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U.S. Pres. Richard M. Nixon (left) and Charles Wendell Colson—a close political aide...
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Watergate complex, Washington, D.C.
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Charles Colson (left) bending to speak with H.R. Haldeman (seated).
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U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon, with his daughter Tricia Cox looking on, bidding farewell...
Oliver F. Atkins—White House Photo/Nixon Presidential Library and Museum/NARA
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Gerald Ford being sworn in as U.S. president, August 9, 1974.
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