On this episode of the Mea Culpa Podcast, Michael Cohen welcomes back a very special guest, John Dean. Mr. JOHN DEAN (Former White House Counsel): What I had hoped to do in this conversation was to have the president tell me we had to end the matter now. "[35][36], In February 2018, Dean warned that Rick Gates's testimony may be "the end" of Trump's presidency. The Mueller Report explains in Vol. II, PP. John Dean, President Richard M. Nixon's former . You know, the Watergate hearings just over, Hunt now demanding clemency or hes gonna blow. 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. in 1961. Silent Coup alleged that Dean masterminded the Watergate burglaries and the Watergate coverup and that the true aim of the burglaries was to seize information implicating Dean and the former Maureen "Mo" Biner (his then-fiance) in a prostitution ring. Dean had had suspicions that Nixon was taping conversations, and he tipped prosecutors to question witnesses along this line, leading to Butterfield's revelations. But the CNN series is the first time hes told his story in a documentary, which drills down into how and why Richard Nixon looked for dirt on his opponents and detailed accounts of his criminal actions to cover it up. . All believed that they could rely on the President to offer clemency under the Presidents pardon power. All except Parkinson were convicted, largely based upon Dean's evidence. 7 min read. CNN Original Series Returns to the Scene of the Crime in "Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal," Debuting Sunday, June 5. I also told him that it was important that this cancer be removed immediately because it was growing more deadly every day. The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Bachelor Sister Wives 90 Day Fiance Wife Swap The Amazing Race Australia Married at First Sight The Real Housewives of Dallas My 600-lb Life Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 88.). 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. We respect each other. [17] Dean failed to recall any conversations verbatim, and often failed to recall the gist of conversations correctly. In Watergate, the lesson learned was that no person, even the President, was above the law. [10][pageneeded]. Again, McGahns testimony about these events, which are described in detail in the Mueller Report, are important for Congress to understand and, as noted later, claims of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege have been waived (because of disclosure of the Mueller Report authorized by President Trump, and the so-called crime-fraud exception to all privileges). Model Rule 1.13 provides that a lawyer representing an organization represents the entity and not the individuals running the entity. $23.91 4 Used from $8.00 3 New from $23.91 1 Collectible from $59.95. Dean insisted that Cohen be included in the series. 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 was four months. 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. [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. June 25, 1973: White House counsel John Dean recounts his meetings with President Nixon to the Senate Watergate Committee: "I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on . 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 administrations involvement in the burglary and subsequent cover-up; Chief of Staff H.R. . Watergate Lawyer John Dean Predicts Legacy Of Jan. 6 Investigation Into Trump. Shortly after the Watergate hearings, Dean wrote about his experiences in a series of books and toured the United States to lecture. For those of you who lived through Watergate, his name is synonymous with the political intrigue of the 1970s. He is also the author of three books about television, including a biography of pioneer talk show host and producer David Susskind. [14], When it was revealed that Nixon had secretly recorded all meetings in the Oval Office, famous psychologist and memory researcher Ulric Neisser analyzed Dean's recollections of the meetings, as expressed through his testimony, in comparison to the meetings' actual recordings. The press statement was false. In that position, he became deeply involved in events leading up to the Watergate burglaries and the subsequent scandal and cover-up . 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. [42][43], On November 7, 2018, the day after the midterm elections, Trump forced Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign. March 21, 1973: Dean tells Nixon there is a "cancer" on the presidency. 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It's written with Bob Altemeyer, and it's titled Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers. [33], In speaking engagements in 2014, Dean called Watergate a "lawyers' scandal" that, for all the bad, ushered in needed legal ethics reforms. After hearing of Colodny's work, Liddy issued a revised paperback version of Will supporting Colodny's theory. But Deans inside knowledge on how the bungled burglary of Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972, ultimately revealed an organized-crime-type mind-set within the Nixon administration has kept him on the contact list of TV news guest bookers for decades. Trumps demands for unyielding loyalty from staff and statements such as asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find 11,780 votes that would overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in the state rival what was heard on Nixons tapes, but were delivered with far less discretion. [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. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. 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. 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. Dean was also receiving advice from the attorney he hired, Charles Shaffer, on matters involving the vulnerabilities of other White House staff. Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 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. Dean also asserts that Nixon did not directly order the break-in, but that Ehrlichman ordered it on Nixon's behalf. 