The New York Times publishes an article today about a fight brewing between scholars of Watergate. Apparently, the man responsible for developing the transcripts of the Watergate tapes transcribed them in such a way to paint a benign portrait of John Dean.  What I find surprising is that nowhere in the article is there a mention of The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate by James Rosen, a superb book on Nixon's Attorney General who became the fall guy for Watergate. Rosen worked for many years to uncover the true story of Watergate. He revealed throughout the book that a reexamination of the tapes showed that John Dean was at the heart of Watergate and worked to place the blame on Mitchell and others around Nixon.Why no mention of this book, well-received elsewhere but not even reviewed by the New York Times? Could it be that the Times just did not want to promote a book written by a Fox News journalist? News Corporation, which owns Fox News, and the New York...(Read Full Post)