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You might believe in destiny.

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But if you ask me, and I'm glad you did,

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there is one powerful force that drives human behavior

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and changes the world.

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Money.

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(dramatic music playing)

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This is room 214, in Watergate hotel, in Washington, D.C.

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It was in this very room, that back in 1972,

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White House aides G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt

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oversaw the break-in to democratic headquarters

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that led to the Watergate scandal.

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One of the most famous phrases from that scandal

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is of course, "Follow the money."

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Which Deep Throat said to Bob Woodward

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in that parking garage.

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But he never really said it and Woodward and Bernstein

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never really wrote it,

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the line comes from the movie, All the Presidents' Men

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But we remember that line because it captures an essential

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truth.

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If you really want to know what happened at Watergate

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as well as a lot of other things in our history,

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you got to follow the money.

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But in all of my years of public life

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I have never profited,

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never profited

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from public service.

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I've earned every cent.

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Even as he was consumed by the

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Watergate scandal

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President Nixon took the time to lie about his income tax

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evasion.

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That in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind

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of examination, because people have got to know

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whether or not their presidents a crook.

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Well I'm not a crook.

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(music playing) (drink pouring)

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One of the things that Nixon always insisted is that he

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was never in it for the money.

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As if that's, makes it okay

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But he kind of was

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He kind of was, he always wanted to be seated at the cool

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kids table.

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And he never got there, and so he wanted money, he wanted

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the things that money, you know could buy, like beautiful

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houses and such, so he really did like money, and really

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wanted money personal money, not just money for his campaign

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Nixon left to national fame in 1952,

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when Dwight Eisenhower chose him as his Vice presidential

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running mate.

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But just 2 months later Nixon endured his first major

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scandal.

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His political backers had established a fund to cover

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expenses, or as the New York Post put it,

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Secret Rich Mans trust fund keeps Nixon in style, far beyond

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his salary.

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And that's why we need tabloids.

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(music)

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[Narrator] On September 23rd 1952,

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NBC broadcast a brand new soap opera

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There was just one episode.

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The following program is sponsored by the Republican

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National committee.

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Not one cent of the $18,000.00 or any other money of that

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type, ever went to me for my personal use.

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60 Million Americans,

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the largest TV audience to

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that time, heard or saw that speech, and what they saw,

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the nation decided was an honest man.

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(applaud)

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It worked, Nixon was now down the hall from ultimate power

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but he had a little problem.

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Specifically a little brother

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I didn't realize that Nixon liked Jimmy Carter like certain

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Teddy Roosevelt, like Billy

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They all had like crazy brothers

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And his brother Don Nixon,

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ran a hamburger stand?

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An aspiring chain of drive, drive-thru burger joints,

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and uh was never good at it, and it wasn't doing

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particularly well, and lo and behold he gets a big loan

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from a guy named Howard Hughes.

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Yup, that Howard Hughes,

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(music playing) famed film producer, lover of leading ladies

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aerospace and casino mogul and charter member of the

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billionaire recluse hall of fame.

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Howard Hughes testifies regarding his 40 million dollar

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plane contract before Senate Warren investigating committee.

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I'll ask you again. Will you bring Mr. Myers

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in at the 2:00 session?

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Uh, I, no, I don't think I will.

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Will you try to bring him in?

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[Narrator] In 1957, Hughes loaned $205,000.00 to

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Donald Nixon to prop up his chain of fast food joints named

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imaginatively, Nixon's, perhaps Hughes just really loved the

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Nixon burger, and since it was only $0.20 with cheese,

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he could afford about a billion of them.

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(music playing; plane engine running)

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By sheer coincidence, the thoughtful leg up

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to Donald Nixon was followed by the feds granting lucrative

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new routes to Hughes own Trans World Airlines.

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Nixon continued his relentless climb to the top.

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Until the story broke days before the 1960 election.

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Nixon insisted the loan had nothing to do with him, it was

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for Donald and guaranteed by their mother, Hannah Nixon.

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I want all of you to know.

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Was it that famous televised debate that cost

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Nixon the election?

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Just as likely, it was the Nixon burger scandal.

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I want Senator Kennedy to know, and I want all of you to

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know, that uh, certainly if this trend does continue, and he

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does become our next president, that he will have my whole

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hearted support and yours too.

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Fast forward to 1968, Nixon and Hughes are

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back in the swamp, they craved power and influence.

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Hughes brags that there is no man on earth he can't buy or

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For Nixon, that's an easy choice.

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In 1968, He, His industries Are Facing Tough,

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you know scrutiny from Washington and regulations and you

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want some relief and he decides that Nixon a Republican has

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to be elected, so he ends up giving $100,000.00,

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not directly to Nixon, but to one of Nixon's friends, uh,

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a guy named Bebe Rebozo which is..

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God bless Bebe Rebozo

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In hall of fame of American names,

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you know Kiki VanDeWeghe

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and Zsa Zsa Gabor, is is Bebe Rebozo, and he's this buddy of

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Nixon's and a fixer kind of a guy and he takes the money and

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it is believed that all of that money went right into

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Nixon's pocket, not just into the election.