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 . His guilty plea to a single felony in exchange for becoming a key witness for the prosecution . [34], Dean later emerged as a strong critic of Donald Trump, saying in 2017 that he was even worse than Nixon. Items included in the Television News search service. 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March 23, 1973: The McCord letter is made public by Judge Sirica in open court at McCord's sentencing hearing. [Emphasis added.]. Eisenberg, MUELLER RPT, VOL. 5; 3, cl. "My feelings about Mr. Nixon remained the same until his death a tangle of familial echoes, affections, and curiosities never satisfied," Leonard Garment wrote in his 1997 autobiography, Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn and Jazz to Nixon's White House, Watergate, and Beyond.At first blush, Garment appeared an odd match for President Richard M. Nixon, the former a liberal Republican who . Dean briefly summarizes the takeaways from Comey's testimony and discusses the response by President Trump and his lawyer. 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 . But he was told by his immediate boss, John Ehrlichman, that his post-White House career would be difficult if he left. 1973, Nixon fired Dean. Watergate-John-Dean-June-25-1973 . The program, produced by Herzog & Company, delves into the archive of Watergate-related material Dean has accumulated and stored in his Beverly Hills home over the years, including his 60,000-word testimony to a Senate subcommittee originally written in longhand on yellow legal pads. II, P.117); McGahn discussed matters with others (e.g. John W. Dean (center) with his wife, Maureen, and John's lawyer, Charles N. Shaffer, in 1974. We still love each other, Dean said. In the summer of 1973, the Watergate hearings held the country spellbound. His deputy, William Ruckelshaus, also refused to fire Cox and also resigned, with the next man in succession, Solicitor General Robert Bork carrying out the presidents order to terminate Cox. Dean concludes that conservatism must regenerate itself to remain true to its core ideals of limited government and the rule of law. As Nixons secret tape recordings reveal, President Nixon knew the statement was false, and suspected (correctly) that his former attorney general John Mitchell had approved the operation. [15] A sharp critic of studying memory in a laboratory setting, Neisser saw "a valuable data trove" in Dean's recall. The Watergate Hearings, 50 Years Ago: Truth Was Not Up for Debate . Elizabeth Holtzman, a former member of Congress who served on the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate hearings, said in her interview he was an essential part of the criminal enterprise. Dean himself talks about how he crossed a moral line early in his White House tenure. On August 2, 1974, Sirica handed down a sentence to Dean of one to four years in a minimum-security prison. The mainstream media narrative about Watergate is a grotesque and fantastic distortion of historical fact. He later became a commentator on contemporary politics, a book author, and a columnist for FindLaw's Writ. (Following Coxs firing, a dozen plus bills calling for Nixons impeachment or creating a special prosecutor were filed in the House. They don't know if they're a part of a conspiracy that might unfold. If it was a county sheriff they wouldnt [stay], Dean said. Since we began, we have presented over 150 programs throughout the United States, reaching somewhere between 45,000 to 50,000 attorneys. 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. VS. HALDEMAN, 559 F.2D 31 (D.C. CIR. 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. Well, John Dean has a new book. Mueller refutes the dubious contention that when the president exercises his Constitutional powers, he is not subject to federal criminal laws. He's penned five books about Watergate and 10 books in total; including his most recent tome, Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and his Followers. A Woman's View of Watergate, which came out in 1975, and I will highlight a few moments. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. 62-77): President Trump called Director Comey multiple times, against the advice of Don McGahn, to have him confirm that he, Trump, was not personally under investigation. [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. When Dean read that testimony in the summer of 1973 in front of a massive TV audience, he became the face of the Watergate conspiracy for most of America, according to Garrett Graff, author of Watergate: A New History.. The Watergate "master manipulator" said the former president is in trouble after the latest revelations. At first, he shredded incriminating files. 74-CCC-7004)", Doing Legal, Political, and Historical Research on the Internet: Using Blog Forums, Open Source Dictionaries, and More, "John Dean's Role at Issue in Nixon Tapes Feud", "Watergate's lasting legacy is to legal ethics reform, says John Dean", "John Dean helped bring down Richard Nixon. I havent and maybe Im not creative enough, Dean said. [citation needed], Dean continued to provide information to the prosecutors, who were able to make enormous progress on the cover-up, which until then they had virtually ignored, concentrating on the actual burglary and events preceding it. I learned this fact from Robert Kutak, with whom I had a friendship from our days when we worked as staffers for Congress. II, P. The burglars' first break-in attempt in late May was successful, but several problems had arisen with poor-quality information from their bugs, and they wanted to photograph more documents. WATERGATE: In 1972, the underlying crime was a bungled break-in, illicit photographing of private documents and an attempt to bug the telephones and offices of the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, with plans to do likewise that same night with Nixons most likely Democratic opponent Senator George McGovern, which because of the arrests of five men at the Watergate, did not happen. In Starz's new Gaslit, premiering Sunday, central Watergate figure John Dean is played by Dan Stevens. Senator Barry Goldwater, in part as an act of fealty to the man who defined his political ideals. Traduo Context Corretor Sinnimos Conjugao. June 27, 2022 05:36 PM. 