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The following month, Capp was charged in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in connection with another alleged incident following his April 1 lecture at Wisconsin State University-Eau Claire.

Capp was accused of propositioning a married woman in his hotel room.

Although no sexual act was alleged to have resulted, the original charge included " sodomy.

" As part of a plea agreement, Capp pleaded guilty to the charge of " attempted adultery " ( adultery was, and as of 2011 still is a felony in Wisconsin ) and the other charges were dropped.

Capp was fined $ 500 and court costs.

In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.

Nixon and Capp were on friendly terms, Hersh wrote, and Nixon and Colson had worked to find a way for Capp to run against Ted Kennedy for the U. S. Senate.

" Nixon was worried about the allegations, fearing that Capp's very close links to the White House would become embarrassingly public ," Hersh wrote.

" The White House tapes and documents show that he and Colson discussed the issue repeatedly, and that Colson eventually reassured the President by saying that he had, in essence, fixed the case.

Specifically, the President was told that one of Colson's people had gone to Wisconsin and tried to talk to the prosecutors.

" Colson's efforts failed, however.

The Eau Claire district attorney, a Republican, refused to dismiss the attempted adultery charge.

In passing sentence in February 1972, the judge rejected the D. A.

's motion that Capp agree to undergo psychiatric treatment.