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?
BOB WOODWARDWatergate 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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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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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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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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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’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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I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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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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[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 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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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
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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 recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon’s Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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