did someone put up a lot of money to have the democratic headquarters infiltrated and, if so, who and why? >> justice will be pursued no matter who's involved. >> do you have information implicating president nixon? >> i have no comment. >> the president of the united states demanded the attorney general fire the special prosecutor. >> that is the definition of tyranny. people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> i don't think there was ever any discussion that there wouldn't be a cover-up. >> congress must move ahead with impeachment proceedings. >> there can be no whitewash at the white house.

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we're going to have to find out what the mood is. >> in 1972, richard nixon is very much at the top of his game and is in a position to achieve his goal of being the greatest president in american history. >> the comments before about mao and joe. >> he had desegregated all the southern schools, instituted the draft, and he had the greatest arms control agreement in american history. not a bad record, and the american people thought so. >> air force one has just landed. it is an historic moment, the official beginning of his visit to china. >> china was considered almost a different planet. and the idea that any american president would go to china was considered a fantasy probably at best. in terms of foreign policy, it

was sort of a moon landing. >> i think one of the results of our trip, we hope, may be the walls that are erected, whether they are physical walls like this or whether they are other walls of ideology or philosophy, will not divide peoples of the world. >> in richard nixon's own mind, this was a script. it was designed to result in an overwhelming election victory in the november election. >> who do you think you'll vote for for president this year? >> nixon. >> richard nixon. >> nixon. >> yeah, nixon. >> nixon. >> is anybody else running but nixon? >> the president was a political animal. the president was phenomenally skilled. he was able to handle virtually anything. >> five men wearing white gloves and carrying cameras were caught earlier today in the headquarters of the democratic

national committee in washington. they were caught by a night watchman, and they did not resist arrest when the police came. they were apparently unarmed, and no one yet knows why they were there. the film in the camera hadn't been exposed. in any case, they're being held. >> the democratic national committee is housed in the fashionable watergate complex. the break-in prepared well in advance. files were ransacked and papers removed. also in this area, ceiling tiles had been removed for the suspected planting of bugging devices. >> it was saturday morning, june 17th. the phone rang, it was about 6:30. a colleague of my mine was on the phone, he said, hello, it's chuck. we have a hot one. we have a burglary at the democratic national committee headquarters. and most unusual of all, the burglars, five of them, are wearing suits. >> the arraignment of the five middle-aged men was slowed down by the fact that each had several aliases.

four said they were from miami, the fifth said he lived in the metropolitan washington area. three were originally from cuba. the facts presented so far raise a number of intriguing questions, which is, did someone put up a lot of money to have the democratic headquarters infiltrated. and if so, who and why? >> the president's press secretary said of this incident, i'm not going to comment from the white house from a third rate burglary attempt. obviously, he said, we don't condone that kind of second rate activity. >> when the first reports came about the burglary at the watergate, i didn't think much of it. but more and more facts begin to come out. >> this is a police photograph of james w. mccord. mccord is a former cia employee. now he runs his own private security service. and guess what else he is. a consultant to president richard nixon's reelection campaign committee. accomplices meanwhile have been charged with second degree burglary and released on bail. i don't think that's the last

we're going to have on this story. >> it's one of the most shocking actions i think that's happened in this country in a long time. but i must say that it's the legacy of years of wiretapping and snooping and violation of privacy in which the government itself has been too deeply involved. >> both democrats and republicans played with pranks and tricks all the time. the difference in watergate was that these people were foolish and they got caught. >> no one in the white house staff, no one in this administration was involved in this very bizarre incident. >> nixon said, this is being investigated by the congress, by the fbi, but even more importantly, i've had my own white house counsel john dean conduct an investigation, and he's reported to me that nobody presently employed in this administration had anything to do with this. well, this is the first i heard

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i said, oh, no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-pay of bigs consultant. >> we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> earl silva read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon.

