I thought they meant Monica.
Posted on 07/28/2004 8:17:10 PM PDT by aculeus
One of the longest-running mysteries of American politics may soon be resolved after it was announced yesterday that the man many suspect of being Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal had died.
Fred LaRue, known as the "bagman" because he delivered payments to ensure the silence of participants in the Watergate break-in, was found dead in a hotel room in Biloxi, Mississippi. He was 75.
The two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate story, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, have maintained that they would only reveal the identity of Deep Throat once he was dead.
Although there have been several names advanced as Deep Throat, LaRue is one of the more likely candidates. He was a special assistant to John Mitchell, the former attorney general who headed Creep, the Campaign to Re-elect the President, in 1972.
LaRue was at a meeting at Nixon's Florida holiday home at which the scheme to break into the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington was first mooted.
Although LaRue insisted he was not Deep Throat, and that the source was a combination of several people, Woodward and Bernstein have insisted Deep Throat was one person.
LaRue said last year that President Nixon had not been told of the plan to break into the building.
He cited his close relationship with Mr Mitchell to back up his claim that the president was ignorant of the plan.
LaRue served four and a half months in prison for his role in the Watergate conspiracy, after being charged with obstructing justice.
dead in a hotel room...what an end to a person.
I thought they meant Monica.
I believe that was, the CRP: the Committee to Re-elect the President. It was the leftists who called it CREEP.
Consider the source.
HEY!
Or a third rate burglary versus a first rate Sandy Berglery.
Deep Throat is DAVID GERGEN...imo.
See? Tinfoil makes one CONTENT!
I hate hotels......
*rimshot*
Haig was deep throat......
Must be great to be a "journalist." You never have to reveal, let alone prove, who your source is. You can just float whatever you want, sit back and watch people speculate pointlessly forever, while you keep collecting royalties on your book of unverifiable reportage.
At first, I thought the article was referring to Linda Lovelace, but then I remembered she died a few years ago.
P.S. Shame on you if you know who Linda Lovelace is !!
Deep Throat was Bob Woodward.
P.S. Shame on you if you know who Linda Lovelace is !! Shame on me? :-)
Shame on me, then! I didn't know LL had died. I don't know how she passed, but I seriously doubt she choked to death...
Why does Nixon like Deep Throat?
Because he can't (censored)
Yeah, she choke on Harry Reems...
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