They had a much-publicized extramarital relationship in 1979. Woodward and Bernstein never disclosed any information or provided hints about Deep Throat and spoke about him in vague terms in their book, "All the President's Men.". Listen to the music that blared in static-y mono glory from 77, WABC, on the beach those Watergate summers, from Lynyrd Skynyrd ("Now Watergate does not bother me") to David Bowie ("Do you remember your President Nixon?"). He knew all about my mother, brother -- everything. (Jason Robards, who played Bradlee, is on screen only 10 minutes.). [23], Bernstein is a frequent guest and analyst on television news programs, and in 2011 wrote articles for Newsweek/The Daily Beast, comparing Rupert Murdoch's News of the World phone-hacking scandal to Watergate. You want to deal a careful glancing blow. Bob Woodward: Who knows whether its that? After the clapping died down, Woodward observed, "There was lots of applause, but it wasn't universal.". Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. It took a long time, and if you examine the sequence, you could identify hundreds of points where the road to full disclosure would have been the thread would have been cut. People had troubles, and people had secrets. You want it to be fair. Bernstein's career since Watergate has continued to focus on the theme of the use and abuse of power via books and magazine articles. Hoffman was running down an empty street, chasing after Redfords gray Volvo as it pulled out of the Post parking lot. Bob can formulate and Carl can draw conclusions.. You want to make sense out of it. [3] The Star, however, unofficially required a college degree to write for the paper. ", After Watergate, Shepard says, the two went in "completely different directions. Bob Woodward: Yes, we are. That happened a long time ago. Margaret later became a government minister in her own right. What attracted you to the newspaper business? There was the whole intelligence-gathering apparatus. 1996 - 2023 American AcademyofAchievement. Was he the more experienced journalist at the time? Were there siblings? We shouldnt do that. That doesnt mean there wont be more scandals and maybe even larger scandals, but in a sense, the vision or the dream of the people who wrote the Constitution has, at least in part, been realized. Mr. Bradlee, its important to remember that Nixon was re-elected during this period. [16], In 1992, also for Time, Bernstein wrote a cover story publicizing the alliance between Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan. Bob Woodward: About six months after Watergate, after Carl and I had written many of almost all of our main stories, she called me up for lunch. Without them, he likely would have served out his presidential term. We didnt allow any television people in. Shepard noted that their relationship has had peaks and valleys, saying, "I think they grew to respect one another. Bob Woodward: Sure. Woodward gained valuable information through an unnamed informant, nicknamed Deep Throat, by Post managing editor Howard Simon. These guys lied because they didnt know the truth, and they couldnt believe that they were being lied to. Ben Bradlee: That we had really done a really good job. Bob needed Carl because Carl was pushy. Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss are "still good friends", a source has insisted, despite rumours the pair might have fallen out. Where did you work? And he went, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency. And I know my reaction was one of Oh! By June 17, 1972, what Hunter S. Thompson had famously called "the crest of a high and beautiful wave." of the 1960s had crashed and dissapiated. In the end, the real exceptionalism of Richard Nixon was merely that he was dumb enough to get caught. 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. Ben Bradlee: From Daniel Ellsberg. Mr. Bradlee, what were your emotions when Nixon resigned? The Iran-Contra Affair involved a secret foreign policy operation directed by White House officials in the national security counc, Truman, Harry S. The best duos complement the other's strengths. 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 . So we tried to just keep people out of the building. It turned out that he hadnt been asked, and that interested us a great deal, because if the prosecution wasnt asking him those interesting questions, that suggested that there was a reason they werent, and the reason might be that they were trying to cover it up. To a certain extent, I was able to go my own way. What books impressed you as a kid? 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. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. Certainly during Watergate, it didnt get transmitted to Carl Bernstein or myself through them. Ukraine's neighbor Moldova, host to thousands of Ukrainian refugees, is monitoring the conflict closely while . Whos going to get what lead and put it together? The idealized journalist of the Watergate era and beyond was wedded to the highest ethical standards and driven only by truth, not by ideology. He has also done reporting for television and opinion commentary. On the eve of the 2016 election, Woodward returned to the Watergate story one more time. Hes a reporter doll. Anyway, it took two days, and we got confirmation that there was, and in fact there was a slush fund of $750,000. Kind of going, CIA. And the judge said, Where? And he went, CIA. And the judge said, Speak up. His writing was serious and matter-of-fact. They have always backed what I do. So all the while that this was coming out, you were being very careful that there was enough confirmation of these things? . Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. And once you are convicted of a felony, you cant own television stations, so it would have cost us all the television stations. Kenneth Starr has served as a judge on the court of appeals, as U.S. solicitor general, and came to nat, Richard M. Nixon The article was entitled "The Idiot Culture". All stability. It took some of us from the Watergate generation a long time to see it. Ben Bradlee: We were being very careful. Leon Jaworski, like richard m. nixon, came from a poor, deeply religious background. } President Nixon attempted to use the office of the presidency to cover up the crimes and his involvement with any break-ins. 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. Special Prosecutor Cox and Jaworski investigated this, put lots of people in jail. But together they did something that neither one of them could do individually. 