This is true to some extent. If you look back on the whole Watergate thing, Nixon had no part in any of it, the spying, the dirty tricks, etc. He had pretty much zero knowledge of anything that gang of boneheads were doing. It was his decision to cover it all up that did him in, and to have that decision actually recorded on tape. Reality was that Nixon won the election in 1972 handily. G. Gordon Liddy and his gang were a bunch of idiots for doing what they did. None of it was even necessary for Nixon to win the election. Read G. Gordon Liddy's book if you want the real inside scoop into the mind of lunatic.