I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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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Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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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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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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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.
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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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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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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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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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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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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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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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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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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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.
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