I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
BOB WOODWARDI give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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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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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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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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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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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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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.
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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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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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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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 think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
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I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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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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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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