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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

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Bob Woodward
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 26
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I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.
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...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.
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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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Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
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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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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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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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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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The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
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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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I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
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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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In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.
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There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
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I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
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Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
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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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If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
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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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