by John W. Dean
7 For the record, my sentence was 120 days, but since I was in the U.S. Marshals’ witness protection program during this period, I spent my nights in a safe house at Ft. Holabird Army Base in Maryland and a short drive to Washington, for I spent most days in the office of the Watergate special prosecutor in Washington, DC, assisting them with the U.S. v. Mitchell et al. trial.
Appendix A
1 This phenomenon is named after the great Japanese film Rashomon directed by Akira Kurosawa, which portrays the trial of a notorious outlaw who allegedly rapes a woman and then kills her samurai husband. The account seeks to find the truth based on four eyewitnesses who recount the events; each is credible and possible, yet they all contradict each other.
2 Hal Arkowitz and Scott O. Lilienfeld, “Why Science Tells Us Not to Rely on Eyewitness Accounts,” Scientific American (January 8, 2009) at www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-it/.
3 Conversation No. 344-6.
4 Conversation No. 758-11.
5 Conversation No. 384-4.
6 Conversation No. 831-6.
7 Conversation No. 878-14.
8 Conversation No. 420-11.
9 Conversation No. 882-10.
10 Conversation No. 886-7.
11 Conversation No. 421-22.
Appendix B
1 Watergate: Chronology of a Crisis (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1975), 360.
2 Dean Senate testimony, 3 Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (SSC), 1019–20.
3 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Conversation No. 947-15.
4 See Affidavit of Fred D. Thompson, 4 Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (SSC), 1794.
5 Found in exhibits with notes for Nixon grand jury testimony at http://media.nara.gov/research/nixon-grand-jury/9-9/9-9-q-and-a-gap.pdf.
6 See, e.g., Nixon’s grand jury testimony and related documents that were made public while I was working on this book. See: www.archives.gov/research/investigations/watergate/nixon-grand-jury/.
7 See, e.g., Richard Ben-Veniste and George Frampton, Jr., Stonewall: The Legal Case Against the Watergate Conspirators (New York: Touchstone, 1978); Alexander Haig, with Charles McCarry, Inner Circles: How America Changed the World: A Memoir (New York: Warner, 1992); Richard Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978); Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975).
INDEX
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Abplanalp, Robert “Bob,” 1, 2, 414
Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes (Kutler), xx
Acker, Marjorie, xxi, xxii, 71
Acree, Mike, 348
Acree, Vernon, 224
Adams, Sherman, 298, 340–41, 399, 695n6
Administrative Practice and Procedure subcommittee, 143, 159, 185
agency, law of, 433n
Agnew, Spiro, 143, 359, 362, 450–51, 460, 522, 606, 621, 681n17, 686n20
federal investigation of, 522n
Albert, Carl, 579, 606
Allen, Robert H., 264–65
Allende, Salvador, 88
Allin, Mort, 177
All the President’s Men (Woodward and Bernstein), 62–64, 678n19, 718n5
Alsop, Joe, 489, 597, 598
Alsop, Stewart, 161
ambassadorships, sale of, 686n30
