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I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong.

— Tom Brokaw

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

— Bob Woodward

The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.

— Carl Bernstein

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

— Bob Woodward

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

— Richard M. Nixon

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

— Richard M. Nixon

I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.

— Tiny Tim

I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.

— Aaron Sorkin

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

— Bob Woodward

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

— M. Stanton Evans

✗Opposing Perspectives

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

— Curt Weldon