After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixons tapes. – Bob Woodward
Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government. – Bob Woodward
Deep Throats information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected. – Bob Woodward
A reporters ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. – Bob Woodward
WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so its inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. – Christopher Hitchens