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  Jeb Stuart Magruder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeb Stuart Magruder (born November 5, 1934, New York City) was the second official in the administration of President Richard Nixon (the first was Fred LaRue) to plead guilty to charges of involvement in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the subsequent Watergate scandal.
Magruder was appointed to the White House staff in 1969 as Special Assistant to the President.
Magruder was the only direct participant in the scandal to confirm that President Nixon had specific foreknowledge of the Watergate break-in, and that Nixon actually directed Mitchell to proceed with the break-in, which was organized by G.
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 Watergate first break-in - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Magruder and Dean have stated in sworn testimony that "surreptitious entry" of Watergate, among other targets, had been discussed by Liddy as early as February 4, 1972 in one of Liddy's two presentations of what has come to be known as the "GEMSTONE" plan.
Jeb Magruder said in sworn testimony that he submitted to John Mitchell the third and final version of Hunt and Liddy's "GEMSTONE" plan—this time only in the form of a condensed memorandum—on 30 March 1972 in Key Biscayne, Florida, and got Mitchell's approval for a budget said to have been $250,000.
Magruder has sworn under oath that Watergate entry was an idea that originated from Liddy and Hunt, that it was included in the February 4, 1972 plan that Liddy presented to Mitchell, Magruder, and Dean, and that it was included in the Key Biscayne memo, March 30, 1972.
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 washingtonpost.com - Live Online -
Jeb Stuart Magruder then deputy director of Nixon's campaign, says in a new documentary for PBS that he heard Nixon's voice on a telephone as the president instructed then-Attorney General John N. Mitchell to go ahead with the break-in.
Magruder was charged with perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice for his role in the Watergate cover-up.
Jeb Stuart Magruder: Mitchell and I were out on the patio of a house that he was staying at in Key Biscayne, Fla. So it was just he and I. Fred Laroux was there but he wasn't on the patio when we went over the Liddy plan and I called Haldemann at Mitchell's request.
discuss.washingtonpost.com /zforum/03/sp_nation_magruder072803.htm   (2802 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: 30 Years Later, a Watergate Allegation
Jeb Stuart Magruder -- then a "callow" campaign aide, now a retired Presbyterian minister in Ohio -- says in a new documentary for PBS that he heard Nixon's voice on a telephone as the president instructed then-Attorney General John N. Mitchell to go ahead with the break-in.
Magruder was in a position to hear the conversation he describes.
Magruder originally testified that he presented Liddy's proposal for the burglary as part of a pared-down, $250,000 "intelligence" operation code-named "Gemstone" for Mitchell's approval during a meeting in Key Biscayne on March 30, 1972.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A51085-2003Jul26?language=printer   (1240 words)

  
 Jeb Stuart Magruder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Jeb Stuart Magruder was appointed to President Richard Nixon's White House staff in 1969 as Special Assistant to the President.
He served in the White House until 1971, when he left to manage the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) as Deputy Director, and assistant to CREEP Director and former Attorney General John Mitchell.
Magruder was also implicated in the Watergate scandal was incarcerated for 7 months in 1974 for his role in the failed burglary and subsequent coverup.
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 Jeb Magruder: Watergate
Jeb Stuart Magruder was born in New York City on 5th November, 1934.
Magruder testified that, as John Mitchell's first assistant, he was so busy supervising 25 campaign division heads and 250 full-time employees and spending between $30 and $35 million that he just couldn't be overly concerned with Gordon Liddy.
Jeb Magruder, who was jailed for seven months for his part in the break-in, now claims, in a television documentary to be shown in the US this week, that Nixon was involved from the beginning.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKmagruder.htm   (4541 words)

  
 Nixon ordered Watergate break-in, aide says now
Jeb Stuart Magruder, who was Nixon's assistant communications director before moving to the re-election committee, said he was privy to a telephone conversation between Nixon and John Mitchell, the campaign chairman, in which the president urged Mitchell to proceed with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate.
Magruder, a minister now semi-retired and living in Columbus, Ohio, said in a telephone interview that he met with Mitchell in Key Biscayne, Fla., on the afternoon of March 30, 1972, along with another aide, Fred Larue, to review about 20 issues that required the campaign's attention.
Magruder said he was contacted by the people making the documentary last spring and determined that "they had done a good job talking about things." So he decided to cooperate.
www.dangerouscitizen.com /Articles/794.aspx   (1217 words)

  
 portland imc - 2003.07.28 - Magruder says Nixon ordered Watergate break-in   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Magruder, in a PBS documentary airing Wednesday and in an Associated Press interview last week, says he was meeting with Mitchell on March 30, 1972, when he heard Nixon tell Mitchell over the phone to go ahead with the plan.
Jeb Stuart Magruder previously had gone no further than saying that John Mitchell, the former attorney general who was running the Nixon re-election campaign in 1972, approved the plan to break into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate office building near the White House and bug the telephone of the party chairman, Larry O'Brien.
Magruder insisted in the AP interview that he was not asked previously whether Nixon personally authorized the break-in.
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 Magruder Marries Counselor - New York Times
LEAD: The Rev. Jeb Stuart Magruder, who became a minister after spending time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal, was married today to Patricia Ann Newton, a high school guidance counselor.
Magruder, 52 years old, held several White House positions from 1969 to 1973, including deputy director of communications at the time of the Watergate break-in in 1972.
The Rev. Jeb Stuart Magruder, who became a minister after spending time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal, was married today to Patricia Ann Newton, a high school guidance counselor.
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 Jeb Stuart Magruder Biography / Biography of Jeb Stuart Magruder World of Criminal Justice Biography
Jeb Stuart Magruder was born on November 5, 1934 in New York City.
Magruder authorized some of the payments for these operations, including a payment to G. Gordon Liddy, a conspirator in the break-in of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. It was this burglary that set in motion the Watergate scandal.
Magruder compounded his difficulties by participating in the attempted cover-up of the illegalities.
www.bookrags.com /biography-jeb-stuart-magruder-cri   (252 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Jeb Magruder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The break-in was authorized by Jeb Magruder, young head of the Nixon 1972 presidential election headquarters.
Magruder was trying to show he could use more modern methods of gaining political intelligence than the legal ones used by those of us who were his predecessors.
Nixon's Deputy Campaign Director, Jeb Stuart Magruder, formerly an Aide to Nixon Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman and Deputy Communications Director at the White House, was charged with perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice for his role in the Watergate cover-up.
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 CNN.com - Nixon ordered Watergate break-in, ex-aide says - Jul. 28, 2003
Jeb Stuart Magruder, who was Nixon's deputy campaign director, says he heard the president tell John Mitchell, who was running Nixon's re-election campaign in 1972, to go ahead with a plan to break into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex and bug the party chairman's phone.
Magruder, in a PBS documentary set to be broadcast Wednesday and in an Associated Press interview last week, says he was meeting with Mitchell on March 30, 1972, when he heard Nixon tell Mitchell over the phone to go ahead with the plan, the AP reported Sunday.
Magruder pleaded guilty to conspiracy and perjury charges stemming from the break-in and was jailed for seven months.
cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/27/magruder.watergate/index.html   (1187 words)

  
 The Columbus Dispatch
Magruder — who recently made headlines when he said former President Richard M. Nixon ordered the 1972 break-in at the Watergate hotel in Washington — is charged with one fourth-degree misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct.
Magruder, 68, a retired minister, said last night he won't be in court today for his 9 a.m.
On a television documentary and in The Dispatch last month, Magruder said he was present at a meeting on March 30, 1972, when campaign manager John Mitchell was told by Nixon over the phone to go ahead with the plan.
www.watergate.com /stories/magruder_arrested.htm   (257 words)

  
 The Bubba Chronicles Chapter 8 by Bob Church
Jeb's dad was an aging jock whose only claim to fame was that no-hitter he'd pitched in American Legion baseball in 1961, the year that Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's home run record.
Jeb was easy to get along with, didn't look for trouble with any of the other young bucks in the area, or with the local constabulary, and he liked Bubba.
Jeb allowed as how he needed to go see his mama, over at the Pine Crest Home, and Bubba and Buffy also declined, stating their need to, uh, well, they needed to go, too.
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 Urdu Times
Former Nixon campaign aide, Jeb Stuart Magruder, now a retired church minister says in a new documentary for PBS that he heard Nixon giving the go-ahead for the burglary over the telephone, according to the newspaper.
As deputy director of Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, Magruder was a trusted colleague of senior individuals imprisoned as a result of the scandal, including Mitchell.
Magruder also had several meetings with G Gordon Liddy, the man who planned the burglary on the Watergate complex, where Democratic party headquarters were then situated.
www.urdutimes.com /englishnews/2003/07/28/en8   (234 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: What the President Knew -- July 28, 2003
Gwen Ifill discusses the new documentary with Magruder and Sam Dash, former chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee.
JEB STUART MAGRUDER: Well, it was a sense in the White House, when I worked in the White House, that loyalty was the single most important factor.
Magruder tells a story of a time in which people were so loyal, so kind of caught up in the idea of being in the White House and being loyal to this flawed man in the person of Richard Nixon that they would do anything, including condoning criminal activity.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/white_house/july-dec03/watergate_07-28.html   (2038 words)

  
 Accuracy In Media - Media Monitor - Magruder's Faulty Memory
Magruder claims that on March 30, 1972, he overheard a telephone conversation between then Attorney General John Mitchell and President Nixon.
Magruder made no such allegation during any of his Senate testimony, in sworn depositions, or in his 1974 memoir.
Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, in their 1991 history of the scandal, Silent Coup, write that Magruder admitted to them that he was sure that John Dean had ordered the break-in.
www.aim.org /publications/media_monitor/2003/08/22.html   (572 words)

