“If she’d been a call girl, surely something about that would have come out during Watergate.”
Who do you think would have been eager to reveal that? Her clients? The DNC office arranging the “dates”? The same Washington press corp had covered up JFK and LBJ’s philandering?
Call girls aren’t exactly rare in Washington DC. And unless Mo Biner was arrested during the break-in it wouldn’t have interested the investigators.
“And really, if she was a high-end prostitute and Watergate was all about her, what was she doing sitting there through all the hearings? “
She was John Dean’s wife. He married her four months after the break-in.
“Dean would have been clever enough, or scared enough, not to run the risk of people finding out the real story.”
How exactly would Mo Dean attending the hearings be a risk? She wasn’t testifying, John was.
“And if the Deans have been living a lie all these years, wouldn’t it have put a strain on their marriage? “
Why? Even Mafia families have long marriages. Dean was convicted of a felony. I don’t think lying upsets him. And Mo knew he was shady when she married him.
” Was he really going to stick around with an ex-prostitute?”
He would have been well aware of her past when he married her.
“If Liddy didn’t know what Watergate was really about before hearing about the book - if he’d been utterly clueless for twenty years - what does that say for his knowledge and his judgment? “
It means that Liddy believed Dean when Dean told him that Nixon had ordered the burglary.
“So far as I know, Liddy never said that Maureen Dean had been a prostitute. “
Liddy wouldn’t have known anything about Mo Biner at the time of the burglary. Do you think that Dean would have told the burglars information that there was no need for them to know?
“But this “Silent Coup” story has far too much speculation and too many assumptions for it to be taken for the truth.”
It seems to me that you have a limited knowledge of what’s in the book.
Somebody would recognize her and spread the story. Also, if Watergate really was all about her, Dean would be made more nervous, rather than reassured, by having her there.
He would have been well aware of her past when he married her.
Actually, that "call girl" thing isn't what the original theory was. It's how the Internet has embellished it.
It means that Liddy believed Dean when Dean told him that Nixon had ordered the burglary.
That's questionable. Any president wants plausible deniablity.
But if Liddy he had to read a book to find out that Nixon didn't order the surveillance he's probably not an expert on what was going on.
It seems to me that you have a limited knowledge of what’s in the book.
It's long on speculation and short on actual evidence. But people don't see that when they really want to accept a theory.