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28_12ecbplus.xml_40 | train | evt | 28_12ecbplus.xml | 6 | Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . | 10 | 10 | 55 | 59 | died | ACT16762189251591291 | die | ['coroner', 'gary', 'hargrove', 'say', 'he', 'believe', 'mr', 'larue', 'die', 'saturday'] | Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue <m> died </m> Saturday . | http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm
Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate
July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .
Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue <m> died </m> Saturday .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet .
He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee .
Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched .
Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings .
He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico .
A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat .
He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people . |
28_12ecbplus.xml_63 | train | evt | 28_12ecbplus.xml | 3 | Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . | 18 | 18 | 97 | 103 | guilty | ACT16970433905592127 | guilty | ['fred', 'larue', 'close', 'aide', 'attorney', 'general', 'john', 'mitchell', 'person', 'plead', 'guilty', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'natural', 'cause'] | Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead <m> guilty </m> in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . | http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm
Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate
July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead <m> guilty </m> in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .
Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet .
He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee .
Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched .
Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings .
He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico .
A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat .
He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people . |
28_5ecb.xml_30 | train | ent | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 50 | 50 | 281 | 288 | sources | 10000000334 | source | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous <m> sources </m> in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous <m> sources </m> in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_34 | train | ent | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 23 | 24 | 130 | 144 | Carl Bernstein | HUM16975455695416799 | Bernstein | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and <m> Carl Bernstein </m> during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and <m> Carl Bernstein </m> during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_35 | train | ent | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 17 | 19 | 87 | 112 | Washington Post reporters | 12 | Washington | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for <m> Washington Post reporters </m> Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for <m> Washington Post reporters </m> Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_36 | train | ent | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 26 | 26 | 152 | 157 | their | 12 | their | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during <m> their </m> investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during <m> their </m> investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_38 | train | ent | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 20 | 21 | 113 | 125 | Bob Woodward | HUM16762569506289095 | Woodward | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters <m> Bob Woodward </m> and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters <m> Bob Woodward </m> and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_21 | train | ent | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 4 | 6 | 25 | 37 | W. Mark Felt | HUM16762554083083396 | Mark | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of <m> W. Mark Felt </m> , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of <m> W. Mark Felt </m> , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_22 | train | ent | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 9 | 9 | 44 | 47 | man | HUM16762554083083396 | man | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the <m> man </m> who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the <m> man </m> who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_23 | train | ent | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 15 | 15 | 76 | 82 | source | HUM16762545642473164 | source | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret <m> source </m> for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret <m> source </m> for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_33 | train | ent | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 2 | 2 | 12 | 21 | yesterday | TIM16942378538232679 | yesterday | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing <m> yesterday </m> of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing <m> yesterday </m> of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_37 | train | evt | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 40 | 41 | 228 | 241 | brought about | 10000000335 | bring | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that <m> brought about </m> both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that <m> brought about </m> both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_31 | train | evt | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 30 | 30 | 179 | 188 | Watergate | ACT16762238189665929 | Watergate | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the <m> Watergate </m> scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the <m> Watergate </m> scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_32 | train | evt | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 33 | 33 | 199 | 204 | marks | 10000000336 | mark | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , <m> marks </m> the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , <m> marks </m> the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_40 | train | evt | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 39 | 39 | 223 | 227 | that | 14 | that | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life <m> that </m> brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life <m> that </m> brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_20 | train | evt | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | passing | ACT16762501657378707 | pass | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The <m> passing </m> yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The <m> passing </m> yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_24 | train | evt | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 27 | 27 | 158 | 171 | investigation | 10000000337 | investigation | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their <m> investigation </m> of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their <m> investigation </m> of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_26 | train | evt | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 38 | 38 | 218 | 222 | life | 14 | life | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a <m> life </m> that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a <m> life </m> that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_27 | train | evt | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 44 | 47 | 251 | 267 | good and the bad | 10000000338 | good | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the <m> good and the bad </m> of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the <m> good and the bad </m> of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_39 | train | evt | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 53 | 53 | 302 | 312 | journalism | 10000000339 | journalism | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political <m> journalism </m> . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political <m> journalism </m> .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_5ecb.xml_41 | train | evt | 28_5ecb.xml | 1 | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the end of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | 35 | 35 | 209 | 212 | end | ACT16762501657378707 | end | ['pass', 'yesterday', 'w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'man', 'infamous', 'secret', 'source', 'washington', 'post', 'reporter', 'bob', 'woodward', 'carl', 'bernstein', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'mark', 'end', 'life', 'bring', 'good', 'bad', 'anonymous', 'source', 'political', 'journalism'] | The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the <m> end </m> of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism . | Deep Throat is dead .
