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It's mid-July 1973, and President Richard Nixon is lying in bed in a hospital outside Washington.

He stretches out his arm to legs and takes a deep breath.

The aches are mostly gone, so is the hacking cough.

Nixon almost feels like himself again.

And that is a big relief.

Because just a few days ago, Nixon's chief of staff found the President in bed coughing

up blood.

Nixon was quickly admitted to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed him with viral pneumonia.

The President knows that a long infection is nothing to shrug off.

Still, it's not the biggest problem on his plate.

President Rickiert has continued to be a nightmare for Nixon's administration.

It started just over a year ago when a group of Nixon's operatives broke into Democratic

headquarters.

The men were attempting to spy on the Democrats in order to help Nixon win re-election.

And while Nixon himself didn't order the break-in, he did orchestrate a cover-up of

the crime, all part of an effort to protect his administration and make the scandal go away.

But so far, Nixon's efforts have not been successful.

The press has continued digging up dirt, and so has the FBI.

Nixon's own attorney general appointed a special prosecutor, whose job is solely to

investigate the scandal, and see if any crimes were committed.

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