He joined the Washington Post's metropolitan staff in 1971. He quickly tired of the routine assignments his position offered, and began to hunt for news on his own. How did it happen? And most of us had served in World War II. Bob Woodward: This is a book I did in 1999 that took the five presidents after Nixon Ford, Carter, Reagan, the first Bush, and Clinton and analyzed the Special Prosecutor law, and showed how that, and the new climate of Congressional activism and media activism, meant the presidency was going to be forever altered. Three Post editors were portrayed by award-winning character actors: Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee, Martin Balsam as Howard. 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. I suspect that most people from the generations that came after mine don't really know that much about Watergate other than that a president resigned in disgrace, the only time that's ever happened. As a colleague of ours at the Post, Bill Greider, wrote the day they disclosed the secret taping system in the White House. He persuaded The Washington Post to give him an unpaid two-week try-out. He wanted to understand Woodward and Bernstein deeply so he could capture their true characters and motivations for the movie. Mr. President, the media is not fake news. We had one day. Get our L.A. Was he the more experienced journalist at the time? 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. That goes back to the idea of family secrets. The New York Times played the lead role but we played a role too. Where the hell? Bob Woodward: June 17, 1972. It risks the whole thing. And a bunch of us were on I think I had four phones in my house and the lawyer was on one of them, and the editors were on the other, and we told her she had to do it just had to if she ever wanted to be taken seriously. 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. So in an odd way, those in my business have a million allies out there. How did that come about? They were after us and The New York Times. The movie made Woodward and Bernstein forever famous and has become a classic. 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. In February the U.S. Senate voted seventy to zero to establish a committee of four Democrats and three Republicans to investigate the Watergate affair. We just didnt sleep a hell of a lot. Bob Woodward: Sure. How long had you been at the previous paper? You cant prove its not right, but you think its not right. It was very complicated, then and now. 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. Mr. Woodward, at what point did you realize that President Nixon was implicated in this? For the team that took down President Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein followed this format to a tee. People had troubles, and people had secrets. head of the CRP. Bernstein was among three CNN reporters who last . Are there particular books that you remember? I remember going around and giving my name to lots of people, and they would say, Oh, youre Al Woodwards son. That version of Watergate has long dominated popular understanding of the scandal, which unfolded over 26 months beginning in June 1972. He had gone to Vietnam as a soldier, so he had fought in Vietnam, but he got convinced that it was a quagmire and that it was a great mistake and that by releasing this study, he could shine light into the darkest corners and change the course of the world. 25 Feb/23. Woodwards father was a prominent attorney, and hoped that Robert would follow in his footsteps. Hoffman was running down an empty street, chasing after Redfords gray Volvo as it pulled out of the Post parking lot. What the hell were they in there for? That they would sabotage campaigns. Didnt you have a chat with the Posts publisher, Katharine Graham, in the midst of all of this? Ben Bradlee: Four hundred stories about Watergate in The Washington Post Four hundred in two years and two months. That writing was actually on the wall the whole time. He also felt compelled, as a reporter, to point out that Bernstein's remarks were . 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. 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. If you need to flag this entry as abusive. Like most media myths, the heroic-journalist interpretation of Watergate rests on a foundation of simplicity. Still, Felt resigned from the FBI in June 1973 after he was suspected of leaking information to The New York Times. They wrote the best-selling All the President's Men and became millionaires. The tapes were crucial to determining that Nixon had obstructed justice. Where were you in the pecking order of siblings? Following the 1972 arrests, journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post investigated the scandal relentlessly. We actually published three papers with it before they stopped us, and then we were in the courts for 12 days. 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. But she was quite curious, quite well-informed, plugged in. 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. 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. Im sure it would have been more interesting. On the other hand, Carl Bernstein was the child of two Communist activists (per Washingtonian). I think the lead of his story was, Will the wonders of Watergate never cease?. People who went to Wheaton College had to sign a pledge: no drinking, smoking, dancing, movies, playing of cards. .component--type-recirculation .item:nth-child(5) { 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. Pakula, who morphed into a Sigmund Freud with notepad before any camera rolled. Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. There was competition. He was assigned to the police beat, from 7:00 in the evening to 3:00 in the morning, but he did not limit his work activities to his assigned hours. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. I would have been more effective.. 