John Dean Biography and Timeline

White House Tape 779-002

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon and H. R. Haldeman in the 48-minute White House recording numbered 779-002; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

White House Tape 864-004

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon in the 3-minute White House recording numbered 864-004; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

White House Tape 865-014

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon in the 56-minute White House recording numbered 865-014; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

White House Tape 866-003

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon in the 26-minute White House recording numbered 866-003; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

White House Tape 872-001

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon in the 4-minute White House recording numbered 872-001; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

White House Tape 878-014

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon and H. R. Haldeman in the 69-minute White House recording numbered 878-014; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

White House Tape 882-012

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon and H. R. Haldeman in the 33-minute White House recording numbered 882-012; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

White House Tape 037-175

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon in the 14-minute White House recording numbered 037-175; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

White House Tape 421-018

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon, H. R. Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman in the 36-minute White House recording numbered 421-018; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

White House Tape 886-008

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon and H. R. Haldeman in the 111-minute White House recording numbered 886-008; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

Cancer on the Presidency

Warns Nixon that the Watergate cover-up has become a cancer on the presidency and describes growing demands for money and possible clemency.

Role range: 1972-1974

White House Tape 422-033

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon, John Ehrlichman, H. R. Haldeman, and John Mitchell in the 88-minute White House recording numbered 422-033; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

White House Tape 427-010

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon in the 19-minute White House recording numbered 427-010; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

White House Tape 897-004

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon in the 37-minute White House recording numbered 897-004; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

White House Tape 897-009

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon and H. R. Haldeman in the 12-minute White House recording numbered 897-009; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

Watergate

Dean suspected he was on the cusp of becoming the Watergate scapegoat, and so he went to Camp David, but did not write the report

Role range: 1968-1975

Watergate

Dean suspected he was on the cusp of becoming the Watergate scapegoat, and so he went to Camp David, but did not write the report.

Role range: 1968-1975

Watergate

Nixon requested that White House Counsel John Dean write him a report about everything he knew about the Watergate matter, and he sent Dean to Camp David to write it.

Role range: 1968-1975

Watergate

Dean suspected he was on the cusp of becoming the Watergate scapegoat, and so he went to Camp David, but did not write the report.

Role range: 1968-1975

Watergate

Nixon requested that White House Counsel John Dean write him a report about everything he knew about the Watergate matter, and he sent Dean to Camp David to write it.

Role range: 1968-1975

Camp David Report

Is sent to Camp David to prepare a Watergate report for Nixon but suspects he is being positioned as the administration's scapegoat.

Role range: 1972-1974

Watergate

Nixon’s top White House staffers, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign over the scandal. White House counsel John Dean is fired.

White House Tape 442-001

John Dean appears with Richard Nixon and Ronald Ziegler in the 281-minute White House recording numbered 442-001; the Watergate Special Prosecution Force later included the recording in its transcript collection.

Watergate

Tells a special Senate Committee that Nixon tried to cover up the Watergate affair

Role range: 1968-1974

Watergate

Tells a special Senate Committee that Nixon tried to cover up the Watergate affair.

Role range: 1968-1974

Senate Watergate Committee

Former White House Counsel John Dean did indeed made these allegations. He began with a seven-hour opening statement in which he laid out his knowledge of the entire campaign of White House espionage.

Role range: 1960-1975

Watergate

Tells a special Senate Committee that Nixon tried to cover up the Watergate affair.

Role range: 1968-1974

Senate Watergate Committee

Begins televised testimony with a lengthy opening statement describing White House efforts to contain the scandal and implicating senior administration officials.

Role range: 1972-1974

Indictment

Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October.

Indictment

Haldeman, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel Charles Colson, White House Aide to Haldeman Gordon C.

Indictment

Indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate Seven": Former Attorney General and Nixon campaign manager John N.

Indictment

Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury.

Indictment

Strachan, aide to Mitchell and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.

Indictment

Strachan, aide to Mitchellll and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.