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.)
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.