Here's what happened to the major players in Watergate.
The three most notorious participants in the cover-up of the June 17, 1972, break-in at Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel — President Richard Nixon, White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman and domestic-policy adviser John Ehrlichman — are dead. Two henchmen, Charles Colson and Jeb Stuart Magruder, have turned to religion. The most colorful of the bunch, lead undercover man G. Gordon Liddy, can be heard every day on the radio.
President Richard Nixon — Pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford, Nixon wrote several books after leaving office and transformed himself into something of an elder statesman, particularly on foreign policy. When he died in 1994, at the age of 81, President Bill Clinton attended his funeral in California, as did all four surviving former presidents.
H.R. Haldeman — One half, along with Ehrlichman, of the White House brain trust derisively known as the Katzenjammer Kids, Haldeman spent 18 months in prison for participating in the cover-up. He wrote a memoir, "The Ends of Power," and became a real estate developer in Southern California before succumbing to cancer in 1993 at age 67.
John Ehrlichman — The other brick in the so-called Berlin Wall, Ehrlichman was convicted of perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice and served 18 months. He moved to New Mexico and became a successful author. He died in 1999 at age 73.
John Dean — The White House counsel who cooperated with congressional investigators and revealed that he personally told Nixon about "a cancer on the presidency" served four months behind bars and moved to Beverly Hills, Calif., where he became an investment banker. A writer on the side, Dean is preparing a 40,000-word piece for Salon, an online magazine, in which he will attempt to identify "Deep Throat," the mysterious source for Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward. Dean is still married to Maureen Dean, a cool-looking blonde who sat behind him throughout the televised hearings.
Charles Colson — The administration's tough guy serving as Nixon's special counsel, Colson reportedly was involved in a plot to firebomb the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington. Colson served seven months for obstruction of justice and underwent a religious conversion. In 1976, he formed the Prison Fellowship Ministries, an organization that brings Bible study and a Christian message to prison inmates. He remains active in the prison reform movement.
Jeb Stuart Magruder — Haldeman's right-hand man, Magruder was the deputy director of Nixon's re-election campaign when the Watergate break-in occurred at his urging. He spent seven months in prison and, upon release, become a Presbyterian minister. He most recently worked in Dallas, helping churches with fund-raising.
John Mitchell — Nixon's dour-faced, pipe-smoking attorney general was chairman of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) and linked to a slush fund that funded the burglary. He spent 19 months in prison for conspiracy, perjury and obstruction of justice and remained out of the limelight after his release. He died in 1988 at age 75 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Martha Mitchell — The wife of John Mitchell was a colorful personality and a loose cannon, contacting journalists — particularly Helen Thomas of United Press International — at all hours to express her indignation over Watergate and complain that the Nixon administration was corrupting her husband. One time she maintained that she was being held against her will and sedated in a California hotel room in an effort to stop her from revealing White House secrets. The Mitchells separated in 1973 during the height of the scandal. She died from cancer in 1976 at age 57.
Frank Wills — The man who got the ball rolling. A security guard at the Watergate, he discovered a taped door in a stairwell on June 17, 1972, and contacted police, who arrested the intruders. Wills bounced around after experiencing a modest degree of celebrity, returning to his native South Carolina in the early 1990s where he performed odd jobs. He died from a brain tumor in 2000 at age 52.
Bob Woodward — Half of the Washington Post reporting team, along with Carl Bernstein, which popularly became known as "Woodstein," Woodward continues to work at the Post and write books.
Carl Bernstein — Lives in New York and is working on a book about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.
G. Gordon Liddy — The former FBI agent and White House "plumber" involved in the Watergate break-in, Liddy served four years in prison, more than any other Watergate conspirator. He lives in suburban Washington and hosts a daily radio talk show broadcast nationwide. Callers are instructed not to ask Liddy about Watergate.
E. Howard Hunt — The "mastermind" of the Watergate break-in, Hunt, a former CIA agent, spent 33 months in prison. He lives in Florida and writes books under several pseudonyms.