In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn't that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls.