Read The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It Online
Authors: John W. Dean
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5
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,
The Final Days
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976), 263. Note: This account of the final days has held up remarkably well, and I have always felt the reporting here was much better than their first Watergate book,
All the President’s Men
. So I have drawn from their information as well for the final, final days. They interviewed many of the people involved during a relatively contemporaneous period.
6
In addition to
The Final Days
, first-person accounts of this period can be found in Nixon,
RN
, 1040–90 (“Impeachment Summer”); Raymond Price,
With Nixon
(New York: Viking, 1977), 308–52 (“The Last Historic First”); Alexander M. Haig, Jr. with Charles McCarry,
Inner Circles: How America Changed the World
(New York: Warner Books, 1992), 466–505 (“The Smoking Gun” and “The Final Paradox”).
7
For the record, my sentence was 120 days, but since I was in the U.S. Marshals’ witness protection program during this period, I spent my nights in a safe house at Ft. Holabird Army Base in Maryland and a short drive to Washington, for I spent most days in the office of the Watergate special prosecutor in Washington, DC, assisting them with the
U.S. v. Mitchell et al.
trial.
Appendix A
1
This phenomenon is named after the great Japanese film
Rashomon
directed by Akira Kurosawa, which portrays the trial of a notorious outlaw who allegedly rapes a woman and then kills her samurai husband. The account seeks to find the truth based on four eyewitnesses who recount the events; each is credible and possible, yet they all contradict each other.
2
Hal Arkowitz and Scott O. Lilienfeld, “Why Science Tells Us Not to Rely on Eyewitness Accounts,”
Scientific American
(January 8, 2009) at www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-it/.
3
Conversation No. 344-6.
4
Conversation No. 758-11.
5
Conversation No. 384-4.
6
Conversation No. 831-6.
7
Conversation No. 878-14.
8
Conversation No. 420-11.
9
Conversation No. 882-10.
10
Conversation No. 886-7.
11
Conversation No. 421-22.
Appendix B
1
Watergate: Chronology of a Crisis
(Washington, DC:
Congressional Quarterly
, 1975), 360.
2
Dean Senate testimony, 3 Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (SSC), 1019–20.
3
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Conversation No. 947-15.
4
See Affidavit of Fred D. Thompson, 4 Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (SSC),
1794.
5
Found in exhibits with notes for Nixon grand jury testimony at http://media.nara.gov/research/nixon-grand-jury/9-9/9-9-q-and-a-gap.pdf.
6
See, e.g., Nixon’s grand jury testimony and related documents that were made public while I was working on this book. See: www.archives.gov/research/investigations/watergate/nixon-grand-jury/.
7
See, e.g., Richard Ben-Veniste and George Frampton, Jr.,
Stonewall
:
The Legal Case Against the Watergate Conspirators
(New York: Touchstone, 1978); Alexander Haig, with Charles McCarry,
Inner Circles: How America Changed the World: A Memoir
(New York: Warner, 1992); Richard Nixon,
RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978); Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,
The Final Days
(New York: Simon & Schuster,
1975).
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