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John Dean

John Dean, May 7, 1972. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Born John Wesley Dean III
October 14, 1938 (1938-10-14) (age 69)
Akron, Ohio

John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) was White House Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Events 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill seven miles from Hastings, the forces Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Akron is a city in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Summit County. Events 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill seven miles from Hastings, the forces Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The White House Counsel is a staff appointee of the President of the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the As White House Counsel, he became deeply involved in events leading up to the Watergate burglaries and the subsequent Watergate scandal cover up, even referred to as "master manipulator of the cover up" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The Watergate burglaries, which took place on May 28 and June 17, 1972, have been cited in testimony media accounts and popular works on Watergate as The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's [1] He was convicted of multiple felonies as a result of Watergate, and went on to become a key witness for the prosecution, resulting in a reduction of his time in jail.

Dean is currently an author, columnist, and commentator on contemporary politics, strongly critical of conservatism and the Republican Party, and a registered independent supporting impeachment of President George W. Bush. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. [2]

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Early life and career

Dean was born in Akron, Ohio. Akron is a city in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Summit County. He attended Colgate University majoring in English literature, and then The College of Wooster, earning a bachelor's degree in political science in 1961. Colgate University is a private liberal arts college located in the Village of Hamilton in Madison County New York, USA Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems He received a J.D. from Georgetown University in 1965. Juris Doctor (abbreviated JD or JD, from the Latin, Teacher of Law) is a first professional graduate degree and Professional Georgetown University is a Jesuit Private university located in Georgetown Washington D After graduation, he joined a Washington, D.C. law firm. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D

He was subsequently employed as the chief minority counsel to the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee in the United States House of Representatives. The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. A National Commission on the Reform of Federal Criminal Law was created in 1967: Dean was appointed its associate director. He volunteered to write position papers on crime for Nixon's presidential campaign in 1968. The following year he became an Associate Deputy at the office of the Attorney General of the United States in the Nixon administration and in July, 1970 became counsel to the president, after the previous holder of this post John Ehrlichman became the president's chief domestic adviser. The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice (see) concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement Haldeman and Ehrlichman discuss policy 1973png|thumb|200px|right|"The Berlin Wall" of Ehrlichman and Haldeman on April 27, 1973 three days before they would be asked to resign

"Master manipulator" to star witness

On February 28, 1973, Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding his nomination to replace J. Edgar Hoover as Director of the FBI. Events 202 BC - coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty 's rule Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Louis Patrick Gray III (July 18 1916 – July 6 2005 was acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI from May 2 1972 to April 27 1973 The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (informally Senate Judiciary Committee) is a Standing committee of the United States Senate, the WikipediaManual of Style (biographies#Postnominal initials Armed with newspaper articles indicating the White House had possession of FBI Watergate files, the committee chairman, Sam Ervin, questioned Gray as to what he knew about the White House obtaining the files. Samuel James Ervin Jr ( September 27, 1896 &ndash April 23, 1985) was a Democratic United States Senator from Gray stated he had given reports to Dean, and had discussed the FBI investigation with Dean on many occasions. Gray's nomination failed, and now Dean was directly linked to the Watergate cover up.

On March 23, the Watergate burglars were sentenced with stiff fines and jail time; Dean hired an attorney and began his cooperation with Watergate investigators on April 6. Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato in the Battle of Thapsus

On April 22, Nixon requested Dean put together a report with everything he knew about the Watergate matter and even invited him to take a retreat to Camp David to do so. Events 1500 - Portuguese Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. The Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is the rustic 125-acre (0 Coupled with his sense of distance from Nixon's inner circle, "The Berlin Wall" of advisors H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Dean sensed he was going to become the Watergate scapegoat, and despite going to Camp David, he returned to Washington without having completed his report. Harry Robbins Haldeman (publicly known as H R Haldeman, and informally as Bob Haldeman) ( October 27, 1926 &ndash November 12, Haldeman and Ehrlichman discuss policy 1973png|thumb|200px|right|"The Berlin Wall" of Ehrlichman and Haldeman on April 27, 1973 three days before they would be asked to resign scapegoat was a Goat that was driven off into the wilderness as part of the ceremonies of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement in Judaism during the times Nixon fired Dean on April 30, the same date he also announced the resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule

On June 25, Dean began his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee, in which he implicated administration officials, including Nixon fundraiser and former Attorney General John Mitchell, Nixon and himself. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians The Senate Watergate Committee was a special committee convened by the United States Senate to investigate the Watergate burglaries and the ensuing Watergate The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice (see) concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement John Newton Mitchell (September 1913 &ndash November 9, 1988) was the first United States Attorney General ever to be convicted of illegal activities and He was the first administration official to accuse Nixon of direct involvement with Watergate and the resulting cover-up in press interviews. Such testimony against Nixon, while damaging to the president's credibility, had little impact legally, as it was merely his word against Nixon's. Nixon vigorously denied all accusations against him that he authorized a cover-up, and Dean had no proof beyond various notes he had taken in his meetings with the president. It was not until secret White House tape recordings were made public and analyzed that Dean's accusations were established as true.

