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Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Bob Woodward

We need to police ourselves in the media.
BOB WOODWARD

Media Needs Police
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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Air Believe Views
[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.
BOB WOODWARD

Believe Issues People
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Confused Media Thinking
Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
BOB WOODWARD

Information Use Views
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
BOB WOODWARD

Giving Literature Money
Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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Leader People President
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.
BOB WOODWARD

People Stories Wisdom
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Important Needs Risk
I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they’ve got lots of it. I think it is theory of the case – why are we here, what is our message, how to connect to the real world.
BOB WOODWARD

Party Real Thinking
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
BOB WOODWARD

Independent Newspaper
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.
BOB WOODWARD

College Names Stories
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
BOB WOODWARD

Believe May Stories
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Dollars Lying Voice
Good work is always done in defiance of management.
BOB WOODWARD

Design Done Management
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
BOB WOODWARD

Editors Names Source

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

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Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

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