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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There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
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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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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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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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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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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they’re not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
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[Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.
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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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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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