Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.

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.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

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.