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

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.

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

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.