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Bob Woodward
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 26
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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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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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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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Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.
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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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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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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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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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I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
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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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Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
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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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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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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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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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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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