John Dean: Why Watergate endures - CNN
Dean, former counsel to the president during the Nixon White House, is the author of 14 books, most recently " The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It . " Dean also writes a biweekly column for Verdict at Justia. Now, four decades later, there is no American scandal as well-documented as the some 900 days of Watergate, nor is there any scandal that has left a deeper scar on American politics. As President Richard M. Nixon's White House counsel, I was in the middle of the scandal, but my interest in it didn't end there. Over the past 40 years, I have devoted considerable time to studying much of this remarkable record as it has slowly surfaced in testimony, autobiographies, diaries, with the release of contemporaneous documents and secret tape recordings,... It was during the middle of President Richard Nixon's campaign for re-election. When one of the five men arrested in the Democratic National Committee was identified as the director of security for the Committee to Reelect the President, suspicion immediately focused on the Nixon White House, where the President's top aides... Source: www.cnn.com
