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.
BOB WOODWARDEven now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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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 gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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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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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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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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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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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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[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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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.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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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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