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Was Ida Maxie Wells really the target of the break in?

Martinez was given by mister Hutt and Max.

Someone else was directing the break in team, not g Gordon Liddy.

John Dean said his exact words were that everyone will be taken care of.

John Dean began running a cover up.

You're a lawyer, that you're obstructing justice.

The scandal did breach into the White House, and it crept in through John Dean himself.

The reason the burglars went into the Watergate was because that's where they could find records of visits by prominent Demica adds to the prostitution ring.

Who ordered Patergate then John Deane.

According to The evidence that I developed and the research that I conducted is the most logical answers.

Why are Hollywood and the media so obsessed with Nixon?

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We're at part eight of our series of episodes titled The Fighter.

If you haven't heard the previous episodes, stop and go back and listen from the beginning.

We're looking for the answer to the question why are the media and Hollywood so obsessed with Richard Nixon?

By telling the often ignored story of his life.

So to pick up where we left off, prosecutors in the Watergate burglary case argued that the break in didn't go higher than g Gord and Lyddy and Howard Hunt.

That should have been the end of the entire Watergate affair, but Judge Sirica, who was overseeing the case, had something different in mind.

He'd been reading articles in the Washington Post that claimed that the scandal reached deep into the White House's inner circle, So Judge Cirica decided to play hardball.

He threatened Lyddy Hunt and the five burglars with life in prison if they didn't start to cooperate.

He then postponed sentencing by almost two months, hoping someone would crack.

Judge Syrica then called for the Senate to conduct hearings to see how high this Watergate scandal went.

In February nineteen seventy three, the Senate complied and formed a came to be known as the Irvine Committee.

Then, just two days before sentencing, Howard Hunt began to break.

He got word to the ringleader of the cover up, John Dean, that he demanded one hundred and twenty thousand dollars for legal fees and walk around money.

If he didn't receive it pronto, he'd start implicating others in the Watergate case.

With the sentencing just forty eight hours away and no doubt, feeling that the walls were closing in on his cover up operation.

John Dean asked for a meeting with President Nixon.

The reason I thought we ought to talk this sorry, is because in our conversations I have the impression that you don't know everything I know, and it makes it very difficult for you to make judgments that if only you could make on.

Some of these things.

Nixon interjected, wondering if maybe they shouldn't unravel the issue, but Dean went.

On, I think and I think that.

There's no doubt about the seriousness a problem works.

We've got we have a cancer within the close to the presency.

It's growing, it's growing daily, it's compounding.

It grows geometrically.

Now because it's compounds, it sucks.

That'll be clear, as I claimed, you know some of the details.

For the first time, Nixon was going to hear how the Watergate scandal developed, or at least John Dene's version of the events.

Dean opened with the biggest problem one, we're being blackmailed.

Two people are going.

To start furguring himself very quickly that have not had to purgure themselves to protect other people.

John Dene warned that there was no guarantee that the Watergate affair was not going to bust right open.

First of all, on the water Gate pound it all start where it starts, started with constructing to the round.

Bob Hall of.

Dean says he was asked to set up a legitimate campaign intelligence operation.

Explained why he went to g Gordon Liddy to create this plan.

In Dean's telling, he heard Liddy had handled some extremely sensitive intelligence gathering on Daniel Ellsberg's Pentagon papers leak.

According to John Dean, everyone thought highly of Liddy, so Dean hired him.

That he left that last part out.

He told the President that he was present when Liddy pitched his plan to John Mitchell, who was preparing to resign as Attorney General to take over the re election committee.

And Riddy laid out a million dollar plan that was the most incredible thing I have ever laid.

My eyes on.

Hauling codes and involved black bag operations, kidnapping, providing prostitutes, and weakened the opposition to bugging mugging teams.

It was just an incredible thing.

It appeared to Dean that John Mitchell didn't take the plan very seriously.

Mitchell's the Birthchase sat there puffing and laughing, and I could tell after Liddy left the office, I said, that's the most incredible thing I've ever seen that.

I agree.

