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President Richard Nixon’s firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox on October 20, 1973, set off a chain of political and legal events that left his presidency hanging in the bala…

John Dean taught a class about Watergate and the discovery of the Nixon White House taping system. In June 1973, during testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee, Mr. Dean implicated P…

John Dean, White House counsel for President Richard Nixon, and Bob Altemeyer, retired psychology professor, looked at the psychological makeup of authoritarian leaders and the Trump preside…

Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean as well as former U.S. attorneys and legal experts testified about lessons learned from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interfer…

Legal experts, professors, and former law clerks testified on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Cour. Notable witnesses included a student survivor of the Parkland, Florida, …

On the 45th Anniversary of the Watergate break-in, White House General Counsel John Dean discussed his experiences in the months following the break-in. This program is available as a C-SPA…

Panelists talked about Donald Trump’s presidency and how it compares to previous administrations, including Richard Nixon’s. Panelists included former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, fo…

John Dean talked about the effects of the Watergate break-in scandal and why he agreed to cooperate with federal investigators. He became counsel to the president in July 1970 after John Ehr…

John Dean talked about the Watergate scandal, some of his early assignments as counsel to the president, how the idea for the Watergate break in came to be, and who was involved in the plann…

John Dean talked about his book, The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It. He also responded to viewer telephone calls and comments. He was interviewed at the 2014 Miami Book F…

John Dean, author of The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It, and Rick Perlstein, author of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, talked about their boo…

John Dean, author of The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It, and Douglas Brinkley and Luke Nichter, co-authors of The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972, talked about their books. They s…

John Dean talked about his book, The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It, in which he looks at the Watergate scandal through the lens of audio recordings of President NIxon. He s…

William Ruckelshaus, Bob Woodward, Jill Wine-Banks and others spoke at an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Saturday Night Massacre, when President Nixon fired Watergate Specia…

This is the first of three panel discussions about Watergate and its legacy with many key players, including White House officials and the reporters who first broke the story. It begins with…

June 17th marks the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in that ultimately resulted in President Nixon’s resignation. John Dean - former White House Counsel to President Nixon and a key …

This is a panel discussion on President Nixon’s secret White House tapes and the historical significance of the Watergate scandal. A former Nixon White House aide and Senate Watergate Commit…

John Dean and Barry Goldwater, Jr., talked about their book Pure Goldwater, published by Palgrave Macmillan. They edited the private journal kept for over fifty years by 1964 Republican pres…

A panel discussion was held about the U.S. Constitution and changes in its wording, interpretation, and implementation over the years. Topics included changes in the courts and the implicati…

John Dean, former White House counsel to the Nixon administration from 1970 to 1973, spoke with students about the Nixon presidency and Watergate, his role in the Watergate scandal, and his …