the a burglary portrayed in this film "all the president's men". washington post reporters bob woodward followed a money trail from the democratic party break in to the committee to reelect president nixon. a discovery of taped conversations in the oval office. you open that scab there's a lot of things we. >> reporter: it revealed nixon helped orchestrate a coverup six days after the water gate burglary. bill clinton's presidency was nearly undone by an investigation into a land deal. >> we were assigned a difficult job. >> reporter: ken star, a staunch republican eventually headed it up, and during his investigation, a former white house staffer, linda trip, decided to give him her secretly recorded phone conversations with a former white house