Word: fbi
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After J. Edgar Hoover's death, Mark Felt becomes the No. 2 at the FBI but is disappointed he isn't named director...
Felt and two colleagues meet with FBI acting Director L. Patrick Gray to protest White House interference in the Watergate investigation...
...chairman John Mitchell and White House special counsel Charles Colson financed Hunt and Liddy's operation. Deep Throat confirms that Gray, below, destroyed files from Hunt's safe at the White House's direction. Gray withdraws his name from Senate consideration for the director's post and exits the FBI. Felt once again hopes to get the director's seat, but the job goes to William Ruckelshaus instead...
Dean testifies that he discussed a cover-up of the burglary with Nixon. Felt retires from the FBI...
...spring in their stride, people who do good things are not supposed to cash in on them--however belatedly. That Felt may have had other, less than noble motives for his actions--he was angry at the Nixon Administration because he was passed over for the directorship of the FBI--also counted against him. When altruism is tainted by apparently mean--actually entirely human--spirits, people tend to become cynical in their responses to that new, more truthful reality...