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With that self-inflicted reminder of the Watergate era-echoing advice by John Ehrlichman to John Dean that L. Patrick Gray should be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind" rather than be quickly confirmed by the Senate as FBI director-President Reagan last week tried to reassure anxious former campaign aides. He was suggesting that none will be fired from his present position because of the tempest over how his staff secured Jimmy Carter's debate briefing book...
...served prison terms for their Watergate crimes, uncooperative G. Gordon Liddy did by far the longest stretch (52 months). Only four others served as long as a year: E. Howard Hunt, former Attorney General John Mitchell and Presidential Aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Prison terms for Perjurer Dwight Chapin (eight months), Burglary Plotters Jeb Magruder (seven months) and Egil Krogh (four months), Cover-Up Conspirator Charles Colson (seven months), Illegal Fund-Raiser Herbert Kalmbach (six months), John Dean (less than five months) and Dirty Trickster Donald Segretti (four months) seemed light to some, just to others...
Egil ("Bud") Krogh, 42, Ehrlichman's White House assistant and member of plumbers. Pleaded guilty to charges stemming from burglary of office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Served four months. Taught government and law at San Francisco's Golden Gate University before regaining right to practice law in 1980. Now an attorney in Seattle. Says Watergate taught him "the limitations of presidential power. It was a positive experience, but I don't recommend...
John Caulfield, 53, Ehrlichman aide and former New York City police officer who tried to calm McCord and keep him from telling of White House connection to Watergate burglary. Suffered from ulcers and underwent stomach surgery. Works for Millionaire Industrialist Robert Abplanalp, one of Nixon's closest friends, at aerosol-valve manufacturing company in Yonkers...
James F. Neal, 52, chief prosecutor at Watergate conspiracy trial whose closing arguments clinched convictions of Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mardian. With sarcasm, he accused defendants of switching their view of "good John Dean" to "mean John Dean" after Nixon's counsel told the truth. Now practicing law in Nashville. Successfully defended Ford Motor Co. against criminal charges in Pinto gas tank fires and Elvis Presley's doctor against accusation of overprescribing drugs...