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
I was keeping a eye generally on where the investigation was going and sending it up to the president. we learned very quickly that secret service had a report from metropolitan police. howard hunt s name was in the address book they found in the possession of the burglar. howard hunt was involved with the plumbers trying to track down leaks. hunt is the reason why the white house has to go into full cover-up mode immediately. hunt leads back to the plumbers. hunt leads back to the break-in. hunt leads back to coleson. this was really explosive stuff. i was in a meeting in ehrlichman s office.
Whistle-blower was the with. they had similar functions in the watergate scandal versus this scandal. and now we don t just have a whistle-blower, even though some republicans on the hill are still trying to, like, say, we ve got to see the whistle-blower, we ve got to know who that person is before we go forward. we don t just have the whistle-blower or the tapes or john dean. but we ve got essentially the equivalent of hald man, erlichmann, coleson, hunt, all basically the ekwifbment of them going up to capitol hill in front of the senate watergate committee and give testimony attacking, criticizing undermining richard nixon. i ve never seen anything quite like this where it s just one piece of devastating evidence. but all the president s men, not the mick mulvaneys of the world, but a lot of them are effectively turning against the president before our eyes. john, you are completely correct. but i think i see this as
Allegiance. he made the wrong choice. he chose to stick with mr. coleson. mr. speaker, sir, my second question is, can he now explain can he now explain why he failed to act on clear information and why those around him built a wall of silence between the facts and prime minister. mr. speaker, the conflict of interest has real effects. the metropolitan police commissioner resigned on sunday. they didn t talk about the reasons of the resignation. we must talk about it. he was trapped. he was trapped between a secretary angry at not being told about the hiring of mr. coleson s deputy and belief in his own words that doing so would have compromised the prime minister. compromised him because of mr. coleson. why did he think that? because his own deputy, john
Information and why those around him built a wall of silence between the facts and prime minister. mr. speaker, the conflict of interest has real effects. the metropolitan police commissioner resigned on sunday. they didn t talk about the reasons of the resignation. we must talk about it. he was trapped. he was trapped between a secretary angry at not being told about the hiring of mr. coleson s deputy and belief in his own words that doing so would have compromised the prime minister. compromised him because of mr. coleson. why did he think that? because his own deputy, john yates was told by the prime minister s chief of staff that he was told nothing. this error of judgment, hiring coulson, hanging on to him too long contributed to the decision