Dash, Samuel

Dash, Samuel
▪ 2005

      American lawyer (b. Feb. 27, 1925, Camden, N.J.—d. May 29, 2004, Washington, D.C.), had a more than 50-year-long career, including about 40 years as a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., but attained national renown as chief counsel for what was known as the Senate Watergate Committee; his probe into the secret audiotaping system in the White House's Oval Office forced the release of the tapes' contents and led to the 1974 resignation of Pres. Richard M. Nixon. Dash was in the public eye again in the 1990s when he served for four years as ethics adviser to independent counsel Kenneth Starr in the Whitewater investigation but resigned when it became apparent to him that Starr was not impartial but instead was advocating the impeachment of Pres. Bill Clinton.

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