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timeline
1940
March 26, 1943
Woodward is born in Geneva, IL February 14, 1944
Bernstein is born in
Washington, DC
1950
1960
August 2003
May 31, 2005 Woodward and Bernstein sell their pa-
Deep Throat, Woodward’s top secret pers, notes, letters, etc. from Watergate
informant, is revealed to be former to UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center
FBI Associate Director Mark Felt 2010 for a record $5 million
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Ephron caught wind of his affair with Margaret Jay in http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/woodstein/
1979, 7 months pregnant with their second son.
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chapters
The Up and Comers with Woodward where he describes celebrity as
people asking said question.
Woodward and Bernstein’s childhoods and early
careers, up to June 1972, when the two were assigned Bernstein Unchaperoned
to the Watergate story. Bernstein quits the Post to go to New York and
Trust spend time (partying) with his girlfriend and later
wife, Nora Ephron. He also writes his memoir
The “first steps” of Watergate and how Woodward
Loyalties and fails in TV news. Ephron in 1979 goes
and Bernstein begin to “tolerate” each other. This
through a massive divorce with Bernstein over his
chapter also includes some denials from the White
affair.
House.
In Demand Loyalties
Bernstein (finally) starts writing again, becoming
Woodward and Bernstein publish their book, All
the author of Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir, a Time cover
the President’s Men, and lecture for a few months. The
article, and His Holiness. With the help of Woodward,
book is very well received.
he reversed his lifestyle into something more
The Source to End All Sources sustainable.
Discusses the use of anonymous sources Piercing the Veil
in journalism, and Watergate’s effect on its
Woodward is the author of Veil, on the CIA,
legitimization.
and The Agenda and The Choice,
The Double-Edged Sword on Clinton. This chapter focuses
more on the first book I mentioned,
Robert Redford approaches Woodward and
and how it seems that his sources
Bernstein with a movie deal, which at first they don’t
gave him information he needed to
believe is real, but later agree to. The film becomes a
hide the fact that there was more
box office hit.
underground.
When Are You Going to Screw Up? The Revelation
Chronicles their rise to fame and describes their
Woodward’s mystery source, Deep
1974 celebrity. We soon find out that Woodward
Throat, reveals himself to be Mark
tends to be a private person whereas Bernstein is a
Felt.
social maverick. The title comes from an interview
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Carte Blanche is another term for “blank check” , a vague, widely
interpretable promise.
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supporter
Ben Bradlee, the then-executive editor of The
Washington Post, was certainly both Bob Woodward’s
and Carl Bernstein’s most significant mentor/
supporter.
His support is most showingly demonstrated by
his defense of them in their “darkest hour”. The
White House claimed that H.R. Haldeman, aide to
Nixon, was not the 5th controller of a CRP slush
fund. Bradlee, instead of firing them or something,
refudiated with what he called a non-denial denial:
“We stand by our story.”
But besides public defense, privately, he was their
mentor. Perhaps that’s why the Haldeman story
was the exception rather than the rule. He knew
exactly when they got what they need to and when
they didn’t and he would tell them just straight out,
uncommon in the era of diplomacy. As described in
All the President’s Men, he would put a story away
from the front cover not because he was afraid, but
because there were no sources. Not because he thinks
they’re wrong, but because he knows they’re wrong.
Not many mentors these days have that capacity.
pliable
(adj) flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments,
persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded
“What editor wouldn’t love a pliable young reporter willing to work
day and night...?” (Ch. 4, p. 83)
immunity
(n) exemption from legal prosecution, often granted a witness in
exchange for self-incriminating testimony.
“A former FBI agent, Baldwin traded his testomony for immunity and
was considered a major government witness.” (Ch.3, p. 56)
pillory
(v) figuratively, to expose to public scorn
“In other words, many journalists pilloried Woodward and Bernstien
for their ‘Trust me. I know this stuff is true’ attitude.” (Ch.7, p.148)
truculent
(adj) eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant
“Now he [Woodward] would be in charge of a staff of 108 journalists,
who, by their skeptical, truculent nature, were famously hard to
manage.” (Ch. 9, p.190)
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