I can think of a plot for a
great movie. Imagine a movie set
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in the background of Washington
D.C. Imagine the plot unfolds
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in the context of a nasty
campaign for president of the
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United States. Imagine though
criminal activities coming
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directly from the Whitehouse
itself, all in order to help the
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incumbent president win the
election. Imagine top Whitehouse
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staffers involved break-ins,
acts of sabotage, theft, and
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illegal slush funds worth
millions of dollars. Imagine
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secret tape recordings along
with arrests and perjury and
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corruption reaching to the
office of the president himself.
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Sounds like it could be a good
movie couldn't it. Well the fact
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is this eventually was made into
a movie but it was a movie based
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on a true story. The Watergate
scandal that rocked the United
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states in the early 1970s and
led to the only time in history
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a United States president
was forced to resign. In this
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program called The Downfall
of the President we're going to
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look at the scandal. Why?
Because I think there's a bit of
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the president in all of us.
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Those old enough will remember
the 1960s as one of the most
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incredible decades. J.F. Kennedy
was elected president of the
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United States only to be taken
out by a snipers bullet three
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years later. The Soviets put
the first man into space, Uri
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Gagaran. The Beetles exploded
into popular culture in a big
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way. Riots and strife all
but shut down France. Famine hit
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Biafra now known as Nigeria.
About one million people died
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between famine and war. The
Russians invaded Czechoslovakia.
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The Australian Prime Minister
Harold Holt disappeared and has
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never been heard from again.
ApprenNet, the precursor of the
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internet was created. Martin
Luther King Jr. was assassinated
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Hundreds of thousands of concert
goers converged in a rural New
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York area known as Woodstock.
Nelson Mandela was sentenced to
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life in prison. The Russians
test a 50 megaton hydrogen
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bomb, the biggest
manmade explosion in history and
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Americans landed on the moon.
(Radio - The Eagle has landed)
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Yes a lot happened in the
1960s but amid it all one event
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started to dominate the decade.
That was the Viet Nam war. What
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began with 600 United States
military advisors in the early
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1960s had swelled to 536,000
U.S. troops by 1968. And as the
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war dragged on people began
to turn against it. The results
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were progests, riots and
violence in the streets of
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America and elsewhere. Probably
no one in America hated the war
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more than the one who kept
committing troops to it and that
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was President Lyndon Baines
Johnson. Worn out, bedraggled
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and personally defeated by
the conflict Johnson stunned the
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world with his announcement that
he would not run for president
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in 1968. Instead Richard M Nixon
a man many thought was done
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politically succeeded Johnson
into the Whitehouse. Now when
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we hear the name, Richard Nixon
most people conjure up images of
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corruption, scandal, evil
and deceit. He was even known as
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Tricky Dick. And yet here's the
thing about Richard Nixon. In
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many ways he'd been a very good
successful president. He founded
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the Environmental Protection
Agency whose job is to protect
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the environment. Nixon ended the
draft in America. Nixon poured
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money into the war on cancer
that still has a positive impact
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around the world. He signed
legislation that greatly reduced
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gender discrimination in America
Nixon was the president who
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opened the door to good
relations with Communist China,
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an event that has radically
changed the world. Nixon saved
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the nation of Israel from
sure destruction in the 1973 Yom
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Kippur war when a host of Arab
nations attacked. And yes, lest
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we forget Richard Nixon ended
the war in Viet Nam. However, as
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I just said when most people
think of Richard Nixon they
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don't think of these good
and positive things. Rather they
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associate him with corruption,
deception and evil. Now I would
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like to argue though that
Richard Nixon is a bit like all
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of us. What do I mean. I mean
that we're all a mixture of good
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and bad aren't we Richard Nixon,
like you, like me, had some very
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good traits, some very good
qualities and they served him
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well. But he also had some bad
traits too. I mean who among us
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doesn't have a bad side. Who
doesn't have thoughts, feelings
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and maybe even habits that we
would just as soon others didn't
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see or even know about. Thoughts
feelings and habits that we
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really wish we didn't have
to begin with. Well, as with us,
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so is Richard Nixon. And I want
to talk about the story of his
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fall because however dramatic
and however consequential the
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downfall of Richard Nixon was
there is a lesson here. Not just
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a history lesson but a moral one
A lesson about how we need to
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be careful because no matter all
the good we might do or want to
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do, only a little bit of
unrestrained evil could ruin
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everything. Now I want to pick
up the story in the middle of
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1972 and a month before
the presidential election. This
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should have been a great
time for Richard Nixon. Yes, the
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first four years of his term
were tumultuous for sure. But
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the Democrats had nominated a
very liberal candidate, George
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McGovern, who was running on
an antiwar platform. Only one
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problem though. True to his word
Nixon was already ending the war
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Peace talks were going on in
Paris and American troop levels
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were at only 24,000 and dropping
fast. And so Nixon was way ahead
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in the poles and heading into
an election that he would win by
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a landslide. However, in a
recent biography of Nixon called
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Being Nixon - A Man Divided
author Evan Thomas told about
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Nixon cronies sitting around
a pool at the Doral Hotel in
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Miami Beach in August 1972.
