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...book, by Leonard Garment, a domestic affairs adviser in the Nixon White House and counsel to the President after John Dean went south, is about the still mysterious Pimpernel of Watergate, the insider ex machina who guided Woodward and Bernstein ("Follow the money!") in their investigations for the Washington Post...
...early spring of 1974. I have flown from New York to Washington on private business, and am bunking on the couch in the spare room that Carl Bernstein uses as an office in his apartment in the Adams-Morgan section of town. (Carl and I have known each other since we were kid reporters together for the Washington Star, a paper now deceased). Nora Ephron, the bright, funny writer from New York, has just moved in with Carl, and is going nervously nuts, for some reason, trying to install a rheostat for the lights. The galley proofs of a book...
...tries everything. "Aw, c'mon!" "I won't tell." "Lemme guess - I'll mention a name, and if I count to 10 and you haven't hung up on me, I'll know it's right!" Grin. That, of course, is the sort of trick that Woodward and Bernstein used on reluctant secretaries at CREEP...
Garment builds the case for Sears on circumstantial evidence, and on points of personal style. Bob Woodward has said that Deep Throat smoked a lot of cigarettes and drank a lot of Scotch. Woodward and Bernstein wrote: "He was, incongruously, an incurable gossip, careful to label rumor for what it was, but fascinated by it. ... He could be rowdy, drink too much, overreach. He was not good at concealing his feelings, hardly ideal for a man in his position...
...Mather House graduate first applied for a job at the Washington Post, Woodward and Bernstein's newspaper. Suggesting that he should first get more experience elsewhere, the Post turned him down. Meislin applied to The Times, and got a job as a copyboy...