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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.[1]

Producer Renee Valente earned an Emmy nomination for the series.[2]

Part I ranked as the 15th most-watched show for the week of May 14–20, 1979,[3] and Parts IV, II, and III, respectively, ranked as the 11th-13th most watched primetime shows of the following week.[4]
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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 coordinator
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

TV Guide Guide to TV. Barnes and Noble. 2004. pp. 75. ISBN 0-7607-5634-1.
Barnes, Mike (2016-02-22). "Renee Valente, Casting Executive and Pioneering Producer, Dies at 88". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
(23 May 1979) TV Ratings, The New York Times

(31 May 1979). TV Ratings, The New York Times

External links

Blind Ambition at IMDb

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Richard Nixon

37th President of the United States (1969–1974) 36th Vice President of the United States (1953–1961) U.S. Senator from California (1950–1953) U.S. Representative for CA–12 (1947–1950)

Pre-presidency

Checkers speech Vice presidency
Presidential transition of Dwight D. Eisenhower 1958 motorcade attack Kitchen Debate Operation 40 Presidential transition of John F. Kennedy

Presidency
(timeline)

Transition First inauguration Second inauguration "Bring Us Together" Silent majority 1970 Lincoln Memorial visit State of the Union Address (1970 1973 1974) Wilson desk Judicial appointments
Supreme Court controversies Executive Orders Presidential Proclamations

Foreign policy

Nixon Doctrine Vietnam War
Cambodian bombing Paris Peace Accords "Peace with Honor" Vietnamization Cold War period
Linkage policy Tar Baby Option 1972 visit to China
Shanghai Communiqué 1973 Chilean coup d'état Détente
1972 Moscow Summit Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty SALT I Treaty Prevention of Nuclear War Agreement Threshold Test Ban Treaty Operation CHAOS Space exploration

Economic policy

Bank Secrecy Act Fair Credit Reporting Act National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1970 Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 Nixon shock
Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 Smithsonian Agreement Occupational Safety and Health Act
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Occupational Safety and Health Administration Permissible exposure limit U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer Product Safety Act Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970 Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act Securities Investor Protection Act
Securities Investor Protection Corporation Tax Reform Act of 1969
Alternative minimum tax Revenue Act of 1971 Agricultural Act of 1970 Farm Credit Act of 1971 Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1972 Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act

Environmental
policy

Council on Environmental Quality
Environmental Quality Improvement Act National Environmental Policy Act Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Air Amendments of 1970 Clean Water Act Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act National Ambient Air Quality Standards National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants New Source Performance Standards Noise Control Act Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Zone Management Act
Coastal Zone Management Program Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 Endangered Species Act of 1969 Endangered Species Act of 1973 Oil Pollution Act of 1973 Water Resources Development Act of 1974

Social policy

Family Assistance Plan Revised Philadelphia Plan Minority Business Development Agency Native American policy
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Education Amendments of 1972
Title IX National Cancer Act of 1971 End Stage Renal Disease Program Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act Shafer Commission War on Drugs
Drug Enforcement Administration Cannabis policy Federal Contested Elections Act Federal Election Campaign Act Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970 District of Columbia Home Rule Act

Watergate

Timeline
Operation Sandwedge Operation Gemstone Saturday Night Massacre CRP White House Plumbers Watergate Seven Enemies List
list of opponents White House tapes United States v. Nixon (1974) Senate Watergate Committee
impeachment process "I am not a crook" Resignation
speech Pardon

Life and
politics

Richard Nixon Foundation Presidential Library and Museum Birthplace and boyhood home "Last press conference" Florida White House "La Casa Pacifica" Nixon Center Nixon v. General Services Administration (1977) Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982) Death and state funeral

Books

Six Crises (1962) Bibliography

Elections

U.S. House of Representatives: 1946 1948 U.S. Senate: 1950 California gubernatorial election: 1962 GOP presidential primaries: 1960 1964 1968 1972 GOP national conventions: 1952 1956 1960 1968
campaign 1972 Presidential elections: 1952 1956 1960
debates 1968 1972

Popular
culture

"Nixon goes to China" Millhouse (1971 film) An Evening with Richard Nixon (1972 play) Richard (1972 film) Another Nice Mess (1972 film) Four More Years (1972 film) Impeach the President (1973 song) The Werewolf of Washington (1973 film) White House Madness (1975 film) All the President's Men (1976 film) The Public Burning (1977 novel) Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977 miniseries) Secret Honor (1984 film) Nixon in China (1987 opera) The Final Days (1989 film) Nixon (1995 film) Elvis Meets Nixon (1997 film) Futurama (1999 TV series) Dick (1999 film) Nixon's China Game (2000 film) Dark Side of the Moon (2002 film) The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004 film) Frost–Nixon interviews (2006 play, 2008 film) Black Dynamite (2009 film) "The Impossible Astronaut" (2011 TV episode) Our Nixon (2013 film) X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014 film) Crooked (2015 novel) Elvis & Nixon (2016 film) The Post (2017 film) Watergate (2019 board game) U.S. postage stamp

Related

Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act Presidential Townhouse Richard Nixon mask

Staff

Jack Brennan (aide de camp) Murray Chotiner (early campaign manager) Manolo Sanchez (valet) Rose Mary Woods (secretary)

Family

Thelma "Pat" Ryan Nixon (wife) Tricia Nixon Cox (daughter) Julie Nixon Eisenhower (daughter) Christopher Nixon Cox (grandson) Jennie Eisenhower (granddaughter) Francis A. Nixon (father) Hannah Milhous Nixon (mother) Donald Nixon (brother) Edward Nixon (brother)

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