Bob Dole: “I add that this same expression has been indicated by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and also expressed today…”

“I add that this same expression has been indicated by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and also expressed today in the Portland Press Herald in Maine. So I think there is no doubt about it, and I can say with some authority, having been chairman of our party--the Republican Party--at the time of Watergate. I remember how the White House did not want to hear any bad news, and how the White House unfortunately did not tell the public, did not tell the press, and did not tell the American people. I am not comparing the two. But I am just saying when people do not have information, they cannot make a judgment. There is a lot of information the American people do not have. Once they got the information on Watergate, they made a judgment. They made a very severe judgment. They want the information on Whitewater, so-called Whitewater. Nobody knows what it is. When Watergate started, it was a third-rate burglary. When it ended, it was a mess, and it caused great damage to, I think in many cases, the country, and also to the Republican Party, and brought about a lot of changes in ethics laws and everything that deals with ethics. It just seems to me that if any lesson was learned from that chapter in history, it should be that there ought to be disclosure, there ought to be hearings. There were hearings at that time, day after day after day, on live television, gavel-to-gavel hearings.”