Later Career. . And there we watched thousands of "indignados" flood the streets of Madrid, the precursor to Occupy Wall Street back home. Thats an astonishing thing for a journalist to say. So in an odd way, those in my business have a million allies out there. Ephron delivered Max prematurely after finding out. You could feel that they took not an adversarial position toward government, but a position of skepticism, a position of there is accountability reporting. He wanted to film it from 3:00 in the morning until 8:00 in the morning, and we just told him it was not possible. Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn (1983) caused a minor journalistic sensation with its fictionalized description of her divorce from Bernstein. Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia.com cannot guarantee each citation it generates. They said, Keep going. 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. Legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were guests on Sunday's "Reliable Sources" on CNN. Were there other people that inspired you? 39 or 40 people in this White House staff went to jail. Mr. Woodward, in your bookShadowyou talk about how Nixons presidency affected the presidents whove come since. Stop!, Bernstein recalled in a 1975 interview, now in Pakulas archive, that big crowds were outside. Events are in no way simple or cinematic. Hes a good lawyer, a fair man.. And of course, Muskie was going to be the strong candidate against Nixon. Bull---- artist. . You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Samuel Dash, the Democratic counsel to the Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, argued in his later book on the Senate investigation, Chief Counsel, that the admirable, early investigative reporting of Bernstein and Woodward had now degenerated into what he called "hit and run" journalism based on leaks from the committee and jeopardized the ability of the legal system to track down and punish the guilty. What it turned out was that the question hinged on whether or not he had told that to the grand jury, and since he hadnt, he was able to say No. He wasnt asked was there a slush fund, which, of course, there was. And when Redford wanted to film the movie in the Post, we told him he couldnt. Bernstein was among three CNN reporters who last . The Woodward and Bernstein comparison is apt because it's a reminder that they were Metro Section reporters, not Political desk reporters. They wrote the best-selling All the President's Men and became millionaires. More than 40 years after they became the world's most famous journalism duo, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are still making news. The piston driving the Nixon administration was hate. 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. He always saw me as a lawyer. Ben Bradlee: Four hundred stories about Watergate in The Washington Post Four hundred in two years and two months. One doesnt think of humility as a common quality of journalists for some reason. What are you most proud of, looking back on your career so far? All reflected a mind-set and a pattern of behavior that were uniquely and pervasively Nixon's: a willingness to disregard the law for political advantage, and a quest for dirt and secrets about his opponents as an organizing principle of his presidency. But she finally said, Well, okay. He was a much better writer. All talk. Why is he interested in that? But every Republican in the country was interested in Chappaquiddick, and not a few Democrats, so I said, Find out what the hell he took it out for. Carl Milton Bernstein[1] (/brnstin/ BURN-steen; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author. It was one of the most incredible feelings that Ive had in my life because, you know, it had been a long time since we had started to work on the story, and I didnt exactly know who I was or who he was -- existentially, it was sort of a total mind----. Where the hell? 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). All of us do! He and 39 others, I might add. They were 30 and 31.". Bob Woodward: Of course. Bob Woodward has two daughters, Tali and Diana. His parents were members of the Communist Party. He knew all about my mother, brother -- everything. (Jason Robards, who played Bradlee, is on screen only 10 minutes.). Ben Bradlee: John Mitchell, Attorney General Mitchell. In general, Shepard said, "They had a hard time. [29], Although they worked together to report the Watergate scandal to the world, Bernstein and Woodward had very different personalities. It was to see if they could find the origins of our involvement in Vietnam, and what went wrong. } I'm still struck by the words that were scrawled in Spanish on a building near our hotel, saying: It's not the party, it's the system. JAWORSKI, LEON ON 9 August 1974, Richard Nixon arose in the White House and, after meeting briefly with the household staff a, Iran-Contra Affair Encyclopedia.com. Special Prosecutor Cox and Jaworski investigated this, put lots of people in jail. It appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for three weeks. So we tried to just keep people out of the building. I think most people feel that the old Post would have just sat by. People had troubles, and people had secrets. But then, of course, if you think about it, Nixon is the one who did himself in. I didnt start reading seriously until probably junior high school. I know a lot about that story because my son was the editor at the Boston Globe who ran that investigation, and I think thats a perfect example of how newspapers can persist in the face of denials and correct wrongs. But by end of 1976, they had an ugly breakup and went their separate ways. In their dogged reporting of the Watergate scandal, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the crimes that forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency in August 1974. Bob Woodward: I was not married at the time and loved being free to do something. 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. Bobs sucking up to people. A man named Mark Molsey on the last book and the next book; Ive done 11 books. Pakula gradually realized that neither Woodward nor Bernstein could have pulled off Watergate alone. Its that square, straight, intense, decent quality of Woodwards that works. That we do explain enough about whats going on. Carl is Jewish, grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. While Woodward interviewed their informant, known as "Deep Throat," Bernstein discovered cash payments from Nixon's reelection campaign in one of the burglar's bank accounts (via The Washington Post). For the team that took down President Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein followed this format to a tee. 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. 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. He was also integral in finding vital evidence and information at the scene of the crime (per Mental Floss). 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. But they grew to like one another" and are very good friends now. He has also done reporting for television and opinion commentary. I think the lead of his story was, Will the wonders of Watergate never cease?. Writers or journalists who inspired you? Ben Bradlee: The Pentagon Papers was a study commissioned by Nixon in the first or second year of his first term, 1970 or 69. Staggering snowfall in California mountains leaves residents trapped for days, SpaceX launches new crew to space station, Prosecution wraps case at Alex Murdaugh murder trial, White House cybersecurity strategy pivots to regulation, Explosive found in checked luggage at Pennsylvania airport, feds say, FDA authorizes first at-home test for both COVID and flu, Couple accuses fertility clinic of implanting embryo with cancer genes, Air Force relieves six officers after failing safety inspection, Several hospitalized after Lufthansa flight diverted to Dulles due to turbulence. But even they seemed to take the wrong lessons from what they'd done. 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). The story was true, but he had never testified to it because they never asked him. 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. Maybe it was 16, but he had fully a decade-plus of experience under his belt. Bernstein and Woodward pursued documentary evidence by cross-checking telephone books, airline records, building directories, hotel records, andin what some claimed were violations of journalistic ethics confidential credit card and telephone company records. What books impressed you as a kid? An informant in the federal government, it was not until 2005 that the public finally put a name on Deep Throat. It was also the fact that they were so different, and that they were lowly metro reporters. In those days, you worried terribly about typos. Leon Jaworski, like richard m. nixon, came from a poor, deeply religious background. Lets be sure for the record to say that it wasnt just the Post. Sometimes, people accuse us of bringing down a president, which of course we didnt do, and shouldnt have done,Graham said. The shadowy man was the compass to point the journalist duo in the right direction. And she said, When will we know the full story of Watergate? William Faulkners books, certainly. 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. The Iran-Contra Affair involved a secret foreign policy operation directed by White House officials in the national security counc, Truman, Harry S. Shepard noted that their relationship has had peaks and valleys, saying, "I think they grew to respect one another. Margaret later became a government minister in her own right. AllRightsReserved. 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 . ALICIA C. SHEPARD, who teaches journalism at American University, is the author of "Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. LHW is a shallow division, this cancellation was just adding insult to injury. 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. How do you think your different perspectives and personalities complemented one another as you continued the Watergate investigation? 25 Feb/23. No surprises. Bob Woodward: Yes, and then later, my parents were divorced, and my father remarried a woman who had three kids also. Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. Alicia Shepard fills in the gaps in her very candid book, "Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of. 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