Author: John W. Dean
Alternate names: John Wesley Dean III; Dean, John W. III; John W. Dean, III
Born: 1938
Bio: John Dean served as Counsel to President Richard Nixon from July 1970 to April 1973. Previously he was the chief minority counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, an associate director of a law reform commission, and an associate deputy attorney general at the Justice Department. He’s written three books about his Nixon White House and Watergate experiences: *Blind Ambition* (1976), *Lost Honor* (1982) and *The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It* (2014). He returned to writing and lecturing after a long business career and is now a CNN contributor. Using his experience as a case study, he teaches *The Watergate CLE*, a continuing legal education series that explores a lawyer's ethical obligations when confronted with organizational crime or fraud.

*source: US National Archives*
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2022/nr22-35