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When Bill Murray questioned author Bob Woodward’s veracity during his recent interview on the Joe Rogan Experience, he was right on the money — particularly with regard to Woodward’s reporting on President Nixon.
Let’s look at the record that has emerged since Nixon resigned in 1974. (RELATED: The Conspiratorial Beginning of the End of Nixon’s Presidency)
First, there are interesting details about “Deep Throat,” Woodward’s inside source on Watergate developments, whose identity he carefully protected until it was revealed in 2003. He turned out to be Mark Felt, the former deputy FBI director who was bitter about being passed over as J. Edgar Hoover’s successor.
But for the intervening three decades, Woodward allowed — even encouraged — the belief that Deep Throat had been a member of Nixon’s own White House staff, so disgruntled with its criminality that he leaked details to Woodward. His deliberate obfuscations cast dispersions on many innocent members of Nixon’s staff. It also raises questions as to how much else of Woodward’s Watergate reporting was really accurate. (RELATED; Reevaluating the Saturday Night Massacre)
The movie version of All the President’s Men (1976) contains at least three overt indications that Deep Throat is a member of Nixon’s White House staff:

In a scene shot on the steps of the Library of Congress, Bernstein (played by Dustin Hoffman) is bemoaning their lack of leads. Woodward (played by Robert Redford) says, “I have a friend at the White House,” and they are quickly off and running once more.
Woodward phones Deep Throat at his office — and it’s from a phone booth directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the Old Executive Office Building, which is part of the White House compound. Woodward is shown to be looking up at the Old EOB as he’s speaking to his source.
In an eerie nighttime shot of his leaving work to meet with Woodward, Deep Throat (played by Hal Holbrook) is shown driving out of the White House Northwest Gate.

Further, there …