Word: blackmailing
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...focus, however, is on the crucial $75,000 payment to E. Howard Hunt, one of the convicted Watergate conspirators. St. Clair argues that the transcript of the meeting that Nixon held with White House Counsel John Dean on March 21, 1973, "clearly demonstrates that the President recognizes that any blackmail and cover-up activities then in progress could not continue...
...marriage while his middle son Nino (Alessandro Momo) is harboring impure thoughts and, what is worse, putting them into action. Basically goodhearted and rather innocent, Angela mistakes his occasional attempts to grab her for youthful high spirits and does not repulse them firmly enough. They form the basis for blackmail in which she is forced to cater humiliatingly to his voyeuristic whims. In true porn-movie style, these proceed up the scale from the mild to the wild, and since Antonelli is an astonishingly lovely creature, her misadventures have an inevitable, shall we say, subcultural interest...
...says in substance, You can't pay blackmail--you end up losing...
Nixon does tell Dean to pay the blackmail. This is evident from one portion of the White House transcript of the March 21, 1973 meeting between Nixon, Haldeman and Dean. The section reads...
...Clair's 3D strategy--delay, diversion, denial--means that he will concede nothing. Instead, he tries to put everything in its broadest possible perspective, glossing over specific evidence of Nixon's cover-up role by saying that Nixon's knew blackmail could not work, that "you don't have to be a genius" to know that...