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I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I’ve been told by first-hand sources.

Bob Woodward

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.
BOB WOODWARD

Information Tape Trying
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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College Names Stories
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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People Stories Wisdom
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
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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Memories Out War Wiping
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
We need to police ourselves in the media.
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Media Needs Police
If there’s one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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never One Quit Quitting
Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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Design Done Management
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
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 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
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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Cover Criminals Interesting
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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Believe May Stories
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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Achievement Literature President
I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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Literature Mind Source

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I’ve been told by first-hand sources.

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I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I’ve been told by first-hand sources.

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