Why Did Deep Throat Leak?

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Did it have anything to do with a blue dress? :confused:

Oops, wrong Deep Throat! 😃

Alan
 
My gosh…there are SO MANY ways to answer a thread like that … :bigyikes:
 
For the money honey. Frankly I am glad his identity and his motivations are known prior to his death. It certainly puts a new spin on the whole Watergate issue.

Lisa N
 
Strikes me that he was mucho teed off he didn’t get appointed head of the FBI after Hover died.
It was his revenge , right or wrong, on the Nixon administration.
 
Or maybe, just maybe, there was some small thread of dignity deep down within the bowels of the Nixon administration.

Josh
 
Lisa N:
For the money honey. Frankly I am glad his identity and his motivations are known prior to his death. It certainly puts a new spin on the whole Watergate issue.
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Right. And, that it wasn’t REALLY about ethics. It was about payback.
 
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jlw:
Right. And, that it wasn’t REALLY about ethics. It was about payback.
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No it wasn’t then and isn’t now. I understand they already have a book coming out. Sadly I feel like the Lone Ranger just had his mask pulled. After three decades of lionizing Deep Throat as single handedly saving our country, I realize he was a petty bureaucrat with his undies in a wad when passed over for promotion.

Lisa N
 
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Or maybe, just maybe, there was some small thread of dignity deep down within the bowels of the Nixon administration.

Josh
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Yes, at least Nixon humbly resigned when he realized he had disgraced his office.

Trivia quiz question I once read in a pilot magazine: “Air Force One” is the aircraft the president rides in. However, at any given time that President Bush is on the ground, AF1 has logged one more takeoff than landing. Does anybody want to guess how that happened?

Alan
 
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Yes, at least Nixon humbly resigned when he realized he had disgraced his office.

Trivia quiz question I once read in a pilot magazine: “Air Force One” is the aircraft the president rides in. However, at any given time that President Bush is on the ground, AF1 has logged one more takeoff than landing. Does anybody want to guess how that happened?

Alan
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Without Nixon on board???
 
Stole this from Wikipedia:

In 1974, when Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency and departed from Andrews AFB on Air Force One, it was arranged that the plane’s call sign would switch from Air Force One to SAM (Special Air Mission) designation (SAM 27000) the moment Gerald Ford took the oath of office.

Do I get a prize?

Josh
 
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threej_lc:
Stole this from Wikipedia:

In 1974, when Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency and departed from Andrews AFB on Air Force One, it was arranged that the plane’s call sign would switch from Air Force One to SAM (Special Air Mission) designation (SAM 27000) the moment Gerald Ford took the oath of office.

Do I get a prize?

Josh
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As a child of God, you already are a prize!

Yes, the Air Force One designation refers to whatever plane or helicopter or whatever that the President is aboard, not to a particular plane. (Even though the planes made for the pres. are unofficially called Air Force One.)

Nixon was on his way back home and was in the air when he ceased being president. Hence, AF1 took off but never landed that day.

Alan
 
Lisa N:
No it wasn’t then and isn’t now. I understand they already have a book coming out. Sadly I feel like the Lone Ranger just had his mask pulled. After three decades of lionizing Deep Throat as single handedly saving our country, I realize he was a petty bureaucrat with his undies in a wad when passed over for promotion.

Lisa N
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Lisa, you sure are on Mark Felt’s case, though you have no factual basis that he was so disappointed in not being made FBI Director that he then helped to stop the criminal conspiracy of Nixon and Henchment to corrupt the FBI and disrupt the investigation of Watergate. Your “understanding” of the situtation is different from that of the actual atmosphere in Washington at the time - everyone realized Nixson would rush to appoint “his man” to head the FBI. Which he did in the person of Patrick Gray who soon disgraced himself by joining the conspiracy. That’s fact, not speculation.
 
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Lisa, you sure are on Mark Felt’s case, though you have no factual basis that he was so disappointed in not being made FBI Director that he then helped to stop the criminal conspiracy of Nixon and Henchment to corrupt the FBI and disrupt the investigation of Watergate. Your “understanding” of the situtation is different from that of the actual atmosphere in Washington at the time - everyone realized Nixson would rush to appoint “his man” to head the FBI. Which he did in the person of Patrick Gray who soon disgraced himself by joining the conspiracy. That’s fact, not speculation.
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It is obvious to me that he did not do it out of a sense of loyalty to the country, if that were the case he would have followed the chain of command or at least gone to congress with his findings. So any speculation as to why he did it is just that speculation, I personally believe he did it to get back at Nixon. You are free to believe what you want.
 
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