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I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

Bob Woodward

Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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Design Done Management
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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Achievement Literature President
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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Apology Country Mistake
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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People Running Smell
I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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Literature Mind Source
[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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Believe Issues People
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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Hands Literature Newspaper Television
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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Evidence Literature Operations
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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Important Needs Risk
We need to police ourselves in the media.
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Media Needs Police
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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Memories Out War Wiping
I 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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Information Tape Trying
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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Hands Opportunity 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.
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Confused Media Thinking
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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Lawyer Literature Stories
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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Believe May Stories

I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

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