The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon’s lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
BOB WOODWARDWatergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon’s tapes.
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I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they’ve got lots of it. I think it is theory of the case – why are we here, what is our message, how to connect to the real world.
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Lawyers didn’t seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon’s Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon’s own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it’s all too clear the horror of what went on.
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I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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