Watergate trial

Dean pled guilty to obstruction of justice before Watergate trial judge John Sirica on November 30, 1973. The crime of obstruction of justice includes crimes committed by Judges Prosecutors attorneys general, and elected officials in general John Joseph Sirica ( March 19 1904 – August 14 1992) was the Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Events 1700 - Battle of Narva — A Swedish army of 8500 men under Charles XII defeats Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. He admitted supervising payments of "hush money" to the Watergate burglars, notably E. Howard Hunt, and revealed the existence of Nixon's enemies list. Hush Money is a 1931 film featuring Joan Bennett, Hardie Albright, Owen Moore, Myrna Loy, and George Raft Everette Howard Hunt Jr ( October 9 1918 – January 23 2007) was an American Author and spy. Nixon’s Enemies List is the informal name of what started as a list of President Richard Nixon ’s major political opponents compiled by Charles Colson On August 2, 1974, Sirica handed down a sentence of one to four years in a minimum-security prison. Events 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. However, when Dean surrendered himself as scheduled on September 3, he was diverted to the custody of U. Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius S. Marshals, and kept instead at Fort Holabird (near Baltimore, Maryland) in a special "safe house" holding facility primarily used for witnesses against the Mafia. Fort Holabird was a US Army post in Maryland state It closed in 1973 The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra) is a Sicilian Criminal Secret society which is believed to have first developed in the mid-19th century He spent his days in the offices of the Watergate Special Prosecutor and testifying in the trial of Watergate conspirators Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson, which concluded on January 1, 1975. Robert Charles Mardian ( October 23, 1923 – July 17, 2006) was a former United States Republican party official who served Kenneth Parkinson was counsel to the Committee to Re-elect the President that supported Richard Nixon in 1972 New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dean's lawyer moved to have his sentence reduced, and on January 8, Sirica granted the motion, adjusting Dean's sentence to time served, which wound up being four months. Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army With his conviction for felony offenses, Dean was disbarred as a lawyer, so could no longer practice law.

Life after Watergate

Dean retired from investment banking in 2000, and became an author, lecturer, and columnist for FindLaw's Writ online magazine. FindLawcom is a free legal information Web portal owned by Thomson Reuters. Writ is a legal commentary website on the topic of the law of the United States hosted by FindLaw. He resides in Beverly Hills, California.

Dean chronicled his White House experiences, with a focus on Watergate, in the memoirs Blind Ambition and Lost Honor. Blind Ambition would become the point of controversy many years after its publication.

In 1992, he hired famed attorney Neil Papiano and brought the first in a series of defamation suits against G. Gordon Liddy for claims in his book Will and St. Neil Papiano born, in Salt Lake City, Utah is an American lawyer George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for the White House Plumbers unit that existed during several years of Martin's Press for its publication of the book Silent Coup by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin. Silent Coup is a 1992 book by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin in which they contend that former Nixon White House counsel John Dean orchestrated the 1972 Silent Coup is a 1992 book by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin in which they contend that former Nixon White House counsel John Dean orchestrated the 1972 Silent Coup is a 1992 book by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin in which they contend that former Nixon White House counsel John Dean orchestrated the 1972 Silent Coup alleged that Dean was the mastermind of the Watergate burglaries, and the true target of the burglaries was to seize information implicating Dean and Maureen Biner (his then-fiancée) in a prostitution ring. After hearing of Colodny's work, Liddy issued a revised paperback version of Will supporting Colodny's theory. [3] This theory was subsequently the subject of an A&E Network Investigative Reports series program entitled The Key to Watergate in 1992. A&E is a cable and Satellite television network with headquarters in Manhattan and offices in Stamford, Atlanta, Liddy's defense team focused on allegations that Blind Ambition was ghost written by Taylor Branch, a charge that Dean denies to this day. A ghostwriter is a professional Writer who is paid to write books articles stories reports or other content which are officially credited to another person Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947 in Atlanta Georgia) is an American author and Historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of [4] In the preface to his 2006 book, Conservatives Without Conscience, Dean strongly denied Colodny's theory, pointing out that the Colodny's chief source (Phillip Mackin Bailley) had been in and out of mental institutions. Conservatives Without Conscience is a book written by John Dean, who served as White House Counsel under U Dean settled the defamation suit against Colodny and his publisher, St. Martin's Press, on terms which Dean stated in the book's preface he could not divulge under the terms of the settlement, other than stating that "the Deans were satisfied. " In the footnote to this portion of the preface, Dean stated that the federal judge handling the case forced a settlement with Liddy. [5]

In 2001, Dean published The Rehnquist Choice, an exposé of the White House's selection process for a new Supreme Court justice in 1971, which led to the accession of William Rehnquist to the United States' highest court. William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1 1924 – September 3 2005 was an American lawyer, jurist, and a political figure who served as an Associate Justice Three years later, Dean authored a book heavily critical of the administration of George W. Bush, entitled Worse than Watergate, which calls for the impeachment of Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney for lying to the Congress. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. Worse than Watergate, subtitled The Secret Presidency of George W Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30 1941 is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States.

