[fatima]

On March 1, 1974, seven former aides of the president -- Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Colson, Strachan, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson -- were indicted for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation. (The grand jury had named Nixon an unindicted co-conspirator, and Dean, Magruder, and lesser figures in the scandal had already pleaded guilty.) Colson later pleaded guilty to charges concerning the Ellsberg case and was relieved of the cover-up charges. Charges against Strachan were dropped. The remaining five went on trial in October 1974, and on Jan. 1, 1975, all but Parkinson were found guilty. In 1976, the U.S. court of appeals ordered a new trial for Mardian, and subsequently all charges against him were dropped. Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell exhausted their appeals in 1977. Ehrlichman voluntarily entered prison in 1976 and the other two entered prison in 1977.

[I. M. Trenchant]

Excellent. I waived on Parkinson whose participation seemed slight by comparison with Gordon Strachan, whose actions, as H.R. Haldeman's assistant, seemed inescapably culpable. Whether or not Strachan conforms to the characteristics pointed out by ijcr in post #46 I don't know, but then again, I don't know where these characteristics that are attributed to 'Deep Throat' at the Post website, were previously scribed by Woodward -- if indeed they ever appeared outside of the Post website. The only quote I can ever recall having been attributed to Strachan was, in effect: "Liddy is a Nazi, but he's our Nazi."