Film: Hit and Miss

Tales of Two Conductors

By that point, he had already resigned from the Nixon administration (in 1972), and the Watergate scandals had metastasized. Who actually ordered the infamous break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters? Rosen reckons it was White House counsel John Dean, who subsequently led “the effort to funnel hush money to the burglars and their attorneys.” Dean claimed that Mitchell had given the order.