the committee s offices. one of the suspects, james mccord, operates his own security company in washington. he was doing work for the republican national committee, and the committee to reelect president nixon. no one has proved that the republicans were replied to the break-in, but the democrats are expected to file some sort of legal action against the gop anyway. now, it is easy to forget how poorly run the watergate break-in was. the tape they used to cover locks, so doors wouldn t shut behind them. it led to building security straight to them. they had turned down the volume on their walkie talkies to be sneakier, but that meant they didn t actually hear when their lookout was warning them that the cops were actually coming. it turned out the whole thing wouldn t have mattered, even if it worked, because nixon won that year s election in a landslide anyway. when the house judiciary committee investigated this break in, they actually ended up being able to prove that these lou
phone with this random bail bondsman in georgia that no one had ever heard of. so as much as the coffee county breach was a failure, it appears to have been a failure that was coordinated at the highest levels of the white house. and that, my friends, has echoes of another famously failed break-in from our nation s history. the burglars broke through a fire escape drawer that led to the committee s offices. one of the suspects, james mccord, operates his own security company in washington. he was doing work for the republican national committee, and the committee to reelect president nixon. no one has proved that the republicans were replied to the break-in, but tomorrow the democrats are expected to file some sort of legal action against the gop anyway. now, it is easy to forget how poorly run the watergate break-in was. the tape they used to cover
the a burglary portrayed in this film all the president s men . washington post reporters bob woodward followed a money trail from the democratic party break in to the committee to reelect president nixon. a discovery of taped conversations in the oval office. you open that scab there s a lot of things we. reporter: it revealed nixon helped orchestrate a coverup six days after the water gate burglary. bill clinton s presidency was nearly undone by an investigation into a land deal. we were assigned a difficult job. reporter: ken star, a staunch republican eventually headed it up, and during his investigation, a former white house staffer, linda trip, decided to give him her secretly recorded phone conversations with a former white house