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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.

Bob Woodward

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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Issues Politics Vote
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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Confused Media Thinking
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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Party Real Thinking
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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Distance Long Practice
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
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Government Motherhood Play
[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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Believe Issues People
We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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Lifetime Literature Watergate
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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Achievement Literature President
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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Hands Literature Newspaper Television
I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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Arguing Reviews Thinking
Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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Information Use Views
…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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Division Military Team
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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Independent Newspaper
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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Asking Book Long
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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Iceberg Map Scandal Tip
I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I’ve been told by first-hand sources.
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Hands Opportunity People

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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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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