Daily Archives: March 26, 2013

McCord names Dean in Watergate bugging 40 years ago today (1973)


Video: Mar. 23-26, 1973 (at 2:39)

(Monday, March 26, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — James W. McCord Jr., a convicted Watergate conspirator, says White House Counsel John W. Dean, the man U.S. President Richard Nixon appointed to investigate the Watergate bugging, himself “was involved in preparations for the bugging,” the Los Angeles Times reported today.