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.
BOB WOODWARDWe need to police ourselves in the media.
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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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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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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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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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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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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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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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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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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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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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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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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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I’m not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn’t know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
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I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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