The passing yesterday of W. Mark Felt , the man who was the infamous secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal , marks the <m> end </m> of a life that brought about both the good and the bad of anonymous sources in political journalism .
Without Felt 's information , the full scale of the Nixon administration 's corruption would likely never have come to light , he would n't have resigned in disgrace , and it might have set a precedent that the president of the United States is above the law .
Deep Throat also gave us a new archetype in popular culture : the shadowy insider in a trench coat , calling up reporters for secret meetings in parking garages to spill the dirt , often with gravely voices and cautious looks over the shoulder .
It 's been employed in entertainment ever since , from Hal Holbrook 's performance as Deep Throat in All the President 's Men , to Fox Mulder 's informant in The X-Files , to even the Caped Crusader giving Vicki Vale the cure for the Joker 's poison gas in Batman .
But the downside of Felt 's legacy is the increased willingness of modern day journalists to grant anonymity to sources at the drop of a fedora .
I 've been an avid reader of political news for ten years now and lost count of how many stories are attributed to someone , `` who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter , '' or , `` who declined to be named for fear of angering the President . ''
It 's become a lazy reporter 's default setting to allow people to talk on `` deep background , '' and as a result we 've slipped into a rut where accountability in government has become a rare , almost non-existent concept .
All journalists should pore over the many obits of Felt today and think long and hard about their duty to the public the next time someone asks to go off the record . |
28_3ecbplus.xml_118 | train | ent | 28_3ecbplus.xml | 3 | Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss . | 26 | 26 | 136 | 144 | burglars | HUM16762430272744760 | burglar | ['frederick', 'c', 'larue', 'nixon', 'campaign', 'official', 'pass', 'money', 'secret', 'white', 'house', 'fund', 'buy', 'silence', 'watergate', 'burglar', 'die', 'saturday', 'hotel', 'biloxi', 'miss'] | Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate <m> burglars </m> , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss . | http : / / www . nytimes . com / 2004 / 07 / 29 / politics / 29larueobit . html
Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate <m> burglars </m> , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
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Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official <m> who </m> passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
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<m> Fred LaRue </m> , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
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Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
<m> Frederick C . LaRue </m> , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
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Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday <m> at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss . </m>
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
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Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret <m> White House fund </m> to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
28_3ecbplus.xml_96 | train | ent | 28_3ecbplus.xml | 3 | Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss . | 29 | 29 | 152 | 160 | Saturday | TIM16762450584630828 | Saturday | ['frederick', 'c', 'larue', 'nixon', 'campaign', 'official', 'pass', 'money', 'secret', 'white', 'house', 'fund', 'buy', 'silence', 'watergate', 'burglar', 'die', 'saturday', 'hotel', 'biloxi', 'miss'] | Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died <m> Saturday </m> at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss . | http : / / www . nytimes . com / 2004 / 07 / 29 / politics / 29larueobit . html
Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died <m> Saturday </m> at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
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Fred LaRue , <m> Watergate </m> Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
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Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , <m> Dies </m> at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
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Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who <m> passed </m> money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
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Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to <m> buy </m> the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
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Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the <m> Watergate </m> burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
28_3ecbplus.xml_39 | train | evt | 28_3ecbplus.xml | 3 | Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss . | 28 | 28 | 147 | 151 | died | ACT16762189251591291 | die | ['frederick', 'c', 'larue', 'nixon', 'campaign', 'official', 'pass', 'money', 'secret', 'white', 'house', 'fund', 'buy', 'silence', 'watergate', 'burglar', 'die', 'saturday', 'hotel', 'biloxi', 'miss'] | Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , <m> died </m> Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss . | http : / / www . nytimes . com / 2004 / 07 / 29 / politics / 29larueobit . html
Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , <m> died </m> Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
28_3ecbplus.xml_126 | train | evt | 28_3ecbplus.xml | 3 | Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss . | 22 | 22 | 111 | 118 | silence | ACT16762352965495333 | silence | ['frederick', 'c', 'larue', 'nixon', 'campaign', 'official', 'pass', 'money', 'secret', 'white', 'house', 'fund', 'buy', 'silence', 'watergate', 'burglar', 'die', 'saturday', 'hotel', 'biloxi', 'miss'] | Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the <m> silence </m> of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss . | http : / / www . nytimes . com / 2004 / 07 / 29 / politics / 29larueobit . html
Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the <m> silence </m> of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
28_3ecbplus.xml_127 | train | evt | 28_3ecbplus.xml | 3 | Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed money from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss . | 12 | 12 | 63 | 68 | money | ACT16762330085377933 | money | ['frederick', 'c', 'larue', 'nixon', 'campaign', 'official', 'pass', 'money', 'secret', 'white', 'house', 'fund', 'buy', 'silence', 'watergate', 'burglar', 'die', 'saturday', 'hotel', 'biloxi', 'miss'] | Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed <m> money </m> from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss . | http : / / www . nytimes . com / 2004 / 07 / 29 / politics / 29larueobit . html
Fred LaRue , Watergate Figure , Dies at 75
Published : July 29 , 2004
Frederick C . LaRue , a top Nixon campaign official who passed <m> money </m> from a secret White House fund to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars , died Saturday at a hotel in Biloxi , Miss .
