Now an associate editor at The Washington Post, for several years Bob Woodward oversaw the papers special investigative projects. You have kids who werent born at that time doing term papers on it at colleges and high schools. The Truth About Woodward And Bernstein's Role In The Watergate Scandal, Howard Moore/deseret Morning News/Getty Images. 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. "Woodward and Bernstein The judge said, What do you do? and Woodward overheard the words CIA. So if your interest isnt whetted by this time, youre not a journalist. Were there other writers in your father or mothers family? I want to offer some ideas. Mr. Woodward, theres a last question wed like to ask. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first for the coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, and second as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Bob Woodward: Certainly. Staggering snowfall in California mountains leaves residents trapped for days, SpaceX launches new crew to space station, Prosecution wraps case at Alex Murdaugh murder trial, White House cybersecurity strategy pivots to regulation, Explosive found in checked luggage at Pennsylvania airport, feds say, FDA authorizes first at-home test for both COVID and flu, Couple accuses fertility clinic of implanting embryo with cancer genes, Air Force relieves six officers after failing safety inspection, Several hospitalized after Lufthansa flight diverted to Dulles due to turbulence. Bob Woodward was at the very head of that pack, flaunting his access to the Bush White House while failing to ask the only question that really mattered. What I try to do is piece together how people make decisions. In the end, the Watergate scandal brought down a president and made Bob Woodward the most famous investigative reporter in America. We just didnt sleep a hell of a lot. 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. We were more expert than a lot of the government witnesses who testified against us. The five Watergate burglars and several other Nixon subordinates, including former U.S. Attorney General Mitchell, were sentenced to prison terms. You dont think of them as real authorities in the question of what is classified and what isnt, and what is a threat to the United States and what isnt. www.8days.sg 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. Would I run like that again?. Woodward was assigned to cover the breaking story, along with a younger but more experienced reporter, Carl Bernstein. Woodward lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Elsa Walsh, a writer for The New Yorker and the author of Divided Lives. Refer to each styles convention regarding the best way to format page numbers and retrieval dates. 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. Where the hell? As a teen, he was a "pool shark," a leader of the Jewish service organization B'nai Brith, and a copyboy at The Washington Star. Bernstein was born to a secular Jewish family in Washington, D.C.,[4][5][6] the son of Sylvia (ne Walker) and Alfred Bernstein. ON 9 August 1974, Richard Nixon arose in the White House and, after meeting briefly with the household staff a, Iran-Contra Affair There are hundreds of millions of American dreams. Following the 1972 arrests, journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post investigated the scandal relentlessly. Between 1980 and 1984, Bernstein was the network's Washington Bureau Chief and then a senior correspondent. So I dont make those kinds of assessments. #inline-recirc-item--id-abdd83c2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift still good friends - 8 Days - 8Days.sg. He also felt compelled, as a reporter, to point out that Bernstein's remarks were . . He joined the Washington Post's metropolitan staff in 1966, specializing in police, court, and city hall assignments, with occasional self-assigned feature stories. Ben Bradlee: Because the kids were right. He knew all about my mother, brother -- everything. (Jason Robards, who played Bradlee, is on screen only 10 minutes.). One was Woodward and Bernsteins All the Presidents Men, the well-timed memoir about their reporting. So its not inevitable that the system works. The who-was-Deep-Throat conjecture kept Woodward, Bernstein and the heroic-journalist myth at the center of Watergate conversations. What did you do in the Navy? 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. [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. The movie, which was released in April 1976 and starred Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, was relentlessly media-centric, ignoring the work of prosecutors and the FBI. Woodwards father was a prominent attorney, and hoped that Robert would follow in his footsteps. Lets be sure for the record to say that it wasnt just the Post. Carl Milton Bernstein (/ b r n s t i n / BURN-steen; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author.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.These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual . Kenneth Starr has served as a judge on the court of appeals, as U.S. solicitor general, and came to nat, Richard M. Nixon But glaring gaps remain. They deposited, at the end of 1974, over $600,000. What does it mean? You are trying to understand somebodys reasoning and their emotions and the demons they may or may not have. That happened a long time ago. And she said, When will we know the full story of Watergate? Were there siblings? Were you in intelligence? And of course, Muskie was going to be the strong candidate against Nixon. The Supreme Court ordered the president to turn over his tapes, which really sunk him the smoking gun tapes at the end. Legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were guests on Sunday's "Reliable Sources" on CNN. We led the paper that day with Tricia Nixons wedding. Kind of going, CIA. And the judge said, Where? And he went, CIA. And the judge said, Speak up. You should let it, He put $40,000 on credit cards to make his first film. If you need to flag this entry as abusive. Pakula gradually realized that neither Woodward nor Bernstein could have pulled off Watergate alone. Most of them didnt realize that the world had changed. So, yeah, I think they were friends. However, the date of retrieval is often important. With astonishing regularity, Woodward has continued to produce bestselling books on previously hidden aspects of American life. Maybe we have a story and maybe we dont.. It's the system. 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. Ben Bradlee: Well, we were tired. Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication. So he didnt think it was a good idea. I called my father and said Im not going to law school, but have this job at a newspaper he had never heard of. I think there were two or three then, but I think there are six now. Did they support you, or did they think it was a little strange? Nixon was a full-blown hater, and if you listen to the tapes, its chilling and frightening. 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. }, First published on December 26, 2006 / 7:23 AM. We talk all the time. 25 Feb/23. 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. It took some of us from the Watergate generation a long time to see it. Some people haven't seen it yet. You are trying to get it right and you never do, and that there must be a sense whenever you get to something and then realize two weeks earlier, two days or two minutes earlier, you didnt know that, and its critical that no matter what you do, you are never going to have the full story. Thank God. We're lucky to have Woodward and Bernstein -- so young in 1972 -- still with us. 22 Feb. 2023 . Most news outlets dropped the story, and Nixon was re-elected in a historic landslide. Each had strengths that complemented the others. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. She posed this, almost suggesting that it was inevitable. These were the values, after all, that purged America of the evil Richard Nixon -- not the dirty (bleep)ing hippies. That really is what were all about. I covered the night police beat. 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. Later, along with Vatican expert Marco Politi, he published a papal biography entitled His Holiness. We missed the first edition, but we published it the second edition, which came out at 11 oclock at night, 11:30. There were other burglaries. They had this it looked like a local burglary at the Democratic Headquarters, a police story. 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. My friends' older brothers and sisters had Haight-Ashbury, Woodstock and Kent State. Sometimes I was thought to be the more cautious one, but Carl (Bernstein) could be cautious, and I could be aggressive or overly aggressive. In The Choice, he uses his proven research methods for an illuminating examination of the quest for the presidency. 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. He attended Yale University on a Naval ROTC scholarship, and majored in history and English literature. He is now Assistant Managing Editor of the Post, and has written nearly a dozen bestselling books. Bob Woodward: I was going to go to law school after five years in the Navy, so I was age 27, and I got a job at a weekly paper in Montgomery County, Maryland for $110 a week. Demons they may or may not have Nixons wedding Woodward has continued to bestselling. Nixons wedding interest isnt whetted by this time, youre not a journalist the president turn..., along with Vatican expert Marco Politi, he put $ 40,000 on credit to! 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