Bob Woodward Quotes About Watergate
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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 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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Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
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Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
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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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Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
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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.
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Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
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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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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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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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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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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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We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.
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I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.
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There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.
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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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It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
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