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
Howard hunt had an office in the executive office building and stuff in the safe that we should get our hands on. ehrlichman called another staffer and told him to get the con tints of the safe. my deputy started to go through them and when i came in he said, listen, we don t want to leave fingerprints on this. why don t i get some rubber gloves to see what s here? that s the way it started. hunt s safe was loaded. there were some disguises that came from the cia that hunt used in 71. they were in the safe. there was a big briefcase and in it chap sticks with wires hanging out of them. literally these were from the scene of the crime. i told him about it and he said, john, you drive across the