[E. Pluribus Unum]

Why waste your time?

Get a better class of friends.

[putupjob]

Your friend is foaming at the mouth and still has a Watergate hangover. I got over mine about 10 years ago. I used to hate Nixon. After Clinton, I now realize he was a great man who was destroyed by his enemies. Clinton was not.

[Yo-Yo]

Yeah, I'll help you out. WE DO HAVE RULES HERE!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Never heard of any of this.

Sorry

[GOP_1900AD]

Anne raised really good points. I do somewhat remember Watergate, and have since been suspicious of the WaPo's role in it. They had an agenda to "get Nixon" - so I would not put it past them to have done what Anne implied.

[marty60]

Well your friend is trying very hard to change the subject fom the slimey,vengeful, treasonous FELT.

[nikos1121]

It is clear that Deep Throat was a composite of characters. Steven Ambrose said that the original first draft of All the President's Men exists in a vault at Simon & Schuster and this draft does not have a Deep Throat character. Deep Throat was added at the Publisher's urging.
(Please read: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418514/posts.)

I think also that when we're on the subject of what is fact and what is fiction and relative to a true scandal, let's compare Watergate and Nixon's actions during wartime, with Ted Kennedy at Chappaquidick. Every FR should read this.

http://www.ytedk.com/chappindex.htm

nick

[RegulatorCountry]

If they're starting to try to rebut Coulter, instead of dismissing and vilifying her, they're starting to be afraid of her. Now that's progress.

[b4its2late]

No matter what she wrote would be considered wrong to the dems. Remember, they constantly re-write history in their minds so even the truth to them is fiction.......

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I believe that the original manuscript for "All the President's Men" did not have any mention of the "Deep Throat" source. In fact, I've heard that there were so many sources, that the publisher recommended that W & B lump them all into one so as to no confuse the public.

Also, how did Mark Felt have access to the tapes?

[carrier-aviator]

The DEFINITIVE word on Watergate, by Pat Buchanan:

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7653

[Slicksadick]

"On the question about the newspapers outside his apartment, he says: You know where I first heard about this? From the mouth of Bob Woodward. They weren't just left in a stack in the lobby either, if you're really interested. In black sharpie marker on the front page the apartment number they were to be delivered to was written. You think there was just a pile of newspapers on the floor? People pay for subscriptions. If there was a pile, people's newspapers would go missing and they would be upset. That's why newspapers are DELIVERED TO THE PEOPLE WHO PAY FOR THEM. Not left in random piles. Good reporting, Ann."

As to this issue, the last three office buildings/towers I worked in, all had papers left in the lobby, with address tags affixed. Primarily WSJ, a very expensive paper. Me thinks if they leave them now in the lobby, they left them then in the lobby as well, 30 plus years ago I would think theft was less likely to occur.

[BigBobber]

Well, I don't have any direct knowledge about Bob Woodward's apartment that might help you. But I have enough common sense to believe your liberal friend is all wet.

...the apartment was visible from (just estimating) something like four other apartment buildings and numerous rooftops

Your friend is kidding right? He wants us to believe Felt, on his own, rented out an apartment in a nearby building so he could see Woodward's balcony? Or that the Assistant Director of the FBI went up on a roof several times a week to see if a red flag was showing? Now that wouldn't raise any suspicions.

You think there was just a pile of newspapers on the floor? People pay for subscriptions. If there was a pile, people's newspapers would go missing and they would be upset.

More liberal think. I've been several places where they leave a stack of newspapers out for subscribers. You don't take one unless you've paid for it. Hard for a liberal to understand. It's called honesty.

[HairOfTheDog]

It would help to have the coulter article.... if you haven't read it, this doesn't make a lot of sense.

[Sonny M]

Its pretty clear by now that Mark Felt had help.

His stock in trade was black bags and dirty tricks.

Its not out of the realm of thinking he had some other traitors helping him or some dupes.

[randog]

I read Ann's column yesterday, and I got the impression that the apartment was not visible from a public place, i.e. the street. Your friend gives examples of private places where the apartment balcony could be seen. Taking it further, you could say that the balcony is visible from a helicopter, too.

As to the newspaper, why would the apartment numbers be written on them? I'm thinking that the apartment staff would just deliver the papers without going through the extra hassle of writing on them....?

[firebrand]

Newspapers left in a pile in my building.

[firebrand]

Now she is broke — because of her rejection of conventional bourgeois institutions like marriage.

Whoa.

[tame]

bump.