After John Dean gave his historic 1973 testimony on the Watergate scandal that eventually brought down the Nixon White House, he wanted to move on with his life. (Following Coxs firing, a dozen plus bills calling for Nixons impeachment or creating a special prosecutor were filed in the House. On this episode of the Mea Culpa Podcast, Michael Cohen welcomes back a very special guest, John Dean. All rights reserved. Credit. Season 1, Episodes 6 and 7 of Gaslit capture the testimonies Martha, John Dean (an attorney who served as the White House counsel . When Colson relayed President Nixons positive response, Hunt pled guilty and the so-called Cuban American defendants followed his lead and pled guilty, as well. Stephen Battaglio writes about television and the media business for the Los Angeles Times out of New York. 62-77): President Trump called Director Comey multiple times, against the advice of Don McGahn, to have him confirm that he, Trump, was not personally under investigation. As Watergate broke, Haldeman and John Ehrlichman trusted their bright attorney to control the political fall out after the burglars were arrested, part of which involved him paying them large sums of money. Watergate-John-Dean-June-25-1973 . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. WATERGATE: In 1972, the underlying crime was a bungled break-in, illicit photographing of private documents and an attempt to bug the telephones and offices of the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, with plans to do likewise that same night with Nixons most likely Democratic opponent Senator George McGovern, which because of the arrests of five men at the Watergate, did not happen. We respect each other. Was he hard-nosed and tough? After his plea, he was disbarred. John W. Dean was legal counsel to president Nixon during the Watergate scandal, and his Senate testimony helped lead to Nixon's resignation. Bob, as a leading legal scholar, was asked to chair an ABA commission to reconsider the ABAs Code of Professional Conduct in light of the Watergate scandal. Copyright 2008 NPR. DEAN: . ART. Mueller refutes the dubious contention that when the president exercises his Constitutional powers, he is not subject to federal criminal laws. Continuous coverage of the Watergate hearings in 1973 drew big audiences and viewer contributions. [15] A sharp critic of studying memory in a laboratory setting, Neisser saw "a valuable data trove" in Dean's recall. . 98-103): According to the report, in June 2017 after emails setting up a June 9, 2016 meeting between senior campaign officials and Russians became known in the White House, the President engaged in efforts to prevent disclosure of the emails and then dictated a false or misleading statement characterizing the meeting as about adoptions in order to protect his son, Don, Jr. WATERGATE: On the weekend that the Nixon reelection committee men were arrested in the DNC offices at the Watergate, Nixons campaign manager, and former attorney general, John Mitchell, along with his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman and former White House Counsel, John Ehrlichman, drafted a false press release about the men arrested at the Watergate. If the Watergate scandal happened today, Dean believes Fox News and other conservative outlets would give more oxygen to Nixons defenders and perhaps enable the disgraced president to at least finish out his term instead of resigning. Nixon first announced on August 29, 1973, that I had investigated the situation under his direction and found nobody presently employed at the White House had anything to do with the bizarre incident at the Watergate. Since I had conducted no such investigation, I resisted months of repeated efforts to get me to write a bogus report. Five men are arrested while trying to bug the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate, a hotel and office building in Washington, D.C. A day later, White . Cooper asked Dean, whom the FBI dubbed the "master manipulator" of the Watergate scandal when he flipped to cooperate with prosecutors against Nixon, how high the bar must be for the Justice Department to pursue the charges against Trump. Dean's testimony to the Senate the year before implicated Nixon in the Watergate affair. [14], When it was revealed that Nixon had secretly recorded all meetings in the Oval Office, famous psychologist and memory researcher Ulric Neisser analyzed Dean's recollections of the meetings, as expressed through his testimony, in comparison to the meetings' actual recordings. that Nixon's motivation for preventing Dean from getting immunity was to prevent him from testifying against key Nixon aides and Nixon himself. To the extent Mr. McGahn wishes to assert Executive Privilege or the Attorney-Client privilege, he can do so, but those privileges were waived regarding the material plainly set forth in the Mueller Report. Dean had originally been a proponent of Goldwater conservatism, but he later became a critic of the Republican Party. Anchors Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer provided summaries, commentary, and interviews to supplement each broadcast. In it, he asserts that post-Goldwater conservatism has been co-opted by people with authoritarian personalities and policies, citing data from Bob Altemeyer. MUELLER REPORT RE TERMINATION OF COMEY (PP. [12], On March 23, the five Watergate burglars, along with