He is also the author of three books about television, including a biography of pioneer talk show host and producer David Susskind. Accuracy and availability may vary. Anchors Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer provided summaries, commentary, and interviews to supplement each broadcast. 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. Dean finally replied, "You're showing you don't know that subject very well." In White House Plumbers, an upcoming HBO limited series, Dean is portrayed by Domhnall Gleeson. 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. 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. Paperback. 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. 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. The Jan. 6 committee's hastily scheduled hearing for Tuesday "better be a big deal," said a key Watergate scandal figure. He could be embarrassed. A full cast of characters is available in our Gavel-to-Gavel exhibit. I always envisioned going in and out of government. Later Nixon worked directly with Henry Petersen, the top Justice Department official in charge of the Watergate investigation, once I had broken with the White House. Mr. McGahn is the most prominent fact witness regarding obstruction of justice cited in the Mueller Report. Dean served as White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Legal experts weigh in, ChatGPT who? [3], Dean married Karla Ann Hennings on February 4, 1962; they had one child, John Wesley Dean IV, before divorcing in 1970. MUELLER REPORT RE EFFORTS TO CONTROL ATTORNEY GENERAL SESSIONS (PP. In the 1979 TV mini-series Blind Ambition, Dean was played by Martin Sheen. (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. An obstruction of justice conviction prevented the former White House counsel from practicing law in Washington, D.C., and Virginia. Dean commented on the removal in colorful terms, saying it "seems to be planned like a murder" and that Special Counsel Robert Mueller likely had contingency plans, possibly including sealed indictments. 171-181). The Watergate "master manipulator" said the former president is in trouble after the latest revelations. 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. John Dean III, a former White House aide in the Nixon administration, is sworn in by Senate Watergate Committee Chairman Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) before testifying on Capitol Hill in this June 25, 1973. 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 . He later became a commentator on contemporary politics, a book author, and a columnist for FindLaw's Writ. Nixon fired Dean on April 30, the same day he announced the resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman. 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. By April 15, Nixon tried to tell me he was kidding about finding $1 million in hush money to pay the burglar defendants to maintain their silence. . While I was an active participant in the coverup for a period of time, there is absolutely no information whatsoever that Trumps White House Counsel, Don McGahn, participated in any illegal or improper activity to the contrary, there is evidence he prevented several obstruction attempts. 5; 3, cl. A Woman's View of Watergate, which came out in 1975, and I will highlight a few moments. 1976); AND IMPEACHMENT OF RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY (WASHINGTON, D.C: GOV. Dean's testimony before the House was watched by some 80 million Americans. If the problem cannot be solved internally, Model Rule 1.13 provides that an attorney may report out, despite his or her confidentiality, what is going on, despite his duty of confidentiality or the attorney-client privilege. Records are described at an item level and all records contain brief descriptions and subject terms. 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. [1] His family moved to Flossmoor, Illinois, where he attended grade school. Dean served as White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until Ap. They all would have expected to be out and that may put you in a position thats just . Mr. McGahn has expressed concern about being caught between two branches of government in responding to this Committees subpoena for his documents and testimony. Watergate-John-Dean-June-25-1973 . He shares his story in the series "Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal." It . MUELLER REPORT RE EFFORTS TO PREVENT OR DISTORT DISCLOSURE OF THE JUNE 9, 2016 TRUMP TOWER MEETING (PP. Shortly after the Watergate hearings, Dean wrote about his experiences in a series of books and toured the United States to lecture. In short, the firing of FBI Director Comey, like Nixons effort to curtail the Watergate investigation, resulted in the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller. Dean was the first administration official to accuse Nixon of direct involvement with Watergate and the resulting cover-up in press interviews. WATERGATE: This is much like Richard Nixons attempt to get me to write a phony report exonerating the White House from any involvement in Watergate. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Clearly, I am not here as a fact witness. In 1973, John Dean was the star witness in the Watergate hearings. June 17, 1972. All believed that they could rely on the President to offer clemency under the Presidents pardon power. John Dean, the former White House counsel to Richard Nixon, testified Monday that he sees "remarkable parallels" between Watergate and the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report . In the preface to his 2006 book Conservatives Without Conscience, Dean strongly denied Colodny's theory, pointing out that Colodny's chief source (Phillip Mackin Bailley) had been in and out of mental institutions. MUELLER REPORT RE APPOINTMENT/REMOVAL OF THE SPECIAL COUNSEL (PP. Deans words on tape can be heard in the British documentary TV series Watergate. John W. Dean, former counsel to President Nixon, reflects on the much-anticipated testimony of former FBI Director James Comey before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. Spectators laughed, and soon the senator was "sputtering mad". 