Watergate
Authors: Thomas Mallon
BOOKS BY THOMAS MALLON
Fiction
Arts and Sciences
Aurora 7
Henry and Clara
Dewey Defeats Truman
Two Moons
Bandbox
Fellow Travelers
Watergate
Nonfiction
Edmund Blunden
A Book of One’s Own
Stolen Words
Rockets and Rodeos
In Fact
Mrs. Paine’s Garage
Yours Ever
This is a work of fiction. Names
,
characters
,
places
,
and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons
,
living or dead
,
events
,
or locales is entirely coincidental
.
Copyright © 2012 by Thomas Mallon
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Portions of this work were previously published in somewhat different form in
The American Scholar
and
Five Points
.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mallon, Thomas, [date]
Watergate / Thomas Mallon.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-90708-0
1. Watergate Affair, 1972–1974—Fiction. 2. Journalists—Fiction.
3. Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. 4. Political fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.A43157W38 2012 813’.54—dc22 2011017393
Jacket design by the Office of Paul Sahre
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FOR
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS,
AMERICAN
The Players
Marje Acker: assistant secretary to Rose Mary Woods
Spiro T. Agnew: thirty-ninth vice president of the United States
Carl Albert: speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Joseph Alsop: syndicated newspaper columnist
Stewart Alsop: syndicated newspaper columnist
Susan Mary Alsop: wife of Joseph Alsop
Jack Anderson: syndicated newspaper columnist
Anne Armstrong: counselor to the president
Alfred C. Baldwin: monitor of illegal phone wiretaps at Democratic National Committee
Bernard Barker: former CIA operative; White House “plumber”; Watergate burglar
Carl Bernstein: reporter,
The Washington Post
William O. Bittman: attorney for E. Howard Hunt
Joan Braden: Washington hostess; wife of Tom Braden
Tom Braden: author and journalist
Ben Bradlee: executive editor,
The Washington Post
Edward Brooke: U.S. senator (R-MA)
Patrick Buchanan: White House adviser and speechwriter
William F. Buckley, Jr.: conservative author and commentator; editor of
National Review
J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.: special White House counsel for Watergate matters
Art Buchwald: newspaper columnist and humorist
Steve Bull: special assistant to the president
George H. W. Bush: U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; chairman, Republican National Committee
Don Carnevale: vice president, Harry Winston, Inc.
Rene Carpenter: television personality, former wife of astronaut Scott Carpenter
Dwight Chapin: deputy assistant to the president
Anna Chennault: widow of Lieut. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault
Charles Colson: special counsel to the president
John B. Connally: former governor of Texas and secretary of the treasury; head of “Democrats for Nixon”
Archibald Cox: Watergate special prosecutor, department of justice
Edward Cox: son-in-law of President and Mrs. Nixon
Tricia Nixon Cox: daughter of President and Mrs. Nixon
Richard Darman: aide to Elliot Richardson
Samuel Dash: majority counsel, Senate Watergate Committee
John W. Dean III: White House counsel
Thomas Eagleton: U.S. senator (D-MO); Democratic nominee (briefly) for vice president
James O. Eastland: chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee (D-MS)
David Eisenhower: grandson of President Dwight Eisenhower; son-in-law of President and Mrs. Nixon
Julie Nixon Eisenhower: daughter of President and Mrs. Nixon
Daniel Ellsberg: United States military analyst and antiwar activist; charged in theft of the “Pentagon Papers”
John Ehrlichman: assistant to the president for domestic affairs
Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.: U.S. senator (D-NC); chairman, Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
Lewis Fielding: psychiatrist to Daniel Ellsberg
Betty Ford: wife of Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford: fortieth vice president of the U.S.; thirty-eighth president
Frank Gannon: White House aide
“Tom Garahan”: retired trust-and-estates lawyer
Leonard Garment: special consultant to the president; White House counsel
Katharine Graham: publisher of
The Washington Post
Robert Gray: public relations executive; frequent escort of Rose Mary Woods
Edward Gurney: member, Senate Watergate Committee (R-FL)
Alexander Haig: deputy national security adviser; White House chief of staff (from May 1973)
H. R. Haldeman: White House chief of staff, January 1969–April 1973
Bryce Harlow: counselor to the president
Hubert H. Humphrey: U.S. senator (D-MN); former vice president
Dorothy Hunt: wife of E. Howard Hunt
E. Howard Hunt, consultant to the White House
Leon Jaworski: Watergate special prosecutor, Department of Justice
Lady Bird Johnson: former First Lady of the United States
Lyndon B. Johnson: thirty-sixth president of the United States
Herbert W. Kalmbach: personal attorney of Richard Nixon
Edward M. Kennedy: U.S. senator (D-MA)
Ethel Kennedy: widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Henry Kissinger: national security adviser; secretary of state (from September 1973)
“Clarine Lander”: staff member, Democratic National Committee
Fred LaRue: deputy director, Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP)
Ike Parsons LaRue: deceased father of Fred LaRue
G. Gordon Liddy: finance counsel, CRP
Alice Roosevelt Longworth: daughter of Theodore Roosevelt; widow of House Speaker Nicholas Longworth
Dr. William Lukash: White House physician
Clark MacGregor: former U.S. congressman (R-MN); chairman, CRP
Robert Mardian: former assistant attorney general
James W. McCord, Jr.: security director, CRP
George S. McGovern: U.S. senator (D-SD); Democratic nominee for president
Janie McLaughlin: housekeeper for Alice Roosevelt Longworth
John Mitchell: former attorney general; director, CRP
Martha Mitchell: wife of John Mitchell
Gail Magruder: wife of Jeb Stuart Magruder
Jeb Stuart Magruder: deputy director, CRP
Pat Nixon: first lady of the United States
Richard Nixon: thirty-seventh president of the United States
Lawrence F. O’Brien: Chairman, Democratic National Committee
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: former first lady of the United States
“Billy Pope”: political aide to Senator James O. Eastland
Charles “Bebe” Rebozo: businessman, friend of Richard Nixon
Charles Rhyne: attorney for Rose Mary Woods
Elliot Richardson: secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; secretary of defense; attorney general
Nelson Rockefeller: governor of New York
William P. Rogers: secretary of state (January 1969–September 1973)
Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt, Jr.: grandson of Theodore Roosevelt; former political action officer, CIA
Manolo Sanchez: valet to Richard Nixon
Diane Sawyer: White House aide
James St. Clair: attorney for Richard Nixon
Earl Silbert: U. S. attorney, District of Columbia
Hugh Sloan: treasurer, CRP
Taft Schreiber: vice president, Music Corporation of America
R. Sargent Shriver: Democratic nominee for vice president
George Shultz: secretary of the treasury
John J. Sirica: chief judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
John C. Stennis: U.S. senator (D-MS)
Frank Sturgis: Watergate burglar
Joanna Sturm: granddaughter of Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Dr. Walter Tkach: White House physician
Anthony “Tony” Ulasewicz: former New York City police officer; White House private detective
Jack Valenti: former aide to Lyndon Johnson; president, Motion Picture Association of America
Theodore H. White: author and journalist
Charles Wiggins: U.S. congressman (R-CA)
Edward Bennett Williams: attorney for the Democratic National Committee and
The Washington Post
Rose Mary Woods: personal secretary and executive assistant to the president
Bob Woodward: reporter,
The Washington Post
Robert F. Woodward: American diplomat; former U.S. ambassador to Uruguay
Charles Alan Wright: constitutional scholar; attorney for Richard Nixon
Ron Ziegler: White House press secretary