Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward
Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodwardis an American investigative journalist and non-fiction author. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter and is now an associate editor of the Post...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth26 March 1943
CityGeneva, IL
CountryUnited States of America
bring bush country george karl secret terrorism worry
The big worry that we should have about the country is not terrorism or hurricanes or Karl Rove or George Bush or whoever, the real thing that will bring us down as a country is secret government.
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Given Cheney's background on national security going back to the Ford years, his time on the House Intelligence Committee, and as secretary of defense, Bush said at the top of his list of things he wanted Cheney to do was intelligence. In the first months of the new administration, Cheney made the rounds of the intelligence agencies - the CIA, the National Security Agency, which intercepted communications, and the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency.
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Not only did he regularly order criminal activity, lie to grand juries, stonewall the grand jury, abuse the CIA, the FBI and the IRS, it was almost as if Nixon was using the presidency as an instrument of personal revenge, ... Screw so-and-so who was against Nixon.
I hunkered down more than I usually do,
habit keeping
I hunkered down. I'm in the habit of keeping secrets. I didn't want anything out there that was going to get me subpoenaed.
habit keeping
I hunkered down. I'm in the habit of keeping secrets, ... I didn't want anything out there that was going to get me subpoenaed.
becomes greenspan next president whoever
In a sense, ... whoever becomes the next president, that person becomes president in a Greenspan era.
context crucial provided understand
It's very important to understand that he provided us, at some very crucial moments, with context and certitude,
media people trust
It's very important that people trust the media.
drama government high seen
That's as high a drama as I've seen in a government institution,
issue
The issue is not the plan. The issue is the decision,
grand jury reporters
The grand jury was going and reporters were being jailed, and I hunkered down more than I usually do,
grand jury reporters
The grand jury was going, and reporters were being jailed, and I hunkered down more than I usually do,
expression value watergate
Watergate was an expression of Nixon's world view, personality and value system.