i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >> he tries to build a little like mafiosa group out of the oval office, guys that will take the bullet for you. pure loyalty. they fell under his spell. >> president nixon created a what you'd have to call a paranoid atmosphere in the white house. that you're supposed to get your enemies. they took it literally, that if the president said, you've got to go get your enemies, well, we've got to go get our enemies. >> nixon did not know that they were doing the break-in, but once it happened, he was convinced they had to engage in a cover-up. >> by august 29th, nixon is deeply involved, to my surprise, in all the key elements of the cover-up. >> who do you think gave the orders to bug the watergate? >> well, the persons who the grand jury indicted in washington, d.c., last week gave the orders to do it. >> you don't think they were following orders then? >> no.

there's been no evidence presented by anybody who did that. i think the opposition is disappointed that after a thorough investigation that seven persons were indicted. >> at the time, most of the press was satisfied that the nixon white house had nothing to do with this watergate break-in. >> i have full confidence in the integrity of president nixon and in his determination and ability to resolve the watergate matter to the full satisfaction of the american people. >> now, this is when "the washington post" really distinguished itself from the rest of the press pack. >> october of '72, the headline said that dirty tricks operation had been run out of the white house. >> they don't really crack the case. what the "post" does very effectively, they kept the story alive when nobody else was paying attention to it.

>> using innuendo, third person hearsay, anonymous sources and huge scare headlines, the "post" has maliciously tried to give a direct connection between the white house and the watergate scandal. a charge which the "post" knows and half a dozen investigations have found to be false. thank you very much. >> fairly early on, we were running into a wall of silence. that became clear, none of the seven would talk to us. the white house was paying hush money to keep the watergate burglars silent. hunt is asking for money. and if the money isn't forthcoming, these people aren't going to stay silent. haldeman and yours truly, we're obstructing justice. we're thinking about the politics of it all. >> all of the burglars stay quiet.

nobody else is indicted, which is exactly what the white house's strategy was. >> the strategy was containment. if it doesn't get widespread coverage in the country as a whole, then we'll be able to handle this. >> this is about the government. this is about credibility. this is about bugging. this is about deception. this is about the white house. and this is how you stop it. with your vote. >> while senator mcgovern is out campaigning tirelessly. president nixon is sitting in the white house and carrying out his presidential duties and leaving the hard campaigning to vice president agnew. >> people want to trust the king. people don't want to believe this about their president. >> pennsylvania decisively important state for the democrats drawn tonight for the republicans. kansas, connecticut, texas,

michigan, delaware, arkansas and north dakota, those are the states that we show for president nixon. >> that was one of the greatest victories any president has ever had, carrying every state except massachusetts and the district of columbia. >> i think that the shadow on his victory is the watergate affair, and i believe a great many people very close to the president would like to have a move on that as one of the high priorities of his new administration. >> either have these people exonerated or get them out and persuade the country that the taint is gone if there is a real taint there. standing tall... ...has nothing to do with height. the 1936 stubby bottle is back.

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be guided solely by his own conscience and conviction. he'll do just that. >> mccord isn't so willing to go to prison and not speak up. he feels hirerups shouldn't get off scot-free. >> mccord wrote the judge a letter. in it he says, other people not yet named were involved in the break-in at democratic national headquarters. >> mccord says there are efforts being made to keep us quiet, and there are people responsible who are much higher up than us. and you're being denied that information. >> i think what bothers us as republicans is that there is apparently so much more to be revealed. and every day, every week, when something else happens, it's one further dagger in the heart. >> by and large, it was a national consensus, listen, the president is saying one thing, the prosecutors are saying another thing. there are a lot of very serious accusations in the air. let's get to the bottom of it.

