We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
BOB WOODWARDEven now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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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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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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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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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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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they’re not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
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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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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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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 think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
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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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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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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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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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