could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. and a sense the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demon that is he always had within him to play during elections. it is 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 it means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade hostages for arms. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. he develops weapons of mass destruction. we are in trouble. i just want to find 11,780 votes. 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 i share it and they were maki
the key to understanding richard nixon is that richard nixon was never self-confident that he could easily win a national election. he 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 this office. when you have a president who thinks he can do anything he develops weapons of mass destruction. i just want 11,780 votes. 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 waterg
new tonight on cnn, missile launches off the korean peninsula, this time by american and south korean forces of the eight missiles in total, a direct response to the same number of missiles launched by north korea this weekend. we want to be clear on this. the missiles were launched into the sea, but let s get more from cnn correspondent barbara starr. barbara, this is a clear message to north korea from the other side of the dmz. is this when the new south korean president means when they will get tougher on north korea. reporter: what you just said about the u.s. and south korean missiles going into the sea is really an important point because it just shows that it was a response. there was no consent of a military action here. it was a response to the north koreans launching eight are ballistic missiles earlier in the weekend. that was one of the big concerns right now is that north korea is continuing at a very fast pace of test launches in its ballistic missile program
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 this office. when you have a president who thinks he can do anything he develop weapons of mass destruction. i just want 11,780 votes. 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 g
and then i went a few more words into the first paragraph, and mitchell said, jesus. and then i got to the end of the first paragraph, by which time the drift of the story was unmistakable. and mitchell said jesus christ, all that crap, you re putting it in the paper. if you print that, katharine graham the publisher of the washington post is going to get her tit caught in a big fat ringer. and when this campaign is over, we re going do a little story on you two boys, and hung up the phone. i have to say, it is the most chilling story i ve ever experienced as a reporter, because the threat was real. the brazenness that they could say those things about us, we ll do a little story on you and about mrs. graham, spoke volumes about their perception of their own dominance and power. i called ben bradlee, the