A PULP THRILLER OF RELEVANCE TO THE WHITE HOUSE SITUATION came out in 1971. It was called The Coven. The author was David St. John, and his hero was a Washington, D.C., private investigator named Jonathan P. Gault (kind of like the protagonist of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged), who lived in a Georgetown that had become a warren of head shops and strung-out fourteen-year-old junkies: “The Aquarians had taken over.” So had venal union bosses ripping off honest workingmen, and the kind of young defense lawyer who charges “police brutality” at the drop of a handkerchief and “affects a storefront desk
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