Its our job to figure them out.. We've received your submission. But even they seemed to take the wrong lessons from what they'd done. Still, Felt resigned from the FBI in June 1973 after he was suspected of leaking information to The New York Times. Hoffman was running down an empty street, chasing after Redfords gray Volvo as it pulled out of the Post parking lot. 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----. What an incredible jump in your fortunes as a journalist, from one year on a little suburban paper to The Washington Post. Back at home, you could cross out the word "party" and replace it with "Nixon." Ben Bradlee: He sure did. Hes a good lawyer, a fair man.. Robert Redford played Woodward; Dustin Hoffman played Bernstein. 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. Goldwater Republican. Richard Nixon's RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) gives the former president's version of the events surrounding Watergate. Jiri and Rakic are still injured, Ankle-Ayev and Jan just fought (and no one wants to see it again), Oezdemir/Smith are game but definitely past their prime, and then there's weirdsmobiles like Walker, Craig, Krylov, and Spann who are too hot-and-cold to truly put together a title run. 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. 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. [20], He then began working for ABC News. Nixon Exceptionalism and the triumph of objectivity kept a focus on "what did the president know and when did he know it," the provable fact-based lie, liberated from anything that might be corrupted by debatable policy or ideas. What books impressed you as a kid? But we were the backwash of the Baby Boom. 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. Nonetheless, the heroic-journalist myth became so entrenched that it could withstand disclaimers by Watergate-era principals at the Post such as Graham. Bob Woodward: No, not that I can think of. Ben Bradlee: We were being very careful. He attended Yale University on a Naval ROTC scholarship, and majored in history and English literature. I mean, I shudder to think the way we put it. In 1982, for ABC's Nightline, Bernstein was the first to report[citation needed] during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon that Ariel Sharon had "deceived the cabinet about the real intention of the operationto drive the Palestinians out of Lebanon, not (as he had claimed) to merely establish a 25-kilometer security zone north from the border". Bull---- artist. Woodward is the fifth branch of government! He said, Youre crazy. So he didnt think it was a good idea.. But as Pakula began to understand Woodward, he wondered if the charming, handsome Redford, then 39, could play someone so different from himself. In a sense, there were the two worlds: of the Navy, where all the opposite principles seemed to prevail; and then there was The Washington Post there at my doorstep every morning, kind of saying, Wait a minute. That was the key. December 26, 2006 / 7:23 AM Early one Saturday morning, June 17, 1972, the Posts city editor called Woodward to tell him that five men with cameras and electronic surveillance equipment had been arrested breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office complex. I didnt start reading seriously until probably junior high school. Each of these presidents had their own way of responding. Mr. President, the media is not fake news. There had been some disparaging remarks made elsewhere about his wife, and he cried, in the snow, in New Hampshire, standing on the back of a flatbed truck, and its generally believed that was the end of his candidacy. J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (1976) is an exciting narrative and analysis by a New York Times reporter that puts Watergate into the context of what the author refers to as "Richard Nixon's abuse of his presidential powers." Thanks to their investigation and reporting, the American people had a deep look into Nixon's role in the break-ins and cover-ups. That version of Watergate has long dominated popular understanding of the scandal, which unfolded over 26 months beginning in June 1972. I may have been an extreme case, but not a unique one. This. Thats the standard clich about Watergate: the system worked. Yes. [30], They were also different in work styles. Pakula gradually realized that neither Woodward nor Bernstein could have pulled off Watergate alone. Why did they think of you? In the series of stories that followed, Bernstein and Woodward eventually connected the burglars to a massive slush fund and a corrupt attorney general. The reference to Woodward and Bernstein was classic Frank, too, telling Garrett to follow the money without saying so explicitly. It seems that there are very few long, extensive investigations into corruption where an editor lets reporters work on a story for a couple of years. Bob Woodward: Or The Sound and the Fury, which is his great book. But it would have been I mean, there was a lot of money on the table. When Woodward left the Navy, American involvement in Vietnam and domestic opposition to the war were at their height. 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. Mr. Bradlee, there is a scene early in the book and the movie, All the Presidents Men, in which you criticize Woodward and Bernstein for their approach to a story about E. Howard Hunt, and his interest in Chappaquiddick and Ted Kennedy. It wasn't just me -- a culture was defined. ." Ehrlichman? Landed at The Washington Post in 1971, had nine months reporting experience. 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. That they would sabotage campaigns. One doesnt think of humility as a common quality of journalists for some reason. With the full support of their editor, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward and his Post colleague Carl Bernstein continued to pursue the Watergate story, after other news outlets had dropped the story. Woodwards father was a prominent attorney, and hoped that Robert would follow in his footsteps. Bob Woodward is an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. Although Woodward was reluctant to talk about himself as a reporter, he was determined to expose other peoples secrets. 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. My God, it looked like the end of the world! That, at least, was the interpretation of the late Stanley Kutler, one of Watergates leading historians, who noted: You had to have that kind of corroborative evidence to nail the president of the United States.. [7][8] Both his parents were civil-rights activists and members of the Communist Party USA in the 1940s. Events are filtered through minds and memories and prejudices, and you feel intimate with his characters. Encyclopedia.com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA). Within a year, his byline was appearing on the front page. 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. Contributors control their own work and posted freely to our site. The rest of them all got away with it. 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. How did it happen? I was worried about the Posts image of all of this, and that there would be a segment of society who said, you know, They were out to get him, those bastards, and they got him. And it was going to be we were just very careful. I was asleep in my bedroom in a suburb of New York, a 13-year-old boy, still trying to make sense of this strange world I'd been born into, where police in blue helmets fought young people in the street, and great men were gunned down in their prime. If you need to flag this entry as abusive. Most of them didnt realize that the world had changed. Like most media myths, the heroic-journalist interpretation of Watergate rests on a foundation of simplicity. We had heard that they had this big blockbuster coming up, and suddenly, they just dropped this on us. 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. Los Angeles, Remember that Harry Styles Spitgate drama? Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Ben Bradlee all confirmed Felts revelation. 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