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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.

Bob Woodward

We need to police ourselves in the media.
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Media Needs Police
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
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Government Motherhood Play
When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
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Distance Long Practice
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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Lawyer Literature Stories
I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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Arguing Reviews Thinking
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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Air Believe Views
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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Drama Quality Thinking
Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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Leader People President
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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Failure Finals Lying System Truth
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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People Running Smell
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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Believe May Stories
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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Party Real Thinking
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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Iceberg Map Scandal Tip
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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Issues Politics Vote
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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Criminals Law Presidential
Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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Design Done Management
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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Hands Literature Newspaper Television
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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Giving Literature Money
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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Evidence Literature Operations
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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Editors Would Be Stories
Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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Information Use Views
[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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Believe Issues People
I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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Believe Patience Television
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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Confused Media Thinking
When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon’s own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it’s all too clear the horror of what went on.
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Dollars Lying Voice
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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Couple Rap Unique
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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Information Tape Trying

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