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Deep Throat And Watergate Reporting Became World Renowned.

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While the Watergate Burglary trials did not have much effect on the Nixon Presidential run, William Mark Felt, better known as Deep Throat And Watergate Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein would ultimately bring down the Presidency of Richard Nixon.

Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein covered the Watergate story for two years and implicated many top White House officials.

The reporters’ coverage of the Watergate scandal featured insight that no other reporters could have because Woodward’s source for previous stories, FBI Deputy Direct Mark Felt had been providing the journalist information about the scope of the inquiry of the Watergate Scandal.

Whatever Felt’s intentions were in leaking FBI information to Woodward, the information led to extensive coverage of the Watergate Scandal which led to indictments and convictions of top Government officials and ultimately led to the fall of President Richard Nixon who would resign from office due to his involvement in the Watergate conspiracy.

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Before Deep Throat and Watergate

The Watergate Scandal began when five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Complex and attempting to wiretap and take photographs of the room.

The five men were indicted along with their “commanders” White House “Plumber” G. Gordon Liddy and CIA official Howard Hunt. All seven would be convicted.

Despite the White House connection, the scandal did not lead reporters and investigators too far and even though the trial and conviction was during Nixon’s presidential race, the public did not seem to care with some polls showing that only three-percent of Americans believed the Watergate scandal to be important.

The Washington Post articles written by Woodward and Bernstein pushed the public to the realization that the Watergate Scandal was a major one that involved the highest officials in the United States government.

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Deep Throat and Watergate: The Investigation

Because of the amount of people involved in the criminal activity and the overall secrecy and buddy system in the Nixon Administration, few reporters had any proof of the depth of the conspiracy.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who covered the Watergate scandal for two years for the Washington Post, were able to provide the best and most insightful coverage that would lead to the fall of the Nixon regime.

While at first the reporters found the case to be a hard one to crack due to the secrecy and the intimidation of the Nixon White House and Justice Department, soon they began to publish information that no one else had outside of the government.

It was Deputy Director William Mark Felt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who became known as Deep Throat and would leak confidential information from the FBI investigation of Watergate to Bob Woodward.

Felt, demoralized after getting passed over for J. Edgar Hoover’s job of FBI Director by Patrick Gray and resentful of the Nixon Administration, met secretly with Woodward and revealed details of the FBI investigation to him.

It was Felt, the man known as Deep Throat and Watergate reporters Woodward and Bernstein who would ultimately bring down the President.

The only people that were to know the identity of Deep Throat were Woodward, Bernstein (who never met Felt), and Washington Post editor Benjamin Bradlee.

While many ultimately assumed that Deep Throat was indeed Felt, including Nixon himself, his identity stayed officially secret until 2005.

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Fallout from Deep Throat and Watergate

The Washington Post reportage pushed along the process that involved a special Senate Watergate Committee to be formed to investigate the scandal, an investigation, a bunch of resignations and convictions, and ultimately the resignation of the President of the United States.

More than forty Administration officials were indicted. Top Administration officials Attorney General John Mitchell, Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and advisor John Ehrlichman, White House Counsel Officials Charles Colson and John Dean were all convicted.

Facing an indictment of his own and the House Judiciary Committee having recommended three articles of impeachment to remove the President, Nixon resigned from office.

Gerald Ford, the former Minority Leader in the House of Representatives who had been selected to replace Vice President Spiro Agnew who had resigned, became the new President as per the 25th Amendment.

Ford would later grant Nixon a full pardon for his ties to Watergate, a move that may have cost him the reelection.

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