Harry M. Rosenfeld, the Post's metropolitan editor, gave him a two-week trial but did not hire him because of his lack of journalistic experience. Richard Nixon déclare ainsi à la presse le 29 août 1972 : « Je ne peux pas dire avec certitude que l’enquête prouve qu’aucun employé de la Maison-Blanche, que personne dans l’administration, n’ait été impliqué dans cet incident bizarre. Revenons en arrière. Le 1er août 1972, ils font aussi le lien avec un certain Charles Colson, conseiller spécial de Richard Nixon. Les deux journalistes remarquent un détail qui leur laisse penser qu’un complot bien plus vaste se trame. [8] During his service in the Navy, Woodward served aboard the USS Wright, and was one of two officers assigned to move or handle nuclear launch codes the Wright carried in its capacity as a National Emergency Command Post Afloat (NECPA). Woodward and Bernstein's two-part event, “Building Block of Democracy: The Role of the Free Press in America,” is part of the college’s James Jacobs Civic Engagement Project to bring nationally recognized experts to the county. 1 bestseller and was later turned into a movie. That has a tremendous impact on where we are and where we are going.". En effet, celle-ci pourrait le concerner directement et mettre en lumière le rôle joué par la Russie dans son élection. “He always appeared to be politely enduring what you had to say, because he had something else on his mind. ». Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of Jane (née Upshur) and Alfred E. Woodward, a lawyer who later became chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court. Writer Tanner Colby, who co-wrote a biography of, Woodward believed the Bush administration's claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the war, and the publication of the book, Woodward was also accused of fabricating a deathbed interview with CIA Director, This page was last edited on 1 November 2020, at 04:30. She directed a graduate program in journalism at Columbia University for six years before becoming an editor for The Trace.[85][86]. I am convinced he writes only what he believes to be true or has been reliably told to be true. A taxi dropped the man off at the curb. Une nouvelle législation est votée pour mieux encadrer le financement des campagnes électorales. Redford was going to portray Woodward in the movie. It is a brilliant story—fake and fraud that it is. He started working for The Washington Post as a reporter in 1971 and currently holds the title of associate editor. 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Le 8 janvier 1973, le procès des « cambrioleurs » du Watergate s’ouvre dans l’indifférence quasi générale…. Bob Schieffer, "The Best Reporter of All Time," CBS News, April 18, 2004. Here, he mimicked a man whose wandering attention was seized by a houseplant. [34] National Journal editor Ron Fournier, conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, and Fox News contributor and former Clinton adviser Lanny Davis expressed support for Woodward; Fournier and Davis described similar experiences with Obama administration officials. Downie accepted the apology and said even had the paper known it would not have changed its reporting. That’s a story in itself. I was having troubles dealing with it. After a year at the Montgomery Sentinel, a weekly newspaper in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, Woodward was hired as a Post reporter in 1971.[11]. N’appartenant pas à « l’aristocratie » de la profession, Woodward et Bernstein ont recours à des informateurs inhabituels : secrétaires, femmes de chambre, portiers… Autant de sources que leurs confrères politiques dédaignent. His eyes were moving around a great deal. Les promesses électorales les plus folles de l’histoire. Bernstein, who has served as a CNN analyst, said Nixon’s criminal actions were relayed in taped White House conversations, and current special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia would need similar concrete evidence. Le 30 avril, trois conseillers de Nixon – Bob Haldeman, John Ehrlichman et John Dean – démissionnent. De toute évidence, les enquêtes de Bob Woodward et Carl Bernstein n’ont pas passionné les foules. Nouveau rebondissement en juillet 1973 ! 1 national bestselling non-fiction books.[87]. Un nouveau scandale Watergate à la Maison-Blanche ? He was raised in nearby Wheaton, Illinois, and educated at Wheaton Community High School (WCHS), a public high school in the same town. What Trump's Concession Speech Ought to Sound Like, Hear System of a Down’s First New Music in 15 Years, ‘Protect the Land’ and ‘Genocidal Humanoidz’, Joe Biden Is the President-Elect. He’d—”. ». Want more Rolling Stone? Michael Massing, "Sitting on Top of the News," The New York Review of Books, June 27, 1991, Vol. [81] His May 4, 2019 speech at Kent State University contained the startling revelation of previously unreleased audiotape on which then-president Richard Nixon can be heard lauding the 1970 shooting of four students for its effect on those who disagreed with him. C’est le début d’une affaire d’Etat qui va déboulonner l’homme le plus puissant du monde. Face aux accusations, la Maison-Blanche refuse