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. This button displays the currently selected search type. The recordings captured Nixon, six days after the burglary, agreeing to a plan to deter the FBI from pursuing its Watergate investigation. My father was a lawyer there, and I worked as a janitor in his law office when I was in high school, and started reading the files and discovered that the projection that people in the town made about their own lives was in fact not who they were, that lots of them had secrets, and many of them were in my fathers law office files. Are there particular novels of his that you remember liking? I had worked for the Post for nine months. In the end, the real exceptionalism of Richard Nixon was merely that he was dumb enough to get caught. Refer to each styles convention regarding the best way to format page numbers and retrieval dates. In her interview with Pakula, Ephron tried to rehabilitate her boyfriends reputation. All stability. Together, they became Hollywood icons. The movie, which was released in April 1976 and starred Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, was relentlessly media-centric, ignoring the work of prosecutors and the FBI. She was the publisher. Legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were guests on Sunday's "Reliable Sources" on CNN. They deposited, at the end of 1974, over $600,000. Woodward has written best-selling books on the last ten presidentsNixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. We had Watergate. Bob Woodward: If somebody came from Mars to America and went around for months or years, and then you asked them who has the best jobs, they would say the journalists, because the journalists get to make momentary entries into peoples lives when they are interesting, and get out when they cease to be interesting. Maybe it was appropriate that most of America slept through the occasion. Instead, they wrote 'All the President's Men' and they sold the movie rights to Robert Redford. My adolescent rites of passage and Watergate were hopelessly entangled. It was a takedown that transcended politics, transcended ideology. My God, it looked like the end of the world! ", To read excerpts, click here. Had he been Deep Throat, he once told a Connecticut newspaper, I would have done better. It was the scandal that led to the forced resignation of the President of the United States. And it did. You have Hunt saying Oh, my God! At a later arraignment, one of the guys whispered to a judge. [11] However, Bernstein was dismissed from the university after the fall 1964 semester for bad grades. What made you back the kids, Woodward and Bernstein? 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. 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. It turned out that he hadnt been asked, and that interested us a great deal, because if the prosecution wasnt asking him those interesting questions, that suggested that there was a reason they werent, and the reason might be that they were trying to cover it up. 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. Our lawyers were telling us that and this New York judge had ruled that the statute says whoever has reason to believe that publication of certain information will threaten the national security of the United States shall be this was a civil suit, but the criminal equivalent, which they would certainly have done had they convicted us, would have put us in jail, put us all in jail, including Katharine Graham, or the possibility of it. More so than the book, the cinematic adaptation of All the Presidents Men placed Woodward and Bernstein at the decisive center of Watergates unraveling. Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss are "still good friends", a source has insisted, despite rumours the pair might have fallen out. The American Academy of Achievements interview with Bob Woodward is combined with an interview with his longtime editor and mentor, Ben Bradlee (1921-2014). 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. 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. 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? 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But as Pakula began to understand Woodward, he wondered if the charming, handsome Redford, then 39, could play someone so different from himself. Whos going to get what lead and put it together? }, First published on December 26, 2006 / 7:23 AM. Woodwards critics insisted that this informant was a fabrication, or at best, a composite based on a number of sources. They wanted to have a whole presidency where they could do what they wanted and no one would examine them or scrutinize them, and they got in trouble, a lot of them, because of this. It came out in the Ervin Committee hearings in the Senate. Whats not known? What is this secret government we have? Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. It was the first film I ever made like this, Hoffman told me. Overnight, Woodward and Bernstein became household names. The first report featuring the now legendary journalists came on June 19, 1972, two days after the break-ins and arrest of the conspirators (via Constitution Center). Thank God. When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. And she decided to do it. Dont tell me never. And I remember thinking and feeling quite motivated that she was saying the standard here is the bar is quite high. 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. If anything, the intervening 25 years have solidified the heroic-journalist myth of Watergate, which I address and dismantle in my book Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism.. The shadowy man was the compass to point the journalist duo in the right direction. Woodward and Bernstein, who were already minor celebrities, really cashed in with the publication of their best-selling book All the President's Men, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, two of the biggest stars of our era. After the clapping died down, Woodward observed, "There was lots of applause, but it wasn't universal.". 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? Still, facts and events from the book were questioned by Nixon's friends and family, and some obvious sources denied ever speaking with Bernstein and Woodward. Bob Woodward: I dont know whether I feel pride. 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. 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. What does the American Dream mean to you? More than 40 years after they became the world's most famous journalism duo, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are still making news. The qualities that each other had -- the qualities that they needed [to report Watergate] -- they didnt like. (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.). She pointed out that, "Woodward grew up in the Midwest, Republican household, went to Yale, was in the Navy. I think pride is hubris. Encyclopedia of World Biography. And redford was the one who shaped 'All the President's Men.' The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by longtime journalism figure Gene Roberts.[2]. Mr. Bradlee, its important to remember that Nixon was re-elected during this period. In addition, they tracked down and interviewed a large number of people who gradually revealed various pieces of the puzzle. In the end, the real exceptionalism of Richard Nixon was merely that he was dumb enough to get caught. What are you most proud of, looking back on your career so far? For example, talk about how it affected Muskie. It was so important. I have forgotten which one it was. 