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. www.8days.sg It was a White House operation. She said Bernstein was driven to uncover the Watergate story because he wanted to prove everyone at the Post wrong. The judge said, What do you do? and Woodward overheard the words CIA. So if your interest isnt whetted by this time, youre not a journalist. I mean, I believed it, because it was I knew it was coming. 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. And when Redford wanted to film the movie in the Post, we told him he couldnt. 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. Eighteen years after the Supreme Court ruled that they couldnt shut us down, the prosecuting attorney, who was the Solicitor General of the United States, wrote the Post a letter saying that in the whole Pentagon Papers, there was no threat to national security. Woodward, 60, whose parents divorced when he was 12, is the son of a Midwestern Republican judge, graduated from Yale in 1965, and joined the Navy. What in my business Ive found is that we basically do have a free press, that we can operate independently. Bob Woodward: Sure. Contributors control their own work and posted freely to our site. He started working for the Washington Post in 1971, nine months before the Watergate break-in. I am repeatedly struck by how I have missed part of the story, always. 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. Yes. Pakula wrote that Redford would have to scrap his charm. 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. Perfect. Im thinking of the bookAs I Lay Dying, which is from all different characters points of view, like interviewing people for a story. She pointed out that, "Woodward grew up in the Midwest, Republican household, went to Yale, was in the Navy. Alicia Shepard fills in the gaps in her very candid book, "Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate.". 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. 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. THIS year marks the 30th anniversary of the movie All the Presidents Men, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, respectively. Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift still good friends - 8 Days - 8Days.sg. Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex. An informant in the federal government, it was not until 2005 that the public finally put a name on Deep Throat. With the full support of their editor, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward and his Post colleague Carl Bernstein continued to pursue the Watergate story, after other news outlets had dropped the story. Between 1980 and 1984, Bernstein was the network's Washington Bureau Chief and then a senior correspondent. He is the author or co-author of seven books: All the President's Men, The Final Days, and The Secret Man, with Bob Woodward; His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time, with Marco Politi; Loyalties; A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton;[3] and Chasing History, a memoir of his early years in journalism. But then, of course, if you think about it, Nixon is the one who did himself in. David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (1979) places the Bernstein and Woodward story into a history of recent American journalism. All the President's Men was made into a hit motion picture starring Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein (1976). No surprises. For the team that took down President Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein followed this format to a tee. Carl knew he needed [that quality] but despised it in Bob. You dont think of them as real authorities in the question of what is classified and what isnt, and what is a threat to the United States and what isnt. I recall in that incident, I did one, he did one, and I looked at his, and I realized his was better, as was almost always the case. You mentioned that you had been at the Post for nine months. So much has happened since then. Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post during Watergate, told me that Pakula spent so much time with each of us. "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. All of us do! You want to spend time on it. Encyclopedia.com. Three Post editors were portrayed by award-winning character actors: Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee, Martin Balsam as Howard. He joined the Washington Post's metropolitan staff in 1966, specializing in police, court, and city hall assignments, with occasional self-assigned feature stories. His daughter, Tali, attends the University of California at Berkeley. We're lucky to have Woodward and Bernstein -- so young in 1972 -- still with us. Thats a quote from the movie and the book. Get our L.A. 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. And of course, Muskie was going to be the strong candidate against Nixon. I would have been more effective.. Hes finally embarrassed, said Woodward with a smile. They had this it looked like a local burglary at the Democratic Headquarters, a police story. He was also integral in finding vital evidence and information at the scene of the crime (per Mental Floss). Did they support you, or did they think it was a little strange? 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. We wanted to be sure that it wasnt sabotaged in some way by, you know, printers slipping in the F word or something like that that was going to screw it up. 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. Whats the government up to? Since the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan closed the lid on the post-Watergate era, 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, a president who WAS impeached for lying about his sex life, and a president who WASN'T impeached for lying the nation into a war that killed thousands of American soldiers and innocent civilians, while carrying out torture and other violations of human rights more "perverse" than anything during Nixon's presidency. He just had a psychosis about being controlled by authority figures. 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. 