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John Dean. John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) is an American attorney who served as White House Counsel for U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Dean is known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal and his subsequent testimony to Congress as a witness. His guilty plea to a single felony in ...
John Dean (born October 14, 1938, Akron, Ohio, U.S.) is an American lawyer who served as White House counsel (1970–73) during the administration of U.S. Pres. Richard M. Nixon and whose revelation of official participation in the Watergate scandal ultimately led to the resignation of the president and the imprisonment of Dean himself and other top aides.
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Jun 1, 2022 · June 1, 2022 1:43 PM PT. 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. An ...
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Jun 2, 2022 · John Dean is having a moment. Fifty years after the Watergate break-in, Dean is the star of “Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal,” a new CNN special on the conspiracy and corruption that took ...
Jun 6, 2017 · 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. The committee was investigating the role of President Richard Nixon ’s administration in a June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters ...
- Richard Ernsberger Jr.
Sep 5, 2018 · Dean was Nixon’s White House counsel on June 17, 1972, the night burglars broke into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. He had no prior ...
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Jun 1, 2022 · Dean tried to leave the White House in September 1971, a year after he arrived and well before the Watergate break-in. But he was told by his immediate boss, John Ehrlichman, that his post-White ...
