Good work is always done in defiance of management.
BOB WOODWARDThe source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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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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Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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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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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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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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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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Nixon’s grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
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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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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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I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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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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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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