The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

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

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

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.

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.