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Watergate Figure Cited in Car Crashes
The Associated Press
Thursday, July 26, 2007; 11:06 AM


COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Jeb Stuart Magruder, a Nixon aide who spent seven months in prison for his role in covering up the 1972 Watergate break-in, was cited in two traffic crashes and with leaving the scene of an accident, police said Thursday.

Magruder, 72, was hospitalized in serious condition after Monday's crashes. The hospital has not released any details since.


His car rear-ended a motorcycle and then struck the rear of a box truck Monday on state Route 315, according to police reports.

Police cited Magruder, of Columbus, with two counts of failure to maintain an assured clear distance and one count of failure to stop after an accident or collision. The charges are misdemeanors.

Witnesses told police they say his car speeding away after hitting the motorcycle. After hitting the truck, his car was seen up against a highway wall.

A recorded message on Magruder's home phone said he was "not receiving calls at this time."

Magruder, a retired Presbyterian minister, said for the first time in 2003 that he remembered listening in on the phone as Nixon gave the go-ahead for the plan to bug the Democratic headquarters at Watergate.

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