Dean explained how Liddy came back with the new plan, but it still had bugging and other dirty tricks.

And at this point, I.

Said, right in front of everybody, very clearly, I said, these are not the sort of things.

On that are ever to be discussed in the office.

Fragenal of the United States Story.

Show was Dean claimed he told G.

Gordon Liddy to pack the hell up and get the ridiculous plan out of the Attorney General's office.

He then said he spoke with President Nixon's Chief of Staff, Bob Haldeman and warned him that Liddy was trouble and that the White House needed to stay away from him.

According to Dean, Haldeman agreed through his questions, it was obvious that Nixon had no knowledge of any of this.

He asked who was in the meeting when it occurred things of that nature.

Dean continued, and I thought at.

That point the thing was turned off.

That's the last I've heard of it.

And I thought it was turned off because it was an absurd proposal.

Then John Deane said something that didn't pass the smell test.

After his pitch, Dean had worked with Liddy, but they never talked about his pitch again Liddy, I did.

We never talked about it.

I would be hard to believe for some people, but we never did.

Just the fact of the matter, and this is where Dean's problem becomes clear.

Any prosecutor investigating the break in would see John Deane's fingerprints all over the Watergate scandal.

He was the one that hired G.

Gordon Liddy to create an opposition research plan.

He continued to work with Liddy as the plan was being executed.

Dean was the one that met with Liddy right after the arrests, and according to Liddy and a White House aid, it was Dean that ordered Hunt out of the country, a clear obstruction of justice attempt.

And then there was the alleged prostitution ring.

If anyone dug deep into the scandal, it was easy to see that John Dean was in real trouble if the Watergate investigation expanded into the White House.

Dean went on to explain to President Nixon that somehow Liddy got an intelligence plan approved and that Liddy started gathering information and feeding it to the Real Life Committee, who then fed that information to a White House staffer.

Dean had no proof that anyone in President Nixon's inner circle knew exactly how the information was obtained, but according to Dean, they weren't happy with what they were getting.

You may remember that even G.

Gordon Liddy said that the summary transcripts of the wire tap were useless.

I got typed summary logs that were given to me, and they were useless.

I mean, we were getting hairdressing appointments and some guy taking trips to Texas and things like that.

At least that was what it purported to be.

Lyddy would, of course, later learn that he wasn't getting the full scoop on the content of the conversations.

They were, in fact, sexual in nature.

The person monitoring the wire taps believed most people would think they were listening to a prostitution ring.

John Deane told Nixon that his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman and the re election committee head John Mitchell appeared to have no idea that G.

Gordon Liddy's plan had anything illegal in it.

He then explained what happened next.

Point in time of high the team aware of anything was on to seventeen when I got the word that there had been this bright game as the Democratic National Committee and somebody from the committee had been caught from our committee had been caught in the DNC, and I said, oh my.

God, Dean says.

He instantly put the pieces together.

I know what it was.

So I called Liddy on that Monday morning and I said Gordon.

I said, first, I want to know if anybody in the White.

House was involved, and he said no, they weren't.

Said well, I want to know how in God's name this happened.

And he said, well, I was pushed, without mercy, violent Ruder to get in there to get more information than the information it was not satisfactory.

Dean said that the deputy chairman of the re election Committee, Magruder, was getting pressure from the White House because they weren't happy with the intel they were receiving that caught Nixon by surprise.

Macgruder said, the White House was not happy with what we're getting into the White House.

Now.

Nixon asked who he thought it was that was pushing from the White House.

Dean responded that it was probably an aid to Nixon's Chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, a guy named Strawn, but Dean have no clear evidence that people from within Nixon's inner circle knew that the intel information was coming into the White House from a break in.

They just come back from a successful Moscow trip.

His foreign policy efforts were being universally heralded, and the Democrats nominated a candidate that couldn't beat him.

Nixon sounded dumbfounded by the entire Watergate break in.

Nixon couldn't understand why they did it.

John Deane assured the President that no one in the White House had prior knowledge of the failed Watergate break in.

I honestly belief that no one over here knew that.

