Pictures. Afraid he will catch me picking my nose. Cant believe that guy was president of the United States. Because he is branded as a crook. Its important to remember the wrong approach that Executive Power that led nixon to those crimes. You want a level, dont you . Good evening. This is the 37th time i have spoken to from you this office. So many decisions have been made that shape the history of our nation. Need more . There was good in him. He had been a good vicepresident. But he was fatally flawed and a fatally flawed president. Nixon, he had been a hero to millions of americans. Here is a guy who received more votes than anybody else in the history of this country. The Richard Nixon they supported through the years was not the Richard Nixon that they thought
they knew. Every generation has to lose their virginity. It was just the day that my generation did. To think that were the only generation that had that experience is probably the mistake that a lot of generations make. H
the fascination with that one source i think was driven in part by the anonymity, that we knew what happened in the administration, we knew through all the president s men how woodward and bernstein ferreted out the information. no deep throat, no movie. there s something so incredibly bondish about it that without that, i m not sure you get the hollywood of the story. he to me was probably a crucial element in follow the money. deep throat was woodward s contact. it took him a while to let bernstein in on the secret. he said i have something that works at the justice department who is in a very advantageous position. he told me a bit about him. didn t tell me exactly who he
for woodward and bernstein it wasn t only that it seemed fishy, there was something just as odd about the white house response. the press secretary called it a third rate burglary attempt. calling it a third rate burglary, that was the tip-off us that seemed to be nothing third rate about it except they got caught. they raised the stakes so high with this third rate burglary nonsense. it was apparent that something here was really rotten. nixon assigned his top lieutenants the task of managing the fallout from the break-in. among them, bob haldeman and john ehrlichman would welcome the guardians of the clandestine activities. watergate begins to monopolize more of their time. we know that because nixon had a secret tape recording system in the oval office.
and we began to hear about it from the ground up that bob had this special source. when will the rest of the world know who is deep throat? when that source passes away or releases us from our agreement and pledge of confidentiality. who is deep throat? we said deep throat is a man. you can rule out some suspects like diane sawyer. woodward says deep throat was a man. you build a strong case for the identity of alexander hague. do you have any idea what deep throat was? deep throat is a collection of people. how did the secret of deep throat last for so long? the answer is, neither of us told our exwives. during our filming, woodward mentioned the portrayal was close to the real thing. when i asked him who the man was, he just smiled. other guesses over the years, john sears, mark felt.
i ve never known a national election when i would be able to go to bed earlier than tonight. repeat after me. i richard nixon do solemnly swear. i richard nixon do sal manically swear. that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. looking back at the early watergate reports, it s hard to believe that nixon was completely unscathed. imagine a president getting away with that unfolding scandal in today s political environment. woodward and bernstein went back to their desks, put their heads down and continued to grind away at the story. i knew i was going to be judged, the paper was going to be judged on this story. therefore, you know, i think you could get away with not being 100% accurate on day one, but