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.
BOB WOODWARDDeep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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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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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
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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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It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
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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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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.
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I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
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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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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don’t know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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