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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.

Bob Woodward

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.
BOB WOODWARD

Confused Media Thinking
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
The biggest rap on me is that I don’t find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It’s not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
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Couple Rap Unique
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
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.
BOB WOODWARD

Party Real Thinking
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
If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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never One Quit Quitting
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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People Stories Wisdom
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.
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Book Jokes Literature Littles Serious
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.
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Believe Independent Work
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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Hands Opportunity People
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
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
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
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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Distance Long Practice
We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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Lifetime Literature Watergate

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