The best-kept media secret of our time is not who’ll win a million dollars on Survivor, but the identity (28 years later) of the shadowy Watergate tattle tale known as Deep Throat. The unnamed source — whispering to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in a dark garage — became an icon in the investigative journalism and crooked politics that toppled the Nixon presidency. Was Deep Throat a traitor, or a savior? And who among the President’s Men was he? In a gabby city with no long-term secrets, this one’s lasted for almost 30 years. Woodward, Bernstein, their editor Ben Bradlee and Deep Throat himself are all water-tight….
Woodward never told his wife, Nora Ephron. Was it Chuck Colson? John Dean, perhaps? Al Haig? Henry Kissinger? Some said it was Leonard Garment, the jazz saxophonist and Nixon lawyer. No, Garment says, but he’ll tell you who it was. Deep Throat is unmasked.
(Hosted by Christopher Lydon)
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