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

We need to police ourselves in the media.

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

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

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.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's "too soft" or "too hard," about 999 would say "too hard."