This was after the Nixon-Frost interviews, which were in 1977, not 1976 as stated.
@martm216
4 жыл бұрын
I became a fan of John Dean's after I read the autobiography they mention here, 'Blind Ambition'. (I believe there is now an updated version.) Everyone will have their own views and opinions about John Dean, the same as we all do about different people in the public arena, but he seems to me a pretty decent straight-up kind of guy. And there seems little doubt that having been handed the job of coordinating the cover-up, at which he did an excellent job keeping the lid on Watergate enough to see Nixon through the 1972 election, when things eventually started come apart in '73 because of the hush-money demands, Nixon and his top aides wanted to hang Dean out to dry as 'Mr Watergate' and take the rap on his own. In a way I guess it might have been easier to do this, and take whatever prison sentence the courts handed down, rather than pretty much singlehandedly taken on the power of the President. That he chose to the latter says much for his courage. I can recommend 'Blind Ambition' to anyone who has not read the book.
@NGC6144
3 жыл бұрын
As it turns out Dean didn't write his book "Blind Ambition" and admitted that parts were made up by the ghost writer Taylor Branch. The job of the cover-up didn't just fall on him. Dean is the one who put together the campaign intelligence operation on Haldeman's direction from the Committee to Reelect the President that ultimately pulled off the Watergate break in. He hired Liddy. I'm not going to bring up whacky conspiracy theories here but, Dean was naturally in a vulnerable position. Days after the burglars were caught Dean had Howard Hunt's White House safe opened up. Hunt had documents of his clandestine activities including the "Plumbers" activities. Dean destroyed documents and gave other materials to the director of the FBI telling him this should never see the light of day. I think he was trying plying hardball from day one, sending a message to Hunt and Liddy not to talk or this other powerful third party has further damning information on you guys. Dean used this information, the "White House Horrors" to finally get immunity after his initial attempt was rejected. Dean wrote in a memo to Nixon, "...how we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.” Dean was as unscrupulous as everyone else.
@rathertiredofthemess2841
Жыл бұрын
@@NGC6144I think a man who can type out 60,000 pages of testimony…can write his own book.
@thomaspuhringer8332
Жыл бұрын
He lied as much - if not more - as Ehrlichman, Haldeman etc.
@rathertiredofthemess2841
Жыл бұрын
@@thomaspuhringer8332 but he was first To come forth with the truth.
@marquiswallace9957
5 жыл бұрын
Dean’s mind was sharp as a tack love him or hate him. And he may have been the smartest man in the room as to intellect at the time he was with the White House staff. Sad that the interviewer was pressed for time for a short segment like this. He could have taken his time to have good solid intellectual discussion. Dean had to continually redirect the narrative and keep it in track.
@rathertiredofthemess2841
Жыл бұрын
Can’t speak to his intellect…or he would not have done what he did. Sloan quit before he did anything dishonest.
@thomaspick4123
Жыл бұрын
Dean is conducting this interview like a court case. As a lawyer, he is trying to score point by point in this interview, like he was in a court room. I do not like John Dean. Nobody respects him. In an interview years later, Nixon expressed Dean was out to save his butt. Even Nixon fell on the sword, not challenging the 1960 election, accepted his governor race loss, many other times in his life, Nixon kept a stiff upper lip.
@PacoOtis
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video! This interviewer is a real "motor mouth" as we used to call them! Slow down Dude, you have a bus to catch! LOL
@charleswinokoor6023
2 жыл бұрын
“Nixon’s weird tapes.” Ain’t that the truth. Excellent introduction.
@Bob-q5s
7 ай бұрын
What a truly sad chapter in US politics, but a story that should be known by every citizen. It's significance has grown in importance in light of the recent political crimes of the maga cult's leader
@rshelton760
2 жыл бұрын
This reporter is also very condescending.
@shikat2371
4 жыл бұрын
The Nixon White House was something else. No other administration was like this. Nixon's first vice president had to leave the Vice Presidency because of a scandal unrelated to Watergate. John Mitchell went to jail, the first US Attorney General ever to do so; Nixon's top aides Bob Haldeman, John Ehrlichman also went to jail; Nixon's special counsel also served time. Some 40 people who served in the Nixon Administration went to jail. It was unique, to say the least.
@ericwilliams626
2 жыл бұрын
It was by design. It's not hard to believe when a group of people all agree, "Let's put all these people in jail and get Nixon to resign" What's hard to believe exactly?
@gnenian
Жыл бұрын
NEVER go to war with people with a war complex
@daisieb7547
Жыл бұрын
Back
@rshelton760
2 жыл бұрын
This is a “reporter” ahead of his time. He didn’t want to listen. He just had “Facts” he wanted out there. The first of the false news.
@Retroscoop
4 жыл бұрын
What happened to the "III" along the way ? :) I don't think Dean is a "rat", he wasn't a "hero" either. I guess people get swallowed up by the group pressure. He did wrong things, but to put things into perspective, he didn't kill or torture someone, he didn't send people to a certain death etc etc. He managed to "get away" with a very light sentence, of course he ended up with a serious bill for his top lawyer, but it's understandable he choose that path, since Haldeman & Co. were clearly out to "deepsix" him, to stick to Watergate lingo.
@MRVISTA-wz7vj
2 жыл бұрын
sorry but I couldn't tolerate this interviewer. just 2 obnoxious for my taste.
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