Communication Quote by Ronald Kessler

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,…

— Bob Woodward

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide…

— Rick Perlstein

Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt. If you look at the poll numbers, people knew Nixon was deeply involved…

— John Dean

“The elimination of Mr. Richard Nixon leaves intact all the mechanisms and all the false values which permitted the Watergate scandal.”

— Claude Julien

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little,…

— Noam Chomsky

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But…

— John J. Sirica

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

— Richard M. Nixon

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

— Daryl Hall

I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning…

— Tiny Tim

“Woodward, a registered Republican, did not vote. He couldn't decide whether he was more uneasy with the disorganization and naïve idealism of McGovern's campaign…

— Carl Bernstein

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

— Tony Campolo