Word: woodwarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rash of comments and no-comments erupted over the new Bob Woodward-Carl Bernstein book on Watergate, The Final Days. After TIME summarized the book's highlights in last week's issue (March 29), the New York Daily News and the Associated Press produced similar stories. At week's end, Newsweek, which is printing excerpts from the volume, released large sections of it. Finally, the Washington Post printed its own summary of the book's main disclosures...
Despite the pro forma disclaimers, Woodward and Bernstein weave a brisk and convincing narrative in their sequel to the bestselling All the President's Men. They do not alter the broad outlines of the now-familiar drama of Watergate. But with their spare, police-beat style, they do manage to pin down each painful, often poignant detail as the curtain dropped on a collapsing President and an embittered staff...
Meanwhile, All the President's Men is being judged by some tough audiences. It has already succeeded with the once suspicious Post crowd. Says Woodward: "The film taught me something about my business?seeing how they treated it and how they cared for it. The movie's not just pretty damned true, it is true. I just think, if reporters see it, they'll say, 'This is how we do it.' " Adds Bernstein: "They did a spectacular reporting job to do this movie. Good reporters get their sources to trust them, and that's what they did with...
...unfinished story that Woodward and Bernstein told in All the President's Men is about to be continued. Next month Simon & Schuster will publish their second collaborative effort, The Final Days, an account of the ending of Richard Nixon's presidency. The two reporters received a $300,000 advance for the work, which is a May Book-of-the-Month Club selection...
According to reports from those familiar with the book, The Final Days is an extraordinarily detailed portrait of the collapse of the former President. Woodward and Bernstein state that Nixon took to drinking in the afternoon in his little hideaway in the Executive Office Building. His appointments became fewer and his office hours more erratic as his control of Government slipped away. There were days when he did not come over from the mansion until noon. Once, almost at the end, he was heard saying "Goodbye" to the portraits of his predecessors on the White House walls. He cried...