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Echoes Of Watergate: Nixon White House Counsel On Trump Presidency

The Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, where a 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party HQ engulfed a presidency.
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The Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, where a 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party HQ engulfed a presidency.

It started with a break-in at Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in 1972, and ended with the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974. White House Counsel John Dean soon found himself embroiled in the Watergate scandal and eventually testified against Nixon in Congressional hearings.  Dean is in Ohio this week speaking to the Ohio State Bar Association about the lessons learned from Watergate and the parallels to the Trump White House.

He joins us this afternoon along with WVXU Politics Reporter Howard Wilkinson.

For more information about the OSBA CLE program, From Nixon’s Watergate to Trump’s White House: Lessons Learned, click here.

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