Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
BOB WOODWARDDeep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
More Bob Woodward Quotes
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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 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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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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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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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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The 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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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.
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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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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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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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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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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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