office was in the building where Nixon most liked to work; Nixon had what was called
his "hideaway" office in the OEOB. How often did George drop in on Dick, or Dick on
George, or how often did they just meet in the hall?
As to the state of George's relations with Nixon at this time, we have the testimony of a
"Yankee Republican" who had known and liked father Prescott, as cited by journalist Al
Reinert: "I can't think of a man I've ever known for whom I have greater respect than Pres
Bush...I've always been kind of sorry his son turned out to be such a jerk. George has
been kissing Nixon's ass ever since he came up here." [fn 25] Reinert comments that
"when Nixon became president, Bush became a teacher's pet," "a presidential favorite,
described in the press as one of 'Nixon's men.'"
On the surface George was an ingratiating sycophant. But he dissembled. The Nixon
White House would seem to have included at least one highly placed official who
betrayed his president to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, making it possible for
that newspaper to repeatedly outflank Nixon's attempts at stonewalling. This was the
celebrated, and still anonymous source Woodward called "Deep Throat."
Al Haig has often been accused of having been the figure of the Nixon White House who
provided Woodward and Bernstein with their leads. If there is any consensus about the
true identity of Deep Throat, it would appear to be that Al Haig is the prime suspect.
However, there is no conclusive evidence about the true identity of the person or persons
called Deep Throat, assuming that such a phenomenon ever existed. As soon as Haig is
named, we must become suspicious: the propaganda of the Bush networks has never been
kind to Haig. Haig and Bush, as leading clones of Henry Kissinger, were locked on a
number of occasions into a kind of sibling rivalry, a rivalry which became especially
acute during the first months of the Reagan Administration.
One of the major sub-plots of Watergate, and one that will eventually lead us back to the
documented public record of George Bush, is the relation of the various activities of the
Plumbers to the wiretapping of a group of prostitutes whio operated out of a brothel in the
Columbia Plaza Apartments, located in the immediate vicinity of the Watergate
buildings. [fn 26] Among the customers of the prostitutes there appear to have been a US
Senator, an astronaut, A Saudi prince (the Embassy of Saudi Arabia is nearby), US and
South Korean intelligence officials, and above all numerous Democratic Party leaders
whose presence can be partially explained by the propinquity of the Democratic National
Committe offices in the Watergate. The Columbia Plaza Apartments brothel was under
intense CIA surveillance by the Office of Security/Security Research Staff through one of
their assets, an aging private detective out of the pages of Damon Runyon who went by
the name of Louis James Russell. Russell was, according to Hougan, especially interested
in bugging a hot line phone that linked the DNC with the nearby brothel. During the
Watergate break-ins, James McCord's recruit to the Plumbers, Alfred C. Baldwin, would
appear to have been bugging the telephones of the Columbia Plaza brothel.