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Sep 5, 2018 · Before Dean testified before Congress in the Watergate hearings, Nixon called Dean into his office in the Executive Office Building to try and make sure that Dean didn’t...
- Becky Little
- January 1969. Richard Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th president of the United States.
- February 1971. Richard Nixon orders the installation of a secret taping system that records all conversations in the Oval Office, his Executive Office Building office, and his Camp David office and on selected telephones in these locations.
- June 13, 1971. The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department's secret history of the Vietnam War. The Washington Post will begin publishing the papers later in the week.
- 1971. Nixon and his staff recruit a team of ex-FBI and CIA operatives, later referred to as “the Plumbers” to investigate the leaked publication of the Pentagon Papers.
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Jun 29, 2023 · Sam Ervin Library. Gray’s testimony set in motion a chain of events that not only placed Dean on the hotseat before the Senate Watergate Committee in June but arguably resulted in Nixon’s resignation in August of 1974. John Dean joined the Nixon White House in 1970.
Description: The testimony of John Dean, former counsel to the president, before the Senate Watergate hearings in June 1973 proved extremely damaging to President Richard Nixon. In one of the turning points of the hearings, Dean was asked "What did the president know and when did he know it?"
Jun 6, 2017 · What did president Nixon know and when did he know it? Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, a little-known 34-year-old White House counsel, John W. Dean, delivered riveting televised testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee.
- Richard Ernsberger Jr.
Dean first came to national attention in 1972, when Nixon named him to head a special investigation into possible involvement of White House personnel in the Watergate case. As was later revealed, he refused to issue a proposed fictitious report denying a cover-up, and, when implications of White House involvement became stronger, Dean began ...
Nixon also fired his White House counsel, John Dean, who in testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee said he had warned Nixon against trying to cover up the Watergate affair. Nixon also named Elliot Richardson attorney general to replace John Mitchell.
