…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
BOB WOODWARDNot 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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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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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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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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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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Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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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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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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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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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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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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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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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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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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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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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.
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