#howard simons

[politicalrpf]

Staff of the Washington Post in April 1973.

[arkygifs]

All The President's Men (1976)

[khelinski]

That’s the difference between Watergate and the Pentagon Papers.  In the Pentagon Papers, damn, you had the lawyers involved the first day…getting advice, and Katharine actually making the decision to publish.  Nothing like that happened with Watergate.  We never called the lawyers and said, Are you okay, what’s the legal view of this?  I do think we did slip into it.  It was incremental.

Howard Simons

[fortuneflux]

People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart. -- Howard Simons, "The Washington Post"

[newyorker-quotes]

Why is everyone so interested in the house that Sally and I bought?

The Grahams and the Post: The Power That Was

[fortuneflux]

People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart. -- Howard Simons, "The Washington Post"

[shelbyirene-blog]

Howard Simons: Did you call the White House press office?  Bob Woodward: I went over there; I talked to them. They said Hunt hadn't worked there for three months. Then a PR guy said this weird thing to me. He said, "I am convinced that neither Mr. Colson nor anyone else at the White House had any knowledge of, or participation in, this deplorable incident at the Democratic National Committee."  Howard Simons: Isn't that what you expect them to say?  Bob Woodward: Absolutely.  Howard Simons: So?  Bob Woodward: I never asked about Watergate. I simply asked what were Hunt's duties at the White House.