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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.
- Bob Woodward
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#Failure
#Mistake
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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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#Large
#One Thing
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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.
- Bob Woodward
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#Business
#People
#Pollution
#Way
I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.
- Bob Woodward
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#Out
#People
#Want
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
- Bob Woodward
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#Government
#Morality
#Play
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Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
- Bob Woodward
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#City
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#Watergate
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.
- Bob Woodward
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#He
#History
#Memory
#War
I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.
- Bob Woodward
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#Everyone
#Information
#Media
We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.
- Bob Woodward
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#Lifetime
#Our
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#Watergate
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
- Bob Woodward
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#Listen
#Make
#Talk
#Trouble
The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
- Bob Woodward
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#Doubt
#Figures
#Never
#Political
Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
- Bob Woodward
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#Late
#Lawyers
#Seriously
#Something
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?
- Bob Woodward
#Anything
#Culture
#People
#Say
#Smell
There's hostility to lying, and there should be.
- Bob Woodward
#Hostility
#Lying
#Should
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
- Bob Woodward
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#People
#Story
#Television
#Wisdom
When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
- Bob Woodward
#Decisions
#Policy
#Political
#See
#Who
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
- Bob Woodward
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#Information
#Journalism
#Quality
Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
- Bob Woodward
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#Information
#Newspaper
#View
When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
- Bob Woodward
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#Long
#Practice
#True
#Yourself
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
- Bob Woodward
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#Dilemma
#Journalism
#Know
#You
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