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Watergate At 50: Is Everything We Know Wrong?

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The Law of Conspiracy

In Watergate, John Dean was the centrepiece of watergate. Now dean has been cast as a hero for his role in covering up Nixon's cover-up. The investigation became so politicized that an dant prosecutor wouldn't be supervised by the department of justice. 20 of my friends go to jail. Some should some should have gone to jail. But they were so eager to convict nixon and his top associates, sometimes on weak evidence, that they started cutting corners. And then you and their star witness was john dean. He'd recruited gordonletty. He'd been to meetings where it was discussed he was the master manipulator of the cover up. For dean to be

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