The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.