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. Such testimony against Nixon, while damaging to the president's credibility, had little legal impact, as it was merely his word against Nixon's. 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 . Speaking of Betty Gilpin, John Dean is practicing his testimony, and Mo is advising him. According to Dean, modern conservatism, specifically on the Christian Right, embraces obedience, inequality, intolerance, and strong intrusive government, in stark contrast to Goldwater's philosophies and policies. For those of you who lived through Watergate, his name is synonymous with the political intrigue of the 1970s. He was trying to shape my future testimony. WATERGATE: The Comey firing echoes Nixons firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in the infamous Saturday Night Massacre in October 1973. In the 1999 film Dick, Dean was played by Jim Breuer. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Stephen Battaglio writes about television and the media business for the Los Angeles Times out of New York. MUELLER REPORT RE TERMINATION OF COMEY (PP. [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. Search by keyword or individual, or browse all episodes by clicking Explore the Collection below the search box. Mea Culpa welcomes back a very special guest, John Dean. 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. Gjon Mili . (Mitchell would not admit this fact, even privately, for almost a year.) I met with Kutak and his commission to provide my own insights. 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. Howard Hunts lawyer sought assurances through Nixons Special Counsel Chuck Colson that Hunt would not spend years in prison if he pled guilty in the trial before Judge Sirica in January 1973. MUELLER REPORT VOLUME I: The Mueller Reports finds no illegal conspiracy, or criminal aiding and abetting, by candidate Trump with the Russians. He received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) Traduo Context Corretor Sinnimos Conjugao. 1 AND 182.). They don't know what they're looking at. We also talked with Michael Frisch, a friend who is the Ethics Counsel at Georgetown University Law Center. Granted immunity, Dean laid out in stunning detail . John Dean's third day of testimony at the Watergate hearings in 1973. . PRINTING OFFICE, 2019). 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. While navigating the crisis together has strengthened their bond, Dean still has regrets over putting his wife through the extraordinary experience. In a corporation, for example, the attorney would report up to the board of directors or a special committee of the board. After hearing of Colodny's work, Liddy issued a revised paperback version of Will supporting Colodny's theory. 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. 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 . John Dean's memory: A case study. ART. Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox was interested in meeting with Dean and planned to do so a few days later, but Cox was fired by Nixon the next day; it was not until a month later that Cox was replaced by Leon Jaworski. The depth of Deans Watergate insights is partly due to a defamation lawsuit he filed against St. Martins Press. Dean has written several books related to Watergate and the overreach of presidential powers. Dean's testimony before the House was watched by some 80 million Americans. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. 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. 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." NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Blind Ambition was ghostwritten by future Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Taylor Branch[20] and later made into a 1979 TV miniseries. For several reasons I believe he should testify. 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. 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. 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. [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". 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. This small piece of testimony, of course, became highly significant for it led to the discovery of the secret White House taping system. 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. 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. His coverage of the television industry has appeared in TV Guide, the New York Daily News, the New York Times, Fortune, the Hollywood Reporter, Inside.com and Adweek. Well, John Dean has a new book. (Following Coxs firing, a dozen plus bills calling for Nixons impeachment or creating a special prosecutor were filed in the House. Rather I accepted the invitation to appear today because I hope I can give a bit of historical context to the Mueller Report. [13] It was alleged[who?] 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. They don't know what their jeopardy is. First off . This is extremely important because the false information contained in "Blind Ambition" directly contradicts his sworn testimony to the Senate Watergate Committee. 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. This press statement put a coverup in place immediately, by claiming the men arrested at the Democratic headquarters were not operating either in our behalf or with our consent in the alleged bugging attempt. 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. I also told him that it was important that this cancer be removed immediately because it was growing more deadly every day. [30], In 2008, Dean co-edited Pure Goldwater, a collection of writings by the 1964 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. [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 testimony during the Watergate scandal helped bring down Nixon. Jim is a trial attorney and a partner in a major multi-state law firm. But the litigation gave Dean access to files from the Watergate special prosecution archives, intensifying his expertise, and he entered the pundit class that emerged when cable news expanded in the mid-1990s. [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. 