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.
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 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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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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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 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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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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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon’s lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
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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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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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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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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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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 don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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