Anderson, Jack, 11, 18–22, 24, 48n, 49, 50, 136, 215, 282, 551, 620, 664n34, 666n4, 668–69n3, 707n7
Dean story of, 510–11
Andreas, Dwayne, 91, 138, 142, 148, 682n3
Angelo, Bonnie, 51–52
Arends, Leslie, 298
Armed Services Committee, 557, 565, 572, 573, 577
Armstrong, Scott, 626
Ash, Roy, 555
Askew, Reubin, 283
Aspen Lodge, 64, 65
Bachinski, E. J., 17
Bacon, Cherity, xxiii
Bailey, F. Lee, 81, 320
Baker, Bobby, 92–93, 137, 139, 149, 151, 212
Baker, Howard, xxv, 227, 228, 230–33, 238, 241, 246–47, 279, 281, 359–60, 367–68, 370, 371, 576, 611, 612, 627, 630, 683n7, 688n6
Baldwin, Alfred, 108, 110, 147–50, 370, 676n27
Baltimore Sun, 360
Barker, Bernard L., 7, 29, 54–57, 62, 99, 120n, 142, 143, 148, 160, 186, 191, 192, 209, 264–65, 294, 664n27
grand jury indictment of, 153
guilty plea of, 208
and telephone in plumbers’ office, 191n
Baron, Alan, 226n
Barth, Roger, 131, 149, 665n36
Bayh, Birch, 221, 258
Bay of Pigs, 24, 27, 29, 31, 37, 53, 60–62, 85, 100–102, 245, 531, 574
BBC, 54–55
Beard, Dita, 11, 12, 34, 37, 45, 219, 235, 295, 664–65n34
Belson, James, 669n3
Bennett, Robert F., 205n, 391, 668n3
Bennett, Wallace, 205n
Ben-Veniste, Richard, 527n, 541n, 699n57
Berger, Marilyn, 165
Bernstein, Carl, 46, 120n, 121, 128n, 148, 149, 162–64, 168, 175, 191–92, 209, 224, 422, 458, 569–70, 610, 629, 678n19, 702n102, 705n141, 718n5
Berrigan, Daniel, 397, 523
Berrigan, Philip, 73, 397, 523
Bicentennial Commission, 201, 228
Bierbower, James, 363, 693n30
Birch, Frank, 261
Bittman, William O., 97, 139n, 196, 202, 220, 320, 345, 346, 354n, 385, 391, 411, 456, 458, 462, 468, 472, 476, 519, 523
Dean’s testimony and, 399
Blackmun, Harry, 244, 245
Bledsoe, Daniel, 662–64n15
Blind Ambition: The White House Years (Dean), xxiv, 241, 296, 359n, 542n, 664n27, 666n2, 671n11, 680n6, 685n3, 688nn14, 16, 690n7, 691n19, 692–93n28, 693n31, 698n38, 702n99, 712n76, 716n83
Boggs, Lilburn E. “Pat,” 2–4, 662n5
Booth, John Wilkes, 473, 525, 701n90
Bradlee, Benjamin, 46, 171, 175
Brandt, Willy, 543
Brennan, William, 244, 245, 718n2
Brewster, Daniel, 212, 214
Brezhnev, Leonid, 596, 598, 599, 606, 607, 609, 610, 611, 615, 617
Bridges, Styles, 378
Brookings Institution, 319, 564n, 633
Brown, Pat, 544–45
Brown, William H., 244
Buchanan, Pat, 18, 47, 71, 144, 177, 189–91, 229, 263, 330, 380, 483–85, 524–26, 548, 577, 579, 582, 600, 632, 669n5
Buckley, William F., 24, 207
Bull, Steve, 365, 410, 417, 485, 582, 585, 589, 590, 620–21, 629, 634
Burden, Amanda, 151
Burger, Warren, 129–30, 136n, 244, 245, 278n, 580
Bush, George H. W., 126, 197, 300, 362, 478, 480
Bush, Prescott, 126n
Butterfield, Alex, 4–5, 28n, 55, 365, 625–26, 629, 630, 632, 663n15, 664n29, 669n5, 675n12, 698n34
on Dean, xxiv–xxv
Buzhardt, Fred, 548, 551–54, 557, 557n, 561–63, 566–73, 577, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 588–605, 607–12, 614, 615, 617, 620, 626, 629, 631, 632, 634
Byrd, Robert, 256, 264, 299, 340
Byrne, Matt, 502, 516, 529, 533, 546, 548, 557–60, 562, 564, 581, 708n24
Caddy, Douglas, 32, 106, 663n15
