Why did the Watergate break-in take place? Hasn't G. Gordon said it was to recover info to protect John Dean's current wife? Why did Nixon feel he had to cover it up?
Nixon had to cover up because his band of thugs were being paid out of his campaign money and a stash of cash kept in the White House, later money-laundered through a Mexico City bank.
If you've read Nixon's tape transcripts, you'll know that even Nixon himself thought Liddy was crazy.
Watergate wasn't just about that break-in. It was sooo much more. Did you hear Liddy talking last night about Colson's plan to break-in (actually fire bomb) the Brookings Institution? He said the reason they didn't do it was because it was going to cost too much to get a fire engine.
Yes, it's a theory propounded in the book Silent Coup by Len Kolodny (a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat, BTW.) Mo Dean was apparently tied in to a call-girl ring that the FBI had tied to the DNC. The madam of the call-girl ring worked at the DNC and was Maureen Dean's roommate 9before she moved in with John.) She was also one of Mo Dean's bridesmaids. (See the wedding picture in Mrs. Dean's book.)
Dean had to get Maureen's picture out of the madam's files in the DNC.
Why did Nixon feel he had to cover it up?
Dean worked for the Nixon Administration and the involvement of his paramour in a DNC-tied call-girl ring would have been used by the liberal media to harm him.
But why did Alexander Butterworth have to tell the committee about the tapes, and why didn't Nixon burn them, tehn challenge the committee to come over and find them?