[30], In 2008, Dean co-edited Pure Goldwater, a collection of writings by the 1964 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. PRESIDENT: No, it would be wrong. A Woman's View of Watergate, which came out in 1975, and I will highlight a few moments. HANSEN: John Dean's testimony would prove to be prophetic - perhaps even self-fulfilling. . A few specific examples of the Mueller findings and the Watergate parallels (HEADER CITES ARE TO VOLUME II): MUELLER REPORT RE MICHAEL FLYNN (PP. "Authoritarian Nightmare": John Dean Helped Bring Down Nixon over Part of TV News Archive. In that position, he became deeply involved in events leading up to the Watergate burglaries and the subsequent scandal and cover-up . 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. [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. Dean briefly summarizes the takeaways from Comey's testimony and discusses the response by President Trump and his lawyer. With his plea to felony offenses, Dean was disbarred as a lawyer in Virginia and the District of Columbia.[18][19]. Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? Using Altemeyer's scholarly work, he contends that there is a tendency toward ethically questionable political practices when authoritarians are in power and that the current political situation is dangerously unsound because of it. One was destroying evidence. A Look Back at John Dean's Testimony : NPR - NPR.org 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. All except Parkinson were convicted, largely based upon Dean's evidence. It's written with Bob Altemeyer, and it's titled Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers. March 21, 1973: Dean tells Nixon there is a "cancer" on the presidency. I learned this fact from Robert Kutak, with whom I had a friendship from our days when we worked as staffers for Congress. 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 settled the defamation suit against Colodny and his publisher, St. Martin's Press, on terms that Dean wrote in the book's preface he could not divulge under the conditions of the settlement, other than that "the Deans were satisfied." DEAN: Thats right. Yet events in both 1972 and 2016 resulted in obstruction of the investigations. 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. In White House Plumbers, an upcoming HBO limited series, Dean is portrayed by Domhnall Gleeson. WATERGATE: President Trump repeated efforts to have Attorney General Sessions reverse his recusal un-recuse himself to take control of the Special Counsels investigation parallels President Nixons attempt to control the FBI investigation through his former White House Counsel John Ehrlichman. We also talked with Michael Frisch, a friend who is the Ethics Counsel at Georgetown University Law Center. that Nixon's motivation for preventing Dean from getting immunity was to prevent him from testifying against key Nixon aides and Nixon himself. Ehrlichman said, If you leave, youll be persona non grata with this administration, so dont take a job where you need any connections to us. Of course, the jobs did want me to have relationships with the Nixon White House. 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. Rule 1.13 further provides that when an attorney representing an organization encounters ongoing crime or fraud, he or she must first try to solve the problem within the organization, by going up the ladder to the highest authority that can address the problem. Copyright 2008 NPR. CNN Original Series Returns to the Scene of the Crime in "Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal," Debuting Sunday, June 5. untenable at some point. In Starz's new Gaslit, premiering Sunday, central Watergate figure John Dean is played by Dan Stevens. . [13] It was alleged[who?] (See U.S. The Words Of Watergate | AMERICAN HERITAGE In 2006, he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee investigating George W. Bush's NSA warrantless wiretap program. [34], Dean later emerged as a strong critic of Donald Trump, saying in 2017 that he was even worse than Nixon. Legal experts weigh in, ChatGPT who? 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. Dean, an executive producer on the CNN project, helped wrangle some of the participants, including Alexander Butterfield, now 96, the deputy chief of staff who dropped the bombshell that Nixon had a taping system in the White House, which ultimately led to the presidents resignation in August 1974. Continuous coverage of the Watergate hearings in 1973 drew big audiences and viewer contributions. Mea Culpa: Rupert Murdoch Throws His Own Company Under the Bus + A Nixon said, And, ah, because these people are playing for keeps, . ART. June 1, 2022 1:43 PM PT. [5], Dean was employed from 1966 to 1967 as chief minority counsel to the Republicans on the United States House Committee on the Judiciary. Check out this great listen on Audible.com. They don't know what their jeopardy is. Michael Cohen and Watergate Whistleblower Dissect HISTORIC Criminal 1976); AND IMPEACHMENT OF RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY (WASHINGTON, D.C: GOV. It may further involve you in a way you shouldnt be involved in this. Former White House Counsel John Dean, who was a key figure in the Watergate scandal, arrives to testify before the House Judiciary Committee as the panel seeks to compare the investigations during President Richard Nixon's administration and that of President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill Monday. Anchors Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer provided summaries, commentary, and interviews to supplement each broadcast. Timeline of the Watergate scandal - Wikipedia After Comeys testimony to Congress on May 3, 2017, in which he declined to answer questions about whether the President was personally under investigation, the President decided to terminate Comey. II, P. 32); his chief of staff Annie Donaldson made contemporaneous notes of McGahns conversations with the president (e.g., MUELLER RPT, VOL. He resides in Beverly Hills, California. On this episode of the Mea Culpa Podcast, Michael Cohen welcomes back a very special guest, John Dean. 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. Specifically, the burglars were interested in information they thought was held by DNC head Lawrence F. O'Brien. Tradues em contexto de "Dean is finished" en ingls-portugus da Reverso Context : Lili, see if Miss Dean is finished dressing. McGahn refused to follow the Presidents order, recalling the opprobrium that met Robert Bork following the Saturday Night Massacre. This sparked a sharp debate with Republican South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, who repeatedly asserted that Nixon authorized the break-in at Democratic headquarters. Part of his decision to cooperate with investigators was self-preservation, as he believed he was being set up to take the fall for the White Houses handling of the scandal. Petersen provided Nixon with confidential information from the prosecutors and the grand jury proceedings. President Nixon's aide John Dean is sworn in before the Senate committee conducting hearings on the Watergate break-in and the conduct of the Nixon administration, on June 1, 1973. Blind Ambition was ghostwritten by future Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Taylor Branch[20] and later made into a 1979 TV miniseries. Opinion: The essential difference between Nixon and Trump, according to Its a fascinating place to see whats going on.. This small piece of testimony, of course, became highly significant for it led to the discovery of the secret White House taping system. 