The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
BOB WOODWARDI 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 deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I’ve been told by first-hand sources.
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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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Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it’s generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
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I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.
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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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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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If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it’s really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.
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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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I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
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I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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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 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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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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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 don’t think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
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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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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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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I’m confused about the information I get from the media.
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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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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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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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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