

Blind Ambition
1979-05-20 · 120 min / episode · ★ 6.3
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.
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- United States of America
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Martin SheenJohn Dean
Theresa RussellMaureeen Dean
Lonny ChapmanL. Patrick Gray
William DanielsG. Gordon Liddy
Clifford DavidFred Fielding
Ed FlandersCharles Shaffer
Fred GrandyDonald Segretti
Christopher GuestJeb Stuart Magruder
Graham JarvisJohn Ehrlichman
Gerald S. O'LoughlinJohn J. 'Jack' Caufield
Alan OppenheimerGeorge Simonson
Lawrence PressmanH.R. Haldeman
John RandolphJohn Mitchell
Peter Mark RichmanRobert Mardian
William SchallertHerbert Kalmbach
James SloyanRonald Ziegler
Rip TornRichard M. Nixon
William WindomRichard KleindienstTitle information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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