Jeb Stuart Magruder Quotes
Although I was aware they were illegal. We had become somewhat inured to using some activities that would help us in accomplishing what we thought was a legitimate cause
Jeb Stuart Magruder, Presidential Assistant to Richard Nixon (Democratic Republican), Testimony to the Watergate Congressional Investigating Committee
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The statement is made by a government minister who has broken the law, and harmed innocent people in order achieve when he believed was a greater good.
Nixon's suspected that Brookings had evidence about the secret Cambodian bombings and his pre-election felony regarding Vietnam. White House Staff Member Tom Huston had put together a plan to obtain embarrassing and potentially ruinous documents and other documents that would allow them to blackmail Nixon's critics who were regarded as "enemies".
Referring to the Lyndon B. Johnson administration
After removing himself from Richard Nixon's defense team when Nixon refused to resign:
Jeb Stuart Magruder was an American businessman and high-level political operative in the Republican Party who served time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal.
