Did Bush ask for advice? Prez met ex-Watergate Con

Convicted Watergate Figure, Bush Meet

WASHINGTON --June 18, 2003, 5:51 PM EDT

Convicted Watergate figure Chuck Colson returned to the White House Wednesday for a meeting with President Bush on Colson's post-prison endeavor -- ministering to inmates.

"I felt quite emotional coming back here after my experiences in this building -- and leaving it," Colson told reporters gathered on the White House driveway after his 40-minute meeting inside.

"To be able to come back and bring some former ex- offenders -- or some ex-offenders -- with me was a great day," he said.

Colson was White House counsel for former President Nixon and spent seven months in prison for his role in the 1972 Watergate scandal. In 1976, he founded Prison Fellowship Ministries. Now an author and radio commentator, Colson was part of a group invited to the White House to talk with Bush about helping former inmates find work and keeping them from returning to prison.

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