In the Watergate era, “Deep Throat” was supposedly a government insider who met Bob Woodward in a parking garage and moodily smoked cigarettes while wearing a trench coat. The fact that Woodward himself was a government spook recently transferred from Naval Intelligence to the Washington Post newsroom led many to assume “Deep Throat” was a group of CIA bigshots nervous about the Nixon Administration turning the nation into a dictatorship, or something. Anyway, Nixon finally gave up for the sake of the country and everybody won Academy Awards for “All the President’s Men” and Henry Kissinger is still at large. MORE »

Watergate criminal and lifelong sleazebag E. Howard Hunt is finally dead, the AP reports. He was 88. MORE »

Fred F. Fielding, who helped a lot of Reagan Administration criminals not go to prison forever, is the new White House counsel. MORE »

Seriously, does the Times even have editors anymore? MORE »

• Reliable Source: Anderson Cooper brings out 300 fans in Arlington. . . Rep. DeLay seen eating French food and drinking French wine. . . Rep. Cynthia McKinney spotted dancing in her car. [WP]

• Page Six: Giuliani has dinner with Romney and his wife… Lauren Bush introduces Bill Clinton at Princeton’s commencement: “Our class was so excited to hear that Clinton was coming to give the commencement speech this year — of course, they were expecting Hillary!” [NYP]
• Rush & Molloy: Mark Felt’s co-author attacks the Times for having John Dean review Deep Throat’s memoir. [NYDN]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Cheney to give the Daily News a reporting award for Washington coverage. [NYDN]

We’re taking bets now — which 100-year-old dementia sufferer will be less coherent? MORE »

Today’s item involves “a senior Justice Department official,” quoted in Eric Lichtblau’s New York Times article, Senate Panel Rebuffed on Documents on U.S. Spying. Lichtblau writes: MORE »