In june of 1973 during testimony before the Senate Watergate committee, mr. Dean implicated president nixon and administration officials, including himself in the watergate coverup. He later pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his role in watergate and served four months in prison. Discovering the tapes system, was it lucky or inevitable, is what were looking at. The nixon taping the whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told. Its taken me years to gather and find out what happened. Since its one of the most important factors in the watergate story, i think its important to get that history straight, and were going to try to do that in a very summary fashion today. Before i start, though, i would like to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with franklin roosevelt, who used a when they first went to talking movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a system that was put in the oval office that was recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick sam
Although now, we look back and say it is so obvious, at the time there was nothing obvious about it. It could have ended up being nothing, but as it worked out and turned out to be a very significant event. Im very happy i did have the opportunity. Host whod you know among the earliest recruits . Were some of your friends recruited . Ms. Winebanks yes. Wasirst boss, charles ross, one of my colleagues. He was on the Campaign Contribution team. In terms of the coverup up, i did not know anyone when i first started. After the number of years of 24 hour days, seven days a week, i know them all very, very well. Host tell us about the state of the case. It was a long time ago. The you started your job, assistant attorney, assistant u. S. Attorneys were working what was the state of the case . Do you remember . Ms. Winebanks there really was not much when we took over, but the hearings had started and john dean was soon to testify, shortly after we were formed, he testified. And his testimony
To the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session in shades of red and blue, uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff. Im the executive director of the ethics center. On behalf of our partners in presenting this session, i would on behalf ofme you the Carnegie Council for ethics and International Affairs, as well as the bard globalization and International Affairs program, and a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Think, thaticant, i we are meeting just after midday on the first of april. Some people saw the choice of this date, and i thought it was a delicious irony. In fact, is a somewhat deliberate irony because in most countries around the world, people are aware of the fact that today is april fools day. The significant of the fool is often underestimated in literature underestimated. In the future in literature, the role of the fool was to just truth to power, not to speak truth to the powerful, but to speak truth to power.
To the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session in shades of red and blue, uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff. Im the executive director of the ethics center. On behalf of our partners in presenting this session, i would on behalf ofme you the Carnegie Council for ethics and International Affairs, as well as the bard globalization and International Affairs program, and a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Think, thaticant, i we are meeting just after midday on the first of april. Some people saw the choice of this date, and i thought it was a delicious irony. In fact, is a somewhat deliberate irony because in most countries around the world, people are aware of the fact that today is april fools day. The significant of the fool is often underestimated in literature underestimated. In the future in literature, the role of the fool was to just truth to power, not to speak truth to the powerful, but to speak truth to power.
Be sure to watch the washington journal beginning live at 7 eastern thursday morning. Join the discussion. Tonight, youve been watching some of our American History tv programming in prime time. Youll find us here every weekend on cspan 3. Well take you live to conferences and symposium and historical sites. On american artifacts, go behind the scenes with us to museums and archives and travel to the nations classrooms where youll hear from college and University Professors on lectures in history. As the 2016 campaign continues, watch past president ial campaigns on road to the white house rewind. And journey through the 20th century on real america, which showcases documentaries and other archival films. Over the next few weeks, watch for our airings of portions from the 1975 Church Committee hearings investigating the intelligence activities of the cia, fbi, irs and nsa. Look for all of our programming every weekend on cspan 3. John dean, former white House Counsel to president nixon