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 WOODWARDDeep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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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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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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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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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.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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