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). An informant in the federal government, it was not until 2005 that the public finally put a name on Deep Throat. I think journalism is a practice, like law, that you keep learning. But then two by-the-book (sort of) dudes with wide ties and spiral notebooks -- Woodward and Bernstein -- came along in stoppage time to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. When Woodward left the Navy, American involvement in Vietnam and domestic opposition to the war were at their height. When you began to work as a journalist, what was the reaction of your family? Bob Woodward: Is the CIA connected to this? I got there just as Hoffman broke from the building. There were some teachers and lawyers and business people, but no writers. So much has happened since then. No humor. Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn (1983) caused a minor journalistic sensation with its fictionalized description of her divorce from Bernstein. [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 there's a lot that's not generally known about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Bernstein could be right intuitively -- but dangerous left to himself, Pakula wrote in his notes. 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----. "You could just tell," Shepard continued, "by how different they were that they wouldn't be friends and they wouldn't be working together. [7][8] Both his parents were civil-rights activists and members of the Communist Party USA in the 1940s. Now Hollywood Shuffle is a classic, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, The chance of a lifetime: Five friends ski the tallest mountain in Los Angeles, Best coffee city in the world? Woodward stayed at The Washington Post. As Hoffman ran, Bernstein, already a celebrity, understood how much had happened in the three years since five burglars broke into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate hotel. I want to offer some ideas. Woodward also got a dig in about Bernsteins famed love of the ladies, recalling Bernstein got a list of people who worked on the Richard Nixon re-election campaign from an ex-girlfriend. That really is what were all about. . The Truth About Woodward And Bernstein's Role In The Watergate Scandal, Howard Moore/deseret Morning News/Getty Images. But there's a lot that's not generally known about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Bob Woodward: Of course. Woodward was able to soldier on and write 14 books. But the following morning, Dan Schorr of CBS we saw on CBS Morning News shoved a microphone in front of this guy and said, The Post says you did this. And we published the next day. His detailed notes, first made public in December 2005, were donated by his wife to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after his death in 1998 in an automobile accident. But of course, that all became academic when the tapes came out. Do you think being the oldest had an influence on your life? Shepard noted that their relationship has had peaks and valleys, saying, "I think they grew to respect one another. I called my father and said Im not going to law school, but have this job at a newspaper he had never heard of. There was even a movie made about the scandal and their role in it, "All The President's Men.". Carl Milton Bernstein (/ b r n s t i n / BURN-steen; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author.While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal.These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual . Hed started at age two, I think. 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. 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. Very forceful, very insistent that we write essays to answer questions, and not short answers. Its that square, straight, intense, decent quality of Woodwards that works. Well, I was down there. On June 17, 1972, Woodward was assigned to cover a story about an attempted burglary the night before in which five men had been arrested at the headquarters of the The best duos complement the other's strengths. Ben Bradlee: That we had really done a really good job. But in his interview with Woodward, Pakula discovered that the reporter could surprise: Other peoples secrets fascinated and obsessed him. He always saw me as a lawyer. The Post played a critical role in the beginning, and Woodward and Bernstein came in at critical moments. On the other hand, Bernstein was born to a Communist Jewish family. 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. We didnt allow television in for six months, I dont think. "[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. I think most people feel that the old Post would have just sat by. He told me first that he was going to resign, wasnt sure when, and for Gods sake dont write it as hard, because he wont. I like what I do. Vertalingen van het uitdrukking IK BEN BOB WOODWARD van nederlands naar engels en voorbeelden van het gebruik van "IK BEN BOB WOODWARD" in een zin met hun vertalingen: En ik ben Bob Woodward .. All the President's Men was made into a hit motion picture starring Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein (1976). There were no bars in town. In The Last of the Presidents Men, Woodward told the story of Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who disclosed the existence of President Nixons secret recording system, the revelation that ultimately led to Nixons downfall. Encyclopedia.com. The important discovery for Carl and myself was that Watergate wasnt isolated. Therefore, that information is unavailable for most Encyclopedia.com content. He has also done reporting for television and opinion commentary. So its not inevitable that the system works. Before this, the three men went to great lengths to hide Felt's identity. This was the lesson of Watergate: Nixon Exceptionalism, that the 37th president was so "uniquely and pervasively" corrupt that the fair and decent American "system worked" and removed him on the basis of the objective, indisputable fact of his evil. Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward, left, and Carl Bernstein on March 1, 1974, Washington, D.C. But in the end, its only a glancing blow. Nonetheless, the heroic-journalist myth became so entrenched that it could withstand disclaimers by Watergate-era principals at the Post such as Graham. And she had a style of I want to know whats going on. [3] The Star, however, unofficially required a college degree to write for the paper. 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. 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. Mr. Bradlee, at what point did you get the inkling that the Oval Office was involved? "Woodward and Bernstein Its small wonder that the heroic-journalist myth still defines popular understanding of Watergate. This was later confirmed by both Woodward and Bernstein. Ben Bradlee: Its a good story. 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