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 WOODWARDLawyers 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 gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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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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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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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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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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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
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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.
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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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Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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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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[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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I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.
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