Usually you hear about a historic site disappearing because somebody is building a parking area. This time a historic structure is disappearing because somebody is demolishing a parking area.
One of the most historic U.S. journalism sites will vanish after a Virginia county board voted to demolish the building and parking garage central to the Watergate political scandal of the 1970s.
The Arlington County Board agreed on Saturday to raze the Rosslyn garage where FBI official Mark Felt secretly met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward during the Watergate scandal. The investigation led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974.
Felt was known for decades as Woodward’s source “Deep Throat.”
Kind of seems like a shame, but at least there’ll be a marker at the spot.