Bob Woodward’s recent flap reveals a grotesquely swollen ego fed by 40 years of hero worship. Max Holland asks: why is this man an icon?

Prominent Washington journalist Bob Woodward said a senior White House official threatened him he would “regret” publishing a story challenging the White House’s account of how the idea for automatic spending cuts originated.

Forty years ago, a failed burglary in Washington culminated in a giant political scandal that led to the fall of Richard Nixon.

HE CAME into office on a wave of promise and promises.

US President Barack Obama’s top advisers spent much of the past 20 months arguing about policy and turf, according to a new book, with some top members of his national security team doubting the president’s strategy in Afghanistan will work.

President Barack Obama’s top advisers spent much of the past 20 months arguing about policy and turf, according to a new book, with some top members of his national security team doubting the president’s strategy in Afghanistan would work.

Former US president Gerald Ford was highly critical of the Bush administration, saying the Iraq war was unjustified, in a two-year-old interview published only today.

WITH the White House bracing for guerrilla warfare on the home front politically if Republicans lose control of Congress, President George W Bush is seeking to shift the debate away from Iraq and scandal and boost his reputation for economic competence.

President George Bush is to sign a law that sets tough standards for interrogation and prosecution of terror suspects, a major White House victory that demonstrates Bush still has the political power to set the rules of war even as Iraq clouds his US presidency.

AT the crucial moment of their investigation into the Watergate scandal, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein told Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee that Deepthroat had confirmed the conspiracy ran to the highest levels of the White House.

US President George Bush has full confidence in Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, even if others dislike the Pentagon chief’s “bedside manner,” a top White House official said.

US administration officials say they remain committed to a diplomatic solution to ensure Iran does not obtain nuclear weapons, but they will not rule out military action as an option, even as they try to calm down talk about military planning.

The man who recently revealed himself as “Deep Throat", the key source for the Washington Post during the investigation of the Watergate government scandal, has agreed to a book and movie deal about his life, his publisher and agent confirmed today.

MARK FELT, the former FBI official who unmasked himself as the legendary Deep Throat source who leaked Watergate secrets, twice led FBI probes into finding Deep Throat.

LATE on Tuesday of last week I got in to Dallas for the first time since I left there in 1973.

A CHANCE encounter in 1970 grew into a friendship that became the Deep Throat source that helped bring down Richard Nixon, reporter Bob Woodward wrote in The Washington Post yesterday.

Jim Caldwell sheds some light on the man of mystery who helped bring down a president

Victoria Ward, New York

Former top FBI official Mark Felt was branded an American hero by his family after unmasking himself as the Deep Throat source who helped bring down President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal.

The family of the former top FBI official who claims he was the notorious Deep Throat source in the Watergate scandal tonight praised him as a hero and urged the United States to respect and honour his actions.

The FBI’s former number two, W Mark Felt, has claimed to have been the mystery Deep Throat source who helped bring down US president Richard Nixon.

Former US President Bill Clinton is set to publish his memoirs – called My Life – in late June, it has been announced.

SAUDI Arabia has denied accusations in Bob Woodward’s latest book that it made a secret agreement with the White House to lower petrol prices before elections.

Saudi Arabia has denied accusations in Bob Woodward’s latest book that it made a secret agreement with the White House to take steps to lower petrol prices before the November elections.

THE White House was in damage-limitation mode over Iraq yesterday after claims that President George W Bush was committed to war while publicly claiming to be pursuing a diplomatic solution.

PRESIDENT George Bush secretly ordered a war plan drawn up against Iraq less than two months after US forces attacked Afghanistan and was so worried the decision would cause a furore he did not tell everyone on his national security team, says a new book.

IN all the uproar over Richard Clarke’s testimony to the 9/11 Commission, I think we’re missing the larger issue. The focus now is all on whether the Bush administration focused on the terror threat prior to the attacks on 9/11.

RON ZIEGLER, the press secretary who famously called the Watergate break-in a third-rate burglary and was the voice of the Nixon administration during the biggest political scandal in American history, has died of a heart attack. He was 63.