This was during the Republican
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National Convention. The eye
witness described what he saw
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like this:
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Well, a lot as it turns out. Two
months earlier just after the
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night on July the 17th
1972 at the Watergate Complex in
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Washington D.C. a security guard
noticed tape placed on door
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latches leading from the
underground parking lot to
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offices in the Watergate.
He removed the tape and left
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thinking little of it. When
he returned an hour later he saw
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saw that someone had re-taped
the latches. He called the
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police. They arrested five
men who had broken into the
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Democratic National
Committee main office. They were
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were attempting to wire
top phones and steal documents.
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Why did these men break into and
try to steal documents and wire
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tap phones? Well it was the
headquarters of Richard Nixon's
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political rivals in the
upcoming election. Now if that
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wasn't bad enough, FBI
investigations soon linked money
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found on the burglars to a slush
fund from an organization called
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The Committee for the
Re-election of the president.
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This was the official
organization of Richard Nixon's
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election campaign. So money from
Nixon's re-election campaign was
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tied to men who had broken
into the Headquarters of Nixon's
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campaign rivals in order to
steal documents and wire tap
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phones. Sound suspicious?
Now historians still question if
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Richard Nixon had any advance
knowledge of or if he had even
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authorized the burglary itself.
Most think not. But it was
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certainly possible. In fact
Nixon had been recorded on tape
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ordering the break in of a local
think tank called the Brookings
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Institute. Because he believed
that Brookings had papers that
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Nixon wanted, he ordered his
own people to break in and steal
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those papers. Nixon
said verbatim on tape:
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Blow the safe and get it? The
President of the United States
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ordering people to break into a
building, blow a safe and steal
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documents? Now this hardly
proves that Nixon knew about the
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Watergate break-in or even
approved of it in advance. But
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certainly shows that it would
not have been past him. Anyway
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the burglary was in June of
1972 months before the election.
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Nixon had made a critical
decision. He decided on a
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cover-up and though
more evidence pointed to the
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Whitehouse Richard Nixon
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openly lied to the
American people saying that no
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one in the Whitehouse was
involved in Watergate. The
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American people believed him and
he easily won a second term. He
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was confident that he could get
away with it and at first all
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went well. For months and
months after the break-in most
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Americans didn't care about it.
However, as with most cover-ups
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one sin leads to another. And
so over the next two years the
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scandal came to dominate the
country and the president had to
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keep lying. But despite Nixon's
assurance to the contrary more
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and more evidence pointed
directly to his Whitehouse and
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those questions remained.
What is certain was that Richard
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Nixon violated the law in an
attempt to thwart the criminal
investigation and cover
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up the crime. But the more
he lied the deeper he got sucked
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into the quick sand of deceit.
