Woodward’s promise not to reveal his source was kept until Felt announced his role as ‘Deep Throat’ in 2005,″ it says. “Woodward’s managing editor, Howard Simons, gave Felt the code name ‘Deep Throat’. The Watergate scandal resulted in president Nixon’s resignation in 1974.” They met at this garage six times between October 1972 and November 1973. “ chose this garage as an anonymous secure location. The sign outside the parking garage says Felt provided Woodward with information which exposed the Nixon administration’s obstruction of the FBI’s investigation into Watergate. Woodward's (pictured) promise not to reveal his source was kept until Felt announced his role. Nixon was pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford. The ensuing scandal over the burglary and, perhaps more importantly, the subsequent cover-up would eventually bring down president Richard Nixon and see several of his most senior aides go to jail. The actual Watergate building, where in 1972 a group of men were arrested while trying to carry out a burglary in a premises operated by the Democratic Party, is not too far away – situated just over the Key Bridge on the other side of the Potomac river. The sign at the garage says that it was in this location that Felt provided information to Woodward which exposed the political scandal that became known as Watergate. The real identity of Deep Throat remained a secret – despite much speculation about who it really was or if there was a single source at all – until nearly 20 years ago when the former second in command of the FBI Mark Felt revealed that he had spoken to Woodward. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman who portrayed the Washington Post reporters in All the President’s Men.
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