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Bob Schieffer: How I bungled Watergate
June 10, 2012
June 10, 2012
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(CBS News) The weekend the Watergate break-in came to light, I had a slightly different take than Woodward and Bernstein. I tried to get out of town before I got assigned to the story!
The reason was my boss Bill Small had just assigned me as part of the CBS team covering the Democratic and Republican conventions, both of which were being held in Miami - the assignment I had dreamed of all my life.
But I was still fairly junior at the Washington bureau, and I had the sinking feeling that Small would pull me off the conventions and
The reason was my boss Bill Small had just assigned me as part of the CBS team covering the Democratic and Republican conventions, both of which were being held in Miami - the assignment I had dreamed of all my life.
But I was still fairly junior at the Washington bureau, and I had the sinking feeling that Small would pull me off the conventions and
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