Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That may?or may not?have been a subtle signal from Gray that he was giving up hope of winning his confirmation battle with the U.S. Senate. His nomination looked hopelessly blocked in a divided Judiciary Committee precisely because many Senators believed that, despite Gray's wire, he has permitted the FBI to be improperly influenced by base political considerations during his ten-month temporary tenure...
...agents refused to comply, considering the order an improper political use of the FBI, as it certainly was. Asked about it by agents at the FBI Academy, Gray accepted responsibility for the wire and asked: "Wouldn't you do that for the President?" (He has since denied saying this.) Yet when news of the order was printed (by TIME), Presidential Aide Ehrlichman termed the order improper. He said that the memo, which had originated in his office and gone to the Justice Department, should never have been sent...
...Crowds of up to 4,000 South Vietnamese have assailed the Hanoi delegates at both Hue and Danang, throwing rocks and injuring six delegates. "If Saigon wants to stop these things, it can stop them," declared one high U.S. official. The Communist military representatives are mainly confined behind barbed wire and high fences in primitive compounds...
...White House records listed Presidential Counsel Charles Colson as Hunt's "supervisor" from June 1971 through March 1972, at least four months after Hunt had begun to recruit other wire tappers involved in the Watergate conspiracy. The records also show that Colson's secretary initialed Hunt's pay vouchers. Colson has denied "knowledge or involvement" in the Watergate bugging and has given sworn testimony that he did not see much of Hunt beyond August...
...free style relay and finish just one place behind the Quakers to retain its slim hold on second going into the last day, and it did just that. In the most exciting race of the evening Crimson battled Princeton, Penn, and Yale down to the wire before taking an eventual third behind the Tigers and the Quakers...