He was 75 .
His heart failed while he was reading a book , his son , Ike LaRue III , said .
He lived in Biloxi and Jackson , Miss .
Fred LaRue's career was intertwined with that of Richard M . Nixon from the time he transferred his considerable financial support to Nixon from the defeated presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 .
He was an architect of Nixon's successful strategy for capturing Southern votes and then a significant participant in the Watergate scandal .
Mr . LaRue pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in July 1973 .
He served a reduced sentence of four and a half months in federal prison in return for cooperating with prosecutors investigating the break - in at the Watergate complex , which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , on June 17 , 1972 .
He was at the meeting in Key Biscayne , Fla . , on March 30 , 1972 , where John N . Mitchell , the former attorney general who became head of Nixon's re - election campaign committee , and Jeb Stuart Magruder , Mr . Mitchell's deputy , approved a "dirty tricks" campaign , including the Watergate break - in .
Mr . LaRue was also at the meeting after the break - in at which some of the same officials scurried to come up with money for the burglars .
Mr . LaRue personally delivered payments .
Nixon acknowledged his own involvement in the cover - up , but always denied advance knowledge of the break - in .
In a heated exchange with Mr . Magruder in 2003 , Mr . LaRue supported Nixon's claim of ignorance of the initial burglary .
Mr . LaRue's main argument was that he had been in charge of the phone at a Florida meeting of the top campaign staff where the break - in was planned and was monitoring all calls .
Nixon never called , he said in an interview with The Sun Herald , a Biloxi newspaper .
Also , he said his personal relationship with Mitchell was so close that Mitchell would certainly have told him .
Mr . LaRue denied suggestions that he was "Deep Throat , " the secret Watergate source used by Bob Woodward in his joint coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post .
Mr . LaRue said he believed the secret informer was an amalgam of several people , but Mr . Woodward has said that it is one person and that he will reveal that person's identity after his death .
Mr . LaRue , whose family amassed a fortune in the oil business , played an important role with Nixon many years before Watergate .
After contributing heavily to Goldwater's losing presidential campaign in 1964 , he became a leading supporter of Nixon .
In particular , he helped develop a "Southern strategy" for the Republicans to recapture Southern states from the Democrats .
After Nixon's election in 1968 , Mr . LaRue worked in the White House without title or salary .
Partly through his friendship with Senator James O . Eastland , the Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee , Mr . LaRue helped to win confirmation for Nixon's nominees to the federal bench .
"He was an elusive , anonymous , secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure , " The New York Times reported in 1973 .
"He is a man of personal mystery , too - a latter - day character , it sometimes seemed , out of a Southern gothic novel . "
Frederick Cheney LaRue was born Oct . 11 , 1928 , in Athens , Tex .
His father , Ike Parsons LaRue Sr . , whom Fred LaRue shot and killed in a Canadian duck - hunting accident in 1957 , was a first cousin of Sid Richardson , the Texas oil and ranching tycoon .
The elder Mr . LaRue had gone to jail for banking violations and moved to Mississippi to look for oil .
His company discovered the giant Bolton field , which Fred's generation sold for $30 million in 1967 .
Fred LaRue spread money to local and national politicians , and , despite his shyness , acquired the nickname Bubba .
He became a Republican national committeeman .
In the end , Mr . LaRue was one of the first top Nixon aides to cooperate with prosecutors .
"LaRue had stressed that it was time for both of us to think about protecting ourselves and our families instead of continuing to worry about protecting Mitchell and the president , " Mr . Magruder wrote in his 1974 book , "An American Life : One Man's Road to Watergate . "
Mr . LaRue is survived by his wife , Joyce Burleson LaRue ; his sons Ike III , of Jackson , and Fred Jr . , of Brandon , Miss . ; his daughters Patricia LaRue of Arlington , Tex . , Leslie LaRue of Manhattan , Grace Burleson LaRue of Crystal Springs , Miss . ; his brother , Ike Jr . ; his sister , Ruthie LaRue Owen of Jackson ; and nine grandchildren .
In the interview with The Sun Herald , Mr . LaRue guessed that the healthy regimen of his months in prison added 10 years to his life .
"The warden let me make a badminton court out of the volleyball court , " he said .
