#watergate

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate. ↗

— Dexter S. King

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The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

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After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause. ↗

— David Talbot

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

— Bob Woodward

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Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon. ↗

— Archibald Cox

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After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

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Sussman had the ability to seize facts and lock them in his memory, where they remained poised for instants recall. More than any other editor at the Post, or Bernstein and Woodward, Sussman became a walking compendium of Watergate knowledge, a reference source to be summoned when even the library failed. On a deadline, he would pump these facts into a story in a constant infusion, working up a body of significant information to support what otherwise seemed like the weakest of revelations. In Sussman's mind, everything fitted. Watergate was a puzzle and he was a collector of the pieces. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward ↗

— Carl Bernstein

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