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...stonewall everyone for the next 26 years. He gives Nora a look that is amused, adamant and slightly embarrassed - self-disciplined and self-effacing, with an undercurrent of the smugness of a person who holds people captive with an interesting secret. Who knew the secret could last so long? Garment thinks he knows the answer. Deep Throat, he says, is John Sears...
...lost out in some White House infighting before Watergate began, but he remained closely tied to the most important figures in the White House and the party. Later he ran Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign. Today, he is a lawyer in private practice, and he is apparently incensed by Garment's theory that he is Deep Throat. "I may well sue," he angrily told Francis X. Clines of the New York Times...
Pursuing the identity of Deep Throat has been Garment's hobby for years. Some people suspected that Garment himself was the spectral man in the underground garage. Garment rejects the speculation that Deep Throat was either 1) a fiction, or 2) a composite, as I have often thought. John Dean claimed (for a time) that Deep Throat was Alexander Haig. Other suspects have ranged from Henry Kissinger to the CIA's William Colby, Cord Meyer and Richard Helms to the FBI's Patrick Gray and Mark Felt...
...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...
Sears was very smart, Garment thinks, canny about the media, and sufficiently knowledgeable to see the larger picture that Woodward and Bernstein were half-blindly working at. Would he have been trying to destroy the Nixon administration, or trying to save it from itself...