'Deep Throat' Daughter: $ A Factor

The daughter of the man now known as "Deep Throat" concedes that money played a part in the family's decision to go public.

But Mark Felt's daughter says a bigger factor was unburdening her aging father of his long-held secret. Joan Felt tells a California newspaper the 91-year-old former FBI official is greatly "relieved" to get the matter out into the open.

Mark Felt was the key source in The Washington Post's Watergate investigation that helped bring down President Richard Nixon.

Joan Felt discussed her expenses as a single mother and her son's law school debts. She said there were many reasons to reveal the elder Felt's role in Watergate, but she can't deny that making money was one of them.

Joan Felt said she takes issue with news articles that portray her father as being unwell or incapacitated. She says her father suffered a stroke in 2001 and has undergone surgeries for heart problems and a broken hip, but remains lucid.

Ben Bradlee, the Washington Post executive editor during the Watergate scandal, said it "seems strange" to him now that he didn't ask for the identity of Deep Throat much sooner than he did.

Bradlee told ABC that if he'd been older and more experienced he probably would've asked Bob Woodward to reveal Mark Felt's name before President Nixon resigned.

But Bradlee said Deep Throat's information was always right -- and he wouldn't have wasted time getting the name if the info was wrong.

Felt is being lambasted by some for leaking information and then denying it for decades. Bradlee said any list of Watergate-related liars would have to be topped by figures such as Charles Colson and G. Gordon Liddy.

Liddy told Fox that if Felt had wanted to spill the beans with honor, he shouldn't have leaked it. Liddy said the Democratically controlled Congress would have been more than happy to investigate.