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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?

Bob Woodward

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.
BOB WOODWARD

Memories Out War Wiping
Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it’s generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
BOB WOODWARD

Hands Literature Newspaper Television
[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.
BOB WOODWARD

Believe Issues People
I don’t think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
BOB WOODWARD

Character Giving Thinking
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Government Motherhood Play
I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they’re not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
BOB WOODWARD

Asking Book Long
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Hands Opportunity People
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Dollars Lying Voice
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 WOODWARD

Party Real Thinking
Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
BOB WOODWARD

Leader People President
…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
BOB WOODWARD

Division Military Team
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
BOB WOODWARD

Evidence Literature Operations
We need to police ourselves in the media.
BOB WOODWARD

Media Needs Police
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.
BOB WOODWARD

People Stories Wisdom
When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
BOB WOODWARD

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

Believe Patience Television

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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