  
 Aide: Nixon gave Watergate go-ahead
Magruder previously had gone no further than saying Mitchell, the former attorney general, approved the plan.
Magruder, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and perjury charges stemming from the break-in and spent seven months in prison, explained his three decades of silence on Nixon's culpability by saying Friday: "Nobody ever asked me a question about that."
Magruder says that on March 30, 1972, he met with Mitchell and discussed a plan by G. Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent, to break into the Democratic Party headquarters to bug the phone of Democratic Party Chairman Lawrence O'Brien.
www.nusd.k12.az.us /schools/nhs/gthomson.class/articles/executive/nixon.knew.htm   (847 words)

  
 Media Rants 4
During Tommy's time, the Wisconsin Magruder Media sat back and watched shamelessly as the governor and his cohorts brought a kind politics to this state that we thought Fightin' Bob had rooted out 100 years ago.
The Magruder Media regularly praised the governor's "reforms" of everything from welfare to the budget process, but minimized or ignored the extraordinary influence of road builders, investment brokers, and other big campaign contributors.
The Magruder Media did have at their disposal two major reports suggesting improprieties, but neither led to calls for special prosecutor investigations, John Doe proceedings, or even hard-hitting editorial denunciations of the Thompson inner circle.
www.uwosh.edu /faculty_staff/palmeri/commentary/mediarants4.htm   (722 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Nixon 'ordered Watergate break-in'
Jeb Magruder said he heard a telephone call in which President Nixon approved the plan to break into Democratic headquarters at the Watergate hotel and bug the offices.
Mr Magruder said he had decided to disclose the new information in a US television documentary after suffering a heart attack.
Mr Magruder spent seven months in prison after being charged with perjury and conspiracy for his role in the affair.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3101661.stm   (337 words)

  
 Late Final: : Magruder: Nixon Ordered Watergate Break-In
Magruder: Nixon Ordered Watergate Break-In Jeb Magruder, who in 1972 served as then-President Richard Nixon's deputy campaign director, now alleges that Nixon himself ordered the now-infamous Watergate break-in that led to the president's own downfall.
Previously, Magruder only alleged that then-Attorney General John Mitchell ordered the break-in and bugging of Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, but amplifies his version in a new interview.
Previously, Magruder has testified only that the plan was authorized by John Mitchell during this meeting.
www.latefinal.com /archives/2003/07/magruder_nixon.html   (331 words)

  
 nbc4i.com - Local News - Local Man, Aid To Nixon Discusses Deep Throat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Jeb Magruder is a former Nixon assistant and served time in jail for his role in Watergate.
Magruder said he is proud of his time in the Nixon White House.
Magruder said through a process of elimination, he figured out two years ago, Felt was Deep Throat.
www.nbc4i.com /news/4554966/detail.html   (364 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
Magruder, take us back to 30 years ago, when you claimed you overheard a conversation where President Nixon directly ordered the break-in of the Democratic headquarters.
MAGRUDER: Well, number one, by the way, Sam Dash, who was a Democratic counsel for the Watergate Committee, agrees completely with me. There were other incidents where the president ordered break-ins to the Daniel Elsworth's psychiatrist office, to the Brookings Institute.
Magruder was the only other person that heard this, aside from Mitchell...
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 Williams College | Office of Public Affairs | Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Magruder later pleaded guilty to perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Magruder said he was meeting with then Attorney General John Mitchell when he heard Nixon tell Mitchell over the phone, “John, … we need to get the information on Larry O’Brien, [chairman of the Democratic National Committee,] and the only way we can do that is through Liddy’s plan.
Magruder received his B.A. from Williams in 1958 and his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1963.
www.williams.edu /admin/news/releases_print.php?id=842   (429 words)

  
 Amazon.com: An American life;: One man's road to Watergate: Books: Jeb Stuart Magruder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Jeb Stuart Magruder would tell you that he did wrong and is heartily sorry for having offended thee.
Magruder admits he got sucked into the morass that was Watergate, but his explanations come off as that of a whining child, laying most of the blame on the feet of G. Gordon Liddy and John Mitchell.
My hat is off to Magrudeer, he was very candid and made no excuses for his behavior except to look back in disgust at his actions.
amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0689106033?v=glance   (1150 words)

  
 JEB STUART MAGRUDER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/15/1972
One month after Magruder wrote this letter, on the night of June 16-17, 1972, five burglars broke into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office building and were arrested.
JEB STUART MAGRUDER, President Nixon's deputy campaign director and Deputy Communications Director at the White House, was charged with perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice for his role in the Watergate cover-up.
Magruder headed a dirty tricks division of the Committee to Re-Elect the President.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/6_2002/law/JEB_STUART_MAGRUDER.htm   (395 words)

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