Woodward's Notes from 'Deep Throat' Interviews On View

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: Editor&Publisher

Woodward's Notes from 'Deep Throat' Interviews On View
By Greg Mitchell
Published: March 27, 2007

NEW YORK If you have ever been fascinated with Wategate -- or merely enjoyed the movie "All the President's Men" -- you've probably tried to imagine what Bob Woodward's notes from his meetings with "Deep Throat" in the famous parking garage looked like. Now you have the chance.

Papers belonging to Washington Post reporters Woodward and Carl Bernstein concerning Mark Felt, the source known as Deep Throat, went on public display Friday at the University of Texas at Austin. Some can be viewed online. The first set of notes includes a direct quote from Felt: "this could ruin the admin, I mean ruin."

Later Felt cites FBI director L. Patrick Gray: "The White House wants to eat the Wash. Post., according to gray's report of meeting."

The university acquired the Watergate papers of Woodward and Bernstein for $5 million in 2003, and most of the documents were made available at the Ransom Center two years later. Papers on Deep Throat, however, were held back because his identity was a well-guarded secret.

E&P has perused some of the material and can report on three copies of Woodward's notes from 1972 and 1973, which include introductory explanations from the library. They show that Woodward typed them back at his home or office after the meetings, with the occasional typo and strike-through....

(NOTE: Some excerpts from Woodward's notes follow in the article.)

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[Oreo]

1. Maybe 30 years from now...

Notes from Talking Points Memo or Rawstory reporters will be released to the public that show how a Bush insider blew the cover off of several major scandals that forced Bush and Cheney to resign.
We can dream can't we?

[DeepModem Mom]

2. I was thinking (dreaming) the same thing. nt

[Centered]

3. Politics aside

I bet it felt amazing as they slowly realized they were working on one of the greatest news stories of their generation. Few of us will ever know the feeling that our lives have just lead us to do something of such significance that we will be remembered in history.