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'''Jeb Stuart Magruder''' (November 5, 1934{{spaced ndash}}May 11, 2014) was an American businessman and high-level political operative in the [[Republican Party of the United States|Republican Party]] who served time in prison for his role in the [[Watergate scandal]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/jeb-magruder-79-nixon-aide-jailed-for-watergate-dies.html|title=Jeb Magruder, 79, Nixon Aide Jailed for Watergate, Dies (Published 2014)|first=Douglas|last=Martin|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 16, 2014}}</ref>
He served President [[Richard Nixon]] in various capacities, including acting as special assistant to the President for domestic policy development, and later as deputy director of the president's 1972 re-election campaign, [[Committee for the Re-Election of the President]] (CRP). In August 1973, Magruder pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to wiretap, obstruct justice and defraud the United States. He served seven months in federal prison.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jeb-stuart-magruder-20140517-story.html|title=One-time Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder, convicted in Watergate, dies|date=May 16, 2014|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
Magruder later attended [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. He spoke publicly about ethics and his role in the Watergate scandal. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he gave interviews in which he changed his accounts of actions by various participants in the Watergate coverup, including claiming that
==Early life==
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After two years at Williams College, he served in the [[U.S. Army]], but was kicked out of [[Officer Candidate School of the United States Army]], only weeks before graduation, for going [[AWOL]] by not going to class so as to take the daughter of a colonel out in a new Chevrolet.
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Magruder started at [[IBM]] after college, but dropped out of its training program after only a few days.<ref name="Graff-Watergate-2022"/> He went to California and married a Berkeley student,<ref name="kappa.historyit-63799"/> Gail Barnes Nicholas, then took a job with the [[Crown Zellerbach]], selling paper goods in Kansas City.<ref name="Graff-Watergate-2022"/> Later, he started his own consumer products company. Later, he earned a [[Master of Business Administration]] degree from the [[University of Chicago]].<ref>Magruder, p. 36</ref>
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He married Gail Barnes Nicholas<ref name="kappa.historyit-63799">{{cite web |title=McGruder, Gail Barnes Nicholas |url=https://kappa.historyit.com/list-view.php?id=63799 |website=KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA |access-date=18 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="californiabirthindex-2050026">{{cite web |title=Gail Barnes Nicholas, Born 03/05/1938 in California |url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/gail_barnes_nicholas_born_1938_2050026 |website=CaliforniaBirthIndex.org |access-date=17 August 2022}}</ref> on October 17, 1959,<ref name="obits-17145210">{{cite news |title=Jeb S. Magruder Obituary (2014) The Gazette |url=https://obits.gazette.com/us/obituaries/gazette/name/jeb-magruder-obituary?id=17145210 |access-date=18 August 2022 |work=[[The Gazette (Colorado Springs)]] |agency=[[Legacy.com]]}}</ref> in [[Brentwood, California]]<!-- [[Brentwood, Los Angeles]] ? -->.<ref>Magruder, pp. 29–33</ref> The couple had four children.<ref name="nytimes/1973/01/20/magruder">{{cite news |title=Director of Nixon Inauguration |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/20/archives/director-of-nixon-inauguration-jeb-stuart-magruder-man-in-the-news.html |access-date=17 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=20 January 1973}}</ref> They were divorced in 1984.
Magruder married Patricia Newton on February 28, 1987, in [[Columbus, Ohio]]
==Business career and politics==
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Magruder moved to Chicago for his [[MBA]] studies. Afterward he shifted from IBM to the consulting firm [[Booz Allen Hamilton]].
