Watergate

Watergate Project

Caitie Pollard

         John Dean played a major role in covering up for the Watergate scandal. John Dean fabricated the cover story for Watergate; ‘coordinating alibis and lies” ( Defining Moments: Watergate p.93) in order to conceal the truth from the public. Dean also, in the beginning stages of Watergate, read confidential reports made by investigators. Then, using the information he had gathered, Dean would hinder the investigations into Watergate. Additionally, Dean bribed the Watergate men who were arrested in order to buy their silence.

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