Here's something for you about Alexander Haig..
Former Nixon chief of staff Alexander Haig is one of the most frequently mentioned suspects in the Deep Throat guessing game. An aide to Gen. Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War, Haig served as an aide to Secretary of the Army Cyrus Vance during the Kennedy administration and as a member of the Pentagon staff during the Vietnam War. He joined the Nixon administration as a military aide to Henry Kissinger, then Nixon's national security adviser.
Haig took over as White House chief of staff after H.R. Haldeman resigned in April 1973. In his 1992 memoir, "Inner Circles: How America Changed the World," Haig vehemently denies the speculation that he is Woodward's deep background source. The notion of Haig as Deep Throat was made popular in a 1991 account of the Watergate scandal entitled "Silent Coup: The Removal of a President." The book's authors, Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, contended that, while Bob Woodward was a communications officer in the Navy in 1969 and 1970, he had the opportunity to brief then-Brigadier General Haig, a member of the National Security Council.
Haig served as secretary of state during President Reagan's first term, and managed to avoid much of the fallout from the Iran-Contra scandal. In 1988, he mounted an unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
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. . . .He could be rowdy, drink too much, overreach. He was not good at concealing his feelings, hardly ideal for a man in his position."
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