Website of the Week

Deep Throat Uncovered, http://deepthroatuncovered.com/

The most famous anonymous news source in history--code-named Deep Throat--provided Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein with information on the Watergate break-in and White House cover-up. An investigative journalism class at the University of Illinois announced their finding about Deep Throat's identify: Fred Fielding, deputy to former White House counsel John Dean.

The website details the story of the investigation and provides information on:

• the clues
• the players
• the history
• the class
• the gallery
• the media

Other substantial resources on Watergate include:

• The Washington Post, Watergate Revisited, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/front.htm. Post coverage, chronology, sights and sounds, key players, documents, cartoons, interactive quiz.
• Watergate.info, The Scandal That Brought Down Richard Nixon, http://watergate.info/. The burglary, chronology, Nixon biography, investigations, the final days of the Nixon White House, Gerald Ford (the man who pardoned Nixon), aftermath, tapes, impeachment hearings, casualties, books, articles.
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
  • Watergate Trial Tapes and Transcripts, http://www.archives.gov/nixon/tapes/about_transcripts.html 
  • Watergate Special Prosecution Task Force tapes, http://www.archives.gov/nixon/tapes/watergate_special_prosecution_force.html 
  • Abuse of Government Power tapes, http://www.archives.gov/nixon/tapes/abuse.html 
  • Teaching with Documents, Watergate and the Constitution, http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/watergate_and_constitution/teaching_activities.html

The Gallagher Law Library has about 40 books on Watergate, including:

• Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon
• The Direct and Cross-Examination of John Dean in United States v. Mitchell
• No Pledge of Privacy: The Watergate Tapes Litigation
• The Senate Watergate Report: The Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (the Ervin Committee)
• To Set the Record Straight: The Break-in, the Tapes, the Conspirators, the Pardon
• Watergate: Chronology of a Crisis
• Watergate Victory : Mardian's Appeal

For more books, search Marian by keyword "watergate affair".