blackmail. high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the nixon team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have, but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. it s not just a desire for political power. it s a lust. i mean, that s what nixon said. i lust for power. the man in the middle in the watergate scandal. it s 34-year-old john wesley dean iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i had no prior knowledge of the watergate break-in. it s going to get worse, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the water building last june. the white ho
political processes in the years to come, long after i have left this office. i looked at my own calendar this morning as i was working on this speech. it showed exactly 1361 days remaining in my term. i want these to be the best days in america s history. god bless america, and god bless each and every one of you. central to the problems faced by president nixon is the watergate tapes and their tangled history. fred graham traces that story. it all began suddenly when an obscure former white house official named alexander butterfield appeared as a surprise witness before the senate watergate committee. are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. when i got the confirmation that there was a taping system, i was elated. they would tell much more than i could even remember about what had happened in those conversations. my mind is not a tape recorder. it does recall im
abuses are purged from our political processes. in the years to come. long after i have left this office. i looked at my own calendar this morning as i was working on this speech. it showed exactly 1,361 days remaining in my term. i want these to be the best days in america s history. god bless america. god bless each and every one of you. central to the problems faced by president nixon is the water gate tapes and tangled history. fred graham traces that story. it all began suddenly when an obscure former white house official appeared as a surprise witness before the senate watergate committee. are you aware of the installation of listening devices in the oval office of the president? i was aware of listening devices. yes, sir. when i got the confirmation there was a taping system, i was elated. they would tell much more than i could even remember about what happened in those conversations. my mind is not a tape recorder. it does recall impressions of conversat
the biggest white house scandal in a century broke wide open today. the president s white house legal counsel john dean has been fired. reportedly dean is implicated in efforts to cover up the watergate scandal. watergate is the largest political scandal in american history. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything related to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i had no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism, but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the
we also learned the mob s chants of hang mike pence erupted after a rioter broadcast a trump tweet about pence s decision to certify the election results. the committee revealing trump s shocking reaction. and aware of the rioters chants to hang mike pence, the president responded with this sentiment, quote, maybe our supporters have the right idea. mike pence, quote, deserves it. i m joined now by former democratic senator from minnesota and host of the al franken podcast, al franken. senator, thanks so much for being with us. we appreciate it as always. thank you, jim, for having me. absolutely. how do you think the committee did in that first prime time hearing? what was your assessment? i was very impressed, especially impressed with cheney. she gave i thought she did a devastating job. she laid out the case and not just the case, but the stakes of it. i think she showed that it wasn t just that one day, that this was a multiweek expeconspi. i think the conspi