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from Bebe the bag man to Nixon's pocket.

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And from there to improvements in Nixon's estate in

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Key Biscayne, Florida.

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Some remodeling, a new swimming pool, Arnold Palmer putting

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green. It was very nice.

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Oh Hi, you've caught me indulging my inner Woodward and

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Bernstein. So the current owners of the Watergate hotel have

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created this scandal room.

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To commemorate the history and also to make a little money,

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you can rent it out.

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That's appropriate because it was Richard Nixon's obsessions

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with history and money that led to his downfall,

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he installed the White House taping system so that he could

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control how history would remember him.

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And that money from Howard Hughes, he was an intelligent man

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he must of known, he should not take it,

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but there it was.

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A Senate investigation later concluded,

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that the $100,000.00 was just one of several pay offs Hughes

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made to Nixon.

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On the White House tapes, those bribes are politely referred

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to as, Florida dealings.

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Having lost a close one 8 years ago, and having won

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a close one this year I can say this winnings a lot more fun

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Preserve, protect and defend..

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The constitution of the United states

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Nixon lived in dread that Hughes would expose

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their secret,

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Nixon's paranoia hit the boiling point when

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Kennedy confidant, Lawrence O'Brien took on 2 jobs.

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Washington lobbyist for Howard Hughes, and chairmen of the

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Democratic National Committee.

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The White House went on high alert, Did O'Brien know about

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the huge payments to Nixon? Would he reveal them before the

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1972 election?

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O'Brien's taxes were audited, his home burgled.

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office, at the Watergate complex.

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In his audio diary, Nixon chief of staff H. R. Haldeman

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connects the dots from the Hughes bribe to the Watergate

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break-in.

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at Watergate, they had to pony up what they thought might be

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as much as a million dollars to pay, to silence the five

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guys that broke into the Watergate hotel.

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That in fact, that was one of the famous Watergate tapes

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Were Nixon says, "What would it take,"

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and Dean says, "It would take about a million dollars"

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and Nixon says, "we could do that" and then the story

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they came out with was the tape didn't pick him up saying

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but that would be wrong

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American history.

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Nixon's team paid $400,000.00 in black mail

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to the Watergate defendants. Two and a half million dollars

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in today's money.

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and like him the had seen too many heist movies.

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Cash was dropped in phone booths, under park benches, and

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thinking oh, that sounds really messy.

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Well Nixon's re-election campaign was one big pile of slush

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millions in illegal contributions went for political dirty

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tricks as Nixon used the FBI, CIA and IRS to persecute his

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enemies and secure his re-election.

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Watergate is to the extent that they had this sort of

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gorilla operation to sabotage the Democrats, it worked.

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you think of a two-bit robbery, you think of these

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incompetent fools running around but they actually,

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well I won't say stole, but certainly influenced an election

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through illicit means.

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election, Ed Muskie, was the leading candidate,

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and that was the candidate that Nixon really feared and

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the dirty tricks squad planted this story that he had

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slurred you know Canadian, Canadian-Americans by using the

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word Canuck, and uh Muskie then

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Merciful heavens he said it in public no less

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yeah and then you know, Muskie gives this very emotional

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press conference and kind of clearly starts to cry a little

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bit and it you know seems like a shaken man and he just

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plummets.

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Nixon got the opponent he wanted.

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Crushing George McGovern.

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but Woodward and Bernstein followed the money

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and the scandal finally broke wide open.

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In full cover-up mode, Nixon fought back with delicious

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unintended irony

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I want the American people, I want you

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to know beyond the shadow of a doubt

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that during my term as president

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justice will be pursued fairly, fully, and impartially,

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Did he ever express at anytime, any regret for

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any of this? Did he ever say, "Ah, I made a mistake,

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I shouldn't have done that,

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I shouldn't have been so interested in money

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I shouldn't have been so interested in whatever"

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No Nixon, I think ah, believed that he was a victim of

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his enemies and really felt that he hadn't done

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much of anything wrong at all,

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and that he was simply the you know victim of circumstance

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victim of this coalescence of his enemies

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Wow, that's crazy

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Hmm, but it fits his character,

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you know it's the way he operated,

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he really felt like it was him against the world

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and he felt that even when he was on top

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so he wins by this unprecedented landslide

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and of course in the months leading up to that

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commits all these crimes and then begins the cover up

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so its a scam he's a one man Greek tragedy, it's amazing.

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Always give your best

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never get discouraged

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never be petty

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others may hate you

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those who hate you don't win

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unless you hate them

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and then you destroy yourself

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Today you can see Nixon's obsessions in two

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adjacent buildings in Washington, D.C.

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts

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and the Watergate complex.

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To his dying day Richard Nixon believed that the

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Kennedy's had used their family fortune to steal the 1960

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election away from him.

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But his resentment of the money to lead went back much

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further than that.

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When he was a teenager growing up in Whittier, California

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working class he actually got accepted to Harvard,

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with free tuition,

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but he couldn't go cause his family couldn't afford even the

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travel or the board.

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He went to a local school instead.

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So for the rest of his life,

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Richard Nixon was determined to follow the money.

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(dramatic music) (clock ticking)