I know, as God is my maker, I had known age that they were going to.

And here's where things got tricky.

John Deane said he knew staffers that the Nixon reelection committee had already committed perjury.

The scandal was initially isolated to the committee across the street, but then Dean began to infect Nixon's inner circle.

He'd been involved with paying the legal fees of the team that was arrested.

Dean turned to some of Nixon's closest colleagues to help raise money for the legal fee payments, including nixon re election chairman John Mitchell, and even Nixon's chief of staff Bob Haldeman and his closest advisor, John Erlickman come up with posting.

Because one Bobby's talking John is involved in that time, involved in that chol involved in a.

Constructive governors.

Dean equated the legal fee request to blackmail, and according to him, Nixon's inner circle were already involved in these payments.

To add to their troubles, Howard Hunt was now demanding more than just legal fees.

Now the blackmail is continuing.

Hunt called one of the lawyers in the re election committee on last Friday, leaving him on over the weekend.

The guy came in to me and seeing me to made a message directly.

From Hunt to me for the frontal out of his Hunt now is demanding.

Another seventy two thousand dollars for his own personal expenses, another fifty thousand dollars pay at attorneys Dase one hundred and twenty te thousand dollars, and he says, I'm going to be sentenced on Friday, and I've got to be able to get my financial affairs in order.

According to Dean, if Howard Hunt didn't receive the money immediately, he'd take down Nixon's closest advisor, John Erlickman, and how well.

Howard Hunt was threatening to go public with what he did while investigating Daniel Ellsberg as a plumber.

In other words, Hunt was now tying the Watergate issue to the unrelated Daniel Ellsberg investigation.

The Cubans that were.

Used in the Watergate were also the same humans that used California Elsburg.

To the breaking out there.

This was the pile of excrement that John Deane dumped on President Nixon's desk all at once, and there were problems at multiple levels.

Even though Nixon's closest advisers had no prior knowledge of the failed DNC break in, that Watergate scandal could now be lumped in with the Daniel Ellsberg investigation.

At the time, Ellsburg was on trial for espionage.

If the Watergate investigation forced the White House into divulging their covert operation against Ellsburg in the eyes of Nixon, it would severely threaten national security.

In the months and years leading up to Ellsberg's leak of the Pentagon papers, America was in violent turmoil, During the nineteen sixty nine to nineteen seventy school year, there were nearly eighteen hundred campus protests and around two hundred and fifty cases of arson.

In the spring and summer of nineteen seventy, a wave of bombing's plague college campuses and cities.

Gun battles had even erupted between militants like the Black Panthers and the police, and some of this violent activity was being sponsored by foreign entities.

To add to the turmoil of the times, the White House was in extremely sensitive negotiations with the Vietcong, China, the Soviet Union, and others.

What the public didn't know was that throughout this tumultuous era, the CIA and the FBI had cut off communications with one another.

The FBI had actually discontinued their liaison with the CIA and all other intelligence agencies, only keeping communications with the White House.

The intelligence community had become dysfunctional.

This was the environment that the White House faced as Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, a massive, unprecedented leak of top secret documents.

The White House had even learned from the FBI that someone leaked the forty seven volume, seven thousand page document to the Soviet embassy.

These leaks were placing America's national security in jeopardy, so President Nixon had to get creative.

He set up the plumbers to track down the leakers and acquire intel on Daniel Ellsberg because no one knew what else he had.

If the Watergate investigation began to creep into the unrelated area of the White House Plumbers, it would send a signal to the world that America's intelligence community was broken.

The country would look severely vulnerable during extremely unstable times.

So to President Nixon, keeping the Watergate investigation confined to Watergate and not its intelligence operation was of paramount importance, and Howard Hunt's threat was jeopardizing that goal.

As John Dene explained Howard Hunt's blackmail demand, Nixon began exploring all options, including paying Hunt's legal fees to buy some time.

Better to get full understanding of what happened in Watergate than take on this same effort while reacting to a serious national security concern.

Besides, Nixon was only hearing John Dene's side of the story.

