Dave's Wife: On reflection, I think your Dad is right. Felt should have gone either to Leon Jaworski (sp?) who was the Watergate Special Prosecutor, or the appropriate Congressional committee.   I suspect that he didn't do that because it would definitely have cost him his job and he had a family to support. I think you are probably right that had his daughter not pushed him, he would have taken the secret to his grave. He evidently suffers from dementia now and is easily led.

Had he gone to his immediate superior, L. Patrick Gray, as I suggested, he probably suspected that that would be the end of it and he would still have been in hot water. Gray was a close friend of Nixon.

Donuel: Felt, technically, was number three in the Bureau at the time, but he was actually number 2. The real number 2 was Edgar Hoover's live-in buddy who was even sicker than Hoover at the time.

Charlie Noble: fear not for me! It must be crystal clear to you, but I have no idea what you are talking about.

I heard the Larry King "softball" show last night, and stayed tuned to watch Dan Rather twist in the wind when Larry finally asked him about the fake documents he tried to use to bring down GWB. I enjoyed watching him sweat (Rather not King) and he still is arrogant enough to intimate that he was right.

DougR