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1. Chief minority counsel to the Senate Watergate committee in 1973-1974, this southerner later went on not only to the U.S. Senate, but also to major roles in such films as "Cape Fear" and "Class Action."
2. This legendary CREEP operative, famous for (among other things) once having eaten a rat, had previously worked as an assistant District Attorney in New York's suburban Dutchess County, where he not only gave anti-drug lectures to high schoolers, but also organized and participated in an extensive raid on the premises of drug guru Timothy Leary, in lovely Millbrook, New York.
3. This onetime CIA man, an undying favorite of conspiracy theorists, was not only one of the infamous "Plumbers", but was also involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion, and much later brought suit against a right-wing publication that alleged that he might have been involved in the JFK assassination.
4. Nixon's Chief of Staff, this man was long considered a plausible candidate for the identity of "Deep Throat"; more recently, it has been suggested that he, rather than Kissinger or Nixon, arranged for immediate US military aid to Israel during the '73 Yom Kippur War.
5. Haynsworth and Carswell. What was it or who were they?
6. What supposed campaign gaffe by Jimmy Carter did some mistakenly think would cost him the presidency?
7. By what frightening animal was President Jimmy Carter attacked near the end of his term ?
8. Carter, though a candidate without broad appeal, was aided in his run for the presidency when his Republican rival made this amusing assertion during a debate:
9. Who were Tom Eagleton and R. Sargent Shriver?
10. Who, in 2005, emerged as the real Deep Throat?
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