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. John Dean's testimony this week before the House Judiciary Committee squarely placed the Mueller report's findings in the historical context of Watergate. This small piece of testimony, of course, became highly significant for it led to the discovery of the secret White House taping system. While Nixon had a dangerous lust for power, Dean still believes the 37th president and the only one to ever resign still compares favorably to Trump. Tradues em contexto de "Dean is finished" en ingls-portugus da Reverso Context : Lili, see if Miss Dean is finished dressing. Gjon Mili . And by early February 1974, this Committee formally commenced impeachment proceedings.) 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. 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. His first memoir, Blind Ambition, was turned into a TV movie in 1979. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1965. Michael and John dig deep into Watergate, January 6th, and DOJ. PRESIDENT: Right. Search by keyword or individual, or browse all episodes by clicking Explore the Collection below the search box. Don McGahn represented the Office of the Presidency, not Donald Trump personally. The turning point came with the testimony of former White House counsel John Dean, whose weeklong account of Nixon's . Weekend Edition revisits audio from Dean's testimony. Dean is known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal and his subsequent testimony to Congress as a witness. (Mitchell would not admit this fact, even privately, for almost a year.) Chairman Nadler, Ranking Member Collins, the last time I appeared before your committee was . 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. Were friends. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1965. John Dean, who served as White House counsel to President Richard Nixon and played a key role in the Watergate hearings in the 1970s, compared the findings in the Mueller report to Watergate . 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 was the first administration official to accuse Nixon of direct involvement with Watergate and the resulting cover-up in press interviews. . MCGAHNS DILEMMA TESTIFYING BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE. Mr. McGahn is the most prominent fact witness regarding obstruction of justice cited in the Mueller Report. Yet events in both 1972 and 2016 resulted in obstruction of the investigations. He had only a limited attorney-client privilege when interacting with the President and advisors and the privilege belongs to the Office in any event. 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. 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. In 1973, John Dean was the star witness in the Watergate hearings. John W. Dean on the second day of testimony in front of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973. April 6, 1973: White House counsel John Dean begins cooperating with federal Watergate prosecutors. John Dean. He admitted supervising payments of "hush money" to the Watergate burglars, notably E. Howard Hunt, and revealed the existence of Nixon's enemies list. 24-48): When President Trump learned that his National Security Advisor Michael Flynn lied to the FBI and others about his telephone conversations with the Russian Ambassador to the United States regarding U. S. sanctions imposed because of Russias election interference, he met with FBI Director James Comey at a private White House dinner and asked for Comeys loyalty. ART. John Deans statement to the House Judiciary Committee on June 10, 2019, as prepared for delivery. Dean is now the last man standing from that era, He is the last connection between this nation's authoritarian past and present. A former key witness in the Watergate investigation that brought down President Richard Nixon says indictments are on their way to Donald Trump. Now, 40 years later, then some, Dean will return to Capitol Hill to testify before a different Congress about a different president. Nixon vigorously denied all accusations that he had authorized a cover-up, and Dean had no corroboration beyond various notes he had taken in his meetings with the president. In White House Plumbers, an upcoming HBO limited series, Dean is portrayed by Domhnall Gleeson. 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. What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? Coupled with his sense of distance from Nixon's inner circle, the "Berlin Wall" of advisors Haldeman and Ehrlichman, Dean sensed he was going to become the Watergate scapegoat and returned to Washington without completing his report. 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. Was he hard-nosed and tough? Weekend Edition revisits audio from Dean's testimony. "A concern . They don't know what their jeopardy is. Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? Stephen Battaglio writes about television and the media business for the Los Angeles Times out of New York. In this latest book, Dean, who has repeatedly called himself a "Goldwater conservative", built on Worse Than Watergate and Conservatives Without Conscience to argue that the Republican Party has gravely damaged all three branches of the federal government in the service of ideological rigidity and with no attention to the public interest or the general good. [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). He received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) Ehrlichman said, John, youll have better job offers after Nixon gets reelected. Yeah, making license plates.. WATERGATE: I am aware of no evidence that Nixon was involved with or had advance knowledge of the Watergate break-in and bugging, or the similar plans for Senator McGovern.