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John W. Dean

Biography

John W. Dean

John Dean was White House legal counsel to President Nixon for a thousand days. Dean also served as chief minority counsel for the House Judiciary Committee and as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice.

John W. Dean

Books by John W. Dean

The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It
by John W. Dean - History, Nonfiction, Politics

In THE NIXON DEFENSE, former White House Counsel John W. Dean, one of the last major surviving figures of Watergate, draws on his own transcripts of almost a thousand conversations, a wealth of Richard Nixon’s secretly recorded information, and more than 150,000 pages of documents in the National Archives and the Nixon Library to provide the definitive answer to the question: What did President Nixon know and when did he know it?