John Dean, the former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, will be Madison on Friday to deliver the University of Wisconsin Law School's 2013 Kastenmeier Lecture.
Dean's lecture is expected to draw on his days in Washington, D.C., as a young attorney -- having only been 31 when he was appointed -- to his ideas on the influence of power and ethics in government.
Dean served as counsel from July 1970 until April 1973 when Nixon fired him for refusing to complete a report on the Watergate cover-up. Soon after, Dean became the first White House official to accuse the president of direct involvement in...
