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I have always been fascinated with the idenitity of Deep Throat. Do you have your own idea of who it could be?
This is what Havill said.
Watergate's Deep Throat Is...
...George Herbert Walker Bush. Former president. Father of the current president. He's Deep Throat? A Watergate researcher and author says he now thinks the mysterious figure codenamed "Deep Throat" by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein is none other than Papa Bush, reports The Boston Herald.
Arguably the most mysterious figure in American political history, Deep Throat is the one who divulged confidential information to Woodward and Bernstein that enabled them to crack the Watergate case and help bring down a presidency. And now Adrian Havill, the author of a 1993 biography titled "Deep Truth" about reporters Woodward and Carl Bernstein, says after new research he believes the elder Bush is the unnamed contact. Until now, Havill maintained Deep Throat was a composite of secret sources and not a single person.
What made Havill suspect George H.W. Bush? Five things:
1. President George W. Bush is well known for disliking reporters, but he gave Woodward an unusual seven hours of interviews for Woodward's book, "Bush at War."
2. The elder Bush had a deep motivation to dislike President Richard Nixon, who had urged him to leave a safe congressional seat for a position as assistant secretary of the Treasury with a hint that Nixon would replace Spiro Agnew with Bush on the 1972 ticket. The Boston Herald reports that Nixon reneged, and Bush "was given the thankless task of heading the Republican National Committee in 1973," Havill said.
3. George H.W. Bush was United Nations ambassador in New York from 1971 to 1973, but regularly traveled to his Washington home on weekends. Seven of the eight Deep Throat/Woodward meetings were on weekends.
4. Bush had intimate knowledge of Washington and the way it worked.
"This is a guy with deep political contacts from way back," Havill said.
5. Both Woodward and Bush are graduates of Yale University and both were in the U.S. Navy.
Woodward has said he will only reveal Deep Throat's identity when the source dies. And that leads us to the latest news, which one would think negates all of the above. An article in today's Los Angeles Times says that Deep Throat is now close to death. The last we saw, George H.W. Bush was in great health. So maybe it's not him.
This is what Havill said.
Watergate's Deep Throat Is...
...George Herbert Walker Bush. Former president. Father of the current president. He's Deep Throat? A Watergate researcher and author says he now thinks the mysterious figure codenamed "Deep Throat" by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein is none other than Papa Bush, reports The Boston Herald.
Arguably the most mysterious figure in American political history, Deep Throat is the one who divulged confidential information to Woodward and Bernstein that enabled them to crack the Watergate case and help bring down a presidency. And now Adrian Havill, the author of a 1993 biography titled "Deep Truth" about reporters Woodward and Carl Bernstein, says after new research he believes the elder Bush is the unnamed contact. Until now, Havill maintained Deep Throat was a composite of secret sources and not a single person.
What made Havill suspect George H.W. Bush? Five things:
1. President George W. Bush is well known for disliking reporters, but he gave Woodward an unusual seven hours of interviews for Woodward's book, "Bush at War."
2. The elder Bush had a deep motivation to dislike President Richard Nixon, who had urged him to leave a safe congressional seat for a position as assistant secretary of the Treasury with a hint that Nixon would replace Spiro Agnew with Bush on the 1972 ticket. The Boston Herald reports that Nixon reneged, and Bush "was given the thankless task of heading the Republican National Committee in 1973," Havill said.
3. George H.W. Bush was United Nations ambassador in New York from 1971 to 1973, but regularly traveled to his Washington home on weekends. Seven of the eight Deep Throat/Woodward meetings were on weekends.
4. Bush had intimate knowledge of Washington and the way it worked.
"This is a guy with deep political contacts from way back," Havill said.
5. Both Woodward and Bush are graduates of Yale University and both were in the U.S. Navy.
Woodward has said he will only reveal Deep Throat's identity when the source dies. And that leads us to the latest news, which one would think negates all of the above. An article in today's Los Angeles Times says that Deep Throat is now close to death. The last we saw, George H.W. Bush was in great health. So maybe it's not him.