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? Wouldn't Dean have wanted to keep her at home and out of the spotlight? Even if a lawyer urged him to use her to get sympathy, Dean would have been clever enough, or scared enough, not to run the risk of people finding out the real story.
And if the Deans have been living a lie all these years, wouldn't it have put a strain on their marriage? John Dean was quick enough to dump his first wife (as Mo dumped her first husband) . Was he really going to stick around with an ex-prostitute?
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? So far as I know, Liddy never said that Maureen Dean had been a prostitute. That may have been his way of legally protecting himself or it may have been his way of admitting that he had no knowledge of that himself. The supposed evidence for that is very shaky, yet Internet trolls quickly jump to that conclusion.
I don't know what the real story was. The burglars could have been looking for any number of things or for nothing in particular. But this "Silent Coup" story has far too much speculation and too many assumptions for it to be taken for the truth.
“Dean’s wife, Maureen Biner Dean, had been a roommate and close friend of a woman who headed a ring of Washington, D.C., prostitutes. That information was locked inside the DNC office.”
“Dean and [prostitute madam] Rikan knew each other well as attested by Rikan’s black book which contained Dean’s direct White House number.
“The target of the break in was Ida “Maxie” Wells’ desk, the secretary to Spencer Oliver, Jr. Wells was the front woman for Rikan’s prostitution service for which Wells arranged hook-ups for out of town visitors.”
“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.