The biggest rap on me is that I don’t find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It’s not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
BOB WOODWARDI 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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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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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.
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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.
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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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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 give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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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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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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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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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.
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