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Authors: John W. Dean

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).

INDEX

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Abplanalp, Robert “Bob,”
1
,
2
,
414

Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes
(Kutler),
xx

Acker, Marjorie,
xxi
,
xxii
,
71

Acree, Mike,
348

Acree, Vernon,
224

Adams, Sherman,
298
,
340
–41,
399
,
695
n6

Administrative Practice and Procedure subcommittee,
143
,
159
,
185

agency, law of,
433
n

Agnew, Spiro,
143
,
359
,
362
,
450
–51,
460
,
522
,
606
,
621
,
681
n17,
686
n20

federal investigation of,
522
n

Albert, Carl,
579
,
606

Allen, Robert H.,
264
–65

Allende, Salvador,
88

Allin, Mort,
177

All the President’s Men
(Woodward and Bernstein),
62
–64,
678
n19,
718
n5

Alsop, Joe,
489
,
597
,
598

Alsop, Stewart,
161

ambassadorships, sale of,
686
n30

Anderson, Jack,
11
,
18
–22,
24
,
48
n,
49
,
50
,
136
,
215
,
282
,
551
,
620
,
664
n34,
666
n4,
668
–69
n3,
707
n7

Dean story of,
510
–11

Andreas, Dwayne,
91
,
138
,
142
,
148
,
682
n3

Angelo, Bonnie,
51
–52

Arends, Leslie,
298

Armed Services Committee,
557
,
565
,
572
,
573
,
577

Armstrong, Scott,
626

Ash, Roy,
555

Askew, Reubin,
283

Aspen Lodge,
64
,
65

Bachinski, E. J.,
17

Bacon, Cherity,
xxiii

Bailey, F. Lee,
81
,
320

Baker, Bobby,
92
–93,
137
,
139
,
149
,
151
,
212

Baker, Howard,
xxv
,
227
,
228
,
230
–33,
238
,
241
,
246
–47,
279
,
281
,
359
–60,
367
–68,
370
,
371
,
576
,
611
,
612
,
627
,
630
,
683
n7,
688
n6

Baldwin, Alfred,
108
,
110
,
147
–50,
370
,
676
n27

Baltimore Sun,
360

Barker, Bernard L.,
7
,
29
,
54
–57,
62
,
99
,
120
n,
142
,
143
,
148
,
160
,
186
,
191
,
192
,
209
,
264
–65,
294
,
664
n27

grand jury indictment of,
153

guilty plea of,
208

and telephone in plumbers’ office,
191
n

Baron, Alan,
226
n

Barth, Roger,
131
,
149
,
665
n36

Bayh, Birch,
221
,
258

Bay of Pigs,
24
,
27
,
29
,
31
,
37
,
53
,
60
–62,
85
,
100
–102,
245
,
531
,
574

BBC,
54
–55

Beard, Dita,
11
,
12
,
34
,
37
,
45
,
219
,
235
,
295
,
664
–65
n34

Belson, James,
669
n3

Bennett, Robert F.,
205
n,
391
,
668
n3

Bennett, Wallace,
205
n

Ben-Veniste, Richard,
527
n,
541
n,
699
n57

Berger, Marilyn,
165

Bernstein, Carl,
46
,
120
n,
121
,
128
n,
148
,
149
,
162
–64,
168
,
175
,
191
–92,
209
,
224
,
422
,
458
,
569
–70,
610
,
629
,
678
n19,
702
n102,
705
n141,
718
n5

Berrigan, Daniel,
397
,
523

Berrigan, Philip,
73
,
397
,
523

Bicentennial Commission,
201
,
228

Bierbower, James,
363
,
693
n30

Birch, Frank,
261

Bittman, William O.,
97
,
139
n,
196
,
202
,
220
,
320
,
345
,
346
,
354
n,
385
,
391
,
411
,
456
,
458
,
462
,
468
,
472
,
476
,
519
,
523

Dean’s testimony and,
399

Blackmun, Harry,
244
,
245

Bledsoe, Daniel,
662
–64
n15

Blind Ambition: The White House Years
(Dean),
xxiv
,
241
,
296
,
359
n
,
542
n
,
664
n27
,
666
n2
,
671
n11
,
680
n6
,
685
n3
,
688
nn14
,
16
,
690
n7,
691
n19
,
692
–93
n28,
693
n31
,
698
n38
,
702
n99
,
712
n76
,
716
n83

Boggs, Lilburn E. “Pat,”
2
–4,
662
n5

Booth, John Wilkes,
473
,
525
,
701
n90

Bradlee, Benjamin,
46
,
171
,
175

Brandt, Willy,
543

Brennan, William,
244
,
245
,
718
n2

Brewster, Daniel,
212
,
214

Brezhnev, Leonid,
596
,
598
,
599
,
606
,
607
,
609
,
610
,
611
,
615
,
617

Bridges, Styles,
378

Brookings Institution,
319
,
564
n,
633

Brown, Pat,
544
–45

Brown, William H.,
244

Buchanan, Pat,
18
,
47
,
71
,
144
,
177
,
189
–91,
229
,
263
,
330
,
380
,
483
–85,
524
–26,
548
,
577
,
579
,
582
,
600
,
632
,
669
n5

Buckley, William F.,
24
,
207

Bull, Steve,
365
,
410
,
417
,
485
,
582
,
585
,
589
,
590
,
620
–21,
629
,
634

Burden, Amanda,
151

Burger, Warren,
129
–30,
136
n,
244
,
245
,
278
n,
580

Bush, George H. W.,
126
,
197
,
300
,
362
,
478
,
480

Bush, Prescott,
126
n

Butterfield, Alex,
4
–5,
28
n,
55
,
365
,
625
–26,
629
,
630
,
632
,
663
n15,
664
n29,
669
n5,
675
n12,
698
n34

on Dean,
xxiv
–xxv

Buzhardt, Fred,
548
,
551
–54,
557
,
557
n,
561
–63,
566
–73,
577
,
580
,
581
,
582
,
583
,
584
,
588
–605,
607
–12,
614
,
615
,
617
,
620
,
626
,
629
,
631
,
632
,
634

Byrd, Robert,
256
,
264
,
299
,
340

Byrne, Matt,
502
,
516
,
529
,
533
,
546
,
548
,
557
–60,
562
,
564
,
581
,
708
n24

Caddy, Douglas,
32
,
106
,
663
n15

Cahill, William,
300

Califano, Joseph, Jr.,
41
,
147
,
148

Campbell, Don,
212
n,
363
,
519
,
608

campaign contributions,
43
,
212
n

to CRP,
see
Committee to Re-elect the President, campaign contributions to

Caplin, Mortimer,
677
n32

Carlucci, Frank,
158

Carswell, G. Harrold,
73
,
278
,
278
n,
394
,
695
n5

Carter, Jimmy,
687
n41,
701
n90

Cassidento, John,
147

Castro, Fidel,
24
,
31
,
88

Caulfield, John “Jack,”
3
–5,
179
,
187
,
224
,
271
,
295
,
309
,
318
,
348
,
430
n,
662
n9,
664
n27,
687
n41,
700
n75

CBS,
18
,
33
,
156
,
174
,
177
,
571
,
618

Face the Nation,
296
,
299

Spectrum,
609

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
5
,
31
,
45
,
54
,
55
,
61
–63,
79
–81,
86
,
88
,
90
,
93
n,
99
–101,
205
,
207
,
246
,
339
,
468
,
556
,
557
,
559
–66,
568
,
572
,
574
–75,
577
,
581
,
582
,
584
,
587
,
627
,
662
–64
n15,
670
n11,
672
n2