Watergate Hearings: John Dean on Prostitutes, Muggings, and Kidnappings (1973)

June 25, 1973 - John Dean testifies about his reactions to G. Gordon Liddy's plans of campaign espionage to combat political opponents. Watch more from the hearings: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/09/united-states-senate-watergate-he...

After graduation, Dean joined a law firm in Washington, D.C.. Having gone to prep school with the son of Barry Goldwater, he was a close friend of the senator and his family. Dean was subsequently employed as the chief minority counsel to the Republican members of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary. A National Commission on the Reform of Federal Criminal Law was created in 1967: Dean was appointed its associate director.

Dean 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. In July, 1970 became counsel to the president, after the previous holder of this post John Ehrlichman became the president's chief domestic adviser.

Dean pled guilty to obstruction of justice before Watergate trial judge John Sirica on November 30, 1973. He admitted supervising payments of "hush money" to the Watergate burglars, notably E. Howard Hunt, and revealed the existence of Nixon's enemies list. On August 2, 1974, Sirica handed down a sentence of one to four years in a minimum-security prison. However, when Dean surrendered himself as scheduled on September 3, he was diverted to the custody of U.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. 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. 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. With his conviction for felony offenses, Dean was disbarred as a lawyer, so could no longer practice law.

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[unclejeffj]

Dean's testimony and later, his books, were self-serving, and his efforts at "coming clean" were without sincerity ~ Dean was trying to save his own reputation and reduce any potential prison time.

[mynameisjim93]

Dean is a total scumbag. He ran circles around everyone -- including the President -- and tricked Haldeman, which led to the smoking gun tape. He sent men to scope out the Watergate building in November 1971, before anyone thought about breaking in. You know why? It was his idea to break in. And he ordered the cover up. Nixon became tangled in Dean's web of lies.

[Tsnore]

G Gordon Liddy - Mr. Talk Radio phonics works guy openly stated that he wanted to take a bullet for his master.

[Deckerd724]

I see why Liddy hates John Dean to this day. Because Dean saw him for the fanatical super-secret-squirrel wannabe that he really was. Dean was also much more intelligent than Liddy, but he refused to play along with Liddy's hair brained ideas. When a control freak like Liddy meets someone he can't control, they don't like it. This I know from personal experience.

[loyaldude10]

Liddy was an absolute thug. Nixon knew he was nuts; you can put most of the blame for the episode on him, for using someone (McCord) in burglary who had ties to the Committe to Re-elect the Pres. They were doomed from then on. Too bad they didnt clip his wings. Almost seems as if they were a little afraid of Liddy