Susan Stamberg

I'm trying to think of some example.

What's rushing to my mind is how good Sandy is at that, Sandy Unger.

And he tends to interview politicians a heck of a lot more than I do.

I'm not terribly interested in doing it, mostly because for some of the things you said, I like to get inside people, and I don't think politicians are going to let me inside much.

They're not going to tell me anything they haven't said 700 times before.

He's terrific, though, Sandy, at breaking through that somehow, and I'm not quite sure.

He's very quick, and he doesn't mind a good fight.

He's a good fighter, and he doesn't mind scramble, scrambling up with people.

My approach is different, and mine is to disarm in a way.

That sounds manipulative, and I don't mean it that way.

I'm just much more comfortable in quiet conversation or laughing more, you know, having a good time and joking.

then I am a confrontation.

So the other example that I think of was John Ehrlichman, which Bob Edwards and I interviewed him after he had gotten out of jail and was going around touring with his first novel.

And I was as scared before that interview as I've ever been in connection with radio.

And I'll tell you why.

I felt we covered Watergate so thoroughly and so carefully and all through it.

I felt he was the one that seemed to me the most malevolent.

the one who would be most deceptive and most dishonest.

I've changed my view of him, by the way, in recent years and sort of reading new writings of his and seeing the kind of change that he himself has gone through.

But at that time, I was very frightened.