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

Bob Woodward

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
BOB WOODWARD

Book Jokes Literature Littles Serious
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Asking Book Long
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.
BOB WOODWARD

College Names Stories
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.
BOB WOODWARD

People Stories Wisdom
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 WOODWARD

Criminals Law Presidential
They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
BOB WOODWARD

Government Need Powerful Support
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Achievement Literature President
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Information Tape Trying
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

Memories Out War Wiping
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Failure Finals Lying System Truth
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
BOB WOODWARD

Editors Would Be Stories
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
BOB WOODWARD

Believe May Stories
I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.
BOB WOODWARD

Believe Independent Work
I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
BOB WOODWARD

Believe Patience Television
We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
BOB WOODWARD

Lifetime Literature Watergate
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Hands Opportunity People

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