Reply #90: I cannot for the life of me remember what it was that [View All]

[no safe haven]

...Nixon was so afraid of having exposed. It's eluding me. My take at the time was that when Johnson refused to run for a 2nd term, he had something on Nixon and did not bring it out into the public domain. Sort of insurance should Nixon go over the top with his agenda. Nixon was afraid the Dems would use that secret to expose him during the presidential race, hence the break-in.
Do you know what that "secret" was - it has since been revealed, but in hindsight, IIRC, it was not all that big a deal, relatively speaking.