Fresh out of the Navy, Bob Woodward washed out in his first attempt to work for The Washington Post, and went to work for a tiny suburban weekly. And so the other day they wrote a lengthy piece -- their first joint byline in 36 years -- trying to correct all the myths about Watergate that have risen in the years since. What are you most proud of, looking back on your career so far? ON 9 August 1974, Richard Nixon arose in the White House and, after meeting briefly with the household staff a, Iran-Contra Affair 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. They were tireless young reporters, fearless and not intimidated by the very powerful people they were investigating. How did you get interested in those things? More than 40 years after they became the world's most famous journalism duo, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are still making news. Therefore, be sure to refer to those guidelines when editing your bibliography or works cited list. White bread. [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. The best duos complement the other's strengths. He'd started at age two, I think. Much to his chagrin. . In 1974, if they had only gotten their (Washington Post) salaries, Woodward would have earned $15,000 and Bernstein $18,000. The who-was-Deep-Throat conjecture kept Woodward, Bernstein and the heroic-journalist myth at the center of Watergate conversations. Its small wonder that the heroic-journalist myth still defines popular understanding of Watergate. Im thinking of the bookAs I Lay Dying, which is from all different characters points of view, like interviewing people for a story. That they would sabotage campaigns. It is, however, a simplistic trope that not even Watergate-era principals at the Post embraced. So much has happened since then. It's the system. Bernstein and Woodward's All the President's Men (1974) and The Final Days (1976) capture the excitement of the chase, the enormity of the constitutional crisis, and the agony of the downfall. You want to deal a careful glancing blow. He wanted to understand Woodward and Bernstein deeply so he could capture their true characters and motivations for the movie. Los Angeles, Remember that Harry Styles Spitgate drama? I now do my books alone, but I have a full-time assistant who is kind of my collaborator. It was to see if they could find the origins of our involvement in Vietnam, and what went wrong. Back at home, you could cross out the word "party" and replace it with "Nixon." What attracted you to the newspaper business? Underneath all the arguments and fights -- way down, they hated each other, Pakula wrote. LHW is a shallow division, this cancellation was just adding insult to injury. A drone. Carl tried his hand in television, at ABC News (and was a consultant at CBS News for awhile). The Post played a critical role in the beginning, and Woodward and Bernstein came in at critical moments. He met his Deep Throat source secretly to get as much information as possible. Are there particular novels of his that you remember liking? Finally, the night before we published came the critical moment, and we were in my house. Woodwards father was a prominent attorney, and hoped that Robert would follow in his footsteps. Bob Woodward was born to a conservative family in the Midwest (via CBS News). Woodward immediately published a full account of his dealings with Felt in his book, The Secret Man. Bob Woodward: Yes, we are. On June 17, 1972, Woodward was assigned to cover a story about an attempted burglary the night before in which five men had been arrested at the headquarters of the [3] The Star, however, unofficially required a college degree to write for the paper. Bob Woodward: One year exactly. 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. [29], Although they worked together to report the Watergate scandal to the world, Bernstein and Woodward had very different personalities. Do you see President Clintons impeachment related to Watergate? He persuaded The Washington Post to give him an unpaid two-week try-out. He yelled, Stop! 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. And a college dropout. He was ten months further along in his career than Woodward when the scandal broke out. And most jobs, if you are a lawyer or a doctor, you have to deal with clients, patients who have boring problems or diseases that are routine, and of course, the definition of news is non-routine. Whats going on in the town in culture, in the nation, in the world is news, and you get to work on that. 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. Bob Woodward said that Lewis "laid the foundation for what the paper was able to do in reporting the story." 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. ." Legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were guests on Sunday's "Reliable Sources" on CNN. There were no bars in town. And redford was the one who shaped 'All the President's Men.' It took some of us from the Watergate generation a long time to see it. You mentioned Faulkner. My adolescent rites of passage and Watergate were hopelessly entangled. Bernstein was among three CNN reporters who last . He attended Yale University on a Naval ROTC scholarship, and majored in history and English literature. Woodward lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Elsa Walsh, a writer for The New Yorker and the author of Divided Lives. How do I pay someone back, either good or bad, for what they have done to me?. Where were you when he resigned, and what were your feelings? As the stakes increased, and as the White House looked more and more threatened, and Nixon himself looked more threatened, and his office became threatened, we just were determined that we werent going to make any silly mistake. Thank God. 