Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
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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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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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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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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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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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I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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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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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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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it’s generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
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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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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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