From Woodward's latest article on how he met Felt: "After four years of service, I had been involuntarily extended an additional year because of the Vietnam War."
From an interview with Woodward's Dad (book: Silent Coup):
--- Al Woodward proudly says his son volunteered for the fifth year after the Navy offered Bob the prestigious assignment linking the Pentagon and the White House. "I don't think he was ordered. He had an option to do it or not, and he decided to do it." the senior Woodward told us. "I guess it was considered somewhat of an honor, and he accepted it."....."the assignment he had was in the basement of the White House." ----
Later on that page his first wife says he was given a choice to stay in California or several other locations, but he chose "the basement of the White House."
---- " I can't conceive of a case in which a man was given an option of chossing his assignment in a situation like that," Admiral Carroll comments; "It could only happen if his commanding officer or SOMEONE FROM THE PENTAGON requested him for a particular assignment".----
(Caps are mine)
The book also details events and interviews (including Moorer) that say that Woodward was a "briefer" of some importance rather than some disheartened sailor pressed into servitude as a "courier".
Woodward's a liar through and through. In "Silent Coup" the authors talk about him getting his first job too - and how he downplays all of his previous military experience. They even say just like a spy downplays his career so as to disappear into the everyday mundane world.
Wonder if Woodward IS a spy - or just a dupe?
I've got my suspicions on Moorer as well.
Woodward is a "Dupe", he and Bernstein were rookies when this scandal unfolded
James Rosen, Fox News reporter and Watergate buff, said that W & B claimed in their interview today that they only talked to Felt 10 times but in their book they said they talked to him 15 times. That's an easy thing to remember. Why couldn't they remember that "little" detail?!
They are LIARS...
From "Silent Coup", page 394 (my comments in parenthesis):
"Moorer was on the Today show, January 18, 1974, the day of the Post's analysis debunking the seriousness of the espionage charges" (Moorer-Welander-Radcliff spying on Kissinger primarily as I recall. And Woodward used to work for Moorer and Welander - no wonder they debunked it.)
"Moorer made a categorical denial:"the mere thought that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were cut off from sources of information and then set about to establish a system of acquiring this information in an unauthorized way is ludicrous, ridiculous and a lie."
Fast forward 22 years to an article that included an interview with Retired Adm. Moorer in U.S. News & World Report (Dec. 9, 1996) regarding Moorer doing 'consulting' for private museums in obtaining military aircraft and defrauding the gov't.
"When the deal stalled , Skinazi enlisted the help of retired Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Thomas Moorer. Moorer, who is also chairman emeritus of the [U.S. Government's] museum foundation, said he tried to break the deal free, charging Skinazi $20,000 for his services. "I made a lot of phone calls; I can't do those for free," he said.
Navy official refused to discuss either the Skinazi deal or the barter system with U.S. News, but Moorer offered this opinion: "It's RIDICULOUS to think that senior officers in the Navy would be involved in some kind of fraud to bilk the government."
This whole thing in looking back and with Felt's admission makes it seem more like the U.S.S.R. with the military and/or spy agency overthrowing the president.
He never worked in the White House; he carried papers over there.
Moorer and the rest of the chiefs tried to overthrow Nixon, IMO.