>> senator sam irvin of north carolina was chosen today by the democrats in the senate to conduct a full investigation of the watergate case. >> once that senate committee convenes in february of '73, it's the first time that people were going to have to testify under oath. this was not good for the president. >> i go in on march 21st to see nixon, and i lay out the mess we're in. telling him i thought there was a cancer on his presidency. and my hope is, by laying it out as brutally as i can, that he'll bring his fist down on the table and he'll say, this is unacceptable. we have to end this. to my surprise, i am unable to convince him. >> dean had been caught up in this and had done things that really involved him and the obstruction of justice, and i think they had decided he was going to be the sacrificial lamb. >> john dean was in way over his head. and then when he realized this

ship is going down, he jumped. >> this morning, without the president's approval, dean issued a statement in which, among other things, he declared some may hope or think i will become a scapegoat in the watergate case. anyone who believes this, dean added, does not know me, know the true facts, nor understand our system of justice. >> do you have information implicating president nixon in a cover-up? >> i have no comment this morning. i'm sorry. >> we started having secret conversations with john dean. he was disclosing this sprawling conspiracy, to put it mildly. >> when i broke rank and started dealing with the prosecutors in early april, i had the naive belief that, by breaking rank, they would do likewise. >> john dean kept upping the ante. i want immunity. okay, i'll tell you this. as we were leaving, i just remember this. he said, john has something to tell you. and dean told us that this same

group had broken into the office of ellsberg's psychiatrist. he says, oh, your jaw just dropped beneath the floor. >> in 1971 daniel ellsberg had been a defense consultant, decided that the war was wrong and so he took this vast volume of secret papers and he leaked it to the "new york times." >> i felt, as an american citizen, i could no longer conceal this information from the american public. >> names on paper never mentioned the name richard nixon, but its leak drove richard nixon nuts. >> i think it is time in this country to quit making national heroes out of those who steal secrets and publish them in the newspapers. >> this is a product of the president's paranoia about his ability to control his own government. >> they actually broke into the psychiatrist's office of ellsberg. now, come on!

somebody's psychiatrist's office files are raided by people who are commissioned by the white house? >> it's one thing to disclose breaking into the offices of the democratic national committee. it's another to have broken into the offices of a person's psychiatrist. and the public would really have an adverse reaction to that, much more so than the democratic national committee headquarters. >> i hope that whatever comes out they get it over with, they find out what it is, and it teaches us some kind of lesson because this country is coming on to its 200th anniversary, and i want to be proud of it when it does. and i'm not too proud of it right now. >> that's when i went to nixon and i said, get up and clear from this thing. whoever's going to have to go ought to go now. >> good evening. the biggest white house scandal in a century, the watergate scandal, broke wide open today. the two closest men to the

president, h.r. haldeman his chief of staff and john ehrlichman, his chief domestic adviser, have resigned. the president's white house legal counsel john dean has been fired. reportedly, dean is implicated in efforts to cover up the watergate scandal, and he may implicate ehrlichman and haldeman. >> good evening. i want to talk to you tonight from my heart on a subject of deep concern to every american. today, in one of the most difficult decisions of my presidency, i accepted the resignations of two of my closest associates in the white house, bob haldeman, john ehrlichman. >> he thought, by throwing out his inner circle, he would be left alone. he was throwing these people under the bus so the bus wouldn't hit him. >> justice will be pursued

fairly, fully, and impartially no matter who's involved. >> richard nixon wants to control everything. but he's extraordinarily delusional. i mean, he really doesn't seem to understand that he's digging himself deeper and deeper into the crime when he's trying to dig himself out. >> we must maintain the integrity of the white house, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. there can be no whitewash at the white house. >> in may of 1973, earl silva is preparing to hand the case over to archibald cox. and he says there are 39 principals involved in this case. and he said, number 39, richard m. nixon, president of the united states. >> what if this trail leads into the oval office at the white house? >> well, as i replied then, the trail should be followed

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watergate senate hearings. >> good morning. this is the senate caucus room in washington, d.c., and it's jammed this morning, jammed with spectators newsmen, senators and their aides.

