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Rosenfeld went to work for the Herald Tribune after his graduation from Syracuse University and has ...

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Woodward, a registered Republican, did not vote. He couldn't decide whether he was more uneasy with ...

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But you're absolutely sure we're right?' The question carried an intensity absent from the previous ...

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It was 9:30 P.M., just an hour from deadline for the second edition. Woodward began typing:A $25,000...

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Sussman had the ability to seize facts and lock them in his memory, where they remained poised for i...

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The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up ...

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June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the rece...

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During discussions in his office, Bradlee frequently picked up an undersize sponge-rubber basketball...

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Bernstein was impressed by Sloan's thoughtfulness. Sloan seemed convinced that the President, whom h...

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Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thou...

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Until the August 1 story about the Dahlberg check, the working relationship between Bernstein and Wo...

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At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had ...

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We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-cul...

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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by th...

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Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based ...

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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a cont...

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Bradlee had been recruited with the idea that the New York Times need nod exercise absolute preemine...

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The August 1 story had carried their joint byline; the day afterward, Woodward asked Sussman if Bern...

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Deep Throat stamped his foot. 'A conspiracy like this...a conspiracy investigation...the rope has to...

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To those who will decide if he should be tried for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' -the House of Repr...

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Hardly unaware of his image, Bradlee even cultivated it. He delighted in displaying his street savvy...

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He believed the press was doing its job, but, in the absence of candor from the committee, it had re...

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Soon, challenges against the Post's ownership of two television stations in Florida were filed with ...

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Woodward said that he had told no one the name of Deep Throat.Mrs. Graham paused. 'Tell me,' she sai...

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Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching ...

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They walked across 15th Street to the Madison Hotel's Montpelier Room, an opulent French restaurant....

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A prize-winning science reporter, Simons had become the number-two editor at the Post a year before....

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The managing editor shared Bernstein's fondness for doping things out on the basis of sketchy inform...

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Aware that much of the story was out of his hands, he tried to exercise what control he could: he ho...

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Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his playe...

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Carl Bernstein

Journalist

Born: 1944-02-14

Died: N/A

Carl Bernstein (born February 14, 1944) is an American journalist who, as a reporter for The Washington Post along with Bob Woodward, broke the story of the Watergate break-in and consequently helped bring about the resignation of US president Richard Nixon. For his role in breaking the scandal, Bernstein received many awards; his work helped earn the Post a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973.More