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Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.
Charles Colson
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Charles Colson
Age: 80 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 16
Died: 2012
Died: April 21
Former White House Counsel
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Boston
Massachusetts
Charles Chuck Wendell Colson
Charles Wendell Colson
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