Beyond that, the deeper problem of Nixon Exceptionalism is that it established new standards for what constituted presidential misconduct -- standards that weren't based on the discredited ideas of the 1960s, but the "objective" standards of the Watergate era. "Carl was the big thinker, and Woodward was the one that make sure it got done.". Underneath all the arguments and fights -- way down, they hated each other, Pakula wrote. Bob Woodward: As defendants, as tax cases, divorce cases, the full catastrophe of litigation. When you began to work as a journalist, what was the reaction of your family? Woodward gained valuable information through an unnamed informant, nicknamed Deep Throat, by Post managing editor Howard Simon. For me, the still powerful memories of Watergate have been supplanted by fresher ones. Although Woodward was reluctant to talk about himself as a reporter, he was determined to expose other peoples secrets. That happened a long time ago. A drone. It appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for three weeks. In addition, they tracked down and interviewed a large number of people who gradually revealed various pieces of the puzzle. Legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were guests on Sunday's "Reliable Sources" on CNN. 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. 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. Thanks to their investigation and reporting, the American people had a deep look into Nixon's role in the break-ins and cover-ups. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Get to the bottom of it.. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. She posed this, almost suggesting that it was inevitable. Find the perfect classics house stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. 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). Do you remember? What attracted you to the newspaper business? The Post played a critical role in the beginning, and Woodward and Bernstein came in at critical moments. The Iran-Contra Affair involved a secret foreign policy operation directed by White House officials in the national security counc, Truman, Harry S. Id have drinks with him early all of late July and early August. 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. 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. Ehrlichman? They said, Keep going. We've received your submission. 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 can tell you exactly where it was the night when it all went down, when those burglars were arrested inside the Watergate Hotel. Carl Milton Bernstein[1] (/brnstin/ BURN-steen; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author. That really is what were all about. 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. } This was our time, our story. In 1976, All the President's Men was made into a smash Hollywood movie, starring Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein, that won four Academy Awards. Therefore, be sure to refer to those guidelines when editing your bibliography or works cited list. We didnt allow television in for six months, I dont think. Bob Woodward: We had done some of the early stories, that it led to the Senate Watergate Committee, led to the House Judiciary Committee and impeachment investigation. 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. The processes that caused [Nixons] resignation were constitutional., Grahams words, however accurate and incisive, scarcely altered the dominant popular interpretation of Watergate. display: block; So much has happened since then. On the eve of the 2016 election, Woodward returned to the Watergate story one more time. December 26, 2006 / 7:23 AM Bernstein was born to a secular Jewish family in Washington, D.C.,[4][5][6] the son of Sylvia (ne Walker) and Alfred Bernstein. Felt was 91 when, in 2005, he acknowledged through his familys lawyer that he had been Woodwards source after all. I worked quite hard, did a number of stories that the Post and The New York Times picked up. The Supreme Court ordered the president to turn over his tapes, which really sunk him the smoking gun tapes at the end. Were there particular teachers or relatives? So I dont make those kinds of assessments. 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. (The Academy of Achievement interviewed both Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee, the Executive Editor of The Washington Post, on May 1 during the 2003 International Achievement Summit in Washington, D.C. Their interviews are combined here.). It was embarrassing that they had this great story and we didnt. He always saw me as a lawyer. [14] While there, he won first prize in New Jersey's press association for investigative reporting, feature writing, and news on a deadline. The recordings captured Nixon, six days after the burglary, agreeing to a plan to deter the FBI from pursuing its Watergate investigation. Its not clear, its obscure. They were tireless young reporters, fearless and not intimidated by the very powerful people they were investigating. Shepard discussed it with co-anchor Harry Smith on The Early Show Tuesday. I mean, I shudder to think the way we put it. Each of these presidents had their own way of responding. Where did you work? And he went, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency. And I know my reaction was one of Oh! We missed the first edition, but we published it the second edition, which came out at 11 oclock at night, 11:30. Tell us a little bit about what actually happened. His works to date include The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court; The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle; Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi; Veil: The Secret Ways of the CIA; The Commanders, a look inside the decision-making process behind the 1991 Persian Gulf War; The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House; The Choice, on the 1996 presidential campaign, and Maestro, on longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Im sure it would have been more interesting. The five Watergate burglars and several other Nixon subordinates, including former U.S. Attorney General Mitchell, were sentenced to prison terms. #inline-recirc-item--id-abdd83c2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { A year later, he was back at the Post, and at age 29 found himself in the middle of one of the biggest stories of the century. 