Were much better friends than we were at the time. Nonetheless, the heroic-journalist myth became so entrenched that it could withstand disclaimers by Watergate-era principals at the Post such as Graham. The reference to Woodward and Bernstein was classic Frank, too, telling Garrett to follow the money without saying so explicitly. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. It wasn't just me -- a culture was defined. Raised in a traditional Republican household, Woodward was very well-educated and has been described as gentle. Much to his chagrin. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. And that in a little way, and often in a significant way, thats realized. Had he been Deep Throat, he once told a Connecticut newspaper, I would have done better. This was our time, our story. Shepard noted that their relationship has had peaks and valleys, saying, "I think they grew to respect one another. Theres an example of incredibly good reporting over a long, protracted time period, laced with denials by the highest people in Boston society the Cardinals and the priests. Whats secret? 22 Feb. 2023 . Are there particular novels of his that you remember liking? 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. 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! His parents were members of the Communist Party. Between June 1972 to November 1973, Felt spoke with Bob Woodward 17 times, originally confirming leads the pair found, but eventually, began to offer new information to the team. 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. Therefore, be sure to refer to those guidelines when editing your bibliography or works cited list. I may have been an extreme case, but not a unique one. Woodward cautiously would have to go from one step literally to another. He also felt compelled, as a reporter, to point out that Bernstein's remarks were . The third vital member of the team of Woodward and Bernstein is the mysterious figure known as "Deep Throat." He was rebellious, which led to him failing out of college. As a colleague of ours at the Post, Bill Greider, wrote the day they disclosed the secret taping system in the White House. 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Woodward and Bernsteins account of the investigation, All The Presidents Men, became a national bestseller and was made into a popular motion picture. When the Post persevered with the investigation, President Nixon induced the FCC to challenge the licenses of the Posts television stations. The New York Times played the lead role but we played a role too. [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". Other than Woodward and Bernstein, no personalities prominent in Watergate were the subjects of a bestselling memoir, the inspiration for a star-studded motion picture, and the protectors of a mythical source who eluded conclusive identification for decades. 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. Later, along with Vatican expert Marco Politi, he published a papal biography entitled His Holiness. George W. Bush's Iraq War, in particular, was enabled by a docile press corps and by a feckless generation of lawmakers and judges -- largely the generation that came of age when I did, during those languid Watergate summers. How do I pay someone back, either good or bad, for what they have done to me?. You have Hunt saying Oh, my God! At a later arraignment, one of the guys whispered to a judge. Without them, he likely would have served out his presidential term. 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: Yes, we are. 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. Woodward and Bernstein (and many others) were absolutely convinced there was a deal where Nixon would resign if his successor Gerald Ford issued a presidential pardon. Hoffman was running down an empty street, chasing after Redfords gray Volvo as it pulled out of the Post parking lot. Bob Woodward: Well, of course, what Faulkner is trying to do is get to the interior, and in the end, as a journalist, you are trying to get to the interior. His father was a judge and Woodward eventually entered the Navy after graduating from Yale. 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?"). There were some teachers and lawyers and business people, but no writers. The qualities that each other had -- the qualities that they needed [to report Watergate] -- they didnt like. And when Redford wanted to film the movie in the Post, we told him he couldnt. Maybe it was appropriate that most of America slept through the occasion. And we were so scared that we were going to by this time, we knew that the front page was going to be a historical document. Editors at the WaPo said that Lewis' early reporting and evidence findings are what convinced them that the story was greater than a simple break-in. Woodward and Bernstein reflect on Watergate and its place in American history. Yes. "Woodward and Bernstein And it did. Bob Woodward said that Lewis "laid the foundation for what the paper was able to do in reporting the story." 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.". My God, it looked like the end of the world! She posed this, almost suggesting that it was inevitable. Few in the room. Thats a quote from the movie and the book. And once you are convicted of a felony, you cant own television stations, so it would have cost us all the television stations. He said, Youre crazy. And at the same time, it was my decision. I am repeatedly struck by how I have missed part of the story, always. One midnight in June 1975, Bernstein watched as Pakula directed a scene. Bernstein was born to a secular Jewish family in Washington, D.C.,[4][5][6] the son of Sylvia (ne Walker) and Alfred Bernstein. Encyclopedia.com. Would I run like that again?. 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. ON 9 August 1974, Richard Nixon arose in the White House and, after meeting briefly with the household staff a, Iran-Contra Affair It also made Woodward and Bernstein the most famous journalists of all time. So he didnt think it was a good idea. 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. He persuaded The Washington Post to give him an unpaid two-week try-out. In 2005, the mystery surrounding the identity of Watergate informant Deep Throat was ended. 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. Encyclopedia.com. Most online reference entries and articles do not have page numbers. Im sure it would have been more interesting. However popular, the heroic-journalist myth is a vast exaggeration of the effect of their work. 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. 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. Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Ben Bradlee all confirmed Felts revelation. I mean, I believed it, because it was I knew it was coming. You could feel that they took not an adversarial position toward government, but a position of skepticism, a position of there is accountability reporting. Id have drinks with him early all of late July and early August. The whole reputation of the paper was hanging on that by the time. 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 were reporting on the Presidents men, and the White House people, the Attorney General, John Mitchell, people in the Nixon campaign, the Committee to Re-Elect the President, and the focus was not Nixon. 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. It was to see if they could find the origins of our involvement in Vietnam, and what went wrong. We missed the first edition, but we published it the second edition, which came out at 11 oclock at night, 11:30. He quickly tired of the routine assignments his position offered, and began to hunt for news on his own. 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. LHW is a shallow division, this cancellation was just adding insult to injury. 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). Woodward, with Scott Armstrong, wrote a study of the Supreme Court, The Brethren (1979); and Woodward wrote a study of the death by drug overdose of comedian John Belushi, Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi (1984). 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. [7][8] He attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he worked as circulation and exchange manager for the school's newspaper Silver Chips. Mr. Bradlee, by the time of the Watergate affair, the Post had already come into conflict with the Nixon administration over the Pentagon Papers. A judge told the Times they couldnt publish it, so a judge would tell us the same thing. This time though, a security guard noticed that multiple latches on the doors were taped so they wouldn't lock and called the police, who caught the men in the act. Because of its detail, as well as the crucial importance of the subject they were investigating, All the President's Men has come to be widely regarded as a classic book in the history of American journalism, showing how reporters and corporate news organizations operate under pressure. So it was the classic kind of Winesburg, Ohio small town. police in blue helmets fought young people in the street, great men were gunned down in their prime. That they would sabotage campaigns. I think most people feel that the old Post would have just sat by. 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