Playboy Interview: John Dean

January, 1975

Playboy Interview: John DeanWhen he was a boy, he had been caught at some mischief and tried to worm his way out of it. "You're cornered, son," his father said, "and when you're cornered, there's only one way out: Tell the truth." That made sense to John Wesley Dean III, and some 30 years later--trapped this time in a web of intrigue he had helped weave around the White House--it still did. In March of 1973, Dean decided to tell everything he knew--or at least everything he h...