Word: patricks
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...first surprises when he turned against Richard Nixon and declared that the Watergate mess "smells." Goldwater was wryly saluted by Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, as "the liberals' favorite conservative." Not so. J. Edgar Hoover now looks upright and independent by comparison to L. Patrick Gray III. Even Vice President Agnew inspired the Washington Post to contemplate the prospect of a Nixon retirement and observe that his successor might not be so bad: "Many Democrats [might support] him out of resignation or relief...
Further, TIME has learned that former Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III hid in his office safe evidence that would have more speedily revealed the identities and the CIA connections of Wiretappers G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt Jr. shortly after the Watergate burglary. A Justice Department official contends that the CIA gave Gray details of the disguises, aliases and false identification papers that it had supplied Liddy and Hunt in 1971, when they worked for the White House in the clandestine investigation of Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg. After the Watergate breakin, FBI agents were tediously checking...
Former FBI acting director L. Patrick Gray III warned President Nixon of a White House Watergate coverup attempt in July 1972 only a few weeks after the break-in at Democratic National Headquarters, a CIA memorandum revealed yesterday...
...Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) read a memorandum to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in which Walters said he was ordered by Haldeman, then Nixon's chief of staff, to contact acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray III to ask that the FBI not pursue a Mexican lead in the early investigation of the Watergate break...
...operatives in the ranks sounded the alarm about E. Howard Hunt Jr. when their superiors didn't. The FBI agents on the line forced out L. Patrick Gray III when he admitted he burned the files. Justice Department investigators whispered their dismay over the cover-up at higher levels. If Watergate yields dividends, it could be that next time a civil servant hears the line "I have a mandate from the President ..." he will alert every one of his better instincts and ask every question he can think of before he acts...