The Nixon defense : what he knew and when he knew it / John W. Dean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dean, John W. (John Wesley), 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.

Nixon, Richard M.

Dean, John W. (John Wesley), 1938-.

Dean, John W.

Physical Description:

xxx, 746 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking, 2014.

Summary:

"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 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?"--Amazon.com.

Contents:

Part I. Covering up (June 20 to July 1, 1972)

June 20, 1972 (Tuesday): before and after the 18 1/2-minute gap

June 21, 1972 (Wednesday): creating the cover-up scenario

June 22, 1972 (Thursday): first Watergate-related press conference

June 23, 1972 (Friday): firing "the smoking gun"

June 24 to July 1, 1972: Martha's breakdown, John's resignation and another scenario

Part II. Containing (July 1972 through December 1972)

July 6 to July 18, 1972: the call from Gray and a walk on the beach

July 19 to August 18, 1972: concern over Magruder's testimony

August 17 to September 15, 1972: investigations, indictment and the president meets with his White House counsel

Late September through October 1972: Segretti merges with Watergate

November 1 to December 30, 1972: reelection, reorganization, a Dean report considered, Chapin's departure and Dorothy Hunt's death

Part III. Unraveling (January 1 to March 23, 1973)

January 1973: keeping Magruder happy, giving Hunt assurances and the Watergate break-in trial

February 3 to 23, 1973: Senate Watergate Committee and Gray's nomination

February 27 to March 15, 1973: Nixon discovers his White House counsel and Gray puts me in the spotlight

March 16 to 20, 1973: return of the Dean report, the Ellsberg break-in and Hunt's blackmail

March 21 to 22, 1973: a cancer on the presidency and Nixon's response

Part IV. The Nixon defense (March 23 to May 22, 1973)

March 23 to April 13, 1973: options and indecision

April 14 to 30, 1973: pricking the boil and cleaning house

May 1 to 10, 1973: new team, tough tactics and rough new issues

May 11 to 22, 1973: a preemptive defense statement

May 23 to July 16, 1973: discrediting Dean and the beginning of the end

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 661-719) and index.

ISBN:

9780670025367

0670025364

OCLC:

861478938