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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
Eh, don't really care. Especially since the article I read flat out said that one of the reasons he changed his mind and decided to identify himself is that his family wants to cash in on it. That's pretty pathetic.
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Actually, I have no problem with him/them revealing his identity to cash in on it. Why should Woodward/Bernstein be the only ones to do so? Their entire fame and fortune is due to this guy. He might as well get something for his family, rather than dying and then letting W/B cash in again when they revealed who it was.
What I find pathetic was that he did it at all. This is not meant to be in defense of Nixon or what happened, but obviously the justice department was investigating, and this guy broke the law, and from what I have read he did it because Nixon didn't give him the top job at the FBI as director when he was second in command. Did it out of spite.