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
If you live in South Carolina and are charged with a crime, chances of receiving a speedy trial are slim to none. But thanks to efforts by the S.C. House and Supreme Court that could soon change.
john dean was gradually being set up. nixon planned to make dean the fall guy. in the first couple weeks after the break-in i learned that there was an investigation by a prosecutor in florida who had found a check that went through the watergate burglar s catalanotto and connected to the committee for the re-election of the president so i said to the editors at washington post, there s a guy down there in florida doing an investigation and they got me on the next plane to go down to florida where the burglars were from and there s the check for $25,000. i called woodward. i said somewhere in this world is a guy named kenneth and we need to find him really fast. woodward found him and indeed he