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...second criticism deserves more attention. The scolding reporters and editors are right, in a sense: a reporter shouldn't put quotation marks around something he can't prove was said, seactly as he quotes it. But in this extraordinary case, Woodward and Bernstein had to choose between quoting nothing of the important drama that paralleled Nixon's disintegration, writing a version attributed to the principals in the episode (whose statements for the record were certain to be self-serving of false), or reconstructing quotes as best they could from anonymous sources, many of whom kept detailed diaries. They made...
...covers later, Newsweek has shattered the sales record of the Singles issue with a cover featuring . . . three pictures of a dejected-looking Richard Nixon. That cover, which ran last week, was promotion for the first installment of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's "The Final Days," an account of Nixon's activities as he fell from power, if not exactly grace. The second and last installment appears this week, and it is much like the first: compelling, gossip-laden, well-assembled, badly-written (if only Gay Talese could have purchased their notes), and, because the information confirms everything people suspected...
...scenes Woodward and Bernstein sketch are by now legend, cackled over everywhere: Nixon praying on his knees with Kissinger, then pounding the carpet and sobbing; Pat Nixon spurning her husband's sexual advances- for 12 years; Nixon walking the White House halls at night, talking to portraits of former presidents...
Woodward and Bernstein took heavy flak last week for writing as they did about such things. The critics seem divided into two camps: readers who think Nixon's privacy was invaded, and reporters and editors who think it unethical to include dialogue that Woodward and Bernstein neither heard nor attributed (such as the Nixon-Kissinger exchanges...
...first criticism argues that evidence of a president's insanity is privileged information. Undoubtedly its strongest supporters are those who protested, as Woodward and Bernstein were unraveling the Watergate scandal three years ago, that it was improper to ask about a president's criminality...