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I have been a working news photographer and photojournalist for more than 50 years.
During that time, I have covered wars, royalty, movie stars, and spent 30 years covering The White House. But if I had to point to one story that was the most important I ever covered there would be no doubt as to the winner: the trip of President Richard Nixon to China in 1972.
I had covered the Nixon presidential campaign in 1968 for UPI and during the next four years, although I was then based in New York, I was frequently asked to cover Nixon's major international trips.
In July of 1971, while Nixon was summering in San Clemente, a bombshell went off. It was revealed that National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, who had mysteriously disappeared after the president's arrival in California, had secretly flown on to Beijing, and had gotten an agreement from the Chinese to invite President Nixon on a state visit the following year.
President Nixon gets a demonstration of chop stick prowess from Chinese Premier Zhou En Lai at the offical banquet welcoming the US President to China on Feb. 26, 1972 Photograph by Dirck Halstead, UPI | |
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Bob Woodward recounts the Watergate story in an art museum
By Susan StambergJun 16, 2022 5:10am (Morning Edition / NPR)
Jack Davis, Watergate Breaks Wide Open. Watercolor and ink on paperboard, 1973. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Image: © Estate of Jack Davis
Bob Woodward recounts the Watergate story in an art museum
In the early morning hours of June 17, 1972, a Saturday, Bob Woodward was asleep. Twenty-nine years old and the lowest-paid reporter at the Washington Post ($165 a week), he'd been on the paper for nine months when the city editor called at 9 a.m. to put him to work on a burglary at Democratic National Committee headquarters. Another young reporter, Carl Bernstein, became his partner. The burglary and everything that followed — the cover-up, obstruction of justice, Senate hearings and resignation of President Nixon — was their story.
Now, 50 years after the break-in, the National Portrait Gallery is showing a new exhibition — "Watergate: Portraiture and Intrigue" — with cartoons, photographs and paintings featuring art from the period. I invited Bob Woodward to tour the show with me.
He looked at a cartoon of most of the president's men, tied up in phone cables and pointing at one another in blame. Their names — Haldeman, Ehrlich