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Watergate and the Two Lives of Mark Felt

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"Yes, sir."

"Somebody next to Gray?"

"Mark Felt."

Nixon was shocked. "Now why the hell would he do that?"

Haldeman thought about this, as the conversation whirled around in a circle.

"I think he wants to be in the top spot."

Haldeman speculated that Felt was trying to engineer a victory for Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern, in which case Felt would have a good chance of succeeding Gray. Nixon had a different explanation. Perhaps there was a Kennedy connection.

"Is he Catholic?"

"Jewish."

"Christ, [they] put a Jew in there," exploded Nixon, who had long suspected that a cabal of liberal Jewish bureaucrats was out to undermine his administration.

"That could explain it, too."

Contrary to Haldeman's assertion, there is no evidence Felt is Jewish.


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