de réagir, renvoyant vers le fameux Creep : « L’article du Washington Post est non seulement de la pure invention, mais c’est un ramassis d’absurdités.». "He bases lots of his decisions on things that are just not true or facts. Redford watched a very serious man, a man who didn’t make the cocktail party circuit, didn’t really know what was on the end of his fork other than his present assignment. Pourtant, tout est véridique. In a series of articles published in January 2002, he and Dan Balz described the events at Camp David in the aftermath of September 11 and discussed the Worldwide Attack Matrix. Woodward et Bernstein étayent pourtant leur article d’exemples. [ … ] ». « [Le 20 juin dernier], il a été découvert qu’au moins deux des suspects [du cambriolage du Watergate] connaissaient un mystérieux consultant de la Maison-Blanche, E. Howard Hunt Jr., qui a aussitôt disparu de la circulation [ …]. The deposition was reported in The Washington Post on November 16, 2005, and was the first time Woodward revealed publicly that he had any special knowledge about the case. He relaxed. Woodward took him into the kitchen and fixed a plate of cold ham and frijoles. ", “What’s the remedy?” Woodward said to the audience at the University Center lecture hall. He testified that a senior administration official told him in June 2003 that Iraq war critic Joe Wilson's wife (later identified as Valerie Plame), worked for the CIA as a WMD analyst, not as an undercover operative. The agony, the uncertainty: ‘What are all these names?’ ‘What does all this mean?’ People will look at the reporter over there and they’ll start getting things out they wouldn’t normally get out.”. His eyes seemed to be categorizing props in the room as he talked to you. “These guys are heroes,” he said. Affaire Bettencourt : reprenons tout depuis le début…. Le Watergate provoque une véritable perte de confiance dans les institutions. » L’article paru en une du Washington Post, ce dimanche 18 juin 1972, est traité comme un gros fait divers. He gave the 2001 Robert C. Vance Distinguished Lecture at Central Connecticut State University,[75] and has spoken at the University of Arkansas,[76] University of Alabama,[77] Eastern Connecticut State University,[78] West Texas A&M University,[79] and Oklahoma City Community College. [40], Woodward has authored or co-authored 18 nonfiction books in the past 35 years. After a year at the Montgomery Sentinel, a weekly newspaper in the Was… A curious crime, two young reporters, and a secret source known as "Deep Throat" ... Washington would be changed forever. The New York Times Book Review said in 2004 that "No reporter has more talent for getting Washington's inside story and telling it cogently. "[31] The White House subsequently released a statement that "of course no threat was intended...The note suggested that Mr. Woodward would regret the observation he made regarding the sequester because that observation was inaccurate, nothing more. Woodward spent more time than any other journalist with former President George W. Bush, interviewing him six times for close to 11 hours total. Both men said that demonstrating high standards in newsrooms can combat accusations of "fake news. In 2018, Woodward announced participation in an online class on investigative journalism. I was getting a certain amount of success, some of it surprising, some of it confusing. The reporters also addressed the impact of Trump's attacks on the media, which have drawn rebukes professional journalism organizations, human rights experts and others. Deux mois après le début du procès, un événement replace Nixon sur la sellette : l’un des accusés, James McCord, écrit au juge une lettre dans laquelle il affirme s’être parjuré devant le tribunal à cause de pressions émanant… de la Maison-Blanche. He’s deceptively fast. Donald Trump Is a Loser, Tom Morello Mocks Trumpers Dancing to Rage Against the Machine’s ‘Killing in the Name’, How a Pro-Trump ‘Stop the Steal’ Group Became ‘Gay Communists for Socialism’, Everyone From Lizzo to Mick Jagger Is Celebrating Joe Biden’s Presidential Victory, ‘The Last Waltz’: A Concert Becomes a Legend, Science Fiction in Steven Spielberg’s Suburbia, Elvis Presley: Shake, Rattle and Roll ‘Em. [89][90] The film's other co-writers include Christian Williams, Richard Harwood, and Alfred Sole. In September 1980, a Sunday feature story appeared on the front page of the Post titled "Jimmy's World" in which reporter Janet Cooke wrote a profile of the life of an eight-year-old heroin addict. “Very different. “To make our work better, more factual, less emotional and so it doesn’t appear to be partisan.”. And I could see that he was ready to go to sleep. Au terme d’une bataille homérique d’un an, la cour suprême exige en juillet 1974 que Nixon remette tous les enregistrements de ses conversations. It was Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's deputy and an internal critic of the Iraq War and the White House inner circle. [41], In his 1995 memoir, A Good Life, former Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee singled out Woodward in the foreword. It’s an easy toss-off to say workaholic, because Washington is a town filled with work-aholics, it’s like a receptacle for workaholics.”