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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

Bob Woodward

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
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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Government Motherhood Play
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
[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
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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Believe May Stories
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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Issues Politics Vote
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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Dollars Lying Voice
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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Giving Literature Money
If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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never One Quit Quitting
I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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Believe Patience Television
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
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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Failure Finals Lying System Truth
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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Book Jokes Literature Littles Serious
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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Drama Quality Thinking
We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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Lifetime Literature Watergate
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

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