Mr. Woodward, there were mistakes made during Watergate, you have said in the book. And she decided to do it. Woodward and Bernsteins account of the investigation, All The Presidents Men, became a national bestseller and was made into a popular motion picture. Im sure it would have been more interesting. Los Angeles, Remember that Harry Styles Spitgate drama? These were the values, after all, that purged America of the evil Richard Nixon -- not the dirty (bleep)ing hippies. Bernstein's biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton, A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, was published by Alfred A. Knopf on June 5, 2007. Bob Woodward is an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. Woodward cautiously would have to go from one step literally to another. Additionally, he is a regular political commentator on CNN. Carl Bernstein has some strong words for what his former colleague's revelations mean for the Trump presidency and democracy itself.On Wednesday The Washington Post published a preview of Bob Woodward's forthcoming book, Rage, in which Trump told Woodward in March that he knew COVID-19 was serious but "wanted to always play it down." Six months later, 190,000 people have died in the U.S. from . I am repeatedly struck by how I have missed part of the story, always. Ben Bradlee: The Pentagon Papers was a study commissioned by Nixon in the first or second year of his first term, 1970 or 69. The real crimes of the last 40 years didn't fit into the box that Woodward and Bernstein and the Watergate scandal helped to create. Bernstein was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film version of All the President's Men[28] and by Bruce McCulloch in the 1999 comedy film Dick. Give him a story, any story, and he runs with it. What were they doing? He continued the story of presidential leadership and foreign policy in Obamas Wars (2010). When you began to work as a journalist, what was the reaction of your family? Sunburned from swimming laps in the forced labor of summer recreation camp, I raced home so I could catch John Dean's afternoon testimony before the Senate Watergate committee, and the next summer I read the paperback version of the committee's report by flashlight at a campground along the Delaware River, while raccoons scurried under my tent. Even Woodward has disavowed the heroic-journalist interpretation, once telling an interviewer that the mythologizing of our role in Watergate has gone to the point of absurdity, where journalists write that I, single-handedly, brought down Richard Nixon. Robert U. Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, and raised in nearby Wheaton. Carl had a harder time. First, the spokesmen at the White House, Ziegler and some of those guys, and next the Attorney General, and Chuck Colson, all of those people, the White House aides, were lying. Carl tried his hand in television, at ABC News (and was a consultant at CBS News for awhile). We didnt allow television in for six months, I dont think. Some people haven't seen it yet. Do you remember? Some people think I was in intelligence. We shouldnt do that. That doesnt mean there wont be more scandals and maybe even larger scandals, but in a sense, the vision or the dream of the people who wrote the Constitution has, at least in part, been realized. And most of us had served in World War II. I think it is an emotion that if you bask in it, its like hate; it will destroy you. 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. What books impressed you as a kid? Neither of those marriages could withstand all that pressure and that fame and money. " That we had done stories, but it is a process of the judiciary, the Congress, the Supreme Court, that led to Nixons demise. I was the lowest-paid reporter at The Washington Post, because they would only give you credit with the Newspaper Guild if you had worked for a daily, and I had worked for a weekly. Alicia Shepard fills in the gaps in her very candid book, "Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of. He has also done reporting for television and opinion commentary. [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. The role of Congress and the courts -- where even Republicans refused to turn a blind eye to a Republican president's wrongdoing -- was critical to this belief, but it was the journalist at the very top of this moral pyramid. And when Redford wanted to film the movie in the Post, we told him he couldnt. That version of Watergate has long dominated popular understanding of the scandal, which unfolded over 26 months beginning in June 1972. Encyclopedia of World Biography. As Hoffman ran, Bernstein, already a celebrity, understood how much had happened in the three years since five burglars broke into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate hotel. Where did you work? And he went, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency. And I know my reaction was one of Oh! [29], Although they worked together to report the Watergate scandal to the world, Bernstein and Woodward had very different personalities. I want to offer some ideas. Kind of parse it out. But she wasnt the editor. The unmasking of Woodward and Bernstein sheds no credit on Bradlee, nor on his employer, my late friend, and a very gracious and generally admirable woman, Kay Graham. Are you and Bernstein still friends? Encyclopedia.com. On the eve of the 2016 election, Woodward returned to the Watergate story one more time. It was a White House operation. Most news outlets dropped the story, and Nixon was re-elected in a historic landslide. In the series of stories that followed, Bernstein and Woodward eventually connected the burglars to a massive slush fund and a corrupt attorney general. We wanted to be sure that it wasnt sabotaged in some way by, you know, printers slipping in the F word or something like that that was going to screw it up. Hunt had been studying Ted Kennedy and checked books out of the library. Bernstein has been married three times, first to a fellow reporter at The Washington Post, Carol Honsa; then to writer and director Nora Ephron from 1976 to 1980; and since 2003 to the former model Christine Kuehbeck. Ephron delivered Max prematurely after finding out. Much to his chagrin. Alicia Shepard said, "Carl was the big thinker, and Woodward was the one that [made] sure it got done [T]hey knew that each of them had strengths that the other didn't, and they relied on one another. And she had a style of I want to know whats going on. ", Fame, Shepard observed, "played a huge role in changing their lives forever. On the other hand, Bernstein was born to a Communist Jewish family. How old were you at the time of that break-in? If you need to flag this entry as abusive. Then in March 1973 one of the Watergate burglars, James McCord, a former CIA official, wrote a letter to Judge John Sirica, who was trying his case, that essentially confirmed the Bernstein and Woodward stories. We didnt allow any television people in. 