magruder when he was sentenced by the judge. he looked up at the judge and said, your honor i am sorry, i lost my moral compass. my ambition obscured my judgment and now i must look into the eyes of my wife, and see her pain, in the eyes of my children and see their confusion, in the eyes of my fellow man and see their contempt. but he said america will survive the jeb magruders and the watergates and i happen to agree with that principle. mr. chairman, the future of america is not dependent upon the success, the survival of any one man in public office, and if we believe that the president and the office of the president are one, then the president's failings become our undoing. i think that no one mind should be able to bind up our destiny, our perpetuation, our success with a change of his personal destiny. it's also been said to me that even if mr. nixon did commit these offenses, every other president, every other president has engaged in some of the same conduct, at least to some degree, but the answer i think is that demo

magruder sends liddy on this mission, when the results, the fruits come back, magruder told me at the time, contemporaneously, and he told me in -- heed to this fact also -- i left my cell phone on. >> host: that's okay. >> guest: and he has testified to this very clearly that what happened is the results were such junk that mitchell calls him in, after he looks at this material, and says, listen, this stuff is worthless. it's not worth what we paid for, and magruder loves this. >> host: the number two in the re-election organization. >> guest: under two. in and magruder's position has always been that liddy, the self-starter, had to clean this up on his own and didn't tell anybody he was going to break into the watergate the second time. but they're going to break in -- their original plan were to breck into mcgovern's headquarters. so it's clear that it liddy takes the group back in the second time. he claims he told hunt and the others that mitchell insisted on this. well doing think mitchell insisted on it at all. i think mitchell just told him the stuff he had gotten was junk. an

host: how about john mitchell and magruder? guest: people like to say we still don't know who ordered the watergate burglary and it's because one of them is lying. my personal feeling although it's totally unreliable is that mitchell gave a wink to magruder to go ahead. host: rosemary wood. guest: loyal. all the way. took whatever happened to her. jo joined the senate office all the way through. host: this picture that is so iconic from 1973. guest: took the fall there probably. that was the 18 and a half minute gap when they finally lost the legal battle about the tapes. they began to listen to them, the lawyers, and they found that there was this long gap in the beginning of one of the tapes of nixon talking with halderman and rosemary woods explained the fact that she had been answering the phone while trying to transcribe and reached for the pedal and that's where you see that great reach. the expertise was that the tape had been deliberately erased. host: and richard from minneapolis on the phone. caller: my question is to

but he said america will survive the jeb magruders and the watergates and i happen to agree with that principle. mr. chairman, the future of america is not dependent upon the success, the survival of any one man in public office, and if we believe that the president and the office of the president are one, then the president's failings become our undoing. i think that no one mind should be able to bind up our destiny, our perpetuation, our success with a change of his personal destiny. it's also been said to me that even if mr. nixon did commit these offenses, every other president, every other president has engaged in some of the same conduct, at least to some degree, but the answer i think is that democracy, that solid rock of our system may be eroded away by degree, and its survival will be determined by the degree to which we will tolerate those silent and subtle diversions that absorb it slowly into the rule of a few in the name of what is right. our laws and our constitution are and they must be more than a pious wish, more than a sanctimonious recital of what we should prefer b

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magruder when he was sentenced by the judge. he looked up at the judge and said, your honor i am sorry, i lost my moral compass. my ambition obscured my judgment and now i must look into the eyes of my wife, and see her pain, in the eyes of my children and see their confusion, in the eyes of my fellow man and see their contempt. but he said america will survive the jeb magruders and the watergates and i happen to agree with that principle. mr. chairman, the future of america is not dependent upon the success, the survival of any one man in public office, and if we believe that the president and the office of the president are one, then the president's failings become our undoing. i think that no one mind should be able to bind up our destiny, our perpetuation, our success with a change of his personal destiny. it's also been said to me that even if mr. nixon did commit these offenses, every other president, every other president has engaged in some of the same conduct, at least to some degree, but the answer i think is that demo

only person on both sides of the line was john dean because he participated participated with magruder and liddy in planning the break in and then he was approached by halderman about the cover up. he wasn't the only one on both sides. in thea lot to lose spring of 1973 and is it began to fall apart he told nixon, look, he way have to go to jail. nixon couldn't face it. he told halderman and ehrlichman that he was going to talk to an attorney. i guess nixon could not bring himself to act because if he had acted, if he had gone to the famous hangout roof, there would have been so many other horrors that he would have had to reveal and he felt it best to tough it >> our guest is john farrell. we are reflecting on the resignation of richard nixon years ago on this date and of course gerald ford who was the first and only appointed vice president becoming the first and only appointed president. john farrell's book is coming out. >> either christmas or maybe around father's day. >> louise is joining us. >> thanks for taking my call. i heard some of what this gentleman has been saying and i