spiked - They're all Deep Throats now:
"Felt's motivations for exposing Nixon are less interesting than his reasons for keeping his identity a secret for decades, and his sudden willingness to reveal it now. He was originally worried that the revelation of his identity would disgrace his family. Such disloyalty from a high-ranking civil servant and party member was at that time unheard of. It was destabilising to an administration dealing with social unrest and fighting a major war; it played into the hands of the enemy. Yet in the intervening 30 years, there has been a profound change in American political culture, and in the mores of the ruling class."
