Can you even believe the brass ones that took?
"Hey, Dick, you don't know it yet, but I have screwed you royally, but I am not ethical enough to NOT ask you to come and try to save my sorry butt."
Yeah, yeah, I failed to cite that.
He took Nixon down...then prevailed upon him to help get his ass out of the dock.
And Nixon, who after all knew what loyalty was (loyalty to his loyalists cost him his presidency), came running.
Felt is an absolute amoral snake.