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1) The Cancer of John Dean's Memory
"I did not relish the prospect of continuing to make a career out of Watergate ... my most employable asset ... But, when you’re near broke, it’s amazing how tastes can change." -- John Dean, Watergate co-conspirator, in "Lost Honor" (1982)
"I did not relish the prospect of continuing to make a career out of Watergate ... my most employable asset ... But, when you’re near broke, it’s amazing how tastes can change." -- John Dean, Watergate co-conspirator, in "Lost Honor" (1982)
2) "From sustained immersion in Dean’s canon ... the picture that emerges is of a tragic figure who never transcended, let alone learned from, the epochal event in which he became embroiled ... through his own initiatives." -- James Rosen "John Dean’s Watergate Whitewash" (10/14)
3) " ... the great mass of evidence that emerged after 1974 shows that Dean was motivated to assume his central role in the Watergate cover-up not because he suffered from “blind ambition” (the title of his 1976 memoir) ...
4) " ... but because he wanted to conceal his role in authorizing the ill-fated break-in and wiretapping operation at Democratic National Committee headquarters. Dean was no bystander, no Brutus seduced by power, but a Cassius, a lead actor in the crime." Rosen writes.
5) "Indeed, the original Watergate prosecutors, led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Earl Silbert, concluded that Dean stood 'at the center of the criminality.'”
6) "Dean destroyed a vital piece of evidence of which both Haldeman & Ehrlichman were totally unaware: the Hermes notebook break-in planner E. Howard Hunt ... described as his “operational diary” of the DNC mission, as well as the pop-up address book that showed all his contacts.
7) "It was Dean who had reviewed the contents of Hunt’s White House safe and secreted away his notebooks for later destruction.
" ... the true motivation for these criminal acts by Dean, & for his false claim to have acted only at the direction of Haldeman & Ehrlichman, was ...
" ... the true motivation for these criminal acts by Dean, & for his false claim to have acted only at the direction of Haldeman & Ehrlichman, was ...
8) " ... (Dean) was working feverishly to conceal a larger, authorial role in the original crime: the break-in and wiretapping at the DNC. Although he denies it, the evidence suggests Dean’s presence at the creation necessitated an outsized presence in the cover-up." Rosen says.
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