the wiretapping of his political opponents. conspiracy, extortion, blackmail. high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the nixon/agnew team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters, sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have. but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. it s not just a desire for political power. it s a lust. i mean, that s what nixon said. i lust for power . the man in the middle in the watergate scandal is 34-year-old john wesley dean, iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i have no prior knowledge of the watergate break-ins. it s going to get worse, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of d
blackmail. high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the nixon team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have, but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. it s not just a desire for political power. it s a lust. i mean, that s what nixon said. i lust for power. the man in the middle in the watergate scandal. it s 34-year-old john wesley dean iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i had no prior knowledge of the watergate break-in. it s going to get worse, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the water building last june. the white ho
committee. and i think we thought that it might be an interesting investigation, and we might uncover some wrongdoing. but nobody anticipated what happened. there was a surprise witness at the watergate hearings today, and he made a dramatic disclosure. we didn t know who he was or why he was coming. we never heard of him. and so the mystery guest turns out to be alexander p. butterfield. he has been described as one of the half dozen people at the white house closest to the oval office. will you stand and raise your right hand? i knew i knew it was just going to be huge. mr. butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? i wasn t sure what would happen to me, but the one thing i did know is that i had always been honest. i was aware of listening
happened. there was a surprise witness at the watergate hearings today, and he made a dramatic disclosure. we didn t know who he was or why he was coming. we never heard of him. and so the mystery guest turns out to be alexander p. butterfield. he has been described as one of the half dozen people at the white house closest to the oval office. will you stand and raise your right hand? i knew i knew it was just going to be huge. mr. butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the office of the president? i wasn t sure what would happen to me, but one thing i did know is i had always been honest. i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. did he say there were tapes? what? yeah, talk about a bombshell.
counsel, testified today that president nixon knew about the watergate cover-up. dean read through a 245-page statement to ease the war demonstrators. wiretapping of newsmen. the proposal of the brookings institution. spying on kennedy and democrats. haldeman and ehrlich ann orders to set up a payoff fund. perjury plans. a fictitious investigation. when you look at all this crap we re taking, wouldn t it really be better for the country to just check out and no, seriously. i don t i mean that. because i you see, i m not at my best. i ve got to be at my best and that means fighting this damn battle. fighting it all out. there was a surprise witness at the watergate hearings today, and he made a dramatic