Deja Vu. "Dean Pleads Guilty in Deal; Will Aid the Prosecution"

[Honeycombe8]

SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES OCT. 20, 1973

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19—John W. Dean 3d, the former counsel to President Nixon, pleaded guilty today to plotting to cover up the truth about the Watergate break‐in.

He made his plea as part of a bargain with the special Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox, under which Dean agreed to be a prosecution witness in future proceedings against alleged participants in the cover‐up — including, potentially, against President Nixon.

Mr. Cox allowed Dean to plead guilty irk Federal District Court here to a single felony count of conspiracy to obstruct justice and defraud the United States, punishable by a maximum five‐year prison term and a $10,000 fine, with sentencing deferred until the bargain is kept.

Mr. Cox also promised not to prosecute Dean for any other Watergate‐related crime, reserving only the right to prosecute the lawyer for perjury.

Watergate, the Final Toll:

**one presidential resignation

**one vice-presidential resignation – although Agnew’s crimes were unrelated to Watergate

**40 government officials indicted or jailed

**H.R. Haldeman and John Erlichman (White House staff), resigned 30 April 1973, subsequently jailed

**John Dean (White House legal counsel), sacked 30 April 1973, subsequently jailed

**John Mitchell, Attorney-General and Chairman of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), jailed

**Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy (ex-White House staff), planned the Watergate break-in, both jailed

**Charles Colson, special counsel to the President, jailed

**James McCord (Security Director of CREEP), jailed
http://watergate.info/analysis/casualties-and-convictions


It's like seeing the current events in a mirror, when looking at what happened in Watergate. Same political party, too. Some things never change...except that I hope the end results are the same.

[PJMcK]

1. Another similarity

Nixon and Trump both think they're above the law.

Bastards.

[Honeycombe8]

3. Yeah, I noticed that. It's as if they've taken Watergate & decided to replicate it. Creepy. n

[FirstLight]

2. Can't happen soon enough

..meanwhile the BAstards are GUTTING the entire country!