If Jesse Owens's name isn't safe on a Chicago public school, what chance did a mere parking garage outside Washington, D.C., have of surviving just because it provided the setting for a few minutes of stirring cinema?
What happened at the garage on Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia, was a series of rendezvous between Deep Throat and Bob Woodward (but think Hal Holbrook and Robert Redford) as Woodward and his Washington Post sidekick Carl Bernstein investigated the 1972 Watergate break-in. There's a historical marker there now, and it says this:
Mark Felt, second in command at the FBI, met Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward here in this parking garage to discuss the Watergate scandal.…[ Read more ]