In 1972, Mark Felt was the number two man at the FBI. He leaked details about Nixon's covert surveillance operations to Bob Woodward and others. In 2005, when Mark Felt's family forced him to reveal his secret identity, he was suffering from dementia. This dementia has been used to forever shield and protect the myth of Deep Throat. There's a nickname for you at the paper, Deep Throat; I give you the guardian of the American dream.
A remixed complete version of our two part Watergate series from last year: Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the legends and the myths. The 1976 film All the President’s Men remains our most authoritative account of Watergate. The film is also responsible for the myth of Deep Throat. Your host follows the myth… from 1976 to the present. Plus a reporter from the Washington Post newsroom who never made it into All the President’s Men yet did more to safeguard the free press and American democracy than Woodstein ever did.