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Dean misses low profile, privacy
By CHUCK ALEXANDER
Assistant Composer Editor
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Last week's Republican National Convention here was compared to a zoo by some.
Indeed, spectators of every description and news reporters of every stripe converged at the site of almost every Republican event.
John Wesley Dean III. White House counsel during the Nixon administration and concurred with both groups this time as an observer-reporter for Rolling Stone magazine.
FWE HAVE FORGOTTEN DEAN. His excellent recall of the events that President Richard Nixon into seclusion and several amnesiac White House aides to poison. Dean also was imprisoned for his part in the cover-up but was acquitted when John Sirona after a few months.
Prohibited from practicing law, the Georgetown University Law School graduate left the Washington, D.C., area for the hills outside Los Angeles. Dean says that California is home now for him and his wife, Maureen, and that he has no intentions of moving back to Washington, although he travels there from time to time.
In an interview last week at the Ambassador Hotel, Dean began by saying, "I'm not going to be talking about anything I'm writing about (for Rolling Stone) because I be giving up my own piece. I'm seeing in getting into a lot of watergate."
However, Dean reflected on his sudden patience that resulted from Watergate.
"I STILT MISS MY ANONYMITY, which I don't have any more," he said, "and I enjoy being a private person. When I was in Washington I kept a very low profile and that profile didn't become visible until Watergate."
Dean—who once was called a bar by Lilie Nikon Eisenhower for tying her father into the Watergate cover-up, and a "stool pigeon" and a peer of Judas Iscariot by convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy—said that he was aware many people
hated him for doing what he did, but that he
was so frightened by most people
generally those at the bottom.
"I've never had anybody, in all the years since Watergate became a heated issue, ever come up to me and say anything unkind or ugly," he said. "And that has amazed me many times, because I am able to think about me—and both the fact that one, I was involved, and two, that I talked about it. They could fall on either side.
"NOBODY I'VE TALKED to has refused to speak to me. Delegates and other party people have been friendly, gracious, helpful, and if there's been any problem since I've been here, it's been with the media . . . the frequency of their requests—you know, 35, 40 calls a day. When I'm in the hall they come up and sit on the step beside me and want to talk to me. When I'm moving around town, they want to see where I'm going. The most awkward thing is handling the media, which I really hadn't anticipated."
Dean said he was qualified as a reporter, despite grumbles by some newsmen that he wasn't any more capable of being a reporter than Ray. He has also that he has asserted that Rep. Wayne Hays, D-Ohio, and kept her on his congressional payroll as his mistress. Ray was covering the converse for a magazine, for instance, but she'll be posing in the near future for a nude photo spread.
EXPLAINING HIS HIGHLICATIONS as a reporter, Dean said, "I spent 13 months at the typewriter on my book to be released and I worked at a lot of time since then doing other stuff."
Dean said he wasn't particularly interested in reporting for Rolling Stone, but welcomed reporting as a change of pace from the writing he has been doing. Dean insisted that he is not published under a pen name, but declined to reveal any publication's name.
"That would give away a nice secret," he said.
in the future and also was slated to write articles for other publications.
But for all the writing that Dean has done since Watergate—more as a means of livelihood than pleasure—he says he doesn't enovl writing.
"WRITING IS AWFUL," he said. "It's a bitch. It's uncomfortable, it's unpleasant, it's a strain. The interesting part of writing is getting ready to write--doing the research, talking to people, experiencing life, and often only enjoy part is baxing it done.
"I don't know many writers who sit down and just suddenly the sentence they want come out. I have to fool with a sentence a long time."
Dean is scheduled to write two stories for Rolling Stone: one about the convention, to appear soon, and the other, about the GOP campaign, to appear this fall.
ALTHOUGH DEAN HAS LED a much different life than he probably thought he would when he was a part of the Nixon administration, he said he had no bitterness toward anyone.
He said he planned to write another book
"I happen to like people," he said. "I know that's what life is all about—other people."
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Dean added that he didn't hold any grudges against those who took action to get the man out.
"I've been disbarred, agree with the decision that I should be disbarred, and really have no intention of practicing law again."
City considers bonds
The issuance of $152,000 in temporary bonds will be on first reading at tonight's Lawrence City Commission meeting in the commission chambers at the First National Bank.
The bonds, if approved, will be used for
the construction of sanitary sewers in the Country Club West addition of the city, and for street and sidewalk improvements in the Alvamar Creek addition.
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Discussion of other zoning and general policy matters should dominate the rest of the book.
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