H.R. Haldeman

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H.R. Haldeman:

Harry Robbins Haldeman was born on October 27th, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. He served as the White House Chief of Staff while President Richard Nixon was in term. Haldeman is famously known for his involvement with the watergate scandal in which he was imprisoned as a result of his acts. He was tried for accounts of obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and perjury. When Haldeman was younger he joined the Naval Reserve but was denied any warfare or active combat. After he served his minimum years in the Navy he left and attended University of Redlands college and many more colleges after until he settled down at UCLA. In 1962, Haldeman ran President Nixon's campaign for governor until Nixon was elected to be our president in 1968. Nixon then chose his trusty side kick to be the Chief of Staff. In 1975 Haldeman was convicted and was sentenced to serve 18 months in Lompoc Federal Prison. He was later released from prison in 1978, and later that year he co-authored a novel called The Ends of Power. In the discussion of the book, Haldeman had used this phrase, "Bay of Pigs," which he said was a direct reference to the assassination of JFK. In his later years he began suffering many abdominal infections and soon he began rejecting the treatment which later caused his death on November 12, 1993.