Endowed by DVS, the Senior Society, and THE 2011 supported by the President’s Office, the White Lecture was established in memory of Emory’s fourteenth president, a 1908 graduate GOODRICH C. WHITE of Emory College, Society member, and later dean of the College and vice president of the University. White served as president from 1942 LECTURE until retiring in 1957.

Watergate’s Impact on Present-Day Politics BOB WOODWARD CARL BERNSTEIN

rom Watergate to the hen Bernstein and Bob Supreme Court, the CIA, Woodward broke the F the Pentagon, President W Watergate story for the Clinton, the Federal Reserve, the Washington Post, they set the 9/11 terrorist attacks, four books standard for investigative report- on the wars of President George ing and earned the Pulitzer Prize. W. Bush, and now the Obama Since then, in books, magazine administration, one journalist— articles, commentary, television Bob Woodward—has consis- reporting, and an award-winning tently found the inside story of website, Bernstein has continued Washington institutions. to examine the use and abuse of power. Woodward has worked since 1971 for the After leaving the Post in 1977, Bernstein spent a Washington Post, where he serves as associate editor. year investigating the CIA’s secret relationship with Called by some perhaps the best reporter ever, he has the American press during the Cold War, bringing to won nearly every American journalism award, and light a subject long suppressed. He has written major the Post won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for his work articles on the U.S. arming of Afghanistan’s mujahe- with Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal. din, on the Bush and Nixon eras, on John McCain, Together, he and Bernstein wrote two classic best and on the dominance of media by conglomerates. sellers: All the President’s Men, about their coverage He has written two ground-breaking biographies— of the Watergate story; and The Final Days, about one of Pope John Paul II, and one of Hillary Clinton. the denouement of the Nixon presidency. Bernstein is a political analyst for CNN, a contrib- Woodward has authored or coauthored fifteen uting editor for Vanity Fair, and a former Washington books, eleven of which have been #1 nonfiction na- bureau chief and correspondent for ABC News. tional bestsellers. Three have been made into movies. Born and reared in Washington, D. C., Bernstein Woodward was born in 1943, in Illinois, and grad- began his journalism career at 16 as a copyboy for the uated from Yale University. After serving five years as Washington Evening Star and became a reporter at 19. a communications officer in the U.S. Navy, he began At the Post, he covered virtually every aspect of urban his journalism career at the Montgomery County experience: police, the courts, city hall, the suburbs, (Maryland) Sentinel, then joined the Washington Post. civil rights, the anti-war movement, and politics.

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