John Dean
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.
Watergate · White House counsel · John W. Dean III
John Dean Watergate Timeline
John W. Dean III served as counsel to President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. The Nixon Presidential Library records that Dean began cooperating with federal investigators in March 1973 and later testified before the Senate Watergate Committee.
These records follow Dean’s involvement in the Watergate investigation, White House discussions, his break with the administration, Senate testimony and subsequent criminal proceedings.
29 selected database records
The record cards below are rendered directly in this page’s HTML. They are selected from the World History Database Watergate dataset; the source links beneath each record group provide authoritative context for the chronology.
1972
1 recordsReference context for this record group: Richard Nixon Presidential Library — John W. Dean III files · Richard Nixon Presidential Library — Watergate trial tapes · U.S. Senate — Watergate Committee history
1973
22 records
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
White House Counsel
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
White House Counsel
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
White House Special Counsel
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
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.
John Dean
Former White House Counsel
Senate Watergate Committee
Begins televised testimony with a lengthy opening statement describing White House efforts to contain the scandal and implicating senior administration officials.
John Dean
Watergate
Tells a special Senate Committee that Nixon tried to cover up the Watergate affair.
Reference context for this record group: Richard Nixon Presidential Library — John W. Dean III files · Richard Nixon Presidential Library — Watergate trial tapes · U.S. Senate — Watergate Committee history
1974
6 records
John Dean
Indictment
Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October.
John Dean
Indictment
Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury.
John Dean
Indictment
Strachan, aide to Mitchell and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.
John Dean
Indictment
Haldeman, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel Charles Colson, White House Aide to Haldeman Gordon C.
John Dean
Indictment
Indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate Seven": Former Attorney General and Nixon campaign manager John N.
John Dean
Indictment
Strachan, aide to Mitchellll and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.
Reference context for this record group: Richard Nixon Presidential Library — John W. Dean III files · Richard Nixon Presidential Library — Watergate trial tapes · U.S. Senate — Watergate Committee history
Sources and archival context
The explanatory text and major chronology on this page were cross-checked against the following institutional sources. Individual database records may contain additional detail from the wider World History Database dataset.