Patrick Gray, "a directive" to give Felt a lie-detector test. Nixon even gave Felt's boss, acting FBI director L. Until May 2005, when Felt publicly revealed his identity as Deep Throat, little attention was paid to conversations on the Nixon tapes that revealed President Nixon's deep suspicions more than 30 years earlier that Felt was the source of Watergate leaks to various newspapers and magazines, including the Post and Time. Mark Felt, the former deputy assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the man who turned out to be Deep Throat, the Washington Post's major secret source for its Watergate stories. An example that comes to mind involves tapes about W. The tapes reveal White House incidents and conversations that are seldom reported in the hundreds of books written about the 37th President. I was part of the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff's team of reviewers and editors from 1997 to mid-2007 the team is interested both in the content on the tapes and in providing good quality recordings and descriptions of those recordings for researchers. However, when he suspects that a crime may occur, Caul changes his mind and becomes very interested in what the couple is discussing.Īs an archivist who reviewed Nixon White House tapes for 10 years, I can relate to that scene in The Conversation. He is interested only in providing a good quality recording for his client. When Stan suggests that it would be interesting to know what the target of their surveillance, a young couple, is talking about, Caul replies he does not care what they are saying. There is a scene in the 1974 movie The Conversation in which surveillance specialist Harry Caul, played by Gene Hackman, discusses a current assignment with his assistant, Stan, played by the late John Cazale. However, the review of the Nixon White House tapes-recordings made between 19 in the Oval Office and other locations-will continue at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland, until all the tapes have been reviewed. (Richard Nixon Library)Įarlier this year, on July 11, 2007, the privately run Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, was turned over to the federal government and made part of the system of presidential libraries operated by the National Archives and Records Administration, with a staff of federal employees. From February 1971 to July 1973, a secret taping system recorded conversations in the White House. The President talks on the telephone, October 27, 1972.
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