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
Greatest power given to any world leader. west virginia a surprise, going to the republicans. new hampshire not a surprise. maryland, agnew s revenge, back in the republican column. one thing that became very clear on election night, to a degree, the cover-up was working. nixon has won the reelection to the presidency. nixon won by an enormous landslide. it looks like the second greatest defeat ever handed to a candidate. he carried every state except massachusetts and the district of columbia. he just swamped and overwhelmed george mcgovern and the democrats. congratulations on your victory. i hope that in the next four years you will lead us to a time of peace abroad. the american people didn t care about watergate. it hadn t moved the political needle at all.
west virginia, a surprise, going to the republicans. new hampshire not a surprise. maryland, agnew s revenge, back in the republican come lup. one thing that became very clear on election night, to a degree, the cover-up was working. nixon has won the re-election to the presidency. nixon won by an enormous landslide. it looks like the second greatest defeat ever handed to a candidate. he carried every state except massachusetts and the district of columbia. he just swamped and overwhelmed george mcgovern and the democrats. congratulations on your victory. i hope that in the next four years you will lead us to a time of peace abroad. the american people didn t care about watergate. it hadn t moved the political needle at all. i ve never known a national election when i would be able to