A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for the war, namely the belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or that there was some obligation that the United States or the president had to expand democracy.

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.