NOW With Bill Moyers tonight on PBS...
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PBS 11 Apr 02 09:30pm
Series/News, 60 Mins.
Episode #314.
John Dean, former counsel to President Richard Nixon, discusses President George W. Bush
John Dean is in the news again. Thirty years ago as counsel to Richard Nixon he mesmerized the country with his testimony in the Watergate hearings about "a cancer growing on the presidency." Eventually Nixon would resign and John Dean would go to prison for his role in the Watergate scandal. Now Dean has written a new book – his sixth – in which he concludes that the obsessive secrecy and deception in Washington today is "Worse Than Watergate." The conversation with Bill Moyers is Dean’s first television interview on "the hidden agenda of a White House shrouded in secrecy and a presidency that seeks to remain unaccountable" and his book WORSE THAN WATERGATE: THE SECRET PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BUSH.
Before becoming counsel to the president of the United States in July 1970 at age thirty-one, John W. Dean was chief minority counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, the associate director of a law-reform commission, and associate deputy attorney general of the United States. He served as Richard Nixon's White House lawyer for a thousand days.
He did his undergraduate studies at Colgate University and the College of Wooster, with majors in English literature and political science. He received a graduate fellowship from American University to study government and the presidency, before entering Georgetown University Law Center, where he received his JD in 1965.
Dean has written many articles and essays on law, government, and politics. He has recounted his days in the Nixon White House and Watergate in two books, BLIND AMBITION and LOST HONOR. His other books include THE REHNQUIST CHOICE, UNMASKING DEEP THROAT, and WARREN G. HARDING. He has also written for the NEW YORK TIMES, ROLLING STONE, MSNBC, Salon, and many other publications. He writes a biweekly column for FindLaw's "Writ."
Dean recently retired from his successful career as a private investment banker and now writes and lectures full-time. Most recently he became a visiting scholar at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California.
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