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. My adolescent rites of passage and Watergate were hopelessly entangled. So all the while that this was coming out, you were being very careful that there was enough confirmation of these things? Im thinking of the bookAs I Lay Dying, which is from all different characters points of view, like interviewing people for a story. 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. Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss are "still good friends", a source has insisted, despite rumours the pair might have fallen out. An informant in the federal government, it was not until 2005 that the public finally put a name on Deep Throat. 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. I know a lot about that story because my son was the editor at the Boston Globe who ran that investigation, and I think thats a perfect example of how newspapers can persist in the face of denials and correct wrongs. 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 . What other American journalist could do that? 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 ). Sometimes, people accuse us of bringing down a president, which of course we didnt do, and shouldnt have done,Graham said. Are there particular books that you remember? 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. I think there were two or three then, but I think there are six now. How did it happen? 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 .. You have Hunt saying Oh, my God! At a later arraignment, one of the guys whispered to a judge. Encyclopedia of World Biography. It was going to be reproduced in the history books, and we wanted to be sure that we got it right, and be sure that some there wasnt a typo. How do I pay someone back, either good or bad, for what they have done to me?. Irresponsible., * Carl saw Bob as a machine. You probably didnt sleep a whole lot that night. He attended Yale University on a Naval ROTC scholarship, and majored in history and English literature. On the eve of the 2016 election, Woodward returned to the Watergate story one more time. [10], At the University of Maryland, College Park, he was a reporter for the school's independent daily, The Diamondback. They have always backed what I do. Mr. Bradlee, its important to remember that Nixon was re-elected during this period. Not, "What did the president know and when did he know it? Woodward cautiously would have to go from one step literally to another. And yet it was Bernsteins daring that was necessary.. In the watergate scandal, Jaworski, Starr, Kenneth Winston More so than the book, the cinematic adaptation of All the Presidents Men placed Woodward and Bernstein at the decisive center of Watergates unraveling. He always saw me as a lawyer. 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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. Ben Bradlee: How about the Boston Globe and the Catholic Church? . How would you summarize that? David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (1979) places the Bernstein and Woodward story into a history of recent American journalism. Following the 1972 arrests, journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post investigated the scandal relentlessly. He continued the story of presidential leadership and foreign policy in Obamas Wars (2010). 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. Mr. Woodward, at what point did you realize that President Nixon was implicated in this? [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. What the hell were they in there for? They were not hard to support, these young reporters, because they were right. He was a much better writer. He met his Deep Throat source secretly to get as much information as possible. We talk all the time. Before this, the three men went to great lengths to hide Felt's identity. Make no mistake (as Nixon himself was fond of saying), what Woodward and Bernstein accomplished from 1972 to 1974 was incredible and deserving of all the accolades they received at the time. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman portrayed them in the 1976 movie. She said Bernstein was driven to uncover the Watergate story because he wanted to prove everyone at the Post wrong. 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. They weren't big, White House reporters. Where the hell? His father was a judge and Woodward eventually entered the Navy after graduating from Yale. 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.". Bernstein's career since Watergate has continued to focus on the theme of the use and abuse of power via books and magazine articles. No soul.. He knew all about my mother, brother -- everything. (Jason Robards, who played Bradlee, is on screen only 10 minutes.). And there we watched thousands of "indignados" flood the streets of Madrid, the precursor to Occupy Wall Street back home. To a certain extent, I was able to go my own way. This was later confirmed by both Woodward and Bernstein. Whats the government up to? And a college dropout. Now an associate editor at The Washington Post, for several years Bob Woodward oversaw the papers special investigative projects. It was, after all, the courts unanimous ruling in July 1974, ordering Nixon to surrender tapes subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor, that sealed the presidents fate. Finally, the night before we published came the critical moment, and we were in my house. I really we knew it, we knew it, we knew it, but we couldnt we were being told by the people who were telling us that if we publish it, hell change his mind and wont resign! Within the Cite this article tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. Bob Woodward: As defendants, as tax cases, divorce cases, the full catastrophe of litigation. Although Woodward was reluctant to talk about himself as a reporter, he was determined to expose other peoples secrets. I mean, I believed it, because it was I knew it was coming. 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. So this was over a period of days, I take it, that it got interesting. So its not inevitable that the system works. Youre not used to seeing your actions. Bob Woodward: Who knows whether its that? It seemed to always be about Nixon. 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. He started working for the Washington Post in 1971, nine months before the Watergate break-in. What I try to do is piece together how people make decisions. Woodward would only reveal his informant was an individual working in the Executive Branch. 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. JAWORSKI, LEON And she said, When will we know the full story of Watergate? Were you the only child? ", Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Review: Michael B. Jordan is the one to fly now with Creed III, Hunger Games star Jena Malone says someone I had worked with sexually assaulted her, Review: The gorgeous new movie Pacifiction will hypnotize you. Hes a reporter doll. 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. You dont have a context for it, so it destroys the very notion of context, because the only context you know as a child is family. All stability. "[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. But there's a lot that's not generally known about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. His daughter, Tali, attends the University of California at Berkeley. 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. I think they were really out to get to the bottom of the story. But they missed decisive elements of Watergate, notably the payment of hush money to the burglars and the existence of Nixons White House tapes. 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