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.
BOB WOODWARDWe’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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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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After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon’s tapes.
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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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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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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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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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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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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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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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I don’t think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
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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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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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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 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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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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