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. Perfect. [17] A second book, The Final Days, was published by Bernstein and Woodward in 1976 as a follow-up chronicling Nixon's last days in office. Back at home, you could cross out the word "party" and replace it with "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. But glaring gaps remain. Who were your favorite authors? And that this wasnt just a cover-up of a burglary. In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. This was later confirmed by both Woodward and Bernstein. (February 22, 2023). Trending News 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). As the stakes increased, and as the White House looked more and more threatened, and Nixon himself looked more threatened, and his office became threatened, we just were determined that we werent going to make any silly mistake. Mr. Woodward, theres a last question wed like to ask. Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. For example, the newspapers publisher during Watergate, Katharine Graham, pointedly rejected that interpretation during a program 25 years ago at the now-defunct Newseum in suburban Virginia. My God, it looked like the end of the world! The judge said, What do you do? and Woodward overheard the words CIA. So if your interest isnt whetted by this time, youre not a journalist. Were there other people that inspired you? "Woodward and Bernstein Bernstein could be right intuitively -- but dangerous left to himself, Pakula wrote in his notes. 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. It was to see if they could find the origins of our involvement in Vietnam, and what went wrong. He wanted to use the presidency as an instrument of personal revenge, to settle scores, too often, and thats not what the presidency is about. Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn (1983) caused a minor journalistic sensation with its fictionalized description of her divorce from Bernstein. Mr. Woodward, once you heard one of the burglars say he worked for the CIA, where did you take it from there? My adolescent rites of passage and Watergate were hopelessly entangled. Would I run like that again?. Redford can get that compulsive drive. The five Watergate burglars and several other Nixon subordinates, including former U.S. Attorney General Mitchell, were sentenced to prison terms. 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. These guys lied because they didnt know the truth, and they couldnt believe that they were being lied to. There was competition. 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. 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. It was mysterious always, his writing, but of great emotional impact. Bernstein was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film version of All the President's Men[28] and by Bruce McCulloch in the 1999 comedy film Dick. Woodward! He also felt compelled, as a reporter, to point out that Bernstein's remarks were . But there's a lot that's not generally known about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. I want to offer some ideas. 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. Mr. Bradlee, what were your emotions when Nixon resigned? Three Post editors were portrayed by award-winning character actors: Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee, Martin Balsam as Howard. Bob Woodward: Oh, yes. President Nixon attempted to use the office of the presidency to cover up the crimes and his involvement with any break-ins. Whats secret? Richard Matthew Pious When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. Not one of the 17 stories he filed was printed. One doesnt think of humility as a common quality of journalists for some reason. Ephron delivered Max prematurely after finding out. Well, I was down there. Ben Bradlee: Nixon himself? His daughter, Tali, attends the University of California at Berkeley. Soon other newspapers began to investigate the Watergate story more energetically, and legislative and judicial agencies began to uncover a larger and larger pattern of lawbreaking. 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.). Bob Woodward: We would frequently do competing drafts of stories and put it together. So I dont make those kinds of assessments. And most jobs, if you are a lawyer or a doctor, you have to deal with clients, patients who have boring problems or diseases that are routine, and of course, the definition of news is non-routine. Whats going on in the town in culture, in the nation, in the world is news, and you get to work on that. What did you do in the Navy? That writing was actually on the wall the whole time. Ben Bradlee: That we had really done a really good job. A career FBI agent, Felt held the second ranking post in the FBI at the time of the Watergate break-in and made his disclosures to Woodward when Nixons appointed FBI director failed to act on information incriminating members of the administration. 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. (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.) Kind of parse it out. But she wasnt the editor. Much to his chagrin. A man named Mark Molsey on the last book and the next book; Ive done 11 books. You mentioned that you had been at the Post for nine months. "[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. And most of us had served in World War II. 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. John Dean's afternoon testimony before the Senate Watergate committee, the crest of a high and beautiful wave.", They wrote that history has shown that Watergate was even worse than we thought it was at the time, they seemed blind to the reality that Felt wasn't motivated by an altruistic loyalty to the nation or the truth but by blind career ambition and petty revenge, 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, Bob Woodward was at the very head of that pack. Hes finally embarrassed, said Woodward with a smile. And we had to be sure the headline was right. One midnight in June 1975, Bernstein watched as Pakula directed a scene. Maybe it was appropriate that most of America slept through the occasion. Ben Bradlee: From Daniel Ellsberg. One morning in June of 71 I think, they led the newspaper with it, with eight-column banners. ." I think in the atmosphere we are in now, somebody who would get up and propose some of the things that were done in Vietnam, like conducting the war when we didnt believe in it, or burglarizing, or wiretapping, or doing the abusive things of Watergate, I think its so ingrained that there are enough people who would stand up and say, We cant do that. Events are filtered through minds and memories and prejudices, and you feel intimate with his characters. 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. The real crimes of the last 40 years didn't fit into the box that Woodward and Bernstein and the Watergate scandal helped to create. I think they were really out to get to the bottom of the story. Think of that! Richard Nixon's RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) gives the former president's version of the events surrounding Watergate. As of 1997 Woodward is an assistant managing editor of the CIA in Veil (1987), the Pentagon and the Gulf War in The Commanders (1991), and the Clinton White House in The Agenda (1994). Bob Woodward: No, not that I can think of. So all the while that this was coming out, you were being very careful that there was enough confirmation of these things? But they missed decisive elements of Watergate, notably the payment of hush money to the burglars and the existence of Nixons White House tapes. We missed the first edition, but we published it the second edition, which came out at 11 oclock at night, 11:30. It was already changing, but he certainly speeded it along. However, the date of retrieval is often important. Each of these presidents had their own way of responding. 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