Wielding the Hatchet

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AS SPECIAL COUNSEL to President Richard Nixon Charles Colson was known as Nixon’s hatchet man and one of the most hated men in America. After he left the Nixon administration he was caught in the snare of Watergate. Although he was only peripherally involved in the scandal, he pled guilty and served seven months in prison on an attenuated criminal charge related to the Ellsberg break-in.

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