Carl bernstein date of birth

While a young reporter for The Washington Post in , Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward , and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by long-time journalism figure Gene Roberts.

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Bernstein's career since Watergate has continued to focus on the theme of the use and abuse of power via books and magazine articles. He has also done reporting for television and opinion commentary. Additionally, he is a regular political commentator on CNN. Bernstein was born to a secular Jewish family in Washington, D. On a Saturday in June , Bernstein was assigned, along with Bob Woodward , to cover a break-in at the Watergate office complex that had occurred earlier the same morning.

Five burglars had been caught red-handed in the complex, where the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters; four of them turned out to be ex-CIA agents who did security work for the Republicans. In the series of stories that followed, Bernstein and Woodward eventually connected the burglars to a massive slush fund and a corrupt attorney general.

Bernstein was the first to suspect that President Nixon was involved, and he found a laundered check that linked Nixon to the burglary. In , two years after the Watergate burglary and two months before Nixon resigned, Bernstein and Woodward released the book All the President's Men. The book drew upon the notes and research accumulated while writing articles about the scandal for the Post and "remained on best-seller lists for six months".

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Bernstein left the Post in and expanded into other areas due to his reputation from the Watergate reporting. He joined broadcast news in a high growth period. He spent a year in his research, which was published as a 25,word article in Rolling Stone magazine.