Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
BOB WOODWARDNewspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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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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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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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’m not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn’t know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
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The biggest rap on me is that I don’t find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It’s not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
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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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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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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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Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon’s numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
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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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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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 gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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