following January, and a Senate select committee to investigate the whole episode was established in February.
As characterized by Woodward, "the break-in at the Watergate was like the thread on a very large sock" (Woodward 1). In following the story, Woodward and Bernstein relied crucially on a source in or close to the White House whom they nicknamed "Deep Throat," from the title of a porn movie that caused a public stir at the time. The identity of Deep Throat has never been revealed, and continues to be a matter of speculation and dispute. As Woodward and Bernstein pursued the story journalistically, Senate investigators pursued it from a legal and policy standpoint.
In the summer of 1973, investigators discovered in the course of routine technical questioning that Nixon had installed a taping system in the White House to record conversations, and a series of lega
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