Some people haven't seen it yet. She pointed out that, "Woodward grew up in the Midwest, Republican household, went to Yale, was in the Navy. 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. Encyclopedia of World Biography. They were the first to reveal the tapes, and they were always ahead of the curve, but there was a lot of great reporting done by other people, Sy Hersh, the Los Angeles Times, they all did really good work. Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward, left, and Carl Bernstein on March 1, 1974, Washington, D.C. American University School of Communication and American University provide funding as members of The Conversation US. And most of us had served in World War II. 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.". [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. Bob Woodward: Oh, yes. Woodward immediately published a full account of his dealings with Felt in his book, The Secret Man. [27] Ephron was inspired by the events to write the 1983 novel Heartburn,[26] which was made into a 1986 film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. That really is what were all about. But then two by-the-book (sort of) dudes with wide ties and spiral notebooks -- Woodward and Bernstein -- came along in stoppage time to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss are "still good friends", a source has insisted, despite rumours the pair might have fallen out. Although Woodward and Bernstein were able to link the burglary of Democratic National Headquarters to operatives inside the Nixon White House, and to President Nixons re-election campaign, they were unable at first to prove any direct involvement by the president or his senior staff to either the burglary or its subsequent cover-up. Im thinking of the bookAs I Lay Dying, which is from all different characters points of view, like interviewing people for a story. The rest of them all got away with it. And there we watched thousands of "indignados" flood the streets of Madrid, the precursor to Occupy Wall Street back home. Can he get the hurt and vulnerability?, Throughout filming in 1975, if there was a question on how Woodward or Bernstein might react, Redford or Hoffman or Pakula called either man. Its that square, straight, intense, decent quality of Woodwards that works. During his marriage to Ephron, Bernstein met Margaret Jay, daughter of British Prime Minister James Callaghan and wife of Peter Jay, then UK ambassador to the United States. But she finally said, Well, okay. He is the author or co-author of seven books: All the President's Men, The Final Days, and The Secret Man, with Bob Woodward; His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time, with Marco Politi; Loyalties; A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton;[3] and Chasing History, a memoir of his early years in journalism. Advertisement Pakula. Bob Woodward has two daughters, Tali and Diana. Didnt you have a chat with the Posts publisher, Katharine Graham, in the midst of all of this? Bob Woodward: Who knows whether its that? 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. Thats an astonishing thing for a journalist to say. 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. It was mysterious always, his writing, but of great emotional impact. Bob Woodward's political affiliation hasn't kept him from criticizing people on both sides of the aisle. And we had to be sure the headline was right. TIME magazine has calledAll the Presidents Men perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history. A second book by Woodward and Bernstein on the collapse of the Nixon administration, The Final Days, was also a huge success. It is, however, a simplistic trope that not even Watergate-era principals at the Post embraced. 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). Not, "What did the president know and when did he know it? He is now Assistant Managing Editor of the Post, and has written nearly a dozen bestselling books. display: block; But together they did something that neither one of them could do individually. So its not inevitable that the system works. Encyclopedia.com. The five Watergate burglars and several other Nixon subordinates, including former U.S. Attorney General Mitchell, were sentenced to prison terms. Ben Bradlee: John Mitchell, Attorney General Mitchell. Do you remember? Ben Bradlee: Its a good story. HARRY S. TRUMAN of Independence, Missouri, once remarked that three experiences prepared a man for, Woodward, Bob 1943- (Robert Upshur Woodward), Woodward, Daniel 1931-2007 (D.H. Woodward, Daniel H. Woodward, Daniel Holt Woodward), https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/woodward-and-bernstein. Somebody who through force of personality made history interesting and important. So it was the classic kind of Winesburg, Ohio small town. So I dont make those kinds of assessments. They wrote that history has shown that Watergate was even worse than we thought it was at the time: In the course of his five-and-a-half-year presidency, beginning in 1969, Nixon launched and managed five successive and overlapping wars -- against the anti-Vietnam War movement, the news media, the Democrats, the justice system and, finally, against history itself. Yet I knew that he was right.. This practice was usually followed scrupulously, but broke down when Bernstein and Woodward wrongly claimed that Hugh Sloan, a CRP official, had implicated H. R. "Bob" Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff, in testimony before a grand jury. All stability. Woodward relied on one source whom he refused to identify even to his editors except by the code-name "Deep Throat.". Carl knew he needed [that quality] but despised it in Bob. 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). The New York Times played the lead role but we played a role too. Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn (1983) caused a minor journalistic sensation with its fictionalized description of her divorce from Bernstein. Bob Woodward: Sure. 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. We missed the first edition, but we published it the second edition, which came out at 11 oclock at night, 11:30. [10], At the University of Maryland, College Park, he was a reporter for the school's independent daily, The Diamondback. Back at home, you could cross out the word "party" and replace it with "Nixon." It marked the low point in a country's trust and respect for the highest office of the land and left the nation to question its very foundation. Ben Bradlee: By an overwhelming margin, as we were reminded so often. I want to offer some ideas. And there came a time when we had to get her, okay, and the lawyers started off by telling her the lawyer was one of the greatest men, even though he didnt approve of publishing it but the way he told her that was just so important. I called my father and said Im not going to law school, but have this job at a newspaper he had never heard of. 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. Just it was terribly, critically important that we do it right and that we not brag, not seem to be bragging, and that we didnt allow any television in there for days. When you began to work as a journalist, what was the reaction of your family? The Iran-Contra Affair involved a secret foreign policy operation directed by White House officials in the national security counc, Truman, Harry S. But in the end, its only a glancing blow. 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. Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. I covered the night police beat. What did you mean by that? Watergate reporters come together to discuss the 40-year-old scandal which resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon. How old were you at the time of that break-in? Are there particular books that you remember? How would you summarize that? It was embarrassing that they had this great story and we didnt. [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]. [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. Bob Woodward: Well, we looked at it differently. 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. He spent a year in his research, which was published as a 25,000-word article in Rolling Stone magazine. 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. He had worked in the Pentagon, and then he had worked for the Rand Corporation. Without them, he likely would have served out his presidential term. During Watergate, no matter how well Bernstein reported the story, he was pegged by Post editors as the bad boy of the duo -- always late, unreliable and quick to hype his leads. 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