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= PLOT = In the book __The Secret Man__, Bob Woodward recalls the Watergate case and more specifically, the man called Deep Throat, a.k.a. Mark Felt. It starts out with the telling of their chance meeting in the White House, and then continues to follow their mutual friendship as their lives progress. Woodward as a reporter and Felt as a high-up FBI worker, just 2nd from the top. As the Watergate case unraveled with the discovery of Nixon's spies and secrect stash of cash, Woodward needed a contact on the inside for information. He and Felt would meet secretly at odd hours of the morning, and the next day top secret information would end up in the //Post//, the newspaper where Woodward worked. As it became apparent that there was a "spy" in the FBI, accusations eventually came around to Felt, and he was put on trial. Felt denied everything and was only fined some money. Woodward felt guilty about this and the two did not talk for a long time, and eventually when they did, Felt was an old man who's memory was just not the same. Felt could barely remember Woodward and virtually nothing about the Watergate case or Deep Throat. Woodward was faced with the dilema of whether or not he should publish this book because then it would be breaking a promist to Felt, a promist that Felt could no longer remember anyways. Eventually near the end of the story Felt tells his family that yes, he was Deep Throat. So obviously Woodward was able to publish this book after all. = Author's Goal = The author's goal in this book is to uncover the identity of Watergate's Deep Throat. Deep Throat was the informant who gave Woodward, the author, information through the FBI about the Watergate robbery and the network of spies in the FBI and CIA. Deep Throat was Woodward's friend Mark Felt, a high up FBI agent who didn't agree with some of the things going on in the FBI at the time. Woodward was tryhing to show how Felt was accused maybe too harshly without much proof, and had to eventually pay a fine. I think a smaller goal of the author's in this book is to give Felt credit for the service he believed he was doing for his country. = Analysis/Prediction = Ch.1) I thought the first chapter was a litte bit confusing. The author, Bob Woodward, jumped right into giving names of politicians and FBI agents that held no significance so far. It became a little clearer as he explained how the Watergate case was solved by the help of a person called Deep Throat. I think in the next chapter the author will give a bit more background information about himself and how he made his way into the reporting world. Ch.2) This chapter was a little easier to understand. The author told us more about himself and how he eventually found his way into being a reporter. However, I believe that he could have been less negatory with his words towards the US Navy and FBI agents. Though it was interesting to read about the person he met at the White House, Mark Felt, who we found out in the previous chapter was Deep Throat. I think in the next chapter we'll continue to learn more about the author and how he became involved in the Watergate case. Ch.3) ﻿ I found this chapter interesting. The author is beginning to show us the different tensions between the FBI and the White Houe, and how the FBI has to do cover-ups for the White House as well. It made sense to me that Felt made Woodward agree to total confidentiality about what he told him about the different doings of the FBI information involving the vice president and other special matters. ﻿I think that in the next chapter Woodward will go into greater depth about how his career was going as a reporter at the //Post// and about his friendship with Felt. ﻿Ch.4) ﻿I feel like this chapter is a foundation chapter for a longer part of the book that is yet to come. Woodard gave us backgraound information about Felt and the death of Hoover, who was the FBI director. He also told about how dissapointed Felt was that the President did not give him the job as director. Instead, a Nixon loyalist got it. This once agains shows the different tensions between the two establishements. I think that in the next chapter the author will go on to talk about what happened when he covered the story of the robbery at Watergate. Ch.5) ﻿ ﻿In this chapter I was able to make a few more connections with the various things that the author was talking about. It is now clear that President Nixon was more with the CIA and was trying to get them to stop the FBI's investigation on the Watergate robbery, though it hasn't become abundantly clear on why that is. Also, the plot is making more sense as we find out more about how Felt and Woodward would secretly meet to exchange information and expose the people from Watergate. ﻿I think that the next chapter Woodward will go into more detail about a specific meeting between him and Felt and how the mysteries of Watergate were slowly being unraveled. ﻿Ch.6) ﻿﻿﻿In this chapter it was intersting to read about how the Nixon re-election campaign had a secret stash of money and how they secretely schemed with the CIA. Things are heating up when we find out that there is a massive campaign of political spying and sabatoge on behalf of Nixon's re-election and