Cahill, William, 300
Califano, Joseph, Jr., 41, 147, 148
Campbell, Don, 212n, 363, 519, 608
campaign contributions, 43, 212n
to CRP, see Committee to Re-elect the President, campaign contributions to
Caplin, Mortimer, 677n32
Carlucci, Frank, 158
Carswell, G. Harrold, 73, 278, 278n, 394, 695n5
Carter, Jimmy, 687n41, 701n90
Cassidento, John, 147
Castro, Fidel, 24, 31, 88
Caulfield, John “Jack,” 3–5, 179, 18
7, 224, 271, 295, 309, 318, 348, 430n, 662n9, 664n27, 687n41, 700n75
CBS, 18, 33, 156, 174, 177, 571, 618
Face the Nation, 296, 299
Spectrum, 609
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 5, 31, 45, 54, 55, 61–63, 79–81, 86, 88, 90, 93n, 99–101, 205, 207, 246, 339, 468, 556, 557, 559–66, 568, 572, 574–75, 577, 581, 582, 584, 587, 627, 662–64n15, 670n11, 672n2
Carlucci at, 158n
Ehrlichman and, 4, 584
Ellsberg break-in and, 293, 294, 546, 548, 558, 707–8n24
FBI and, 54, 95, 101, 542, 713nn77, 80
Haldeman and, 584, 662n15
Hunt and, 4, 28, 37, 56n, 84, 99, 101, 207, 672n1
information leaked by, 156
McCord and, 342
“smoking gun” conversation and, xxi, 56–60
Chambers, Whittaker, 243
Chancellor, John, 18
Chapin, Dwight, 163, 164, 168–72, 174, 176, 178, 183, 184, 186, 189, 190, 197, 201, 233, 262, 263, 266, 267, 270, 280, 290, 300, 305, 332, 333, 369, 371, 465n
grand jury appearance of, 374
Chapman’s Friend, 23, 218
Chappaquiddick, 159, 271, 295, 323, 623, 687nn40, 41
Chennault, Anna, 72, 681n17
Chenow, Kathleen, 191, 601
Chicago Seven, 392, 695n3
Chicago Sun-Times, 195
Chile, 205
China, 12, 25, 55, 365, 452
Chotiner, Murray, 23, 128, 677n32
Christopher, Warren, 565
Clark, Tom, 152
Clawson, Ken, 17, 165, 167, 229, 495, 624
Clifford, Clark, 677n32
Clinton, Bill, 196n
Cole, Ken, 449
Colson, Charles “Chuck,” 3, 10–12, 22–27, 29, 31, 32, 36, 37, 39, 42, 45, 47–48, 59, 61, 65, 71, 80–82, 85, 87–88, 91, 94, 106, 110–13, 124, 141, 150–52, 155, 158, 159, 176, 183, 185, 188, 194, 195–203, 206–9, 211–14, 216–20, 232, 233, 235, 238, 247, 256, 263, 266–68, 274, 282, 284, 286, 292, 295, 297–98, 303, 305, 326, 327, 329–30, 332, 335, 336, 340, 345, 350, 350n, 352–57, 362, 366, 367, 369, 377, 379–87, 388–91, 401, 402, 404, 408, 415, 416, 425n, 427, 428, 431, 435, 438, 465n, 484, 493–95, 500, 508, 511, 536, 537, 540, 572–73, 580, 582, 584, 592, 596, 599, 604–6, 615, 616, 619, 624, 633, 681n5, 691n18, 697n19
Dean and, 213, 235, 256, 384, 421, 676n25
in Dean’s March 21 conversation with Nixon on Watergate facts, 311, 312, 316, 318–20, 323
Dean’s testimony and, 399, 403
Diem cable and, 531–32
Ehrlichman and, 4, 8, 203, 428, 587
Haldeman and, 7, 11, 168, 198–99, 202, 219, 383, 681n5
Hunt and, 4, 7, 17, 22, 23, 188–89, 199, 202–3, 223, 384, 390–91, 398n, 697n24
immunity and, 431
Kissinger and, 195
Liddy and, 199, 200, 202
lie-detector test and, 364
Magruder and, 198–99, 202, 232, 235, 326, 382, 383
Magruder’s claims of knowledge of Watergate operation by, 356–57
McCord’s role and, 8
Mitchell and, 200, 213, 382, 383, 682n3
Muskie and, 167, 168
Schorr story and, 174