He needed to get all of the relevant players together.

His advisors, Bob Haldeman and John Irkman, the former head of the re election Committee, John Mitchell, bring those people together with John Deane to hear everyone side of the Watergate scandal and figure out what to do next.

Nixon thought out loud, but pay the legal fees or just let it all blow up right now and have those who are implicated deal with the fallout.

But nothing on the payment option was decided.

The two contemplated a few other trouble spots in the Watergate affair, and that's likely when John dene heard something he didn't want to hear.

What happened if it starts breaking and I didn't find a criminal case against the hold.

Of the Mitchell an arlect, Nixon said, if it really comes down to that, we'd have to shed it in order to contain it again.

That's right, I'm coming down.

I guess that Bob and John and John Mitchell and I could sit.

Down and spend a day or however long, figure out one how this could be carved away from you so it does not damage you or the presidency, because it.

Just can't, and it's not something you're not involved in it, and it's something you should answer that.

I note the problem with this troubleshooting the crisis with the President was that John Dene was now infecting him with the problem.

Well, I how from our conversations that you know, these are things that you have no knowledge of.

Nixon responded, stating the absurdity of the whole damn thing, bugging and so on.

He said he understood that there was pressure to get more information, but he added they all knew very well that they were supposed to comply with the law.

They all very well law that's trying.

Before the meeting concluded, President Nixon stated he couldn't grant anyone clemency.

Gives.

About an hour into the meeting, Nixon's chief of staff, Bob Haldeman entered.

Nixon gave hald him in a quick rundown of what Dean had told.

They again began to weigh the options of dealing with Howard Hunt's blackmail threat.

President Nixon then proposed to John Dean, the clean way out of this mess could possibly just be to let Howard Hunt talk and let the chips fall where they may.

But that didn't work for John Dene.

He was implicated he'd be criminally liable.

I don't.

Because we all need to discussed if there's some way that we can get our story before a grand jury.

What John Dene appeared to be recommending was a new grand jury that could give immunity to select people involved in the Watergate cover up.

It looked like Dean wanted immunity for himself.

He knew what he'd done, and he was just in too deep with the entire Watergate affair.

But Nixon had already concluded that he could not immediately offer clemency to anyone involved in the Watergate break in something started to become clear.

It appeared Dean's only way way of avoiding a long jail sentence was to be given immunity in exchange for testimony.

The talk lasted about an hour and a half.

By the conclusion of the meeting, the President left undecided the option of paying Hunt's blackmail demand, but he did want to get John Mitchell, Dean, Erlickman, and Haldeman together as soon as possible to get everyone side of the story and figure out how to move forward.

After the meeting, Bob Holdeman called John Mitchell in New York and summoned him to the White House.

Mitchell couldn't get to Washington, d C.

Until the following day in the interim President Nixon, Haldeman, Erlickman, and Dean met to prepare for their meeting with Mitchell the next day.

The following afternoon, around two pm, John Mitchell joined the crew.

They met in a room with a horrible recording system.

We are.

It's hard to hear every word that's spoken, but a theme that can be pulled out of the meeting is that the night before, when the team met without Mitchell, President Nixon rejected John Dene's idea of granting select people immunity.

Such an act would not reflect well on the institution of the presidency.

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So Howard Hunt was threatening that if he didn't get roughly one hundred and twenty thousand dollars pronto, he'd expose the Plumber's covert operation against the Pentagon papers leaker Daniel Elsberg.

Hunt believed that disclosure would take down the president's closest advisor, John Erlickman.

When Nixon and his closest advisors gathered with John dene and John Mitchell to discuss how to move forward on Watergate, they came up with the plan to take away Howard Hunt's power.

If Nixon couldn't keep that national security operation secret, why not beat Hunt to the punch.

He could simply reveal the Plumber's operation on his terms and take away Hunt's blackmail leverage.

Surely, the American people who'd personal experienced the violent chaos of the time could understand why the Nixon White House embarked on a covert operation against Daniel Elsberg.

