Contributors control their own work and posted freely to our site. So he didnt think it was a good idea. Kind of parse it out. But she wasnt the editor. John Dean's afternoon testimony before the Senate Watergate committee, the crest of a high and beautiful wave.", They wrote that history has shown that Watergate was even worse than we thought it was at the time, they seemed blind to the reality that Felt wasn't motivated by an altruistic loyalty to the nation or the truth but by blind career ambition and petty revenge, 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, Bob Woodward was at the very head of that pack. Five long years of unruly marches and campus takeovers hadn't toppled the Establishment. On a Saturday in June 1972, Bernstein was assigned, along with Bob Woodward, to cover a break-in at the Watergate office complex that had occurred earlier the same morning. 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. On the other hand, Bernstein was born to a Communist Jewish family. He told me first that he was going to resign, wasnt sure when, and for Gods sake dont write it as hard, because he wont. These actions would lead to his resignation in August 1974. Woodward stayed at The Washington Post. His writing was serious and matter-of-fact. Both men continued to work for the Post. 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In other words, you dont have to do it in a day, and you wont achieve understanding of it in an slow down, take your time, dig, go back. [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. It is, however, a simplistic trope that not even Watergate-era principals at the Post embraced. 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. While Bernstein was surprised by how mythical Deep Throat became in American pop culture, he remains as much of a part of the Watergate story as Woodward and Bernstein. Much to his chagrin. To many, the break-in at the Watergate Hotel, where the burglars were bugging phones that belonged to the Democratic National Committee, and the ensuing cover-up still don't make sense. Dont tell me never. Get to the bottom of it. That your resources, the resources of the newspaper, should be directed at completing this story, getting the full tale, if you would. Nixon resigned from the presidency on August 9, 1974, after tape recordings that he had ordered made, and then tried to conceal from and deny to investigators, were made public. While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. 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. Hes a reporter doll. He wanted to use the presidency as an instrument of personal revenge, to settle scores, too often, and thats not what the presidency is about. The duo of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have become synonymous with reporting the comings and goings of the Watergate scandal. And that in a little way, and often in a significant way, thats realized. Bob Woodward is an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. They were tireless young reporters, fearless and not intimidated by the very powerful people they were investigating. Bernstein was born to a secular Jewish family in Washington, D.C.,[4][5][6] the son of Sylvia (ne Walker) and Alfred Bernstein. 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: I was born in a hospital in Geneva, Illinois but lived in Wheaton, which is the home of Billy Graham, the evangelist, so it was very fundamentalist Christian. Woodward moved logically. It taught me the benefits of collaboration, and that collaboration is a wonderful thing. That, at least, was the interpretation of the late Stanley Kutler, one of Watergates leading historians, who noted: You had to have that kind of corroborative evidence to nail the president of the United States.. Therefore, its best to use Encyclopedia.com citations as a starting point before checking the style against your school or publications requirements and the most-recent information available at these sites: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html. So I dont make those kinds of assessments. 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. 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. The follow-up story was based primarily on their arraignment in court, and it was based on information given our police reporter, Al Lewis, by the cops, showing them an address book that one of the burglars had in his pocket, and in the address book was the name Hunt, H-u-n-t, and the phone number was the White House phone number, which Al Lewis and every reporter worth his salt knew. Were there particular teachers or relatives? Bob Woodward: Yes, we are. Without them, he likely would have served out his presidential term. For over 30 years, the informants identity was known only to the man himself, and to Woodward, Bernstein and Bradlee. Ben Bradlee: Four hundred stories about Watergate in The Washington Post Four hundred in two years and two months. But Bernstein and Woodward were already branching out into another form of journalism, having secured a contract to write a book on their Watergate investigations. Both "owe a lot" to Redford, Shepard said, explaining that, "Redfrod played a key role in the writing of the book, because Redford saw that the story was Woodward and Bernstein, these two lowly reporters who were going after the White House. A great many of the participants in the Watergate story have written books about their parts in the events. Woodward was assigned to cover the breaking story, along with a younger but more experienced reporter, Carl Bernstein. [7][8] He attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he worked as circulation and exchange manager for the school's newspaper Silver Chips. Woodward would only reveal his informant was an individual working in the Executive Branch. Harry S. Truman Woodward and Bernstein were no closer to revealing who approved the break-in than they had been in June, and even further away from exposing the obstruction of justice that followed the. What in my business Ive found is that we basically do have a free press, that we can operate independently. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in and, of. The article was entitled "The Idiot Culture". But their crimes unraveled in slow motion over those two years -- aided by one tough judge, a feistier Congress than we could comprehend today, and some skillful journalists, of whom Woodward and Bernstein became the most famous and best remembered. He had gone to Vietnam as a soldier, so he had fought in Vietnam, but he got convinced that it was a quagmire and that it was a great mistake and that by releasing this study, he could shine light into the darkest corners and change the course of the world. How did you get interested in those things? 