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
we put someone in there that s unwilling to do that. you can have a functioning democracy in that kind of situation because democracy requires accountability. before i was fired by nixon and then after the time of the watergate burglars, the senate created a select committee to investigate watergate. the senate spent much of the day today in an old darn fashioned party line wrangle over the select committee to make a full investigation of the watergate case. my name is david dorsen and was the chief assistant count of the watergate committee. the creation of the senate committee followed the the washington post or the calls on watergate. it followed the trial before judge sirica. the vote to set up the select committee by the senate was 77-0. sflmp now the country could not vote 77-0 to keep