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Chapter 10 - **__ CHARLES COLSON : __** Charles Colson was born in Boston in October 1931. He joined the marine corps after graduating Brown university. Subsequently, he was named Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In 1956, he became an administration assistant to Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall and in 1969, he was appointed to the White House Staff Council to Richard Nixon. He then began to get involved with the scandalous activities of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP). On March 20th, 1971, for example, it was decided that $250,000 should be spent on gathering information about the Democratic Party. E. Howard Hunt, also a member of CREEP, was appointed to investigate the Democratic Party. On May 15th,1972, Arthur Bremer attempted to assassinate George Wallace at a presidential campaign rally in Laurel, Maryland. Colson ordered Hunt to go through Bremer’s home to find out if the Democratic Party had been involved. Paranoid precautions were taken and electronic devices were placed in the Democratic Party campaign offices located in an apartment black called Watergate. As a result of the Watergate scandal, Colson also began cooperating with federal prosecutors and in 1974, he pleaded guilty to Watergate-related charges. He was given a one-to-three year sentence. However, he only served seven months at Alabama's Maxwell Prison.

John W. Dean III began work as a chief minority counsel in the 1960’s for the House Judiciary Committee. Later, he worked as an associate deputy for the Attorney General’s office, and in 1970, he was appointed to President Nixon’s White House counsel. As the Watergate Scandal began snowballing, he privately informed Nixon that there was a “cancer of the presidency” as Hunt’s demands for “hush money” kept coming. Dean was the first White House official to accuse the president of direct involvement in the Watergate cover-up. When the two reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward publicized the scandal, Dean claimed that Nixon knew of it all along.
 * __ John W. Dean III: [[image:john-dean.jpg align="right"]] __**

Archibald Cox was born on May 17, 1912. He graduated from Harvard University at the top of his class and went on to work at a Boston law firm. He was shortly promoted to a solicitor in the labor department during World War II. He then became a speech writer for John F. Kennedy during the 1960 presidential election. Cox was rewarded by becoming solicitor general, and continued to work in that position for a couple of years. He even helped draft the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He took a break from politics to teach at Harvard, but was called back in May 1973 to serve as a special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate Scandal. The Watergate Scandal was an attempt by the Republican party to steal files from the Watergate office complex in Washington. Nixon paid his men $25,000 from his reelection fund, proving he was behind the attempted burglary. Nixon ordered several of his attorney’s to fire Archibald, but they all refused. The solicitor-general, Robert Bork, eventually fired Cox under Nixon’s command. Around 450,000 telegrams were sent to Nixon opposing this action, and 17 law colleges called for Nixon’s impeachment. However, he resigned before his impeachment could take place. Results: __** In 1974, Colson pleaded guilty to all Watergate related charges. John Dean was charged with obstruction of justice and spent four months in prison, where he went on to write two memoirs about the scandal; “Blind of the United State’s Ambition” and “Lost Honor”. Nixon had ordered several of his attorneys to fire Cox, but they all refused. The solicitor-general, Robert Bork eventually fired Cox under Nixon’s command.
 * __ ARCHIBALD COX: [[image:archibald-cox.jpg align="right"]] __**
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