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...protesting a Times editorial assailing the Nixon mining of Haiphong. The ad claimed to express the opinion of ten independent citizens representing "the people." Phillip Joanou, an official who handled the Nixon committee's advertising, said the ad actually was written in the White House by Charles W. Colson, who was then Nixon's special counsel. The General Accounting Office charged the Nixon committee with violating campaign-fund laws by not reporting the use of its money for these purposes...
TIME has learned of other such devious tactics during the campaign. Charles Colson, who once said that he would "walk over my own grandmother" to help Nixon, recruited young men to pose as Gay Liberationists and wear large George McGovern buttons at rallies for the Democratic candidate, thus linking McGovern with that cause...
...mutual mudslinging as the Nixon men sought to implicate each other, few top White House aides at the time of the wiretapping remained untouched. TIME has learned, for example, that Jeb Stuart Magruder, the former deputy chief of the Nixon committee, has said that Colson knew about the Watergate bugging plans before they were carried out, and wanted the plans executed. Magruder has told federal prosecutors that Colson called him in February of 1972 and asked: "When the hell are we going to get this bugging plan approved...
...that time, Wiretapper Hunt, who had been hired by Colson, was working as a consultant at the White House. Colson was listed on White House personnel records as Hunt's supervisor. Hunt's pay vouchers were initialed by Colson's secretary. Colson has continually denied any advance knowledge of the Watergate bugging. Last week he protested to TIME: "Good God, these rumors are typical of the sickness in this town. The stories are untrue...
Last October we disclosed that the Justice Department had information indicating that Donald Segretti had been hired by two members of the White House staff to subvert the Democratic election campaign. In March, 1973, a story in TIME revealed that Presidential Counsel Charles Colson was listed in White House records as Hunt's supervisor, and that Hunt's pay vouchers for the "caper" had been signed in Colson's office...