Journalist+Biography

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The two investigative reporters that changed America, revealing the Watergate scandal, that caused President Nixon to resign.

Bob Woodward, born March 26, 1943 in Illinois, he then later in life, enrolled at Yale University. He studied english and literature. He received his B.A. Degree in 1965. He then joined the U.S. Navy for 5 years, after being discharged as a lieutenant in August 1965, he applied to work at The Washington Post. There is where he uncovered the Watergate Scandal with his partner, Carl Bernstein. Life after the Post include writing many books and stories. He was authored or co-authored 15 non-fiction books in the last 35 years, all 15 have been national best sellers, and 11 of them have been #1 national bestseller. Carl Bernstein was born on March 26, 1944. He went to Montgomery Blair Highschool in Silverspring, Maryland.He then went to the University of Maryland, but dropped out. Bernstein is Jewish, and is a part of the B'nai B'rith and was once president of B'nai B'riths northern region. He began to work for The Wahington Post in 1966. He then uncovered the scandal with Bob Woodward there. Carl then quit working for the post at 1976. After he left the post, Carl has worked as the Washington Bereau Chief, a correspondent at ABC News, taught at New York University, and contributed to Time magazine. The Watergate Scandal is when some men hired by the Nixon re-election team broke into the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate building to get info they could use in the election. When discovered, Nixon, who did not approve the break-in, covered it up, instead of turning them in, Nixon tried to kill the investigation, resulting in the Watergate cover-up, interferring with an ongoing police investigation, and other illegal moves. If Nixon just turned in the men, he would have never been forced to resign. All of the infromation was found by the two brilliant journalists, and much of the infromation was provided to the journalists by a anomonyous informant, who called himself "Deep Throat". With the power of Bob and Carl, they never stopped working to find the truth, and thanks to these two, justice was served to President Nixon and his presidental re-election commitie.