[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. Dean served as White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. March 21, 1973: Dean tells Nixon there is a "cancer" on the presidency. Season 1, Episodes 6 and 7 of Gaslit capture the testimonies Martha, John Dean (an attorney who served as the White House counsel . untenable at some point. 8. I never dreamed I would have to live in this bubble, Dean, 83, said in a Zoom interview from his Beverly Hills home. McGahn refused to follow the Presidents order, recalling the opprobrium that met Robert Bork following the Saturday Night Massacre. We still love each other, Dean said. It also prompts the interview subjects to note how the public based their opinions on Watergate on an agreed upon set of facts, a major difference from todays polarized and partisan media landscape. I was always interested in government. Richard Nixon resigned as president the next year. . In his testimony, he implicated administration officials, including Mitchell, Nixon, and himself. 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? MUELLER REPORT RE EFFORTS TO PREVENT OR DISTORT DISCLOSURE OF THE JUNE 9, 2016 TRUMP TOWER MEETING (PP. Mea Culpa welcomes back a very special guest, John Dean. It may just be too hot. 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. Senator Russell Feingold, who sponsored the censure resolution, introduced Dean as a "patriot" who put "rule of law above the interests of the president." Eisenberg, MUELLER RPT, VOL. Yet President Nixon knew that offering such pardons or giving pardons to try to control witnesses in legal proceedings was wrong. [46][47], In 2022, Dean said the January 6 Committee had an overwhelming case against Trump.[48]. 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. Mr. McGahn has expressed concern about being caught between two branches of government in responding to this Committees subpoena for his documents and testimony. [1] His family moved to Flossmoor, Illinois, where he attended grade school. For those of you who lived through Watergate, his name is synonymous with the political intrigue of the 1970s. Murdoch has survived scandal after scandal. It was a very sympathetic and very believable portrait, said Graff. DEAN: Im not sure that youll ever be able to deliver clemency. (1981). One was destroying evidence. 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. Dean went to Camp David and did some work on a report, but since he was one of the cover-up's chief participants, the task put him in the difficult position of relating his own involvement as well as that of others; he correctly concluded that higher-ups were fitting him for the role of scapegoat. Copyright 2008 NPR. [2] He attended Colgate University and then transferred to the College of Wooster in Ohio, where he obtained his B.A. The investigation revealed that Nixon had a tape-recording system in his offices and that he had recorded many conversations. . John Dean's testimony this week before the House Judiciary Committee squarely placed the Mueller report's findings in the historical context of Watergate. 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. Meanwhile, John Dean (Dan Stevens) was reportedly aware of the break-in plans and later tried to cover it all up. Why Netflix is dabbling in livestreaming, How strong is Dominions defamation case against Fox News? The materials were contributed to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) by the Library of Congress in 2017. Records are described at an item level and all records contain brief descriptions and subject terms. At first, he shredded incriminating files. Dean insisted that Cohen be included in the series. DEAN: Thats right. [25] Three years later, Dean wrote a book heavily critical of the administration of George W. Bush, Worse than Watergate, in which he called for the impeachment of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for allegedly lying to Congress. 88.). [33], In speaking engagements in 2014, Dean called Watergate a "lawyers' scandal" that, for all the bad, ushered in needed legal ethics reforms. 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 administration's involvement in the burglary and subsequent cover-up; Chief of Staff H.R. 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. DEAN: Thats right. John W Dean, who served as Mr Nixon's White House . . Watergate-John-Dean-June-25-1973 . Chapter 14 in the book titled "The Lies, The Thefts," divulges the entire memorandum John Ehrlichman, Nixon's Domestic Affairs Advisor, wrote to Treasury Secretary David M. Kennedy and makes for an interesting read. The couple sued and eventually reached an undisclosed settlement. The Mueller Report explains in Vol. Let me briefly address the ethics question. MUELLER REPORT RE EFFORTS TO CONTROL ATTORNEY GENERAL SESSIONS (PP. PRESIDENT: Thats a problem. Former White House counsel John Dean, a key figure in the Watergate scandal that toppled former President Richard Nixon, testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing titled, "Lessons from . Accordingly, I gave considerable thought to how I would present this situation to the president and try to make as dramatic a presentation as I could to tell him how serious I thought the situation was if the cover-up continue. (See U.S. On April 17, 1973, Nixon told Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen (who was overseeing the Watergate investigation) that he did not want any member of the White House granted immunity from prosecution. His first memoir, Blind Ambition, was turned into a TV movie in 1979. 