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First of all, John Dean is not dead. He doesn't even appear to be ill, certainly not seriously ill.

I saw him present at Arlington Towers in the Madison building in the early morning on three different days, in January 1973.

He had a large black valise. He entered the elevator to go UP as I got off.

None of that is terribly suspicious. On the other hand, on those very same days the "Cuban Defendants" were going to go to court to make pleas regarding their involvement in the Watergate scandal.

They were resident on the 7th floor.

Jack Anderson had his own agent hidden in the closet of the apartment where the "Cuban Defendants" met before going to court on each of those days. Although he couldn't hear everything, nor could he identify the voice, he was able to determine that money was offered, and paid.

Presumably we had the President's counsel paying a bribe to some of the folks involved so they'd cop a plea and let everybody else off the hook.

So, why should we then believe John Dean was "Deep Throat" based on this not-unexpected soft of involvement.

Well, there are three things ~ Woodward and Bernstein's book on the matter artfully failed to include ANYTHING AT ALL that happened in January 1973! If you can believe them, in the flurry of activity, public hearings, trials, scandal montering, investigations, and all that those things entail, where almost every single day is accounted for regarding these matters on the pages of the Washington Post, an entire month just flat out disappeared and nothing happened.

It's certainly a sign of someone's guilty conscience, or it's a coverup.

Then, there's John Dean himself. He started talking the next month, and by March he'd opened the floodgates.

Although there are a lot of other candidates, no one was more involved, said more about it, and got better protection for his actions than John Dean ~ that is, until he got to Allenwood and met his roommate!