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
I was embarrassed at my own behavior. there s a tremendous similarity between nixon, dean and trump and cohen. every now and then you get a pacpat on the back and a ray of sunshine on your body and feel a tremendous warmth from the most powerful person in the world. that s intoxicating. from the time of watergate to the trump era is you do for him and do for him, you do for him. you prostrate yourself. sacrifice your honor to protect him or in some way retaliate against adversaries. cost me everything. the law license. my freedom. my family s happiness. i was in the prison because i advocated for donald j. trump. september 15 meeting nixon