Huge best seller in the '90's, Silent Coup. The Dean angle was that he had , as White House Counsel, pushed his way into the WH containment strategy and had in fact intensified the illegality and/ or impropriety of actions taken in the cover-up in order to protect Maureen from her call-girl past becoming known ( his own private agenda dictated his actions beyond "protecting Nixon"). Supposedly, the lower level guys who broke into the DNC were going to DNC chairaman Larry O'Brien's desk to get a list of callgirls he kept there for visiting Dem VIP's. But the conspiracy outlined went far beyond that, including especially Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Thomas Moorer, Bob Woodward as a lower level operative, the Kennedy assassination, etc. It fingered L. Patrck Gray as likely Deep Throat. Dean did se the author, the link is found in one of my previous posts.
I've heard of Silent Coup but never read it or the Cliff Notes version, and this is the first I've heard of a call-girl angle. So far as I'd ever heard, the break-in was all about installing phone bugs and getting lowdown on O'Brien as DNC Chairman and a former Camelot staffer and likely Ted Kennedy contact and operative. The whole caper was about what O'Brien might be doing, contingently, in the near future to help Teddy grab the nomination at the convention and challenge Nixon.
I don't think, in retrospect, that Nixon realized that the entire Democratic Party had just been overreached in a Gramscian putsch by Progs whose orientation was, to put it bluntly, neo-Stalinist. McGovern's candidacy should have been the clue.
The guess about the identity of Deep Throat was certainly wrong: we know now it was Mark Felt. Therefore others of the book's themes may likewise be speculative. One can hope that, with Nixon and other principals now dead, various deathbed memoirs may appear, and a recension written to correct the Watergate record, which Silent Coup appears, like Back Door to War in the 1940's (about Pearl Harbor), to have been a first attempt to do.
Maybe Mo Dean can help us out here. Suggested working title: My Last Booty Call.