In Chicago, he again, was involved with the Republican Party. Magruder was a ward chairman, for [[Donald Rumsfeld]]{{'}}s 1962 [[Illinois's 13th congressional district]] [[United States House of Representatives]] Republican [[
In 1962 Magruder moved from Booz Allen Hamilton to [[Jewel (supermarket)|Jewel]], a regional grocery firm. During his nearly four years with them, he was promoted to merchandise manager.<ref>Magruder, pp. 41–43</ref>
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===Manages 1973 Inaugural===
Magruder worked as inaugural director from October 1972 to arrange
==Watergate scandal==
Magruder, in his role with
===Liddy plan===
Magruder met with White House Counsel [[John Dean]] and
===Cooperates with prosecutors===
During April 1973, Magruder began cooperating with federal [[prosecutor]]s. In exchange, Magruder was allowed to plead guilty in August 1973 to a one-count indictment of [[conspiracy (political)|conspiracy]] to obstruct justice, to defraud the United States, and to illegally eavesdrop on the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]'s national headquarters at the [[Watergate Hotel]] and Office Building. During this time, Magruder also engaged in a speaking tour on college campuses and in other public spaces, inspiring some critics to suggest he had profited from the scandal and his decision to turn state's evidence.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gold |first=Victor |date=August 28, 1973 |title=Jeb Magruder, Superstar (Published 1973) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/28/archives/jeb-magruder-superstar.html |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> On May 21, 1974, Magruder was sentenced by Judge [[John Sirica]] to ten months to four years for his role in the failed burglary of Watergate and the following cover-up. After his sentencing, Magruder said, "I am confident that this country will survive its Watergates and its Jeb Magruders."{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} In the end, he served three months of his sentence at a Federal minimum security prison in [[Allenwood, Pennsylvania]], and was moved for the remaining four months (before Sirica's pardon) to a "safe house prison" at the Fort Holabird Base in Baltimore Harbor, along with Chuck Colson, John Dean and Herb Kalmbach, due to threats on the four by inmates at Allenwood.
[[File:Jeb Magruder, photo portrait, Nixon administration, black and white.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of Magruder as a member of the Nixon Administration]]
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==After Watergate==
After his prison term, Magruder
In 1990 Magruder was called as senior pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of [[Lexington, Kentucky]]. In 1995, [[Kentucky]] Governor [[Brereton Jones]] reinstated Magruder's right to vote, and campaign for public office in the state.
===Continued controversy===
In 1990 Magruder consented to interviews with authors Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin while the two were conducting research for their 1991 book ''Silent Coup: The Removal of a President'' (St. Martin's Press). Magruder admitted that he had lied to prosecutors, to the Senate's Watergate Committee, and in his 1974 book ''An American Life: One Man's Road to Watergate'', concerning aspects of the early cover-up.
To Colodny and Gettlin, he said that he had called
To Colodny and Gettlin, Magruder admitted specifically instructing Liddy on the second Watergate break-in, something which he had earlier denied. At the time these interviews were conducted, Magruder was a Presbyterian minister in
In 2003 Magruder was interviewed again, by PBS researchers and the Associated Press. According to his account in a [[PBS]] documentary, ''Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History'', and in an interview with the [[Associated Press]], he asserted that Nixon knew about the Watergate burglary early in the process, and well before the scandal broke.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} During the 2003 interviews, Magruder said that he had attended a meeting with Mitchell on March 30, 1972, at which he heard Nixon tell Mitchell by telephone to begin the Watergate plan. This account, however, has been contested by
In his 1974 book, Magruder had said that the only telephone call from the White House during this meeting came from H.R. Haldeman's aide, [[Gordon C. Strachan]]. Sixteen years later, in the August 7, 1990 interview with Colodny and Gettlin, Magruder changed his account, claiming that the telephone call from the White House came from Haldeman himself. In 2003, Magruder changed his account again, saying that President Nixon had telephoned Mitchell at the Key Biscayne meeting.
==Later years==
Magruder retired first to [[Colorado Springs]] and later to the Short North area of [[Columbus, Ohio]]. On July 23, 2007, Magruder was hospitalized after crashing his car into a motorcycle and a truck on [[Ohio State Route 315|State Route 315]] in Columbus
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===Death===
Magruder moved to be near family in [[Danbury, Connecticut]] in 2012, and died at age 79 on May 11, 2014, due to complications from a stroke.<ref>{{cite web|last=Brammer |first=Jack |url=http://www.kentucky.com/2014/05/15/3244758/watergate-figure-jeb-stuart-magruder.html |title=Watergate figure Jeb Stuart Magruder, who later became a minister in Lexington, dies at 79 | Faith & Values |publisher=Kentucky.com |access-date=2014-05-16}}</ref>
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