In 1969 Jeb Magruder began working as a special assistant to President Nixon. After doing some work on the midterm elections of 1970, he became the deputy campaign director with the Committee for the Re-Election of the President and then went on to work for the Commerce Department. In 1974 he was sentenced to prison on Watergate related charges, prompting him to publish a memoir, An American Life: One Man’s Road to Watergate. Mr. Magruder discussed his his memoir, his prison sentence and his life after his release in 1975.
This program is the second of two parts.
This is a portion of the interview conducted by Timothy Naftali and Paul Musgrave on March 23, 2007, in Columbus, Ohio, for the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff at the National Archives and Records Administration, soon to be part of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.