Segretti and, 165–67
on Sirica, 211–12
testimony of, 8, 10
transcripts of Nixon’s conversations with, xxi
Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP), xvii, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8–10, 19, 20, 23, 24, 26, 33, 34, 46, 48, 50, 74, 81, 82, 84, 86, 89, 140, 143, 162, 240, 247, 258, 275, 367, 369, 398, 665n41
Baldwin and, 147
Cubans’ suit against, 693n41
in Dean’s March 21 conversation with Nixon on Watergate facts, 309
Democrats’ civil suit against, 36, 48, 65, 119, 121, 124, 142, 144, 147, 152, 160, 369–70, 676n25
Liddy and, 131n
New York Times story on Cubans and, 209
Committee to Re-elect the President, campaign contributions to, 43–44, 52, 56–57, 59, 62, 92, 113, 134–35
campaign law violations and, 92, 113, 144–46
from Dahlberg, 54, 57, 59, 89, 91, 120n, 132, 138, 142, 148
from Ogarrio, 54
from Vesco, 302n
Communist Party, 695n4
Conein, Lucien, 28
Congress, 179, 180, 213, 352
see also House of Representatives; Senate
Congressional Record, 251
Connally, John, 28n, 76, 112, 125, 171, 236, 237, 485–87, 489, 515, 548, 592, 625, 632
conspiracy, 95, 115, 153, 304, 325, 329n, 331, 352, 388, 400, 403, 411, 433n, 464, 466–67, 469, 486, 508–9, 553, 700n75, 701n89, 704n138, 707n7
unindicted coconspirators and, 438–39, 441–42, 446, 472
see also obstruction of justice
Coolidge, Calvin, 473
Cormier, Frank, 51, 253–54
“corrupt,” meaning of, 702–3n110
Cox, Archibald, 527n, 576, 579, 586, 587, 593–94, 596, 598–600, 603, 613–15, 621, 624, 625, 628, 632, 665n35, 699n57, 706n160, 715n49
Craig House, 64
Crewdson, John M., 260n
criminal law, 95, 339, 588, 690n12
Cronkite, Walter, 572, 587
Crowley, Monica, 714n1
Cuba, 24
Cubans, 7, 17, 24, 26–31, 36, 38, 39, 36, 38, 39, 41, 44, 45, 49, 50, 53, 56–59, 61, 65, 72, 80, 84, 88, 91, 114, 123, 150, 152, 164, 189, 266, 283, 328, 336, 339, 385, 397, 424, 493, 506, 523, 574, 669n3, 690nn7, 8, 691n18
CRP sued by, 693n41
in Dean’s March 21 conversation with Nixon on Watergate facts, 317–19, 322
McCord and, 342
New York Times story on, 209
Curtis, Carl, 628
Cushman, Robert, 556
Dailey, Peter, 154
Daniel, Clifton, 521
Dash, Samuel, 205n, 227, 228, 231, 499, 527n, 608, 610, 613, 617, 621, 626, 696n13, 702n97, 706n160
Davis, Angela, 73
Davis, Rennie, 695n3
Dahlberg, Ken, 54, 55, 57, 59, 89, 91, 120n, 132, 138, 142, 148
Daniel, Clifton, 204
Dean, John W.:
Anderson’s story attacking, 510–11
Blind Ambition, xxiv, 241, 296, 690n7, 692–93n28, 693n31
Butterfield on, xxiv–xxv
“cancer on the presidency” warning of, 309, 333–34, 336, 484, 497
Colson and, 213, 235, 256, 384, 421, 676n25
criminal defense attorney hired by, 359, 362, 388
“Dealing with Our Political Enemies” memorandum of, 676–77n32
as “desk officer” of cover-up, 240, 703n111
discrediting of, 551, 583–84, 613, 618, 622, 696n13, 708n36, 709n45
discussions of destruction of, 492–93, 518, 549, 550, 575–76
Ehrlichman and, 8–9, 35n, 198, 279, 288, 295, 349, 361, 368, 388, 389, 409, 412, 414–15, 430, 434, 448, 456, 466, 468, 479, 515, 522, 546, 556, 587, 601, 615, 684n15
