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...read of Richard Kleindienst's loss of composure at his sentencing [June 17], I realized that all these men, including Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Magruder and even possibly Colson, were not the over-zealous corrupters of the office of the presidency. Rather they were the idealistic dupes of a corrupt, embittered President intent upon the political and financial destruction of all his imagined enemies...
...Attorney General John Mitchell; former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman; William O. Bittman, former lawyer for convicted Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt; and Paul L. O'Brien, a lawyer for Nixon's re-election committee. The fifth member of the backup list is Charles W. Colson, who has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in the Ellsberg burglary case (see following stories). He is not one of the witnesses whom St. Clair wants the committee to call. Although St. Clair had first said that Colson's testimony could help Nixon's case, he apparently...
...without telling anyone, not even the members of his prayer group, former Presidential Aide Charles Colson phoned Richard Lee Bast, 41, who is regarded as Washington's best and toughest private detective. Colson wanted to talk to Bast about a very sensitive matter. Three days later they huddled for two hours in Bast's house in McLean, Va.; they met there once again on May 31. Last week Bast, who made extensive notes of both conversations, revealed his version of what Chuck Colson said. Even in the Watergate environment, where the unbelievable often comes true, Colson...
Bast has a reputation for honesty. Except for a single detail, Colson by week's end had not challenged the story. He admitted that he had met with Bast "in confidence to explore a possible professional relationship. None of the statements I made to Mr. Bast were intended for public consumption." Bast waited until Colson was sentenced to release the story. He thought it was important enough to be made public. And, says Bast, Colson agreed...
Later in the week the short upward zig in Nixon's survival prospects flattened out somewhat when Charles W. Colson, the President's former counsel and chief White House political operative, was sentenced to prison for obstruction of justice-and said in court that he had committed the crime on direct orders from Nixon. A recent convert to evangelical Christianity, Colson seemed bent on telling the truth to the House Judiciary Committee and its impeachment investigators. Perhaps only Nixon and Colson know how damaging that may prove to the President...