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People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

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Bob Woodward
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 26
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When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
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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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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's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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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'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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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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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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