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
the key to understanding richard nixon is that richard nixon was never self-confident that he could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election, which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy, with bitterness. in a sense, the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons that he always had within him to play during elections. it s 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, that means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. when you have a president who thinks he can do anything he develops weapons of mass destruction. i just want 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 waterg
national election. we had left the 1960 election, which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. in a sense, the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons that he always had within him to play during elections. it s 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, that means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. when you have a president who thinks he can do anything he develop weapons of mass destruction. i just want 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 g
knowing now the situation i was in. and this is where i really become involved in knowingly engaging in criminal behavior. that s when i do the really stupid things like find two notebooks that should have been turned over to the fbi still in my file from hunt s safe, and they have all of his names of his people involved in the ellsberg break-in. the guide that would allow you to piece everything together, it was the hunt notebooks. this is dynamite. so i shred those notebooks. and to destroy evidence is a crime of obstruction of justice. no one told me to do that, but i knew those would implicate high profile people so, i solved that on my own. because they went from my shredder to a burn bag. and that would make sure it
and this is where i really become involved in knowingly engaging in criminal behavior. that s when i do the really stupid things like find two notebooks that should have been turned over to the fbi still in my file from hunt s safe, and they have all of his names of his people involved in the ellsberg break-in. the guide that would allow you to piece everything together, it was the hunt notebooks. this is dynamite. so i shred those notebooks. and to destroy evidence is a crime of obstruction of justice. no one told me to do that, but i knew that those would implicate high profile people, so, i solved that on my own. because they went from my shredder to a burn bag. and that would make sure it would disappear.