Nightline (ABC) - 2000-01-21
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[0:00] [music] This is a nightline Friday night
[0:03] special.
[0:05] Better feel.
[0:06] >> It was [music] a stunning revelation.
[0:08] Are you aware of the installation of any
[0:10] listening devices in the oval office of
[0:12] the president?
[0:15] [music]
[0:17] I was aware of listening devices.
[0:21] Yes, sir.
[0:22] >> The best oravoir. More than a quarter
[0:25] century later, the tapes [music] that
[0:26] helped bring down a president can be
[0:28] broadcast for the first time. There's
[0:31] revenge.
[0:35] >> We are about to die because he's a bad
[0:37] man. [clears throat]
[0:38] >> And a warning to the president.
[0:40] >> We have a cancer within [music] the
[0:44] close of the presidency that's growing.
[0:47] It's growing daily and there's no
[0:49] insurance.
[0:53] >> Tonight, the Nixon [music] tapes
[0:56] listening in on the White House cover.
[1:01] [music]
[1:03] From ABC News,
[1:08] this is Night [music] Line
[1:11] reporting from Washington, Ted Cppell.
[1:17] Most [music] of us who lived through the
[1:18] final days of the Nixon presidency will
[1:20] never forget how it all began. [music]
[1:22] But probably more than half the people
[1:24] alive in America today either weren't
[1:26] born yet or were just too young to have
[1:28] any awareness of what was going on. So
[1:31] let's begin tonight with a thumbnail
[1:33] refresher course. June 1972,
[1:36] the Watergate building here in
[1:38] Washington, hotel, apartments, and some
[1:41] offices. Among those the offices of the
[1:44] Democratic National Committee. Several
[1:46] men are arrested after breaking into
[1:48] that office and they turn out to have
[1:50] ties to both the CIA and the committee
[1:53] to reelect the president, Richard Nixon.
[1:56] The White House press secretary
[1:58] dismisses the whole