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. Ultimately, he became a witness for the prosecution. Watergate prosecutors & Sirica knew John Dean committed many crimes. 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. Were friends. 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 . This revised plan eventually led to attempts to eavesdrop on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., and to the Watergate scandal. In 1992, Dean hired attorney Neil Papiano and brought the first in a series of defamation suits against Liddy for claims in Liddy's book Will, and St. Martin's Press for its publication of the book Silent Coup by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin. But the CNN series is the first time hes told his story in a documentary, which drills down into how and why Richard Nixon looked for dirt on his opponents and detailed accounts of his criminal actions to cover it up. In short, McGahns loyalty is to his client, the Office of the Presidency, not the occupant. 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. 24-48): When President Trump learned that his National Security Advisor Michael Flynn lied to the FBI and others about his telephone conversations with the Russian Ambassador to the United States regarding U. S. sanctions imposed because of Russias election interference, he met with FBI Director James Comey at a private White House dinner and asked for Comeys loyalty. The examples that follow are illustrative rather than exhaustive, and before turning to obstruction of justice, I must make brief mention of the underlying events to place the material in context: MUELLER REPORT VOLUME I: The underlying crimes were a Russian active measures social media campaign and hacking/dumping operations, which Mueller describes as a sweeping and systematic effort to influence our 2016 presidential election. . VS. HALDEMAN, 559 F.2D 31 (D.C. CIR. March 23, 1973: The McCord letter is made public by Judge Sirica in open court at McCord's sentencing hearing. [3], Dean married Karla Ann Hennings on February 4, 1962; they had one child, John Wesley Dean IV, before divorcing in 1970. A former key witness in the Watergate investigation that brought down President Richard Nixon says indictments are on their way to Donald Trump. PRESIDENT: No, it would be wrong. Weekend Edition revisits audio from Dean's testimony. Evidence: In a taped interview for the book "Silent Coup", when Dean was . [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. 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. Specifically, the burglars were interested in information they thought was held by DNC head Lawrence F. O'Brien. In an exchange with me on March 21, 1973, Nixon conceded such a use of the pardon power was improper: DEAN: Well, thats the problem. The public pressure was so great, Nixon had to appoint a new special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski. In July 1973, evidence mounted against the president's staff, including testimony provided by former staff members in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee. In the 1999 film Dick, Dean was played by Jim Breuer. And if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it. Dean was also receiving advice from the attorney he hired, Charles Shaffer, on matters involving the vulnerabilities of other White House staff. Feb. 1, 2019. Cognition, 9(1), 122. He said, "It's a nightmare. The point is: Richard Nixon knew he could not use his pardon power, unrestricted as it is in Article II, for the improper purpose of gaining the silence of witnesses in legal proceedings. His deputy, William Ruckelshaus, also refused to fire Cox and also resigned, with the next man in succession, Solicitor General Robert Bork carrying out the presidents order to terminate Cox. John Dean, the White House counsel to President Richard M. Nixon who was once dubbed the "master manipulator" of the Watergate scandal by the FBI, predicts . WATERGATE: The Comey firing echoes Nixons firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in the infamous Saturday Night Massacre in October 1973. This is part one of John W. Dean's testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee. Continuous coverage of the Watergate hearings in 1973 drew big audiences and viewer contributions. Cognition, 9 (1981)1-22 Elsevier Sequoia S.A., Lausanne - Printed in the Netherlands John Dean's Memory: A case study ULRIC NEISSER" Cornell University Abstract John Dean, the former counsel to President Richard Nixon, testified to the Senate Watergate Investigating Committee about conversations that later turned out to have been tape recorded. 