Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

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?

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.