robert cox, you were the editor of the buenos aires herald. you are considered to be, really, the person who saved so ma liv in argentinduri the dirty war. thank you so much for joining us on our program. >> thank you for inviting me here. >> hinojosa: when you hear that, though, when people say, "you know what? you and your work as a journalist saved not one or two or dozens-- maybe hundreds of lives during the dirty war," how does that sit with you? >> difficult to deal with, but at the same time a satisfying thing, because that's what i realized that our journalism was doing. it was saving lives. at's why it was imptant to us. and to go back now, as i have been able to go back, and to live in argentina or living there for several months a year, and to find people who stop me in the the street and thank me, and to meet people who were held in this terrible esma, this awful torture and killing-- how would you call it?-- in the center of buenos aires... >> hinojosa: which is one of the most extraordinary develop... and that's one of the things

the attorney general el yoet richards and the deputy and finally it fell to robert bourke to do the deed of firing archibald cox. at that point you saw a tremendous shift in public opinion against richard nixon. now believing that the president of the united states was covering up something that he wasn't being honest with the american public that he wasn't going to play by the rules. and then finally the evidence on the tapes as we listened to the tapes for the first final and heard john dean provide in the cancer on the presidency speech that he gave to richard nixon, chapter in verses giving richard nixon every benefit of the doubt that he didn't know all the things that had happened that quite clearly he did know. and then telling the president, look, you've got to stop it now. you've got to quick now. it's untenable. you have to stop the cover up. perchry's been committed. obstruction of justice. people are going to have to go to jail. you need to get beyond this and richard nixon said quite unequivocally you've got to continue the cover up. you've got to continue paying the hush money. you've got to keep