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
who is going to blow up, i tell him mccord, for example. mccord was worried. mccord decides he s going to blow the whistle. this was supposed to be the finale for the seven watergate defenders the day of sentencing but instead the case broke wide open again. mccord wrote judge siricca a letter. he said other people not yet named were involved in the break-in in the democratic national headquarters. he said political pressure was brought on defendants to plead guilty and remain silent. he says there was perjury in the trial testimony. the letter he released in siricca s courtroom was his last-ditch effort after being convicted. he didn t know that much, but he knew enough to know that it went hour hand that the trial was a fiasco. the mccord letter was the first real indication that we