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
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 house managed to contain the break-in at the watergate to only seven people, but john siricca knew that people had lied in this court and it pissed him off so what he wanted to do was to find out if there was anybody above those seven who should be going to jail, and he thought the only way for that to happen would be to give them tough sentences. as white house counsel, i was the desk officer of the cover-up. i get the information and gather it, and then i share it with the people who need to know. one of the things i suggest to the president is that it s very likely that the cover-up is going to blow. i don t know who is going to go,