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Deep Throat Uncovered

At a 2003 conference held at the legendary Watergate complex in Washington DC, Professor Bill Gaines of the University of Illinois announced that, after four years, he and his journalism students had concluded that Fred Fielding (former assistant to President Nixon) was the legendary "Deep Throat" who provided information about the Watergate break-in that led to the downfall of President Nixon....

https://www.domraider.com/
Deep Throat Uncovered

Last week at a conference held at the legendary Watergate complex in Washington DC, Professor Bill Gaines of the University of Illinois announced that, after four years, he and his journalism students had concluded that Fred Fielding (former assistant to President Nixon) was the legendary "Deep Throat" who provided information about the Watergate break-in that led to the downfall of President...

https://www.domraider.com/
Nixon Tapes

A number of organizations have offered the general public selections from the secret tapes made by President Richard Nixon between 1971 and 1973, but the Nixon Tapes project under the direction of Professor Luke A. Nichter at Texas A&M University-Central Texas aims to bring together a complete online audio archive of all the tapes in question. The project is well under way, and the site contains a...

http://www.nixontapes.org/
The Legacy of a Scandal and a President

Twenty-five years ago this week, President Richard M. Nixon announced that he would be resigning from the presidency, "effective noon tomorrow." Since then, historians, journalists, politicians, and pundits have debated both the nature of his guilt and the stature of his presidency. Nixon himself spent the rest of his life working to recuperate his legacy by fashioning himself in books and...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/ss/1999/0810
The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers

Thirty years after their investigations into the "third-rate burglary" of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein remain two of the world's best-known journalists. In 2003, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin purchased their collected notes, tape recordings, interviews, research materials for posterity and...

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=...
WashingtonPost.com: Watergate 25

The Washington Post commemorates the twenty-fifth anniversary of its most famous story with a site featuring a timeline of the Watergate scandal that contains links to full text selections of original articles. It also offers short biographies of the twenty key players in the Nixon administration and the investigation, some speculations on the true identity of the still unidentified informer "Deep...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/wate...