nixon white house started covering up. i was the desk officer of the cover-up. i get the information and gather it, and then i share it with haldeman, ehrlichman, mitchell, and they were making decisions based on it as to how they can contain this problem. >> after the break-in, the fbi started an intense investigation to find out who in fact was responsible for sending these people in. and how high up the orders came. >> john dean's pri...

Haldeman and dane, and they discussed how to stop the haldeman investigation. >> we just don't want stans up there in front of the cameras with patman. >> richard nixon couldn't withstand an open investigation. >> the members of this committee would either vote to give the american people the facts, all the facts about this political espionage, or they would shut the door. >> the solution was let's just get rid of it. let's just use our republican power on the hill to block it. >> and they went to gerald ford, who was the republican leader in the house of representatives and asked ford to mars...

Are those heroes. >> about the time of the trial, i started having regular meetings with nixon on watergate, and he told me very frankly, he said i've got haldeman and ehrlichman working on the second term. you've been reporting about watergate to me through them. i'd like you now to start reporting directly to me. this was the first time i'd really developed a one-on-one relationship with nixon. and i soon realized i am his point man on watergate. on march 19th, one of the lawyers from the reelection committee came to my office. he told me, he said john, howard hunt wanted me to send a messag...

On where the investigation was going, sharing wit haldeman, ehrlichman, and sending it up to the president. we learned very quickly the secret service had a report from metropolitan police. howard hunt's name was in the address book they found in the possession of the burglar. howard hunt was involved with the plumbers, the private investigative agency out of the white house trying to track down leaks. >> hunt is the reason why the white house has to go into full cover-up mode immediately. hunt leads back to the plumbers. hunt leads back to the elsburg break-in. hunt leads back to colson, the ...