Leonard Garment was acting special counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon for the last two years of his presidency. The White House Counsel is a staff appointee of the President of the United States. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ...
A noted attorney, he is the author of the 2000 book In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time, which supported the theory that Deep Throat was John Sears. Before Deep Throat's identity was revealed in 2005 as being former FBI Acting Associate Director W. Mark Felt, Garment himself was a suspect. W. Mark Felt, on the set of CBSs Face the Nation in 1976. ... John Patrick Sears is a Republican political strategist, best known for three things: Being Richard Nixons campaign manager in 1972, Managing Ronald Reagans presidential bid, prior to being fired by Reagan and replaced by William Casey on the day he won the New Hampshire primary in 1980. ... W. Mark Felt on the set of CBSs Face the Nation in 1976. ...
Leonard Garment is more recently known as the driving force behind the planned Jazz Museum in Harlem.
Garment received the National Medal of Arts in 2005. The National Medal of Arts is an award and title bestowed on selected honorees by the National Endowment for the Arts. ... See also 2004 in art, 2006 in art, List of years in art Works The Gates, an installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude that was up from February 12 through February 27 in Central Park in New York City. ...
LeonardGarment became acting special counsel to President Richard Nixon after the Watergate story broke and during the two years or so that it dominated the news.
Garment acknowledges all the well-known Nixon faults --- the ruthless vindictiveness toward enemies, the loathing of the press, the thuggish political instincts; but he also sees good qualities that he regrets were overtaken and overwhelmed by the man's dark side.
He was, says Garment, "thoughtful, knowledgeable and sophisticated" and had a "poetic nature." Garment presents himself as a liberal surrounded by ruthless conservative activists in the Nixon inner circle.
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