He was on a slippery downward
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slope. One dishonest act led
to another. It was like a domino
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effect. Indeed not to long
after the break in Nixon was
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recorded agreeing to pay money
to keep the burglars quiet. In
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the tape Nixon was talking
to John Dean his top Whitehouse
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lawyer:
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Can you believe that? Here
is the President of the United
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States agreeing to bribe
people in order to obstruct the
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criminal investigation. Another
time, again in the context of
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stopping the investigation
Richard Nixon said he didn't
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care about what happened:
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Nixon and his cronies
might actually have succeeded in
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getting away with everything
were it not for the work of
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Washington Post reporters
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
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Both were young and not
very high up the ladder in the
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organization. In fact the editor
of the newspaper was getting
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ready to fire Bernstein.
Nevertheless over the next two
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years the two journalists
pursued the story. Their work
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was immortalized in the movie
All the President's Men starring
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Robert Redford and Dustin
Hoffman. Also someone in the
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government known as Deep Throat
had been secretly feeding them
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information. About 31 years
later it was revealed that Deep
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Throat had been Mark Felt the
second highest in command at the
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FBI at that time. Anyway the
work of Woodward and Bernstein
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following up the Watergate
breaking revealed an extensive
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program of political espionage
and sabotage run by Nixon's
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subordinates at the Whitehouse
many ending up in jail for what
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they did. For instance, G.
Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent
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along with E. Howard Hunt, a
former CIA agent had organized
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the Watergate break-in. In his
autobiography, Liddy said that
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they had talked about killing
journalist Jack Anderson because
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of the things he'd been writing
against Nixon. Nothing ever came
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of that plot but after the
Watergate scandal started to
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unfold Liddy wrote that he told
John Dean that he, Liddy, should
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take the heat
for the botched job:
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Wow! This was the chief lawyer
for the President speaking. Now
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no one is saying that Nixon knew
about these specific events but
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it accounts likely show just
how corrupted the Whitehouse had
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become under President
Nixon. The web of deceit spread
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wider and wider more and more
people became ensnared in it and
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the President was becoming
more and more entangled. During
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senate Watergate hearings
it came out that Nixon had been
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secretly taping all
conversations in the oval office
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When investigators realized
what great potential these tapes
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had they subpoenaed them. Nixon,
claiming executive privilege,
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fought the release all the
way here to the United States
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Supreme Court. On the 24th
of July 1974 the Supreme Court
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voted 8 to 0 in the United
States vs. Nixon that he must
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turn over the tapes. Even with
the mysterious 18-1/2 minute gap
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in the tapes, they revealed more
evidence of lies, cover-up and
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criminal activity by the
President of the United States.
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And so on the 9th of August 1974
just a little over two years
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after the Watergate break-in,
facing certain impeachment,
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Richard Nixon became the
first United States President to
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resign the office.
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Therefore I shall resign
the presidency effective at noon
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tomorrow. Vice President Ford
will be sworn in as president
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at that hour in this office.
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What started out initially as
a small cover-up spread like a
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cancer to infect and taint the
highest office in the land and
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those associated with it. It
brought about the downfall of
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the President. And it was such
a tragedy because Nixon had some
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very good characteristics and in
many ways had been a very good
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president. Some who knew
him talked about how kind,
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caring and
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ethical he could be. Just one
story from even before he was
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president captured this side of
the man. Nixon became friendly
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with Martin Luther King, Jr.
after a trip to Africa in 1957
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and was close to Jackie Robinson
the baseball player who broke
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the color barrier when he became
the first African American to
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play in major league baseball.
On the campaign trail, Nixon
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practiced what he preached.
In Springfield, Missouri when a
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hotel refused to rent rooms
to some black reporters covering
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the campaign, Nixon moved his
whole entourage out. I said in
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the beginning of this program
we're all not that different
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from Richard Nixon in the sense
that we all have good and bad
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points. The problem, however, is
you ascend so high, as did Nixon
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your bad side if not contained
can lead to a very big fall.
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Most of us, even if we do
fall, don't fall from such a big
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height do we? But who amongst
us hasn't suffered at least
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somewhat from some of the
character defects that we have?
