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.

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.