Remember the years 1972 to 1974? Remember the Ervin Hearings? The Rodino Justice Committee hearings?
If you do, then a distant bell was rung in your mind when you saw the obit for Charles Colson in the news today. Where you sat politically back in those days and how great a capacity for forgiveness you have will effect your opinion as to how much of a "friend" you might consider Chuck Colson. He was certainly not a "good guy" among all the President's men during those times, and his sudden born again Christianity seemed just a tad convenient as he was about to be sent to the slammer, but by all accounts, he did seem to change after his time was served, and he did devote his life to his prison ministry, so the sincerity of his conversion can't be doubted at this point.
As Watergate is now 40 years in history's rear view mirror , you usually only hear about these guys when, as with Colson, one of them dies, and when they do, I always think of one of Johnny Carson's great lines at the time: "The frightening thing is that one day, these will be the 'good old days.' "
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