Key witness during Watergate scandal to testify before House committeeSign up to the US briefing and get a new perspective 3.01pm BST Watergate star witness John Dean says he’ll be providing a House panel “some context” and comparison between investigations during Nixon’s administration and that of Donald Trump, the AP writes.He told CNN he’ll tell the House judiciary committee on Monday, in the hearing commencing in Washington at 2PM, “how strikingly like Watergate what we’re seeing now, as reported in the Mueller report, is.” 2.50pm BST John Wesley Dean III served as White House counsel to Nixon from July 1970 until he was fired in April 1973. He captivated the attention of Americans, though, with his televised testimony in June 1973 before the Senate Watergate Committee, the New York Times wrote in 2018. Mr. Dean sat at a table — in a tan suit and signature horn rim glasses, his wife, Maureen, behind him — and told the senators that Nixon was directly involved in the Watergate cover-up. He was one of the first officials in the Nixon administration to speak out. Continue reading…
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