Pat Gray (Full) Watergate Hearings Testimony

[@njgarvin]

Much appreciation for posting these, an invaluable reference on the times, my mom insisted that we watched and understood what a huge impact this had (& would forevrr have) on our country

[@brendas6461]

Thank you mom!!!

[@calvinsaxon5822]

Thank you so much for posting these. I've been looking everywhere for these. Superb!

[@bconigliaro]

Me, too. Others available via PBS @ americanarchive.org/exhibits/watergate But Mr. O'Dare has done a lot of work to make them seamless.

[@gn3569]

Watched these on tv when they aired in 1973. Now knowing Mark Felt was Deepthroat ties a few things together. BTW - Felt was passed over for FBI Director by Nixon when JEH died.

[@tylenoljackson9378]

Of the hundreds of witnesses before the committee, the only one that could give a straight answer was Tony Ulasewicz.

[@aarondavis8943]

KZbin gets a lot of flack but for a child of the 70s I just think it's a damn miracle.

[@1999glock]

Pat Gray was not a bad guy. A knucklehead, yes...loyal yes...but not a dishonest person. Typical military man, follow orders by your commander in chief. When he realized he was being used he opted out.

[@jgrau5089]

Funny how Mr. Gray mentioned FBI agent Mark Felt in his testimony, who was Bob Woodward's secret Watergate source known as "Deep Throat". Felt was a Hoover man, and expected to be named FBI director after Hoover's death, but Pat Gray was named. He did become assistant director.

[@davidargon6623]

Glad someone else knows this.

[@bryanbuchan8197]

Another weird thing is on the Nixon oval office tapes he say,s "Mark Felt must be the leaker". Nixon was a pretty smart guy

[@allengilbert9545]

Felt cashed in, just before his death...

[@svjim1]

Someone posted the 1984 miniseries of John Dean's book Blind Ambition on KZbin. In one scene early on, Dean has a meeting with J. Edgar Hoover. At one point Hoover mentions Mark Felt.

[@matthewgabbard6415]

Gray was a joke political appointee and showed it in his actions. We were very lucky he didn’t last long in his post. We had just gotten rid of Hoover who had no business still being the head of the FBI at his age and especially after his actions. A vicious little queen was what Hoover was and it’s a pity there is no hell for him to currently be roasting in

[@randywalsh8383]

Politicians have always needed oversight, in order to protect the country. Too bad that our agencies in charge of oversight today are so partisan, and selective in their actions.

[@AMunoz-rh9cz]

The heads of said agencies are hired and fired by the president. They are not required to give reasons for doing so. The heads of the agencies that are tasked with investigating, preparing and litigating a case against and overseeing sentencing a President are all selected by the very defendant that they are handling. If a verdict doesn’t go as planned for his own co-offenders on a federal charge, he is allowed to pardon them. Trump has done this as well as for his own father- in-law. Of the Inspector Generals tasked with oversight of each Cabinet position, a president is allowed to fire them at will; Trump fired five of them. Same thing with hiring and firing ambassadors. I believe that this greatly exceeds the definition of partisanship. The system we currently have guarantees corruption and a government populated by yes men who are less than ideally qualified. Nixon didn’t mince words, for example, how much it cost to be in the running for an ambassadorship. The cost was far higher for a post in Europe versus elsewhere and it was processed and laundered through his “donation” procedures. Imagine the difference there would be/would have been in the quality of our foreign policy and relations had people been selected on the basis expertise and experience, ie people who are experts on the region, fluent in the language, professors who have spent their career studying the region, past career diplomatic work. Until we demand complete reformation of such overreaching powers, there will not be an ethical, competent functioning government.

[@Retroscoop]

Walters spoke different languages fluently, but apparantly not Grayian. What he remembered of the meetings with Gray was quite different of what Gray remembers of the meetings with Walters. Quite interesting to hear that Ehrlichman just could decide with one telephone call that a meeting between Gray and Helms/Walters had to be canceled ("or else..." ?) I wonder what Hoover would have said to Ehrlichman should he have received such an order in the Ehrlichman style ("bow wow wow, or else....")

[@arcanondrum6543]

The FBI was criticized for their "lack of findings" regarding Watergate. Had Hoover not died, no phone call would have been necessary. Turds stick together.

[@EugeneONeill-pf5bj]

Lowell Weicker was the biggest grandstander on the panel, just ahead of Sam Ervin. I can see why the White House openly despised him.

[@Applecompuser]

He is not as dishonest as the others, but he is not being truthful or fully candid.

[@lucigalaxi3652]

Just walk right in…

[@steadypace222]

lol!

[@ol55afterthethrillisgone]

None of his reasons for destroying the teletypes were consistent with one another

[@marclaclear6628]

Is it obstruction of justice if the AG refuses to prosecute a crime? Is it obstruction of justice if the FBI director refuses to investigate a crime? If not, then how is it obstruction of justice if their boss tells them not to do so?

[@arcanondrum6543]

Because "their boss" was the person being investigated. Try again fascist.

[@thomaswilliams373]

This guy always has self justifying responses absolving him of all wrongdoing. My bet is: as FBI chief he wouldn’t put up with that from any antiwar protesters his agents arrested

[@milart12]

05:29:26 It always cracks me up to see someone smoking under, by today's standards, wildly inappropriate circumstances.

[@shikat2371]

Nixon tried to get in touch with his former Acting Director of the FBI, Pat Gray, but Gray never took his calls.

[@pinedelgado4743]

Jim Lehrer has a nice news desk! It looks nice edged in black. :) :)

[@Retroscoop]

I was expecting him to play the hammond organ on it... It looks like something from Spaceship Enterprise... Too bad it doesn't beep every now and then, and that there are no red and blue lights on it.

[@homanasiri843]

hunter biden😂

[@EugeneONeill-pf5bj]

At points during this lengthy testimony, Gray is either extremely naive or a bald faced liar.

[@MikeHunt-rw4gf]

Algorithm.

[@ИринаКим-ъ5ч]

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[@elindemier]

They were all dirty

[@jaknap1]

It’s funny how gray has selective memory.

[@Retroscoop]

Every top bureaucrat must have selective memory. Hence Gray has it, Walters had it, Ehrlichman had it... The "I can not recall...." sentence was very popular in those days.

[@arcanondrum6543]

​@@Retroscoop "in those days"? Ronald Reagan put it on steroids. That's unfortunate for the USA. The questioners, for instance, never got around to his employees; Gary Betzner and Barry Seal.

[@EugeneONeill-pf5bj]

Lowell Weicker was the biggest grandstander on the panel, just ahead of Sam Ervin. I can see why the White House openly despised him.