Woodward and bernstein biography of albert lea

He received his B. After being discharged as a lieutenant in August, , Woodward considered attending law school but applied for a job as a reporter for The Washington Post. Harry M. After a year at the Montgomery Sentinel, a weekly in the Washington D. In , the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein in the Post was regularly denounced by the Nixon re-election campaign, Republican leaders and the White House.

For example on Oct. Woodward and Mr. They have vigorously pursued this story and they deserve the credit and are receiving the credit. Subsequently, the investigations of the Senate Watergate Committee, the House Judiciary Committee and the Watergate Special prosecutor showed that the Woodward-Bernstein reporting had been accurate and perhaps understated the scope and depth of the criminality and abuse of power.

The Senate report follows and supports much of the reporting by Bernstein and Woodward on the Watergate break-in, cover-up, Nixon White House and re-election campaign espionage, sabotage and fundraising. Often that nightmare turned out to be true. It was an unusual feeling for Seymour Hersh, the feeling that someone was always just a little ahead of him.

But Woodward and Bernstein did not simply renew, they extended the power of the muckraking image.

Robert Woodward, born March

For Steffens, the corruption was in the local and state governments while the White House was a resource for pressuring for reform, Shudson said. If low and middle level campaign aides had been implicated, no one would remember Watergate, he said. But it would not be the heart of American journalism mythology. Watergate found a president guilty of crimes, waist-deep in deception and forced him from office.