John Dean Quotes
The White House is another world. Expediency is everything.
John Dean, Counselor to the President (Republican), Quoted in The New York Post, June 18, 1973
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He and his Prime Minister, John Majors, had become so unpopular, that they were forced to resign by their own Conservative Party and never had to be voted out of office.
Much obviously is but every President and his White House deals with issues and problems where there is no time or opportunity to take the effect on electoral politics into consideration. Many actions are taken without any such consideration, sometimes to the regret of the President’s political staff. Even then, the press tends to believe that it was a blunder, that the White House misjudged public opinion or the like when in reality, the President and staff never even considered it.
The discussion was about Ronald Reagan who had always castigated government, but when he became Governor of California and President of the Untied States, he set all records for expanding the size of government and government spending until George W. Bush expanded the government and created a budget deficit even larger than Reagan’s. Bush also constantly denounced big government and even government of any size.
Indeed Senator Thomas Collier Platt, in cooperation with major New York corporations, was leading just such an effort. See {624063}. However, many close friends and supporters wanted him to do for the national ticket what he had done for New York—reform. These schemes succeeded beyond the proponents’ wildest dreams when President McKinley was assassinated, and TR was the President. His enemies however were crestfallen—Party leader Thomas Collier Platt was very distressed. See {585078}.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
Presidential aides John Erlichman & Robert Haldeman
John Wesley Dean III is a former attorney who served as White House Counsel for United States President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Dean is known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal and his subsequent testimony to Congress as a witness. His guilty plea to a single felony in exchange for becoming a key witness for the prosecution ultimately resulted in a reduced sentence, which he served at Fort Holabird outside Baltimore, Maryland. After his plea, he was disbarred as an attorney. According to the FBI, Dean was the "master manipulator" of the Watergate affair.
