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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."

"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."
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"The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying."

"In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent."

"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors."

"When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up."

"Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate."

"Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight."

"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."

"The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news."

"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."
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