How does this affect me, Nixon, the president? } [10], At the University of Maryland, College Park, he was a reporter for the school's independent daily, The Diamondback. You get to have access to people you wouldnt normally have access to. But in fact at that time, we were. And we had to be sure the headline was right. And it turned out he had worked for the CIA for years, had been working in the White House as a consultant to Chuck Colson, who was then Nixons hatchet man. Ben Bradlee: I was at The Washington Post, and I couldnt believe it. He resigned. Woodward and Bernstein (and many others) were absolutely convinced there was a deal where Nixon would resign if his successor Gerald Ford issued a presidential pardon. Woodward and Bernstein were successful at concealing the identity of their informant until 2005 when he outed himself due to the public. He joined the Washington Post's metropolitan staff in 1971. The shadowy man was the compass to point the journalist duo in the right direction. I think pride is hubris. It was mysterious always, his writing, but of great emotional impact. In the watergate scandal, Jaworski, Starr, Kenneth Winston And I was going on an unknown path, and that concerned him, but when I got into it and then went to work for the Post, he was quite supportive. Bob Woodward may have achieved the greatest publishing success of his career with Fear, the inside story of turmoil inside the administration of President Donald Trump. In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. Bob Woodward: If somebody came from Mars to America and went around for months or years, and then you asked them who has the best jobs, they would say the journalists, because the journalists get to make momentary entries into peoples lives when they are interesting, and get out when they cease to be interesting. Dont tell me never. And I remember thinking and feeling quite motivated that she was saying the standard here is the bar is quite high. W. Joseph Campbell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Mr. It was going to be scrutinized and examined. He was a very well-regarded lawyer in town. So I went to work with about seven or eight other people, including Carl (Bernstein), and I went to the arraignment of the five burglars, and the judge wanted to know where one of them worked, and he was mumbling. Yet I knew that he was right.. The Post is a very competitive institution, and I think that was the main reason. The young protesters were arguably unlearning the false lessons of Watergate, that meaningful social change had to come from pounding the pavement, not just from pounding a keyboard. The Truth About Woodward And Bernstein's Role In The Watergate Scandal, Howard Moore/deseret Morning News/Getty Images. Bob Woodward is an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. Divorce is painful because it is unknown to a child. In her interview with Pakula, Ephron tried to rehabilitate her boyfriends reputation. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Elsa Walsh, a writer for The New Yorker. Ben Bradlee: Four hundred stories about Watergate in The Washington Post Four hundred in two years and two months. Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift still good friends - 8 Days - 8Days.sg. How did you get interested in those things? His works to date include The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court; The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle; Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi; Veil: The Secret Ways of the CIA; The Commanders, a look inside the decision-making process behind the 1991 Persian Gulf War; The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House; The Choice, on the 1996 presidential campaign, and Maestro, on longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. In his obituary column written in 1994, writer Martin Weil had this to say about the late Lewis: "A familiar and trusted figure to top police officials, [Lewis] went into the building with investigators and remained there unchallenged through the day, gathering information available to no other news outlet.". Woodwards father was a prominent attorney, and hoped that Robert would follow in his footsteps. She posed this, almost suggesting that it was inevitable. In some ways, Carl lives in the shadow of Bob Woodward. Finally, the night before we published came the critical moment, and we were in my house. Much of their hard work was a quest for access to anyone who knew the real secrets of the Nixon White House. Woodward! Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as president on August 9. That we do explain enough about whats going on. head of the CRP. [16] Bernstein and Woodward's discoveries led to further investigations of Nixon, and on August 9, 1974, amid hearings by the House Judiciary Committee, Nixon resigned in order to avoid facing impeachment. It was a White House operation. } She had the lawyers on the same phones. [3] The Star, however, unofficially required a college degree to write for the paper. Where did you work? And he went, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency. And I know my reaction was one of Oh! We were reporting on the Presidents men, and the White House people, the Attorney General, John Mitchell, people in the Nixon campaign, the Committee to Re-Elect the President, and the focus was not Nixon. And I called my father, who was a judge at that point, or about to become a judge, and said, Im not going to law school, but have this job at a newspaper he had never heard of. Richard Matthew Pious It taught me the benefits of collaboration, and that collaboration is a wonderful thing. He has also done reporting for television and opinion commentary. Woodward gained valuable information through an