G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were sentenced with stiff fines and prison time of up to 40 years. Silent Coup alleged that Dean masterminded the Watergate burglaries and the Watergate coverup and that the true aim of the burglaries was to seize information implicating Dean and the former Maureen "Mo" Biner (his then-fiance) in a prostitution ring. Starring Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, and Dan Stevens in the lead roles, Gaslit on Starz offers a glimpse into the extraordinary life of Martha Mitchell, the socialite who was kidnapped in an attempt to stop her from breaking the news about the Watergate break-in. Continue reading. It's written with Bob Altemeyer, and it's titled Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers. . Search by keyword or individual, or browse all episodes by clicking Explore the Collection below the search box. John Dean's memory: A case study. After we settled the case, I started agreeing to do television, Dean said. And I hasten to add that I learned about obstruction of justice the hard way, by finding myself on the wrong side of the law. 5; 3, cl. I also told him that it was important that this cancer be removed immediately because it was growing more deadly every day. WASHINGTON, June 27 Following is the transcript of a White House memorandum analyzing John W. Dean's. testimony on Watergate, as read during the Senate Water gate committee's hearings to day by . John Dean's statement to the House Judiciary Committee on June 10, 2019, as prepared for delivery. [11], On March 22, 1973, Nixon requested that Dean put together a report with everything he knew about the Watergate matter, inviting him to take a retreat to Camp David to do so. He shares his story in the series "Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal." It . from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1965. In July 1970, he accepted an appointment to serve as counsel to the president, after the previous holder of this post, John Ehrlichman, became the president's chief domestic adviser. According to the Mueller Report, President Trump directed Mr. McGahn to have the Special Counsel removed on June 17, 2017, over purported conflicts of interest. In this latest book, Dean, who has repeatedly called himself a "Goldwater conservative", built on Worse Than Watergate and Conservatives Without Conscience to argue that the Republican Party has gravely damaged all three branches of the federal government in the service of ideological rigidity and with no attention to the public interest or the general good. In short, the firing of FBI Director Comey, like Nixons effort to curtail the Watergate investigation, resulted in the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller. Stated a bit differently, Special Counsel Mueller has provided this committee a road map. PRINTING OFFICE, 2019). There is no one alive closer to the Watergate scandal than Dean, and now he offers a definitive and deeply personal look at the events that changed his life forever in the four-part documentary series Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal. The program premieres Sunday on CNN. It's an unpleasant place. The following year, he became an associate deputy in the office of the Attorney General of the United States, serving under Attorney General John N. Mitchell, with whom he was on friendly terms. PRINTING OFFICE, 1974); AND SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT S. MUELLER, III, REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION INTO RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, VOLUMES I AND II (WASHINGTON, D.C: GOV. He has been a go-to talking head whenever a presidential scandal is brewing, and the twice-impeached Donald Trump whose desperate attempt to stay in the White House after losing the 2020 election remains under investigation has kept him busy as a CNN contributor. [13] It was alleged[who?] . "My feelings about Mr. Nixon remained the same until his death a tangle of familial echoes, affections, and curiosities never satisfied," Leonard Garment wrote in his 1997 autobiography, Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn and Jazz to Nixon's White House, Watergate, and Beyond.At first blush, Garment appeared an odd match for President Richard M. Nixon, the former a liberal Republican who . [24] Also in 2006, Dean appeared as an interviewee in the documentary The U.S. vs. John Lennon, about the Nixon administration's efforts to keep John Lennon out of the United States. All believed that they could rely on the President to offer clemency under the Presidents pardon power. The Watergate "master manipulator" said the former president is in trouble after the latest revelations. John Dean sits with his wife, Maureen, waiting to testify before the Senate Select Committee on Watergate in 1973. June 27, 2022 05:36 PM. Featuring New Interviews with John Dean, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein . Feb. 1, 2019. Because, you know, after everybody PRESIDENT: Thats right. In the 1999 film Dick, Dean was played by Jim Breuer. We were in his Executive Office Building office late on a Sunday night when he got up from his chair and walked to the corner of the room and in a stage-whisper asked me, I was wrong to offer clemency to Hunt, wasnt I? I responded, Yes, Mr. President, that would be an obstruction of justice. As I later testified, at the time