Ellsberg break-in and, 222n, 293–94, 325, 333, 499, 503, 581, 601, 713n81
enmity of colleagues incurred by, 389
FBI agents and, 543
Felt and, 173
firing of, 537, 539, 543, 702n104
Garment and, 430
Gray and, 221, 222, 253, 257, 260n, 271–72, 274, 276, 298, 299, 306, 324, 333, 340, 341, 355, 438, 457, 500, 684n15
guilty plea of, 706n160
Haldeman and, 53–55, 196–97, 201, 209, 230, 255–56, 297, 308, 368, 388, 389, 412, 414, 427, 448, 456, 469, 475, 515, 522, 556, 597n, 615, 674n21, 675n12, 676n25, 690n15, 703n111
Hunt and, 222–23, 395–96, 419
Hunt’s blackmail attempt and message to, 296–97, 300, 308, 324, 419, 470–71, 690n12
immunity for, 412, 424, 431, 433–34, 438, 440, 444, 456–58, 461, 463, 471, 484, 487, 492, 507–8, 510, 522, 529, 530, 546, 550, 567, 598, 600, 622, 702n97, 703n111, 704nn120, 134, 706n160, 711n30
involvement in cover-up discussed, 397–98
K
almbach and, 391, 399, 403, 430, 466
Kleindienst and, 241–42, 247–50, 497
in La Costa meetings, 216, 469–72, 481–82, 491
Liddy and, 34n, 108, 349, 425, 428, 430, 447, 601, 696n15
lie-detector test taken by, 500
Lost Honor, 160n
Magruder and, 108, 110, 112, 113, 120, 122, 141, 347, 361–64, 420, 464
and Magruder’s attempt for support for his false testimony, 355, 357, 358, 368, 420
marriage of, 168, 170, 256
and material in Hunt’s safe, 223, 412, 415, 425–26, 428, 437, 513–15
McCord’s claim of Watergate break-in knowledge of, 345–46, 350–52, 355
McCord’s trial and, 205
Mitchell and, 53–56, 92, 106, 112, 332, 306, 361, 362, 364, 366–68, 374, 378–79, 384, 393, 398, 402, 424, 425, 436, 674n21, 675n12
and Mitchell’s attempt for support for his false testimony, 355, 357, 358, 368, 420
and money for Watergate defendants, 466, 482–83
“1970 Intelligence Plan” documents of, 542, 549, 565, 567–70, 575, 578, 580, 712n75
Nixon defense and, xix, xxv, 146
Nixon impeachment possibility and, 490, 501, 522–23
Nixon’s attacks on, 551n
Nixon’s daily meetings with, 240–52
as Nixon’s enemy, 714n1
Nixon’s last conversations with, 429
Nixon’s last personal meeting with, 427
Nixon’s March 21 conversation with, on Watergate facts, 308–27, 393, 395–97, 416, 419–21, 435–36, 442–43, 456, 497–502, 504–6, 508, 510–12, 518, 520, 538, 540–54, 550, 555–56, 582, 584, 588, 590, 591, 598, 698n34, 703–4n120, 709–10n54
number of Watergate conversations with Nixon, 457n
obstruction of justice and, 317, 324, 337, 382, 411, 706n160
Petersen and, 116, 118, 432, 436–38, 463, 471, 492, 493
report of, 146, 151, 183–85, 188, 189, 240, 277–81, 285–91, 293, 296, 297, 299–301, 307, 333, 339, 342, 351–52, 355, 378, 414, 418, 421–23, 431–32, 434–35, 446, 452, 455, 468, 518, 567, 675nn11, 12, 680n10
resignation, leave of absence or firing discussed, 276, 347, 379, 381–82, 397, 398, 405–6, 416–21, 424, 426, 487, 517, 525, 526, 697n19
Segretti and, 164, 176, 180, 181, 183, 184, 189, 190, 240, 252, 277
Senate Watergate committee and, 247–48, 257; see also Dean, John W., testimony of
sentence served by, 718n7
statement issued by, 465, 466, 484, 701n84
