What in my business Ive found is that we basically do have a free press, that we can operate independently. Where were you born? Ben Bradlee: From Daniel Ellsberg. What is this secret government we have? How did we get into committing 500,000 troops 10,000 miles away in a way that we could never win? W. Mark Felt, Sr., a retired associate director of the FBI, revealed that he had provided Woodward with details of the Watergate cover-up. Yet I knew that he was right.. A drone. 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? 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. We actually published three papers with it before they stopped us, and then we were in the courts for 12 days. She was the publisher. Editors looked around and thought, Who could we call in? But three or four days later, we got a copy of them from Ellsberg, only we didnt have three months to study them. If you didnt have the Independent Counsel, which was a direct outgrowth of Watergate, you never would have had Ken Starr, you never would have had a criminal investigation of Clinton. What other American journalist could do that? Few in the room could recall a joint public appearance by the famous Washington Post reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal that brought down a president. 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. Were there particular teachers or relatives? You want to make sense out of it. There was even a movie made about the scandal and their role in it, "All The President's Men.". Harry S. Truman It seems that there are very few long, extensive investigations into corruption where an editor lets reporters work on a story for a couple of years. 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). They publicly tied prominent Washington figures, such as Nixons former attorney general, John Mitchell, to the scandal. So we tried to just keep people out of the building. [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. They show how Pakula came to view his protagonists. Woodward also got a dig in about Bernsteins famed love of the ladies, recalling Bernstein got a list of people who worked on the Richard Nixon re-election campaign from an ex-girlfriend. 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. Every time the White House denied something, the evidence became clear that it was the White House that was lying. Carl was the big thinker, and Woodward was the one that make sure it got done" (via CBS News). The processes that caused [Nixons] resignation were constitutional., Grahams words, however accurate and incisive, scarcely altered the dominant popular interpretation of Watergate. I didnt start reading seriously until probably junior high school. That happened a long time ago. So it was the classic kind of Winesburg, Ohio small town. He went to jail for that. 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. In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. He had worked in the Pentagon, and then he had worked for the Rand Corporation. What it turned out was that the question hinged on whether or not he had told that to the grand jury, and since he hadnt, he was able to say No. He wasnt asked was there a slush fund, which, of course, there was. Famously portrayed by Dustin Hoffman (Bernstein) and Robert Redford (Woodward) in the 1976 movie classic All the Presidents Men, the pair are far from best buddies and though they did not sit together on the dais, it appears some ice has thawed. I may have been an extreme case, but not a unique one. The guts are supplied by the owners of the newspaper and the editors. 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. 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. 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. And once you are convicted of a felony, you cant own television stations, so it would have cost us all the television stations. Each had strengths that complemented the others. He is now Assistant Managing Editor of the Post, and has written nearly a dozen bestselling books. He started working for the Washington Post in 1971, nine months before the Watergate break-in. Didnt you have a chat with the Posts publisher, Katharine Graham, in the midst of all of this? But the new Woodward and Bernstein piece was remarkably good, in a sense, of placing the crimes of the Nixon White House in a broader campaign of a war against lawful dissent to the Vietnam War that expanded to the media and the opposition Democrats. I was worried about the Posts image of all of this, and that there would be a segment of society who said, you know, They were out to get him, those bastards, and they got him. And it was going to be we were just very careful. 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? Bernstein and Woodward stayed on the story, though the government agencies they had helped to prod into activity now began to resent their continuing revelations. ", Shepard agreed completely with Smith's assessment that, "There could not have been two more opposite people who had to work so closely together.". Was he the more experienced journalist at the time? In The Choice, he uses his proven research methods for an illuminating examination of the quest for the presidency. The tapes were crucial to determining that Nixon had obstructed justice. [20], He then began working for ABC News. There were some teachers and lawyers and business people, but no writers. Then and certainly today, there is still much debate about whether confidential informants are ethically viable due to their hidden identities. 