and the scene adds to the sense of drama as the senate opens what is likely to become the most serious investigation ever made. >> i was glued to the hearings like anyone else. i was watching my friends go up there and testify and trying to understand what happened. >> i think there was no question that the cover-up began that saturday when we realized there was a break-in. i don't think there was any discussion there wouldn't be a cover-up. >> the president said there is no problem in raising a million dollars. we can do that. but it would be wrong. >> neither mr. haldeman nor i were criminally involved in this matter in any respect. >> people were seeing this underside of the white house, this kind of gothic reality that they never dreamed existed, men in trench coats showing up in phone booths with bags of money. >> it comes from way up at the top. >> yes, sir. i believed that he was talking about the president. >> good morning. although this is not abc's scheduled day to provide live continuous coverage, we are

going on now with the hearings because the witness will be john dean, the 34-year-old lawyer who one year ago was just another anonymous official in the white house but who today is a very well-known figure indeed. >> so help you god? >> i do so help me god. >> if people knew one thing about john dean, he was the guy who knew what was going on in watergate. so when it was announced he was going to testify, people really thought that this was the most the thing was going to blow wide open. >> i told the president there was no money to pay these individuals to meet their demands. he asked me how much it would cost. i told him i could only make an estimate it might be as high as a million dollars or more. he told me that was no problem. he also looked over at haldeman and repeated the same statement. >> this was the first time that a white house staffer had ever contradicted with criminal consequences a president on live television. >> there was also maintained what was called an enemies list, which is rather extensive and

continually being updated. >> the idea that the white house draws up a list of enemies and is prepared to use the agencies of government, this is very, very serious, scary stuff. >> john dean talked about a list of enemies that was compiled at the white house. >> one, arnold picker described as a top must-be fund-raiser. second, alexander -- >> once the enemies list was revealed, the cbs news correspondent is reading this, off and he reads his own name. >> 17th, daniel schorr. the note here is "a real media enemy." >> i remember thinking at the time, what is going on? is this really believable? >> you're aware, mr. dean, of the gravity of the charges you've made under oath against the highest official of our land, the president of the united states? >> yes, i am. >> and being so aware, do you

still stand on your statement? >> yes, i do. when i'm finishing my testimony for the senate, i read it, and i said, you know, it's my word against haldeman, ehrlichson, mitchell and the president. >> all of us watching this is surmising that there is another witness someplace in the building. >> a witness will be called, and as to who it will be we'll have to wait and see. >> are you aware of any installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. >> when he answered yes, everybody in america just froze. like uh-oh, tapes? what tapes? >> as far as you know, did mr. ehrlichman or mr. dino about the presence of those devices? >> that would be unlikely. my assumption is that they didn't know. >> the story of watergate takes

on a whole different complexion. and the happiest man in the moment would be john dean. >> what is the best way to reconstruct those conversations mr. butterfield? >> well, in the obvious manner, mr. dash. to obtain the tape and play it. >> slowly, this smile comes over my face, and i said, get those tapes as fast as you can before they disappear. >> this afternoon i received from the white house a letter declining to furnish the eight requested tapes. careful study before requesting the tapes convinced me that any blanket claim of privilege to withhold this evidence from the grand jury is without legal foundation. >> nixon had a legitimate argument that congress shouldn't be able to delve into the private discussions of the president in the white house. that's a legitimate constitutional argument. but to invoke executive privilege to cover up a third rate burglary was suspect.

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after hard deliberation and much prayer, i concluded several days ago that the public interest and the interest of those who mean the most to me would best be served by my stepping down. >> there is evidence which shows that agnew was taking political kickbacks, not only while governor of maryland, but also while he was vice president. >> what is your reaction to the resignation of vice president agnew just announced? >> who? i don't know too much about him, but nixon stinks. >> there were developments at the white house today that indicate that some kind of major decision is near on the constitutional issue of the white house tapes. >> special prosecutor archibald cox wanted the tapes. he wanted the tapes themselves. and there's an impasse. >> yesterday president nixon ordered cox to stop going to court to try to get access to the tapes.

