Charles Colson

Charles Wendell Colson October 16 1931 April 21 2012 was an American attorney and political advisor who served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970 Once known as President Nixons hatchet man Colson gained notoriety at the height of the Watergate scandal for being named as one of the Watergate Seven and also for pleading guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg In 1974 Colson served seven months in the federal Maxwell Prison in Alabama as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergaterelated charges Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Colson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia