The Pendragon's Hall

Why am I not surprised? AOL's headlines today tell how money inspired "Deep Throat" to go public with his identity. And the news media is actually not commenting on the morality of it. The family stands to make more than $1 million in book deals and Felt's daughter is moralizing about how this will help her son finish law school and pay off his debts. Good night, but it's handy to have a spy in the family. Why didn't I think of that? Somehow, though, I suspect that in an alternative universe where the spy stepped forward to exonerate the popular Republican President who was winning the war in Vietnam, he would probably have to carry the secret to his grave. That, and there would be no movie so we wouldn't have to deal with all the cussing Woodward and Bernstein and their ilk at "The Washington Post" do in "All the President's Men."