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. Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication. He went to jail for that. One midnight in June 1975, Bernstein watched as Pakula directed a scene. He also felt compelled, as a reporter, to point out that Bernstein's remarks were . Woodward and Bernstein, who were already minor celebrities, really cashed in with the publication of their best-selling book All the President's Men, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, two of the biggest stars of our era. But she was quite curious, quite well-informed, plugged in. Bob Woodward: June 17, 1972. STARR, KENNETH WINSTON Where the hell? Bernstein's career since Watergate has continued to focus on the theme of the use and abuse of power via books and magazine articles. .component--type-recirculation .item:nth-child(5) { Therefore, be sure to refer to those guidelines when editing your bibliography or works cited list. Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. George W. Bush's Iraq War, in particular, was enabled by a docile press corps and by a feckless generation of lawmakers and judges -- largely the generation that came of age when I did, during those languid Watergate summers. Why did they think of you? Events are filtered through minds and memories and prejudices, and you feel intimate with his characters. George Tames/New York Times Co./Getty Images, American University School of Communication, unfolded over 26 months beginning in June 1972, Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism, Woodward and Bernsteins All the Presidents Men, cinematic adaptation of All the Presidents Men, Committee Member - MNF Research Advisory Committee, PhD Scholarship - Uncle Isaac Brown Indigenous Scholarship. With the full support of their editor, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward and his Post colleague Carl Bernstein continued to pursue the Watergate story, after other news outlets had dropped the story. But glaring gaps remain. 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. Goldwater Republican. Were there particular teachers or relatives? So it was the classic kind of Winesburg, Ohio small town. Underneath all the arguments and fights -- way down, they hated each other, Pakula wrote. So its not inevitable that the system works. In the watergate scandal, Jaworski, Starr, Kenneth Winston Robert H. Ferrell As the Watergate scandal unfolded in the pages of the Washington Post in the early 1970s, the two reporters who first broke the story became just as famous as the people they were writing about. All talk. This was our time, our story. Soon after the Nixon resignation, Bernstein and Woodward began work with a team of researchers on The Final Days, an account of the last months of Nixon's presidency, based on interviews with 394 people. / CBS. The rest of them all got away with it. I cant remember, but there were so many. 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. Overnight, Woodward and Bernstein became household names. Thats the standard clich about Watergate: the system worked. Felt was 91 when, in 2005, he acknowledged through his familys lawyer that he had been Woodwards source after all. He said, Youre crazy. And at the same time, it was my decision. Bob Woodward: In the family I was raised in: a brother, a sister, two stepsisters, a half-sister. A community high school history teacher named Elizabeth Duncan who taught American history and was a great teacher. Nonetheless, the heroic-journalist myth became so entrenched that it could withstand disclaimers by Watergate-era principals at the Post such as Graham. Bob Woodward: Interesting question. When Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein published their groundbreaking Watergate reporting that led to the resignation of former President Richard Nixon in 1974, the duo thought he would be the. He was not lazy, she insisted. Hoffman was running down an empty street, chasing after Redfords gray Volvo as it pulled out of the Post parking lot. WASHINGTON Watching Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on stage at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday night was like a Simon and Garfunkel reunion. William Faulkners books, certainly. Yes. We actually published three papers with it before they stopped us, and then we were in the courts for 12 days. Encyclopedia.com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA). Bob Woodward: An immense amount of independence. Our lawyers were telling us that and this New York judge had ruled that the statute says whoever has reason to believe that publication of certain information will threaten the national security of the United States shall be this was a civil suit, but the criminal equivalent, which they would certainly have done had they convicted us, would have put us in jail, put us all in jail, including Katharine Graham, or the possibility of it. Without them, he likely would have served out his presidential term. Pakula didnt want facts alone. He said, I think on balance I am against it. I mean, he didnt tear his hair out and say, God damn it, Katharine, you cant do this. So he didnt think it was a good idea. Alicia Shepard fills in the gaps in her very candid book, "Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate.". In addition to the espionage and sabotage, another series of felonies stemmed from the attempt to cover up the earlier crimes by perjury and other obstructions of justice. But in his interview with Woodward, Pakula discovered that the reporter could surprise: Other peoples secrets fascinated and obsessed him. [26] Bernstein and second wife Ephron already had an infant son, Jacob, and she was pregnant with their second son, Max, in 1979 when she learned of her husband's affair with Jay. 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". Are there particular novels of his that you remember liking? With astonishing regularity, Woodward has continued to produce bestselling books on previously hidden aspects of American life. Woodward and Bernstein were successful at concealing the identity of their informant until 2005 when he outed himself due to the public. Its our job to figure them out.. They had it for three months, and they started to publish it. After a brief period of national self-examination and a few watered-down post-Watergate reforms, the sins that Woodward and Bernstein attribute uniquely to Nixon, including the squelching of dissent and the discrediting of journalism, resumed with an intensity just as great as the early 1970s. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. Woodwards father was a prominent attorney, and hoped that Robert would follow in his footsteps. Still, facts and events from the book were questioned by Nixon's friends and family, and some obvious sources denied ever speaking with Bernstein and Woodward. The assertion shocked some because even J. Edgar Hoover had tried and been unable to prove that Bernstein's parents had been party members. In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. The Post editors concluded that he was not ready for a major metropolitan daily newspaper, and arranged for him to take job as one of four reporters at a small suburban weekly, The Montgomery County Sentinel. You have kids who werent born at that time doing term papers on it at colleges and high schools. Think of that! Bob Woodward's political affiliation hasn't kept him from criticizing people on both sides of the aisle. December 26, 2006 / 7:23 AM 39 or 40 people in this White House staff went to jail. Nixon was a full-blown hater, and if you listen to the tapes, its chilling and frightening. So I dont make those kinds of assessments. How did we get into committing 500,000 troops 10,000 miles away in a way that we could never win? She had the lawyers on the same phones. } It's the system. Yes. The Watergate scandal may officially date to June 17, 1972, but August 8, 1974 was truly the night they drove ol' Dixie down, as it were; I watched with a sense of awe and disbelief on a 13-inch black-and-white set as our President Nixon resigned, refusing to go to bed, watching his "political obituary" until they finally signed off and played the Star Spangled Banner at 2 a.m. By the time the movie of "All the President's Men" -- the tale of how Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke some of the big stories of Watergate -- hit the theaters, I was 17 and seeing it with my first girlfriend. We talk all the time. It was also the fact that they were so different, and that they were lowly metro reporters. It looked like I was going to become a lawyer, and my father to a certain extent was my model. . In a sense, there were the two worlds: of the Navy, where all the opposite principles seemed to prevail; and then there was The Washington Post there at my doorstep every morning, kind of saying, Wait a minute. I would have been more effective.. So that gave hope to the Republicans, and of course, all of the Republican spokesmen had a field day beating us upside the face over that, but it didnt last very long. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Elsa Walsh, a writer for The New Yorker. What was that about? THIS year marks the 30th anniversary of the movie All the Presidents Men, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, respectively. Thats a quote from the movie and the book. Woodward would only reveal his informant was an individual working in the Executive Branch. [22] A CBS News end-of-year survey of publishing "hits and misses" included A Woman in Charge in the "miss" category and implied that its total sales were somewhere in the range of perhaps 55,00065,000 copies. Bernstein was among three CNN reporters who last week broke the story of former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's allegation that Trump knew in advance of the June 2016 meeting between representatives of his . Would I run like that again?. All reflected a mind-set and a pattern of behavior that were uniquely and pervasively Nixon's: a willingness to disregard the law for political advantage, and a quest for dirt and secrets about his opponents as an organizing principle of his presidency. I didnt start reading seriously until probably junior high school. We just didnt sleep a hell of a lot. Woodward -- the one who stayed in the Beltway journalism racket -- had all the access to the highest level officials that he had craved at the start of Watergate, and yet he remained clueless as to how such access could provide as much disinformation as truth. Together, they followed the story and co-wrote the best-seller, "All the President's Men.". What I try to do is piece together how people make decisions. But even they seemed to take the wrong lessons from what they'd done. More so than the book, the cinematic adaptation of All the Presidents Men placed Woodward and Bernstein at the decisive center of Watergates unraveling. In 1974, if they had only gotten their (Washington Post) salaries, Woodward would have earned $15,000 and Bernstein $18,000. All stability. People had troubles, and people had secrets. Bob Woodward: Its the nature of the business. And that in a little way, and often in a significant way, thats realized. And once you are convicted of a felony, you cant own television stations, so it would have cost us all the television stations. I really we knew it, we knew it, we knew it, but we couldnt we were being told by the people who were telling us that if we publish it, hell change his mind and wont resign! Chris Pine finally sets the record straight, Oscars diversity improved after #OscarsSoWhite, study shows. You had a lot of Cuban or Spanish-speaking guys in masks and rubber gloves, with walkie-talkies, arrested in the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at 2:00 in the morning. Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Ben Bradlee all confirmed Felts revelation. When the Post persevered with the investigation, President Nixon induced the FCC to challenge the licenses of the Posts television stations. You want it to be fair. Theres an example of incredibly good reporting over a long, protracted time period, laced with denials by the highest people in Boston society the Cardinals and the priests. Legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were guests on Sunday's "Reliable Sources" on CNN. But as Pakula began to understand Woodward, he wondered if the charming, handsome Redford, then 39, could play someone so different from himself. Were you in intelligence? Since the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan closed the lid on the post-Watergate era, we've seen a president who WASN'T impeached for evading Congress to cut secret arms deals in Iran and fund a secret war in Nicaragua, a president who WAS impeached for lying about his sex life, and a president who WASN'T impeached for lying the nation into a war that killed thousands of American soldiers and innocent civilians, while carrying out torture and other violations of human rights more "perverse" than anything during Nixon's presidency. It was a takedown that transcended politics, transcended ideology. Despite their stark differences, they needed each another. By June 17, 1972, what Hunter S. Thompson had famously called "the crest of a high and beautiful wave." of the 1960s had crashed and dissapiated. So you would not go from the CIA to the White House instantly, but within several days, through the work of another reporter, we learned there was this cryptic entry in the address books of two of the five burglars that very simply said H. Woodward gained valuable information through an unnamed informant, nicknamed Deep Throat, by Post managing editor Howard Simon. Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in 1972 to Bob Woodward, who shared it with Carl Bernstein.Woodward and Bernstein were reporters for The Washington Post, and Deep Throat provided key details about the involvement of U.S. president Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal. As of 1997 Woodward is an assistant managing editor of the CIA in Veil (1987), the Pentagon and the Gulf War in The Commanders (1991), and the Clinton White House in The Agenda (1994). Carl was the big thinker, and Woodward was the one that make sure it got done" (via CBS News). Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post during Watergate, told me that Pakula spent so much time with each of us. Certainly during Watergate, it didnt get transmitted to Carl Bernstein or myself through them. While Woodward has written books leveling criticisms against both Nixon and Trump, his critiques have not been limited to Republican presidents, and his praise is not limited to Democratic ones. White bread. 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. Sometimes, people accuse us of bringing down a president, which of course we didnt do, and shouldnt have done,Graham said. We were more expert than a lot of the government witnesses who testified against us. He dropped out of the University of Maryland and became a reporter in New Jersey where his investigative reporting caught the eye of the Washington Post, which hired him in 1966 (via Huffington Post). So we did, and there was no threat to the national security, and information, truth, is not a threat to security, and we believed that. Nixon Exceptionalism and the triumph of objectivity kept a focus on "what did the president know and when did he know it," the provable fact-based lie, liberated from anything that might be corrupted by debatable policy or ideas. Bob Woodward: Not really. Bob Woodward: Yes, and each week it got more and more interesting. Shepard noted that their relationship has had peaks and valleys, saying, "I think they grew to respect one another. This time though, a security guard noticed that multiple latches on the doors were taped so they wouldn't lock and called the police, who caught the men in the act. Bob Woodward was born to a conservative family in the Midwest (via CBS News). But they grew to like one another" and are very good friends now. Hes a reporter doll. They wanted to have a whole presidency where they could do what they wanted and no one would examine them or scrutinize them, and they got in trouble, a lot of them, because of this. Woodwards 2012 bookThe Price of Politicsexplores the efforts of President Obama and congressional leaders to restore the American economy following the financial crisis of 2008. When Woodward left the Navy, American involvement in Vietnam and domestic opposition to the war were at their height. The who-was-Deep-Throat conjecture kept Woodward, Bernstein and the heroic-journalist myth at the center of Watergate conversations. Where do you work? Bob Woodward: We had done some of the early stories, that it led to the Senate Watergate Committee, led to the House Judiciary Committee and impeachment investigation. Bob Woodward: One year exactly. He is now Assistant Managing Editor of the Post, and has written nearly a dozen bestselling books. Carl Bernstein (born 1944) and Robert Woodward (born 1943), investigative reporters for the Washington Post, wrote a series of articles about the Watergate scandals that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. [3] The Star, however, unofficially required a college degree to write for the paper. One day after Alfred E. Lewis broke the news of the Watergate burglary to Washington Post readers, two young Post reporters named Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein picked up the story. Kenneth Starr has served as a judge on the court of appeals, as U.S. solicitor general, and came to nat, Richard M. Nixon He was a much better writer. 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