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. Between 1980 and 1984, Bernstein was the network's Washington Bureau Chief and then a senior correspondent. 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. . Bob Woodward has two daughters, Tali and Diana. 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. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. What in my business Ive found is that we basically do have a free press, that we can operate independently. From the time of the break-in, and through the fall and winter of 1972-1973, Bernstein and Woodward, under increasing public attack from White House spokesmen, worked virtually alone on the story. 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. Maybe it was 16, but he had fully a decade-plus of experience under his belt. Robert Redford played Woodward; Dustin Hoffman played Bernstein. Therefore, that information is unavailable for most Encyclopedia.com content. Ben Bradlee: That we had really done a really good job. It taught me the benefits of collaboration, and that collaboration is a wonderful thing. Stop!, Bernstein recalled in a 1975 interview, now in Pakulas archive, that big crowds were outside. Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Ben Bradlee all confirmed Felts revelation. The Iran-Contra Affair involved a secret foreign policy operation directed by White House officials in the national security counc, Truman, Harry S. How did you do that? 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. Very forceful, very insistent that we write essays to answer questions, and not short answers. [10], At the University of Maryland, College Park, he was a reporter for the school's independent daily, The Diamondback. The important discovery for Carl and myself was that Watergate wasnt isolated. The idealized journalist of the Watergate era and beyond was wedded to the highest ethical standards and driven only by truth, not by ideology. Bob Woodward: Yes. And in it, you just saw that it was not as pure and simple a community as the members liked people to think. We said Haldeman had controlled the secret fund, according to the Grand Jury testimony of the Nixon Committee treasurer, and he had not testified to that. 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). 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 . I covered the night police beat. Five burglars had been caught red-handed in the complex, where the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters; four of them turned out to be ex-CIA agents who did security work for the Republicans. Woodward had married reporter Francie Barnard, and Bernstein was dating Nora Ephron, whom he married on April 14, 1976 -- 10 days after the movie debuted in Washington. [14] While there, he won first prize in New Jersey's press association for investigative reporting, feature writing, and news on a deadline. I had worked for the Post for nine months. So I went to work with about seven or eight other people, including Carl (Bernstein), and I went to the arraignment of the five burglars, and the judge wanted to know where one of them worked, and he was mumbling. The arrest of the Watergate burglars may have happened in the dead of night, but what came in the months ahead was truly an awakening. Still, Felt resigned from the FBI in June 1973 after he was suspected of leaking information to The New York Times. Max Frankel, chief of the Washington bureau at the NY Times, famously blocked coverage after hearing from the White House that it wasn't a story, even though they had confirmation early on from FBI . He did. 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. Bull---- artist. The burglary was revealed as part of an extensive program of political espionage and sabotage run by Nixon subordinates at the White House and its political campaign organization, the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CRP, or, as referred to in most later press coverage, CREEP). Were you in intelligence? I want to offer some ideas. 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. 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. 22 Feb. 2023 . 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. Bob Woodward: No. [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. 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. Were much better friends than we were at the time. It was embarrassing that they had this great story and we didnt. 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. (Spiro Agnew, who had been elected as Nixon's vice president in 1968 and 1972, had resigned in October 1973 after pleading no contest to a charge of tax evasion.). He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Elsa Walsh, a writer for The New Yorker. Sometimes, Felt would speak on the phone, but on other occasions, he would meet Woodward in a parking garage in Virginia. 