The Foundation and the Dean Defense (Special Edition)

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In this special edition we lay the foundation for much of the story to come. At various times we will be listening in on history and truly examining the tapes of the Richard Nixon Administration. We will be focusing on the time period in which the most question has been raised about President Nixon's personal involvement in the cover up of the Watergate burglary.  After his "Cancer on the Presidency" conversation with John Dean and subsequent conversations into late May of 1973.

We have made this special edition in order to explain what we are doing and to help not confuse  our listeners because we will be bouncing back and forth between the events unfolding in 1974 and the fact that almost all the evidence and focus will be on events that occured after March 21, 1973.  that is the universally accepted time that both President Nixon and his chief accuser, John Dean , agree that he had set down to inform the President fully as to what had been going on.  A little later we will be hearing the entire Cancer on the Presidency conversation.

This episode will explain what we are doing, and also focus on a figure who is leaving the scene just as we begin the tale end of 1973 and entering 1974,  Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Our assessments of him will probably surprise you, and in telling his final story as Special Prosecutor we will  begin to show the little details that point to the manipulative powers of the partisan staff he has assembled. How he personally had come to the conclusion that the one person who needed to pay for the criminality of Watergate was,  John Dean, and how the staff he put together was more concerned with destroying Richard Nixon than actually finding justice in the case of Watergate.

Finally, we thought it only fair to take a second to let John Dean tell his version of the story and what he felt he himself was trying to achieve by the actions he took that helped bring down the Nixon Administration. What we found was a fascinating interview on the ABC News program "Nightline with Ted Koppel" from December 2000. It was just after the National Archives started releasing the Nixon tapes for the public to hear.  It is an opportunity for John Dean to give his defense of Watergate, The Dean Defense.

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