"We had some of the best badminton players in the country . " |
28_3ecb.xml_50 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 6 | 6 | 26 | 29 | FBI | 10000000341 | FBI | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former <m> FBI </m> second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former <m> FBI </m> second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_47 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 30 | 30 | 169 | 178 | president | HUM27379778521624645 | president | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a <m> president </m> , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a <m> president </m> , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_48 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 23 | 23 | 138 | 141 | who | 23 | who | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , <m> who </m> wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , <m> who </m> wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_49 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 22 | 22 | 119 | 128 | reporters | 10000000342 | reporter | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off <m> reporters </m> to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off <m> reporters </m> to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_52 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 7 | 7 | 30 | 47 | second-in-command | HUM16762554083083396 | second-in-command | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI <m> second-in-command </m> who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI <m> second-in-command </m> who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_53 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 10 | 10 | 61 | 68 | himself | HUM16762554083083396 | himself | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed <m> himself </m> as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed <m> himself </m> as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_54 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 13 | 14 | 75 | 86 | Deep Throat | HUM16762545642473164 | Throat | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` <m> Deep Throat </m> '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` <m> Deep Throat </m> '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_55 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 19 | 19 | 105 | 107 | he | HUM16762554083083396 | he | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after <m> he </m> tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after <m> he </m> tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_56 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Felt | HUM16762554083083396 | Felt | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | <m> Felt </m> died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
<m> Felt </m> died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_57 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 31 | 31 | 188 | 192 | Felt | HUM16762554083083396 | Felt | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering <m> Felt </m> 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering <m> Felt </m> 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_29 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | W. Mark Felt | HUM16762554083083396 | Mark | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | <m> W. Mark Felt </m> , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
<m> W. Mark Felt </m> , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_32 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 19 | 21 | 119 | 135 | John D. O'Connor | 23 | O'Connor | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend <m> John D. O'Connor </m> , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend <m> John D. O'Connor </m> , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_37 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 27 | 28 | 157 | 168 | Vanity Fair | 10000000343 | Vanity | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 <m> Vanity Fair </m> article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 <m> Vanity Fair </m> article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_45 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 33 | 33 | 196 | 202 | secret | 10000000344 | secret | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's <m> secret </m> . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's <m> secret </m> .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_33 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 29 | 29 | 169 | 176 | article | 10000000345 | article | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair <m> article </m> uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair <m> article </m> uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_38 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 26 | 26 | 152 | 156 | 2005 | 10000000346 | 2005 | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the <m> 2005 </m> Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the <m> 2005 </m> Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_39 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 2 | 2 | 10 | 18 | Thursday | TIM16942369985815303 | Thursday | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died <m> Thursday </m> in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died <m> Thursday </m> in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_30 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 16 | 18 | 90 | 104 | 30 years after | 10000000347 | year | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' <m> 30 years after </m> he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' <m> 30 years after </m> he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_36 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 12 | 14 | 79 | 97 | for several months | 10000000348 | several | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure <m> for several months </m> , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure <m> for several months </m> , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_60 | train | ent | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 3 | 5 | 19 | 32 | in Santa Rosa | LOC16942449552455123 | Santa | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday <m> in Santa Rosa </m> after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday <m> in Santa Rosa </m> after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_40 | train | evt | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 9 | 11 | 54 | 78 | congestive heart failure | ACT16762512442913619 | congestive | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from <m> congestive heart failure </m> for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from <m> congestive heart failure </m> for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_41 | train | evt | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 33 | 33 | 185 | 189 | died | ACT16762501657378707 | die | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has <m> died </m> . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has <m> died </m> .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_42 | train | evt | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | died | ACT16762501657378707 | die | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt <m> died </m> Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt <m> died </m> Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_43 | train | evt | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 24 | 24 | 142 | 147 | wrote | 10000000349 | write | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who <m> wrote </m> the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who <m> wrote </m> the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_44 | train | evt | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 28 | 28 | 159 | 166 | toppled | ACT27379751006237079 | topple | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that <m> toppled </m> a president , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that <m> toppled </m> a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_51 | train | evt | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 20 | 21 | 108 | 118 | tipped off | 10000000350 | tip | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he <m> tipped off </m> reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he <m> tipped off </m> reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_58 | train | evt | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 9 | 9 | 52 | 60 | revealed | ACT16975385765195368 | reveal | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who <m> revealed </m> himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who <m> revealed </m> himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_59 | train | evt | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 30 | 30 | 177 | 187 | uncovering | 10000000351 | uncover | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article <m> uncovering </m> Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article <m> uncovering </m> Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_31 | train | evt | 28_3ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died . | 25 | 25 | 136 | 145 | Watergate | ACT16762238189665929 | Watergate | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'second-in-command', 'reveal', '``', 'deep', 'throat', '30', 'year', 'he', 'tip', 'reporter', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'topple', 'president', 'die'] | W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the <m> Watergate </m> scandal that toppled a president , has died . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the <m> Watergate </m> scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_35 | train | evt | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 7 | 7 | 39 | 48 | suffering | 10000000352 | suffer | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after <m> suffering </m> from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after <m> suffering </m> from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_3ecb.xml_46 | train | evt | 28_3ecb.xml | 3 | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , said family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | 16 | 16 | 100 | 104 | said | 10000000353 | say | ['felt', 'die', 'thursday', 'santa', 'rosa', 'suffer', 'congestive', 'heart', 'failure', 'month', 'say', 'family', 'friend', 'john', 'd.', "o'connor", 'write', '2005', 'vanity', 'fair', 'article', 'uncover', 'felt', 'secret'] | Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , <m> said </m> family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret . | Mark Felt , Watergate 's `Deep Throat , ' dies at 95
W. Mark Felt , the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as `` Deep Throat '' 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president , has died .
