The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

You never monkey with the truth.

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

I don't know about "any" publisher. But Katharine Graham and I had been working together for almost seven years and we had come to trust each other.