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.

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappointment in their lives, it's the sense of, let's shake this up. And no one is shaking it up as much as Trump.

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.