European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Afaf a w John Erl Lehman novelist . Haldeman California John my Ehatt a consultant q. Gordon buddy writer actor Spiro Agnew International turned consultant real estate Developer until Hla death in 1988 and talk show Host business consultant watergate All the presidents men where Are they now by Bob Dart and Sarah Hallman Cox news service about 2 . On june 1972, a watchman found a basement door with the lock taped open at the watergate apartment and office Complex. He called police who caught five men inside the sixth floor suite of the democratic National committee. That botched break in led to a wide ranging two year investigation that climaxed with the resignation of president Richard Nixon. Twenty years later Here s an update on the characters of the National drama e. Howard Hunt or a former Cia agent involved in plotting the Bay of pigs invasion Hunt was one of the a plumbers Quot hired to Trace news leaks in the secretive Nixon White House. He helped plan the watergate break in to Plant electronic bugs in the democratic Headquarters and served 33 months in prison for burglary conspiracy and wiretapping. He lives in Miami collects guns and writes books including his Memoir under cover. Jed Stuart Maqruder the Deputy director of creep a the committee to re elect the president a Magruder was an overseer of the break in and spent seven months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of perjury and conspiracy to obstruct Justice. Quot i lost my ethical Compass Quot he admitted. After his release in 1981, he went to Princeton theological Seminary and is now a presbyterian minister in Lexington by. Q. Gordon Liddy a former Fri agent hired As a a plumber Quot and political dirty trickster buddy kept a code of stoic silence and served Over 52 months in prison a longest of any conspirator. During the break in he waited in the Holiday inn across from the watergate. In the years since his release the Long quiet Liddy has talked and talked. He wrote a Memoir will became a Well paid lecturer and appeared on Miami vice. He now hosts a Call in radio show in Washington with a regular segment devoted to watergate indeed the License plates on his Volvo is h2qgate. James Mccordjr Security director for creep he was the fifth burglar caught inside the democratic offices. He later testified that the break in could be linked to a the very highest Levels of the White after his release from prison Mccord moved to fort Collins colo., and operated a fuel firm. Dwight Chapin Nixon s appointments Secretary he recruited Donald Segretti As creep s political dirty trickster. Chapin now has a Public relations business in Connecticut. Donald Segretti he and his henchmen pulled political pranks ranging from ordering unwanted pizzas for a democratic rally to sending out letters on de Muskie Campaign stationery that trashed other democratic presidential candidates. He served five months for distributing false Campaign literature. Segretti whose translates to Quot secrets Quot in italian now Heads a Law firm in Newport Beach Calif. Rose Mary Woods Nixon a Loyal Limber Secretary said she might have accidentally caused an infamous 18-minute Gap in an Oval office tape while stretching to answer a phone. She went with Boss to san Clemente Calif., but later returned to Washington and retired. She lives in a luxury Complex beside the Potomac River known As the watergate. . A Bob Quot Haldeman a former advertising executive he was Nixon s hard nosed Flat topped chief of staff. Implicated in the cover up of White House links to the watergate break in Haldeman resigned and later served 18 months in prison for perjury conspiracy and obstruction of Justice. He wrote a Memoir the ends of Power and is now a real estate Developer in Southern California. John Ehrlichman Nixon a adviser on Domestic affairs he and Haldeman controlled Access to the president. Ehrlichman supervised the a plumbers the Security specialists hired to fix news leaks. Convicted of perjury and conspiracy to obstruct Justice he served 18 months in prison. Upon his release he grew a Beard remarried moved to Santa be n.m., and wrote novels and his Memoir witness to Power. Ehrlichman now lives in Atlanta and is an International consultant. John Dean the White House counsel Dean earned the lasting enmity of his Nixon Ian colleagues by blowing the lid on the cover up. After serving four months in prison he returned to California and wrote a Memoir Blind ambition before becoming an investment banker. His wife Maureen is a novelist. The Deans figure prominently in new theories from the Book silent coup. Published last year. It says Maureen Dean s former Roommate was the Madam in a Call girl operation whose clients were top democrats. The authors said Dean to Garner favor at the White House ordered the Quot plumbers Quot to find sexually embarrassing papers kept in a Secretary a desk at the watergate. Dean called the Book Quot total garbage and has filed suit against the authors and publisher. Chuck Colson Nixon s special counsel Mastermind of political chicanery and keeper of the White House Quot enemies list Quot he became a born again Christian after serving 18 months in prison for obstructing Justice. He formed a prison ministry group and has co hosted the 700 club with Pat Robertson on the religious pal network. Colson lives in Mclean va., a Washington suburb. Ron Zeigler a former guide on the Disneyland Jungle cruise Zeigler gained a reputation for Quot stonewalling Quot As Nixon a press Secretary. He initially dismissed the watergate break in As Quot a third rate burglary attempt before eventually declaring All his former statements later he helped change the Greasy spoon image of truck stops As executive director of the National association of truck Stop operators. Now he lives in Alexandria va., and Heads the National association of Chain drug stores John Mitchell attorney general under Nixon before heading the �?T72 re election Campaign the Blunt spoken pipe smoking Mitchell was convicted of conspiracy and perjury in the watergate cover up and served 18 months in prison. He worked As a Washington consultant before his death in 1988. Martha his estranged talkative wife died in 1976 after gaining a reputation for Nixon bashing Candor in late night phone Calls to reporters. Maurice stans a former Secretary of Commerce he was finance chairman of creep in 1972. He was fined $5,000 after pleading guilty to violating elections Laws. He became an accountant in Pasadena Calif., and is retired now. Spiro Agnew an abrasive advocate of alliterative attack a remember a nattering nabobs of negativism a Agnew resigned As Nixon a vice president in the autumn of 1973 amid allegations of accepting bribes while he was governor of Maryland. He pleaded no contest to tax evasion charges and made restitution to the state. Agnew now lives near Palm Springs Calif., and is an International business consultant. Page 18 a the stars and stripes wednesday june 17, 1992
