Word: jeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...next break came on April 11, when Jeb Magruder's chief assistant, Robert Reisner, appeared before the grand jury. With knowledge of his boss's activities, he apparently backed most of McCord's testimony, including the claim that Magruder had attended a February meeting with Mitchell about the bugging plans. But a greater revelation came three days later, on April 14, when Magruder went to Justice Department officials and told of the February meeting with Mitchell and Dean. This was the first confirmation by any participant in the meeting that the Watergate bugging had been discussed at this high level...
...JEB STUART MAGRUDER, 38, formerly deputy campaign director of C.R.P. A Californian who looks as if he could pose for old Arrow-shirt ads, Magruder was president of a small cosmetics firm before he entered politics. He was coordinator of Nixon's 1968 campaign in Los Angeles, went to Washington in 1969 as a special assistant to the President. He was a favorite of White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman...
...Jeb Stuart Magruder, former deputy director of C.R.P., told TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey: "Listen, when this is all over, you'll know that there were only seven people who knew about the Watergate, and they are the seven who were indicted by the grand jury...
...President's efforts have been misdirected. The American people will not settle for a man like Jeb Stuart Magruder, who radiates beleaguered honesty from every pore. The American people want a Harvard dean. The self-styled progressives who take their vacations in Hanoi have never understood this, and they never will. But the American people will not be duped. These are the facts...