The Nixon defense
Subtitle: what he knew and when he knew it
By: John W. Dean
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 746
ISBN-13: 9780670025367
Subjects: Political corruption; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 661-719) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Covering up (June 20 to July 1, 1972); title: June 20, 1972 (Tuesday): before and after the 18 1/2-minute gap; title: June 21, 1972 (Wednesday): creating the cover-up scenario; title: June 22, 1972 (Thursday): first Watergate-related press conference; title: June 23, 1972 (Friday): firing "the smoking gun"; title: June 24 to July 1, 1972: Martha's breakdown, John's resignation and another scenario; title: Part II. Containing (July 1972 through December 1972); title: July 6 to July 18, 1972: the call from Gray and a walk on the beach; title: July 19 to August 18, 1972: concern over Magruder's testimony; title: August 17 to September 15, 1972: investigations, indictment and the president meets with his White House counsel; title: Late September through October 1972: Segretti merges with Watergate; title: November 1 to December 30, 1972: reelection, reorganization, a Dean report considered, Chapin's departure and Dorothy Hunt's death; title: Part III. Unraveling (January 1 to March 23, 1973); title: January 1973: keeping Magruder happy, giving Hunt assurances and the Watergate break-in trial; title: February 3 to 23, 1973: Senate Watergate Committee and Gray's nomination; title: February 27 to March 15, 1973: Nixon discovers his White House counsel and Gray puts me in the spotlight; title: March 16 to 20, 1973: return of the Dean report, the Ellsberg break-in and Hunt's blackmail; title: March 21 to 22, 1973: a cancer on the presidency and Nixon's response; title: Part IV. The Nixon defense (March 23 to May 22, 1973); title: March 23 to April 13, 1973: options and indecision; title: April 14 to 30, 1973: pricking the boil and cleaning house; title: May 1 to 10, 1973: new team, tough tactics and rough new issues; title: May 11 to 22, 1973: a preemptive defense statement; title: May 23 to July 16, 1973: discrediting Dean and the beginning of the end.