John Dean

And, I mean, and I basically agree with the thesis presented.

Um, that's the book that famously suggested that John Dean, White House counsel, among other things, his, his, his mistress was, uh, this, uh, formerly like this, this, uh, kind of high-end call girl who'd become a madam.

And documents to that effect, you know, her client list and things were supposedly was the object that the White House plumbers were supposed to procure from the Watergate Hotel.

That may in fact be true.

And Alexander Haig apparently confided in him quite a bit, which kind of came with the role because, again, Haig became White House Chief of Staff following the re-resignation of Haldeman.

Um, he confided to Buzhardt that his role at the White House would be temporary and so he retained his title at the Department of Defense.

Um, so essentially, essentially saying like, "I'm just a placeholder, and one of the reasons I'm here is because," you know, um, the way I interpreted it at least, "One of the reasons I'm here is because, you know, I obviously f- you know, my top priority is, is guaranteeing, um, is guaranteeing, you know, security and, and the s- and, and the integrity of state secrets." Um, the first task of, uh, his first task as special counsel, Buzhardt's, was to investigate former White House Counsel, John Dean.

Um, Dean was believed to possess classified documents.

Um, but so Heidi Rikan was the madam of it.

But then what you also find out is that the guy who really stuck the knife in Nixon was his White House counsel, a guy named John Dean.

Mm-hmm.

Well, John Dean goes to Washington, DC.

He's in the middle of a divorce, and he starts, uh, dating this woman named Maureen Kane.

Mm-hmm.

What happened in the case of Nixon? 40 people went to jail.

Not only did John Dean turn on Nixon, but most of Nixon's other aides, Haldeman and, and Ehrlichman, in books later after they served their time in jail, said, "The president conspired with us to break the law." And then we have the seasonal, uh, uh, tapes that come out of the Nixon Library.

At, at the Washington Post, we referred to, to those as the gift that keeps giving.

[laughs] Well.

Thank you.

Another blast from the past is former counsel to John Dean working in the Nixon administration, Jeff Shepard, who is calling on the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into DOJ misconduct in investigating the Watergate.

So talk about relitigating something from 54 years ago.

That's been

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Haldeman was convicted of obstruction, perjury, and conspiracy among roughly 69 people charged for their participation in the criminal enterprise around Richard Nixon, what former White House counsel John Dean called a cancer on the presidency.

And Haldeman himself said in his memoir that Nixon initiated the Watergate break-in and was part of the cover-up from the start.

And look, maybe Nixon and Haldeman were fucking in those missing 18.5 minutes.

And there is no evidence that he approved the Watergate break-in.

In fact, his associate, longtime associate, Fred LaRue, who was charged with Mitchell and also did time, insisted that Mitchell had and had been at the crucial meetings with John Dean, the Watergate weasel, that John Mitchell had never approved the Watergate

break-in.

If you think about it, Nixon was leading in 49 states and heading towards the biggest landslide in American history.

but he's completely and totally wrong about John Mitchell, and for that matter, Richard Nixon.

The Watergate Special Prosecution Force proved that much of the evidence that was used to come after John Mitchell, Nixon's Attorney General, turned out to be entirely fabricated.

In a February 6, 1974 memorandum, Watergate Special Prosecutor Peter Reant identified 20 individual instances where the so-called whistleblower John Dean, who was pointing the fingers at Mitchell and Nixon's testimony before the Senate, completely diverged from his testimony.

his questioning by the FBI and by the federal prosecutors.

There were people in the, definitely in the Nixon, uh, regime that, that definitely, I mean, you know, some of them had to go to jail and-

I wish we had John Dean to see what he thinks about what's going on.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know that John's doing so much media anymore, but I mean, look, the, or y- y- the, the fact of the matter is I saw, um, a clip last night of, uh, Jill Wine-Banks, uh, on with Ali Velshi, and, uh, and that, and that's-