constitution. what was it that was so compelling that i did not know this before, the smoking gun tape hadn t even come out. i think what was so compelling is that you had both houses of congress controlled by the democrats and gaining in the spring of 1973 right after archibald cox was appointed you had television hearings where this came out. by the time it was june or july of 73 they had been involved in the watergate break-in, heard the testimony of dean and knew president nixon had ordered hush money be paid to the watergate burglars. the only question was would you believe john dean? and then, lo and behold, the tapes come out. we learn from alex butterfield