Deep Throat and Me: Now It Can Be Told, and Not for the First Time Either

For many years, I have lived with the secret of Deep Throat’s identity. It has been hell, and I have dealt with the situation by pretty much telling just about anyone who asked me, including total strangers, who Deep Throat was. Not for nothing is indiscretion my middle name.

I knew that Deep Throat was Mark Felt because I figured it out. Carl Bernstein, to whom I was married for a brief time, certainly would never have told me; he was far too intelligent to tell me a secret like that. He refused to tell his children too, who are also my children, so I told them, and they told others, and even so, years passed and no one really listened to any of us. Years passed while unbelievably idiotic ideas of who Deep Throat was were floated by otherwise intelligent people. There were theories about John Dean, and David Gergen, and Alexander Haig, and L. Patrick Gray and Diane Sawyer and Ron Ziegler (Ron Ziegler!), and I’m pretty sure even Henry Kissinger’s name came up. I mean, really. Why these people with these ludicrous theories didn’t call me I cannot imagine. I am listed.

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