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
american-of-american flag. there would be some. he has to convince the american people that the system is work and if part of the system broke down, another group can come in and make sure that it runs correctly. howard baker was the vice chair, senator from tennessee, a conservative republican. and the chief counsel of the committee was a fellow named sam dash. he was looking for three people to run the investigations, i had no idea that this was going to go this high. no idea. our role is to make close closures and inform the american people through televised hearings. we had the power of subpoena and