Everything I Know About Watergate I Learned From Watching Dick

Who was Deep Throat? The question consumed political and journalistic insiders for decades, at least those who didn’t think to ask Nora Ephron. In 2005, this very magazine finally confirmed the truth publicly: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s infamous Watergate source was W. Mark Felt, the FBI associate director denied the bureau’s top job by President Nixon. In the years since, Felt has become an integral character in the Watergate saga, played onscreen by Liam Neeson in a 2017 biopic and, more recently, by Reed Diamond in upcoming episodes of the absorbing if uneven Starz drama Gaslit. Six years before… Read Full Article