John W. Dean

John W. Dean

The author and onetime Watergate figure on the crimes of Bush, the real Dick Cheney, and Nixon as en

By Rebecca Epstein

John W. Dean has seen the dark side of the Oval Office. As the young White House counsel to the president, he had a starring role in the Watergate scandal that in 1974 brought down the secretive Richard M. Nixon in a storm of wiretaps, break-ins, payoffs, and other dirty tricks. Nixon resigned, and while Dean was a witness against other members of the administration, he also faced conviction for several Watergate-related felonies. In the years after, Dean wrote a memoir of his time there (1979

Published: 10/18/2007

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