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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.

Bob Woodward

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Bob Woodward
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 26
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