90- 98): According to Mueller, in addition to McGahn, President Trump pressured former campaign aide Cory Lewandowski and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to curtail the Special Counsels investigation through Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had recused himself from the investigation. Dean's first wife is Karla Ann Hennings, whom he married in 1962. 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. On February 28, 1973, Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his nomination to replace J. Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI. . [44][45], In early June 2019, Dean testified, along with various U.S. attorneys and legal experts, before the House Judiciary Committee on the implications of, and potential actions as a result of, the Mueller report. A Woman's View of Watergate, which came out in 1975, and I will highlight a few moments. In that posit. I had some unsolicited offers that I really wanted to explore. You know, the Watergate hearings just over, Hunt now demanding clemency or hes gonna blow. They all would have expected to be out and that may put you in a position thats just . DEAN: . The Mueller Report, like the Watergate Road Map, conveys findings, with supporting evidence, of potential criminal activity based on the work of federal prosecutors, FBI investigators, and witness testimony before a federal grand jury. They don't know if they're a part of a conspiracy that might unfold. Haldeman and Chief . "I think a criminal case is going to come out of it," Dean predicted on CNN on Tuesday after hearings by the House committee investigating the Jan . In addition, it has long been the rule there is no executive privilege attached to criminal or fraudulent activity. For those of you who lived through Watergate, his name is synonymous with the political intrigue of the 1970s. Neither of the two volumes are formally titled, but the first sentence of the second paragraph, on page 1 of Volume II states its focus: Beginning in 2017, the President of the United States took a variety of actions towards the ongoing FBI investigation into Russias interference in the 2016 presidential election and related matters that raised questions about whether he had obstructed justice. Volume II concludes on page 182: [I]f we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. However, the Special Counsels office was unable to reach that conclusion, so the report neither alleges criminal behavior by the president nor, as the report states, does it exonerate him. (SEE MUELLER REPORT, VOL. 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. June 27, 2022 05:36 PM. Liddy was ordered to scale down his ideas, and he presented a revised plan to the same group on February 4, which was also left unapproved. The Watergate "master manipulator" said the former president is in trouble after the latest revelations. ". II, P.117); McGahn discussed matters with others (e.g. Since 2011, I have been using the mistakes I made as a young White House lawyer to teach this rule of ethics with a continuing legal education partner, Jim Robenalt, who is here today. In that position, he became deeply involved in events leading up to the Watergate burglaries and the subsequent scandal and cover-up . 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. John Dean. He's penned five books about Watergate and 10 books in total; including his most recent tome, Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and his Followers. . Anchors Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer provided summaries, commentary, and interviews to supplement each broadcast. 1976); AND IMPEACHMENT OF RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY (WASHINGTON, D.C: GOV. WATERGATE: I am aware of no evidence that Nixon was involved with or had advance knowledge of the Watergate break-in and bugging, or the similar plans for Senator McGovern. Stay up to date on new exhibits, special collections, projects, and more. 9 Jun 2017. Mea Culpa welcomes back a very special guest, John Dean. Marshals and kept instead at Fort Holabird (near Baltimore, Maryland) in a special "safe house" primarily used for witnesses against the Mafia. The burglars' first break-in attempt in late May was successful, but several problems had arisen with poor-quality information from their bugs, and they wanted to photograph more documents. The president lauded his efforts. Deans words on tape can be heard in the British documentary TV series Watergate. Deans immersion in Watergate since that time has been so deep, he never imagined what his life would have been without it. Dean's testimony to the Senate the year before implicated Nixon in the Watergate affair. John Mitchell, Nixon's most trusted adviser and former attorney general, had taken charge of the Committee for the Re-election of the President (CRP) and authorized the Watergate break-in on 17 . (See Separation-of-Powers Principles Support the Conclusion that Congress May Validly Prohibit Corrupt Obstructive Acts Carried Out Through the Presidents Official Powers, MUELLER REPORT, PP. It's written with Bob Altemeyer, and it's titled Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers. MUELLER REPORT VOLUME I: The Mueller Reports finds no illegal conspiracy, or criminal aiding and abetting, by candidate Trump with the Russians. 