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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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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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 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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon’s Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
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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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I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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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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