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. Things that seemed to be simple and innocuous but were quite devastating, false press releases, and accusing people of various activity and so forth, and a kind of sowing the seeds of discord. 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. Bob Woodward: Sure. Available for both RF and RM licensing. We worked her over very hard, but so did the lawyers. Then and certainly today, there is still much debate about whether confidential informants are ethically viable due to their hidden identities. They were not hard to support, these young reporters, because they were right. How do you think your different perspectives and personalities complemented one another as you continued the Watergate investigation? We talk all the time. Do you remember? Carl knew he needed [that quality] but despised it in Bob. Whats not known? He spent a year in his research, which was published as a 25,000-word article in Rolling Stone magazine. Not bad, as they say, and what legs! The qualities that each other had -- the qualities that they needed [to report Watergate] -- they didnt like. They had a much-publicized extramarital relationship in 1979. So, yeah, I think they were friends. He attended Yale University on a Naval ROTC scholarship, and majored in history and English literature. And it was the origins of the tradition of every scandal after having the suffix, "gate" added onto it at the end of its title to stress how important it is. 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. What about you? He started working for the Washington Post in 1971, nine months before the Watergate break-in. I can't tell you how many times back then that Americans -- looking for a silver lining in the cloud of Watergate -- uttered this phrase: "The system worked." However, the wiretapped failed to work properly and on June 17, five of the men broke back into the DNC's office in the Watergate Hotel. Bob Woodward: About six months after Watergate, after Carl and I had written many of almost all of our main stories, she called me up for lunch. I am repeatedly struck by how I have missed part of the story, always. #inline-recirc-item--id-abdd83c2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, #right-rail-recirc-item--id-abdd83c2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { Starting with the Watergate burglars, the two young reporters traced the money used to finance the break-in, following it by October 1972 to John Mitchell, formerly Nixon's attorney general and at the time of the break-in the Bernstein's career since Watergate has continued to focus on the theme of the use and abuse of power via books and magazine articles. Bob Woodward: No, not that I can think of. He wouldnt say. How did you do that? We made one mistake in a story in which we said that Woodward and Bernstein said that there was a slush fund of $300,000 set up in the Committee to Re-elect the President, and it was controlled by Haldeman, and that one of the witnesses had testified to that slush fund to the grand jury investigating Watergate. It seems to me that to be a topnotch investigative journalist, you have to have a lot of guts in order to question some of these things. He resigned. Woodward's strength was in investigation, so he focused on investigating the Watergate scandal. Woodwards critics insisted that this informant was a fabrication, or at best, a composite based on a number of sources. Woodward and Bernstein 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. 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. Why did this happen? He was a much better writer. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Woodward was soon joined on the story by Bernstein, and together the two young reporters undertook a series of investigative reports that gradually revealed the connections between the burglary and a converging pattern of crimes that finally implicated President Richard M. Nixon himself, forcing his resignation in the face of otherwise certain impeachment. "You could just tell," Shepard continued, "by how different they were that they wouldn't be friends and they wouldn't be working together. I recall in that incident, I did one, he did one, and I looked at his, and I realized his was better, as was almost always the case. We led the paper that day with Tricia Nixons wedding. Neither of those marriages could withstand all that pressure and that fame and money. " "But, the real reason I wrote the book was, in April of 2003, they sold their papers, virtually the contents of their Watergate desks, from 1972 to 1976, for $5 million to the University of Texas. Raised in a traditional Republican household, Woodward was very well-educated and has been described as gentle. It has been said that as dark a chapter as Watergate was in the American presidency, in a sense, it showed the branches of government working. Bob Woodward: Sure. Special Prosecutor Cox and Jaworski investigated this, put lots of people in jail. And no one goes back or slows down or digs enough, particularly me. You could feel that they took not an adversarial position toward government, but a position of skepticism, a position of there is accountability reporting. That we do explain enough about whats going on. Why is he interested in that? But every Republican in the country was interested in Chappaquiddick, and not a few Democrats, so I said, Find out what the hell he took it out for. Whos going to get what lead and put it together? Where did you work? And he went, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency. And I know my reaction was one of Oh! The book drew upon the notes and research accumulated while writing articles about the scandal for the Post and "remained on best-seller lists for six months". Shepard noted that their relationship has had peaks and valleys, saying, "I think they grew to respect one another. 