I remember all too well the pre-cable days..................."The President is on, oh nooooo, he's on EVERY channel!!".......unknown perhaps Louie or Seinfeld

D'oh!

i was certain this thread was about the tiki room...
"give your throat a treat"

honestly, i was so damn sure it was Alexander Haig. i think that would have been so much more interesting. seamonkey, i agree, i remember the wall-to-wall coverage well...and during the cold war it was really scary stuff to watch as the mighty fortress crumbled.

Of all the things I could be remembered for....

Oh well. It could be Farty McFarterson. I confess so many things to you all! Although I had no idea SacTown Chronic was listening this weekend while I was out at the Vogue confessing THOSE sins!

I really need to work on keeping those skeletons IN the closet. ;) I am the anti-Nixon.

And just who exactly was Carly referring to in "You're So Vain"?

This whole Deep Throat revelation is very exciting! :)

Warren Beatty and Mick Jagger.

Next question?

Actually, I have no problem with him/them revealing his identity to cash in on it. Why should Woodward/Bernstein be the only ones to do so? Their entire fame and fortune is due to this guy. He might as well get something for his family, rather than dying and then letting W/B cash in again when they revealed who it was.

What I find pathetic was that he did it at all. This is not meant to be in defense of Nixon or what happened, but obviously the justice department was investigating, and this guy broke the law, and from what I have read he did it because Nixon didn't give him the top job at the FBI as director when he was second in command. Did it out of spite.

I thought this thread was about porn. Darn.

I'm honestly curious here but which law did he break and was convicted for. I'm aware of an unrelated conviction in which he was pardoned by Reagan on the grounds that he had "acted on high principle to bring an end to the terrorism that was threatening our nation." I wasn't aware that he broke the law concerning Watergate however.

He was not convicted for anything related to being "deep throat", as his identity was unknown until yesterday. Over 30 years have passed, long past the statute of limitations for pretty much everything except murder, so he will not be charged with anything.

Further research on my part has me reading much about this - the jury is out on whether a crime was committed or not because so much is still unknown. So I retract my "committed a crime" comment, as there is a wide variety of opinions as to if he did or not. Here's an article that sums it up well -

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050601/D8AF1OO80.html

From the Washington Post, part one of a story by Woodward on the origin of Deep Throat (you may have to register): Deep Throat .

Excerpt:

"In 1970, when I was serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and assigned to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, the chief of naval operations, I sometimes acted as a courier, taking documents to the White House. One evening I was dispatched with a package to the lower level of the West Wing of the White House, where there was a little waiting area near the Situation Room. It could be a long wait for the right person to come out and sign for the material, sometimes an hour or more, and after I had been waiting for a while a tall man with perfectly combed gray hair came in and sat down near me. His suit was dark, his shirt white and his necktie subdued. He was probably 25 to 30 years older than I and was carrying what looked like a file case or briefcase. He was very distinguished-looking and had a studied air of confidence, the posture and calm of someone used to giving orders and having them obeyed instantly."