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.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.