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. They don't know what they're looking at. 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. In the summer of 1973, the Watergate hearings held the country spellbound. Yeah. CNN Original Series Returns to the Scene of the Crime in "Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal," Debuting Sunday, June 5. [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. John W. Dean (center) with his wife, Maureen, and John's lawyer, Charles N. Shaffer, in 1974. Chairman Nadler, Ranking Member Collins, the last time I appeared before your committee was July 11, 1974, during the impeachment inquiry of President Richard Nixon. 7 min read. When Cox refused this arrangement, Nixon ordered his Attorney General to fire Cox, which Richardson refused to do and resigned himself. 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. Liddy presented a preliminary plan for intelligence-gathering operations during the campaign. With his plea to felony offenses, Dean was disbarred as a lawyer in Virginia and the District of Columbia.[18][19]. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. I havent and maybe Im not creative enough, Dean said. In June 1973, as a young lawyer on Capitol Hill, I watched White House counsel John Dean testify before Sen. Sam Ervin's Watergate Committee from the row of seats behind the senators. I would like to address a few of the remarkable parallels I find in the Mueller Report that echo Watergate, particularly those related to obstruction of justice. Former Trump officials have been criticized for waiting to express their misgivings over what was happening in the White House until after they left and made book deals. While Nixon had a dangerous lust for power, Dean still believes the 37th president and the only one to ever resign still compares favorably to Trump. This is extremely important because the false information contained in "Blind Ambition" directly contradicts his sworn testimony to the Senate Watergate Committee. Dean served as White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. II, PP. [26], His next book, released in 2006, was Conservatives without Conscience, a play on Barry Goldwater's book The Conscience of a Conservative. Like Comey, Cox was charged with investigating wrongdoing by the President and his advisors and Cox refused an ultimatum from the White House to limit his access to the secret White House tapes by accepting written transcripts, prepared by the White House and verified by a near deaf senior member of the U.S. Senate, former judge John Stennis, rather than allowing Cox to listen to the tapes. MCGAHNS DILEMMA TESTIFYING BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE. But even then your point is that even then you couldnt do it. Watergate Lawyer John Dean Predicts Legacy Of Jan. 6 Investigation Into Trump. John Dean, President Richard M. Nixon's former . Dean had originally been a proponent of Goldwater conservatism, but he later became a critic of the Republican Party. 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. Petersen provided Nixon with confidential information from the prosecutors and the grand jury proceedings. MUELLER REPORT RE TERMINATION OF COMEY (PP. PRESIDENT: You cant do it, till after the 74 elections, thats for sure. Dean had had suspicions that Nixon was taping conversations, and he tipped prosecutors to question witnesses along this line, leading to Butterfield's revelations. in 1961. Mr. JOHN DEAN (Former White House Counsel): What I had hoped to do in this conversation was to have the president tell me we had to end the matter now. Nixon said, And, ah, because these people are playing for keeps, . Nine months into the mushrooming scandal, Dean bargained for immunity and won himself a lenient prison term by delivering the sensational, if deeply flawed, testimonybefore the klieg lights of the Senate Watergate committee (1973), the House Judiciary Committee (1974), and the trial of U.S. v. Mitchell (1974)that helped convict Nixon's . After listening to Nixons March 21, 1973 secretly recorded conversation with me, Jaworski pursued more tapes as vigorously as had Cox. Despite Deans courageous decision to testify against a sitting president, the series does not give him a free pass