Word: woodwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private discussions, investigative reporters like Bob Woodward of Watergate fame (who also broke the Hussein story) describe their role in cat-mouse terms: it's the Government's job to keep secrets, the reporter's job to ferret them out. Editorially defending its story, the Post sanctimoniously praised President Carter for insisting "that a much better effort must be made by the Government to keep its secrets?especially the CIA's." This really isn't satisfactory: even if the CIA were effectively keeping its secret, others who might be interested in leaking the story include Palestinian rebels, the Israelis...
...When he learned that the Post was planning to break the news, Carter invited Executive Editor Ben Bradlee and Reporter Bob Woodward, the author of the story, to the White House. The President explained that Hussein was playing a valuable moderating role in the Middle East, but he did not directly ask them not to publish the article...
...across. Rock singers are royally indulged, surrounded by yes men. It's pretty hard for them to keep their humanity, but if anyone does, it will be Linda. Last month she sang for Jimmy Carter in Washington and shared a dressing room with Joanne Woodward, her favorite actress. She was utterly star-struck herself...
Carter learned about the Hussein arrangement only when Post Reporter Bob Woodward (of Watergate fame) began making inquiries. The President stopped the flow of funds, reasoning -whatever reservations he may also have had about the propriety of the practice-that the fact that the story was about to be revealed by the Post made the payouts a liability...
...finest hour, of course, was Watergate, which it now finds hard to live up to. Watergate made folk heroes and millionaires out of Woodward and Bernstein, sent up Bradlee's ego when he saw Jason Robards' fine film portrayal of him in All the President's Men, and in the face of economic and political threats to the paper, proved Publisher Katharine Graham's courage. Hard to top all that-last year's exposure of Congressman Wayne Hays and his dolly seems much less momentous. Cartoonist Herblock is bereft without Nixon to kick around...