Occupation: Journalist Birth: March 26, 1943
Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him..
He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for the war, namely the belief th….
Good work is always done in defiance of management..
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these peopl….
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system..
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us..
Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government..
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post..
Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity..
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel..
I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not....
I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they've got lots of it. I think it is theory of the case - why are we here, ….
I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on ….
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters..
...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'..
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know..
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred..
We need to police ourselves in the media..
The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just ….
Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate ….
The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified..