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Charles W. Colson 1931-2012

Actor Dean Jones, who plays the part of former Nixon aide Charles Colson in the movie "Born Again," has his tie adjusted at a dinner before the premiere of the movie, Sept. 24, 1978, in Washington. Colson looks on at center with ex-Sen. Harold Hughes who plays himself in the film about Colson's involvement in Watergate and his subsequent conversion to Christianity.

Actor Dean Jones, who plays the part of former Nixon aide Charles Colson in the movie “Born Again,” has his tie adjusted at a dinner before the premiere of the movie, Sept. 24, 1978, in Washington. Colson looks on at center with ex-Sen. Harold Hughes who plays himself in the film about Colson’s involvement in Watergate and his subsequent conversion to Christianity.  (Charles Tasnadi / Associated Press)

Watergate felon and prison reformer Charles W. Colson, died Saturday at age 80 in northern Virginia.

Evangelical Protestant speech

In a Aug. 2, 2000 file photo, Charles Colson bears testimony at a conference for evangelical Protestants at Amsterdam’s RAI congress center. Colson, the tough-as-nails special counsel to President Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case and became a Christian evangelical helping inmates, has died. He was 80. .  (Peter Dejong / Associated Press)

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