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• Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Taken, Morality, Evidence

  Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)

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• In the Obama administration's Washington, government officials are increasingly afraid to talk to the press. The administration's war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I've seen since the Nixon administration, when I was one of the editors involved in The Washington Post's investigation of Watergate.

  Leonard Downie, Jr.

  War, Government, Editors

  "The Obama Administration and the Press" by Leonard Downie Jr., cpj.org. October 10, 2013.

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• Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.

  Bob Woodward

  Issues, Politics, Vote

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• Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.

  Edward Klein

  People, Mind, Bob

  "'Kennedy Curse' author on JFK Jr". "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. July 9, 2003.

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• Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

  Billy Graham

  Fake People, Honesty, Army

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• I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Stupidity, Break, Presidency

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• Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

  Bob Woodward

  Senior, Literature, Way

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Benefits, Old Testament, Testament

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• No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Pain, Regret, War

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• Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

  Bob Woodward

  Character, Scandal, Complicated

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Earth, Flats, Versions

  Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.

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• The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

  Conrad Black

  Facts, Has Beens, Exaggerated

  Conrad Black (2016). “Backward Glances: People and Events from Inside and Out”, p.228, Signal

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• When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate.

  Monica Crowley

  Loyalty, President, Great Things

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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.

  Bob Woodward

  Stories, Literature, Lawyer

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Apology, Passionate, Emotion

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• The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.

  Tobe Hooper

  Kind, Influence, All Kinds

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• The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

  Robert Redford

  Men, People, Focus

  "Robert Redford Revisits 'All the President's Men'". Interview with Mike Banka, www.aarp.org.

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• Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

  Bob Woodward

  Suggestions, Literature, Information

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• I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape me openly and notoriously, and those who feel like they want to sneakily, and wear taping devices, I would remind them that it kind of smells like Nixon and Watergate.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Smell, Appreciate, Tape

  "Roundtable: Maintaining Diversity Amid Job Cuts". "Roundtable" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.

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• In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.

  Jerry Saltz

  Mean, Artist, America

  "Great Artists Steal". nymag.com. May 10, 2009.

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• Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.

  Helen Thomas

  Gun, White, June

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• Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.

  Ben Bradlee

  Tape, Faces, Graves

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• The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

  Pierre Salinger

  Scandal

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• To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Compare, Travesty

  "Dee Dee Myers : Press Secretary to an Administration Full of Talkers". Interview with Thomas B. Rosenstiel, articles.latimes.com. March 20, 1994.

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• Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Years, America

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