Word: woodwarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tracks of the other while chasing Watergate exclusives. Even after their joint bylines finally began appearing six weeks after the June 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Headquarters, the two fought vehemently over points in their stories. Yet their dissimilarities effectively checked and balanced each other's performance. Woodward, a registered Republican, was cautious, an awkward writer and shy interviewer. Bernstein was brash, ready to take a chance, a polished writer and cunning interviewer...
...success and was the envy of the Washington press corps ?and the despair of the White House. Foremost among their key sources was a man whom the authors still tantalizingly refuse to name. They called him "Deep Throat," and report only that he was a preWatergate friend of Woodward's, a trusted and experienced Executive Branch official with "extremely sensitive" antennae that seemed to pick up every murmur of fresh conspiracy at the capital's power center...
...Woodward needed to see Deep Throat, the reporter would send a signal by moving a flower pot with a red flag in it to the rear of his apartment balcony; by prearrangement the two would then meet about 2 a.m. in an underground garage. If Deep Throat wanted to set up a meeting, he would send a message via Woodward's morning copy of the New York Times; on the lower corner of page 20, clock hands would be drawn to indicate the time of the rendezvous. Woodward says he never figured out how Deep Throat got hold...
...tips were pure gold, but seldom freely proffered. Woodward and Bernstein received no sudden revelation of Watergate's wider dimensions, used no James Bond wiles to score their scoops. They dug out the story in tortuously mined fragments, relying on shrewd hunches, dogged legwork and constant checking. Their efforts paid off on the night of Sept. 28, 1972, when a phone call from an unidentified Government lawyer steered Bernstein to a Tennessee state official, Alex Shipley, who said that he had been approached in June 1971 by Donald Segretti, an Army pal from Viet Nam days. Segretti wanted Shipley...
...strange mishaps: stolen documents, canceled rallies, schedule breakdowns. Then an unnamed Justice Department source revealed that Segretti was under Government investigation and guardedly confirmed Bernstein's suspicion that a connection existed between Segretti and Chapin. Deep Throat then confirmed that the dirty-tricks group was funded by C.R.P. After Woodward and Bernstein's story on Segretti's spy-and-sabotage operation and the Chapin connection appeared on Oct. 15, 1972 ?showing how the President's men sanctioned a massive effort to subvert the election process?the meaning of Watergate became clearer. Write the authors: "The spreading stain of Watergate...