Jeb Stuart Magruder
Jeb Stuart Magruder ( born November 5, 1935 in New York City ) is an American politician and author. He was involved in the Watergate scandal.
Rise in Washington
His training took place at Williams College and at the University of Chicago. During his time in the army Magruder was stationed in Korea. After his military service he worked as a salesman for cosmetics, face masks and Women's Knitwear. He was also known as " Fahrradnarr ", who drove into the White House with his bike every day.
1969 Magruder by HR Haldeman ( chief of staff to President Richard Nixon ) was brought into the White House. Magruder was a member of the so-called "Beaver Patrol " - worked a term for those young men who are loyal to Haldeman. In March 1971, the Committee for the Re-election of Nixon (CRP ) was established. Magruder first worked as a director and then as deputy campaign manager under former Minister of Justice and Nixon friend John N. Mitchell. Hugh Sloan and Jeb Magruder were commissioned by Haldeman, to take care of the daily accumulating political and financial affairs of the CRP. The campaign of CRP was highly successful, although the methods used for the most political scandal in U.S. history should be. In gratitude for the successful re-election of Nixon Magruder was entrusted with the organization of the ceremonial process for the inauguration of Nixon in January 1973.
Watergate
As the first employee in the CRP Mitchell Magruder had to supervise 25 Section Head and 250 full-time employees, as well as to serve 30 to 35 million dollars. Magruder was authorized by Mitchell to approve payments to others. $ 700,000 should have been officially intended for safety precautions on the Republican National Convention. Unofficially likely to have been used for burglaries and bugging the money. Documents, such as tape recordings and statements were destroyed by Robert Mardian ( the political coordinator of the CRP) and Fred LaRue ( Deputy Director of CRP). Later, by Clark MacGregor, Mitchells successor as campaign manager of CRP, admitted that money was provided for " investigations into possible organized disruptive actions of Nixon 's election campaign " from the security fund so-called. However, this " research " according to MacGregor had nothing to do with illegal activities. In January 1973, the interrogation of the only four witnesses from the Nixon committee was scheduled: Porter, Odle, Sloan and Magruder. In this first half-hour interrogation by the chief prosecutor Earl J. Silbert told Magruder that he in addition to his many activities in the CRP no time for that would have to take note of whether other employees, such as Gordon Liddy, financial advisor in CRP, were involved in illegal activities.
The two Watergate discoverers, Carl Bernstein and Robert Woodward of the Washington Post, analyzed the process in their paper. After her presentation, the 16-day process is by " not asked questions, not answers given, not vernommene witnesses and memory lapses " have excellent. From this, a not too pronounced enlightenment will the prosecutor be derived. Later Magruder admitted that he had perjured himself in the process. After James W. McCord explains in a letter to Judge John Sirica to unreserved statement to the court ready and perjury had indicated in previous statements of other participants, to Magruder decided an unusual step: On April 14, 1973, he went voluntarily to the prosecutor's office. He claimed there that Mitchell and Nixon adviser John Dean had endorsed and supported the planning for the Watergate bugging operations. In addition, Magruder said in his statement, Mitchell and Dean had tried to buy the silence of the seven Watergate burglars responsible. Magruder was spoken in August 1973 by Judge Sirica for the following offenses guilty of obstruction of justice, fraud in the U.S., wiretapping against the Democratic Party. He served seven months in prison in Allenwood (Pennsylvania).
Later years
After the Watergate scandal Magruder retired from politics and economy and struck a religious path in the Presbyterian Church. He studied at Princeton Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1981 for the pastor. He was in Burlingame (California), Columbus ( Ohio) and Lexington ( Kentucky), works. In 1987, Magruder married Patricia Ann Newton. 1995 enabled the Governor of Kentucky, Brereton Jones, him the right to run again for public office; a corresponding clemency Magruder had been rejected in 1983 by Ronald Reagan. In 1998, he retired as an active church workers and became a consultant in a business enterprise in Dallas.
2003, ie 30 years after Watergate, Jeb Magruder reported in a documentary for public U.S. broadcaster PBS to speak again. He explained that he had been present at a telephone conversation between John Mitchell and Richard Nixon, while Nixon had recognized the voice. Nixon should have pushed in this call Mitchell to a burglary in the Watergate Hotel. " John ... you have to do it ," Nixon told. Immediately after the interview expressed historians doubt the veracity of this statement. So called Stanley Kutler, author of several books about the Watergate scandal, Magruder a " questionable person ... with questionable statements. " Missing tape recordings about the above phone call from the White House leads Kutler as evidence on. However, Nixon did not pass all tape recordings and in some places were heard ( Nixon's secretary Woods wants to have accidentally pressed the cancel button) only beeps. Even John Dean, Nixon's advisor, came forward after the interview to speak. He said that he saw no reason why Magruder should have said about the events of that time the untruth. He had, however, these statements of Magruder desired 30 years earlier.
Magruder wrote two books. "An American Life: One Mans Road to Watergate ," 1974 rolls his participation in the Watergate scandal. In "From Power to Peace ", he describes his way to the Christian faith after the scandal.