Charles W. Colson

The following viewpoint is taken from Born Again, an autobiography by one of President Richard M. Nixon’s top aides. In the book, Charles W. Colson tells how he and others labored to promote Nixon’s reelection to the presidency in 1972 and about the Watergate Crisis which followed. During the crisis the public slowly learned about Nixon’s abuses of power. Eventually Nixon had to resign from office. In the middle of this national crisis, Colson found himself in a very personal, spiritual crisis. In his book, Born Again, Colson gives an account of how he found God while talking to a friend, Tom Phillips, president of Raytheon (a high-tech research and manufacturing corporation). Later, Colson was sent to federal prison for his part in Watergate. After serving his time...