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    Posted 9 years ago

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    1st button: The WATERGATE GANG 2.125 Dia Shows each player pointing at the next starting with Nixon I thought this showed the Watergate Seven however Nixon was not on that list and is shown on the button, the Watergate Seven were:
    1 - John N. Mitchell – former United States Attorney General and director of Nixon's 1968 and 1972 election campaigns; faced a maximum of 30 years in prison and $42,000 in fines; on February 21, 1975, Mitchell was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison, which was later reduced to one to four years; Mitchell actually served 19 months.
    2 - H. R. Haldeman – White House chief of staff, considered the second most powerful man in the government during Nixon's first term; faced a maximum of 25 years in prison and $16,000 in fines; in 1975, he was convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice and received an 18-month prison sentence.
    3 - John Ehrlichman – former assistant to Nixon in charge of domestic affairs; faced a maximum of 25 years in prison and $40,000 in fines. Ehrlichman was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury and other charges; he served 18 months in prison.
    4 - Charles Colson – former White House counsel specializing in political affairs; pleaded nolo contendere on June 3, 1974 to one charge of obstruction of justice, having persuaded prosecution to change the charge from one of which he believed himself innocent to another of which he believed himself guilty, in order to testify freely.;[6] he was sentenced to 1 to 3 years of prison and fined $5,000; Colson served seven months.
    5 - Gordon C. Strachan – White House aide to Haldeman; faced a maximum of 15 years in prison and $20,000 in fines. Charges against him were dropped before trial.
    6 - Robert Mardian – aide to Mitchell and counsel to the Committee to Re-elect the President in 1972; faced 5 years in prison and $5,000 in fines. His conviction was overturned on appeal.[7]
    7 - Kenneth Parkinson – counsel for the Committee to Re-elect the President; faced 10 years in prison and $10,000 in fines. He was acquitted at trial. Although Parkinson was a lawyer, G. Gordon Liddy was in fact counsel for the Committee to Re-elect the President.

    Nixon revealed much later that he would not grant amnesty to the Watergate Seven because, if he did so, Nixon would have been pressured to provide amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers and this would have gratified his liberal elite opponents that brings us to>>

    2nd button "NO AMNESTY FOR NIXON" 2.125 Dia.
    3rd "I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE" 3.0 Dia.
    4th "IMPEACH THE COX SACKER" 1.250 Dia.

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    1. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 9 years ago
      Give me a break !! Several of these "prisoners/convicts" were in the "Club Fed" in Montgomery, AL while I lived there & they were seen regularly around town in the best restaurants & clubs etc. They were "free" celebrates around town. "Not what you know, but who you know" ! They didn't even know they were convicted felons & supposed to be in prison !
    2. PoliticalPinbacks PoliticalPinbacks, 9 years ago
      Ah yes the American way, They didn't say how many of the prison sentences were commuted or pardoned only a few scape goats say months served, And then "Thanks Jerry" (another button) and Nixon writes a book (and another button "Don't buy books from crooks") Same old story today the rich get richer.

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