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
Fund-raiser for the re-election committee good at raising money. herb dispersed $220,000 to the burglars. i didn t really stop to ponder it. i didn t want to ponder it. i didn t want to think about what i was doing so i didn t dwell on it. my sense is john deeb started out as a loyal soldier to try to prevent this from getting out of control but it is not just people in the government covering up something. it is really aimed at paying people to lie to protect higher ups and ongoing grand jury investigation. dean was an essential part of the criminal enterprise. he is the one who helped to deliver the money to the burglars. he is the one who got information from the justice department and so forth to help squash what was going on.