He was 95 .
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months , <m> said </m> family friend John D. O'Connor , who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt 's secret .
The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century , Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward .
While some - including Nixon and his aides - speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee , he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005 .
`` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat , '' Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article , creating a whirlwind of media attention .
Weakened by a stroke , the man who had kept his secret for decades was n't doing much talking - he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter 's Santa Rosa home .
Critics , including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal , called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief .
Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents .
Felt grappled with his place in history , arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave , O'Connor said .
He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation .
Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor ?
`` People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward , '' Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir , `` A G-Man 's Life : The FBI , `Deep Throat ' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington . ''
`` The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out , and is n't that what the FBI is supposed to do ? ''
Ultimately , his daughter , Joan , persuaded him to go public ;
after all , Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died .
`` We could make at least enough money to pay some bills , like the debt I 've run up for the kids ' education , '' she told her father , according to the Vanity Fair article .
`` Let 's do it for the family . ''
The revelation capped a Washington whodunnit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents .
It was the final mystery of Watergate , the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie `` All the President 's Men , '' which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism .
It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama .
Back in 1970 , Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway .
Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward , then a Navy courier , and Woodward kept the relationship going , treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington .
Later , while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate , the man their editor dubbed `` Deep Throat '' helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information .
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage .
Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post 's investigative series , Woodward phoned Felt .
`` He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up ' for reasons he could not explain , '' Woodward wrote after Felt was named .
`` He then hung up abruptly . ''
Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in .
He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt , whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars , was a suspect .
But Felt told him off the record , insisting that their relationship and Felt 's identity remain secret .
Worried that phones were being tapped , Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel .
Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt .
The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward 's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night .
In the movie , the enduring image of Deep Throat - a name borrowed from a 1972 porn movie - is of a testy , chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward , played by Robert Redford , to `` follow the money . ''
In a memoir published in April 2006 , Felt said he saw himself as a `` Lone Ranger '' who could help derail a White House cover-up .
Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate .
`` From the start , it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess , and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation , '' Felt wrote in his memoir .
Some critics said Felt , a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist , was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante , L. Patrick Gray , to lead the FBI after Hoover 's death .
Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses .
`` We had no idea of his motivations , and even now some of his motivations are unclear , '' Bernstein said .
Felt wrote that he was n't motivated by anger .
`` It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died .
It is not true that I was jealous of Gray , '' he wrote .
Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school .
After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission .
Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II .
Ironically , while providing crucial information to the Post , Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper 's source .
The investigation never went anywhere , but plenty of people , including those in the White House at the time , guessed that Felt , who was leading the investigation into Watergate , may have been acting as a double agent .
The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source , but they were afraid to stop him .
Nixon asks : `` Somebody in the FBI ? ''
Haldeman : `` Yes , sir. Mark Felt ...
If we move on him , he 'll go out and unload everything .
He knows everything that 's to be known in the FBI . ''
Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit .
Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground .
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal - a move applauded by Nixon .
Woodward and Bernstein said they would n't reveal the source 's identity until he or she died , and finally confirmed Felt 's role only after he came forward .
O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation .
`` What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out , '' he said .
Felt is survived by two children , Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr. , and four grandchildren .
His wife , Audrey Felt , died in 1984 . |
28_8ecb.xml_16 | train | ent | 28_8ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | 37 | 38 | 181 | 196 | Washington Post | 10000000354 | Washington | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'sr.', 'number', '2', 'man', 'fbi', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'yesterday', 'alzheimer', 'disease', 'hospice', 'near', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'california', 'washington', 'post', 'report'] | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the <m> Washington Post </m> reports . | Mark `` Deep Throat '' Felt Dead at 95
W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the <m> Washington Post </m> reports .
Felt was an instrumental player in the stunning downfall of President Nixon , but his identity as `` Deep Throat '' -reporter Bob Woodard 's anonymous source for the Post 's bombshell series of scoops on the Watergate affair in 1972-was unknown until three years ago , when Felt 's family unmasked him in the pages of Vanity Fair .