today he held a news conference and said that since the president was defying the court, he was going to defy the president. >> last night we were told the court order would not be obeyed, that the papers, memoranda, documents of that kind would not be provided at all. >> archibald cox let the president have it, that this is obstruction of justice and that was the turning point. >> there was a limousine on the west side driveway of the white house this afternoon, with the number 77. it turned out to be elliot richardson's limousine. and when the reporters spotted him leaving the white house, they knew some sort of day knew mont was in progress. >> what is going on today? >> there will be an announcement out of the white house later. >> does it have to do with the resignation of the attorney general? >> it might. >> in breath taking succession

tonight, the president of the united states demanded that the attorney general fire special prosecutor archibald cox. the corner jenelle yot richardson refused and resigned. the president then ordered the assistant attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. ruck ellshouse refused. the president immediately fired ruckleshouse. solicitor general robert bork quickly was named acting attorney general. bork was ordered to fire special prosecutor cox. he did. >> it was unbelievable, literally unblechable, except that it was real. you kept saying, that couldn't be. but it was. >> i can make no further comment now other than their offices have been sealed by the fbi. >> how could you possibly bring this man to justice if it was within his power to call the investigation to a close? >> please, everyone. >> basically, the president has

seized full control of the special prosecutor's office and is in full position of potentially incriminating evidence that could lead to the conviction of his closest associates and to his conviction, and that is the definition of tyranny. >> there could be no doubt this was a constitutional crisis. this is a president trying to stand above the law, and i remember thinking at the time the country is not going to stand for this. >> i think it's amazing that the country is not already fighting in the streets he's divided the country that much. >> events of the past few days leave us little choice but to move ahead with preparation for impeachment proceedings. >> do you think the president should be impeached? >> yes, sir, i do. >> why? >> i can't trust him. >> at the time, the idea of impeaching the president was a pretty radical idea. it hadn't happened in over a century. >> impeachment does not mean removing the president from office. it does mean putting the president on trial in the senate to determine his fitness to continue in office. >> the whole country is going

bananas on this. >> i went to howard johnson's today. you know what the flavor of the month is? >> no. >> impeachment. >> what is it about you that makes you so angry. >> one can only be angry with those he respects. >> he obviously was having some kind of mental breakdown. it became clear there was something very wrong with nixon. >> people have got to know whether their president's a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> a lot of people want the president to resign. they don't want to put the country through an impeachment drama. they want to create an atmosphere that forces his hand. >> the white house committee named a new special prosecutor. >> whatever i conceive to be necessary in order to perform my function properly i'm going to ask for it, and if i don't receive it, i'm going to proceed to under take to get it. >> jaworski comes to washington,

is presented with all the evidence. a couple days later, he goes to the white house and says, i think the president has to get a criminal lawyer. >> i think it's not excessive to say we've been put through too much. either the congress or his president, by his own patriotic decision, should relieve the nation of a burden that's grown too heavy to carry any longer. >> the effect of this was a huge dip in public support for richard nixon. but the white house thought that it could solve the tapes problem by producing transcripts. >> the idea that he's going to release these transcripts, richard nixon thinks he's finally going to be able to caught arise the wound. >> i think there's no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we have. we have a cancer from within close to the presidency that is growing. >> the tapes show that the president is involved at the times that dean said he was. it shows that dean's memory is predigous. >> dean. >> i would say these people are

going to cost a million dollars over the next two years. >> the president. >> you could get a million dollars. you could get it in cash. i know where it could be gotten. >> now, when individuals read the entire transcript, they may reach different interpretations. but i know what i meant, and i know also what i did. >> richard nixon's problem is they keep on subpoenaing more and more tapes. he says he's not going to give them up unless the supreme court demands him to. >> the supreme court today heard arguments in the historic case of the united states of america versus richard nixon, president of the united states. >> the television cameras saw the two main players in this classic confrontation arrive. first james st. claire, president nixon's attorney, then leon jaworski, special prosecutor to argue his case against the president's refusal to surrender 64 tapes and documents. >> it is a strange notion that the president of the united

