37 Facts About Bob Woodward

Robert Upshur Woodward was born on March 26,1943 and is an American investigative journalist.

Bob Woodward started working for The Washington Post as a reporter in 1971 and now holds the honorific title of associate editor though the Post no longer employs him.

Bob Woodward continued to work for The Washington Post after his reporting on Watergate.

Bob Woodward has written 21 books on American politics and current affairs, 14 of which have topped best-seller lists.

Bob Woodward was raised in nearby Wheaton, Illinois, and educated at Wheaton Community High School, a public high school in the same town.

Bob Woodward's parents divorced when he was twelve, and he and his brother and sister were raised by their father, who subsequently remarried.

Bob Woodward said he would protect Deep Throat's identity until the man died or allowed his name to be revealed.

Bob Woodward immediately confirmed the veracity of this claim and subsequently published a book, titled The Secret Man, that detailed his relationship with Felt.

Bob Woodward co-authored The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court with Scott Armstrong in 1979.

In 1984, Bob Woodward shifted to Hollywood, show business, music and drug culture with his book Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi.

Controversy arose over an interview Bob Woodward conducted with Casey in his hospital room in January 1987, described in Veil, where Casey supposedly admitted to his knowledge of the Iran-Contra affair.

Gates directly quotes Casey saying 22 words, even more than the 19 words Bob Woodward said Casey used with him.

Bob Woodward believed the Bush administration's claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction prior to the war.

In 2008, as a part of the Talks at Google series, Bob Woodward, who was interviewed by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, said that he had a fourth book in his Bush at War series in the making.

Bob Woodward then added jokingly that his wife had told him that she would kill him if he decides to write a fifth in the series.

The CIA's internal report found that Casey "had forty-three meetings or phone calls with Bob Woodward, including a number of meetings at Casey's home with no one else present" during the period Bob Woodward was researching his book.

In 1991, Bob Woodward published The Commanders, which included a detailed, inside account of the decision making leading up to the first Gulf War.

In October 2021, following Powell's death, Bob Woodward published audio excerpts of his last phone interview with Powell earlier that year as a tribute to the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

In 2000, Bob Woodward published his ninth book, the bestseller Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom.

George W Bush Years Woodward spent more time than any other journalist with former President George W Bush, interviewing him six times for close to 11 hours total.

Bob Woodward believed the Bush administration's claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction prior to the war.

At a memorial service for Felt in Santa Rosa, CA on Jan 16,2009, Bob Woodward recalled that Felt faced a well-organized, well-funded cover-up of Watergate by the most powerful officials in the Nixon administration, including the president himself.

Bob Woodward knew his oath of office in the end was to the people of the country and to the Constitution.

Bob Woodward said: "I've been flooded with emails from people in the press saying this is exactly the way the White House works, they are trying to control and they don't want to be challenged or crossed".

Bob Woodward returned to the story of Richard Nixon in The Last of the President's Men.

Bob Woodward interviewed Alexander Butterfield, former aide to President Nixon who disclosed the secret White House taping system on July 13,1973, for over 11 months in 2014 and 2015, recording over 46 hours of tape, and examined 20 boxes of documents and files - a previously unknown Nixon archive.

Bob Woodward revealed the harrowing life inside Donald Trump's White House and how the president makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies.

Bob Woodward interviewed President Donald Trump 19 times for more than 8 hours for his second book on the Trump White House, Rage.

Bob Woodward obtained 25 personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that have not been public before.

Bob Woodward was the main reporter for the Posts coverage of the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Bob Woodward has authored or co-authored 23 nonfiction books in the past 40 years.

We all admire heroes, but Bob Woodward's books teach us that those who rise to leadership are precisely those who take care to abjure heroism for themselves.

Bob Woodward has given speeches on the "lecture circuit" for decades.

Bob Woodward spoke at the Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism 2023.

Bob Woodward interviewed Maryland Governor Wes Moore at St John's College, Annapolis, Maryland for their Great Conversation's Series on October 29,2023.

Bob Woodward recently participated in The New York Times DealBook Summit 2023.

Bob Woodward has co-authored or authored 15 No 1 national bestselling non-fiction books.