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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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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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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 fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
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I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.
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I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
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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 think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
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We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.
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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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I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.
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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.
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