that they were at least 50 of those spies out there. Though I was a little surprised at how certain people talked bad about the //Post// just because of what they were printing in their paper. I think that in the next chapter Woodward will publish some stories that are even more bold and accusing than the last ones in the newspaper and get some bad reactions from the people involved in the Watergate case/secret cash fund of Nixon's re-election committee. Ch.7) ﻿For this chapter I think the story is becoming more exciting. Woodward and his co-reporter, Carl, write a story accusing Haldeman of being the "5th person" involving the Watergate case. I think that it's funny to see how the article backfired on the two reporters. It was good to see that a higher-up politician wanted to head a full senate investigation of Watergate, with Woodward being one of his informants. ﻿ I think in the next chapter the author will talk about Felt's resignation from the FBI and the continued unraveling of Watergate. ﻿Ch.8) ﻿ I think this chapter was important to the novel because it talks about Felt's resignationg from the FBI and Nixon's leave of the White House. I was surprised to read about Felt being interviewed by a presecutor and Grand Jury. In the next chapter I think the author will explain more about the book he and Carl wrote about the Watergate case. Ch.9) ﻿﻿ I think this chapter filled in a lot of the gaps in the story that I've seen so far. Felt is suspected of being Deep Throat more and more and was getting into real legal trouble. ﻿ In the next chapter of the book I believe that Woodward will tell about how he repatched his friendship with Felt after what happened with the publishing of Woodward's book. ﻿Ch.10) After reading this chapter I was shocked to find out that Felt might possibly be going to jail or get a very large fine. His trial seemedvery tense but thankfully he only had to pay a fine. I think that in the next chapter the author will talk about how he felt responsible for Felt's punishment. Ch.11) ﻿ In this chapter it made sense that Woodward would try and avoid Felt as to not make Felt seem even more suspicious. I can understand why he misled other reporters as to who Deep Throat was as well, he felt obliged to. Now the drama and hype of Watergate's Deep Throat is beginning to die down. ﻿ In the next chapter I think that the author will talk about how he eventually decided to get some closure with Felt and talk to him. ﻿Ch.12) ﻿ I liked reading this chapter and seeing how Woodward and Felt finally had a legitimate conversation, even though it was ocer the phone. It was somehwat sad to see that Felt souldn't remember everything that he used to when Woodward started talking about Watergate and Deep Throat. I think that in the next chapter Woodward will write about his and Felt's conversation as they finally met in person, and that he'll stress the importance of it. Ch.13) This chapter had been by far the most interesting yet. It was intruiging to read about Felt's lack of memory in his trials and accusations of being Deep Throat, or even about the Watergate case at all. I share the author's amazement on how Felt was able to get the story out without exposing himself. ﻿ ﻿ I think in the next chapter Woodward will start to recap the Watergate case and give us a little more side information that we didn't know about before. ﻿Ch.14) In this chapter Woodward told us that the FBI agents who were the initial Watergate investigation knew that many of Nixon's top people were lying. For me it just reveals even more about how much of Washington's politics are not recorded. I was surprised to find out that Felt finally admitted to his family that he was Deep Throat. I think the next chapter will be about how Woodward went about publishing his next book, this one. Ch.15) ﻿ It was interesting to see Woodward's struggle with whether or not he should publsih this book about Watergate's Deep Throat without Felt's consent. He talked to Felt's daughter, and they agreed to talk to Felt about it. I think in the final chapter the author will conclude everything that he talked about having to do with Watergate and Deep Throat. Ch.16) This final chapter was the shortest and most interesting one in the book. Woodward talked about Felt's courage in all that he did. Woodward ened it by saying how he hoped he wrote the story to exactly how the events played out, and I believe that he did. End of the book. = Muckraking Theme Connection = The technique that the author used to bring this information to the masses was mainly through his newpapers articled. Bob Woodward at the time of the Watergate case and the arrival of Deep Throat was a very accomplished reporter for the Post in Washington D.C. Many people read the newspaper, and if the articled was on the front page as it so often was then even more people would read it. Another method that Woodward used was writing books. A great example of that is this book right here, The Secret Man. There is a lot of information that he uncovered. One of the biggest things was who Deept Throat was and what happened to him after the Watergate case. Deep Throat was Mark Felt, and he remained unknown until he eventually old him family that it was him at the age of 91 and severe memory loss. = Discussion =