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They were absolutely petrified that America had turned against liberalism and was embracing Conservatism.

I think that's quite a leap. Nixon was not conservative, at least not much moreso than J. F. Kennedy, and in some areas, notably less so. What he mostly was, was part of a different power structure.

According to an AP report in today's local paper, Felt's daughter says finances a motive so enough about the debate whether Felt was a hero or traitor. The real motive was greed, no more no less:

SANTA ROSA, Calif--The daughter of the former FBI agent who was revealed last week as Deep Throat has acknowledged that money played a role in the family's decision to go public.

W. Mark Felt, 91, was the key source in the Washington Post's Watergate probe that helped bring down President Richard Nixon. Felt stepped forward last week, ending a three-decade debate over the source's true identity.

"He is relieved to get the secret off his chest," Joan Felt said of her father in an interview published Sunday.

Joan Felt, 61, told the newspaper there were many reasons her family wanted to reveal the elder Felt's role in Watergate after three decaades, but added, "I won't deny that to make money is one of them." Some literary agents have said the family could earn more than $1 million from a book deal.

"My son, Nick, is in law school and he'll owe $100,000 by the time he graduates," she said. "I am still a single mom, still supporting them to one degree or anoher, and I am not ashamed of this."

Joan Felt said her father suffered a stroke in 2001 and has undergone surgeries for heart problems and a broken hip but is still lucid.

"We had to help him see that most of the world now considers what he did heroic," she said. "At the time it was happening, he wouldn't have gotten that percentage of support, but history has shown it was so important what he did."

Pat Buchanan called Felt out and referred to what the final chapter of this sordid tale really concerned. “We’ve always conceded that the ’old man’ handled it badly. But he was not brought down by a band of angels. He was brought down by a band of Nixon-haters... and whom we now learn used a snake in the FBI. This is basically a battle over history and a battle over truth,” he said.

Nixon was brought down over the vast corruption in the oval office. It may that a double standard was applied to him vs. LBJ, but so what? Rather than whining about how conservatives are held to a higher standard than liberals, we should proudly complain that we want to be held to a higher standard because we are willing to meet it.

Felt might be a jerk, but in the end if Nixon and the people around him weren't engaged in unethical behavior, there would not have been anything for Felt to leak. They brought themselves down.

PS. In regards to the rest of the article, Nixon was no conservative. They just hated them because he helped to out the commies in the '50's.

Now that the secret identity of Deep Throat has been exposed, so has his life story and what he did as the Deputy Director of the FBI. Felt, in November 1980, was convicted of authorizing break-ins into the homes of members of the Weathermen in the 1970s without warrants. Felt testified during the trial that he was following standard procedures for government investigations.

That revelation illuminates the very hypocrisy of his reasoning and motivation for Deep Throat. He attacked President Nixon as being the catalyst for taking part in activities that Felt himself either took part in regularly or authorized personally.

So the mediots and lime elites want to make a hero of the man who was/is guilty of what Nixon was charged with.

Felt was passed over as Director of the FBI for L. Patrick Gray when J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972 by Nixon. He was bitter with Nixon about the pass over and decided to go after him. Some of the articles in the WashPost in 1974 were attributed to Deep Throat but it was apparently after Felt left the FBI so couldn't have possibly been in the White House for some of the private conversations - Woodward and Bernstein likely made up some of what they wrote based on some inside information. Felt was one of several sources and broke the law by passing on documents and stories that should not have been shared given his position in the FBI. He was no hero. If he felt he had to tell somebody about wrongdoing, he should have gone not to young reporters but to Judge Sirica or one of many congressional committees. I hope Felt's family get nothing for his story. Bitterness and greed is all this was about.

Nixon resigned not because he did anything wrong but because of the cover-up.