Less than a week later, on June 23rd, 1972 Nixon suddenly learned more…and this gave him much to think about.

Nixon’s chief of staff, H. R. “Bob” Haldeman, came into the Oval Office to give the president an update on a variety of topics, including the investigation of the break-in. Haldeman had just been briefed by John Dean, who had gotten his information from FBI investigators. Dean would eventually become a traitor.

HALDEMAN: …The FBI agents who are working the case, at this point, feel that’s what it is. This is CIA…..

NIXON: Of course, this is a…this is a [E. Howard] Hunt [operation, and exposure of it] will uncover a lot of things. You open that scab there’s a hell of a lot of things and that we just feel that it would be very detrimental to have this thing go any further.

This involves these Cubans, Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky that we have nothing to do with ourselves… This will open the whole Bay of Pigs thing…