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You know, for those of us who really don’t give a crap about Watergate, because it was just so long ago, and having missed out on the Dan Rather Victory Parades, don’t really see the point of continuing its hushed sanctity, when we are exposed to any of the details, it amazes us how completely ripped off they were by pop-culture.

Deep Throat?

Woodward noted that Deep Throat was a smoker and that he drank Scotch. “Aware of his own weaknesses, he readily conceded his flaws,” the reporters wrote. “He was, incongruously, an incurable gossip, careful to label rumor for what it was, but fascinated by it. . . .

I’m a little irritated with the X-Files, now. All this time Chris Carter was basing his conspiracies on evil republican hold-overs from the Nixon Administration? Come on.

Huh. Caltechgirl, via Baldilocks, via offers Rehnquist as a possibility. Hardly the Cigarette Smoking Man, then. Rehnquist’s home address is probably a bit more accessible to the general public.