Danny: Well that clears things up.Frank: And I'm realizing something about myself. Frank will undoubtedly want to enforce this policy in a way that doesn't alienate residents and keeps people safe without breeding racism or resentment of police, and if Mayor Chase doesn't like that, they will have a problem with each other. Bernstein and Woodward stayed on the story, though the government agencies they had helped to prod into activity now began to resent their continuing revelations. We also need to face the reality that polling numbers should that most Americans disapprove of and distrust the media. President, the media is not fake news, he said. [18] Mann recalled that before the Watergate scandal, Woodward had made references to a high-placed source he had in the FBI. Alias of Mark Felt, Watergate scandal whistleblower, Impeachment process against Richard Nixon, Master list of Nixon's political opponents, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA, Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, "How 'Deep Throat' Took Down Nixon From Inside the FBI", "Watergate conspirator James McCord Jr. died two years ago. Blue Bloods continues to air on CBS on Fridays at 10 PM EST/PST. [5] As of 2022[update], the garage had not been demolished. Our job is to put the best obtainable version of the truth out there, period. The point: very aggressive reporting is often necessary. [15] Writer Nora Ephron became obsessed with figuring out the secret of Deep Throat's identity and eventually correctly concluded that he was Mark Felt. By then, Felt was suffering from dementia and had previously denied being Deep Throat, but Woodward and Bernstein then confirmed the attorney's claim. Carl and I are grandfathers, perhaps great-grandfathers in American journalism, but we can see that the three journalists that we are recognizing tonight are some of the finest examples of that craft of persistence. On May 31, 2005, Vanity Fair revealed that Felt was Deep Throat in an article on its website by John D. O'Connor, an attorney acting on Felt's behalf. At the same time, Marty said, when we have done our job thoroughly, we have a duty to tell people what weve learned, and to tell it to them forthrightly, without masking our findings or muddling them.. Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex. Woodward then had to disclose that he had known that the family was thinking of going public and had been discussing with them by e-mail - as recently as last weekend - the idea of a joint book to disclose the secret together. However, Woodward and Bernstein said that while Felt helped them immeasurably, "many other sources and officials assisted us" in writing about Watergate. See also Myron J. Smith, Watergate: An Annotated Bibliography (1983).Updated information gathered from simonsays.com, an online service. Then in March 1973 one of the Watergate burglars, James McCord, a former CIA official, wrote a letter to Judge John Sirica, who was trying his case, that essentially confirmed the Bernstein and Woodward stories. I know of no important story Ive worked on in more than half a century of reporting that ended up where I thought it would go when I started on it. Trump instead held a campaign-style rally in Pennsylvania to mark the 100th day of his presidency. He sits up there in 1PP saying we're all one big family, but he doesn't give a rat's ass about any family except his own, and certainly not mine. Both men continued to work for the Post. Felt was testifying before the jury when a juror asked him, out of the blue, "Were you Deep Throat? Although handsome, physically fit and wealthy enough, we don't have a shared history. "Woodward and Bernstein As of 1997 Woodward is an assistant managing editor of the CIA in Veil (1987), the Pentagon and the Gulf War in The Commanders (1991), and the Clinton White House in The Agenda (1994). I gave Carl twenty dollars. Bernstein and Woodward did not, all by themselves, bring about the destruction of the Nixon presidency, but some historians of the period do credit their early investigations with both informing and stimulating the official investigations by a special prosecutor, the courts, the Senate Watergate Committee, and the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives that eventually forced Nixon to resign when it was revealed that he had participated in the cover-up almost from the beginning. Carl was desperate-desperate that he would lose them and this opportunity., He was short on cash and didnt know where he might be going. Gaines believed that statements by Woodward ruled out Deep Throat's being in the FBI and that Deep Throat often had information before the FBI did. Bruce is an insightful journalist who understands that employers must focus on total wellbeing to engage employees and promote healthier, more successful individual behaviors empowering employees . President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt and the conviction was subsequently expunged from the record. His debut young adult novel, Reinventing Hannah, is available on Amazon. Carl Bernstein (born 1944) and Robert Woodward (born 1943), investigative reporters for the Washington Post, wrote a series of articles about the Watergate scandals that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Nixon replied: "Christ," he said, "the FBI put a Jew in there? In 1973, I recall standing on Pennsylvania Avenue with Carl after a court hearing. According to Culeman-Beckman, Jacob Bernstein had said that he was, "100 percent sure that Deep Throat was Mark Felt. [3] L. Patrick Gray, former acting Director of the FBI and Felt's overseer, disputed Felt's claim in his book In Nixon's Web, co-written with his son Ed. In April 2003 Fielding was presented as a potential candidate as a result of a detailed review of source material by William Gaines and his journalism students, as part of a class at the University of Illinois journalism school. There would have been no way to know which copy was intended for Woodward. Felt arrived soon after for a separate appointment and sat next to Woodward in the waiting room. Felt's wife recalls answering Woodward's telephone calls for Felt.