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it would be hard to imagine a more memorable day in the history of constitutional law than this one. 11:00 a.m. the supreme court tells the president he was wrong to withhold those tapes. at 7:00 p.m. the president announces he will of course obey. at 8:00 p.m. the house judiciary committee opens its doors to the television media for its debate. >> the american people, the house of representatives and the constitution demand that we make up our mind. >> for all of those in favor, signify by saying aye, all opposed no.

>> mr. donahue. >> aye. >> mr. bruce. >> aye. >> it was a saturday night and sort of near sundown when they voted the first article of impeachment and the room was quiet. mr. rodino. >> aye. >> peter went in the back and cried. we took it very seriously. >> with that vote, mr. nixon became the first president in more than a century and only the second in all of our history to confront removal from office through the only means provided in the constitution, impeachment. >> i stood by nixon and felt he should remain in office, but then we discovered the tape of june 23rd. this was fatal. >> good evening. president nixon stunned the country today by admitting he held back evidence from the house judiciary committee, keeping it a secret from his

lawyers and not disclosing it in public statements. mr. nixon issued transcripts of three recorded conversations he had with h.r. halderman on june 23rd, 1972, six days after the burglars were caught in the watergate. >> you open that scab and there's a hell of a lot of things that we just feel that this would be detrimental to have this thing go any further. >> the facts came out. yes, the president himself, not only was he involved in this but he directed this criminal operation. >> they should call the fbi and n. and say that we wish for couldn't trib don't go they further into the case, period! >> the problem with that tape was not that it implicated nixon so much in the watergate thing but it contradicted what he said. he had not told the country the truth. >> the news caused a storm in washington and some of mr. nixon's most loyal supporters are calling for his resignation.

>> i'm aware with of the intense interest of the american people concerning developments today and over the last few days. tonight at 9:00, eastern daylight time, the president of the united states will address the nation on radio and television from his oval office. >> as you probably can see behind us, we have a large number of people who have been standing by to watch the various television networks. most here out of curiosity and concern. >> only the cbs crew now is in this room during this -- only the crew. no, there will be no pictures. >> just a few moments. we have 40 seconds to go now. the president has taken his place at the table in the white house while where he is going to speak. >> good evening. this is the 37th time i have spoken to you from this office.

where so many decisions have been made that shaped the history of this nation. throughout the long and difficult period of watergate, i have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me. but as president, i must put the interest of america first. therefore, i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. vice president ford will be sworn in as president at that hour and in this office. >> when you weigh what happened against the potential of president nixon, this is almost the dictionary definition of tragedy. >> by taking this action, i hope that i will have hastened the start of that process of

healing, which is so desperately needed in america. >> good morning. this is today in washington. friday, august 9th. the nation awaiting the swearing in at noon eastern time of our 38th president, gerald ford, and the departure from political life of richard m. nixon. he and his family are expected to leave by air to their home in california later morning, and we expect to see their departure from the white house. >> in departing the presidency, richard nixon is leaving us with one notable legacy -- proof that the american system does work. that there is equal justice under the law and that public office must always be regarded as a public trust. ♪

>> i walked out to the helicopter where the old man gave the double v, putting the best face on the worst moment of his life. trying to show he was not broken. and so i'm going in the helicopter and take off for the last time. it was over. >> we think that when we suffer a defeat that all has ended. not true. because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. so i say to you on this occasion, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win

unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. i must say to you that the state of the union is not good. >> well these people, somehow, turn politics into power and make the government work. >> we are privileged to witness a significant achieve. in the cause of peace. >> what was once a distant foreign policy issue has become a domestic issue. >> there is no malaise in the spirit of this country. >> we can turn this country around and we can turn our economy around and the time to do it is now.