Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

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

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.