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.
BOB WOODWARDWe’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
More Bob Woodward Quotes
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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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[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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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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 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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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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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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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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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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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
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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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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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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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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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