Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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Lawyers didn’t seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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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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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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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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[Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.
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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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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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