Just now on Fox News, when asked to compare the Russia investigation to Watergate, Woodward claimed the key distinction between the two is the money. The money trail is what did in the Watergate conspirators, and ultimately Nixon. Remember the slush fund?
Nixon Debated Paying Blackmail, Clemency
'Keep Cap on Bottle'
By Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, May 1, 1974; Page A01
President Nixon, during a lengthy meeting in the Oval Office on March 21, 1973, told White House counsel John W. Dean III that "you have no choice but to come up with the $120,000" demanded as blackmail payment by one of the Watergate burglars, according to an edited transcript of the meeting.
The transcript reveals that Mr. Nixon, on his own initiative, discussed accommodating blackmail demands on at least a half-dozen occasions during the meeting without once suggesting that paying the men for their silence would be wrong.
Instead, the transcript reveals, Mr. Nixon repeatedly discussed different methods by which as much as $1 million could be paid to the burglars without the payments being traced to the White House. The purpose of such payments, in the President's own words, would be "to keep the cap on the bottle," to "buy time," to "tough it through."
Nixon Debated Paying Blackmail, Clemency
'Keep Cap on Bottle'
By Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, May 1, 1974; Page A01
President Nixon, during a lengthy meeting in the Oval Office on March 21, 1973, told White House counsel John W. Dean III that "you have no choice but to come up with the $120,000" demanded as blackmail payment by one of the Watergate burglars, according to an edited transcript of the meeting.
The transcript reveals that Mr. Nixon, on his own initiative, discussed accommodating blackmail demands on at least a half-dozen occasions during the meeting without once suggesting that paying the men for their silence would be wrong.
Instead, the transcript reveals, Mr. Nixon repeatedly discussed different methods by which as much as $1 million could be paid to the burglars without the payments being traced to the White House. The purpose of such payments, in the President's own words, would be "to keep the cap on the bottle," to "buy time," to "tough it through."