[8]. Mann argued that the information that Deep Throat gave Woodward could only have come from FBI files. What do they think it means? I'm not sure that he . Yes! That's one of the reasons Frank is admirable. More importantly, he was trying to figure out what makes the mayor tick and what he truly believes. Our assumption of the big picture isnt enough. This. Robert H. Ferrell David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (1979) places the Bernstein and Woodward story into a history of recent American journalism. Bernstein and Woodward stayed on the story, though the government agencies they had helped to prod into activity now began to resent their continuing revelations. 2023 LoveToKnow Media. [16], In 1999, a 19-year-old college student, Chase Culeman-Beckman, claimed that Bernstein's son, Jacob, told her Mark Felt was Deep Throat. Their editors at the Post allowed them to keep most of their sources confidential, but demanded that alleged facts be confirmed by more than one witness. The scandal eventually implicated many members of Nixon's White House, culminating in Nixon becoming the first United States president to resign. Soon after the Nixon resignation, Bernstein and Woodward began work with a team of researchers on The Final Days, an account of the last months of Nixon's presidency, based on interviews with 394 people. From the time of the break-in, and through the fall and winter of 1972-1973, Bernstein and Woodward, under increasing public attack from White House spokesmen, worked virtually alone on the story. Woodward, with Scott Armstrong, wrote a study of the Supreme Court, The Brethren (1979); and Woodward wrote a study of the death by drug overdose of comedian John Belushi, Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi (1984). Commenting on Felt's motivations for serving as Deep Throat, Woodward wrote, "Felt believed he was protecting the bureau by finding a way, clandestine as it was, to push some of the information from the FBI interviews and files out to the public, to help build public and political pressure to make Nixon and his people answerable. Felt was also embittered at having been passed over for director of the FBI and believed that the FBI, in general, was hostile to the Nixon administration. Ephron explained that Jacob overheard her "speculations"; Carl Bernstein himself also immediately stepped forward to reject the claim, as he and Woodward did for many others. Sustained inquiry is essential. Former neighbor Herman Knippenberg stated that Woodward would sometimes come to his door looking for his marked copy of the Times, claiming, "I like to have it in mint condition and I like to have my own copy. His daughter, Tali, attends the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. President, the media is not fake news. In 2005, 31 years after Nixon's resignation and 11 years after Nixon's death, a family attorney stated that former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Associate Director Mark Felt was Deep Throat. In an article prepared for today's Washington Post, Woodward recounts how he met Felt, "a dashing gray-haired figure," by chance, and was first helped by the FBI official to get some leads on the FBI investigation into the 1972 shooting of presidential candidate George Wallace. In public statements following the disclosure of his identity, Felt's family called him an "American hero", stating that he leaked information about the Watergate scandal to The Washington Post for moral and patriotic reasons. If there was a moral to Blue Bloods Season 10 Episode 9, it was that grudges aren't worth it. Robert Kunkel: FBI Washington Bureau Chief whom Mann considered less likely than Felt, as he moved to, In the coming-of-age supernatural comedy horror television series, This page was last edited on 7 January 2023, at 05:28. And it didn't help that Frank couldn't get the guy for the big stuff, so he disciplined him for small stuff, essentially nickel-and-diming him out of a job. During our coverage of Watergate and since, Bob and I have learned a lot from one another about the business of being reporters. Gray and others have argued that Deep Throat was a compilation of sources characterized as one person to improve sales of the book and movie. The film based on the book was released two years later; nominated for eight Academy Awards, it won four. And did anyone see the twist coming in Danny's story? Richard Nixon's RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) gives the former president's version of the events surrounding Watergate. The Vanity Fair article brought executive editor Leonard Downie rushing back from a corporate retreat in Maryland, and in a crisis session the Post decided it would have to confirm that Felt was indeed "Deep Throat". Felt aided Woodward and Bernstein because he knew Woodward personally, having met him years before when Woodward was in the navy. Carl Bernstein, born on February 14, 1944, in Washington, D.C., began part-time work at the Washington Star at the age of 16 and later dropped out of the University of Maryland to work full-time as a reporter. Carl Bernstein (born 1944) and Robert Woodward (born 1943), investigative reporters for the Washington Post, wrote a series of articles about the Watergate scandals that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us, Blue Bloods Review: The Politics of Change. Richard Nixon's RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) gives the former president's version of the events surrounding Watergate. When that happens, we should own up to it. The psychiatrist said other DAs offices were refusing to work with her too, so hopefully, Erin will make a few calls and straighten that out as part of her amends-making process. Instead of seeking out prosecutors at the Justice Department, or the House Judiciary Committee charged with investigating presidential wrongdoing, Felt was methodically solicited by Woodward to guide their investigation while keeping his own identity and involvement safely concealed. <br>Carl was desperate-desperate that he would lose them and this opportunity., He was short on cash and didn't know where he might be going. [6], Many were skeptical of these cloak and dagger methods. