Colson, Carter, and Christ

Born Again By Charles W. Colson Chosen Books, 351 pp., $8.95 I have met Chuck Colson only once—as it happens, in his distinctly unregenerate phase—and I found him utterly charming. Our meeting occurred in August 1972 at the Doral Hotel, and Colson at the time was orchestrating two of the all-too-rare successful conservative political operations in recent memory: the New Majority campaign, designed to pull ethnics, union members, and other socially conservative Democrats into the Republican column; and the Attack Group, which leaped with glee upon McGovern’s frequent inanities. Colson, thou shouldst be in the White House at this hour.

Indeed, he brought to all this a great deal of zest, a genuine Huck Finnish glee in socking it to those who for so long had been socking it to us. Demogrants, you say? Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion! Greeks for Nixon!

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Born Again By Charles W. Colson Chosen Books, 351 pp., $8.95 I have met Chuck Colson only once—as it happens, in his distinctly unregenerate phase—and I found him utterly charming. Our meeting occurred in August 1972 at the Doral Hotel, and Colson at the time was orchestrating two of the all-too-rare successful conservative political operations in recent memory: the New Majority campaign, designed to pull ethnics, union members, and other socially conservative Democrats into the Republican column; and the Attack Group, which leaped with glee upon McGovern’s frequent inanities. Colson, thou shouldst be in the White House at this hour.

Indeed, he brought to all this a great deal of zest, a genuine Huck Finnish glee in socking it to those who for so long had been socking it to us. Demogrants, you say? Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion! Greeks for Nixon!