Word: patricks
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...last week L. Patrick Gray III, the embattled acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was summoned to the White House to discuss the status of President Nixon's controversial move to make him the permanent successor to the late J. Edgar Hoover. After the meeting, Gray returned to FBI headquarters and dispatched a Teletype message to his top officials throughout the nation. Marked "Personal and Confidential," it read in part...
...needs is a director?as well as an Attorney General, with whom he must work closely ?who possesses an unshakable sense of the difference between the pursuit of justice and the protection of political interests. The distinction is not all that fuzzy. It seems to have eluded L. Patrick Gray?and Richard Nixon, who appointed him?but an FBI chief who understands that crucial difference should not be hard to find...
...cast's credit that no other single character obtrudes beyond the delicate and tasteful interaction of the company. They transform a fundamental lack of character deliniation in the script into an asset, allowing their parts to grow naturally with on another. The best in Brock Patrick Walsh, a strong young David, whose fine singing adds much to his role. Paul Fitzgerald achieves a good sense of comraderie as his friend Nathan, and Michael Brewer possesses all the gruffness, wisdom and maturity of a prophet...
...Senate confirmation hearings for L. Patrick Gray III, President Nixon's choice to succeed J. Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI, assumed new and dark dimensions last week. They not only demonstrated that Gray, the acting director since last May, might well be Nixon's least defensible appointment so far. They also revealed among high officials of the Nixon Administration and the President's re-election committee a disturbing callousness toward the law, toward proper investigative procedure and toward the truth...
SOME unexpected byproducts came out of the Senate confirmation hearings for L. Patrick Gray III. They showed that in one case Nixon Administration officials falsely denied reports that linked the White House with the Watergate affair...