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...reporter signaling with a flower pot containing a red flag, meetings in an underground garage at 2 a.m. and the code name "Deep Throat" are typical examples of the techniques that led to false accusations based on triple hearsay, trial by the press instead of by jury, and criticism of the press even by those who feel that the President is guilty of numerous criminal offenses. It is inexcusable for reporters, even in desperation, to attempt to obtain secret information from grand jurors...
Long dependent on the maximum use of his hearing, he has become an expert with the stethoscope. He has even learned by touch alone to perform a tracheotomy, an emergency operation in which a hole is opened in a patient's throat to enable him to breathe. Moreover, he has also retained almost everything he has learned. "I have been forced to remember and use my memory more than most other students," he explains. "It is also important for me to organize things in my mind...
...basically healthy, and female, I recognize the almost overwhelming potential of my body for conception. At this stage, however, I wonder whether the fertility I am burdened with must necessarily cloud every doctor's perceptions of my illnesses. I go to UHS when I think I have a sore throat, the flu, or an infection under a toenail of my left foot. According to the enlightened standards of UHS, none of the above is a particularly accurate assessment of my bodily ailments. Instead, I am pregnant, about to become pregnant, confused about my sexuality, or too timid...
Their story apparently also had dramatic repercussions in the White House. Woodward learned from Deep Throat that the President, infuriated over news leaks, had told aides that some $5 million in leftover campaign funds might as well be used "to take the Washington Post down a notch. Nixon was wild, shouting and hollering that 'we can't have it and we're going to stop it [the leaks]. I don't care how much it costs.' " Not long afterward rival Florida broadcasting companies filed a challenge through the Federal Communications Commission to the Post's ownership of two Florida television...
...unable to provide another Page One expose. In desperation Woodward and Bernstein tried to reach Watergate grand jury members for information, a rash move that outraged Federal Judge John Sirica and nearly landed the pair in jail for violating the secrecy of grand jury proceedings. A warning from Deep Throat that the two might be targets of Government surveillance?or worse?plunged them into fears for their safety. Both suspected their phones might be tapped, their lives in danger. They never found evidence to support either fear...