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

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

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.

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

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.