The Watergate scandal began in May 1972, when members of PresidentRichard M. Nixon's campaign team (known as Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President or CREEP) broke into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters in the Watergate Hotel (per History). 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. There were other burglaries. Do you remember? Find the perfect classics house stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. And when Redford wanted to film the movie in the Post, we told him he couldnt. Would I run like that again?. On the eve of the 2016 election, Woodward returned to the Watergate story one more time. display: none; 25 Feb/23. The book and movie introduced Woodwards super-secret source, Deep Throat. For 31 years after Nixons resignation, Washington periodically engaged publicly in guessing games about the sources identity. In fact, it probably doesnt work that often. I can tell you exactly where it was the night when it all went down, when those burglars were arrested inside the Watergate Hotel. An informant in the federal government, it was not until 2005 that the public finally put a name on Deep Throat. 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. 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. Los Angeles, Remember that Harry Styles Spitgate drama? Writers or journalists who inspired you? Lewis was with the Post from 1935 until his retirement in 1985. It was a Saturday morning, I think the summer. Pakula gradually realized that neither Woodward nor Bernstein could have pulled off Watergate alone. I didnt like the Navy, I didnt like Vietnam, I didnt like the war, and was disappointed in myself that I didnt figure out how to adjust to being a part of this that I didnt like, and so I didnt quite have the guts to run away or stand on principle. Hunt W. House. So I called the White House and asked for Mr. Hunt, and he came on, and I said, Why is your name in the address books of these two burglars who were caught in the Democratic Headquarters? And he screamed out, Good God! and hung up the phone. The dichotomy intrigued Pakula. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. It was mysterious always, his writing, but of great emotional impact. 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). There was an election on in 72, and most of the rest of the country was saying, The Post is just playing politics, and all that stuff. In some ways, Carl lives in the shadow of Bob Woodward. His detailed notes, first made public in December 2005, were donated by his wife to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after his death in 1998 in an automobile accident. We had Watergate. But then, of course, if you think about it, Nixon is the one who did himself in. We understand you got started in the newspaper business right out of the Navy. Some questioned the credibility of the work due to the lack of footnotes and named sources, even though many acknowledged that it would have been impossible to write without the promises . Between June 1972 to November 1973, Felt spoke with Bob Woodward 17 times, originally confirming leads the pair found, but eventually, began to offer new information to the team. 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. Alicia Shepard fills in the gaps in her very candid book, "Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate.". They weren't big, White House reporters. 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. Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as president on August 9. He was not lazy, she insisted. 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. I say we publish it. And three of the journalists all hung up immediately, because we didnt want any we had what we came for, and we didnt want to let her change her mind. And he would be going over to the White House to give Nixon the news that he didnt have any his support in the Senate was eroding. It risks the whole thing. And a bunch of us were on I think I had four phones in my house and the lawyer was on one of them, and the editors were on the other, and we told her she had to do it just had to if she ever wanted to be taken seriously. Bob Woodward: Well, of course, what Faulkner is trying to do is get to the interior, and in the end, as a journalist, you are trying to get to the interior. 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. The guts are supplied by the owners of the newspaper and the editors. Both men continued to work for the Post. [12][13], In 1965, Bernstein left the Star to become a full-time reporter for the Elizabeth Daily Journal in New Jersey. 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. Together, they became Hollywood icons. Bob Woodward: We accused some people of things they didnt do that were based on some reports, written reports. And my last year, I served in the Navy here in Washington and lived over on P Street and decided I would get a subscription to a paper called The Washington Post that had a young, very feisty editor named Ben Bradlee, and started reading the Post, and during that year, 1969-1970, you could just feel the energy in the newspaper. That really is what were all about. Think of that! How would you summarize that? It glosses over the scandals intricacies and discounts the far more crucial investigative work of special prosecutors, federal judges, the FBI, panels of both houses of Congress, and the Supreme Court. How old were you at the time of that break-in? 