Shadow Quotes

“For Carter, it was as if the ghosts of Watergate stalked the halls of the White House. As with most ghosts, he wasn't sure they existed, where they were or how to exorcise them.”
― Bob Woodward, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

“Carter, the outsider, didn’t understand his own power and appeal, the centrality of the president to Washington, its own peculiar games and power rituals. He was not only removed from the capital city but alienated from it. Watergate had helped produce the most unlikely president: a loner.”
― Bob Woodward, Shadow

“A giant housefly had flown into the oval office and began buzzing loudly. Baker rolled up a memo and tried to swat it, missing numerous times.”
― Bob Woodward, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

“Later that afternoon, Poindexter drafted a statement incorporating the president's instructions. "As has been the case at a n umber of similar meetings with the president and his senior advisers, there was unanimous support for the president's decisions," Poindexter wrote.
He sent the text to Shultz's plane, which was taking the secretary of state on a long-planned trip to Central America. Shultz read the statement.
"That's a lie," Shultz told his executive assistant, Charles Hill. "It's Watergate all over again." As far as Shultz was concerned, Poindexter and Casey had set up their own foreign policy, one based on secret deals and operations. Congress and even Shultz's own money and was making policy. The CIA was supposed to be neutral, and it had become a rival in making foreign policy.
By cable, Shultz told Poindexter, "It says there was unanimous support for the president's decisions. That is not accurate. I can't accept that sentence. Drop the last word."
Poindexter grudgingly agreed to the change, omitting the word "decisions" so the statement that was released oddly said, "There was unanimous support for the president.”
― Bob Woodward, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

“For Carter, it was as if the ghosts of Watergate stalked the halls of the White House.”
― Bob Woodward, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate