Woodward And Bernstein Back In Spotlight

Woodward And Bernstein Back In Spotlight, The Watergate reporters say Nixon’s White House was “far worse” than thought. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, arguably the two most famous newspaper reporters in American history, did something on Sunday they haven’t done in 36 years: They shared a byline in the Washington Post.

Woodward and Bernstein, who are on a mini-publicity tour surrounding the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-ins, published a joint opinion essay for the Post’s Outlook section about what they’ve learned since first reporting on the scandal: President Richard Nixon, who was forced to resign in the wake of Watergate, was “far worse than we thought.”

“The Watergate that we wrote about in The Washington Post from 1972 to 1974 is not Watergate as we know it today,” they wrote. “It was only a glimpse into something far worse.”

Today, much more than when we first covered this story as young Washington Post reporters, an abundant record provides unambiguous answers and evidence about Watergate and its meaning. This record has expanded continuously over the decades with the transcription of hundreds of hours of Nixon’s secret tapes, adding detail and context to the hearings in the Senate and House of Representatives; the trials and guilty pleas of some 40 Nixon aides and associates who went to jail; and the memoirs of Nixon and his deputies. Such documentation makes it possible to trace the president’s personal dominance over a massive campaign of political espionage, sabotage and other illegal activities against his real or perceived opponents.