The Watergate Timeline

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Tuesday, April 03, 1973

Dean meets with his new lawyer, Charles Schaffer, who tells him he's got serious problems and is likely guilty of conspiring to obstruct justice.

"There is a way to untie the Watergate knot."

Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) | Associate Director of the FBI