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
Banking committee in congress to find out the source of the money for the burglars and headed by wright patman a forceful congressman from texas. chairman patman asking for subpoena powers to compelled those to appear before open televised hearings. he had the staff start an investigation in mid-august. he put that together and made an initial report to the members of the committee september 12th. september 15th the watergate burglars were indicted so that included the five at the watergate and e. howard hunt and g. gordon liddy. the fbi did the job and felt there s seven people to seek indictments for and when the indictments to limited to only seven people richard nixon knows who he has to thank.