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. Nixon met with me privately on the evening of April 15, 1973, to try to influence how I would relate the events, particularly our conversation of March 21, 1973, when I warned him of the cancer on the presidency. In the March 21 conversation, I tried to convince him to end the coverup, pointing out that paying hush money and dangling pardons constituted obstruction of justice, and that people were going to go to jail, myself included. Columns by John Dean | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary - Justia Well, John Dean has a new book. Ultimately, he became a witness for the prosecution. The committee had voted to grant him use immunity (doing so in a divided vote in a private session that was then changed to a unanimous vote and announced that way to the public). 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Why Netflix is dabbling in livestreaming, How strong is Dominions defamation case against Fox News? His guilty plea to a single felony in exchange for becoming a key witness for the prosecution ultimately resulted in a reduced sentence, which he served at Fort Holabird outside Baltimore, Maryland. 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. We respect each other. This is extremely important because the false information contained in "Blind Ambition" directly contradicts his sworn testimony to the Senate Watergate Committee. TV NEWS : Search Captions. Borrow Broadcasts : TV Archive : Internet Senator Russell Feingold, who sponsored the censure resolution, introduced Dean as a "patriot" who put "rule of law above the interests of the president." 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. PRESIDENT: Right. Weekend Edition revisits audio from Dean's testimony. [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. The program also includes one of the few current day public figures who can fully understand what Dean went through Trumps former longtime attorney Michael Cohen, who went to prison for tax evasion and campaign finance violations. John Dean's testimony this week before the House Judiciary Committee squarely placed the Mueller report's findings in the historical context of Watergate. If it was a county sheriff they wouldnt [stay], Dean said. "A concern . 50 years after the Watergate break-in, John Dean relives the scandal Dean is known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal and his subsequent testimony to Congress as a witness. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Gaslit Recap: The John Dean Watch Party - Vulture 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. . [8][pageneeded], On January 27, 1972, Dean, the White House Counsel, met with Jeb Magruder (Deputy Director of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, or CRP and CREEP) and Mitchell (Attorney General of the United States, and soon-to-be Director of CRP), in Mitchell's office, for a presentation by G. Gordon Liddy (counsel for CRP and a former FBI agent). His co-editor was Goldwater's son Barry Goldwater, Jr.[31], Historian Stanley Kutler was accused of editing the Nixon tapes to make Dean appear in a more favorable light. The public pressure was so great, Nixon had to appoint a new special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski. He chronicled his White House experiences, with a focus on Watergate, in the memoirs Blind Ambition (1976) and Lost Honor (1982). His guilty plea to a single felony in exchange for becoming a key witness for the prosecution . In 'Gaslit,' a Victim of Watergate and History Finds Rescue [27], After it became known that Bush authorized NSA wiretaps without warrants, Dean asserted that Bush is "the first President to admit to an impeachable offense". Trump's obstruction parallels Nixon's during Watergate. John Dean's 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. 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. Stay up to date on new exhibits, special collections, projects, and more. The book claimed Dean had learned about the operation from his wife. April 6, 1973: White House counsel John Dean begins cooperating with federal Watergate prosecutors. June 27, 2022 05:36 PM. Ex-Watergate lawyer: Michael Cohen is no John Dean but he still might DEAN: . MUELLER REPORT RE EFFORTS TO PREVENT OR DISTORT DISCLOSURE OF THE JUNE 9, 2016 TRUMP TOWER MEETING (PP. Dean also told the Senate Watergate committee that if testimony by Jeb Stuart Magruder, a former White House aide, was credible, the President probably had advance knowledge of plans to break into . Dean had had suspicions that Nixon was taping conversations, and he tipped prosecutors to question witnesses along this line, leading to Butterfield's revelations. Dean tried to leave the White House in September 1971, a year after he arrived and well before the Watergate break-in. While navigating the crisis together has strengthened their bond, Dean still has regrets over putting his wife through the extraordinary experience. The depth of Deans Watergate insights is partly due to a defamation lawsuit he filed against St. Martins Press. John Dean (Part 1) Watergate Hearings Testimony - YouTube The day following Flynns resignation, President Trump in a one-on-one Oval Office conversation with Director Comey said, I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go., WATERGATE: In a like situation, when President Nixon learned of his re-election committees involvement in the Watergate break-in, he instructed his Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman, to have the CIA ask the FBI not to go any further into the investigation of the breakin for bogus national security reasons. Thats for sure. Michael Cohen was no John Dean. His hearing didn't change many minds. Dean's testimony to the senators and at the 1974 trial of the chief conspirators (excepting the President) did not get him totally off the hook. John Dean: His Watergate testimony took down Nixon. Now Trump is going For whatever reason, President Trump did not follow up with the directive to fire Mueller and McGahn did not resign. Watergate prosecutors & Sirica knew John Dean committed many crimes. 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 .