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
Editor of the paper. bradley said to us, you know there has never been a story like this ever before. you re about to say that the attorney the former attorney general of the united states, the highest law enforcement officer in the country is a crook. and we said, yeah. but we re right. the washington post says it has been told that while mitchell was attorney general, he controlled a secret republican party fund used to finance clandestine political espionage operations. mitchell denied the allegations today with some intensity. and so mitchell and some of the others at the committee for the re-election of the president came up with the idea that they could put the washington post out of business. one day a subpoena server came to the washington post. i got a call from downstairs, and i said, don t let him upstairs to the newsroom. just hold him there. and i called bradlee, and i said, there is a subpoena server
Worked at the campaign for the re-election of nixon. he gave a check and then he had gone into the bank account of one of the watergate burglars and the key connection between the committee for re-election of the president and the higher ups in the campaign. the washington post discovered that $25,000 in political contributions to president nixon s campaign somehow turned up in a florida bank account. over the summer there was a number of newpaper stories about all different things going on at the committee to re-elect the president and how the house bank committee got involved. the only serious investigation aside from the police arrests of the burglars was an effort by the house
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