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. It was strange. Kenneth Starr has served as a judge on the court of appeals, as U.S. solicitor general, and came to nat, Richard M. Nixon How did we get into committing 500,000 troops 10,000 miles away in a way that we could never win? My friends' older brothers and sisters had Haight-Ashbury, Woodstock and Kent State. The rest of them all got away with it. Now an associate editor at The Washington Post, for several years Bob Woodward oversaw the papers special investigative projects. Mr. Woodward, in your bookShadowyou talk about how Nixons presidency affected the presidents whove come since. Where were you in the pecking order of siblings? 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. For the team that took down President Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein followed this format to a tee. 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. The Post is a very competitive institution, and I think that was the main reason. Nonetheless, the heroic-journalist myth became so entrenched that it could withstand disclaimers by Watergate-era principals at the Post such as Graham. William Faulkners books, certainly. 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. 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). 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. As the Watergate scandal unfolded in the pages of the Washington Post in the early 1970s, the two reporters who first broke the story became just as famous as the people they were writing about. No surprises. Had he been Deep Throat, he once told a Connecticut newspaper, I would have done better. And it in many ways is, I think, the principle under which she and her son, Don Graham, tried to run The Washington Post. Some people haven't seen it yet. Perfect. The American escalation in Vietnam had just begun. Hes a good lawyer, a fair man.. Bob Woodward: Yes. Where do you work? Sunburned from swimming laps in the forced labor of summer recreation camp, I raced home so I could catch John Dean's afternoon testimony before the Senate Watergate committee, and the next summer I read the paperback version of the committee's report by flashlight at a campground along the Delaware River, while raccoons scurried under my tent. Without them, he likely would have served out his presidential term. So in an odd way, those in my business have a million allies out there. 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.. Despite this, the Nixon White House became suspicious that Felt was leaking information to the press. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. Bob Woodward: June 17, 1972. We had to be sure. [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. 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. But glaring gaps remain. One midnight in June 1975, Bernstein watched as Pakula directed a scene. 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. [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. In the end, the real exceptionalism of Richard Nixon was merely that he was dumb enough to get caught. Bob Woodward: Or The Sound and the Fury, which is his great book. Robert Dole, and Doles successor as the chairman of the Republican Party, George Bush the first. 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.". When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. The assertion shocked some because even J. Edgar Hoover had tried and been unable to prove that Bernstein's parents had been party members. Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication. I didnt start reading seriously until probably junior high school. 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. Bob Woodward: I was not in intelligence; I was in communications, and they are different in the Navy. ", Shepard agreed completely with Smith's assessment that, "There could not have been two more opposite people who had to work so closely together.". And no one goes back or slows down or digs enough, particularly me. [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. Therefore, its best to use Encyclopedia.com citations as a starting point before checking the style against your school or publications requirements and the most-recent information available at these sites: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html. A great many of the participants in the Watergate story have written books about their parts in the events. Woodward was assigned to cover the breaking story, along with a younger but more experienced reporter, Carl Bernstein. You are an observer and you have to work pretty hard to preserve your outsider status, but that is what you get to do as a reporter. And of course, Muskie was going to be the strong candidate against Nixon. To a certain extent, I was able to go my own way. Of course, after the fame of "All the President's Men." Yes. 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. He joined the Washington Post's metropolitan staff in 1966, specializing in police, court, and city hall assignments, with occasional self-assigned feature stories. Woodward cautiously would have to go from one step literally to another. 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. Editors looked around and thought, Who could we call in? 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. The greater significance of Watergate was something that was hard to grasp in 1974, but seems crystal clear now, at least to me. [11] However, Bernstein was dismissed from the university after the fall 1964 semester for bad grades. . Bob Woodward: Oh, yes, I had teachers at Wheaton. Trending News Three Post editors were portrayed by award-winning character actors: Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee, Martin Balsam as Howard. It also made Woodward and Bernstein the most famous journalists of all time. Was he the more experienced journalist at the time? Woodward stayed at The Washington Post. He has also done reporting for television and opinion commentary. Bob Woodward: Sure. How did that come about? 