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...Watergate cast, few had a reputation for being tougher, wilier, nastier or more tenaciously loyal to Richard Nixon than onetime Presidential Adviser Charles W. Colson. The former Marine captain is alleged by Jeb Stuart Magruder to have urged the original Watergate bugging and has been implicated in a host of other dirty tricks, including the forgery of a State Department cable. At the peak of his influence, he proudly boasted that his commitment to the re-election of the President was such that "I would walk over my grandmother if necessary...
...Woods did accidentally erase the tapes. If so, Nixon, with good cause, may feel his subordinates failed him. This is just the last in a long string of "failures" which serve the president, the reductio ad absurdum of the conduct of Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Magruder, Stans, LaRue, Liddy, Colson, Mardian, Kalmbach...
...conducted before present campaign-financing laws became effective, and no accounting of it has ever been made public. The story of how the money was raised and what became of it is presumably still contained in a satchel of reports that Gleason delivered to former White House Counsel Charles Colson in December 1970. Cox's investigators believed that the Town House operation is potentially one of the most explosive scandals in Washington, but White House lawyers refused to provide information about it on the ground that Cox had no claim to evidence bearing on any campaign except that...
...Misgivings. Much of the questioning centered on Hunt's relationship with his original White House sponsor and boss, former Special Counsel Charles W. Colson. Hunt contended that his memory had been refreshed in private questioning by the committee staff and so he could now testify that in January 1972, Colson had indicated an awareness of the political intelligence plan that led to the Watergate breakin...
...past, Colson has denied any prior knowledge of the Watergate breakin, let alone involvement in it. TIME has learned, however, that Hunt told the committee in a private interview that Colson "was aware" by December 1971 or January 1972 of the "large-scale intelligence plan." Moreover, Hunt told the committee that he had received the impression from Conspirator G. Gordon Liddy that-in the words of a committee digest of the interview-"Colson had discussed Gemstone [the wiretapping operation] with Liddy...