Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
BOB WOODWARDWe’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
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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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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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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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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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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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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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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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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[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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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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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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