#watergate

There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#clinton #i #i can #investigative #many

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#american public #anything #because #before #believe

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#watergate

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#did #impact #improved #major #major impact

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

#bob #did #his #how #keep

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#french #scandal #watergate #were

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in. ↗

— John J. Sirica

#after #already #attempt #doubt #former

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#both sides #civil #civil war #country #displayed

I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#become #check #confirm #days #dogma

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

— Bob Woodward

#characters #complicated #immensely #novel #scandal