John Dean is not one of my favorite people to put it mildly. He would sell his soul to save his hide.
One of the best non-fiction books I ever read in my life was ‘Silent Coup’.
I am looking forward to this book.
Watergate timeline:
"1964: U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War officially begins.
Daniel Ellsberg begins work at The Pentagon.
Ellsberg acquires the Pentagon Papers.
Ellsberg gives copies to Neil Sheehan.
June 13, 1971: The New York Times begins to publish them.
The Washington Post soon follows. Richard Nixon reacts with outrage."
My theory is that it had something to with Dean’s wife, who before they got married was rooming with a hooker who may or may not have been one of the hookers the Dems were running to reward donors and political allies.
What kind of woman rooms with a hooker?
Who freakin’ cares?
G. Gordon Liddy has been claiming this for years.
The first book that fingered Dean.
Date: 7/6/1992
At the time, Mitchell admitted that he, along with White House counsel John Dean and CRP deputy head Jeb Magruder, listened to various illegal schemes G. Gordon Liddy proposed without doing much to derail them. But Mitchell denied that he had ever given any positive authorization for the break-ins. He also denied that he tried to spring burglar James McCord from jail, by all accounts the very first act in the cover-up.
Mitchell’s denials fell on deaf ears. But now, as Watergate aficionados start their twentieth-anniversary celebration, a new trial lumbers toward its day in court, reopening the questions that have haunted historians for two decades: Who ordered the Watergate burglaries, and why?
Historian Stanley Kutler asked Mitchell nine months before his death, ‘What would you want to see, if there were an account of Watergate, that hasn’t been said?”
MITCHELL: I don’t know how you are going to get at it, but I would like to know how the whole damned thing started.
KUTLER: You are talking about the break-in?
MITCHELL: Yes . . . That to me has been a question all along. Who in the hell did start this thing, and how did it get moving and rolling to the point it did?
Last year, St. Martin’s Press published a book that claimed to have the answers to John Mitchell’s questions. Silent Coup appeared after seven years of research by political consultant and businessman Len Colodny and Newhouse reporter Robert Gettlin. Silent Coup offers new spins on every plot twist in the scandal. To attempt such sweeping revisionism, Colodny and Gettlin tape-recorded 160 interviews (all but ten on the record), and pored over tape transcripts, court transcripts, memoranda, evidentiary exhibits, raw FBI reports, complete Oval Office logs, memoirs, and on and on.
Silent Coup attributes to Dean and Magruder many acts that these two men in court and elsewhere—had attributed to John Mitchell. G. Gordon Liddy, heretofore recognized as the “mastermind” of the break-ins, was, we are told, a dupe, unaware of even the true target of the missions. Instead, the book claims that the break-ins were undertaken at the behest of John Dean, who allegedly sought to retrieve evidence linking his attractive soon-tobe wife Maureen to a Washington callgirl outfit.
How amazing given that Dean has long been the darling of the liberal MSM (and had turned on all the REPUBS he could).
Dean turned on his fellow conspirators in exchange for leniency. He was a key player in the break-in, and his protestations are laughable and pathetic.
He is, after all, a lawyer who took large amounts of cash to the Watergate defendants to buy their silence.
Dean had a prostitute girl friend
the ring she was affiliated with had someone sitting at a desk in the DNC
Dean personally got this confirmed from friends in the FBI
he wanted them to get the address book (containing his name and number) from the desk of his girlfriend’s contact then working as a ‘secretary’ in the DNC
his FBI friends didn’t want to ‘break in’
Dean found another way
he was then and remains one of the most self-serving rogues in American political history
So now there may be some truth to the "Silent Coup" argument after all!
Dean chronicled his White House experiences, with a focus on Watergate, in the memoirs Blind Ambition and Lost Honor. Blind Ambition would become the point of controversy many years after its publication.Says something about Olbermann, more or less.In 1992, he hired famed attorney Neil Papiano and brought the first in a series of defamation suits against G. Gordon Liddy for claims in his book Will and St. Martin's Press for its publication of the book Silent Coup by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin. Silent Coup alleged that Dean was the mastermind of the Watergate burglaries, and the true target of the burglaries was to seize information implicating Dean and Maureen Biner (his then-fiancée) in a prostitution ring. After hearing of Colodny's work, Liddy issued a revised paperback version of Will supporting Colodny's theory. This theory was subsequently the subject of an A&E Network Investigative Reports series program entitled The Key to Watergate in 1992. Liddy's defense team focused on allegations that Blind Ambition was ghost written by Taylor Branch, a charge that Dean denies to this day.
In the preface to his 2006 book, Conservatives Without Conscience, Dean strongly denied Colodny's theory, pointing out that the Colodny's chief source (Phillip Mackin Bailley) had been in and out of mental institutions. Dean settled the defamation suit against Colodny and his publisher, St. Martin's Press, on terms which Dean stated in the book's preface he could not divulge under the terms of the settlement, other than stating that "the Deans were satisfied." In the footnote to this portion of the preface, Dean stated that the federal judge handling the case forced a settlement with Liddy.
... Dean frequently serves as a guest on the MSNBC show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann ...
In 1991, Silent Coup was published (Colodny and Getlin, St. Martin's Press). It exposed the Washington Post/Woodward/Bernstein version of Watergate as deeply flawed. Sixty Minutes was to feature the book, but canceled the segment at the request of their buddies over at the Post.
Silent Coup laid out the facts showing that John Dean was a sniveling, ambitious, corrupt little worm who was eager to exploit the paranoia of the Nixon Administration by using his position as White House Counsel to become a conduit for secret intelligence and dirty tricks to curry favor with the higher-ups. When the deal blew up in his face, he was able to adroitly convince Halderman /Erlichman that John Mitchell was the one pushing the scheme while allowing Mitchell to assume Halderman/Erlichman were behind the operation. He then secured a sweetheart deal from the prosecutors and the Dems by helping them nail Nixon. He has become a darling of the Left since then.
This new book will undoubtedly be discredited by the MSM as a right-wing hack job and will probably not be able to overcome such attacks simply because Watergate is now such ancient news, but it will be of great interest to those of us who have continued to be interested in how this story was played in the late 1970's, including how easy it was for John Dean to dupe the public with the help of very willing accomplices in the media.
didn’t GGL make this assertion a decade ago?...Mo Dean was on a call girl list in DNC HQ so Dean got the perfect patsy in attack dog (GGL) to do a black bag job...
Wasn’t there an earlier book suggesting the same thing? I believe it suggested Dean was concerned that his then girl friend had a room mate who was linked to a possible prostitution ring operating out of the Democrats headquarters.