His subsequent book, released in summer 2006, is titled Conservatives without Conscience, a play on Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative. Conservatives Without Conscience is a book written by John Dean, who served as White House Counsel under U The Conscience of a Conservative is a book published under the name of Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate In it, he asserts that post-Goldwater conservatism has been co-opted by people with authoritarian personalities and policies (citing data from Robert Altemeyer). Robert Altemeyer, also known as Bob Altemeyer, or Dr Bob by his students is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Manitoba According to Dean, modern conservatism, specifically in the Christian Right, embraces obedience, inequality, intolerance, and strong intrusive government, in stark contrast to Goldwater's philosophies and policies. Using Altemeyer's scholarly work, he contends that there is a tendency toward ethically questionable political practices when authoritarians are placed in positions of power, and that the current political situation is dangerously unsound because of it. 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 conservativism and this authoritarian approach to governance. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30 1941 is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States. Thomas Dale DeLay (born April 8 1947 is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Sugar Land, Texas. Newton "Newt" Leroy Gingrich, (born Newton Leroy McPherson on June 17, 1943) is an American politician and author who served as the Speaker William Harrison "Bill" Frist He places particular emphasis on the abdication of checks and balances by the Republican Congress, and of the dishonesty of the conservative intellectual class in support of the GOP, as a result of the obedience and arrogance innate to the authoritarian mentality.

After the revelation that George W. Bush authorized NSA wiretaps without warrants, Dean asserted that Bush is "the first President to admit to an impeachable offense". The NSA warrantless surveillance controversy concerns Surveillance of persons within the United States incident to the collection of Foreign intelligence by the [6] On March 31, 2006, Dean testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during hearings on censuring the president over the issue. Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (informally Senate Judiciary Committee) is a Standing committee of the United States Senate, the Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis. Russell Dana "Russ" Feingold (born March 2, 1953) is an American politician from the U ), who sponsored the censure resolution, introduced Dean as a "patriot" who put "rule of law above the interests of the president. " In his testimony, Dean asserted that Richard Nixon covered up Watergate because he believed it was in the interest of national security. This sparked a sharp debate with Republican South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, who repeatedly asserted that Nixon authorized the break-in at Democratic headquarters. South Carolina ( is a state in the southern region ( Deep South) of the United States of America. Lindsey Olin Graham (born July 9, 1955) is an American Politician from South Carolina. Dean finally replied, "You're showing you don't know that subject very well. " According to Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank, "Spectators laughed, and soon the senator was sputtering mad. "[7]

In the 1979 TV mini-series, Blind Ambition, Dean was played by Martin Sheen. Martin Sheen (born Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez on August 3, 1940) is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning American Actor who earned In the 1995 film, Nixon, Dean was played by David Hyde Pierce. Nixon is a 1995 Biographical film directed by Oliver Stone for Cinergi Pictures that tells the story of the political and personal David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is an American Actor, best known for his role as Psychiatrist Dr In the 1999 film Dick, Dean was played by Jim Breuer. Dick is a 1999 American Comedy movie directed by Andrew Fleming from the script he co-wrote with Sheryl Longin. Jim Breuer (born June 21, 1967 in Valley Stream New York) is an American Comedian and actor largely known for his appearance

Dean frequently serves as a guest on the MSNBC show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and the Randi Rhodes Show on the Nova M Radio network. MSNBC is a 24-hour cable television news channel based in the United States and available in Canada. Countdown with Keith Olbermann is an hour-long weeknight Randi Rhodes (born Randi Buten on January 28, 1959 in Brooklyn New York) is an American progressive Talk radio personality Nova M Radio LLC is a radio station acquisition firm and Radio syndication service operated by Sheldon Drobny, Anita Drobny and originally Dr

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Notes

  1. ^ Federal Bureau of Investigation, Office of Planning and Evaluation. . FBI Watergate Investigation: OPE Analysis. July 5, 1974. File Number 139-4089. p. 11
  2. ^ Rothschild, Matthew. "An Interview with John Dean," Progressive Magazine (2006-05-20)
  3. ^ Bates, Stephen. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 325 - The First Council of Nicaea &ndash the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held "Flipping His Liddy", Slate. com, 5 February 2001.  
  4. ^ Dean, John Doing Legal, Political, and Historical Research on the Internet: Using Blog Forums, Open Source Dictionaries, and More, Findlaw, September 9, 2005. FindLawcom is a free legal information Web portal owned by Thomson Reuters. Taylor Branch states: "Blind Ambition (ghostwriter for John Dean) (Simon & Schuster: 1979)" under the heading "Past Writing".
  5. ^ Dean, John: Conservatives Without Conscience, Viking, 2006. Conservatives Without Conscience is a book written by John Dean, who served as White House Counsel under U
  6. ^ Jackson, David. "War-powers debate on front burner", USA Today, 28 December 2005.  
  7. ^ Milbank, Dana. "Watergate Remembered, After a Fashion", Washington Post, 1 April 2006.  

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Chuck Colson		 White House Counsel
1970-73		 Succeeded by
Leonard Garment
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