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Article: COLSON: `I'M GLAD FOR WATERGATE' EX-WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL ACKNOWLEDGES THAT SCANDAL GENERATED POLITICAL CYNICISM.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- May 25, 1997
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Byline: Brian Witte Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- With the approach of the 25th anniversary of the Watergate break-in on June 17, President Nixon's former special counsel said that he's ``probably one of the few guys around who's saying, `I'm glad for Watergate.' ''
Charles Colson, who served 207 days in jail for obstructing justice, credits his prison experience for inspiring him to found Prison Fellowship, a Christian counseling outreach that operates in more than 600 prisons.
Colson said, ``I look back on all of it, and I'm grateful to God for what he's done in my life. I mean he used that experience, Watergate, to raise up a ministry that ...