Tag: Carl Bernstein

Ahhh, the good old days when political criminals were actually held to account. Charlie Pierce has a fantastic piece on the 40th anniversary of the unravelling of a President. Forty years ago, on June 17, 1972, a very ordinary middle-class guy did his job, and he did it very well….

There’s a scene in what should be every Democrat’s favorite movie, All The President’s Men where Woodward and Bernstein are meeting with their editor, Howard Simons to talk about a conversation Woodward had with a PR guy from the White House press office.   Woodward found something funny in the way…