“Follow the money.”

—  W. Mark Felt

Statement to Woodward and Bernstein, in his period of secret revelations to them during the Watergate investigations. Published in All the President's Men (1974) by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
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Whistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal 1913–2008

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