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One-time Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder, convicted in Watergate, dies
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | May 16, 2014 | Dennis McLellan

Posted on 05/16/2014 6:14:27 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Jeb Stuart Magruder, the former White House aide who served seven months in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal that forced Richard Nixon to resign from the presidency in 1974, has died. He was 79.

Magruder, a retired Presbyterian minister, died Sunday in Danbury, Conn., of complications from a stroke. Jeffrey H. Hull of the Hull Funeral Home in Danbury confirmed his death.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; death; jebmagruder; jebstuartmagruder; magruder; nixon; silentcoup; watergate
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1 posted on 05/16/2014 6:14:27 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement
seven months in prison

Watergate was nothing.

The entire Obama administration deserves years in the big house for their treason and crimes against humanity.

2 posted on 05/16/2014 6:18:03 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Fegelein! Fegelein! Fegelein!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Democrats across the nation are popping a bottle of champagne.


3 posted on 05/16/2014 6:19:32 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Traitors are hanged.

Just sayin’...


4 posted on 05/16/2014 6:29:06 PM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I remember those days very very well. Watergate was the media’s dream come true and they played it for all it was worth and more.

Everyone ignores the reason they tried to burglarize the offices. They were sure the Democrats were committing treason and wanted proof.


5 posted on 05/16/2014 6:35:48 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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Watergate remains the left’s golden grail, yet when their heroes and fellow travelers do the real things Nixon was accused of, the media parties on.


6 posted on 05/16/2014 6:44:48 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Luke21

The one thing I never understood about the media’s hatred of Nixon was that he was not even that conservative.

He was anti-Cummunist but that is about it. He did try to appoint some conservatives to the supreme court but the left blocked him for the most part.


7 posted on 05/16/2014 6:51:13 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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The one thing I never understood about the media’s hatred of Nixon was that he was not even that conservative.

He defeated a left-wing congresswoman in 1948 to claim a seat in the House. They hated him for that, and never forgave him.

Once in the House, he went after communists in the government without reservation or apology.

They hated him for that too.

8 posted on 05/16/2014 6:55:08 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: yarddog
He was anti-Communist

In fact, that was the reason!

9 posted on 05/16/2014 6:59:36 PM PDT by Brandonmark (OWCM is The new American Minority! 11.06.12 - Day of Infamy!)
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These people were”ChoirBoys”in comparison with Obongo and his Merry Band Of Criminals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


10 posted on 05/16/2014 7:00:29 PM PDT by bandleader
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He was anti-Cummunist (sic)

That was more than enough to unleash the media dogs off on him.

11 posted on 05/16/2014 7:00:44 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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Yeah being against Communism probably was enough.

I remember someone saying, “scratch a liberal, and underneath you will find pure red”.


12 posted on 05/16/2014 7:03:09 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Watergate pales compared to what is going on today.


13 posted on 05/16/2014 7:03:11 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: bandleader

This business with Carl Levin and the IRS is worse than anything I know of during the Nixon administration, because as far as I’m concerned, it may go higher than Carl Levin.


14 posted on 05/16/2014 7:07:54 PM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: ConservativeStatement

I’m only mildly sad he was caught. More like annoyed.

LBJ did the same thing using Hoover.


15 posted on 05/16/2014 7:13:47 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Did Magruder later turn “Democrat”?


16 posted on 05/16/2014 7:15:31 PM PDT by Theodore R. (It's inevitable: Kentuckians are incapable of saying "No" to McC!)
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People in MI will always believe whatever Carl Levin says, but they don’t know why.


17 posted on 05/16/2014 7:16:15 PM PDT by Theodore R. (It's inevitable: Kentuckians are incapable of saying "No" to McC!)
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To: Luke21

Watergate was a John Dean operation to retrieve the DNC’s black book of hookers. It included the name of his then girlfriend who he later married.


18 posted on 05/16/2014 7:18:56 PM PDT by newfreep
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To: yarddog
Everyone ignores the reason they tried to burglarize the offices. They were sure the Democrats were committing treason and wanted proof.

I saw a TV show with Bill Curtis doing an investigation on Watergate. His conclusion was that the Watergate Burglars were after a little black book in one of the offices of the Democrat headquarters, that had the names of some 'escorts' in it. One of those names supposedly was "Mo", then girlfriend, later wife, of John Dean, who supposedly sent the burglars on their mission, so she wouldn't be embarrassed by being exposed.

19 posted on 05/16/2014 7:23:09 PM PDT by SuziQ
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Nixon used the IRS out of Dothan, Alabama to get George Wallace. They got him too. Actually Wallace had not accepted any bribes but his friends and relatives did.

Then all of a sudden they were ordered to drop the case.


20 posted on 05/16/2014 7:23:17 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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