Using Legacy of Watergate, John Dean to Teach Ethics - NYTimes.com

John Dean in 2006 (AP photo)

Using Legacy of Watergate, John Dean to Teach Ethics - NYTimes.com: "When John W. Dean III testified before the Senate Watergate Committee in June 1973, he handed over a list of names of those in the Nixon administration he believed had broken the law. His own name was on the list, along with 15 others.


Senator Herman Talmadge asked about an odd feature of the list: asterisks. Why, the Georgia senator asked, had the former White House counsel placed an asterisk by more than two-thirds of the names?


Because, Mr. Dean replied, each was a lawyer."