According to the Times , even Woodward was shocked at this ;
he had gaurded the secret so zealously that even his partner Carl Bernstein did not meet Felt until earlier this year .
Felt never revealed why he leaked details on the Watergate break-in and cover up to Woodward , but the Times obituary points out that in May 1972 Feld had been passed over by Nixon as Edgar Hoover 's successor to run the bureau . |
28_8ecb.xml_23 | train | ent | 28_8ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | 12 | 12 | 45 | 48 | FBI | 10000000355 | FBI | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'sr.', 'number', '2', 'man', 'fbi', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'yesterday', 'alzheimer', 'disease', 'hospice', 'near', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'california', 'washington', 'post', 'report'] | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the <m> FBI </m> during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | Mark `` Deep Throat '' Felt Dead at 95
W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the <m> FBI </m> during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports .
Felt was an instrumental player in the stunning downfall of President Nixon , but his identity as `` Deep Throat '' -reporter Bob Woodard 's anonymous source for the Post 's bombshell series of scoops on the Watergate affair in 1972-was unknown until three years ago , when Felt 's family unmasked him in the pages of Vanity Fair .
According to the Times , even Woodward was shocked at this ;
he had gaurded the secret so zealously that even his partner Carl Bernstein did not meet Felt until earlier this year .
Felt never revealed why he leaked details on the Watergate break-in and cover up to Woodward , but the Times obituary points out that in May 1972 Feld had been passed over by Nixon as Edgar Hoover 's successor to run the bureau . |
28_8ecb.xml_14 | train | ent | 28_8ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | 0 | 4 | 0 | 18 | W. Mark Felt , Sr. | HUM16762554083083396 | Mark | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'sr.', 'number', '2', 'man', 'fbi', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'yesterday', 'alzheimer', 'disease', 'hospice', 'near', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'california', 'washington', 'post', 'report'] | <m> W. Mark Felt , Sr. </m> , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | Mark `` Deep Throat '' Felt Dead at 95
<m> W. Mark Felt , Sr. </m> , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports .
Felt was an instrumental player in the stunning downfall of President Nixon , but his identity as `` Deep Throat '' -reporter Bob Woodard 's anonymous source for the Post 's bombshell series of scoops on the Watergate affair in 1972-was unknown until three years ago , when Felt 's family unmasked him in the pages of Vanity Fair .
According to the Times , even Woodward was shocked at this ;
he had gaurded the secret so zealously that even his partner Carl Bernstein did not meet Felt until earlier this year .
Felt never revealed why he leaked details on the Watergate break-in and cover up to Woodward , but the Times obituary points out that in May 1972 Feld had been passed over by Nixon as Edgar Hoover 's successor to run the bureau . |
28_8ecb.xml_15 | train | ent | 28_8ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | 7 | 9 | 25 | 37 | number 2 man | HUM16762554083083396 | number | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'sr.', 'number', '2', 'man', 'fbi', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'yesterday', 'alzheimer', 'disease', 'hospice', 'near', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'california', 'washington', 'post', 'report'] | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the <m> number 2 man </m> at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | Mark `` Deep Throat '' Felt Dead at 95
W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the <m> number 2 man </m> at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports .
Felt was an instrumental player in the stunning downfall of President Nixon , but his identity as `` Deep Throat '' -reporter Bob Woodard 's anonymous source for the Post 's bombshell series of scoops on the Watergate affair in 1972-was unknown until three years ago , when Felt 's family unmasked him in the pages of Vanity Fair .
According to the Times , even Woodward was shocked at this ;
he had gaurded the secret so zealously that even his partner Carl Bernstein did not meet Felt until earlier this year .
Felt never revealed why he leaked details on the Watergate break-in and cover up to Woodward , but the Times obituary points out that in May 1972 Feld had been passed over by Nixon as Edgar Hoover 's successor to run the bureau . |
28_8ecb.xml_17 | train | ent | 28_8ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | 24 | 34 | 121 | 174 | at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California | LOC16942449552455123 | California | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'sr.', 'number', '2', 'man', 'fbi', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'yesterday', 'alzheimer', 'disease', 'hospice', 'near', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'california', 'washington', 'post', 'report'] | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease <m> at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California </m> , the Washington Post reports . | Mark `` Deep Throat '' Felt Dead at 95
W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease <m> at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California </m> , the Washington Post reports .
Felt was an instrumental player in the stunning downfall of President Nixon , but his identity as `` Deep Throat '' -reporter Bob Woodard 's anonymous source for the Post 's bombshell series of scoops on the Watergate affair in 1972-was unknown until three years ago , when Felt 's family unmasked him in the pages of Vanity Fair .