unnamed informant, nicknamed Deep Throat, by Post managing editor Howard Simon. Bob Woodward: Yes. Think of that! Events are in no way simple or cinematic. Probably one of my favorite books is All the Kings Men, Robert Penn Warrens book about political corruption in Louisiana and about a reporter who watches this and gets to participate and see, but doesnt have all of the full consequences of the action fall on him. Bob Woodward: We accused some people of things they didnt do that were based on some reports, written reports. These actions would lead to his resignation in August 1974. In 1982, for ABC's Nightline, Bernstein was the first to report[citation needed] during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon that Ariel Sharon had "deceived the cabinet about the real intention of the operationto drive the Palestinians out of Lebanon, not (as he had claimed) to merely establish a 25-kilometer security zone north from the border". Maybe it was 16, but he had fully a decade-plus of experience under his belt. One morning in June of 71 I think, they led the newspaper with it, with eight-column banners. But together they did something that neither one of them could do individually. There are still, somewhere, embarrassing, Instagram-quality pictures of me wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a reel-to-reel tape-recorder that said, "Property of the Watergate Bugging Team.". Ben Bradlee: We were being very careful. On June 17, 1972, Woodward was assigned to cover a story about an attempted burglary the night before in which five men had been arrested at the headquarters of the We actually published three papers with it before they stopped us, and then we were in the courts for 12 days. Felt brazenly denied having been Woodwards source. And no one goes back or slows down or digs enough, particularly me. It looked like I was going to become a lawyer, and my father to a certain extent was my model. David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (1979) places the Bernstein and Woodward story into a history of recent American journalism. She had what I call Mind on, hands off. She was intellectually engaged in the news, but her hands were not directing, not saying, Investigate this, dont investigate that, give the emphasis here. That was Bradlee and the editors job. Woodward and Bernstein did disclose financial links between Nixon's reelection campaign and the burglars arrested June 17, 1972, at headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, in what. Like most media myths, the heroic-journalist interpretation of Watergate rests on a foundation of simplicity. He was not lazy, she insisted. Early one Saturday morning, June 17, 1972, the Posts city editor called Woodward to tell him that five men with cameras and electronic surveillance equipment had been arrested breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office complex. Carl Bernstein, born on February 14, 1944, in Washington, D.C., began part-time work at the Washington Star at the age of 16 and later dropped out of the University of Maryland to work full-time as a reporter. Bob Woodward: Or The Sound and the Fury, which is his great book. Ben Bradlee: From Daniel Ellsberg. He joined the Washington Post's metropolitan staff in 1966, specializing in police, court, and city hall assignments, with occasional self-assigned feature stories. . There had been some disparaging remarks made elsewhere about his wife, and he cried, in the snow, in New Hampshire, standing on the back of a flatbed truck, and its generally believed that was the end of his candidacy. Get our L.A. They had this it looked like a local burglary at the Democratic Headquarters, a police story. However, the date of retrieval is often important. [12][13], In 1965, Bernstein left the Star to become a full-time reporter for the Elizabeth Daily Journal in New Jersey. Ehrlichman? I mean, I lived in that place for those periods. And whats sad about the Nixon presidency is not just the criminality and abuse of power, but the simple truth, to the best of my knowledge at this point, on those tapes no one ever says what would be good, what would be right for the country, what would be best for the country, which of course is what a president is supposed to do. While Woodward interviewed their informant, known as "Deep Throat," Bernstein discovered cash payments from Nixon's reelection campaign in one of the burglar's bank accounts (via The Washington Post). Goldwater Republican. Hed started at age two, I think. Maybe it was appropriate that most of America slept through the occasion. I think they were really out to get to the bottom of the story. He persuaded The Washington Post to give him an unpaid two-week try-out. Robert H. Ferrell How do I pay someone back, either good or bad, for what they have done to me?. Ben Bradlee: Nixon himself? He was assigned to the police beat, from 7:00 in the evening to 3:00 in the morning, but he did not limit his work activities to his assigned hours. How did it happen? Bob Woodward: We read pretty much the range of classics, and nothing really jumped out or are books that I had distinct memories of. Each had strengths that complemented the others. Thats why we all joined this business. Bob Woodward: Yes, we are. Mr. Woodward, once you heard one of the burglars say he worked for the CIA, where did you take it from there? In 1975, it was turned into a movie starring Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein and Robert Redford as Woodward which later went on to be nominated in multiple Oscar (including Best Picture nomination), Golden Globe and BAFTA categories. Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia.com cannot guarantee each citation it generates. Yes. 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