Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'