Reply #2: I recently "rotated"

[H2O Man]

six large boxes of books from the early 1970s out of storage. (Can't afford to buy all the new ones I'll need to survive the winter months.) They are "third tier" books, and as I'm extending the amount of library space I have here, I can house them outside of boxes. This is probably fairly representative of their quality.

Though it's only speculation, I think it's likely that Woodward was tasked with undercutting the remnants of Nixon. He is a strange and often dangerous man, posing as a journalist/author.