If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
BOB WOODWARDNewspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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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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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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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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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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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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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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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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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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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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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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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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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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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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