Word: woodwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...working for the Russians. The book was not widely noticed, but the agency communicated its displeasure to the author. Undeterred, Marchetti decided in the spring of 1972 to tell all-or almost all. An enterprising literary agent, David Obst, who is also the agent for Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (see THE PRESS) and Daniel Ellsberg, held an auction for the rights to Marchetti's book. Alfred A. Knopf
When their editors first suggested that Washington Post Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward team up on the Watergate story, neither exactly danced on the city desk. The dissimilarities of the two junior reporters boded a stormy working partnership. To Bernstein, 30, a University of Maryland dropout, Woodward was a smooth Yalie who drove a 1970 Karmann-Ghia and smelled of ivied clubs. To Woodward, also 30, the shaggy Bernstein symbolized one of those unseemly counterculture journalists. But when they accepted the Pulitzer Prize in May 1973 for their pioneering probe of the Watergate scandal, it was obvious that...
...Woodward stated that James C. McCord, convicted Watergate burglar, also admitted to him that Post articles on the break-in influenced his choice to divulge information on the Watergate affair...
Before a crowd of about 35 persons, Woodward commended the objectivity of Post reporting concerning the Watergate break...
...Newspapers cannot be judicial, but they can be judicious," Woodward said yesterday. "The only stake that we have in the Watergate stories is what is accurate," Woodward said...