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 . Certainly during Watergate, it didnt get transmitted to Carl Bernstein or myself through them. 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. You get to have access to people you wouldnt normally have access to. Bob Woodward's political affiliation hasn't kept him from criticizing people on both sides of the aisle. Mr. Woodward, tell us what it felt like to you personally when Nixon stepped down. What made you decide that this had to be done? Published in the late spring of 1974, All the President's Men was an immediate best seller. On the other hand, Bernstein was born to a Communist Jewish family. He went to jail for that. Thanks to their investigation and reporting, the American people had a deep look into Nixon's role in the break-ins and cover-ups. The first report featuring the now legendary journalists came on June 19, 1972, two days after the break-ins and arrest of the conspirators (via Constitution Center ). Its that square, straight, intense, decent quality of Woodwards that works. "[32], Differences between Bernstein and Woodward, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, "Carl Bernstein on Trump and the Current State of Journalism", "Yes, kids, there is life after high school", "He Went From Watergate to 'Heartbun,' From Investigative Superstar to Celebrity Dinner Guest. Some people think I was in intelligence. Are there particular books that you remember? Id have drinks with him early all of late July and early August. 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. Within a year, his byline was appearing on the front page. And of course, Muskie was going to be the strong candidate against Nixon. How does this affect me, Nixon, the president? Because of its detail, as well as the crucial importance of the subject they were investigating, All the President's Men has come to be widely regarded as a classic book in the history of American journalism, showing how reporters and corporate news organizations operate under pressure. Maybe it was 16, but he had fully a decade-plus of experience under his belt. The Post is a very competitive institution, and I think that was the main reason. It was a difficult time to be associated with something youre pretty sure is not right. You are trying to find out what really happened. Kind of going, CIA. And the judge said, Where? And he went, CIA. And the judge said, Speak up. Bob Woodward: An immense amount of independence. He was also integral in finding vital evidence and information at the scene of the crime (per Mental Floss). Raised in a traditional Republican household, Woodward was very well-educated and has been described as gentle. Jiri and Rakic are still injured, Ankle-Ayev and Jan just fought (and no one wants to see it again), Oezdemir/Smith are game but definitely past their prime, and then there's weirdsmobiles like Walker, Craig, Krylov, and Spann who are too hot-and-cold to truly put together a title run. Most online reference entries and articles do not have page numbers. The next year, when I entered college determined to be a reporter just like the guys that Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman had portrayed on the screen, there was a surge in enrollment in journalism schools. / CBS. Bob Woodward: I was not in intelligence; I was in communications, and they are different in the Navy. https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/woodward-and-bernstein, "Woodward and Bernstein ", To read excerpts, click here. Bob Woodward has two daughters, Tali and Diana. Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication. [19] He began investigating the secret cooperation between the CIA and American media during the Cold War. Bob Woodward: One year exactly. Therefore, be sure to refer to those guidelines when editing your bibliography or works cited list. They deposited, at the end of 1974, over $600,000. After filling their mantles with every journalism prize . Robert Redford played Woodward; Dustin Hoffman played Bernstein. In a very different summer -- 2011 -- I had the good fortune to visit Spain with my family shortly before sending my daughter off to college. The rest of them all got away with it. It still runs on television, is played widely in journalism schools and often is used as shorthand in high schools to teach about one of the most corrupt times in U.S. politics. It came out in the Ervin Committee hearings in the Senate. All of the guys who later went to jail. All the President's Men was made into a hit motion picture starring Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein (1976). [citation needed], Two years after leaving ABC News, Bernstein released the book Loyalties: A Son's Memoir, in which he revealed that his parents had been members of the Communist Party of America. I mean, I shudder to think the way we put it. 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. Bob Woodward: Oh, yes. It is, however, a simplistic trope that not even Watergate-era principals at the Post embraced. 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. So much has happened since then. 