Memorable Quotes from Paul Lambert
1 quoteWatergate: A Story or a Compulsion?
National editor
Let me tell what happened when I was having lunch today at the Sans Souci.
Rosenfeld
Correction—when you were drinking your lunch at the bar of the Sans Souci.
National editor
This White House guy, a good one, a pro, came up and asked, "What is this Watergate compulsion with you guys?
Rosenfeld
Complusion? I think it's a story. This is not a compulsion.
National editor
I said, "Well, we think its important." And he said, "If it's God damn so important, who in the hell are Woodward and Bernstein?
Rosenfeld
Ask him what he's really saying—he means take the story away from Woodstein and give it to his people at the National Desk.
National editor
Well, I've got some pretty experienced fellas sitting around, wouldn't you say so?
Rosenfeld
Absolutely—and that's all they do, sit sit sit—every once in a while, they call up a Senator, some reporting.
National editor
Well, what if your boys get it wrong?
Bradlee
Then it's our asses, isn't it?
Simons
And we'll all have to go to work for a living.
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