This kinda reminds me of a roundtable discussion I read involving a lot of comic book writers who observed that actually, if the average superhero gets his mask ripped off by a villain, it won't compromise his identity; it's unlikely that anyone will recognize him. I thought I knew the Nixon cabinet pretty well, and I never heard of this guy.
Personally, I was fond of the theory Haldeman floated in his book, that it was Al Haig --- a theory so crazy that it just might be true. Only it turns out ... not so much.
In fact, it seems that all the cool kids had already guessed, and I was too out of touch to know it. Timothy Noah, for instance, says I told you so. At least I know that Sir William Gull was Jack the Ripper, so I'm not completely clueless.
And if you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about, Wikipedia, as usual, explains.
Knowing the Nixon Cabinet members would not be helpful in this particular case, since he was FBI. I heard DT's daughter on NPR this morning and she said her father got a big chuckle out of the Washington Post confirming that he was DT. Anything that makes a 91-year old national hero laugh is grand in my book!
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