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.
BOB WOODWARDI 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.
More Bob Woodward Quotes
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The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon’s lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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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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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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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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Nixon’s grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
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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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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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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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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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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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I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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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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When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
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