. De permanence à la rédaction, deux journalistes encore novices se chargent de l’affaire : Carl Bernstein, 28 ans, et Bob Woodward, 29 ans. Pour les journalistes qui ont allumé la mèche, c’est la gloire. It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes. As the Watergate scandal fades from memory to myth, a central question about the scarring chapter in U.S. history lingers: Did Richard M. Nixon’s misdeeds and downfall strip the nation of its innocence or affirm the resilience of the American system? [2] He focuses on the presidency, intelligence, and Washington institutions such as the U.S. Supreme Court, The Pentagon, and the Federal Reserve. Ils ont mis au jour les coulisses d’une présidence qui ment sans vergogne, use de pots de vin, de caisses noires et de trafic d’influence. Pas de quoi pour autant freiner le Washington Post, l’un des plus influents médias du moment, spécialisé dans la dénonciation de scandales. It was Woodward who submitted the story for Pulitzer Prize consideration, and Cooke was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing on April 13, 1981. He did not reveal the official's disclosure at the time because it did not strike him as important. Woodward immediately confirmed the veracity of this claim and subsequently published a book, titled The Secret Man, that detailed his relationship with Felt. President Nixon refuses to release the tapes and fires the special prosecutor. Instead, he applied for a job as a reporter for The Washington Post while taking graduate courses in Shakespeare and international relations at George Washington University. For more than 30 years, only Woodward, Bernstein, and a handful of others knew the informant's identity until it was claimed by his family to Vanity Fair magazine to be former Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director W. Mark Felt in May 2005. Mais ce qui est vraiment choquant dans des cas comme celui-là, ce n’est pas le fait que cela se soit produit, parce qu’il arrive que des personnes trop zélées en pleine campagne fassent de mauvaises choses. In 2012, Colby College presented Woodward with the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism as well as an honorary doctorate. '"[18], In 2008, as a part of the Google Talks series, Woodward, who was interviewed by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, said that he had a fourth book in his Bush at War series in the making. Ils recueillent, le 25 octobre, le témoignage d’un jeune avocat californien ayant participé au sabotage de la campagne démocrate. He drove the actor all over Washington, showing the inside tips. Edward Snowden : traître ou défenseur des droits de l’Homme ? "[70], Despite these criticisms and challenges, Woodward has been praised as an authoritative and balanced journalist. Les assistants vocaux nous espionnent-ils ? “He stopped me from even wanting to pursue it,” Redford said. © 2020 www.detroitnews.com. Woodward and Carl Bernstein were both assigned to report on the June 17, 1972, burglary of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in a Washington, D.C., office building called Watergate. [1][2], While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward teamed up with Carl Bernstein; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. Apparently until the end of time, we are destined to pluck random nouns from the news and tack on “-gate.”. The stories were just breaking, and they were different people then. His second marriage (1974–1979) was to Frances Kuper. Everybody keeps applying that word to him. Donald Trump a limogé, ce mercredi 10 mai, le directeur de la police fédérale (FBI). Mais la Maison-Blanche nie encore tout lien. Woodward said the revelation came at the end of a long, confidential background interview for his 2004 book Plan of Attack. [51] Though "Woodward is a widely trusted reporter, even an American icon", she says that he assembles reams of often irrelevant detail, fails to draw conclusions, and make judgments. Booster son système immunitaire à l’approche de l’hiver. ", During the earlier Q&A, Woodward and Bernstein reflected on reporting techniques they used to pursue their landmark coverage, which was recounted in a book they co-authored, “All The President’s Men.”. And a lot of it abusing. ». Les suspects étaient en possession d’un important équipement de photographie et d’instruments de surveillance électronique, capables d’intercepter des conversations standards et des appels téléphoniques. Up to the point it’s broken, I’m trusting you.'”. I thought we had a lot to share from that standpoint—I was going through a strange time. Many of Watergate’s major figures gathered at the complex to tell their stories for a Washington Post forum. PHOTOS | Key figures from the Watergate scandal reconvened Monday in Washington. "Watergate" is shorthand for this tumultuous time in America and its enduring impact. We want to hear from you! On apprendra en 2005 qu’il s’agissait de Mark Felt, directeur-adjoint du FBI de l’époque. En plus, les deux reporters utilisent des méthodes peu communes. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon.