Mark Felt, 'Deep Throat' of Watergate era, dies

[Korietsu]

Good night, sweet prince.

W. Mark Felt, 'Deep Throat' of Watergate, dead at 95 - CNN.com

Felt died of congestive heart failure, according to family friend John O'Connor.

Felt admitted in 2005 he was the Washington Post's source for many of its 400 stories on the Watergate affair during the early 1970s. The Watergate break-in eventually led to the 1974 resignation of President Richard Nixon.

"I'm proud of everything that Deep Throat did," Felt, 92, told CNN's "Larry King Live" in 2006, his first public interview on the subject.

Felt's entanglement with history occurred in 1972 after the bungled break-in at the Democratic National Party offices in the Watergate building. Felt said he was unhappy with the way the administration meddled with the FBI investigation into the break-in which led him to divulge information to the newspaper.

[TheShadyMan]

Heh heh heh. Deep Throat.

[Rockstaru]

2008?

[Null]

I got in trouble for mentioning his name in school when I was younger. Guess the teachers didn't believe a kid knew about the water gate but thought they knew what "deep throating" was.

[kuronosan]

God the oscars will have a field day with this year. The remembering 2008 might be longer than the presentation itself.

[Hellfury]

The hell is going on o.O people dropping like flies the last few months.

[Wintermute]

The hell is going on o.O people dropping like flies the last year.

Still a few weeks left too, wonder who else 2008 will claim.

[Jabberwocky]

I am saddened by the fact that I didn't hear about this till today, and from the FOREIGN media. This is kinda something you'd think the nightly news would mention.

[Joran]

BTW, if anyone hasn't seen "All the President's Men", go out and rent it and watch it.

It's one of the best movies (still) I've seen, and really made me want to be a journalist.

Been wanting to see Frost/Nixon.

[buttson]

all lies, it was jimmy james.

[Dezzimal]

Been wanting to see Frost/Nixon.

There may or may not be a very good copy of it on the interbutts.

[chillin]

thats quite the nickname, i would wish to be named by a similar moniker by my loved ones when i eventually died at the age of 135

[Suburbanelite]

JOHN CONNOR?

[archibaldcrane]

Wait, so Grey Fox is dead?

[Null]

Crushed into dust.