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John Dean says it was Haig...
...guessing games. Now in a new book, Lost Honor (Harper & Row), to be published in mid-November, John Dean, the former White House counsel who provided the first public details of the Watergate coverup, claims to have solved the puzzle. Deep Throat, says Dean, was none other than Alexander Haig-who was No. 2 to Henry Kissinger at the National Security Council, then White House chief of staff during Watergate, and later Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State...
Dean's case is entirely circumstantial. Its most telling point is that Haig was one of the very few who were in a position to know a fact that Deep Throat told Woodward in early November 1973: "One or more of the [White House] tapes contained deliberate erasures." Others in a position to know were Nixon, his secretary Rose Mary Woods and White House Aides Stephen Bull and the late J. Fred Buzhardt. Haig had access to all the other information that Deep Throat fed or confirmed to Woodward, Dean claims. According to Dean, Haig probably would have been...
...principal objection to Dean's theory, which others advanced as early as 1976, is the inherent implausibility of the ultradignified and instantly recognizable Haig skulking around Washington garages undetected at 2 a.m. All the President's Men contains descriptions of Deep Throat's psychology ("a man whose fight had been worn out. . . Deep Throat never tried to inflate his knowledge or show off his importance") that scarcely seem...
...Secretary hardly electrified the General Assembly with his 45-minute address outlining the Administration's approach to foreign policy. But Shultz's cautious, even ponderous style served him well in private sessions. Unlike his frenetic predecessor Alexander Haig, who sometimes had staffers burst into meetings with important cables, Shultz listens intently to his guests and responds slowly and softly. "He is rocklike," says an aide. In the assessment of one French diplomat, "he appears bien dans sa peau, self-confident." This reassuring style, more than anything else, showed that U.S. foreign policy, although not on a perfect course...