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Before becoming
Counsel to the President of the United States in July 1970 at
age thirty-one, John Dean was Chief Minority Counsel to the
Judiciary Committee of the United States House of
Representatives, the Associate Director of a law reform
commission, and Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United
States. He served as Richard Nixon's White House lawyer for a
thousand days.
He did his undergraduate studies
at Colgate University and the College of Wooster, with majors in
English Literature and Political Science. He received a graduate
fellowship from American University to study government and the
presidency, before entering Georgetown University Law Center,
where he received his JD in 1965.
John has long written on the
subjects of law, government, and politics, and he recounted his
days in the Nixon White House and Watergate in two books, Blind
Ambition (1976) and Lost Honor (1982). He lives in
Beverly Hills, California with his wife Maureen, and now devotes
full time to writing and lecturing, having retired from his
career as a private investment banker.
In 2001 he published The
Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment that
Redefined the Supreme Court; in early 2004, Warren G.
Harding, followed by Worse Than Watergate: The Secret
Presidency of George W. Bush. In 2006, John publihsed Conservatives
Without Conscience.
His newest book is Broken
Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative,
Executive, and Judicial Branches.
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