And if they knew that at the time of the leak, the White House could not turn to the FBI or the CIA, they'd undoubtedly agree with the reasoning behind the formation of the plumbers.

So out of this meeting of the minds, held the day before the Watergate culprits were to be sentenced, President Nixon instructed John Dene to write a report containing everything he'd stated to him the previous day, that they were being blackmailed, that people had perjured themselves, that there'd been a cover up.

President Nixon would then use the report to call for a renewed investigation into the Watergate affair, and everyone involved would be hauled in to testify.

That way, they'd take away Howard Hunt's power, they'd potentially avoid the Urban Committee show trial, and they could end this ordeal once and for all.

Nixon wanted to lance the boil using the complete disclosure.

The team suggested that Dean go to Camp David to draft the report, where he'd be away from all the phone calls, commotion, and hullabaloo of Washington.

D C.

John Dene agreed and headed to Camp David.

The following day, Judge John Ciica announced his sentencing of the Watergate culprits and it was jaw dropping.

He sentenced g Gordon Lyddy to up to twenty years in prison.

Another culprit that pled guilty to second degree burglary was sentenced to a maximum of thirty five years, and four others were sentenced to a maximum of forty years.

Judge Sirica dropped the hammer on all but one man, James McCord.

Remember McCord was chief of security for Nixon's re election committee.

Judge Sirica postponed his sentencing again, and why well.

McCord drafted a bomb she letter that Judge Sirica could use to bust open the whole Watergate scandal.

In the letter, McCord claimed that people had perjured themselves, he'd experienced political pressure to plead guilty and remained silent, and that ultimately there was a cover up in the Watergate break in the wall separating the White House from the scandal was about to crumble.

John Dene was at Camp David when the verdicts came down.

He knew McCord's cover up accusation included him, whether it was his alleged break in order to acquire evidence of the prostitution ring, or simply his participation in obstructing justice.

John dene knew what he'd done writing the report for President Nixon was feudal.

He couldn't compose it without incriminating himself because he had been the ringleader of the whole damn cover up, and by talking about it with John Erlickman, Bob Haldeman, Mitchell, and President Nixon, he'd infected Nixon's innermost inner circle.

Judge Serrica's announcement became a defining moment in the life of Richard Milhouse Nixon.

Just a few months earlier, Nixon was one of the most successful and popular presidents in American history.

The landslide victory cemented that fact.

But what President Nixon couldn't have known at the time was that Judge si Rica's courtroom announcement provided the man from Norblinda just one option to save his presidency.

The only way to survive was to immediately and ruthlessly cut ties with anyone and everyone involved in Watergate.

He had to perform what is referred to as a noisy withdrawal, instantly demanding the resignation of everyone that had prior knowledge of Watergate or its post break and cover up.

But President Nixon had learned a lesson in an earlier stint in the White House, and that lesson would taint his decision making in this crucial moment.

You may remember that in nineteen fifty eight, President Eisenhower's chief of staff, Sherman Adams, was under fire.

Adams had accepted an expensive overcoat and oriental rug from a Boston textile manufacturer.

The problem was that the manufacturer was under investigation for Federal Trade Commission violations.

As Vice president at the time, Nixon watched as his boss agonized over how to handle the situation.

Sherman Adams was under constant attack, and the stink was spreading into the Oval office.

Eisenhower eventually made the decision to shed his chief of staff.

Nixon thought it was the wrong move.

Fast forward to his crucial Watergate moment.

He didn't want to repeat Eisenhower's mistake.

He'd later recall this trying moment.

I had been through a very difficult period when President Eisenhower had the Adams problem, and I'll never forget the agony he went through.

Here was Adams, a man that had gone through the heart attack with him, a man that had gone through the stroke with him, A man had been totally selfless, but he was caught up in a web guilty.

I don't know.

I consider Adams then to be an honest man in his heart.

He did have some misjudgment, but in any event, finally Eisenhower decided, after months of indecision on it, he stood up for him and press conferences over and over again.

He decided he had to go.

You know who did it?

I did it.

