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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.

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

True, but the proximate cause for his resigning was to avoid the national rancor of an impeachment proceeding and the perception throughout the world that the nation was vulnerable.

?.....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....?

/'Chuck' Colson?

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

Correct!

/Moles