John Dean Blind Ambition
Producer renee valente earned an emmy nomination for the series.
John dean blind ambition. Dean said the new version exposed his critics as fast buck artists who conjured up a distorted image of the truth. A lot of what dean writes in blind ambition is self serving bullshit. Blind ambition is a four part american miniseries that aired on cbs from may 20 1979 to may 23 1979 focusing on the watergate coverup and based on the memoirs of former white house counsel john dean and his wife maureen.
Blind ambition was ghost written by taylor branch and later was made into a 1979 tv miniseries with martin sheen playing dean. Gordon liddy for claims in liddy s book will and st. Part i ranked as the 15th most watched show for the week of may 14 20 1979 and parts iv ii and iii.
Television series docu drama traces the career of john dean special counsel of president nixon. He rose through the ranks to become deputy attorney general and developed a close relationship with mitchell. With martin sheen michael callan william daniels clifford david.
Dean took complete ownership of blind ambition dean colodny interview transcript and tape january 5 1989. In 1992 dean hired famed attorney neil papiano and brought the first in a series of defamation suits against g. The white house years is a detailed memoir by john dean of the time he served as white house counsel to president richard nixon.
The very long about 6 hours and historically accurate saga of president richard nixon and the watergate scandal as presented by john dean iii and maureen d. John dean s service in government started in the justice department under the tutelage of attorney general john mitchell. John dean s autobiography blind ambition has stirred controversy since its publication in 1976 including a 2009 revision that contains a fresh afterword and what dean called new evidence that linked president richard nixon to the watergate break in.
Dean has written about watergate in his new york times bestsellers blind ambition and the nixon defense. Martin s press for its publication of the book silent coup by len colodny and robert gettlin. 1938 served as white house counsel for president richard nixon from 1970 to 1973.
Page two of the dean section contains a lengthy interview with john dean 01 05 1989 in which he contradicts himself on many key subjects including his role in the famous nixon smoking gun tape.
