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.
BOB WOODWARDSome newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it’s generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
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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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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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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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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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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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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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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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It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
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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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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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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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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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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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