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Other sources who could have been Deep Throat by the White House test include Counsel Leonard Garment; Chief of Staff Alexander Haig Jr. or, more likely, someone close to him; Speech Writers Raymond Price, Patrick Buchanan, Benjamin Stein, Franklin Gannon and David Gergen; Haldeman Aide Lawrence Higby; Telecommunications Director Clay Whitehead; National Security Aide Brent Scowcroft; and Domestic Adviser Kenneth Cole Jr. An outside possibility is John Sears, who retained excellent White House sources after his departure as a Nixon counsel in 1969, and whose cigarette-smoking and Scotch-drinking habits, while common enough, correspond to those attributed to Deep...
...writing and public relations jobs in and out of television and landed at the Today show as a writer in 1961. Always eager, ready and hardworking, she became an on-camera interviewer within three years and began racking up a notable series of interview coups with Mamie Eisenhower, H.R. Haldeman and Anwar Sadat. NBC belatedly canonized her in 1974 as the show's cohost, along with Jim Hartz...
...real story in The Final Days--the one that no one seems to have noticed or care much about--is that Alexander Haig, the general Nixon brought into the White House after Haldeman and Erlichman "resigned," and Fred Buzhardt, one of Nixon's lawyers, (two men nobody ever voted for), actually ran the White House for about six months in 1974. They--along with lawyer James St. Clair, speechwriter Pat Buchanan, and press hack Ron Ziegler--were the men who became the "palace guard" and executed the Nixon defense, such as it was. They were also responsible, Woodward and Bernstein...
...leave him if he doesn't ship out of CREEP, and most important of all, Deep Throat himself. The Watergate Five appear only as silhouettes, Hunt and Liddy not at all. Donald Segretti comes off as pathetic and sophomoric rather than a pernicious master of dirty tricks. The heavies--Haldeman, Ehrlichmann, Colson, Kleindienst, Magruder and of course Nixon--aren't there at all, except in the news clips. Thus one of the most enjoyable episodes in the film is Woodward's midnight phone call to John Mitchell, in which the former attorney general threatens to "put Katie Graham's teat...
...reporters hard but backing them to the hilt in a confrontation with outsiders. Ben Bradlee (Jason Robards) bears the brunt of these cliches. He puts Bernstein and Woodward under the most pressure--one of the best scenes in the movie comes when, the morning after a story linking Haldeman to the break-in has been denied by every conceivable source, he screams out "Woodstein!" across the newsroom and, for once in the film, the room becomes deadly quiet. Jimmy Stewart or Henry Fonda might have been able to deliver Bradlee's final speech ("All that's at stake...