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When George Wallace appeared in Washington for the National Governors Conference a year ago, he stayed flat on his back most of the time, staring despondently at the ceiling, receiving few people. His political career seemed as shattered as his spine from the bullets of Arthur Bremer. This month Wallace once again attended the annual Governors Conference, but he was a rejuvenated man: he sat upright in his wheelchair, attentively following the proceedings and obviously basking in his celebrity status. His career has recovered along with his body and spirit...
...called him last year on May 15, the day Alabama Governor George C. Wallace was shot, and just two weeks before the first Watergate breakin. Hunt said Colson asked him to burglarize the assailant's Milwaukee apartment to see if anything could be found to connect Arthur H. Bremer with leftist causes. Hunt refused on the ground that official investigators already would be examining Bremer's quarters and might catch...
...press, Colson charged that newsmen were "playing the game of innuendo to try to get after the President." He called it "bloody outrageous." He was especially angry at Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who first reported Hunt's claim that Colson had suggested a Bremer burglary...
What actually happened, Colson contended, is that after the Wallace shooting, "the President was concerned that the FBI wasn't moving quickly or massively enough," so Colson was directed to keep prodding the agency. He claims he instructed the FBI to guard the Bremer apartment about 7 p.m. "It's patently inconceivable that I'd send Hunt out there after 7 p.m.," Colson protested. "I'd had the apartment cordoned off. Christ, I'm not stupid." Referring to a memo he had written to himself for the record about his call to Hunt, Colson said...
...After repeated surgery for the complications caused by the gunshot wounds, Wallace underwent still another operation in January for the removal of his prostate. It left him more depressed than ever. Avoiding people and politics, he showed interest only in reading the diary of his would-be assassin, Arthur Bremer. Once, by accident, he watched a replay of the shooting on television. It had a "traumatic" effect on him, say friends...