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Citing reasons why he thought that L. Patrick Gray III would be an excellent director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst said: "He's a real patriot and a dedicated anti-Communist." Moreover, added Kleindienst, "he's loyal to President Nixon...
...Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst '47, Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton, State Rep. Melvin M. King and American Indian Movement leader Russell Means also received copies...
...wiretapping operation actually helped to keep Hoover on the job until his death last year. According to the same sources, Richard Kleindienst, then Deputy Attorney General, tried to force Hoover to step down, and in 1971 even gave his support to a proposed congressional investigation of the FBI. Enraged Hoover indicated to Kleindienst that it he was called to testify on Capitol Hill he might disclose the wiretaps. (Kleindienst denies this exchange ever took place.) The scuttle-Hoover maneuver was quickly forgotten...
TIME asked several key officials to comment on this account of taps on the press, and they denied it. "A pipe dream," said Mitchell. "Wiretaps on reporters were never authorized by me Said Kleindienst: "I have never heard of bugging reporters' telephones." Said a White House spokesman: "No one at the White House asked for or ordered any such taps...
TREASURY. Edward L. Morgan, 34, who was a deputy to Ehrlichman, is now an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. A University of Arizona graduate and a lawyer, he is a protégé of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, who got him a job as an advance man in the 1968 Nixon campaign...