According to the Times , even Woodward was shocked at this ;
he had gaurded the secret so zealously that even his partner Carl Bernstein did not meet Felt until earlier this year .
Felt never revealed why he leaked details on the Watergate break-in and cover up to Woodward , but the Times obituary points out that in May 1972 Feld had been passed over by Nixon as Edgar Hoover 's successor to run the bureau . |
28_8ecb.xml_19 | train | ent | 28_8ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | 19 | 19 | 85 | 94 | yesterday | TIM16942378538232679 | yesterday | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'sr.', 'number', '2', 'man', 'fbi', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'yesterday', 'alzheimer', 'disease', 'hospice', 'near', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'california', 'washington', 'post', 'report'] | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died <m> yesterday </m> from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | Mark `` Deep Throat '' Felt Dead at 95
W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died <m> yesterday </m> from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports .
Felt was an instrumental player in the stunning downfall of President Nixon , but his identity as `` Deep Throat '' -reporter Bob Woodard 's anonymous source for the Post 's bombshell series of scoops on the Watergate affair in 1972-was unknown until three years ago , when Felt 's family unmasked him in the pages of Vanity Fair .
According to the Times , even Woodward was shocked at this ;
he had gaurded the secret so zealously that even his partner Carl Bernstein did not meet Felt until earlier this year .
Felt never revealed why he leaked details on the Watergate break-in and cover up to Woodward , but the Times obituary points out that in May 1972 Feld had been passed over by Nixon as Edgar Hoover 's successor to run the bureau . |
28_8ecb.xml_22 | train | evt | 28_8ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | 15 | 15 | 60 | 69 | Watergate | ACT16762238189665929 | Watergate | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'sr.', 'number', '2', 'man', 'fbi', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'yesterday', 'alzheimer', 'disease', 'hospice', 'near', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'california', 'washington', 'post', 'report'] | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the <m> Watergate </m> scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | Mark `` Deep Throat '' Felt Dead at 95
W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the <m> Watergate </m> scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports .
Felt was an instrumental player in the stunning downfall of President Nixon , but his identity as `` Deep Throat '' -reporter Bob Woodard 's anonymous source for the Post 's bombshell series of scoops on the Watergate affair in 1972-was unknown until three years ago , when Felt 's family unmasked him in the pages of Vanity Fair .
According to the Times , even Woodward was shocked at this ;
he had gaurded the secret so zealously that even his partner Carl Bernstein did not meet Felt until earlier this year .
Felt never revealed why he leaked details on the Watergate break-in and cover up to Woodward , but the Times obituary points out that in May 1972 Feld had been passed over by Nixon as Edgar Hoover 's successor to run the bureau . |
28_8ecb.xml_20 | train | evt | 28_8ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | 18 | 18 | 80 | 84 | died | ACT16762501657378707 | die | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'sr.', 'number', '2', 'man', 'fbi', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'yesterday', 'alzheimer', 'disease', 'hospice', 'near', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'california', 'washington', 'post', 'report'] | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , <m> died </m> yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | Mark `` Deep Throat '' Felt Dead at 95
W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , <m> died </m> yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports .
Felt was an instrumental player in the stunning downfall of President Nixon , but his identity as `` Deep Throat '' -reporter Bob Woodard 's anonymous source for the Post 's bombshell series of scoops on the Watergate affair in 1972-was unknown until three years ago , when Felt 's family unmasked him in the pages of Vanity Fair .
According to the Times , even Woodward was shocked at this ;
he had gaurded the secret so zealously that even his partner Carl Bernstein did not meet Felt until earlier this year .
Felt never revealed why he leaked details on the Watergate break-in and cover up to Woodward , but the Times obituary points out that in May 1972 Feld had been passed over by Nixon as Edgar Hoover 's successor to run the bureau . |
28_8ecb.xml_21 | train | evt | 28_8ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | 21 | 23 | 100 | 120 | Alzheimer 's disease | 10000000356 | Alzheimer | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'sr.', 'number', '2', 'man', 'fbi', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'yesterday', 'alzheimer', 'disease', 'hospice', 'near', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'california', 'washington', 'post', 'report'] | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from <m> Alzheimer 's disease </m> at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | Mark `` Deep Throat '' Felt Dead at 95
W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from <m> Alzheimer 's disease </m> at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports .
Felt was an instrumental player in the stunning downfall of President Nixon , but his identity as `` Deep Throat '' -reporter Bob Woodard 's anonymous source for the Post 's bombshell series of scoops on the Watergate affair in 1972-was unknown until three years ago , when Felt 's family unmasked him in the pages of Vanity Fair .
According to the Times , even Woodward was shocked at this ;
he had gaurded the secret so zealously that even his partner Carl Bernstein did not meet Felt until earlier this year .
