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
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One of the things that Deep Throat did was at several crucial moments -- we knew we were right when we had a couple sources -- and then Deep Throat would say, 'That's right.'
contact journalism knew people shoot
Journalism is a contact sport, ... I was 29 when people who really knew how to shoot were around.
days knew learned
I went, 'Whoa,' because I knew I'd learned about this in mid-June, a week, 10 days before.
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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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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.
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In a sense, ... whoever becomes the next president, that person becomes president in a Greenspan era.
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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.
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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,