Posted on 05/01/2002 6:54:59 PM PDT by Temple Owl
Deep Throat to be named
Leah Garchik
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
©2002 San Francisco Chronicle
John Dean, the White House counsel whose revelations about the Nixon presidency were the first flames in the volcano of Watergate scandal, is about to turn up the heat again by revealing the identity of Deep Throat.
At an L.A. Times book festival discussion of "Abuse of Power, Then & Now" --
including panelists Oliver Stone and Arianna Huffington, moderated by Chronicle Columnist Bob Scheer -- Dean said "The Deep Throat Brief" will be published online by Salon.com on June 17.
Dean told TIC yesterday that he'd spent about 20 years going through archives and tapes. "I thought that 30 years of hiding was long enough. It's a great brainteaser, and an avocational pursuit that I finally got serious about buttoning up for the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in." June 19, two days after publication, is also the anniversary of Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's first conversation with Throat about Watergate, says Dean, who's familiar enough with the protagonist to call him by one name.
As new Nixon material comes to light with grinding regularity, those whose lives were most closely intertwined with him have watched with fascination. "As Woodward said, 'It's the gift that keeps on giving,' " said Dean. "I did a book called 'The Rehnquist Choice' based on Nixon's recorded conversations about all the people involved in filling the two vacancies on the Supreme Court. I put it together as dialogue, and it fell into a three-act play. . . . He astounds. He just never stops surprising us. His anti-Semitism has now become old hat, but his take on women is amazing. He didn't think they should be educated, he didn't think they should vote, he didn't think they should be in his Cabinet. He was serious about putting a woman on the Supreme Court for political reasons." Reading the archived material, "I would just break out laughing."
The advantage of publishing an e-book, said Dean, who did not receive an advance from Salon, is that "I can work on it up to the last minute." Time magazine is planning to run an excerpt.
Publication of the 35,000-word text will fulfill a longtime dream of Dean's.
"There's one person who's headed into Richard Nixon's eternal history who outranks me as his worst enemy, and that's Deep Throat. Nixon said Dean was a traitor and Deep Throat was even worse. I wanted to visit with this person."
Hmmm... this suggests one of those 'logic tests':
"You want to know if a bridge is safe.
There are four people at the bridge who you can ask.
The first one always lies, the second one always lies, the third one always lies and the fourth one always lies.
They all tell you the bridge is safe..."
Dean used the parking garage at Arlington Towers to meet with a Washington Post reporter several times. We know which garage it was for two reasons - 1. The "posties" gave us an exact description of the garage, and 2. Dean was seen in the garage.
There's more.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZ........
Deepthroat is pure fiction. Woodward & Bernstein are liars!
LBJ
Kind of like cartoon characters. Wasn't it Woodward who claimed he was at CIA director William Casey's side to hear his bedside secrets just before he died? Sort of makes me wonder if they just made up "deep throat" to get Nixon, who they and their liberal pals despised. Notice how these same investigative reporters never went after Clinton when he was obviously committing crimes in the White House?
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