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. My father was a lawyer there, and I worked as a janitor in his law office when I was in high school, and started reading the files and discovered that the projection that people in the town made about their own lives was in fact not who they were, that lots of them had secrets, and many of them were in my fathers law office files. Lets be sure for the record to say that it wasnt just the Post. Each had strengths that complemented the others. With astonishing regularity, Woodward has continued to produce bestselling books on previously hidden aspects of American life. Bob Woodward: An immense amount of independence. While single, in the 1980s, Bernstein became known for dating Bianca Jagger, Martha Stewart, and Elizabeth Taylor,[16] among others. ALICIA C. SHEPARD, who teaches journalism at American University, is the author of "Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate. He soon became the papers leading reporter, and by September 1971, the Post was ready to give him another try. [23], Bernstein is a frequent guest and analyst on television news programs, and in 2011 wrote articles for Newsweek/The Daily Beast, comparing Rupert Murdoch's News of the World phone-hacking scandal to Watergate. Encyclopedia of World Biography. The best show recs delivered to your inbox. You get to have access to people you wouldnt normally have access to. Ben Bradlee: A book had been taken out of the library. You mentioned Faulkner. Bob needed Carl because Carl was pushy. I was worried about the Posts image of all of this, and that there would be a segment of society who said, you know, They were out to get him, those bastards, and they got him. And it was going to be we were just very careful. And a college dropout. How long had you been at the previous paper? We kept trying to adhere to the authenticity of what happened by almost talking to them on a daily basis., Whenever they could, Woodward and Bernstein visited the sets. We want to thank you for talking with us today. Do you think being the oldest had an influence on your life? The team stole top-secret documents and wiretapped the phones to listen to conversations. 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. Mr. Woodward, there is an interesting scene in the book and in the film All the Presidents Men where you tap out a story and Carl Bernstein immediately starts rewriting it, and youre miffed. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. Carl was the big thinker, and Woodward was the one that make sure it got done" (via CBS News). He went to jail for that. We were more expert than a lot of the government witnesses who testified against us. Samuel Dash, the Democratic counsel to the Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, argued in his later book on the Senate investigation, Chief Counsel, that the admirable, early investigative reporting of Bernstein and Woodward had now degenerated into what he called "hit and run" journalism based on leaks from the committee and jeopardized the ability of the legal system to track down and punish the guilty. Bob Woodward: I was not married at the time and loved being free to do something. 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. Well, I was down there. Its our job to figure them out.. It took some of us from the Watergate generation a long time to see it. My God, it looked like the end of the world! Editors at the WaPo said that Lewis' early reporting and evidence findings are what convinced them that the story was greater than a simple break-in. Few in the room could recall a joint public appearance by the famous Washington Post reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal that brought down a president. Bob Woodward: June 17, 1972. www.8days.sg We didnt allow any television people in. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. Bernstein wrote in the 1996 book that the Pope's role in supporting Solidarity in his native Poland, and his geopolitical dexterity combined with enormous spiritual influence, was a principal factor in the downfall of communism in Europe.[21]. The truth that few wanted to confront was Nixon wasn't really unique at all -- just a peculiarly rotten and inept defender of a system, the national security state, that actually didn't work at all, that was corrupt to its very core. Pakula gradually realized that neither Woodward nor Bernstein could have pulled off Watergate alone. When the Post persevered with the investigation, President Nixon induced the FCC to challenge the licenses of the Posts television stations. Whereas the Bernstein and Woodward stories in the Washington Post had consisted of straight investigative reports, All the President's Men told not only the story of Watergate but the story of Woodward and Bernstein. Carl had a harder time. [24], In 2012, Carl Bernstein spoke at a rally of People's Mujahedin of Iran, an opposition Iranian organization that had previously been listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States, reportedly receiving a payment for his speech.[25]. . But of course, that all became academic when the tapes came out. It was the scandal that led to the forced resignation of the President of the United States. Despite this, the Nixon White House became suspicious that Felt was leaking information to the press. Robert Redford played Woodward; Dustin Hoffman played Bernstein. You want it to be fair. Woodward immediately published a full account of his dealings with Felt in his book, The Secret Man. Bob Woodward: Interesting question. Every time the White House denied something, the evidence became clear that it was the White House that was lying. All the President's Men was made into a hit motion picture starring Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein (1976). The dichotomy intrigued Pakula. But even they seemed to take the wrong lessons from what they'd done. display: none; So you are dealing a glancing blow to whats out there. Editors looked around and thought, Who could we call in? Passion and obsession intertwine in Fire of Love, With characters wise and reassuring, animated short The Boy, the Mole comforts. All of us do! He was a very well-regarded lawyer in town. Ben Bradlee: Well, right away, with Hunts name and the White House telephone number in there. Beyond that, the deeper problem of Nixon Exceptionalism is that it established new standards for what constituted presidential misconduct -- standards that weren't based on the discredited ideas of the 1960s, but the "objective" standards of the Watergate era. Bob Woodward's political affiliation hasn't kept him from criticizing people on both sides of the aisle. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication. It was the first film I ever made like this, Hoffman told me. Woodward is the fifth branch of government! Its that square, straight, intense, decent quality of Woodwards that works. Who were your favorite authors? You mentioned that you had been at the Post for nine months. It was a White House operation. It was so important. President Nixon attempted to use the office of the presidency to cover up the crimes and his involvement with any break-ins. We didnt allow television in for six months, I dont think. Woodward also got a dig in about Bernsteins famed love of the ladies, recalling Bernstein got a list of people who worked on the Richard Nixon re-election campaign from an ex-girlfriend. 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