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Tuesday, March 13, 1973

  • Nixon tells Dean he does not think Gray will be a good fit at the FBI.

Wednesday, March 13, 1974

  • With still no response from the White House on their request, Doar and Hutchinson hold a press conference hoping to push the President and his lawyers into cooperating.

"I know it violates the sensibilities of the innocent and tender-minded, but in the real world you sometimes have to employ extreme and extralegal methods to preserve the very system whos laws you're violating. "

G Gordon Liddy | Watergate Conspirator