in washington. many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything related to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i had no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism, but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. we will never give up. we will never concede. we will stop the steal. here we are 50 years later, and the events of watergate are as relevant as they have ever been. there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power. weapons of mass destruction. my name is john dean. i was richard nixon s white house counsel. the morning of
this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything relating to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism, but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. we will never give up. we will never concede. we will stop the steal. here we are 50 years later, and the events of watergate are as relevant as they have ever been. there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power. weapons of mass destruction. my name is john dean. i was richard nixon s white house counsel. the morning of june 17th, 1972, i got a call saying they have got this strange weird burglary in th
in sandy quinn a member of the board former president of the nixon foundation colonel jack brennan. the marine military aid the president nixon and his chief of staff in the san clemente years judge, jim rogan. thank you for being here, sir. jean hernandez the mayor pro tem of the great city of yorba linda. thank you for being here gene. i want to welcome dr. lori cox hahn, who is the doybee henley chair of presidential studies at chapman university and her colleague dr. luke nichter, who is the james? kavanaugh chair in presidential studies, which is a new program at chapman university and we re joined by the dean of students, dr. jerry price as well at a new program at chapman that the foundation has helped to put together and we re really excited about so thank you all for being here. in addition. i want to thank all of our president s council members that are here tonight for their support which makes this evening and all of our evenings like this possible. this evening.
begin by welcoming some special guests starting with larry higby who s a member of the board of directors of the richard nixon foundation. in sandy quinn a member of the board former president of the nixon foundation colonel jack brennan. the marine military aid the president nixon and his chief of staff in the san clemente years judge, jim rogan. thank you for being here, sir. jean hernandez the mayor pro tem of the great city of yorba linda. thank you for being here gene. i want to welcome dr. lori cox hahn, who is the doybee henley chair of presidential studies at chapman university and her colleague dr. luke nichter, who is the james? kavanaugh chair in presidential studies, which is a new program at chapman university and we re joined by the dean of students, dr. jerry price as well at a new program at chapman that the foundation has helped to put together and we re really excited about so thank you all for being here. in addition. i want to thank all of our president s
i m the president ceo the richard nixon foundation. it s my pleasure to welcome you here this evening. we have a truly terrific evening in store for you, and let me beginning by welcoming special guests, for the richard nixon foundation, sandy quinn, former president of the nixon foundation. colonel jack brennan, a marine military aid to president nixon and chief of staff. judge jim rogin, and keeper being here, sir. jean rezendes, of the great city of thank you for being here, jeanne. i want to welcome dr. laurie the chair presidential studies at chapman university and her colleague dr. luke , the james h. kavanaugh chair in presidential studies, which is a new program at chapman university and we are joined by the dean of student, chalk doctor jerry price as well. the new program at chaplin that the foundation has helped put together. we are really excited about it. thank you all for being here. in addition i want to thank all of the presidential council members here