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WASHINGTON POST: A former aide now says Nixon gave the go-ahead.

Jeb Stuart Magruder -- then a "callow" campaign aide, now a retired Presbyterian minister in Ohio -- says in a new documentary for PBS that he heard Nixon's voice on a telephone as the president instructed then-Attorney General John N. Mitchell to go ahead with the break-in.

Not everyone believes Magruder's story:

Historian Richard Reeves took a different tack. It's entirely believable that Nixon ordered the break-in, Reeves said. "But I'm not sure I believe the story, or the source," he said. "Magruder has had so many cuts at the ball. It's astounding to me that each time up to now, he lied about it."

The documentary, "Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History," premieres tonight (Wednesday) on PBS.