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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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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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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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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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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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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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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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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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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