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Bob Woodward
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 26
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[Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.
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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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Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
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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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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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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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I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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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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When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
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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 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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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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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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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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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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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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Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.
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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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I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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