Daily Briefing - Monday September 13, 2010

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John Dean became Counsel to the President of the United States Richard Nixon in July 1970 at age thirty-one. Prior to that, John Dean was Chief Minority Counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives, the Associate Director of a law reform commission, and Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States. Today, John Dean is a best-selling author who writes on the law, government, and politics. He recounted his days in the Nixon White House and Watergate in two books, Blind Ambition and Lost Honor. He has authored eight books in total, including the best-sellers Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, Conservatives Without Conscience and Broken Government: How Republican Rule destroyed the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches. His latest, co-authored with Barry M. Goldwater is Pure Goldwater.

Peter A. Brown is the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, where he is the chief spokesman for the Florida and Ohio polls. He has more than 30 years of experience as a political journalist and editor in Washington, D.C., New England and Florida. Previously he was a political reporter for United Press International. He also served as the White House correspondent and then political editor for Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C.

Hakan Özoglu is a professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Central Florida. Prior to moving to Florida, he taught at the University of Chicago. Professor Ozoolu grew up in Istanbul, played soccer professionally, and then worked as a journalist in several Turkish daily newspapers before coming to the United States for his doctoral work in history. His most recent book is, Kurdish Nobles and the Ottoman State.