could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. and a sense the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demon that is he always had within him to play during elections. it is about lust for power and absence of morality. it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this. whatever it takes. when the president does it it means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade hostages for arms. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. he develops weapons of mass destruction. we are in trouble. i just want to find 11,780 votes. and that s really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that s how dictators come to power. within hours of the arrests at the watergate, the nixon white house started covering up. i was the desk officer of the cover-up. i get the information and gather it and i share it and they were maki
the key to understanding richard nixon is that richard nixon was never self-confident that he could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election, which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy, with bitterness. in a sense, the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons that he always had within him to play during elections. it s about lust for power and absence of morality. it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this, whatever it takes. when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. when you have a president who thinks he can do anything he develops weapons of mass destruction. i just want 11,780 votes. and that s really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that s how dictators come to power. within hours of the arrests at the waterg
national election. we had left the 1960 election, which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. in a sense, the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons that he always had within him to play during elections. it s about lust for power and absence of morality. it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this, whatever it takes. when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. when you have a president who thinks he can do anything he develop weapons of mass destruction. i just want 11,780 votes. and that s really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that s how dictators come to power. . within hours of the arrests at the watergate, the nixon white house started covering up. i was the desk officer of the cover-up. i get the information and g
The election. at first it was called the watergate caper. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. because i had covered watergate from the beginning, i was part of helping put the things together. in my time at cbs, i d never seen anything like that. that was explosive. escalating finally into charges of a high-level campaign, a political sabotage and espionage, apparently unparalleled in american history. elevating the issue for the public to understand better what was really happening. and in fact bob woodward told me that he thought it was going to turn the election over to george mcgovern. he believed that, those pieces would make that much of a difference. of course, they didn t. they made almost no difference in the vote. this was a day that comes every four years, when the people of the united states choose one man to wield the
The election. at first it was called the watergate caper. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. because i had covered watergate from the beginning, i was part of helping put the things together. in my time at cbs, i d never seen anything like that. that was explosive. escalating finally into charges of a high-level campaign, a political sabotage and espionage, apparently unparalleled in american history. elevating the issue for the public to understand better what was really happening. and in fact bob woodward told me that he thought it was going to turn the election over to george mcgovern. he believed that, those pieces would make that much of a difference. of course, they didn t. they made almost no difference in the vote. this was a day that comes every four years, when the people of the united states choose one man to wield the greatest power given to any world leader.