it struck me his moving across the office and whispering was to keep what he was saying from being picked up by a hidden microphone in the room. Ari Emanuel lets his AI alter ego open Endeavors earnings call, WGA chief negotiator David Young replaced due to illness ahead of key talks with studios, Hidden, illegal casinos are booming in L.A., with organized crime reaping big profits, Look up: The 32 most spectacular ceilings in Los Angeles, 19 cafes that make L.A. a world-class coffee destination, Best coffee city in the world? Eisenberg, MUELLER RPT, VOL. Neisser, U. (1981). Dean was later incarcerated for 127 days at an Army base after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice and was in witness protection for 18 months to shield him from ongoing death threats. I dont think its an emotion that Donald Trump could ever muster.. They all would have expected to be out and that may put you in a position thats just . Dean served as White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until Ap. Dean is a pretty good gem," Nixon confided to Haldeman on March 2, 1973. Dean cites the behavior of key members of the Republican leadership, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, Newt Gingrich and Bill Frist, as clear evidence of a relationship between modern right-wing conservatism and this authoritarian approach to governance. In 1991, the publisher released Silent Coup: The Removal of a President, which included an unfounded allegation that Dean ordered the break-in to remove information about a call-girl ring that serviced Democratic Party members. Dean concludes that conservatism must regenerate itself to remain true to its core ideals of limited government and the rule of law. Jim is a trial attorney and a partner in a major multi-state law firm. [15], Dean pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice before Watergate trial judge John Sirica on October 19, 1973. I 2, cl. Dean was the first administration official to accuse Nixon of direct involvement with Watergate and the resulting cover-up in press interviews. Dean retired from investment banking in 2000 while continuing to work as an author and lecturer, becoming a columnist for FindLaw's Writ online magazine. The Jan. 6 committee's hastily scheduled hearing for Tuesday "better be a big deal," said a key Watergate scandal figure. 74-CCC-7004)", Doing Legal, Political, and Historical Research on the Internet: Using Blog Forums, Open Source Dictionaries, and More, "John Dean's Role at Issue in Nixon Tapes Feud", "Watergate's lasting legacy is to legal ethics reform, says John Dean", "John Dean helped bring down Richard Nixon. You know, the Watergate hearings just over, Hunt now demanding clemency or hes gonna blow. But when Dean surrendered as scheduled on September 3, he was diverted to the custody of U.S. President Nixons direct interference with the Department of Justice, while facially proper under his Article II constitutional powers, was for the improper purpose of obstructing the investigation. But even then your point is that even then you couldnt do it. Im learning things that I had never known about what had happened and why it happened.. . An obstruction of justice conviction prevented the former White House counsel from practicing law in Washington, D.C., and Virginia. First off . Eight years ago, we created a course called The Watergate CLE. [6], Dean volunteered to write position papers on crime for Richard Nixon's presidential campaign in 1968. About two months later, on June 25, 1973, Dean started delivering his testimony in front of the Senate Watergate Committee, during which he spoke about . [16], Neisser found that, despite Dean's confidence, the tapes proved that his memory was anything but a tape recorder. Nixon chose not to disclose the information he did have in order to protect his friend Mitchell, believing that revealing this truth would destroy Mitchell. Stay up to date on new exhibits, special collections, projects, and more. Similarly, when President Nixon met with me on April 15, 1973, after my break with the White House, he raised the concern about the Hunt pardon again. For those of you who lived through Watergate, his name is synonymous with the political intrigue of the 1970s. For several reasons I believe he should testify. Dean frequently served as a guest on the former MSNBC and Current TV news program, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and The Randi Rhodes Show on Premiere Radio Networks. The Mueller Report offers a powerful legal analysis that, notwithstanding the fact the pardon power is one of the most unrestricted of presidential powers, it cannot be used for improper purposes. The words Nixon used were strikingly like those uttered by President Trump. For those of you who lived through Watergate, his name is synonymous with the political intrigue of the 1970s. Chairman Nadler, Ranking Member Collins, the last time I appeared before your committee was . Brownell, K. (2020). [34], Dean later emerged as a strong critic of Donald Trump, saying in 2017 that he was even worse than Nixon. A few specific examples of the Mueller findings and the Watergate parallels (HEADER CITES ARE TO VOLUME II): MUELLER REPORT RE MICHAEL FLYNN (PP. Thats for sure. Fifty years later, that's how John Dean, the former White House counsel whose marathon testimony before the US Senate's Watergate Committee tipped the dominoes toward the ultimate resignation . . Nixon fired Dean on April 30, the same day he announced the resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman. On August 2, 1974, Sirica handed down a sentence to Dean of one to four years in a minimum-security prison. . When Dean read that testimony in the summer of 1973 in front of a massive TV audience, he became the face of the Watergate conspiracy for most of America, according to Garrett Graff, author of Watergate: A New History.. 