“We didn’t know what would be on those tapes, if anything, it could’ve all been a plot to get rid of Cox and there would’ve been nothing there…But the March 21 conversation was so explosive. It had Nixon saying, ‘You need to continue paying hush money to the burglars,’ so they don’t give up who was behind ordering the break-in in the first place and reveal all the other untoward things, illegal things that they had done. That night a final payment to Howard Hunt, one of the burglars, in the amount of $120,000, I believe, was made...Nothing approached the fact that here is Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, ordering the continuation of an illegal obstruction of justice.”- Richard Ben-Veniste