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 . I suspect that most people from the generations that came after mine don't really know that much about Watergate other than that a president resigned in disgrace, the only time that's ever happened. What does the American Dream mean to you? This. Anyway, it took two days, and we got confirmation that there was, and in fact there was a slush fund of $750,000. Woodward and Bernstein were successful at concealing the identity of their informant until 2005 when he outed himself due to the public. Bob Woodward: Or The Sound and the Fury, which is his great book. Get to the bottom of it.. Muskie, in the emotion of the campaign, was trying to explain what had gone on. Bob Woodward: As defendants, as tax cases, divorce cases, the full catastrophe of litigation. Bob Woodward: Yes, we are. I think pride is hubris. Ben Bradlee: Probably the first or second day, really. 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. Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as president on August 9. But as Pakula began to understand Woodward, he wondered if the charming, handsome Redford, then 39, could play someone so different from himself. Yes. [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. Compared to Woodward, Bernstein was a strong writer, and therefore wrote articles based on Woodward's information from Deep Throat. 2019Encyclopedia.com | All rights reserved. Bernstein was born to a secular Jewish family in Washington, D.C.,[4][5][6] the son of Sylvia (ne Walker) and Alfred Bernstein. Woodward relied on one source whom he refused to identify even to his editors except by the code-name "Deep Throat.". So I did not have two years experience. Who were your favorite authors? Bob Woodward may have achieved the greatest publishing success of his career with Fear, the inside story of turmoil inside the administration of President Donald Trump. You have kids who werent born at that time doing term papers on it at colleges and high schools. 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. Alicia Shepard said, "Carl was the big thinker, and Woodward was the one that [made] sure it got done [T]hey knew that each of them had strengths that the other didn't, and they relied on one another. Maybe we have a story and maybe we dont.. Thats the standard clich about Watergate: the system worked. 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. We didnt allow any television people in. Why did they think of you? For the team that took down President Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein followed this format to a tee. The distinct memories I have of books are from college. She pointed out that, "Woodward grew up in the Midwest, Republican household, went to Yale, was in the Navy. 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. When Woodward left the Navy, American involvement in Vietnam and domestic opposition to the war were at their height. Are there particular books that you remember? When you began to work as a journalist, what was the reaction of your family? 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. It was to see if they could find the origins of our involvement in Vietnam, and what went wrong. So he didnt think it was a good idea. 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. 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. The rest of them all got away with it. }, First published on December 26, 2006 / 7:23 AM. It was one of the most incredible feelings that Ive had in my life because, you know, it had been a long time since we had started to work on the story, and I didnt exactly know who I was or who he was -- existentially, it was sort of a total mind----. Woodward moved logically. 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. We didnt allow television in for six months, I dont think. You are trying to understand somebodys reasoning and their emotions and the demons they may or may not have. 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. Bush . How do I pay someone back, either good or bad, for what they have done to me?. There was competition. So its not inevitable that the system works. This is not your average burglary.. The follow-up story was based primarily on their arraignment in court, and it was based on information given our police reporter, Al Lewis, by the cops, showing them an address book that one of the burglars had in his pocket, and in the address book was the name Hunt, H-u-n-t, and the phone number was the White House phone number, which Al Lewis and every reporter worth his salt knew. See also Myron J. Smith, Watergate: An Annotated Bibliography (1983).Updated information gathered from simonsays.com, an online service. They both got married during the heady days of Watergate, Carl most famously to Nora Ephron. Alfred E. Lewis, a veteran police reporter for the newspaper, wrote the first story of the break-ins at the Watergate Hotel a day before the first Woodward and Bernstein article. 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. 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. Redford can get that compulsive drive. So why not take Woodward at his word? Bob Woodward: Well, we looked at it differently. But their crimes unraveled in slow motion over those two years -- aided by one tough judge, a feistier Congress than we could comprehend today, and some skillful journalists, of whom Woodward and Bernstein became the most famous and best remembered. 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. Woodward had married reporter Francie Barnard, and . Most of us had quite fancy security clearances in that capacity. Between 1980 and 1984, Bernstein was the network's Washington Bureau Chief and then a senior correspondent. Bull---- artist. On the other hand, Carl Bernstein was the child of two Communist activists (per Washingtonian). You mentioned Faulkner. And a college dropout. Ephron delivered Max prematurely after finding out. Woodward cautiously would have to go from one step literally to another. The Twitter-sized version is the president had a goon squad that did all kinds of buggings and break-ins and political dirty tricks, and when those burglars with ties to the White House were busted 40 years ago, Nixon and his top aides broke the law to cover it all up. But they missed decisive elements of Watergate, notably the payment of hush money to the burglars and the existence of Nixons White House tapes. "They couldn't be more different. Ben Bradlee: That we had really done a really good job. In the end, the real exceptionalism of Richard Nixon was merely that he was dumb enough to get caught. It was the first film I ever made like this, Hoffman told me. Richard Matthew Pious Hes finally embarrassed, said Woodward with a smile. 