Just Like With ACORN, Exposure Will Stop It All

"Cursing happened all the time, across the board, wherever you went in the White House or on the trail or in campaign offices – it simply wasn’t written about. We had a huge discussion about this and it finally got in. In most of these conversations that I am talking about, there was an understanding that you weren’t going to quote that language. The same way you didn’t write about Jack Kennedy and sex. It was the same attitude."

-- Haynes Johnson, a former reporter for The Washington Post, on how - before Nixon, of course - lying to the public about the true nature of our leaders was a given, making my open-and-honest approach towards their character seem practically bizarre to Politico.com.