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He places particular emphasis on the abdication of checks and balances by the Republican Congress and on the dishonesty of the conservative intellectual class in support of the Republican Party, as a result of the obedience and arrogance innate to the authoritarian mentality. He said, "It's a nightmare. The program, produced by Herzog & Company, delves into the archive of Watergate-related material Dean has accumulated and stored in his Beverly Hills home over the years, including his 60,000-word testimony to a Senate subcommittee originally written in longhand on yellow legal pads. [33], In speaking engagements in 2014, Dean called Watergate a "lawyers' scandal" that, for all the bad, ushered in needed legal ethics reforms. Marshals and kept instead at Fort Holabird (near Baltimore, Maryland) in a special "safe house" primarily used for witnesses against the Mafia. The coverage includes testimony from James McCord and E. Howard Hunt, two of the men arrested for breaking into the Watergate complex; John Dean, White House counsel from July 1970 to April 1973, who detailed the extent of the Nixon administrations involvement in the burglary and subsequent cover-up; Chief of Staff H.R. Records are described at an item level and all records contain brief descriptions and subject terms. Secondly, I believe as an attorney, he has an ethical obligation to testify. . Dean's testimony before the House was watched by some 80 million Americans. . [10][pageneeded]. [4], After graduation, Dean joined Welch & Morgan, a law firm in Washington, D.C., where he was soon accused of conflict of interest violations and fired:[2] he was alleged to have started negotiating his own private deal for a TV station broadcast license, after his firm had assigned him to complete the same task for a client. In both situations the White House Counsel was implicated in the coverup activity. Modern American History, 3(2-3), 175-198. The hearings, recorded by the National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT), were broadcast each evening in full, or gavel to gavel, by PBS stations across the nation, so that viewers unable to watch during the day could view the complete proceedings at home. One of the major clarifications that came about through the new ABA Model Rules was with respect to an attorneys obligations when representing an organization. . But on March 21, 1973, he went to the Oval Office and told Nixon there was "a cancer " on the presidency that would take them all down they didn't . In his testimony, Dean asserted that Nixon covered up Watergate because he believed it was in the interest of national security. The case of Dean vs. Liddy was dismissed without prejudice. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. His testimony during the Watergate scandal helped bring down Nixon. MUELLER REPORT RE EFFORTS TO CONTROL ATTORNEY GENERAL SESSIONS (PP. The White House dissembled on the reason for firing Comey, but President Trump later admitted in a television interview that he made the decision because the thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. Mr. Trump made similar remarks to visiting Russians in Oval Office. He moved to Los Angeles with wife Maureen, took business courses at UCLA and worked as an investment banker during the 1980s. After John Dean gave his historic 1973 testimony on the Watergate scandal that eventually brought down the Nixon White House, he wanted to move on with his life. The books present documents, reliable sources, and official Watergate testimony by John Dean as persuasive arguments. "[35][36], In February 2018, Dean warned that Rick Gates's testimony may be "the end" of Trump's presidency. Accordingly, I sincerely hope that Mr. McGahn will voluntarily appear and testify. Meanwhile, John Dean (Dan Stevens) was reportedly aware of the break-in plans and later tried to cover it all up. John Dean, who served as White House counsel to President Richard Nixon and played a key role in the Watergate hearings in the 1970s, compared the findings in the Mueller report to Watergate . Cognition, 9(1), 122. Dean served as White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Mr. Trump asked Comey to lift the cloud of the Russia investigation by saying so to the public. In the summer of 1973, the Watergate hearings held the country spellbound. Dean was also receiving advice from the attorney he hired, Charles Shaffer, on matters involving the vulnerabilities of other White House staff. He later became a commentator on contemporary politics, a book author, and a columnist for FindLaw's Writ. John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) is an American former attorney who served as White House Counsel for U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. HANSEN: John Dean's testimony would prove to be prophetic - perhaps even self-fulfilling.
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