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Blind Ambition (miniseries)
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Wikipedia article
'Blind Ambition' is a four-part American miniseries that aired on CBS from May 20, 1979 to May 23, 1979 focusing on the Watergate coverup and based on the memoirs of former White House counsel John Dean and his wife Maureen.
Producer Renee Valente earned an Emmy nomination for the series.
Part I ranked as the 15th most-watched show for the week of May 1420, 1979,(23 May 1979) [https://mobile.nytimes.com/1979/05/23/archives/tv-ratings.html TV Ratings], 'The New York Times' and Parts IV, II, and III, respectively, ranked as the 11th-13th most watched primetime shows of the following week.(31 May 1979). [https://mobile.nytimes.com/1979/05/31/archives/tv-ratings.html?mcubz=0 TV Ratings], 'The New York Times'
Cast
* Martin Sheen as John Dean, Nixon White House counsel and coordinator of the Watergate cover-up turned star witness
* Rip Torn as President Richard Nixon
* Theresa Russell as Maureen Dean
* William Daniels as G. Gordon Liddy, former FBI agent, one of the head White House Plumbers and one of the Watergate Seven
* Graham Jarvis as John Ehrlichman, Nixon chief domestic advisor
* John Randolph as John Mitchell, former Attorney General
* Lawrence Pressman as H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, Nixon White House Chief of Staff
* Ed Flanders as Charlie Shaffer, Dean's lawyer
* Peter Mark Richman as Robert Mardian, political CRP coodinator
* James Sloyan as Ronald Ziegler, Nixon White House press secretary
* William Windom as Richard Kleindienst, Attorney General succeeding Mitchell
* Lonny Chapman as L. Patrick Gray, acting FBI director
* Christopher Guest as Jeb Stuart Magruder, CRP coordinator turned witness
* James Karen as Earl Silbert, federal prosecutor
* Kip Niven as Egil "Bud" Krogh, Nixon executive assistant who worked with the White House Plumbers
* Michael Callan as Charles Colson, Nixon White House counsel preceding Dean
* David Sheiner as Samuel Dash, Georgetown law professor and chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee
References
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