I found more of the interview with Carl Bernstein on the Editor and Publisher web site. The answer to the question posed in the title of this post:
Nixon and his men lied and abused the constitution to horrible effect, but they were stopped.
The Bush Administration -- especially its top officials named above and others familiar to most Americans -- was not stopped, and has done far greater damage. As a (Republican) bumper-sticker of the day proclaimed, 'Nobody died at Watergate.' If only we could say that about the era of George W. Bush....
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