DeepThroat: Refresh my memory of what was about...

[readmylips]

I know it had to do with Nixon but forgot the whole thing. Please give us a bit of history.

[HereSince1628]

1. here...

Deep Throat (Watergate)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Deep Throat was the name given to Bob Woodward's secret informant who leaked information about United States President Richard Nixon's involvement in Watergate. He was an important source for Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who wrote a series of articles about Watergate in the Washington Post. That scandal would eventually lead to the resignation of the president and prison terms for White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman and presidential adviser John Ehrlichman.

Deep Throat came to public attention when Woodward and Bernstein wrote All the President's Men, a book also made into an Academy Award-winning movie.

According to Woodward, Deep Throat was very nervous that his role in the Post investigation would be discovered. He demanded that the two stop conversing by phone, thinking that the line may be tapped, and they began meeting late at night in a Washington parking garage. If Woodward wanted a meeting with Deep Throat, the reporter would rearrange a potted plant in his apartment window. If Deep Throat wanted a meeting with Woodward, the source would somehow see that the number on page 20 of the edition of the Post delivered to Woodward's apartment each morning was circled. Woodward claims that Deep Throat never gave him specific information but only confirmed information given by others and suggested avenues to explore

[flyingfysh]

2. he was a major source for Woodward and Bernstein

He actually talked only to one of the reporters (I forget which one), and gave them tips about which directions to investigate in. Rent and view the movie "All the President's Men" (or read the book). He was an insider in the Nixon administration. There was a set of signals which would set up midnight meetings in a parking garage.

They say that they will only reveal his identity after his death. Lots of people have been suggested as being Deep Throat, but almost no one knows for sure.

One of his major pieces of advice was "Follow the money."

[HereSince1628]

4. The bagman for the money was LaRue,

who was an associate or cubicle mate of LaRue that might have been aware?

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. Deep Throat was the name given to Bob Woodward's

anonymous source in breaking the Watergate scandal.

Good summary here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)

[really-looney]

5. Linda Lovelace movie

Linda Lovelace plays a gal who cannot achieve an orgasm no matter what sexual positon she assumes! THE ORIGINAL UNCUT CLASSIC

[housewolf]

6. "All the President's Men"....

If you've never read the book by Woodward & Bernstein or seen the movie (Robert Redford & Dustin Hoffman), do yourself a favor and ... do (read or view). Both are quite compelling.

Watergate was such a critical event in our nation's history, and many of the Republicans in and around the administration today were involved in Nixon's administration then. It's a real study in Republican abuse of power that we still need to be aware of.