Watergate Figure in Hospital After Crash

seafan

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Tue Jul-24-07 01:32 PM
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Watergate Figure in Hospital After Crash

Source: Southern Illinoisan

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Jeb Stuart Magruder, an aide to President Nixon who spent seven months in prison for his role in covering up the 1972 Watergate break-in, was hospitalized after a car crash, authorities said.

Magruder was listed in serious condition Monday night at Riverside Methodist Hospital. A hospital spokeswoman on Tuesday wouldn't discuss his condition, citing a family request for privacy.

Police said they found Magruder, 72, inside his Audi sedan, which was against a highway wall on state Route 315 following the accident Monday morning. The Audi had hit a truck and a motorcycle, authorities said. The drivers of the other two vehicles weren't seriously hurt, and no charges had been filed.

Magruder, a retired Presbyterian minister, said for the first time in 2003 that he remembered listening in on the phone as Nixon gave the go-ahead for the plan to bug the Democratic headquarters at Washington's Watergate complex.

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whistle

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Tue Jul-24-07 02:27 PM
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1. Jeb Magruder was found guilty of burglary and cover up over the Nixon

...Watergate affair and I believe got a ten year prison term for his part in all of that. He also had something to do with an FBI/CIA plot to murder Nixon enemies but I can't recall the details on that.

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cybrchef

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Tue Jul-24-07 08:14 PM
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4. See Wikipedia...Magruder was guilty of perjury...

...and served 4 months of a 7 month sentence.

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seafan

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Tue Jul-24-07 03:17 PM
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2. More details

The accident is the latest problem for Magruder, who was charged with drunken driving by the State Highway Patrol in 2005 in Fayette County, about 40 miles southwest of Columbus. That charge was later reduced to reckless operation, according to court records in Washington Court House.

In 2003, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after police in the Columbus suburb of Grandview found him passed out on a sidewalk.

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/17534715.htm

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Alexander

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Tue Jul-24-07 04:11 PM
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3. So he was a crook and now he's a drunk.

I'd love to get him plastered for a night and tape record everything he has to say about Watergate.

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