John Dean wrote an article reporting that Deep Throat is "ill." This according to Bob Woodward. Ben Bradlee of the Post says that Deep Throat's obituary has been written.

Sounds like Deep Throat might be this guy:



He was

a Deputy Attorney General in the "Office of Legal Counsel" from 1969-1972 under Nixon's Deputy AG, Richard Kleindienst. [He] and Kleindienst were very good friends when both were lawyers in Phoenix, and Kleindienst recruited [him] into the Justice Department when Nixon got elected. [He] stayed three years [before moving on]. Just six months later AG John Mitchell resigned to head Nixon's re-election committee (CREEP), and Kleindienst replaced Mitchell as AG just five days before the June '72 Watergate break-in. Kleindienst resigned in 1973 along with Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean, but he and [our mystery man] remained close.

His name?

William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

(But I could be wrong.)