The parking garage in suburban Virginia where Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward occasionally met with his stealthy Watergate source “Deep Throat” is to be torn down to permit construction of two commercial and residential towers.
While they’re at it, local authorities ought to scrap the inaccurate historical marker that went up near the garage a few years ago.
The garage is in the Rosslyn section of Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington. Woodward met there on six occasions in 1972 and 1973 with his source, who in 2005 identified himself as W. Mark Felt, formerly the FBI’s second-ranking official.
Woodward’s meetings with “Deep Throat” are commemorated by a marker that declares:
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