majority leader's office, in the speaker's office. but no one ever asked if he or she could have my notes. bob woodward always goes for the best possible sources and notes are always better than human memory. many years later, when i was no longer working in government, i visited bob woodward's home a few times, where much of the space is devoted to his office, where his assistants are constantly transcribing audio recordings. he gave me a tour of the workshop, a place where you can see decades and decades of archived audio recordings, recordings that are the building blocks of the investigative journalism that has so often become the defining version of a presidency, the woodward version. what bob woodward calls the best obtainable version of the truth. and so tonight bob woodward has tapes and the white house has press releases. the most damning quotes in the excerpts of bob woodward's book