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
would be high class and be invested in the business. i knew my senate testimony contained hundreds if you will of front page stories. they would have been expressive standing alone, but here they all were in a narrative. i was informed about a project that had been going on before i arrived. they called for bugging, burglarizing, male covers and the like. i was instructed by mr. haldeman to see what i could do to get the plan implemented. i told the president about the fact that there were money demands being made by the seven convicted defendants. he asked me how much it would cost. i told him could i only make an estimate that it might be as high as $1 million or more. he told me that that was no problem. the issuing of the so-called dean report is was first time i began to think about the fact that i might be being set up in case this whole thing came tumbling or crumbling down at a later time. the president made this