COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jeb Stuart Magruder, a Watergate conspirator-turned-minister who claimed in later years to have heard President Richard Nixon order the infamous break-in, has died. He was 79.

Jeb Stuart Magruder, an aide to President Richard Nixon who went to prison for his role in covering up the 1972 Watergate break-in and later served as a pastor in Lexington, died in Danbury, Conn., on ...

From the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum: Watergate conspirator Jeb Stuart Magruder speaks with historian Tim Naftali on March 23, 2007, about the rationale for the infamous break-in.

SAG HARBOR, N.Y. -- Watching Watergate 30 years later was an eerie experience for someone who was there at the time. I couldn't tell whether it made me feel old or feel young again. Old, I guess.

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WASHINGTON - Thirty years after it happened, a former top aide to Richard Nixon says the former president personally ordered the 1972 burglary of the Democratic party headquarters in the Watergate ...

James Joseph Bierbower, 81, a well-known Washington lawyer who represented Nixon campaign aide Jeb Stuart Magruder during the Watergate trials and EPA official Rita Lavelle during a Superfund inquiry, ...