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Watergate reporters' notes open to review
Associated Press
Published February 4, 2005
AUSTIN, Texas - While the identity of "Deep Throat" is still a well-guarded secret, the first installment of notes and quotes scribbled by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein while covering the Watergate scandal are now available to the public.
"We told the story from our perspective as well as we could. Other people should have a look at the stuff," Bernstein said Thursday at the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, which purchased the materials for $5-million in 2003.
Under a deal with the reporters, the Ransom Center is responsible for cataloging and preparing the documents for public release. They will be made public for the first time today.
Self-described "pack rats" who kept dozens of boxes of materials, Woodward and Bernstein said they were meticulous about saving notes from their reporting for the Washington Post that exposed a conspiracy to disrupt the 1972 presidential election. Their reporting won the Pulitzer Prize.
"After a day or two, you could see it was going to be a really important story," Bernstein said.
Woodward and Bernstein, then 29 and 28, respectively, were the first reporters to establish the connection between Nixon aides and the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington's Watergate complex.
Nixon, facing almost-certain impeachment, resigned in August 1974.
Any documents that could reveal the fabled "Deep Throat" will be kept secure at an undisclosed location in Washington until the source's death.
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