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 WOODWARDReporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon’s lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
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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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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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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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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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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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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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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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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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The biggest rap on me is that I don’t find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It’s not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
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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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