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Bob Woodward
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 26
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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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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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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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Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
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I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they've got lots of it. I think it is theory of the case - why are we here, what is our message, how to connect to the real world.
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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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I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
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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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Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'
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If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.
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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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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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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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...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.
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I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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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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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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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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