John Dean is a writer and lecturer, and special counsel for the Consumer Bankers Association, a lobbying group for major college lenders. He is the author of Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches and The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It.
Dean served as counsel to President Richard Nixon.
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