40 years of Watergate: Woodward/Bernstein interview

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Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

Duration: 25 minutes
availability: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023wqdc
First broadcast: Wednesday 06 August 2014, BBC

Modern journalism is the way it is because of the work 40 years ago of two Washington Post reporters who did most to investigate the White House under President Richard Nixon. They were Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Newshour’s Owen Bennett-Jones – himself a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton – looks at how their story, which started off covering a Washington burglary case, ended up exposing the wrongdoing of an American president. In the week running up to the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s resignation we ask whether their reporting made Americans, and journalists, more mistrustful of government and ready to believe the worst of their leaders.

Image: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, photographed in 2005. Credit: Getty

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http://youtu.be/zLHc8NR_v-8

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Watergate Casualties and Convictions


one presidential resignation

one vice-presidential resignation – although Agnew’s crimes were unrelated to Watergate

40 government officials indicted or jailed

H.R. Haldeman and John Erlichman (White House staff), resigned 30 April 1973, subsequently jailed

John Dean (White House legal counsel), sacked 30 April 1973, subsequently jailed

John Mitchell, Attorney-General and Chairman of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), jailed

Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy (ex-White House staff), planned the Watergate break-in, both jailed

Charles Colson, special counsel to the President, jailed

James McCord (Security Director of CREEP), jailed


source: http://watergate.info/analysis/casualties-and-convictions