“I cannot accept bond,” King said. “I will stay in jail one year or 10 years.” In a brief, nervous courtroom oration, King explained that he did not want to go to jail or to “upset peace,” but that his decision to choose jail was in accord with the principles of a movement...
He is held there alongside the other convicted Nixon aides—John Dean, Herb Kalmbach, and Jeb Magruder—to testify in the trial of the chief Watergate conspirators, Bob Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and John Mitchell. Once the trial jury retires, Dean, Kalmbach and Magruder are all released, but...