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Who among us hasn't fallen
maybe not from the heights that
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Richard Nixon did, but fallen
nonetheless. I want to read you
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a few verses from the New
Testament, from the writings of
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the Apostle Paul. He was quoting
the Old Testament when he wrote
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this in Romans
chapter 3 verses 10-12:
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Kind of strong words aren't
they? But look at our world. I
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don't think those words are too
exaggerated are they? You have
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to be blind not to sense a big
disconnect with the way things
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are in contrast to the way
things should be. And I don't
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just mean the world picture,
global warming, ISUS, income
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equality, terrorism and many
others. I mean even in our own
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individual lives who doesn't
sense that things are just wrong
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that things are not the way
they should be even in our own
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personal lives. And sometimes
it's not our fault but sometimes
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it totally is our own fault.
In Nixon and Watergate I see an
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image of our own lives, a
mixture of good and bad and
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unless we are careful the bad
can do us in, just as it did the
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president. There's a story
in the Bible about Jesus and how
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early on because of his
words and deeds people started
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believing in him. But according
to the Bible Jesus was still
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very careful with them:
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Now did you notice what it says,
For he knew what was in man.
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In other words, Jesus knew just
how corrupt and unstable people
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could be. And yet what, this
same Jesus died for these people
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This same Jesus gave his
life for these people. This same
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Jesus offered them a chance to
change, to have new lives in him
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As with those people as could
have been with Richard Nixon
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so it is with us. With you, with
me. If we but choose to accept
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Jesus and give our lives to him.
But you might think, I'm not
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not good enough for God and
you're right, you're not. So you
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might as well forget about
making yourself good enough for
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God. Trust me, you can't.
We only deceive ourselves if we
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think we can cover our mistakes,
our sins and make ourselves good
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good enough for God. Listen to
what the Bible says in Proverbs
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chapter 28 and verse 13:
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So it's impossible to cover up
our mistakes and deal with our
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sin problem on our own. But the
great news of the Bible is that
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you don't have to. God's grace
covers you. Please notice the
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rest of Proverbs
chapter 28 and verse 13:
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Jesus has already paid the
penalty for your mistakes, your
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sins. He truly has covered your
mistakes. It doesn't matter how
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big, black, or bad your mistakes
may be, if you accept Jesus as
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your Savior, he will forgive you
and cover them. Please notice
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what the Bible says in 1
John chapter 1 and verse 9:
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You are accepted and loved by
God right now just as you are.
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God will change you and make you
into a new person. Just accept
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Jesus as our Savior and follow
him. President Richard Nixon
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and the Watergate scandal remind
us of four important spiritual
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truths. Firstly, we all make
mistakes. Secondly, trying to
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cover up our mistakes, our
sins, only makes matters worse.
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Thirdly God promises that if we
come to him and confess our sins
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he will forgive us. And fourthly
each one of us has a choice.
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We can unsuccessfully try to
cover our own mistakes ourselves
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or we can ask God to forgive
us and cover our sins. Really
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there's only one sure way to
deal with our mistakes, our sins
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Confess them to God and he will
cover us. But you and you alone
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have to make the choice to
accept Jesus and ask him to
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forgive you. Why not do it now?
Why not reach out to Jesus right
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now as we pray. Dear
Heavenly Father, we've all
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made mistakes, we've all done
things we regret. Like Richard
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Nixon, we have our faults. But
we thank you that despite our
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weaknesses and mistakes you
still love us You forgive us and
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want to help us. Lord today
we reach out to Jesus and commit
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our lives to you. We commit our
lives fully and unconditionally
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to you. And now we invite
you to come into our lives and
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change us so that through the
power of Jesus in our lives we
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will not engage in behavior
that will lead us in the wrong
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direction and do things that we
will later regret. We ask these
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things in Jesus' name, Amen.
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The story of Richard Nixon
and the Watergate scandal has
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fascinated people around
the world for decades. People
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struggle to understand how
someone in such a prominent and
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trusted position could
become involved in activities
00:25:43.30\00:25:46.37
that would
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bring dishonor to his office and
ultimately lead to the downfall
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of the President of the United
States of America. But this
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story is relevant to all of us
because in a sense there's a bit
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of the president in all of us.
It's a reminder that we all make
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mistakes and do things that
we regret. It tells us a lot
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about human
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nature. Many of us struggle with
sin and issues for a long time.
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But the best way to deal with
them is to give them up to God.
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Because despite our mistakes and
weaknesses he still loves us and
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