'All The President's Men' - Watergate DVD Easter Eggs?

by redjade Sat Jul 02, 2005 16:03

For more than 30 years, Watergate sleuths from Nixon White House official John Dean to University of Illinois journalism professor Bill Gaines pointed out reasons why W. Mark Felt couldn't have been "Deep Throat," the most famous anonymous source in U.S. history.

Felt said he didn't smoke, but Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward said Deep Throat did. And Felt was no longer the No. 2 man at the FBI when Deep Throat gave Woodward a key piece of information. How could Felt have known anything that important?

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Felt may not have been a "regular smoker," Woodward writes, but he could have been the type of person who lights up a cigarette "in times of immense stress." Regardless, Woodward repeats that Felt did smoke during some of their clandestine meetings.

by redjade Sat Jun 11, 2005 14:25

''Erlichman revealed that a contact of his in the Justice Department had told him that Felt had to testify before a Grand Jury in 1975, and struggled with the direct question of whether he was Deep Throat before the U. S. Attorney let him off the hook by saying he didn't have to answer the question. Felt then rushed to make a phone call, and Erlichman's contact heard directly from Woodward that this call was made to Woodward. Erlichman, who had believed that Felt couldn't be Throat because of the issues involving what Felt could have known, was thus convinced that Felt had to have been one of Woodward's sources.''

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/06/colodny-and-erlichman-and-felt.html

by redjade Thu Jun 09, 2005 18:05

http://www.nixonfoundation.org/Research_Center/Nixons/speeches/Resignation_Speech.shtml

btw, the resignation speech plays in the background as Brad and Janet get lost on the country road on the way to Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle in the Rocky Horror Picture Show (made in 1975).

by barry Thu Jun 09, 2005 17:46

http://clipbank.aolsvc.co.uk/clipbank/his/index.jsp?n=navbar&p=clipbank_main&c=learning

twat

by redjade Thu Jun 09, 2005 17:29

Naomi Klein compares the soon to be released (by court order) Abu Ghraib photographs to Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers and Col. Mathieu to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

→ Naomi writes:
' When the next batch of photographs from Abu Ghraib appear, many Americans will be morally outraged, and rightly so. But perhaps some brave official will take a lesson from Col. Mathieu and dare to turn the tables: Should the United States stay in Iraq? If your answer is still yes, then you must accept all the consequences.'

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0607-21.htm

. . .

→ The Pentagon's Film Festival
A primer for The Battle of Algiers.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2087628/

→ The Battle of Algiers
Roger Ebert
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041010/REVIEWS08/410100301
'Col. Mathieu does his job well. His chart of FLN cells has squares that are gradually filled in until, with the final defeat of Ali and three others, trapped in their hiding place, he declares victory. The FLN has been eliminated. Two years later, the film notes, "for no particular reason that anyone could explain," the uprising began again as mobs poured out of the Casbah and overwhelmed the police. In 1962, the French granted Algeria its freedom.'

→ Col. Mathieu in 'The Battle of Algiers'
script: http://home.online.no/~bhundlan/scripts/The-Battle-of-Algiers.htm

The result is that in the last two
months, they have reached an average of
4.2 assaults per day, including
aggression against individuals, and the
explosions. Of course, the conditions of
the problem are as usual: first, the
adversary; second, the method to destroy
him ... There are 80,000 Arabs in the
Casbah. Are they all against us? We know
they are not. In reality, it is only a
small minority that dominates with
terror and violence. This minority is
our adversary and we must isolate and
destroy it ...

by :-) Thu Jun 09, 2005 16:57

check out "the house of spirits" the dramatisation of Isabel Allende's "casa de los espiritus", set in an unspecified south american country at the turn of the last century it charts the drama of a family, whose daughter loves the peasant leader rebel, and whose head is the ranching senator, who herds in a military dictatorship who will torture his own daughter, and when he protests they point the days of his oligarchy are gone and his daughter had a child with the rebel, whom in a hollywoodesque finalé he brings to the canadian embassy and asylum.
cast:-
Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons
Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, Vanessa Redgrave.
director Bille August 1993.

by redjade Thu Jun 09, 2005 16:49

cartoon at
http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=19157

Tom Tomorrow's Blog
http://www.thismodernworld.com

by redjade Thu Jun 09, 2005 16:31

Deep Throat, Bob Woodward and the CIA
By JIM HOUGAN
As anyone who marched in the Sixties knows, these were secret and unconstitutional counterintelligence programs targeting the Left and a handful of white supremacists. As head of the FBI's Inspection Division, it was Felt's responsibility to maximize the effectiveness of the program in the field. Lest there be any doubt about this, it should be emphasized that Felt's brief was not to ensure that anyone's civil liberties were protected, or even that the law was adhered to, but to make certain that Hoover's attack on the anti-war movement ran smoothly.

http://www.counterpunch.org/hougan06082005.html

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Mark Felt and the Power of Myth
By Alicia Shepard
The Hollywood Deep Throat is credited with offering the famous sage advice to Woodward: "Follow the money." In fact, those words were made up by screenwriter William Goldman -- a fact that even surprised even Woodward, who over the years had come to think they were written in his book.

http://tinyurl.com/bt23n

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Watergate Weighs on Today's White House
Los Angeles Times
By Peter Wallsten

For the current president, Watergate reinforced a set of feelings that already ran deep in his family, said Peter Schweizer, co-author of "The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty."

"They have always believed that secrecy and privacy were important for leadership, because they allow decisions to be made without fear of leaks or outside influences," said Schweizer, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

To the Bush family, Watergate was "a personal failing by Nixon, not an institutional failing," Schweizer said. "Their view is that weakening the executive was the wrong solution to the problem."

As the revealing of Felt as Deep Throat became a kind of political Rorschach test — with some liberals celebrating the FBI's former No. 2 official as a hero for spilling his secrets and some conservatives branding him a villain — several people noted that President Bush's first public words on the matter drew attention to Felt's relations with the press.

"I'm looking forward to reading about it, reading about his relationship with the news media," Bush said, though he also noted that he did not think it appropriate to express an opinion on Felt's place in history.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/20050607/ts_latimes/watergateweighsontodayswhitehouse