“I don't believe you on the 'Jimmy' story. No, I don't, and I'm going to prove it if it's the last thing I do.”

—  Bob Woodward

Post Reporter's Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporter's Prize (19 April 1981)

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