Wasn’t the true reason that the Watergate breakin occurred was that John Dean wanted to remove comprimising information about his wife’s activities as the Heidi Fleiss of Washington? I vaguely remember Gordon Liddy going ballistic about this when it was finally revealed in the early ‘90s.
I have heard the same thing. The explanation made a lot of sense regarding John Dean’s behavior during and after the Watergate trial. He was such a weak and compromised man. It makes me wonder if there wasn’t more to his story than just trying to protect his wife. I think that he probably had some other aspects of his own life that he didn’t want made public.
“Wasn’t the true reason that the Watergate breakin occurred was that John Dean wanted to remove comprimising information about his wife’s activities as the Heidi Fleiss of Washington?”
That’s the speculation. Certainly, the break-in didn’t have much of an upside for Nixon. As I heard someone once say, if he was looking for dirt to help him in the election, it would have been like the Yankees spying on some little league team with whom they were about to play an exhibition.