for his role in the Nixon administrations nefarious activities. Haldeman and Chief Advisor for Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman, two of President Nixons closest advisors, who denied there was any White House wrongdoing; Alexander Butterfield, a former minor White House aide who revealed the existence of a secret audio tape-recording system that documented Oval Office conversations; and Rep. Barbara Jordan, a freshman member of the House Judiciary Committee, whose eloquent opening statement at the impeachment proceedings resonated throughout the hearing room and the nation. This reporting out provision provides lawyers with leverage to stop wrongdoing if the client fails to take appropriate advice. Dean is known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal and his subsequent testimony to Congress as a witness. Such testimony against Nixon, while damaging to the president's credibility, had little legal impact, as it was merely his word against Nixon's. John W. Dean was legal counsel to President Nixon during the Watergate scandal, and his Senate testimony lead to Nixon's resignation. My telling the Senate Watergate Committee of how so many lawyers found themselves on the wrong side of the law during Watergate hit a chord. In 2006, he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee investigating George W. Bush's NSA warrantless wiretap program. An . And youre gonna have the clemency problem for the others. The case of Dean vs. Liddy was dismissed without prejudice. Gray said he had given FBI reports to Dean, and had discussed the FBI investigation with Dean on many occasions. This small piece of testimony, of course, became highly significant for it led to the discovery of the secret White House taping system. In the summer of 1973, former White House Counsel John Dean testified as part of the Senate's investigation into the Watergate break-in. Armed with newspaper articles indicating the White House had possession of FBI Watergate files, committee chair Sam Ervin asked Gray what he knew about the White House obtaining the files. In both situations the White House Counsel was implicated in the coverup activity. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. It also came out that Gray had destroyed important evidence Dean entrusted to him. Dean married Maureen (Mo) Kane on October 13, 1972. Dean's testimony before the House was watched by some 80 million Americans. Jim is a trial attorney and a partner in a major multi-state law firm. Dean has been particularly critical of the party's support of Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump, and of neoconservatism, strong executive power, mass surveillance, and the Iraq War. OLC Op. Gray's nomination failed and Dean was directly linked to the Watergate cover-up. Was he hard-nosed and tough? In many ways the Mueller Report is to President Trump what the so-called Watergate Road Map (officially titled Grand Jury Report and Recommendation Concerning Transmission of Evidence to the House of Representatives) was to President Richard Nixon. Spectators laughed, and soon the senator was "sputtering mad". Featuring New Interviews with John Dean, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein . But Dean understands how its not so easy to walk away from the center of power. After hearing of Colodny's work, Liddy issued a revised paperback version of Will supporting Colodny's theory. The image of her calmly seated behind her husband throughout the hearings became one of the most memorable tableaus of the 1970s. Mr. Trump asked Comey to lift the cloud of the Russia investigation by saying so to the public. [15] A sharp critic of studying memory in a laboratory setting, Neisser saw "a valuable data trove" in Dean's recall. Reaction to Liddy's plan was highly unfavorable. John Dean, the White House counsel to President Richard M. Nixon who was once dubbed the "master manipulator" of the Watergate scandal by the FBI, predicts former President Donald Trump may finally be about to face some serious consequences. It's written with Bob Altemeyer, and it's titled Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers. Its the White House in the remarkable city at the top of the government. John Deans statement to the House Judiciary Committee on June 10, 2019, as prepared for delivery. First off . As Nixons secret tape recordings reveal, President Nixon knew the statement was false, and suspected (correctly) that his former attorney general John Mitchell had approved the operation. And that destroys the case.. [29], Dean's 2007 book Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches is, as he wrote in its introduction, the third volume of an unplanned trilogy. Dean also appeared before the Watergate grand jury, where he took the Fifth Amendment numerous times to avoid incriminating himself, and in order to save his testimony for the Senate Watergate hearings.[12].
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