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. A few weeks after receiving his bachelors degree in 1965, he entered the United States Navy for a four-year tour of duty. In The Last of the Presidents Men, Woodward told the story of Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who disclosed the existence of President Nixons secret recording system, the revelation that ultimately led to Nixons downfall. They were not hard to support, these young reporters, because they were right. Youre not used to seeing your actions. The Supreme Court ordered the president to turn over his tapes, which really sunk him the smoking gun tapes at the end. They deposited, at the end of 1974, over $600,000. Encyclopedia.com. Woodward would only reveal his informant was an individual working in the Executive Branch. But in his interview with Woodward, Pakula discovered that the reporter could surprise: Other peoples secrets fascinated and obsessed him. Watergate was the biggest political scandal of the century. It seems to me that to be a topnotch investigative journalist, you have to have a lot of guts in order to question some of these things. And most of us had served in World War II. 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 five Watergate burglars and several other Nixon subordinates, including former U.S. Attorney General Mitchell, were sentenced to prison terms. Part of HuffPost Media. 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. Bob Woodward: I dont know whether I feel pride. The who-was-Deep-Throat conjecture kept Woodward, Bernstein and the heroic-journalist myth at the center of Watergate conversations. And my father said probably the severest thing he has ever said to me. 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. Woodward and Bernstein reflect on Watergate and its place in American history. 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 ). 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! Bob Woodward: Or The Sound and the Fury, which is his great book. So I did not have two years experience. Carl had a harder time. In fact, it probably doesnt work that often. We're much better friends than we were at the time. 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. It also made Woodward and Bernstein the most famous journalists of all time. Woodward and Bernstein 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. LHW is a shallow division, this cancellation was just adding insult to injury. 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. Think of that! ." And I think that they knew that each of them had strengths that the other didn't, and they relied on one another. You get to have access to people you wouldnt normally have access to. I would have summer jobs, while my parents and other siblings would go on vacation, for instance. Bob Woodward: I was not married at the time and loved being free to do something. He wanted to understand Woodward and Bernstein deeply so he could capture their true characters and motivations for the movie. Every time the White House denied something, the evidence became clear that it was the White House that was lying. Who were your favorite authors? Mr. Woodward, can you tell us about the night you first got that phone call about a break-in at the Watergate? 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. Were there other people that inspired you? Well, I was down there. 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 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). . But even they seemed to take the wrong lessons from what they'd done. Author Alicia Shepherd said about the pair, "They couldn't be more different. Not, "What did the president know and when did he know it? Bernstein was among three CNN reporters who last . Woodward and Bernsteins account of the investigation, All The Presidents Men, became a national bestseller and was made into a popular motion picture. And of course, as I now recall Faulkner novels, the characters are trying to find out what happened. 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 .. Whats secret? Woodward was soon joined on the story by Bernstein, and together the two young reporters undertook a series of investigative reports that gradually revealed the connections between the burglary and a converging pattern of crimes that finally implicated President Richard M. Nixon himself, forcing his resignation in the face of otherwise certain impeachment. [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. Nixon didnt last too long in that second term. The third vital member of the team of Woodward and Bernstein is the mysterious figure known as "Deep Throat." It is, however, a simplistic trope that not even Watergate-era principals at the Post embraced. I got there just as Hoffman broke from the building. How did that come about? Although Woodward and Bernstein were able to link the burglary of Democratic National Headquarters to operatives inside the Nixon White House, and to President Nixons re-election campaign, they were unable at first to prove any direct involvement by the president or his senior staff to either the burglary or its subsequent cover-up. I had a friend who read books like Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. 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. What did you mean by that? STARR, KENNETH WINSTON He is now Assistant Managing Editor of the Post, and has written nearly a dozen bestselling books. Richard Nixon's RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) gives the former president's version of the events surrounding Watergate. That the difficulties they put up to prevent the truth from coming out had been overcome. [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. But she was quite curious, quite well-informed, plugged in. They publicly tied prominent Washington figures, such as Nixons former attorney general, John Mitchell, to the scandal. Ben Bradlee: Well, we were tired. This is not your average burglary.. You have to remember that the Attorney General, who prosecuted us was the first and only Attorney General in the history of the United States to go to jail. And there we watched thousands of "indignados" flood the streets of Madrid, the precursor to Occupy Wall Street back home. 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. 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. Woodward and Bernstein did disclose financial links between Nixon's reelection campaign and the burglars arrested June 17, 1972, at headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, in what. "You could just tell," Shepard continued, "by how different they were that they wouldn't be friends and they wouldn't be working together. 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. 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. 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. 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). Are there particular books that you remember? 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