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. Credit. Dean had had suspicions that Nixon was taping conversations, and he tipped prosecutors to question witnesses along this line, leading to Butterfield's revelations. A few specific examples of the Mueller findings and the Watergate parallels (HEADER CITES ARE TO VOLUME II): MUELLER REPORT RE MICHAEL FLYNN (PP. 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. II, P. 32); his chief of staff Annie Donaldson made contemporaneous notes of McGahns conversations with the president (e.g., MUELLER RPT, VOL. The materials were contributed to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) by the Library of Congress in 2017. [32], On September 17, 2009, Dean appeared on Countdown with new allegations about Watergate. John Dean, President Richard M. Nixon's former . [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. It's written with Bob Altemeyer, and it's titled Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers. This year Dean will be celebrating another anniversary 50 years of marriage to his wife, Maureen. 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. [33], In speaking engagements in 2014, Dean called Watergate a "lawyers' scandal" that, for all the bad, ushered in needed legal ethics reforms. [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. The case of Dean vs. Liddy was dismissed without prejudice. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Murdoch has survived scandal after scandal. March 21, 1973: Dean tells Nixon there is a "cancer" on the presidency. Haldeman and Chief . Certain aspects of the scandal came to light before Election Day, but Nixon was reelected by a landslide. Don McGahn represented the Office of the Presidency, not Donald Trump personally. The Watergate hearings were produced by the National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT), public televisions Washington hub for national news and public affairs programming. PRESIDENT: No, it would be wrong. He admitted supervising payments of "hush money" to the Watergate burglars, notably E. Howard Hunt, and revealed the existence of Nixon's enemies list. His first memoir, Blind Ambition, was turned into a TV movie in 1979. Brownell, K. (2020). Journalists Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Lesley Stahl also offer their recollections on the story that helped make their careers. 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 . An . Granted immunity, Dean laid out in stunning detail and intricacy how the President not only knew . [46][47], In 2022, Dean said the January 6 Committee had an overwhelming case against Trump.[48]. Its the White House in the remarkable city at the top of the government. Weekend Edition revisits audio from Dean's testimony. Fired white House counsel John Dean testifies before the Senate Watergate Committee while his wife, Maureen, watches in Washington, June 28, 1973. DEAN: Thats right. An obstruction of justice conviction prevented the former White House counsel from practicing law in Washington, D.C., and Virginia. The Mueller Report also refers to corroboration of McGahn as a witness in that he made contemporaneous notes on occasions (e.g., MUELLER RPT, VOL. Shortly after Watergate, Dean became an investment banker, author and lecturer based in Beverly Hills, California. 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. Because, you know, after everybody PRESIDENT: Thats right. Gavel-to-Gavel: The Watergate Scandal and Public Television, The Watergate Files Exhibit, Ford Library Museum, Covering Watergate: 40 Years Later with MacNeil and Lehrer, PBS. II, p. 1 that one of the reasons the Special Counsel did not make charging decisions relating to obstruction of justice was because he did not want to potentially preempt [the] constitutional processes for addressing presidential misconduct. The report then cites at footnote 2: See U.S. CONST. John W. Dean (center) with his wife, Maureen, and John's lawyer, Charles N. Shaffer, in 1974. Yeah. When Cox refused this arrangement, Nixon ordered his Attorney General to fire Cox, which Richardson refused to do and resigned himself. MUELLER REPORT RE EFFORTS TO INFLUENCE WITNESSES WITH PARDONS ( PP. 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. In the summer of 1973, former White House Counsel John Dean testified as part of the Senate's investigation into the Watergate break-in. And by early February 1974, this Committee formally commenced impeachment proceedings.) He said he had found information via the Nixon tapes that showed what the burglars were after: information on a kickback scheme involving the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida. 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. Since we began, we have presented over 150 programs throughout the United States, reaching somewhere between 45,000 to 50,000 attorneys. He said, "It's a nightmare. 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. 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. . In that position, he became deeply involved in events leading up to the Watergate burglaries and the subsequent scandal and cover-up . Was he hard-nosed and tough? Dean is now the last man standing from that era, He is the last connection between this nation's authoritarian past and present. But I think he could experience shame. 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. It certainly changed my career path. In the 2022 TV mini-series Gaslit, Dean was played by Dan Stevens. For those of you who lived through Watergate, his name is synonymous with the political intrigue of the 1970s. 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. Chairman Nadler, Ranking Member Collins, the last time I appeared before your committee was . 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. He studied at Colgate University and the College of Wooster in Ohio before earning a Juris Doctor (J.D.) OLC Op. $23.91 4 Used from $8.00 3 New from $23.91 1 Collectible from $59.95. Mea Culpa welcomes back a very special guest, John Dean. . John Deans statement to the House Judiciary Committee on June 10, 2019, as prepared for delivery. Senator Russell Feingold, who sponsored the censure resolution, introduced Dean as a "patriot" who put "rule of law above the interests of the president."
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