An Hour With John Dean.

Forty years of excuses and explanations have done nothing to diminish the chill a retelling of the Watergate scandal elicits. WNPR’s John Dankosky’s included me in his interview with Watergate villain and Nixon White House counsel John Dean this morning. Here’s a link to one of our exchanges. He did not explain how Carol Channing, Bill Cosby and every black member of the House of Representatives were threats to “our administration.”

Here’s Dean’s notorious White House enemies list memo.

Dean says nothing happened with the list, but not because of anything he did. The head of the IRS at the time, Johnnie Mac Walters, did the right thing and refused to act on Dean’s ugly request. Here’s a 2013 USA Today story on Walters and his rectitude. The enemies list did not stay in Dean’s desk.