Excerpt from John Dean Deposition

From Tom Clancy's "Eye of the Storm," in which Tom Clancy explores the motivation behind the Watergate burglary, interviewing John Ehrlichman, G. Gordon Liddy and others. For the first time, John Dean admits under oath that he kept crucial details of the burglary from Gordon Strachan and the White House!

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[nlpjohn]

John Dean is a certified liar. As a lawyer he had one client (Nixon) and he betrayed his one and only client. Liddy called him a liar, Dean sued and Dean got his ass kicked in court. Liddy trounced him and still calls him a liar... Dean has spent the rest of his life trying to reinvent himself. Now Dean has joined the Anti-Bush bandwagon as a tactic to gain positive attention to himself...

[Steelerjj08]

Dean was the president's lawyer and owed him the duty of loyalty, period.

[loyaldude10]

@Frozenhope --Dean was no saint. He was the central figure in coverup. He may be a decent guy today, but he was the first to rat on his client, Nixon, after the McCord letter to Judge Sirica.

[loyaldude10]

@nlpjohn ---well---they all lied and participated in coverup. Dean just ratted on everyone first, afrad if being scapegoat and deathly afraod of jail. Most of them have been remorseful, except Liddy. All of them wrote books 9except Mitchell) and went on to successful careers. Dean today is critical of Bush Jr and the right wing, radical Repub Party of today. 

[MarmaladeINFP]

@Frozenhope Neither you nor I can no the heart of another person. Anyway, I didn't say his motives were idealistic. A person can act morally in a particular situation whether or not they're motivated by idealism. Also, morality and idealism only have a loose connection. Some of the worst tyrants in history were 'idealistic'.

You seem to be claiming a lot of inside knowledge about what Dean was doing and why he was doing it. Were you a part of the Nixon administration?

[Frozenhope]

Still, Dean is something of a saint compared with Nixon, Liddy, Hunt and many others who were involved in the break-in and cover-up. Nixon was one of the most authoritarian, obsessive and dishonest presidents in American history; Liddy was the kind of shameless ideologue who should never hold power under any circumstances, and Hunt was a bottom-feeding conniver who blackmailed his superiors to get more money illegally funneled to him while in jail.

[Frozenhope]

@MarmaladeINFP @MarmaladeINFP I suppose Dean's "betrayal" was the best thing that could have happened for American politics, but it's hard to believe his motives were idealistic. Dean had been orchestrating Nixon's cover-up for months, and only jumped ship when he belived Nixon was going to make him a scapegoat for Watergate. (Which was very likely true, as the president used his name on national television, citing a report by Dean that his administration was clean. This report never existed.)

[trulysarcastic]

I'm always surprised that Liddy didn't take responsibility fro Watergate.Not that he was responsible but he's so loyal I'm surprised that he didn't

[cookieman38111]

What a weasel!

[bondurango]

It's clear who ordered the break-in. Dean saying no one in the WH had involvement is bullshit since you're involved if you're in the information loop. But Erlichman being precluded from Strachan's knowledge of the break-in doesn't make it exclusive to Dean. Strachan is not in Dean or Erlichman's chain of command. He's Haldeman's boy (one man away from Nixon) & liason to CREEP (Mitchell & Magruder) so what Dean knows about the break-in doesn't preclude Haldeman or Nixon from that knowledge.

[bondurango]

@nlpjohn

After only 8 hrs. of deliberation, the judge got a message from the jury that they couldn't reach a verdict so he declared a mistrial in Dean's libel suit against Liddy. Dean then sued Liddy's publisher and received a financial settlement. You call that an ass kicking? When it comes to certified liars, none of these guys are beyond reproach, especially, Liddy.