[re_tail20]

So L. Patrick Gray, the F.B.I.’s number one guy, was leaking to the New York Times, while W. Mark Felt, the F.B.I.’s number two guy, was leaking to the Washington Post.

If only J. Edgar Hoover had lived a few more months, he would have still been director during the break in, and nobody would have leaked anything.

[trumandogz]

The details of the break-in would have leaked eventually and Nixon would have gone down. He was is way too deep to back out.