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In Nixon's Web A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
Author: L. Patrick Gray III, Ed Gray

"Challenges some assumptions and offers new theories about Watergate."?The New York TimesIn Nixon?s Web is the last untold story of Watergate, written by the FBI director who maintained his silence for more than thirty years. L. Patrick Gray III was the target of one of Watergate?s most shocking acts?Richard Nixon?s "smoking... more » gun" attempt to have the CIA stop the FBI investigation of the break-in. And when the Senate focused its attention on Gray months later, the White House threw him to the wolves; John Ehrlichman famously advised that he be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind."This book is Gray?s firsthand account of his crucial year at the FBI, based on a never-before-published first-person account and previously secret documents. He reveals the intrigue and perfidy that permeated Washington and he raises disturbing questions about the methods and motives of his top deputy, Mark Felt, the man purported to be Deep Throat. Completed and expanded by Gray?s son, the journalist Ed Gray, In Nixon?s Web will change the way we think about the crisis that destroyed Nixon?s presidency. L. Patrick Gray III (1916?2005) was acting director of the FBI at the height of the Watergate scandal, from May 1972 to April 1973. He had previously served in the Justice Department as an assistant attorney general, and was a twenty-year veteran of the U.S. Navy.

Ed Gray, his son, is a naturalist writer and the founder of Gray?s Sporting Journal. He is the author of seven books and lives in Lyme, New Hampshire. As the acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from May 1972 to April 1973, L. Patrick Gray III was the man caught in the middle of the Watergate scandal. He was a lifelong Republican, but Richard Nixon considered him a threat. Closing in on the conspiracy, Gray became the target of one of Watergate?s most shocking acts?Nixon?s ?smoking gun? attempt to have the CIA stop the FBI investigation. And when the U.S. Senate focused its attention on Gray in April 1973, the White House threw him to the wolves; John Ehrlichman famously advised that he be left to ?twist slowly, slowly in the wind.?

This is Gray?s firsthand account of what really happened during his crucial year as acting director of the FBI, based on a first-person account that has never been published and previously secret documents. He reveals the witches? brew of intrigue and perfidy that permeated Washington, and he tells the unknown story of his complex relationship with his top deputy, Mark Felt, raising disturbing questions about the methods and motives of the man purported to be Deep Throat.

Gray?s book was completed and expanded by his son, the journalist Ed Gray, who has supplemented the text with revelatory excerpts from documents, tape transcripts, and third-party accounts. Every other major figure has told his story, and now Patrick Gray?s unique inside account completes the records of the crisis that destroyed the Nixon presidency. ?Gray waited a long time to tell his victim?s tale?first in a deathbed television interview in 2005, and now in the posthumous In Nixon?s Web, a memoir assembled by his son, Ed Gray, whose gifts as a writer are evident here . . . Students of the presidency and of the strangeness of Nixon can feast on what Gray calls ?the most disquieting half hour in my 30 years of government service? . . . His story is poignant.??Charles Trueheart, Newsday

?In Nixon?s Web is Gray?s defense and his legacy. During the course of appearing before the Senate committees, Gray amassed a huge collection of files, memos, notes, press accounts and transcripts that he used in his defense. Armed with his own archives and the White House tape transcripts, he offers the complete story of the year he ran the FBI and the Bureau?s investigation of Watergate. Gray matches his own conversations and documentation with an examination of schemes he was not aware of, that were hatched in the Oval Office. It all comes together in a detailed narrative that creates an accurate account, backed up by transcripts, separating the good guys from the bad . . . With 20/20 hindsight and disillusionment with the men he once admired, Gray pulls no punches when describing the government officials he was associated with, accusing many of lying . . . Unfortunately, Gray did not live to see his compilation hit the bookshelves. The last two chapters are written by his son, Ed Gray, who lovingly and respectfully picks up the torch. Ed investigates inaccuracies in Woodward?s notes as he questions the extent of Felt?s involvement. He offers new insights into a piece of history that is still being told as he continues his father?s quest for the truth while exposing the liars and cynics.??Bob Oswald, Chicago Sun-Times

"L. Patrick Gray III, acting director of the FBI from May 1972 to April 1973, resigned rather than go through confirmation hearings with no support from Nixon's White House. He had no chance of keeping his job once it was clear that he would not lie about Watergate to protect the beleaguered President. John Ehrlichman, Nixon's chief domestic adviser, also sandbagged Gray, ordering him to destroy incriminating documents from Watergate burglar Howard Hunt. Furthermore, Mark Felt, the self-acknowledged Deep Throat, believed that he should have been appointed FBI director and led a clique of the late J. Edgar Hoover's surviving loyalists, who opposed Gray. After resigning, Gray spent years clearing his name from charges related to Watergate. Here he shows his contempt for Nixon, H.R. Haldeman, John Dean, and Mark Felt in no uncertain terms. His son (founder, Gray's Sporting Journal) wrote the final chapters following his father's death in 2005. Relying on his father's carefully maintained records, Ed Gray faults Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men as more fiction than fact and concludes intriguingly that Mark Felt was not the only Deep Throat. Overall, this is a fast-paced, sometimes chilling insider's account of the desperate attempt to save a corrupt administration, without regard to whose lives were destroyed."?Karl Helicher, School Library Journal

ISBN-13: 9780805089189
ISBN-10: 0805089187
Publication Date: 3/3/2009
Pages: 352
Edition: 1 Reprint
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
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Biographies & Memoirs >> Leaders & Notable People >> Political
History >> Americas >> United States >> 20th Century >> 1945 - Present
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