For most readers, the most surprising thing about a Vanity Fair story made public Tuesday was the unveiling of "Deep Throat," the mysterious source who helped to bring down the Nixon presidency and made household names of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. But lawyers' eyebrows were raised by the identity of the story's author, John O'Connor, a litigation partner at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin who had known the secret for three years.
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San Francisco Attorney Unmasks 'Deep Throat'
The Recorder
June 1, 2005
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