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...term of 2½ to 8 years, Mitchell became the first U.S. Attorney General ever to serve a prison sentence, and the last indicted Watergate figure to go to jail. His crimes: perjury, obstructing justice and conspiracy. Only one day earlier, former White House Chief of Staff H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman, who had been convicted of the same offenses and received the same punishment, surrendered to the federal camp at Lompoc, Calif...
...Armed Guards. Haldeman and Mitchell thus became the 24th and 25th prisoners of the scandal, and the final major Watergate figures to be jailed. Last week the Justice Department closed the office of the special Watergate prosecutor. The few remaining investigations of Nixon campaign contributors and other spillovers of Watergate will flow through Justice's normal channels...
...Haldeman-prison number: 01489-163(B) -and Mitchell - 24171-157-must each serve 30 months before they become eligible for parole. Both men are doing their time in minimum security prisons-unfenced facilities with no armed guards and no violent convicts. The two camps have acres of grassy lawns. Mitchell's borders a golf course and a river in which convicts can fish. Haldeman's sits at the edge of a blossom-filled valley devoted to the commercial production of flower seeds. Both prisons have outdoor playing fields and recreational periods that stretch from...
...spring of 1975, Mee was asked to collaborate on a book with H.R. Haldeman. A founder of the National Committee on the Presidency, which lobbied for Richard Nixon's impeachment, Mee nonetheless flew to California for several days of ultimately pointless discussions. The meetings with Haldeman were touchingly anticlimactic. The man looked scrubbed, healthy, pleasant, infuriatingly unscarred. He showed Mee his annotated books about Watergate; with relentless precision, Haldeman had used green, yellow or red Magic Markers to underline passages according to their degree of veracity...
...Haldeman visit is relatively brief; it is the "other states of mind" that preoccupy Mee. He reflects on his Midwestern Catholic boyhood, his adolescent, nearly fatal struggle against polio - an illness that drove him into intellectualism as a kind of self-defense. He describes his career at Harvard and his two marriages, both of which cracked up. It was during the Cuban missile crisis that Mee decided to leave home: "If I was to die, I told myself, I did not wish to die with my first wife." He loved the time for its vivid gaiety: "I thought...