Eisenhower called me in and asked me to talk to Shearm.

Now Nixon was faced with a similar issue.

His two closest advisers, Bob Haldeman and John Erlickman, were potentially implicated in a Watergate cover up.

Both men were professing their innocence, so instead of throwing them under the bus, Nixon chose a more compassionate route.

I still wanted to give them a chance to survive.

I didn't want to have them sacked as Eisenhower sacked Adams.

And Adams goes off the New Hampshire and runs a ski lite and is never prosecuted for anything.

Sack because of misjudgment yes, mistakes, yes, but an illegal act with any immoral, illegal motive.

No.

That's what I feel about Adams.

That's why I felt about these men at that time.

Because of this Sherman Adams experience, President Nixon chose not to ruthlessly shed his inner circle in the wake of Judge Serrica's announcement that decision would change the trajectory of its presidential legacy.

While Nixon decided to take a wait and see approach, John Dean was at Camp David, unable to write the Watergate report without incriminating himself.

He relayed his writer's block to Nixon's chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, and Haldeman told Dean to just come back to the White House, but Dean had another plan in mind.

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Welcome back to Red pilled America while Nixon decided to take a wait and see approach.

John Dean was at Camp David, unable to write the Watergate report without incriminating himself.

He relayed his writer's block to Nixon's chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, and Haldeman told Dean to just come on back to the White House.

But Dean had another plan in mind.

On March twenty eighth, nineteen seventy three, just five days after the Watergate burglars were sentenced, John Dean retained a lawyer, and his selection of legal counsel signaled one thing that he was turning on President Nixon.

Dean hired a guy named Charles Schaefer.

Schaefer was a well connected Democrat and former Justice Department lawyer that worked in both the JFK and LBJ administrations.

The two quietly settled on a plan.

Dean would look for what Nixon could not give him, immunity.

The movie that Dean's lawyer wanted to produce placed John Dean as the hero whistleblower.

Richard Nixon, in his inner circle, would play the villain.

In mid April nineteen seventy three, just as they geared up to make their pitch to Watergate prosecutors, President Nixon publicly proclaimed that no individual holding a position of major importance in the administration should be given immunity.

The message appeared to resonate when Dean and his lawyer approached the Watergate prosecutors asking for immunity in exchange for testimony.

The career prosecutors rejected their offer.

By their estimation, John Dean had his fingerprints all over this cover up, so Dean found a different option.

The networks and the newly formed public broadcasting system were going to give the Watergate hearings round the clock coverage.

The Irvin Committee orchestrating the hearings were looking for some drama, and John Dean was willing to give it to them.

On one condition.

In order to testify against his Oval Office colleagues, he needed immunity, and he needed it fast.

The President now believed, through a subsequent investigation, that his previous Watergate investigation, conducted by John Dean, was full of holes.

Dean was in trouble.

Nevertheless, he was the perfect weapon for Nixon's enemies.

He'd worked in Nixon's inner circle.

He was the one that ran the cover up he was the one that dirtied everyone up in the White House.

The Democrats could use Dean to attack one of the most popular presidents of all time, and establishment Republicans could put Dean to good use as well.

You may recall that at the outset of the Pentagon Papers leak, Nixon spoke to his National security adviser Henry Kissinger and reference to caldey'd recently had.

But boy, you're right about one thing.

If anything was needed to underline, we talked about Friday or Saturday morning, about really cleaning house when we have the opportunity.

By god, this underlines it.

Oh, and people have got to be put to the torch for this sort of thing.

This is terrible.

The Pentagon Papers leak underscored a point Kissinger had just made hours earlier.

At their first opportunity.

The Nixon administration had to clean house at the White House to reduce future leaks, and that meant getting rid of establishment Republicans.

He gets re elected landslide reelection took every state except Massachusetts in the district.

That's Jeff Shepard, a former Nixon Watergate defense lawyer and author of the Nixon Conspiracy.

So he ran up his total sixty one percent, the second largest landslide in history.

But he didn't campaign with other GOP people.