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were two young reporters on a chase for money, but this chase led them into one of the nations largest scandals. Felt's daughter Joan, a former "hippie" who was once estranged from her FBI father, told Vanity Fair that he gave in to family pressure to go public when his daughter persuaded him that the story could bring some financial benefit that would help pay for his grandchildren's education. Woodward relied on one source whom he refused to identify even to his editors except by the code-name "Deep Throat.". Over the course of their acquaintance, Woodward would often call Felt for advice. Harry S. Truman One of the men was James W. McCord Jr.;[4] a former Central Intelligence Agency employee and a security man for Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President, popularly known as "CREEP". he was named second-in-command of the bureau's training division in 1962. In The Choice, he uses his proven research methods for an illuminating examination of the quest for the presidency. Starting with the Watergate burglars, the two young reporters traced the money used to finance the break-in, following it by October 1972 to John Mitchell, formerly Nixon's attorney general and at the time of the break-in the On June 17, 1972, police arrested five men inside the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C. It takes forever sometimes, but it does emerge, and that any relaxation by the press will be extremely costly to democracy.. Frank's not usually one to shy away from speaking his mind, nor does he care about the consequences of defying ridiculous orders coming from the mayor's office. According to author Ronald Kessler's book The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, Felt's daughter Joan, who was caring for her father, told Kessler in an interview for his book in August 2001 that back in the summer of 1999, Woodward showed up unexpectedly at their Santa Rosa home and took Felt to lunch. Ben Bradlee, the former editor and the only other person officially in the know, commented: "What would you think the odds were that this town could keep that secret for this long?". The Final Days is the #1 New York Times bestselling, classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon's dramatic last months as president. Obviously, our reporting needs to get both facts and tone right. It's a good thing she discouraged Jamie from getting in the middle of her conflict with McNichols. His grandson, Nick Jones, read a family statement saying that they believed he was "a great American hero" who did what he did "to save his country from a horrible injustice.". About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us, 13 Most Memorable "Jamko" Moments on Blue Bloods, 21 Heroes Who Could Never Get Insurance IRL, Watch Blue Bloods Season 10 Episode 9 Online. This had caused some scholars and commentators to come to the conclusion that Deep Throat could not possibly be a single person, and must be a composite of several sources. According to the authors, Deep Throat was a key source of information behind a series of articles that introduced the misdeeds of the Nixon administration to the general public. In the real New York City, the policy resulted in racial profiling, non-white residents of the city often being treated like criminals, and an erosion of trust of the police, especially by minorities. Our job is to put the best obtainable version of the truth out there, period, he added. The View that Woodward and Bernstein Had a Complete Advice-of-Counsel Defense One view holds that there was no criminal conduct because Woodward and Bernstein proceeded based on the advice of counseland not just any lawyer either, but one of the most highly-regarded criminal lawyers in the country at the time. In February the U.S. Senate voted seventy to zero to establish a committee of four Democrats and three Republicans to investigate the Watergate affair. He is now rushing out a short book he had written for publication after "Deep Throat's" death. Charles W. Bates: FBI executive whom Mann mentioned but considered less likely than Felt. J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (1976) is an exciting narrative and analysis by a New York Times reporter that puts Watergate into the context of what the author refers to as "Richard Nixon's abuse of his presidential powers." Woodward struck up a conversation and eventually learned of Felt's position in the upper echelon of the FBI. He and Garrett seemingly passed Mayor-Elect Chase's test. As of 1997 Woodward is an assistant managing editor of the CIA in Veil (1987), the Pentagon and the Gulf War in The Commanders (1991), and the Clinton White House in The Agenda (1994). Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia.com cannot guarantee each citation it generates. [10], Although Deep Throat's identity was unconfirmed for over 30 years, there were suspicions that Felt was indeed the reporters' mysterious source long before the public acknowledgment in 2005. David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (1979) places the Bernstein and Woodward story into a history of recent American journalism. Woodward, Bernstein and Deep Throat. Woodward kept in close touch with Felt over the years, even showing up unexpectedly at the house where he was staying with his daughter, Joan, in Santa Rosa, California in 1999 after Felt's dementia began. Howard Simons was the managing editor of the Post during Watergate. Soon other newspapers began to investigate the Watergate story more energetically, and legislative and judicial agencies began to uncover a larger and larger pattern of lawbreaking. Frank hopes that this is all Garrett needs to know and says "the advice to Woodward and Bernstein" before he goes. He's a golden retriever when you need a pitbull. . 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