One of my prized possessions is a hand-written letter Charles Colson wrote me in 1974 when he was a prisoner at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. Colson, the Nixon administration’s “hatchet man” who was inaccurately quoted as saying he would “run over my own grandmother for Richard Nixon” had plead guilty to a charge of obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, the defendant in the Pentagon Papers affair.
Many cynics questioned Colson’s sincerity when he announced he had accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, but in his letter to me, he sounded humble and sincere -- two qualities absent from much of the Nixon administration hierarchy.
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