It is one of the few primaries I have won, outside of the Reform Party where I won them all. However, you made some mistakes. We struck him from the list. A few weeks later, we got a break.
This money bank-rolled the Watergate burglars. In their book, Woodward and Bernstein recalled that Hoback had revealed her suspicions about a slush fund to Woodward in an interview. Before the pair published a story about the secret fund in the Post , they confirmed the information, including the amounts, with Deep Throat.
We did not consider Dean himself to be a candidate because he had left the White House in April Curiously, though, Deep Throat had confirmed the incorrect figures, which suggests that he gleaned the information from the FBI report given to Dean. Other clues started pointing us toward Fielding. He had access to information that Deep Throat corroborated for Woodward and Bernstein. Eichmann was born in Solingen, Germany, in After two years of exploratory visits and friendly negotiations, Ford Motor Company signs a landmark agreement to produce cars in the Soviet Union on May 30, The Soviet Union, which in had only 20, cars and a single truck factory, was eager to join the ranks of Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.
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On May 30, , three U. Upon his election in , Reagan Although Whitman loved music and books, he left school at the age of 14 to become a journeyman printer. He was 86 at the time, alert though clearly diminished by the years. She ushered him in, excused herself, and the two men talked for half an hour, Joan recalls. Then she invited them to join her for a drive to the market nearby. He looked about my age. Pleasant too. Woodward and Felt waited in the car while Joan popped into the grocery store.
And so, once back at the house, Woodward left to get his car. Yet when she opened the front door, she could find neither the reporter nor his car.
He was just about to enter a chauffeured limousine. Joan, however, was too polite to ask Woodward why he had chosen to park there. Or why, for that matter, he had come in a limo. Joan found it all a bit odd. Her father had been dodging reporters all week, but had seemed totally comfortable with this one. And why had Woodward taken such precautions? Joan trusted her instincts. Felt suffered a mild stroke in His mental faculties began to deteriorate a bit.
But he kept his spirit and sense of humor. Best to everyone, Bob. The atmosphere had the levity and intensity of a reunion, as several of the students had just returned from sabbaticals in South America. Jan served her typical Italian-style feast with large platters of pasta, grilled chicken, and vegetables, and plenty of beer and wine. Our house, in Marin County, overlooks the San Rafael Hills, and the setting that spring evening was perfect for trading stories about faraway trips.
When talk turned to the allure and intrigue of Rio in the 40s, Nick mentioned that his grandfather, also a lawyer, had joined the bureau around that time and had gone on to become a career agent. I was blown away.
Here was an enterprising kid who was working his way through school. Nick and I were both good high-school athletes. I had taken Nick under my wing, encouraging him to consider studying to become a lawyer. Felt had even worked with my early mentor, William Ruckelshaus, most famous for his role in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre, of When Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox subpoenaed nine Nixon tape recordings that he had secretly made in the Oval Office, the president insisted that Cox be fired.
Deep Throat, in fact, had been the hero who started it all—along with the two reporters he assisted, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein both of whom would go on to make their journalistic reputations, and riches, through their Watergate revelations.
Your granddad is Deep Throat! Did you know that? We let the subject drop that night, turning to other matters. But a few days later Nick phoned and asked me, in my role as an attorney, to come over and meet his grandfather.
Felt, Nick said, had recently admitted his secret identity, privately, to intimates, after years of hiding the truth even from his family. But Felt was adamant about remaining silent on the subject—until his death—thinking his past disclosures somehow dishonorable.
Joan and Nick, however, considered him a true patriot. They were beginning to realize that it might make sense to enlist someone from the outside to help him tell his story, his way, before he passed away, unheralded and forgotten. It has been said that he may be the most famous anonymous person in U.
But, regardless of his notoriety, American society today owes a considerable debt to the government official who decided, at great personal risk, to help Woodward and Bernstein as they pursued the hidden truths of Watergate. First, some background.
Howard Hunt, a onetime C. Gordon Liddy, an ex—F. The case remained in the headlines thanks to the dogged reporting of an unlikely team of journalists, both in their late 20s: Carl Bernstein, a scruffy college dropout and six-year veteran of the Post now a writer, lecturer, and Vanity Fair contributor , and Bob Woodward, an ex—navy officer and Yale man now a celebrated author and Post assistant managing editor.
The heat was also kept on because of a continuing F. These sessions, however, were quickly undermined. Felt believed that the C. Patrick Gray. He wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate.
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses. Ironically, while providing crucial information to the Washington Post, Felt was also assigned to ferret out the newspaper's source. The investigation never went anywhere, but plenty of people, including those in the White House at the time, guessed that Felt, who was leading the investigation into Watergate, may have been acting as a double agent.
The Watergate tapes captured the White House chief of staff Bob Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source, but they were afraid to stop him. This article is more than 12 years old. Reuse this content.
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