Deep Throat revelation disappointing

I find the revelation that former No. 2 man at the FBI Mark Felt was Woodward and Bernstein's source "Deep Throat" during their Watergate investigation three decades ago a bit disappointing.
It's not because I thought it was someone else. I didn't care if it turned out to be Fred Fielding or George H. W. Bush or Henry Kissinger or Alexander Haig or Diane Sawyer. I just hate to see the mystery end. How many secrets can remain secrets for more than 30 years?
My initial exposure to Watergate came through the Ervin Committee's televised hearings in 1973. Senator Sam Ervin's folksiness and Senator Howard Baker's oft-repeated line, "What did the president know and when did he know it?" are indelibly etched in my memory. For some reason, I can remember the names of committee members, Herman Talmadge of Georgia, Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, Lowell Weicker of Connecticut and it seems like there was a Senator Gurney from Florida. The counsel for the Democratic senators on the committee was Sam Dash, while his Republican counterpart was Fred Thompson, better known now as the actor who plays District Attorney Arthur Branch on Law and Order.
The highlights of those hearings were many. It was the summer between my junior and senior years at East Newton High School and I watched every day. It was shocking when former presidential counsel John Dean, long since made a sacrificial goat by President Nixon showed a nearly photographic recall of events that had taken place in the days following the Watergate burglary.
After listening to all of the big names, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Dean, appear before the committee, the most electrifying testimony was offered by a heretofore unknown named Alexander Butterfield, who revealed that the president had taped all of his conversations. It was that revelation, as much as anything done by Woodward, Bernstein, Deep Throat, or anyone else, that directly led to the first resignation of a United States president.
It is hard for younger people to understand how tense the atmosphere was in this country during the last few months before the president's resignation. A genuine fear existed that the president would declare martial law or that he would defy the Supreme Court, not turn over his tapes and create a constitutional crisis. The system survived, with one victim who deserved what he got, President Nixon, and one who did not, his successor Gerald Ford, who made the right decision when he pardoned Nixon to spare the country the spectacle of a former president on trial or in prison. When President Ford said, "Our long national nightmare is over," he was correct, but he also guaranteed that he would become a footnote in history as the only man to serve as president who was never elected as either president or vice president. The Nixon pardon angered Americans enough that they opted for an unknown former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, over Ford in 1976.
"All The President's Men," Woodward and Bernstein's best-selling non-fiction account of their Watergate investigation for The Washington Post, has always been my favorite book. It is credited for the increase in enrollment in schools of journalism across the U. S. It didn't have that effect on me. Though I read it first when I was in college at MSSC, I was there to become a history teacher, not a reporter. I enjoyed it for its background information on how the Watergate story developed. It's still the best non-fiction book on investigative journalism ever written.