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Blind Ambition

The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.

1979 |1 Season  | 2h 0m |  War & Politics, Drama

Cast

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Martin Sheen

John Dean

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Theresa Russell

Maureeen Dean

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Michael Callan

Charles Colson

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Lonny Chapman

L. Patrick Gray

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William Daniels

G. Gordon Liddy

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Clifford David

Fred Fielding

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Ed Flanders

Charles Shaffer

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Fred Grandy

Donald Segretti

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Christopher Guest

Jeb Stuart Magruder

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Graham Jarvis

John Ehrlichman

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Gerald S. O'Loughlin

John J. 'Jack' Caufield

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Alan Oppenheimer

George Simonson

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Lawrence Pressman

H.R. Haldeman

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John Randolph

John Mitchell

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Peter Mark Richman

Robert Mardian

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William Schallert

Herbert Kalmbach

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James Sloyan

Ronald Ziegler

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Rip Torn

Richard M. Nixon

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William Windom

Richard Kleindienst

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Patrick Collins

Gordon Strachan

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Kip Niven

Egil Krogh

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Garn Stephens

Carol Thompson

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Logan Ramsey

J. Edgar Hoover

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James Greene

E. Howard Hunt

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Mitzi Hoag

May-Chapin's Secretary

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Darrell Zwerling

Frederick LaRue

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Cathleen Cordell

Pat Nixon

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Terence McGovern

Jack Garfield

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Jenny O'Hara

Liz Garfield

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Al Checco

Judge John Sirica

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Rosemary DeCamp

Maureen Dean's Mother

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David Sheiner

Sam Dash

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Ross Bickell

Tom Huston

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Harry Basch

Gen. Walters

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Creator

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Status

Ended

Languages

English

Network

CBS