Like [former President Richard] Nixon says on one of his tapes, if the president does it, it is legal. Think of that. Someone studying Constitution 101 knows that everyone is accountable under the law. For a president to think they have that power, that will do us in. |
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. |
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. |
Obviously the publishers, because of historical curiosity or the significance of it, I think expected more, ... It obviously was not as much as some of my other books, but I don't know how much a writer can get involved in trying to second-guess that. |
Of course not. I'm the commander. See, I don't have to explain why I say things ... I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation. |
On the other hand, Nixon was incredibly smart and intelligent. |
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.' |
over the summer, or as we get closer to the election, they could increase production several million barrels a day and the price would drop significantly. |
Roger Ailes, former media guru for Bush's father, had a message. Rove told the president. It had to be confidential because Ailes, a flamboyant and irreverent media executive, was currently the head of Fox News Channel, the conservative-leaning television cable network that was enjoying high ratings. In that position, Ailes was not supposed to be giving political advice. |
That's as high a drama as I've seen in a government institution, |
That's for other people to judge. |
That's for other people to judge. I think the biggest mistake you can make in this sort of situation as a reporter is to worry about yourself. |
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. |
The First Amendment is not an accident. My deeply held conviction, supported with a lot of evidence, is what might do this country in to where we cease to exist as a vital democracy, as a Constitutional democracy, is not terrorism or a weak economy but what will do us in is a secret government. |
The grand jury was going and reporters were being jailed, and I hunkered down more than I usually do, |