get. >> he really believed that he could go all the way. >> it is a issue of recapturing our basic principles and beliefs and values. >> everybody knows he plays around. >> very much. >> the miami herald story was the journalistic political equivalent of an a-bomb. >> a story about sex and power. >> who is this woman and what is your relationship with her? >> i do not -- >> he went from being an icon to being a joke. >> >> america in the late 1970s was still emerge forecast the fog of vietnam. mired in a stagnating economy.