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...Ewing and deserve this downfall is tiresome. We are the people who have been doing the hard, dangerous, dirty work of keeping rigs running. The rest of the country can enjoy low oil prices now, but the repercussions may have Americans crying later in gas lines. Georgia McClure Woodward, Okla. Stemming Terrorism...
Felt's heirs, who might want to invite Nixon's grandkids--or Bob Woodward--out to lunch...
...they used to call Deep Throat." W. MARK FELT, 91, deputy director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal, disclosing he was the famed secret source relied upon by investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein...
...Felt's reasons for unmasking himself are a mix of high and low, so too were his apparent motives for talking to Woodward in the first place. After all, Felt was a by-the-book G-man, a ramrod-straight protege of J. Edgar Hoover's who made the FBI his life. In their book, Woodstein, as the Post duo came to be called, portrayed their source as a contradictory character who liked gossip and drink and had grown fiercely disillusioned by the "switchblade mentality" of the Nixon White House. But in a long Washington Post piece last week, presumably...
...perceptive 1992 article in Atlantic Monthly, former Post reporter James Mann speculated that Felt or another top FBI official was the one who had leaked to Woodward as a way to protect his beloved FBI from Nixon's efforts to use the agency for political purposes. Deep Throat, wrote Mann, probably resented the appointment of outsider and Nixon loyalist L. Patrick Gray to replace FBI Director Hoover, who had died six weeks before the Watergate break-in, and wanted to blunt White House efforts to suppress the FBI investigation of the burglary. Of course, the FBI under Hoover...