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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.

Bob Woodward

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.
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Hands Opportunity People
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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People Running Smell
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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College Names Stories
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
Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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Information Use Views
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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Hands Literature Newspaper Television
The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
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Cover Criminals Interesting
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
Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
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Achievement Literature President
Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon’s numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
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Criminals Law Presidential
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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Independent Newspaper
Nixon’s grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
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Apology Country Mistake
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
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.
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People Stories Wisdom
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
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

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