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...House Judiciary Committee be gan to climb out of its rut and seemed ready to quicken the march toward impeachment. Charles Colson, a former member of Nixon's innermost circle, confessed his criminality and professed a desire to tell all that he knows about Watergate. It was revealed that a federal grand jury had named the President as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up case - the first official citation of direct criminal association ever brought against a U.S. President. Adding to Nixon's judicial problems, a federal judge openly, threatened to cite him for contempt...
...committee completed its closed-door staff presentation of evidence and then voted with out calling witnesses. "St. Clair could keep every witness on the stand for three days," one top Democrat warned. But Rodino replied that Republicans on the committee will insist that such witnesses as John Dean, Charles Colson, John Ehrlichman, H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman and John Mitchell be called and tested under crossexamination. Rodino advised that this should be permitted, but that tight controls, including a one-day limit for each witness, should be imposed...
That may yet happen, but TIME has learned from knowledgeable people close to Colson that as he began telling his story to investigators last week, the initial outlines contradicted Nixon's public Watergate defense. Colson is saying that he talked with Nixon in both January and February of last year about a Watergate coverup. In January, he says, he told the President: "Something is going on here that is very wrong. There's got to be an investigation." Colson quotes Nixon as replying: "What do you think we ought to do?" Colson's answer...
...milkmen were willing to try again. In 1970 they pledged an additional $2 million, in part to be collected from the two other cooperatives. The promise, according to the report, was first made to Charles Colson, then a White House special counsel, and later directly to President Nixon by Associated Milk Attorney Patrick Hillings. On March 12, 1971, however, then Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin decided that no increase hi milk price supports was warranted. To reverse the decision, the cooperatives began an intensive lobbying campaign. On March 22, 1971, they delivered a first payment of $10,000 on their campaign...