Subject: John Dean

• A Waste of $106,641

  Yesterday, the good folks at Think Progress were having a little fun with the White House payroll. Drawing on a list of White House salaries published in the National Journal, the TPers determined the four most overpaid White House staffers. Tucked away between ethics advisers and White House's Director of Fact Checking (no doubt a very lonely job in an administration that uses the phrase "reality based" to dismiss critics) was Stuart Baker, Director for Lessons Learned. Leaving aside for the m

  July 12, 2006

• Rummy "Slimy", Not "Slimmy"

  While discussing his new book, Conservatives without Conscience, on Firedoglake's Book Salon, John Dean, who first gained fame as the most honest man in the Nixon White House (which admittedly is a little like being the best ice skater in the Sahara), reminisced about the role of a young Donald Rumsfeld in the administration of Yorba Linda's favorite son (and current leading roadside attraction). Long before he became the guiding light of our adventure in Iraq, Rummy was already showing signs o

  September 5, 2006

• Why Won't the Times Print Obscene Jokes About Blacks?

  The Los Angeles Times ran an obituary today on Earl Butz, the Secretary of Agriculture under Yorba Linda boy Richard Nixon. Per the obit, "He was forced to resign his Cabinet post in October 1976 after telling an obscene joke that was derogatory to blacks." The Times, in its ever-genteel ways, didn't even bother to hint at Butz's crack, but we at the Weekly give it to you in its entirety after the jump!

  February 3, 2008

• Camp Dick

  April 20, 2000

• The Year in Bits: January- June

  January 4, 2001

• Year in Review

  January 4, 2001

• Dick Nixons Orange County

  August 12, 1999

• Taylor Remade

  March 18, 1999

• Dead-End Presidents

  Crimes of the Oval Office

  September 7, 2006

• Don't Gloat Yet

  December 29, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 4, 2005

• Tricky Dicks

  March 17, 2005

• Minimize This

  November 25, 2004

• Were No. 2!

  June 24, 2004

• Burning Bush

  May 6, 2004

• Dodge the Spin, Spinning Newspaper

  April 15, 2004

• An Informed Citizenry

  June 19, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 8, 2003

• The Other

  August 30, 2001

• Year in Review

  January 4, 2001

• They Live!

  October 8, 1998

• WTF Alert!?! John Dean Coming to Nixon Library!

  John Dean, shown last year, is coming to the Nixon Library.Over the years, the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Museum, Taqueria & Polo Grounds in Yorba Linda has hosted such speakers as Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O'Reilly, William J. Bennett, Dick Cheney and probably even more repulsive folks--if that's even possible--that I'm forgetting.After the partisan Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation that had been running the place turned over the keys to the National Archives--w

  June 10, 2009

• Nixon Foundation Kicks Around John Dean, Tim Naftali

  Dean riles Nixonites, again and again. The most interesting part of Melody Chiu's Register report on former Nixon White House counsel John Dean speaking at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Wednesday night was not the speech itself, but the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation's attempts to torpedo that and other "controversial" events presented by the National Archives.  As Michael Mello revealed in an earlier Register piece, the foundat

  June 18, 2009

• Richard Nixon in the Rotten.com Library

  I'm sure Clockwork Coker will wax wonderfully about the latest secret recordings of former President Richard Nixon, but I also want to use the occasion of this round of the gift that keeps on giving to draw attention to Nixon's entry in the Rotten.com Library. Don't worry: you can click on the entry and not find decapitated heads, legs swarming with maggots, and the like--that's plain ol' Rotten.com, and they don't update as much as they used to. Anyway, the beginning of their entry, and it only

  June 24, 2009

• Richard Nixon Lovers Hate Kids and Christmas!

  To demonstrate its displeasure with the federally run Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum having booked an appearance by former Nixon White House counsel [and current Nixonite Watergate fall guy] John Dean, the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation last month pulled back $150,000 it had pledged to co-sponsor events at the Yorba Linda facility. This proved no big whoop at first as the federal government made up for the shortfall at the museum, which is part

  July 21, 2009

• And Speaking of John Dean in Orange County . . .

  UPDATED WITH CORRECTED GENDER FOR ONE MAN, JOB DESCRIPTION FOR ANOTHER (THANK YOU, REV. TAYLOR). Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, whose June appearance drew 300 people to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and the wrath of the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation, is returning to Orange County next month."The Fullerton Public Library proudly presents an author talk with John W. Dean, best-selling author of Worse Than Watergate," states the fli

  July 21, 2009

• George McGovern Spreads Peace at the Warring Nixon Library

  George McGovern, peacemaker​It took former U.S. Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota) to bring peace to the library and museum dedicated to the memory of his opponent in the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon.  Ten weeks after the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation announced it was ending co-sponsorships with the federally funded Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum over the museum-sponsored, June 17 appearance by John Dean, the foundation and mus

  August 25, 2009

• Wattergate: The Final Chapter

  November 5, 2009