Madison360: Walker more ‘Nixonian’ than Nixon, says John Dean
For baby boomers and anyone older, John W. Dean’s name conjures up 1973 television images of an earnest, bespectacled young White House lawyer testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.
That summer, Dean’s precise monotone belied his stunning testimony about the impeachable role of President Richard Nixon and illegal activities by Dean and others in the cover-up after the 1972 break-in at Democratic National Headquarters inside the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
Four decades later, Dean is an author in Beverly Hills, Calif., and is taking special note of Scott Walker, our embattled Republican governor.
Dean’s recent column on the legal website Justia.com likens Walker’s dictatorial governing style to themes Dean developed in his 2006 book titled “Conservatives Without Conscience,” in which he explores and indicts the troubling personalities of recent Republican leaders.
Dean wrote of Walker: “If I lived in Wisconsin, I would be uncomfortable with this man, whom I find more Nixonian than even Richard Nixon himself (the authoritarian leader with whom I was, and am, so very familiar).”
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Dean's column about Walker as well as other pieces linked in the article are well worth (re)reading.
