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 WOODWARDI 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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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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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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Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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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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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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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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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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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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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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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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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