Why was john dean’s testimony against president nixon so damaging?
a.) dean had been a lawyer for two of the watergate burglars.
b.) dean had been an important official in the white house.
c.) dean had been a lawyer for the democratic national committee.
d.)dean had been involved in the burglary himself.

B.) Dean had been an important official in the White House.

Explanation: During Nixon rule John Wesley Dean III served as the White house counsel, from 1970 until 1973. Nixon and his White House aides tried to cover-up the Watergate break-in. They secretly paid the burglars to keep quiet as they waited for trial. Nixon aides also began destroying evidence not only of the Watergate break-in but other “dirty tricks” ordered by the White House. By January 1973, when the burglars were convicted, it appeared that the cover-up had worked, but in following months the conspiracy unraveled as various people, including John Dean, legal counsel to the president, began to cooperate with Senate investigators and later Justice Department prosecutors.

On April 30, Ehrlichman and Haldeman resigned (they would later serve time in prison, as would John Dean and former attorney general John Mitchell), together with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. A few days later, the president nervously assured the public in a television address, “I am not a crook.” Then John Dean, whom Nixon had dismissed because of his cooperation with prosecutors, testified to the Ervin committee in the Senate over the course of five riveting days, revealing that there had been a White House–orchestrated cover-up approved by the president.

your answer is c i hope that

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