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...impressive list of people in the Watergate affair. The list included former Attorney General John Mitchell, who headed the Nixon committee at the time of the Watergate arrests; H.R. Haldeman, the President's White House chief of staff; John Dean III, Nixon's chief legal counsel; Charles Colson, a former Nixon counsel; and Jeb Stuart Magruder, a former White House aide and deputy director of the re-election committee who is now an assistant to the Secretary of Commerce. McCord, who faces up to 45 years in prison for his part in the wiretapping, talked in hopes...
...gather at night with clusters of lobbyists and lawyers and discuss special legislation to help industries and preserve tax loopholes. They also talk about who is getting the fat new legal fees and how to get more. One of the major points in the discussion of Presidential Aide Charles Colson's departure from the White House into private law, for instance, was the fact that he was going to get some Teamsters' law business, with a retainer reported to be $100,000 a year. What did Colson do for democracy during his Nixon years? That is mostly...
...been feted and pleaded with on the case by ITT Chairman Harold Geneen and other company executives included Vice President Spiro Agnew, former Cabinet Members John Connally, John Mitchell, Maurice Stans and Peter Peterson, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, Presidential Aide John Ehrlichman and former Presidential Aide Charles Colson. The letters between ITT and Government officials suggested that ITT wanted to drive a wedge between the Administration and Richard McLaren, then head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. ITT, in effect, was marshaling strength at the highest levels of Government to run over an Assistant Attorney General...
...White House records listed Presidential Counsel Charles Colson as Hunt's "supervisor" from June 1971 through March 1972, at least four months after Hunt had begun to recruit other wire tappers involved in the Watergate conspiracy. The records also show that Colson's secretary initialed Hunt's pay vouchers. Colson has denied "knowledge or involvement" in the Watergate bugging and has given sworn testimony that he did not see much of Hunt beyond August...
...TIME is happy to publish Mr. Colson's statement that he and Mr. Mitchell were not in any way implicated in the Watergate wiretapping case and regrets that it did not publish his prior public denials in the story. It is true that TIME'S reporter did not speak to Mr. Colson or Mr. Mitchell prior to publication; however, in the past, he tried and failed numerous times to interview Mr. Colson about the Watergate affair. It is also true that Mr. Hunt was not personally quoted and that other sources were presumably quoting Mr. Hunt...