Some have compared Democrats squiring in Richard Nixon's disgraced White House counsel and Watergate conspirator John Dean, in their first step on a road they hope will lead to Trump's impeachment, to bringing in Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Back in 1973, Americans were stunned hearing Dean tell of "a cancer growing on the presidency," a major turning point in a probe that would ultimately force the resignation of the 37th President.
Today, some Democrats think Dean can make the first splash in a similar tidal wave.
Feigning that he needed Dean to nail down the details of how a new Vice President would be appointed under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, Nixon finished a phone call with Dean, then quipped to Haldeman: "That's his big thrill for the month."
The next year, after managing the Watergate cover-up, Dean's big thrill was exchanging his testimony, carefully crafted to make maximum impact under the tutelage of his well-connected Democrat criminal defense attorney Charles Shaffer, for a reduction of his prison sentence to "Time served." The closest Dean ever came to incarceration for his offenses in Watergate was four months of spending "His nights in a witness holding facility at Ft. Holabird, Maryland" and "Most days, he was driven by federal marshals to his dedicated office in the special prosecutors' suite, where he worked on his book." That witness safe house in Maryland was where those testifying against the Mafia were sheltered.
Dean had apparently tried to make a private deal for a TV broadcast license when he was supposed to be negotiating it on behalf of one of the firm's clients.
During the Reagan Administration, seeking a new thrill, Dean - by now apparently beholden for life to the liberal Democrats who bestowed both 15 minutes of fame and a Get Out Of Jail Free card - declared in Newsweek that "The Iran-Contra inquiries involve matters of national security," while "Watergate, on the other hand, involved the political security of Richard Nixon. These are Major-league matters versus Little League."
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/06/10/democrats-give-john-dean-another-big-thrill/
Back in 1973, Americans were stunned hearing Dean tell of "a cancer growing on the presidency," a major turning point in a probe that would ultimately force the resignation of the 37th President.
Today, some Democrats think Dean can make the first splash in a similar tidal wave.
Feigning that he needed Dean to nail down the details of how a new Vice President would be appointed under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, Nixon finished a phone call with Dean, then quipped to Haldeman: "That's his big thrill for the month."
The next year, after managing the Watergate cover-up, Dean's big thrill was exchanging his testimony, carefully crafted to make maximum impact under the tutelage of his well-connected Democrat criminal defense attorney Charles Shaffer, for a reduction of his prison sentence to "Time served." The closest Dean ever came to incarceration for his offenses in Watergate was four months of spending "His nights in a witness holding facility at Ft. Holabird, Maryland" and "Most days, he was driven by federal marshals to his dedicated office in the special prosecutors' suite, where he worked on his book." That witness safe house in Maryland was where those testifying against the Mafia were sheltered.
Dean had apparently tried to make a private deal for a TV broadcast license when he was supposed to be negotiating it on behalf of one of the firm's clients.
During the Reagan Administration, seeking a new thrill, Dean - by now apparently beholden for life to the liberal Democrats who bestowed both 15 minutes of fame and a Get Out Of Jail Free card - declared in Newsweek that "The Iran-Contra inquiries involve matters of national security," while "Watergate, on the other hand, involved the political security of Richard Nixon. These are Major-league matters versus Little League."
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/06/10/democrats-give-john-dean-another-big-thrill/
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