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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

Bob Woodward

We need to police ourselves in the media.
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Media Needs Police
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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Drama Quality Thinking
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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Lawyer Literature Stories
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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Apology Country Mistake
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
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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Criminals Law Presidential
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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College Names Stories
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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Failure Finals Lying System Truth
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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Evidence Literature Operations
If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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never One Quit Quitting
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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Air Believe Views
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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Editors Would Be Stories
I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon’s Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
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Information Tape Trying
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
They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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Government Need Powerful Support
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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Important Needs Risk

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

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