Interesting article on Deep Throat"s possible identify.

[s-cubed]

An interesting article from Smithsonian article, December 2001:

Who Was Deep Throat? by William Gaines

"After 36 years as a full-time reporter at the Chicago Tribune, I retired in 1999 to teach journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During that first semester, as the students searched for an investigative project to tackle, I showed them All the President’s Men."
<snip>

Why, my students asked, was Deep Throat’s identity still not known after so many years? It was not an easy question to answer. Walt Harrington, a fellow journalism professor at the University of Illinois, once told me he had heard Bradlee say that anyone wanting to learn Deep Throat’s identity should search a computer database for Watergate figures who were actually in Washington at the time of those meetings. To my knowledge, no one had ever done so. Though few organizations would have the resources or motivation to unmask Deep Throat, it seemed a challenging pursuit for my students.
<snip>

"We obtained the 1972 and ’73 White House staff directories, which listed 72 people in high-level jobs; of those, 39 were living males. The students then ruled out anyone not working at the White House between September 1972 and May 1973, the period when Deep Throat met with Woodward. Newspaper reports showed that some promising Deep Throat candidates, including Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, were out of the country during the time of those meetings. Because the reporters had written that Deep Throat drank Scotch whisky and smoked, the students also eliminated confirmed teetotalers and nonsmokers.

That left just seven candidates: Patrick Buchanan, speechwriter and special assistant to Nixon and later a newspaper columnist and presidential candidate; Stephen Bull, a personal aide to Nixon; David Gergen and Raymond Price, both speechwriters; Jonathan Rose, attorney for regulatory affairs; Gerald Warren, deputy press secretary; and Fred Fielding, an attorney and assistant to White House chief legal counsel John Dean."

The students conclusion? Fred Fielding. Now, does anyone know how Fred is doing?

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues03/dec03/presence.html

[hippiechick]

1. May I ask why this assumption ?

... "The students then ruled out anyone not working at the White House between September 1972 and May 1973..."

Why do they presume the DT worked AT the WH ? :shrug:
As tight as some of the back-room connections in DC are, DT doesn't necessarily have to have been working on the premises/on staff, I wouldn't think.

Just curious.

[BuyingThyme]

2. Woodward referred to him as a...

"White House aide."

..And previously as a "White House official."

[hippiechick]

3. Aaah, gotcha.

Thanks :hi:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

8. my mom thinks it was someone from the White House Press Office

but she doesn't have a name.
Who's my mom? Nobody special, just another Democrat who really hated Nixon. But she is really good at these kinds of things.

[seventythree]

4. Since Dean is saying Deep Throat is ill,

I'd guess it is his former assistant. Not too sure, Dean didn't put him up to it -- he was pretty much chastened by everything that happened -- isn't it Dean who said -- Mr. President there is a cancer growing on the Presidency?

[BuyingThyme]

5. I don't buy into any of this "ill" talk.

It just doesn't make any sense.

[EC]

6. On Olbermann last night,

Bernstein said that when Hal Holbrook was chosen as Deep Throat, Bob Woodward said not bad, meaning he looked kinda like the real Deep Throat, this guy doesn't:



But if you put glasses on Holbrook, or take them off of Rehnquist, the resemblance is there...



this one is not a good photo, but I just spent an hour trying to find the photo I found last night....couldn't find it...

[demwing]

11. Thats a more recent Fielding

Check my post #9 for a picture of Fielding in 1978, next to a pic of a younger Hal Holbrook. The look very similar.

Certainly more siilar than either Redford and Woodward or Hoffman and Bernstein.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

7. What about Rosemary Woods?

She died recently... what about her? Maybe she has a provision in her will about letting the truth out at some point in the near future...


Just guessing! I am ignorant about Deep Throat theories :)

[demwing]

9. Fielding and Holbrook

[EC]

12. Yeah, that's the same picture I thought I had copied the url for

and I guess I didn't or stored it somewhere else while trying to find the one of the judge I had seen last night. I don't know, both of them had fatter cheeks than Holbrook..

[WI_DEM]

10. Lots of people seem to think it is Fred Fielding