was a mind set that led to watergate. the president is out of office. men in the nixon white house went to jail. what was the mind set? what happened? >> that's the problem. i don't know what happened. >> burglary had nothing to do with richard nixon at the time it occurred. if he kept distance between himself and that whole episode, he didn't know about that in advance. i never heard anybody come forward with evidence that he did. if he had kept distance between himself and that episode and just said, you know, those guys did it, they will have to take their punishment, that is what could have saved richard nixon i'm persuaded. quick surgery, but he was the compulsive man. he had to get involved. he had to -- he had to dabble in this -- in this conspirator spy