Peccadillo
Posted on 06/26/2005 3:20:55 PM PDT by wagglebee
Speaking out for the first time since the Watergate scandal ended his career, former acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray revealed Sunday that documents the White House ordered to him to hide implicated President John F. Kennedy in political and sexual misconduct.
Appearing on ABC's "This Week," the 88-year-old Gray described a June 28, 1972 White House meeting with Nixon counsel John Dean, where Dean handed him a mysterious envelope. "Dean told me that this envelope contained papers that were removed from [Watergate co-conspirator] E. Howard Hunt's safe, [saying], 'They have nothing to do with the Watergate investigation - but they must not see the light of day.'"
"The first set of papers in there were false top secret cables that indicating that the Kennedy administration had much to do with the assassination of the Vietnamese president," Gray explained, indicating they were counterfeit.
But a second set of files pulled from Hunt's safe, he suggested, were authentic.
"The second set of papers in there were letters purportedly written by Sen. Kennedy [before he became president] involving some of his peccadilloes."
"I looked at those papers [for the first time five months later] as I burned them," he told "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos.
Gray said he believes that the Nixon White House wanted him to get rid of the documents as part of elaborate plan to make it look like he destroyed key evidence related to Watergate - thereby turning him into a fall guy.
After Gray admitted to destroying Hunt's files during confirmation hearings in 1973, Nixon withdrew his nomination to be FBI Director.
I wonder if there was a copy of Kennedy's marriage certifcate to a german woman that had ties to a spy. New Jersey was the State. Story is the old man had it annuled and he got him into the NAVY. If you research JFK's military career, he was NEVER allowed to have high level security positions. Thus the great Swift Boat (oops I mean PT Boat) gambit. Common Gray tell us the REAL JFK story.
It sure is interesting.
Why would John Dean care about protecting JFK's reputation? Why not keep the stuff and just let Ted Kennedy know that you know...
Ping to waht was covered up for JFK. Nice, huh? And the left, without a shred of proof, still tries to tie the president to unsourced garbage.
"Common" = "come on"?
Jeesuz, if you thought that the dims got their panties in a bunch over Rove's "liberal" slam, wait until you see what happens when somebody starts spreading "lies, damn lies" about their patron saint.
My wife's ex boss attended the marriage of JFK to a woman in Florida. Evidently all records of the marriage were erased. At least this is what they said.
He had more than one peccadillo? Do tell.
Worse than garbage, fabrications by a British journalist! It is telling that the 'documents' (I use that word Ratherisly) had no gravitas in Britain at election time, but the democrap leadership want to drain propaganda from them! The Brit insiders believe the 'documents' have a rather stench to them. Our democraps don't care if they're forged or not so long as they help democraps attack Bush's poll numbers! But who's surprised at that since the democraps have been aiding the killers of our brave military personnel and have empowered their political party through the blod of millions of innocent alive unborn.
Peccadillo
One reason why Ted Kennedy despises GWB is that he knows in his heart that President Bush (a cheerleader in college) has been a better world leader than JFK ( who was like a god to him )ever was and history will inevitably confirm that.
Scumbags --- everyone of them.
Yes SORRY.
IIRC, Nixon and JFK got along very well personally even though they were political rivals. Moreover, back in the early 70's JFK was still a national icon, it would have been suicide for anybody to diminish JFK's reputation. After Chappaquiddick, Nixon knew that Teddy's hopes of ever being POTUS were gone, but Nixon also knew that the reason Teddy got off so easily after Chappaquiddick was because of public sympathy over JFK and RFK.
JFK and Nixon were good friends when they were both in Congress, IIRC.
Nixon apparently believed in looking out for his friends, even unto his own destruction.
Nixon and JFK worked closely trying to rid the nation of communists, and they were unified in their complete distrust for J. Edgar Hoover. Nixon viewed "enemies" as people who had tried to harm him personally, he did not consider partisan political rivals to be enemies unless they attacked his character.
There are two NewsMax articles posted on FR today, both interviews with Gray. He seems to contradict himself. In the other article: "I was not a political toady for Mr. Nixon of any other politician," Gray said. "I never felt that I was doing the White House's bidding." Despite Nixon's demands, he didn't fire Felt for leaking info.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1431161/posts
Yet the article posted on this thread says he went ahead and burned docs about JFK that John Dean had given him. He feels that the Nixon White House was setting him up to be a fall guy for destroying those docs. So was Gray doing the White House's bidding or not?
(And yes, having grown up in Massachusetts during the '60s, I'm well aware of the Kennedy mythology, but all you have to do is park the incriminating docs in a vault somewhere. There's just something too weird about the Gray/Dean/Felt stories.)
hmmm..
I posted both NewsMax articles, and the contradictions seemed a little strange to me as well. I had always assumed that Kennedy staffers at the White House would have removed EVERYTHING remotely damaging in the hours after JFK was assassinated. There was an intense distrust for LBJ among the Kennedy loyalists. I seem to remember that RFK and others in the inner circle went to great lengths to "clean out" the White House.
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