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. Mr. Like an assistant secretary of defense who had been a year or two before head of a big Republican contributor and head of an automobile company and, you know, sold cars in Omaha or somewhere. Its our job to figure them out.. They were after us and The New York Times. Hes a good lawyer, a fair man.. It appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for three weeks. The story was true, but he had never testified to it because they never asked him. Ben Bradlee: Four hundred stories about Watergate in The Washington Post Four hundred in two years and two months. We led the paper that day with Tricia Nixons wedding. 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. And he was the one who said that. They were tireless young reporters, fearless and not intimidated by the very powerful people they were investigating. display: none; 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. 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. . But by end of 1976, they had an ugly breakup and went their separate ways. The qualities that each other had -- the qualities that they needed [to report Watergate] -- they didnt like. I mean, he was no rank amateur himself. 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. Three Post editors were portrayed by award-winning character actors: Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee, Martin Balsam as Howard. Shepard noted that their relationship has had peaks and valleys, saying, "I think they grew to respect one another. "They were journalistic icons for the role they played in bringing down, or helping to bring down a president of the United States, (Richard) Nixon in 1974," Shepard understated. Bob Woodward: No, not that I can think of. Hunt had been studying Ted Kennedy and checked books out of the library. [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. I mean, I lived in that place for those periods. On September 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for any crimes he might have committed while in office, thereby cutting off further criminal investigation of the former president. 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. Yes. The duo of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have become synonymous with reporting the comings and goings of the Watergate scandal. She had the lawyers on the same phones. A drone. 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. So we started phrasing it close to resignation, and debating resignation, and then, finally, we learned that I think he was going to do it at nine oclock at night, or eight oclock at night. One of the managing editors at the Post, Howard Simons, during Watergate this was not on a Watergate story, but I was struggling with a story early in my time at the Post and he came by, and he said, You dont have to understand a man in an afternoon. 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. } [18], Bernstein left the Post in 1977 and expanded into other areas due to his reputation from the Watergate reporting. Editors looked around and thought, Who could we call in? And that in a little way, and often in a significant way, thats realized. Woodwards critics insisted that this informant was a fabrication, or at best, a composite based on a number of sources. The book inescapably promoted the impression Woodward and Bernstein were vital to Watergates outcome. But in the end, its only a glancing blow. 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. How did we get into committing 500,000 troops 10,000 miles away in a way that we could never win? The tapes were crucial to determining that Nixon had obstructed justice. This post was published on the now-closed HuffPost Contributor platform. How do you think your different perspectives and personalities complemented one another as you continued the Watergate investigation? We didnt allow television in for six months, I dont think. When you began to work as a journalist, what was the reaction of your family? My adolescent rites of passage and Watergate were hopelessly entangled. I think most people feel that the old Post would have just sat by. 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. But there's a lot that's not generally known about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Woodward noted how Bernstein had taught him about the importance of being very aggressive, and recalled how Bernstein had clambered aboard a full cab with the Watergate burglars lawyers to get information and borrowed $20 from Woodward, which he did not return. He resigned. Woodward cautiously would have to go from one step literally to another. The reporters were all there, and the editors were there, working on the copy, and there was some guy writing for the next morning. Mr. Woodward, there were mistakes made during Watergate, you have said in the book. Bob Woodward: Yes, and each week it got more and more interesting. It took some of us from the Watergate generation a long time to see it. J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (1976) is an exciting narrative and analysis by a New York Times reporter that puts Watergate into the context of what the author refers to as "Richard Nixon's abuse of his presidential powers." Ben Bradlee: Its a good story. How did you do that? Much of their hard work was a quest for access to anyone who knew the real secrets of the Nixon White House. And yet it was Bernsteins daring that was necessary.. Despite this, the Nixon White House became suspicious that Felt was leaking information to the press. What is this secret government we have? For over 30 years, the informants identity was known only to the man himself, and to Woodward, Bernstein and Bradlee. I