Deep Throat's Daughter, The Kindred Free Spirit

Both Batisaresare and Felt's current home health aide are Fijian. But Batisaresare said he had never heard of Adidam. He said he got the Felt job after being referred through another Fijian contact in California.

"All I know is that when I went to work there that Joan said that her religious leader is from Fiji," Batisaresare said.

Though his tenure with the Felts was relatively brief, Batisaresare did what many home health aides do: He kept a log of important or memorable events and dates. It recounts the three occasions when Mark Felt fell inside the house and had to be taken to the hospital. It recounts interesting phrases he would use.

Caring for Felt was like caring for a lecturer, Batisaresare says.

"These are all the vocabs he would say," Batisaresare says, showing a listing of words like "conscientious" and "iconoclastic."

"He's very smart in vocabs."

Batisaresare says Felt often talked about loyalty. He never talked about being Deep Throat or Watergate, but loyalty and duty were themes to which he often returned.

Batisaresare believed the things Felt said should be remembered. Using his own pronunciation of Joan, he says, "I told Joans once, 'Joans, you should give me a tape [recorder].' " He recalls her thinking it was a good idea and saying, " 'Okay, one day I'll bring it.' " But it must have slipped her mind. And Batisaresare could write down only so much.

"When he's on, he's a very intelligent person," says Batisaresare.

But sometimes, on their daily drives, a familiar street would be totally unfamiliar to Felt.

"He'd say, 'Oh, this seems a new road to me,' " Batisaresare recalls.

And sometimes, when he'd tell Felt that Joan was not in the house, Felt would forget and "try to go upstairs to find her," saying, " 'Where is Joan?' "

Washington Post staff writer Tommy Nguyen and special correspondents Chris Richards in Washington and Jim Dignan in San Francisco contributed to this report.