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Bob Woodward

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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.


— Bob Woodward


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If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.


— Bob Woodward


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It was accountability that Nixon feared.


— Bob Woodward


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It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.


— Bob Woodward


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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


#batting #because #conventional #conventional wisdom #lot

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.


— Bob Woodward


#anyone #anything #barred #holds #independent

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


#affairs #foreign #foreign affairs #gets #had

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.


— Bob Woodward


#bound #come #departments #form #nixon

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


#apologized #country #early #error #escaped

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.


— Bob Woodward


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The book and movie also led to one of Washington D. Woodward and Bernstein followed up with a second successful book on Watergate entitled The Final Days (Simon and Schuster 1976) covering in extensive depth the period from November 1973 until President Nixon resigned in August 1974. 1 are
The Choice—about Bill Clinton's re-election bid; (1996) ISBN 0-684-81308-4
Maestro—about Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan; (2000) ISBN 0-7432-0412-3
The Secret Man—about Mark Felt's disclosure after more than 30 years that he was Deep Throat.

While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972 Woodward was teamed up with Carl Bernstein; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. Robert Upshur “Bob” Woodward (born March 26 1943) is an American investigative journalist and non-fiction author.

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