John W. Dean on How Watergate Happened

[@DougGrinbergs]

1:40 White House blockaded by buses - I've been wonder why police didn't do something like this at the Capitol on January 6th

[@pinehawk9600]

Johnson had same buses... And Jan 6th was planned by the feds

[@jake105]

@@pinehawk9600 - Ha! What a bunch of boobs. Buses were put around the White House because there were non-stop demonstrations going on since 1968. Protesting against the Vietnam War. Read a little history

[@chuckcolson]

getting john dean to talk about watergate is like asking the boston strangler about the decline of chivalry

[@charleswinokoor6023]

I would think that nearly every capitol in every country is similarly isolated.

[@peterrusso6062]

Watergate was the power of the presidency at its zenith. Yet, after Nixon down fall Congress reasserted their authority in Domestic and Foreign policy. Also, the War Powers Act of 1973 and the Budget reform Act of 1974. Vietnam ended in 1975 when all troops came home and the government crumbled in South Vietnam was overrun by North Vietnam

[@riff2072]

Informant.

[@deanbritt9131]

Why does Geoff Shepard hate this guy so much ?

[@poopooman38111]

Never heard that one. Do you have any books or articles I can read to find out about this? I remember in her autobiography "Mo" his wife said she roomed with Heidi, who was a D.C. madam.

[@cosmicmariner6621]

Len Colodny "Silent Coup" Phil Stanford "White House Call Girl" Dean sued "Silent Coup" but went for the settlement instead -coward. Dean threatened to sue Phil Stanford when he found out about it, However the book is so precise and damning that Dean did not follow through. It has what Len Colodny did not -proof that Dean's wife roomed with a known prostitute the FBI was investigating.

[@carlcoppolino5283]

@@cosmicmariner6621 If you look up Mo Deans autobiography "Mo" she talks about her best friend she roomed with for a summer named Heidi and Heidi was a bridesmaid at Deans' wedding. Heidi Reiken was the madam of that prostitution ring.

[@drattler1946]

Political Intelligence Self Serving ALL AT THE TAXPAYERS EXPENSE

[@greggibbons1113]

John Dean should have done 10 years as he was a crooked lawyer and knew the facts of legal life

[@1999glock]

Truth be told, JOHN DEAN is the reason Watergate happened.

[@dochollowood5763]

Thank you, glad to see there are others out there that aren't blind idiot sheep. You are absolutely correct and the Nixon tapes absolutely prove it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWSzh3yiiZt0qNU God I'm so pissed off skum like this gets away with it and are lofted to worshipped shitbags of the stupid as fuck demonrat party. In this tape he pretends he "heard about the breakin while overseas", in the link I just gave, he describes for the completely innocent and totally unknowing Nixon up to that point of John Dean's confession to him, how he, John Dean, set it all up, directed it, put all the pieces in place, and okayed the entire mission to go ahead, ALL WITHOUT ONE SINGLE BIT OF KNOWLEDGE OR INPUT FROM PRESIDENT NIXON. This shit is so infuriating.

[@1999glock]

Doc, as a 16 year old in high school, our history teacher decided that the ENTIRE history class for the semester was sitting us down in front of a monitor and watching the Watergate hearings. He told us that what we were watching was historic, has never and probably will never happen again. What fascinated me as a kid was Watergate was impossible to understand in it's entirety. As a result and as a "knowledge whore", I studied Watergate for years and years. Or as John Erlichmann stated a few years before his death " To this day I don't fully understand Watergate. How it started, who all was involved, who knew what. I knew what I knew, but that was only a tiny fraction. I suppose it would take about 12 people honestly answering about 50 questions before we get to the bottom of Watergate. I know one thing, John Dean knows a lot more than he telling. Problem is John Dean will never tell the truth so long as he can write books and make money". Nearly 50 years later I still have dozens of questions I would like the answers to.

[@1999glock]

As a follow up to my long winded "reply", what is important to know is that Watergate (and I include all facets collectively known as Watergate) was highly compartmentalized. Partly by design and partly because involved persons were either trying to protect the president or protect themselves very early on. Fact of the matter is IMHO that the underlying "crimes" of Watergate were a parking ticket compared to what we see today in Washington.

[@whatacrazyride1658]

Truth be told, John Dean surely is part of the reason, but an overzealous "deep state", especially Mark Felt, trying to take down a sitting president, were all a part of this disaster, but let us not forget the insanity that was the Pentagon Papers. Why are these 'retired' CIA " assets" breaking into so many places yet not getting anything useful? Where is the smoking gun that says Nixon even knew about these crazy plots made by the participants of such successful missions as The Bay Of Pigs Invasion. Why did Nixon win such a landslide election, even after Watergate was weaponized as an early October surprise? Does it sound like he needed such desperate measures to try to win as to order two burglaries at the Democrats Headquarters? Maybe, it was Nixon himself who shot Wallace to assure the racist southern vote? I'm guessing that Robert McNamara has his hands unclean in leaving the ULTRA Top Secret Pentagon Papers, with only a few copies printed of over 7000 pages in a spot where Daniel Elsberg had access to it for as Mich time as it takes to make several copies of it at the RAND Corp. It all seems so fishy to me, but what do I know? I wasn't even born, until a little after Nixon took the oath of office for the second time. What I can say is, that the similarities in a Republican President being impeached while trying to end the US's longest running war at the time, coupled with the security state's head honchos taking to the airwaves to lambaste their boss, sure sounds like something I have seen in my lifetime..... Yes. Dean had a big part in the 'blame', and I'll be damned if he isn't in this video speaking at the Nixon Library???? I guess the deep state actually goes so far as to corrupt the National Archives as well. Jeeze. I think a lot of people would be shocked to watch a number of things from the Watergate era, with "fresh eyes" that include the knowledge of Mark Felt being Deep Throat, including, Nixon's final state of the union, his speech to his whitehouse staff saying farewell, as well as looking into the connections with the Pentagon Papers, The Cubans from the Bay Of Pigs and of course, John Dean's hearings. Seeing these things again and looking into the Washington Post's role sure looks familiar to something much closer to home.....

[@andrewl.orszulak3561]

Richard Nixon deserves respect On some of his triumphs as a political master On the world stage during that time period. But also remember Watergate is part of Richard Nixon's Presidential legacy. Blaming John Dean is ridiculous. Dean paid the price by going to jail. Richard Nixon pay the price by resigning.

[@annguyendoan7189]

Ong tt bush chiu ho so theo my , ong khiem chiu ho so theo cach mang

[@Hanover-ek4jy]

Now he wants to rewrite history!

[@shelbycox6332]

Yes he is crap

[@vondoobie420]

Deans wife was one of Jack Ruby's girls....

[@eddrane4064]

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[@CaptainJimmybrown99]

I thought she was a flight attendant?