So after that re election, they're still considerably in the minority and they're pissed.

Then the day after the election, Nixon's Chief of si staff, Bob Haldeman, made an announcement.

Haldeman instructs the cabinet officers that every presidential appointee must submit his resignation because we're going to clean house and get some people in here who are more enthusiastic.

So he managed to alienate every Republican in Congress, every presidential appointee, because now they weren't being rewarded for what they'd done.

They're four thousand presidential appointees.

Yeah, so there's trouble there.

The establishment Republicans weren't happy with Nixon's attempt to clean the swamp, so they saw John Deane as a potential opportunity to attack Nixon.

For all of these reasons, Dean was the perfect weapon to take down Nixon, and the ringleader of the cover up must have known it.

One of the main characters in the entire ugly Watergate or Deal demanded immunity and the politicized Urban Committee gave it to him.

As news of Dean's impending testimony surfaced, the media stepped up their attacks on President Nixon and his inner circle.

The Washington Post wrote article after article based on anonymous sources that would come to be known as deep Throat.

The newspaper claimed that the Watergate scandal went all the way up to the top.

The media attacks were so overwhelmingly negative that Henry Kissinger and Nixon's Secretary of State Bill Rogers, urged the president to cut Bob Haldeman and John Erlickman loose.

Then Nixon's assistant Attorney General, Henry Peterson came to the president with his Watergate investigation findings.

Nixon later recalled.

The moment I remember Henry Peterson coming in on that Sunday afternoon, came in off his boat, apologized for being in its sneakers, pair of blue jeans, and so forth, but it was very important to give me the update on the developments that occurred up to April fifteen.

Peterson presented a piece of paper to the implicated both his chief of staff Bob Haldeman and his domestic affairs advisor John Erlikman.

In the Watergate cover up, and he.

Said, mister President, these men have got to resign.

You've got to fire.

I said, but Henry, I can't fire men simply on the basis of charges.

They've got to have their day in court.

They've got to have a chance to prove their innocence.

I've got to see more than this, because they claim that they're not guilty.

And Henry Peterson, very uncharacteristically, because he's very respectful to see a Democrat career civil service splendid man sat back in his chair.

He said, you know, mister President, what you've just said that you can't fire a man simply on the basis of charges that have been made are the fact that their continued service will be embarrassing to you.

You've got to have proof before you do that.

He said, that speaks very well for you as a man, doesn't speak well for you as a president.

Nixon sold with the decision for the next two weeks.

He wanted them to first have their day in court, but as April came to a close, it was becoming clear that he had to shed his inner circle.

So it took me two weeks to work it out.

Tortuous, long sessions.

You've got hours and hours of talks with him, which they resisted.

Then I remember the day at Camp David when they came up.

Haloman came in first, Dan and as he usually does, not a dramatic Nazi stormtrooper, but just a decent, respected, true cut guy.

That's the way Halloman was.

Splendid Man, and he says, I disagree with your decision totally.

He said, I think it's going eventually you're going to live to regret it, but I will.

Erlman came in.

I knew that Earlyman was bitter because he felt very strongly he shouldn't resign, although he'd even indicated that Haliman should go and maybe he should stay.

He took Erlokman out onto the cabin porch at Camp David.

It was springtime.

The tulips had just come out.

I never forget.

We looked out across it was one of those gorgeous days when the little clouds were in the mountain, and I was pretty emotionally brought up, and I remember that I could just hardly bring myself to tell Arligtman that he had to go, because I knew he was going to resist it.

I said you know, John, when I went to bed last night, I said, I hoped.

I almost prayed I wouldn't wake up this morning.

Well, it's an emotional moment.

I think there were tears in her eyes, both of us.

He said, don't say that.

We went back in.

They agreed to leave, and so it was late.

But I did it.

I cut off one arm and then cut off the other.

Now I can before I recognized it.

Maybe I defended them too long, Maybe I tried to help them too much.

But I was concerned about them.

I was concerned about their families.

I felt that they and their hearts felt they were not guilty.

I felt they ought to have a chance, at least to prove that they were not guilty.

