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CHARLES W. COLSON...
Mitchell, then head of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, and Charles W. Colson, who at the time was on the White House staff as special counsel to the President...
...Pigs invasion of Cuba. At that time, the four men were convinced that Hunt spoke secretly for the U.S. Government; apparently they still are. In 1972, when Hunt recruited them into the Watergate conspiracy, he grandly told them: "It's got to be done. My friend Colson wants it. Mitchell wants it." Colson is in fact an old friend of Hunt's; it was he who got Hunt onto the White House staff in 1971 as a $100-a-day consultant. Hunt also told the four that their old enemy Fidel Castro was sending money indirectly...
...Nixon aide in one of the few comments made during a week of almost total news blackout. Many higher-ups in the Administration have given their notice. Among those slated to leave: Presidential Counsellor Robert Finch, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, HUD Secretary George Romney, White House Special Counsel Charles Colson, Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Transportation Chief John Volpe. Ostentatiously absent from the round of meetings was White House Aide Dwight Chapin, who had been compromised by being tied into the Watergate scandal. "Chapin has got to go," declared a White House adviser. U.S. Treasurer Romana Banuelos would seem...
...Administration ploy was part of a long feud with the Post, exacerbated in recent months by the paper's relentless pursuit of the Watergate and other political-espionage stories. Reverting to "frontal attacks" after the Horner stories appeared, Presidential Special Counsel Charles W. Colson accused the Post of "McCarthyism" in its use of anti-G.O.P. allegations. Colson described Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee as the "self-appointed leader of a tiny fringe of arrogant elitists." Remarked Bradlee: "I just don't think I'm going to answer that stuff from Mr. Colson." His reaction...