I don’t think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
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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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
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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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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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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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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don’t know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.
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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.
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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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