I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
BOB WOODWARDDeep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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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 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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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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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.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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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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I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I’m confused about the information I get from the media.
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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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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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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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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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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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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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