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

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it out. we are 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. >> commented before -- >> he had desegregated all the southern schools, he had ended the draft, he had created the epa, the cancer institute and he had the greatest arms control agreement in american history. not a bad record and the americ people thought so. >> air force one, the spirit of '76, has just landed at peking international airport. 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 that the walls that are erected whether they are physical walls loik this or whether they are other walls, ideology or philosophy, will not divide peoples in 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 will 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 early 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 apparently were unarmed and nobody knows yet why they were there. the film in the camera hadn't even been exposed. in any case, they are being held. >> the democratic national committee is housed in the watergate complex. the break-in apparently planned 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 mine, chuck work, was on the phone. 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 such as 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 thincident i'm not going to comment from e white house on a third-rate burglary attempt. obviously he said we couldn't condone that kind of second rate activity. >> when the first reports came about the burglary at the watergate, i didn't think very much of it. >> special report. >> but more and more facts began 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 re-election campaign committee. mccord and his accomplices meanwhile have been charged with second degree burglary and released on bail but i don't think that's the last we are

going to hear of 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 says this is being investigated by the congress, b importantly, i have 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've

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at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, exreury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house 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 of the committee 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, he did not know 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 a 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. i do not. there's been no evidence

presented by anybody who did that. i think the opposition is disappointed that after a thorough intensive 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. >> it's a pretty good story. >> they don't really crack the case. what the "post" does very effectively was they kept the story alive when nobody else was paying any attention to it. >> using innuendo, third person

hearsay, anonymous sources and huge scare headlines, the "post" has maliciously sought to give connection between the white house and the watergate, 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 wall of silence or we were being stonewalled. 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. but nobody was thinking about the criminal law. we were thinking more about the politics of it all. >> all of the burglars stay quiet. nobody else is indicted, which is exactly what the white

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the jury in the watergate case reached a quick verdict late today. nixon campaign counsel gordon liddy and campaign security chief james mccord guilty on all counts of the break-in and bugging of the democratic national committee headquarters. >> liddy faces a possible 35 years in prison. mccord a possible 45 years. >> they're all found guilty, all of the seven men who were originally indicted. but one of them starts to crack. >> is your client going to spill the beans on the watergate affair to the judge? >> i have advised mr. mccord to 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 higher ups 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 >> do you havenformation implicating president nixon in a ver-? >> 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 cooperate in concealing this information from the american people. >> 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 parano 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 ehrlan a >> 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 silbert 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 wherever it leads.

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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 ever any discussion that 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 are 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 >> good morning.ent. 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 moment 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 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, contradict, 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. on arnold picker described as a top must-see fundraiser. second, alexander -- >> once the enemies list was revealed, the cbs news correspondent is reading this, and reads his own name. >> 17th, daniel schorr. the columbia broadcasting system in washington. the note here is "a real media enemy." >> i remember thinking at the time, what is going on? is this really believable? >> you're fully aware, mr. dean, of the gravity of the charges you have 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. dean know about the presence of those devices? >> that would be unlikely. my guess is they definitely did not know. >> the story of watergate takes on a whole different complexion.

and the happiest man in america at that moment is 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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the president of the united states demanded the attorney general fire special prosecutor archibald cox. the attorney general refused and resigned. the president then ordered the assistant attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. ruckleshouse 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 unbelievable, 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 possession 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 was 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 bananaon this. i went by a howard johnson today. you know what the flavor of the

month is? >> no. >> impeachment. >> what is it about the television coverage of you that has so aroused your anger? >> 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 or not their president is a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> a lot of people want the president to resign. they really don't want to put the country through an impeachment drama, so they want to create an atmosphere that essentially forces his hand. >> the watergate committee named a new special prosecutor. leon jaworski. >> whatever i conceive to be necessary in order to perform my function properly i'm going to ask for. and if it don't receive it, i'm going to proceed to undertake 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 the 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 cauterize 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 prodigious. >> 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 watergate 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 states is the defendant and the government of the united states is the prosecutor.

>> jaworski was even cheered by some in the crowd as he entered the supreme court building. much as a roman gladiator entering the arena to do battle. >> it was a product of this peculiar moment when the u.s. government had to test the constitution to find out what limits there were on presidential power. >> if it came down to the supreme court of the united states making a decision against the president, would he obey or would he put himself in a confrontation with the supreme court? >> i don't know of anyone here or at the white house or anywhere else who knows the answer to that. it'sand your doctor at yoto maintain your health.a because in 5 days, 10 hours and 2 minutes you are going to be 67.

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all those opposed, say no. >> it was a saturday night and it was sort of near sun down when they voted the first article of impeachment and they're always quiet. peter went in the back and cried. we took it very seriously. >> and 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 in the constitution, impeachment. >> i stood by nixon and felt he should remain in office and then discovered the tape of june 23rd, this was fatal. >> president nixon stunned the country by admitting he held back evidence from the house

judic yare committee and not disclosing it in public statements and keeping it from his lawyers. he released transcripts on june 23rd, 1973. two days after the burginglers were caught in the watergate. >> the facts came out. yes, the president himself not only was he involved in this, but he directed this criminal operation. >> the problem with that tape was not that it implicated nixon as it had contradicted what he said. he had not told the country the truth. >> some of mr. nixon's most loyal supporters are calling for his ezugination. >> i'm aware of the intense

interest in 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 raid ye and television from his oval office. >> as you can probably 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 is in this room during this. only the crew. no. no, there will be no picture. >> we have 40 seconds to go now. the president has taken his place at the table in the white house where he's 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. roughout the long and difficult period of water igatei have felt it was my duty to persevere too, make ever possible effort to complete the term of office for which you elected me, but as president i must put the interests of america first. therefore, i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. vice president thor will be sworn in as president at that hour 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 awaits 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 for california this morning and we expect to see their departure from the white house. >> richard nixon is leaving us with one notable legacy, proof that the american system does work; that there is equal justice under the law; that public office must always be regarded as a public trust.

>> i walked out to the helicopter where the old man gave a double "v" putting the best face on the worst moment in his life. trying to show that he was not broken. and so i saw him go 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've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be from the highest mountain. and so i say to you on this occasion others may hate you but those who hate you don't win. unless you hate them.

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