Editing Gordon C. Strachan

{{short description|American lawyer (born 1943)}}
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{{Other people|Gordon Strachan}}
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| name   = Gordon C. Strachan
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| caption  = Strachan {{circa|1971}}
|birth_name= Gordon Creighton Strachan
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1943|07|24}} 
| birth_place = [[Berkeley, California]], U.S.
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| education = [[University of Southern California]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
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'''Gordon Creighton Strachan''' (born July 24, 1943) is an American attorney and political staffer who served as an aide to [[H.R. Haldeman]], the chief of staff for President [[Richard Nixon]] and a figure in the [[Watergate scandal]]. He is the last surviving person to be part of the [[Watergate Seven]].

==Early life and education==
Strachan was born in [[Berkeley, California]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eh48AQAAIAAJ&q=Gordon+C.+Strachan+born+in|title=The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory|date=1999|publisher=Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Incorporated|isbn=978-1-56160-324-4|language=en}}</ref> At [[University of Southern California]], he was a member of [[List of Trojans for Representative Government members|Trojans for Representative Government]] with future [[Watergate scandal]] participants [[Dwight L. Chapin]], Tim Elbourne, [[Donald Segretti]], [[Herbert Porter]], and [[Ron Ziegler]]. In 1965, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations from the [[University of Southern California]].{{cn|date=June 2022}}  In 1968, received a [[Juris Doctor]] from the [[UC Berkeley School of Law]].{{cn|date=June 2022}} 

== Career ==
From 1968 until 1970 he worked for the [[New York City]] law firm of [[Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon|Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander]], the same firm Nixon worked for before he ran again for the presidency in 1968.

[[File:Gordon Strachan and Richard Nixon in Oval Office.jpg|thumb|left|Strachan (right) and [[Richard Nixon]] (left) in the [[Oval Office]], circa 1971 during Nixon's Presidency]]
Strachan, who was recruited by [[Dwight Chapin]], joined the [[White House Office]] in 1970 and initially worked as a staff assistant to [[Herbert G. Klein]]. He was assigned to be [[H. R. Haldeman]]'s liaison to the [[Committee for the Re-Election of the President]] (CRP) when it was formed in March 1971. His duties at CRP focused on areas that he had previous experience with; as an advance man during 1970 mid-term election campaigns, he oversaw political operations. He testified as such before the [[United States Senate Watergate Committee]] and stated that [[John Dean]] oversaw all political intelligence-gathering, including the Watergate break-in, at CRP.

Strachan was indicted along with other [[White House]] staffers on March 1, 1974, but all charges against him were dropped on June 10, 1975.

He moved to [[Utah]] in 1975, and served as a clerk for Berman & Giauque in [[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]]. In 1977 his license to practice law was restored in Utah, and he was elevated to a lawyer at the firm, until he left for a partnership at Prince, Yeates & Geldzahler. He was a principal at the law firm, Strachan Strachan & Simon P.C., in [[Park City, Utah]], but is now retired. His practice mainly focused on [[antitrust, personal injury and business]] litigation in the [[recreational sports]] industry. He served on the Olympic Organizing Committee for the [[2002 Winter Olympics|2002 Winter Games]], and is also general counsel to the [[United States Ski and Snowboard Association]].{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=June 2016}} He is the author of several articles on law.

==Sources==
*{{cite web|title=Special Files: Gordon C. Strachan |work=Nixon Presidential Materials |url=http://www.nixon.archives.gov/find/textual/presidential/special/staff/strachan.html |access-date=March 7, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050414164351/http://www.nixon.archives.gov/find/textual/presidential/special/staff/strachan.html |archive-date=April 14, 2005 |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite web|title=Firm History |work=Strachan & Strachan P.C. |url=http://www.strachanlaw.com/firm_history.html |access-date=March 7, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207051212/http://strachanlaw.com/firm_history.html |archive-date=February 7, 2005 |url-status=dead }}
* ''John Ehrlichman: In the Eye of the Storm, Hosted by Tom Clancy'' (1997) Video. {{ISBN|0-9665154-0-4}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.strachanlaw.com/ Strachan Strachan & Simon P.C. Website]

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