New York Times: “Reading this memoir, you may notice two seemingly incongruent Bob Woodwards. There is the dogged investigative reporter who, along with Carl Bernstein, brought the Watergate scandal to the front pages of The Washington Post and helped bring down President Richard Nixon. That Woodward is hypervigilant, a self-described ‘catastrophic thinker’ who is always scanning the horizon for the next threat.”
“By comparison, the other Woodward is what Christopher Hitchens called ‘a stenographer to the rich and powerful’: the ‘access’ journalist who grew up in a moderate Republican household in Wheaton, Ill., and came to the job with ‘a drilled-in respect for authority.’ Instead of confrontation, this Woodward seeks cooperation, getting insiders to talk to him on ‘deep background’ so that he can ‘focus on human behavior and decisions,’ recreating what the leadership class did and said (or what it says it did and said). He says he wants ‘to be so far inside a source’s circle of trust that when something important happens, I am on their mind.'”
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Eight moments in political history. Put them on a timeline.
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Five senators. Three bills. Can you guess how they all voted?
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Do you have your finger on the pulse of America?
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