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. }, First published on December 26, 2006 / 7:23 AM. In The Choice, he uses his proven research methods for an illuminating examination of the quest for the presidency. It was also the fact that they were so different, and that they were lowly metro reporters. 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. #inline-recirc-item--id-abdd83c2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, #right-rail-recirc-item--id-abdd83c2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { 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. Bob Woodward: Certainly. However, Bernstein was the first of the pair to think that the Watergate case could be related to President Richard Nixon. 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. Ben Bradlee: Four hundred stories about Watergate in The Washington Post Four hundred in two years and two months. In 1975, it was turned into a movie starring Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein and Robert Redford as Woodward which later went on to be nominated in multiple Oscar (including Best Picture nomination), Golden Globe and BAFTA categories. 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. Youre not used to seeing your actions. Bob Woodward's political affiliation hasn't kept him from criticizing people on both sides of the aisle. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Get our L.A. Its that square, straight, intense, decent quality of Woodwards that works. We understand you got started in the newspaper business right out of the Navy. Nixon didnt last too long in that second term. Robert H. Ferrell Not one of the 17 stories he filed was printed. Robert U. Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, and raised in nearby Wheaton. Not bad, as they say, and what legs! Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward, left, and Carl Bernstein on March 1, 1974, Washington, D.C. What did you mean by that? That we had done stories, but it is a process of the judiciary, the Congress, the Supreme Court, that led to Nixons demise. While single, in the 1980s, Bernstein became known for dating Bianca Jagger, Martha Stewart, and Elizabeth Taylor,[16] among others. Lets be sure for the record to say that it wasnt just the Post. You should let it, He put $40,000 on credit cards to make his first film. AllRightsReserved. Whats the government up to? Dont tell me never. Dont let things elude us. 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. His daughter, Tali, attends the University of California at Berkeley. But she finally said, Well, okay. In January 1975, five months after President Nixon had resigned, Pakula flew to Washington to begin in-depth interviews with a dozen of the principals involved in unraveling the Watergate tale. 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. In the end, the Watergate scandal brought down a president and made Bob Woodward the most famous investigative reporter in America. I now do my books alone, but I have a full-time assistant who is kind of my collaborator. Mr. Bradlee, what were your emotions when Nixon resigned? Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift still good friends - 8 Days - 8Days.sg. 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. By day, he circulated in the citys government offices, and pressed civil servants for every piece of information that might prove useful. In those days, you worried terribly about typos. 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. Hunt had been studying Ted Kennedy and checked books out of the library. 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? 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. One day after Alfred E. Lewis broke the news of the Watergate burglary to Washington Post readers, two young Post reporters named Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein picked up the story. Ben Bradlee: By an overwhelming margin, as we were reminded so often. Pakulas notes, dated May 2, 1975, indicate that hed concluded this about the two reporters: * Bob thought Carl was hype, no follow-through. But in the end, its only a glancing blow. These were the values, after all, that purged America of the evil Richard Nixon -- not the dirty (bleep)ing hippies. That writing was actually on the wall the whole time. 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! 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 ." Were there other writers in your father or mothers family? 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. And it was the origins of the tradition of every scandal after having the suffix, "gate" added onto it at the end of its title to stress how important it is. Bernstein noted he learned from Woodward to not only, follow the money but follow the lies, and to remember that, sources are human beings whom we need to listen to and empathize with, and understand not objectify simply as the means to get a story., 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Daily Shows Roy Wood Jr. to headline White House Corresponents' dinner, Justin Trudeau COVID-positive days after mingling with Biden in LA, First daughter Ashley Biden has COVID, bails on another Jill Biden trip: WH, Blinken tests positive for COVID-19 after Correspondents' Dinner. I mean, I believed it, because it was I knew it was coming. 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. 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. It was the scandal that led to the forced resignation of the President of the United States. Ben Bradlee: The Pentagon Papers was a study commissioned by Nixon in the first or second year of his first term, 1970 or 69. The qualities that each other had -- the qualities that they needed [to report Watergate] -- they didnt like. Ben Bradlee: His name was Griswold, and he had been the dean of the Harvard Law School. You want to make sense out of it. 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