And I didn't want to be in the position of just sawing them off in that way.

President Nixon didn't have the same emotional reaction to the loss of another man.

He unceremoniously fired John Dean on April thirtieth, nineteen seventy three.

The news hit the airwaves like a bombshell.

Good evening.

The biggest White House scandal in a century, the Watergate scandal, broke wide open today.

The Attorney General Richard kleindn'st has resigned because, in his own words, he had close personal and professional associations with people who may have broken the law.

The two closest men to the President, H.

R.

Haldeman, his chief of staff, and John Erlickman, his chief domestic advisor, have resigned last week.

Both men were fighting hard to keep their jobs.

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 Erlickman and Haldeman.

The White House is in a state of shock, and a lot of people here are wondering how many more heads are going to roll.

Tonight, the President is expected to explain to the nation how he reached his drastic decision and why.

In recent months, members of my administration and officials of the Committee for the re Election of the President, including some of my closest friends and most trusted aids, have been charged with involvement and what has come to be known as the Watergate affair.

The inevitable result of these charges has been to raise serious questions about the integrity of the White House itself.

To Night, I wished to address those questions.

Last June seventeenth, while I was in Florida trying to get a few days rest after my visit to Moscow, I first learned from news reports of the watergate break in.

I was appalled at this senseless, illegal action, and I was shocked to learn that employees of the re election Committee were apparently among those guilty.

I immediately ordered an investigation by appropriate government authorities.

On September fifteenth, as you will recall, indictments were brought against seven defendants in the case.

As the investigations went forward, I repeatedly asked those conducting the investigation whether there was.

Any reason to believe that.

Members of my administration were in any way involved.

I received repeated assurances that there were not.

Because of these continuing reassurances, I discounted the stories in the press that appeared to implicate members of my administration or other officials of the campaign committee.

Until March of this year, I remain convinced that the denials were true.

However, new information then came to me which persuaded me that there was a real possibility that some of these charges were true, and suggesting further that there had been an effort to conceal the facts, both from the public, from you and from me.

As a result, on March twenty first, I personally assumed the responsibility for coordinating intensive new inquiries into the matter, and I personally ordered those conducting the investigations to get all the facts and to report them directly to me right here.

In this office.

I was determined that we should get to the bottom of the matter, and that the truth should be fully brought out, no matter who was involved.

Today, in one of the most difficult decisions of my presidency, I accepted the resignations of two of my closest dissociates in the White House, Bob Halman John Rickman, two of the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know.

I want to stress that in accepting.

These resignations, I mean to leave no implication whatever a personal wrongdoing on their part, and I leave no implication tonight of implication on the part of others.

Who have been charged in this manner.

The Council to the President, John dene has also resigned.

Whatever may appear to have been the.

Case before, whatever improper activities may yet be discovered in connection with this whole sordid affair.

I want the American people.

I want you to know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that during my term as president, justice will be pursued fairly, fully.

And impartially, no matter who is involved.

This office is a sacred trust, and I am determined to be worthy of that trust.

His enemies had landed a direct hit.

The entire narrative machine was practically giddy with excitement.

The man from your Belinda was on the ropes, and he was about to face a media onslaught the likes of which no president had ever experienced.

Before, coming up on red pilled America.

And if these allegations proved to be true, what they were seeking to steal was not the jewels, money, or the property of American citizens, but something much more valuable.

They are most precious heritage, the right to vote in the free elections.

John W.

Adem Iid went before this at Watergate Committee today and as expected, gave the committee names, dates, and places involved in the Watergate affair and its cover up.

Included among those names of the names of those having knowledge of the cover up was Dean's former boss, the President of the United States.

What I had hoped to do in this conversation was to have the President tell me we had to end the matter.

Now.

Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices and the oval office of the president.

I was aware of listening devices, yes, sir.

Central question at this point is simply put, what did the president know and when did he know it?

You authorized this break in, didn't you?

I was trying to know, sir.

I did not.

Nixon may have resigned, but in the end history has vindicated him.

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