John W. Dean III, former White House counsel under President Richard M. Nixon, was grilled by lawmakers on Monday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing where he compared President Trump to his former boss. But one of those questioning Dean approached the topic from a more personal angle than most. recalled at Monday’s hearing that his father, the late liberal author and advocate Marcus Raskin, was on Nixon’s infamous “enemies list.”“You and I are from different political parties,” Raskin told Dean as he began his questioning. You were the White House counsel for a president who put my father on his enemies list. In 1963, Raskin left the Kennedy administration and co-founded the Institute for Policy Studies, a top liberal think tank.

Source: Washington Post June 11, 2019 02:14 UTC