Not, "What did the president know and when did he know it? I mean, I believed it, because it was I knew it was coming. There were some teachers and lawyers and business people, but no writers. [31] Due to their different styles, other journalists described them as a perfect team. Robert H. Ferrell Kenneth Starr has served as a judge on the court of appeals, as U.S. solicitor general, and came to nat, Richard M. Nixon No surprises. 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. Pakula didnt want facts alone. Whats the government up to? [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". And she decided to do it. 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. I think it is an emotion that if you bask in it, its like hate; it will destroy you. Woodward had married reporter Francie Barnard, and . With astonishing regularity, Woodward has continued to produce bestselling books on previously hidden aspects of American life. 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. Think of that! Bob Woodward: Oh, yes. She had the lawyers on the same phones. Bob Woodward has two daughters, Tali and Diana. You had a lot of Cuban or Spanish-speaking guys in masks and rubber gloves, with walkie-talkies, arrested in the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at 2:00 in the morning. And no one goes back or slows down or digs enough, particularly me. Woodwards father was a prominent attorney, and hoped that Robert would follow in his footsteps. Can he get the hurt and vulnerability?, Throughout filming in 1975, if there was a question on how Woodward or Bernstein might react, Redford or Hoffman or Pakula called either man. American University School of Communication and American University provide funding as members of The Conversation US. Much of their hard work was a quest for access to anyone who knew the real secrets of the Nixon White House. 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. Robert U. Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, and raised in nearby Wheaton. One was Woodward and Bernsteins All the Presidents Men, the well-timed memoir about their reporting. ." And we had to be sure the headline was right. Ben Bradlee: Probably the first or second day, really. One story that Ephron shared with Pakula concerned how the two reporters sparred as they raced to complete the book All the Presidents Men. Woodward, she told the director, could be so stubborn and bullheaded and had no instinct for writing. When Ephron and Bernstein were in Martinique on vacation, Woodward and Bernstein fought on the telephone, to the tune of a $400 bill, about verb tenses. Bob Woodward was at the very head of that pack, flaunting his access to the Bush White House while failing to ask the only question that really mattered. [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. #inline-recirc-item--id-abdd83c2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, #right-rail-recirc-item--id-abdd83c2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { 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. I was the lowest-paid reporter at The Washington Post, because they would only give you credit with the Newspaper Guild if you had worked for a daily, and I had worked for a weekly. The duo of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have become synonymous with reporting the comings and goings of the Watergate scandal. The shadowy man was the compass to point the journalist duo in the right direction. The tapes were crucial to determining that Nixon had obstructed justice. You want to make sense out of it. Bob Woodward: No, not that I can think of. How does this affect me, Nixon, the president? Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss are "still good friends", a source has insisted, despite rumours the pair might have fallen out. 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. 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. Much to his chagrin. There are still, somewhere, embarrassing, Instagram-quality pictures of me wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a reel-to-reel tape-recorder that said, "Property of the Watergate Bugging Team.". Woodward stayed at The Washington Post. Mr. Woodward, theres a last question wed like to ask. [18], Bernstein left the Post in 1977 and expanded into other areas due to his reputation from the Watergate reporting. I had fallen in love with some books at a younger age like Swiss Family Robinson, adventure stories, but I tried to read Crime and Punishment, and read some other books, and then in high school I took a course reading books, and that really kind of focused me on the value of a book. One midnight in June 1975, Bernstein watched as Pakula directed a scene. The End of a Presidency (1974) by the staff of the New York Times provides a useful combination of analysis and chronology with a sampling of the major documents. It was inconceivable that Nixon wasnt. And he would be going over to the White House to give Nixon the news that he didnt have any his support in the Senate was eroding. Ben Bradlee: Nixon himself? Mitchell? So we tried to just keep people out of the building. Neither of those marriages could withstand all that pressure and that fame and money. " From the age of 13 to 15, I embraced the scandal with all the geek force that puberty could muster. It appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for three weeks. It also made Woodward and Bernstein the most famous journalists of all time. He continued the story of presidential leadership and foreign policy in Obamas Wars (2010). They were tireless young reporters, fearless and not intimidated by the very powerful people they were investigating. I have forgotten which one it was. However popular, the heroic-journalist myth is a vast exaggeration of the effect of their work. Bob Woodward said that Lewis "laid the foundation for what the paper was able to do in reporting the story." NEW YORK . You want it to be fair. We actually published three papers with it before they stopped us, and then we were in the courts for 12 days. So in an odd way, those in my business have a million allies out there. And we published the next day. The rest of them all got away with it. Mr. Bradlee, there is a scene early in the book and the movie, All the Presidents Men, in which you criticize Woodward and Bernstein for their approach to a story about E. Howard Hunt, and his interest in Chappaquiddick and Ted Kennedy. The qualities that each other had -- the qualities that they needed [to report Watergate] -- they didnt like. Together, they followed the story and co-wrote the best-seller, "All the President's Men.". A drone. I can tell you exactly where it was the night when it all went down, when those burglars were arrested inside the Watergate Hotel. Sometimes, people accuse us of bringing down a president, which of course we didnt do, and shouldnt have done,Graham said. So we started phrasing it close to resignation, and debating resignation, and then, finally, we learned that I think he was going to do it at nine oclock at night, or eight oclock at night. Ephron delivered Max prematurely after finding out. See also Myron J. Smith, Watergate: An Annotated Bibliography (1983).Updated information gathered from simonsays.com, an online service. Bob Woodward: And problems. But together they did something that neither one of them could do individually. He went to jail for that. Hed started at age two, I think. "They couldn't be more different. And there was a sort of, as I have said, I am packing my bags quality to his voice that didnt tell you everything you needed to know but certainly got you focused on, you know, this is interesting now. The guts are supplied by the owners of the newspaper and the editors. Maybe it was 16, but he had fully a decade-plus of experience under his belt. Its not clear, its obscure. Events are filtered through minds and memories and prejudices, and you feel intimate with his characters. Hunt had been studying Ted Kennedy and checked books out of the library. . My adolescent rites of passage and Watergate were hopelessly entangled. 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 in it, you just saw that it was not as pure and simple a community as the members liked people to think. He was rebellious, which led to him failing out of college. 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. Together, they became Hollywood icons. Bob Woodward: Yes, we are. Yes. Leon Jaworski, like richard m. nixon, came from a poor, deeply religious background. Los Angeles, Remember that Harry Styles Spitgate drama? Mr. Bradlee, by the time of the Watergate affair, the Post had already come into conflict with the Nixon administration over the Pentagon Papers. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in and, of. 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. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Elsa Walsh, a writer for The New Yorker. We didnt allow television in for six months, I dont think. In 1982, for ABC's Nightline, Bernstein was the first to report[citation needed] during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon that Ariel Sharon had "deceived the cabinet about the real intention of the operationto drive the Palestinians out of Lebanon, not (as he had claimed) to merely establish a 25-kilometer security zone north from the border". He was also integral in finding vital evidence and information at the scene of the crime (per Mental Floss). On the eve of the 2016 election, Woodward returned to the Watergate story one more time. Carl had a harder time. And she had a style of I want to know whats going on. Some people think I was in intelligence. 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 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. 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 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. I think most people feel that the old Post would have just sat by. 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. Ben Bradlee: How about the Boston Globe and the Catholic Church? Encyclopedia of World Biography. Although the movie is the result of Redfords determination to get it made as the Watergate story unfolded, its authenticity and endurance have everything to do with its director, Alan J. 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