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. Thats an astonishing thing for a journalist to say. Why has the heroic-journalist interpretation of Watergate persisted through the 50 years since burglars linked to Nixons campaign were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington? Bob Woodward: Not really. And of course, Muskie was going to be the strong candidate against Nixon. The book inescapably promoted the impression Woodward and Bernstein were vital to Watergates outcome. There was the whole intelligence-gathering apparatus. 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. 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 [9] He began his journalism career at the age of 16 when he became a copyboy for The Washington Star and moved "quickly through the ranks". All of the guys who later went to jail. 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. Yes. It was the first film I ever made like this, Hoffman told me. 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. The distinct memories I have of books are from college. 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." What about you? Would I run like that again?. After graduating from Yale University, he joined The Washington Post; nine months later, he was assigned the Watergate break-in story. If you need to flag this entry as abusive. Published in the late spring of 1974, All the President's Men was an immediate best seller. A career FBI agent, Felt held the second ranking post in the FBI at the time of the Watergate break-in and made his disclosures to Woodward when Nixons appointed FBI director failed to act on information incriminating members of the administration. Where were you in the pecking order of siblings? 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. 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." 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. 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). He was also integral in finding vital evidence and information at the scene of the crime (per Mental Floss). There were other burglaries. Sometimes, people accuse us of bringing down a president, which of course we didnt do, and shouldnt have done,Graham said. 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. But they missed decisive elements of Watergate, notably the payment of hush money to the burglars and the existence of Nixons White House tapes. He was rebellious, which led to him failing out of college. We talk all the time. Bob Woodward: This is a book I did in 1999 that took the five presidents after Nixon Ford, Carter, Reagan, the first Bush, and Clinton and analyzed the Special Prosecutor law, and showed how that, and the new climate of Congressional activism and media activism, meant the presidency was going to be forever altered. 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. Each of these presidents had their own way of responding. I think it is an emotion that if you bask in it, its like hate; it will destroy you. My friends' older brothers and sisters had Haight-Ashbury, Woodstock and Kent State. There was competition. 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. Ben Bradlee: It is an interesting thing. }, First published on December 26, 2006 / 7:23 AM. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. With the full support of their editor, Ben Bradlee, Woodward and Bernstein continued to pursue the story, and little by little uncovered a larger story of the abuse of power and the obstruction of justice. How did it happen? Where do you work? How long had you been at the previous paper? 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. Dont tell me never. Dont let things elude us. As a colleague of ours at the Post, Bill Greider, wrote the day they disclosed the secret taping system in the White House. Some people haven't seen it yet. These guys lied because they didnt know the truth, and they couldnt believe that they were being lied to. 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. 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.. Who were your favorite authors? He was not lazy, she insisted. 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 . They deposited, at the end of 1974, over $600,000. It was going to be scrutinized and examined. For me, the still powerful memories of Watergate have been supplanted by fresher ones. And that in a little way, and often in a significant way, thats realized. Pakulas notes, dated May 2, 1975, indicate that hed concluded this about the two reporters: * Bob thought Carl was hype, no follow-through. 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. Yes. Shepard discussed it with co-anchor Harry Smith on The Early Show Tuesday. Bob Woodward: In the family I was raised in: a brother, a sister, two stepsisters, a half-sister. Anyway, it took two days, and we got confirmation that there was, and in fact there was a slush fund of $750,000. Ben Bradlee: A book had been taken out of the library. 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. But it would have been I mean, there was a lot of money on the table. 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. Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication. Soon other newspapers began to investigate the Watergate story more energetically, and legislative and judicial agencies began to uncover a larger and larger pattern of lawbreaking. Woodward's strength was in investigation, so he focused on investigating the Watergate scandal. 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. 