Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Nixon done in by Deep Throat and the 18 1/2 minute tape gap

On this day in 1973, President Richard Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

Former FBI official W. Mark Felt claimed to be Deep Throat, the legendary source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate cover-up to The Washington Post and helped bring down the Nixon presidency in 1974, Vanity Fair magazine said in 2005. The Washington Post confirmed Felt's story, bringing to a close the long-running mystery about Deep Throat's identity.

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