Felt never revealed why he leaked details on the Watergate break-in and cover up to Woodward , but the Times obituary points out that in May 1972 Feld had been passed over by Nixon as Edgar Hoover 's successor to run the bureau . |
28_8ecb.xml_18 | train | evt | 28_8ecb.xml | 1 | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post reports . | 39 | 39 | 197 | 204 | reports | 10000000357 | report | ['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'sr.', 'number', '2', 'man', 'fbi', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'yesterday', 'alzheimer', 'disease', 'hospice', 'near', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'california', 'washington', 'post', 'report'] | W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post <m> reports </m> . | Mark `` Deep Throat '' Felt Dead at 95
W. Mark Felt , Sr. , the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal , died yesterday from Alzheimer 's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa , California , the Washington Post <m> reports </m> .
Felt was an instrumental player in the stunning downfall of President Nixon , but his identity as `` Deep Throat '' -reporter Bob Woodard 's anonymous source for the Post 's bombshell series of scoops on the Watergate affair in 1972-was unknown until three years ago , when Felt 's family unmasked him in the pages of Vanity Fair .
According to the Times , even Woodward was shocked at this ;
he had gaurded the secret so zealously that even his partner Carl Bernstein did not meet Felt until earlier this year .
Felt never revealed why he leaked details on the Watergate break-in and cover up to Woodward , but the Times obituary points out that in May 1972 Feld had been passed over by Nixon as Edgar Hoover 's successor to run the bureau . |
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Watergate <m> figure </m> Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid <m> who </m> entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official <m> who </m> once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure <m> Fred LaRue </m> dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
<m> Fred LaRue </m> , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate <m> figure </m> and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration <m> official </m> who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be <m> Deep Throat </m> , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a <m> maid </m> who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner <m> Gary Hargrove </m> said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
28_4ecbplus.xml_38 | train | ent | 28_4ecbplus.xml | 6 | The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) . | 3 | 3 | 17 | 19 | he | HUM16762387067149443 | he | ['coroner', 'say', 'he', 'believe', 'mr', 'larue', 'die', 'saturday', 'july', '24', '2004'] | The coroner said <m> he </m> believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) . | http : / / www . sptimes . com / 2004 / 07 / 28 / Worldandnation / Watergate _ figure _ Fred . shtml
Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said <m> he </m> believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
28_4ecbplus.xml_39 | train | ent | 28_4ecbplus.xml | 6 | The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) . | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | coroner | HUM16762387067149443 | coroner | ['coroner', 'say', 'he', 'believe', 'mr', 'larue', 'die', 'saturday', 'july', '24', '2004'] | The <m> coroner </m> said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) . | http : / / www . sptimes . com / 2004 / 07 / 28 / Worldandnation / Watergate _ figure _ Fred . shtml
Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The <m> coroner </m> said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
28_4ecbplus.xml_40 | train | ent | 28_4ecbplus.xml | 6 | The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) . | 5 | 7 | 29 | 39 | Mr . LaRue | HUM16762375448415764 | LaRue | ['coroner', 'say', 'he', 'believe', 'mr', 'larue', 'die', 'saturday', 'july', '24', '2004'] | The coroner said he believes <m> Mr . LaRue </m> died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) . | http : / / www . sptimes . com / 2004 / 07 / 28 / Worldandnation / Watergate _ figure _ Fred . shtml
Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes <m> Mr . LaRue </m> died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his <m> hotel room in Biloxi </m> , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
28_4ecbplus.xml_63 | train | ent | 28_4ecbplus.xml | 6 | The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) . | 9 | 16 | 45 | 74 | Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) . | TIM16762450584630828 | Saturday | ['coroner', 'say', 'he', 'believe', 'mr', 'larue', 'die', 'saturday', 'july', '24', '2004'] | The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died <m> Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) . </m> | http : / / www . sptimes . com / 2004 / 07 / 28 / Worldandnation / Watergate _ figure _ Fred . shtml
Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died <m> Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) . </m>
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
28_4ecbplus.xml_64 | train | ent | 28_4ecbplus.xml | 5 | His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said . | 4 | 4 | 24 | 31 | Tuesday | TIM16762465386809315 | Tuesday | ['his', 'body', 'discover', 'tuesday', 'maid', 'enter', 'his', 'hotel', 'room', 'biloxi', 'coroner', 'gary', 'hargrove', 'say'] | His body was discovered <m> Tuesday </m> by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said . | http : / / www . sptimes . com / 2004 / 07 / 28 / Worldandnation / Watergate _ figure _ Fred . shtml
Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered <m> Tuesday </m> by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
<m> His body </m> was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he <m> believes </m> Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue <m> died </m> Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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<m> Watergate </m> figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue <m> dies </m>
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a <m> Watergate </m> figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was <m> rumored </m> to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people . |