Graydon Carter

He said, Mark Felt.

And I had no idea who Mark Felt was, but we discovered that he was the number two at the FBI.

So for the next eight months, we worked on closing the story and trying to verify it through other sources.

But he had never told us.

He never even told his family.

So he was trying to pin it down.

Now, I could have

As we were getting closer to press, I could have called Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein.

Carl was on our masthead.

If I called Carl, he'd immediately call Bob, and Bob would get into the Washington Post the next day.

Because remember, we're a monthly magazine.

If I called Bob, the same thing would have happened.

So we had to go to press with this story without knowing that 100% that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.

Anyway, I get married, and I'm on my honeymoon, and my wife and I are coming back to New York.

We're in the airport in the Bahamas, and I didn't have a cell phone in those days.

I was one of the last people to get one, but she had a flip phone, and she gets a call, and she's a David friend.

So I pick up the phone, and the editor was working on the Deep Throat story.

So I pick up the phone.

I said, David, hey.

And he said, I just want to remind you that we released the Deep Throat story wide to all the newspapers, the wire services, and the television networks.