Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

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

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

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.

We need to police ourselves in the media.