Occupation: Journalist Birth: March 26, 1943
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it..
The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified..
Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction..
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters..
We need to police ourselves in the media..
When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a mill….
Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate ….
There's hostility to lying, and there should be..
I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not....
...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'..
I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how ….
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred..
Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him..
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 ….
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel..
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us..
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post..
The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use ….
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system..
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 ….
Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form..