Leonard Garment was acting Special Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon for the last two years of his presidency. 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.

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  • Leonard Garment was acting Special Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon for the last two years of his presidency. 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. Felt was listed as a possible Deep Throat in the book (as are many others), but was dismissed by Garment because the author believed the secret source had to have strong White House connections. He was mistaken in his selection of Sears, who told Garment explicitly that he was not Deep Throat. To prove his argument, Sears admitted that he was an anonymous source for Carl Bernstein, but Garment still didn't believe Sears, a longtime friend, was being truthful about not being Deep Throat. Garment has had a long association with the arts, starting with his early career as a jazz saxophonist with Woody Herman's band playing with Alan Greenspan before he entered law school. In the 1970s, he was chairman of the board of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. More recently, he was one of the founders of the Jazz Museum in Harlem. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2005 as an arts advocate and patron. He is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School (1949).
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  • 1973-1974
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  • Leonard Garment was acting Special Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon for the last two years of his presidency. 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.
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  • Leonard Garment
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