Word: woodwarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernstein and his colleague, Bob Woodward, the two reporters cited in the 1973 Pulitzer Prize given to The Post for its Watergate coverage, addressed a capacity crowd at Jordan Hall in Boston for the Ford Hall Forum public lecture series...
Like Faulkner's Quentin Compson, Donald traces his historical urge (and that of C. Vann Woodward, Francis Simkins and other historians from the South) to a wrestling with the contradiction between ideals and practice in the Southern experience...
...privilege and entrenched power that it claims to be? A closer look at Watergate belies that claim. Despite recent implications to the contrary, hundreds of probing, aggressive newsmen working night and day to unearth the truth was not the story of Watergate. More accurately, two reporters--Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post--kept up through last winter the pressure which eventually helped blow the case wide open. The rest of the press did not get involved until Nixon was already reeling...
Late last week Colson sat down with TIME Correspondent Simmons Fentress. Bitter about the press, Colson charged that newsmen were "playing the game of innuendo to try to get after the President." He called it "bloody outrageous." He was especially angry at Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who first reported Hunt's claim that Colson had suggested a Bremer burglary...
There were insinuations that the Post had played the Watergate story heavily only to help George McGovern's election chances. The Post was naturally eager to disprove that notion. Working up to 16 hours a day, Bernstein and Woodward hounded C.R.P staffers in their homes and badgered White House aides with endless phone calls. "It was like selling magazine subscriptions," Bernstein remembers. "One out of every 30 people will feel sorry...