1. Robert Charles Mardian was a United States Republican party official who served in the administration of Richard Nixon, and was embroiled in the Watergate scandal as one of the Watergate Seven who were indicted by a grand jury for campaign violations.
Robert Mardian was born Samuel Zeligian into a Christian family and was a member of Second Congregational Church in Hadjin.
Samuel Robert Mardian served as mayor of Phoenix, Arizona from 1960 to 1964, and was a leading supporter of Barry Goldwater.
Robert Mardian went to public school in Pasadena, California followed by Columbia University, North Dakota State Teachers College, and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Robert Mardian was awarded a law degree from the University of Southern California in 1949.
Robert Mardian was elected in 1957 but resigned shortly afterwards through pressure of work.
From 1962, Robert Mardian left his law practice to become vice president and chief legal officer of a savings and loan association.
Robert Mardian was appointed general counsel to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon administration.
Robert Mardian supported Mitchell's 'Southern strategy' and advised the Department on ways of slowing the pace of school integration.
Robert Mardian was in charge of the Internal Security Division, which headed up the fight against the radical left, prosecuting draft dodgers.
Robert Mardian was entrusted to transfer to the White House the wiretap logs which had been discovered among J Edgar Hoover's possessions in the Federal Bureau of Investigation after his death.
Robert Mardian became involved in the Nixon administration's unorthodox campaigns early when he headed the federal prosecution of Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg in 1971.
The offense for which Robert Mardian was convicted, but later cleared, occurred on June 17,1972.
Robert Mardian was with other campaign officials in California preparing for a fundraising dinner.
Robert Mardian always insisted on his innocence and since the trial has said that John Dean had the idea of calling Kleindienst.
Robert Mardian stated that he could have played no role in getting the burglars released, given his location and the difference in time zones.
Robert Mardian suggested to Liddy that he was likely to be traced and ought to give himself up; he said that Mitchell was unlikely to let CRP funds be used to bail the Cuban burglars, but the Cuban community in Florida might help.
When Jeb Stuart Magruder decided to cooperate with the prosecution on April 10,1973, it became certain that Robert Mardian would be indicted, although he had first to go before the Ervin Senate committee.
In January 1975, Robert Mardian was convicted on one count of conspiracy to hinder the investigation.
Robert Mardian was sentenced to 10 months to 3 years on February 21,1975, but on appeal in 1976 the conviction was quashed.
Robert Mardian retired in 2002 and remained in Phoenix, with a summer home in California.
When Felt was revealed to have been the source, Robert Mardian told the Arizona Republic that Felt "betrayed his position" by leaking to The Washington Post.
Robert Mardian died of complications from lung cancer on July 17,2006, at his vacation home in San Clemente, California.