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...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 Throat...
...spring of 1974, Institute administrators made plans to bring another controversial Nixon aide, "communications chief" Clay T. Whitehead, to Cambridge, and the Institute's student advisory board made a huge fuss. But two years ago students were still morally outraged about the sordid revelations that a summer of Senate Watergate hearings had produced. This year, two weeks ago, when Malek arrived to conduct a study group called "Politics and Public Management," no one seemed overly anxious about, or even particularly aware of, Malek's past...
Although far less ambitious and comprehensive than Clark's biography, My Father, Bertrand Russell succeeds better in bringing the man into focus. Katharine Tait, Russell's daughter by Dora, understands what linked the brilliant young nationalist of the Principia Mathematica (who with his teacher Whitehead and his student Wittgenstein redirected modern philosophy away from German idealism) to the political and sexual provocateur of later years: "All his life he sought perfection: perfect mathematical truth, perfect philosophical clarity, a perfect formula for society, and a perfect woman to live with in a perfect human relationship...
...addition the book, edited by Rabbi Chaim Stern of Chappaqua, N.Y., drops "thee" and "thou" in addressing the Deity (only "you" is now used) and downplays expressions like "our fathers," which are now deemed to be sexist. It also incorporates the words of moderns like Alfred North Whitehead and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and these lines from William Blake: "It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements,/ To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan;/ To see a god on every wind & a blessing on every blast...
...Barber V. Conable (R-N.Y.) and Clay T. Whitehead, director of the U.S. Office of Telecommunications Policy, are among ten newly appointed fellows at the Institute of Politics...