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The confirmation came from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate story, and their former top editor, Benjamin C. Bradlee. The three spoke after Felt's family and Vanity Fair magazine identified the 91-year-old Felt, now a retiree in California, as the long-anonymous source who provided crucial guidance for some of the newspaper's groundbreaking Watergate stories.

The Vanity Fair story said Felt had admitted his "historic, anonymous role" following years of denial.

In a statement today, Woodward and Bernstein said, "W. Mark Felt was 'Deep Throat' and helped us immeasurably in our Watergate coverage. However, as the record shows, many other sources and officials assisted us and other reporters for the hundreds of stories that were written in The Washington Post about Watergate."

Felt's guidance to Woodward -- provided on "deep background" in secret meetings -- helped keep public attention focused on the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington's Watergate office and apartment complex, and on a subsequent cover-up effort. This ultimately led to a congressional investigation that revealed the role of Nixon and a number of his top aides. Under threat of impeachment, Nixon resigned in 1974.

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President Reagans Statement granting a pardon to Mark Felt (i.e. "deep throat") and Edward S. Miller
President Reagan archives speech ^ | April 15, 1981 | President Ronald Reagan

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RE: In a statement today, Woodward and Bernstein said, "W. Mark Felt was 'Deep Throat' and helped us immeasurably in our Watergate coverage. However, as the record shows, many other sources and officials assisted us and other reporters for the hundreds of stories that were written in The Washington Post about Watergate."

Thank you for that.

I've read through the first 218 replies and noticed that like me a few are wondering where's the other sources. I clearly remember the TV and print media wild-eyed frenzy. It was anything goes to destroy Nixon. (It had the added bonus of helping the media's Ho in Hanoi.)

Just imagine if the MSM can gen up a "Watergate" on President Bush. It could have the added bonus (in their view) of disrupting things for us in Iraq.

IMO one of the main sources that the W-P used was a hand full of crap flung against the wall. If it stuck they stuck with it. In other words, was "Deep Throat" used as a "source" for that crap. We've seen time and time again how the MSM works. Just how much (or little) did "Deep Throat" actually tell those two W-P clowns?