The initial hearings before Sam Ervin's committee involved lower-level people describing their activities...a lot of that, I think, is undisputed, but doesn't bear directly on Richard Nixon's guilt or innocence because it could have been done without his awareness. It was only John W. Dean who was willing and able to accuse Nixon of direct involvement, and until the tapes became known, it was just his word against the President's. The tapes did prove that Nixon was involved in trying to manipulate the FBI in the interests of the cover-up.
Of course the Clintons got a pass for doing much worse in 1993.
The kernal of pertinent truth here is that Nixon was guilty of trying to manipulate the FBI to cover up to save his staff, and the President was sold out by Dean to save his own skin. Liddy went to jail rather than give estimony. His contempt of Dean is limitless. He seems to believe Dean lied under oath to save his own rear.
vaudine