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). It was already changing, but he certainly speeded it along. Not one of the 17 stories he filed was printed. No soul.. Robert Upshur Woodward, born on March 26, 1943, in Geneva, Illinois, attended Yale University on a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship, after which he served for five years as a naval officer. People who are basically truth-tellers, want to help somebody, know that the truth is cleansing, that the truth is a good thing, that the society needs to function on that. Its that square, straight, intense, decent quality of Woodwards that works. Nixon was a full-blown hater, and if you listen to the tapes, its chilling and frightening. 39 or 40 people in this White House staff went to jail. His daughter, Tali, attends the University of California at Berkeley. Now Bernstein's Back with an Evocative Book on his Embattled Childhood, but he's still Carl After All These Years", "Daewoo Carl Bernstein 1995 commercial (korea)", "Carl Bernstein on John Paul II's great victory", "Hawes Publications Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 2007", "Watergate Journalist Carl Bernstein Spoke at Event Supporting Iranian 'Terrorist' Group", "Get real ageing's not all Helen Mirren", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl_Bernstein&oldid=1136904458, This page was last edited on 1 February 2023, at 19:51. It was strange. When they found such a player in their legendary source "Deep Throat" -- later revealed as deputy FBI director Mark Felt -- 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. Most of us had quite fancy security clearances in that capacity. Well, it turns out a lot of CIA people were, and they tried to use the CIA to cover up the FBI investigation, but they never pinned it on the CIA. The young protesters were arguably unlearning the false lessons of Watergate, that meaningful social change had to come from pounding the pavement, not just from pounding a keyboard. So in an odd way, those in my business have a million allies out there. Mr. Woodward, there were mistakes made during Watergate, you have said in the book. Lets be sure for the record to say that it wasnt just the Post. Retrieved February 22, 2023 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/woodward-and-bernstein. Pakula didnt want facts alone. When we found out who had taken it out, it was Hunt, and everybody said, What the hell is Hunt doing taking a book on Teddy Kennedy. You want it to be fair. 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. And my reaction was, I told her, Well, Carl and I think that it will never come out, that Nixon and his White House are so good at obscuring things, of sealing off information, preventing disclosure, that well never know. She looked at me quite stricken and said, Never? Where the hell? And once you are convicted of a felony, you cant own television stations, so it would have cost us all the television stations. It appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for three weeks. 1996 - 2023 American AcademyofAchievement. The processes that caused [Nixons] resignation were constitutional., Grahams words, however accurate and incisive, scarcely altered the dominant popular interpretation of Watergate. 25 Feb/23. Were there particular teachers or relatives? 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". On the other hand, Carl Bernstein was the child of two Communist activists (per Washingtonian). Mr. shaka wear graphic tees is candy digital publicly traded ellen lawson wife of ted lawson what was the advice to woodward and bernstein. [31] Due to their different styles, other journalists described them as a perfect team. In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (1979) places the Bernstein and Woodward story into a history of recent American journalism. They wrote the best-selling All the President's Men and became millionaires. Watergate was the biggest political scandal of the century. Ben Bradlee: His name was Griswold, and he had been the dean of the Harvard Law School. Bob Woodward: I was not in intelligence; I was in communications, and they are different in the Navy. Did you? and he said, No. And the whole town shook, as far as Im concerned, because that was the first time we had been accused of getting anything wrong. But the real input comes from people who believe in a free press, believe in the First Amendment, believe in open discourse as much as possible, hate secrets, hate secret government, hate secret concentrations of power. I would have summer jobs, while my parents and other siblings would go on vacation, for instance. 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. ", To read excerpts, click here. (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.) Mr. Woodward, in your bookShadowyou talk about how Nixons presidency affected the presidents whove come since. When Woodward left the Navy, American involvement in Vietnam and domestic opposition to the war were at their height. [16], In 1992, also for Time, Bernstein wrote a cover story publicizing the alliance between Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan. NEW YORK . Bob Woodward: Quite late. The fastest-selling book in the history of its publisher, Simon & Schuster, it immediately topped The New York Times bestseller list, and within eight days of publication was already in its tenth printing. He and 39 others, I might add. 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