Word: colsons
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Indeed, the Watergate crew has turned out to be an incredibly literate band of co-conspirators, producing a stream of fiction and non-fiction that began, it seems with the first indictment Charles Colson, in his memoir, Born Again, told how Jesus--if no one else--has forgiven him for paying hush money to the Watergate burglars. In Blind Ambition, John Dean reminded us that he decided to snitch on Nixon for the good of the country--not to mention the success of his own plea-bargaining. And G. Gordon Liddy's bizarre autobiography, Will, left no doubt that...
Haldeman: Colson's gonna... do it with the Teamsters...
Haldeman also tells the President of plans to use "hardhats and Legionnaires" against antiwar demonstrators and describes how White House Operative Charles Colson surreptitiously sent one group of protesters a supply of oranges under the name of then Democratic Presidential Front Runner Edmund Muskie. The episode is thought by some to have been the beginning of a White House campaign of innuendo and slander against the former Maine Senator...
Kleindienst describes the charge that Nixon ordered him to go easy on Fitzsimmons and friends as "absolutely false. The man [Nixon] never mentioned the Teamsters to me." Former White House Aides Charles Colson and John Ehrlichman, who are said to have helped set up the Nixon-Fitzsimmons meeting, insist that they have no recollection of it. A spokesman for Nixon at first told TIME that Nixon also had no memory of a meeting with Fitzsimmons at the White House in late 1972. But when told that the meeting supposedly was arranged by Colson, the spokesman said: "Colson? Oh, now, that...
...explained to me previously, was to prepare, for the approval of Hunt's "principal," a plan to stop columnist Jack Anderson. Hunt and I often used the term "my principal" rather than identify our superiors. I, at least, had several. Hunt, to my knowledge, had only one: Chuck Colson...