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Deep Throat suggests to Woodward that high officials in the Nixon re-election campaign financed the break...
Deep Throat tells Woodward that former Nixon campaign chairman John Mitchell and White House special counsel Charles Colson financed Hunt and Liddy's operation. Deep Throat confirms that Gray, below, destroyed files from Hunt's safe at the White House's direction. Gray withdraws his name from Senate consideration for the director's post and exits the FBI. Felt once again hopes to get the director's seat, but the job goes to William Ruckelshaus instead...
...identity of Deep Throat had been, for the past 33 years, the most tantalizing of those questions--in part because he placed himself at risk to bring down a corrupt government, in part because of the romantically noirish way he was portrayed in All the President's Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's book about how they got their big Watergate story and, more significantly, in the movie retelling of their exploits...
...Follow the money," Deep Throat immortally advised Woodward, and the fact that Felt was now himself doing so, trying to parlay his Vanity Fair confession into a book deal, distressed some people. Besides retaining their looks, the spring in their stride, people who do good things are not supposed to cash in on them--however belatedly. That Felt may have had other, less than noble motives for his actions--he was angry at the Nixon Administration because he was passed over for the directorship of the FBI--also counted against him. When altruism is tainted by apparently mean--actually entirely...
...only when Woodward descends into the darkness of a parking garage to consult with Deep Throat that the movie briefly becomes a real noirish melodrama. The filmmakers made Deep Throat a smoker, which some say he was not, to give him a Robert Mitchum air, which was surely not something we would now impute to Felt. But Hal Holbrook gives a gnomic, cranky performance as Deep Throat. (Shouldn't there be an Oscar for best performance by an actor you can barely see?) And director Alan Pakula added menacing off-camera sound effects to Holbrook's scenes--a mysterious bump...