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4 unusual facts about Bob Woodward


Baine Kerr

According to a Washington Post article by Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward entitled Doing Well with Help from Family, Friends, (August 11, 1988) when Bush was running against Lloyd Bentsen for senator in 1970, Kerr advised Bush on a proposed business deal involving a loan request from a man named Victor Flaherty, who needed money to buy Fidelity Printing Company.

Derf Scratch

Belushi loved Fear and was their biggest booster; the two became good friends and cocaine abusers—this period is well documented in the Bob Woodward book 'Wired'.

Multinational Division Central-South

In Bob Woodward's book State of Denial he recounts the experience of Frank Miller, who as of March 2004 was the senior director for defense on the National Security Council.

Robert Woodward

Bob Woodward (Robert Upshur Woodward, born 1943), American investigative reporter and author


Barry Sussman

While initially a close supervisor of the acclaimed journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, in later years Sussman became estranged from them.

Howard Simons

According to a site on the Howard Simons Fellowship, "Simons received the first phone call in The Post newsroom with word of the Watergate break-in and pressed relentlessly on the paper's coverage of the story. He started at The Post as a science reporter but soon became an editor, nurturing talented young reporters such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein."

Jack Olsen

As Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward write in their book All The President's Men, the book was one of several checked out of the White House library by E. Howard Hunt in the course of gathering information about Kennedy to potentially be used against him in the 1972 presidential campaign.

Ken W. Clawson

According to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their 1974 best-selling book All the President's Men, Clawson bragged about having written the Canuck letter to a friend, Marilyn Berger, who happened to be a Washington Post reporter, whom he had known from his days with the newspaper.


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