Poor Charlie's Almanac

"There, an aggressive subordinate made an extreme proposal for advancing Republican interests through the use of some combination of whores and a gigantic yacht. When this ridiculous request was rejected, the subordinate backed off, in gracious concession to merely asking for consent to a burglary, and the attorney general went along. [Robert] Cialdini believes that subconscious reciprocation tendency thus became one important cause of the resignation of a United States president in the Watergate debacle, and so do I." - Charlie Munger Poor Charlie's Almanac

Never heard this explanation of the cause of Watergate before.