By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. The team stole top-secret documents and wiretapped the phones to listen to conversations. Youve said journalism should be called a practice, like law. Bobs sucking up to people. (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.). ." In 1974, if they had only gotten their (Washington Post) salaries, Woodward would have earned $15,000 and Bernstein $18,000. (They later discovered that Sloan meant to communicate to them that Haldeman was guilty, but that Sloan had not said so to the grand jury because he had not been asked.) And it in many ways is, I think, the principle under which she and her son, Don Graham, tried to run The Washington Post. 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. Bob Woodward: No. Ben Bradlee: From Daniel Ellsberg. Bob Woodward: Yes, and each week it got more and more interesting. There were 7,000 papers finally, and The New York Times got a copy of it. 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. The movie All the Presidents Men placed Woodward and Bernstein at the decisive center of Watergates unraveling. Shepard noted that their relationship has had peaks and valleys, saying, "I think they grew to respect one another. Bob Woodward is an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. There were no bars in town. For the team that took down President Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein followed this format to a tee. Mr. Felt brazenly denied having been Woodwards source. These guys lied because they didnt know the truth, and they couldnt believe that they were being lied to. I think most people feel that the old Post would have just sat by. After the clapping died down, Woodward observed, "There was lots of applause, but it wasn't universal.". Ben Bradlee: By an overwhelming margin, as we were reminded so often. Bob Woodward: Yes, we are. Not bad, as they say, and what legs! 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. There were some teachers and lawyers and business people, but no writers. Editors looked around and thought, Who could we call in? So its not inevitable that the system works. 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. 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. Woodward and Bernstein did disclose financial links between Nixons reelection campaign and the burglars arrested June 17, 1972, at headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, in what was the signal crime of Watergate. 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. Bob Woodward: Sure. AllRightsReserved. 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. They had it for three months, and they started to publish it. 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. He was also integral in finding vital evidence and information at the scene of the crime (per Mental Floss). More than 40 years after they became the world's most famous journalism duo, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are still making news.Bernstein was among three CNN reporters who last week broke the story of former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's allegation that Trump knew in advance of the June 2016 meeting between representatives of his [30], They were also different in work styles. Bob Woodward: Of course. [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. Although Woodward was reluctant to talk about himself as a reporter, he was determined to expose other peoples secrets. Dont tell me never. Dont let things elude us. How did it happen? Bernstein was born to a secular Jewish family in Washington, D.C.,[4][5][6] the son of Sylvia (ne Walker) and Alfred Bernstein. However, Bernstein was the first of the pair to think that the Watergate case could be related to President Richard Nixon. Mr. Bradlee, when did it become clear to you that the Watergate break-in was something more than a simple burglary? I didnt start reading seriously until probably junior high school. Woodward -- the one who stayed in the Beltway journalism racket -- had all the access to the highest level officials that he had craved at the start of Watergate, and yet he remained clueless as to how such access could provide as much disinformation as truth. Lewis was with the Post from 1935 until his retirement in 1985. Bernstein and Woodward did not, all by themselves, bring about the destruction of the Nixon presidency, but some historians of the period do credit their early investigations with both informing and stimulating the official investigations by a special prosecutor, the courts, the Senate Watergate Committee, and the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives that eventually forced Nixon to resign when it was revealed that he had participated in the cover-up almost from the beginning. Was he the more experienced journalist at the time? First, the spokesmen at the White House, Ziegler and some of those guys, and next the Attorney General, and Chuck Colson, all of those people, the White House aides, were lying. The duo of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have become synonymous with reporting the comings and goings of the Watergate scandal. So it was the classic kind of Winesburg, Ohio small town. "Carl was the big thinker, and Woodward was the one that make sure it got done.". Well, I was down there. Between 1980 and 1984, Bernstein was the network's Washington Bureau Chief and then a senior correspondent. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. But then, of course, if you think about it, Nixon is the one who did himself in. Youre not used to seeing your actions. [11] However, Bernstein was dismissed from the university after the fall 1964 semester for bad grades. It was mysterious always, his writing, but of great emotional impact. But as Pakula began to understand Woodward, he wondered if the charming, handsome Redford, then 39, could play someone so different from himself. But there's a lot that's not generally known about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Where did you work? And he went, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency. And I know my reaction was one of Oh! Bob Woodward: We accused some people of things they didnt do that were based on some reports, written reports. And of course, Muskie was going to be the strong candidate against Nixon. Mr. Bradlee, do you think there could be another Watergate today? Woodwards critics insisted that this informant was a fabrication, or at best, a composite based on a number of sources. They said, Keep going. So in an odd way, those in my business have a million allies out there. The processes that caused [Nixons] resignation were constitutional., Grahams words, however accurate and incisive, scarcely altered the dominant popular interpretation of Watergate. Bob Woodward: June 17, 1972. 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. I mean, I shudder to think the way we put it. We had heard that they had this big blockbuster coming up, and suddenly, they just dropped this on us. Since 2003, he has written four books on President George W. Bushs conduct of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: Bush at War, Plan of Attack, State of Denial and The War Within. Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift still good friends - 8 Days - 8Days.sg. How does this affect me, Nixon, the president? 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.". 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. Kind of parse it out. But she wasnt the editor. He was rebellious, which led to him failing out of college. He joined the Washington Post's metropolitan staff in 1971. We want to thank you for talking with us today. That they would sabotage campaigns. The arrest of the Watergate burglars may have happened in the dead of night, but what came in the months ahead was truly an awakening. Bob Woodward said that Lewis "laid the foundation for what the paper was able to do in reporting the story." 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? Later Career. Woodward has written best-selling books on the last ten presidentsNixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. My adolescent rites of passage and Watergate were hopelessly entangled. Were you in intelligence? You dont think of journalists automatically as patriots, one. 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. We actually published three papers with it before they stopped us, and then we were in the courts for 12 days. "[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. Thats an astonishing thing for a journalist to say. One morning in June of 71 I think, they led the newspaper with it, with eight-column banners. The rest of them all got away with it. Where were you born? The fastest-selling book in the history of its publisher, Simon & Schuster, it immediately topped The New York Times bestseller list, and within eight days of publication was already in its tenth printing. Woodward's strength was in investigation, so he focused on investigating the Watergate scandal. We had Watergate. 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. The qualities that each other had -- the qualities that they needed [to report Watergate] -- they didnt like. 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