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. 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. Although Woodward was reluctant to talk about himself as a reporter, he was determined to expose other peoples secrets. I was asleep in my bedroom in a suburb of New York, a 13-year-old boy, still trying to make sense of this strange world I'd been born into, where police in blue helmets fought young people in the street, and great men were gunned down in their prime. You want to deal a careful glancing blow. [17] A second book, The Final Days, was published by Bernstein and Woodward in 1976 as a follow-up chronicling Nixon's last days in office. In those days, you worried terribly about typos. When you were a child, who most inspired you? 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. Where were you when he resigned, and what were your feelings? ", 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. Woodward! 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. Those were second marriages. Bob Woodward was born to a conservative family in the Midwest (via CBS News). So you had the White House. Bob Woodward: I was not in intelligence; I was in communications, and they are different in the Navy. 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. [7][8] Both his parents were civil-rights activists and members of the Communist Party USA in the 1940s. Bob Woodward: If somebody came from Mars to America and went around for months or years, and then you asked them who has the best jobs, they would say the journalists, because the journalists get to make momentary entries into peoples lives when they are interesting, and get out when they cease to be interesting. Hes a good lawyer, a fair man.. It's the system. He was not lazy, she insisted. Woodward's strength was in investigation, so he focused on investigating the Watergate scandal. He did. 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. That we had done stories, but it is a process of the judiciary, the Congress, the Supreme Court, that led to Nixons demise. 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. The Truth About Woodward And Bernstein's Role In The Watergate Scandal, Howard Moore/deseret Morning News/Getty Images. 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. There had been some disparaging remarks made elsewhere about his wife, and he cried, in the snow, in New Hampshire, standing on the back of a flatbed truck, and its generally believed that was the end of his candidacy. How did it happen? 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. 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. I would have summer jobs, while my parents and other siblings would go on vacation, for instance. All stability. Mr. Bradlee, its important to remember that Nixon was re-elected during this period. It was embarrassing that they had this great story and we didnt. And my father, a man of great restraint, nonjudgmental in fact, said probably the severest thing he has ever said to me. 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 said, Youre crazy. And at the same time, it was my decision. Much to his chagrin. Despite their stark differences, they needed each another. It was one of those families that was glued together.. Somebody who through force of personality made history interesting and important. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by longtime journalism figure Gene Roberts.[2]. You are trying to find out what really happened. Before this, the three men went to great lengths to hide Felt's identity. We talk all the time. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. Will the luck of the Irish affect the Oscars? But then, of course, if you think about it, Nixon is the one who did himself in. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. What about you? Not, "What did the president know and when did he know it? Bernstein's biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton, A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, was published by Alfred A. Knopf on June 5, 2007. 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 was that about? The Post played a critical role in the beginning, and Woodward and Bernstein came in at critical moments. Woodward immediately published a full account of his dealings with Felt in his book, The Secret Man. But glaring gaps remain. Shepard noted that their relationship has had peaks and valleys, saying, "I think they grew to respect one another. And we published the next day. At that period, what did you like to read? 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. Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss are "still good friends", a source has insisted, despite rumours the pair might have fallen out. Nixon resigned from the presidency on August 9, 1974, after tape recordings that he had ordered made, and then tried to conceal from and deny to investigators, were made public. 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. Stop!, Bernstein recalled in a 1975 interview, now in Pakulas archive, that big crowds were outside. The story was true, but he had never testified to it because they never asked him. He was ten months further along in his career than Woodward when the scandal broke out. 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 qualities that each other had -- the qualities that they needed [to report Watergate] -- they didnt like. 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