Lawyers didn’t seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
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.
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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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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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I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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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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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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