cant remember, but there were so many. In 2005, the mystery surrounding the identity of Watergate informant Deep Throat was ended. And we were so scared that we were going to by this time, we knew that the front page was going to be a historical document. But she finally said, Well, okay. Before this, the three men went to great lengths to hide Felt's identity. In her interview with Pakula, Ephron tried to rehabilitate her boyfriends reputation. Now Hollywood Shuffle is a classic, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, The chance of a lifetime: Five friends ski the tallest mountain in Los Angeles, Best coffee city in the world? Bob Woodward: Yes. But even they seemed to take the wrong lessons from what they'd done. I mean, I believed it, because it was I knew it was coming. They had it for three months, and they started to publish it. So we tried to just keep people out of the building. He sat down with Woodward, then 32, Bernstein, then 31, their editors, their friends and the two women at the center of the reporters' lives. All talk. The best show recs delivered to your inbox. Like most media myths, the heroic-journalist interpretation of Watergate rests on a foundation of simplicity. You want to deal a careful glancing blow. 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. Compared to Woodward, Bernstein was a strong writer, and therefore wrote articles based on Woodward's information from Deep Throat. So I had just a sense that we had done some of the first work on this that any suggestion that we had caused it, or brought down a president, was a stretch, to say the least, and not factual. [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]. Do you think being the oldest had an influence on your life? One of the sources I can now reveal I mean, I have talked about was Senator Goldwater, who was a great friend of my wifes family, and I used to talk to him all the time. 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. Were there particular teachers or relatives? Vertalingen van het uitdrukking IK BEN BOB WOODWARD van nederlands naar engels en voorbeelden van het gebruik van "IK BEN BOB WOODWARD" in een zin met hun vertalingen: En ik ben Bob Woodward .. Overnight, Woodward and Bernstein became household names. (They later discovered that Sloan meant to communicate to them that Haldeman was guilty, but that Sloan had not said so to the grand jury because he had not been asked.) I may have been an extreme case, but not a unique one. It was never conclusively established that this had been done by the Nixon campaign, but one of the people in the White House acknowledged to one of our reporters that he had written it. W. Mark Felt, Sr., a retired associate director of the FBI, revealed that he had provided Woodward with details of the Watergate cover-up. There are hundreds of millions of American dreams. Their editors at the Post allowed them to keep most of their sources confidential, but demanded that alleged facts be confirmed by more than one witness. What does the American Dream mean to you? There were 7,000 papers finally, and The New York Times got a copy of 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. It taught me the benefits of collaboration, and that collaboration is a wonderful thing. Bernstein was among three CNN reporters who last . It was to see if they could find the origins of our involvement in Vietnam, and what went wrong. 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. When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. They were 30 and 31.". 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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. I think in the atmosphere we are in now, somebody who would get up and propose some of the things that were done in Vietnam, like conducting the war when we didnt believe in it, or burglarizing, or wiretapping, or doing the abusive things of Watergate, I think its so ingrained that there are enough people who would stand up and say, We cant do that. I had worked for the Post for nine months. Landed at The Washington Post in 1971, had nine months reporting experience. But the following morning, Dan Schorr of CBS we saw on CBS Morning News shoved a microphone in front of this guy and said, The Post says you did this. Woodward has written best-selling books on the last ten presidentsNixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Hed started at age two, I think. Where do you work? And there was a sort of, as I have said, I am packing my bags quality to his voice that didnt tell you everything you needed to know but certainly got you focused on, you know, this is interesting now. Encyclopedia of World Biography. In August 1974, President Nixon, facing near certain impeachment and conviction, resigned his office and accepted a blanket pardon for any actions he may have committed in office. Thats a quote from the movie and the book. And most of us had served in World War II. Bob Woodward: June 17, 1972. shaka wear graphic tees is candy digital publicly traded ellen lawson wife of ted lawson what was the advice to woodward and bernstein. William Mark Felt, the former FBI Deputy Director finally announced to the public his identity as Deep Throat, with Woodward and Bernstein confirming this fact (via History). These were the values, after all, that purged America of the evil Richard Nixon -- not the dirty (bleep)ing hippies. 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