All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward

Author:Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, History, Classics, Carl, Woodward, The Washington post, 1944-, 1972-1974, Politics, Bob, Bernstein, Biography, Watergate Affair
ISBN: 9780671894412
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1974-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Woodward asked a friend in the clerk’s office if it was possible to get a roster of the Watergate grand jury. “No way whatsoever,” he was told. “The records are secret.”

Next morning, Woodward took a cab to the courthouse.

The clerk’s office employed about 90 people. Woodward started at one end of the large complex of file rooms and after half an hour had found someone willing to direct him to a remote comer of the main file area where lists of trial and grand juries were kept. He identified himself to another clerk as a Post reporter and said he wanted to look through the file. The clerk looked at Woodward suspiciously. “Okay,” he said, “but you aren’t allowed to copy anything. You can’t take names. No notes. I’ll be watching.”

Woodward started going through the file drawers and finally found the master list of 1972 grand juries. Two grand juries had been sworn in on June 5. He remembered that the foreman of the Watergate grand jury had an Eastern European name and worked for the government as an economist or something like that. He found the right name on Grand Jury Number One, sworn in on June 5, 1972.

Each of the grand jurors had filled out a small orange card listing name, age, occupation, address, home and work telephones. Woodward began sifting through the cards, then glanced over his shoulder. The clerk was sitting at his desk, about 15 feet away, staring at him. Woodward

took the first four cards, set them face up in the bottom of the file drawer and began studying the names, ages, addresses, phone numbers and occupations. It took about 10 minutes to memorize the information. He asked the clerk where the men’s room was.

Inside the washroom. Woodward went into a stall, took a notebook from his jacket pocket and wrote out what he had memorized. Priscilla L. Woodruff, age 28, unemployed. Trying to visualize what each of the grand jurors looked hke helped him keep track of the infonnatipn. Naomi R, Williams, 56, retired teacher and elevator operator. Julian L. White, 37, janitor at George Washington University,

Woodward drew a mental picture of a coat of arms and” the name of Haldeman etched beneath a pair of crossed daggers guarding a throne: George W. Stockton, he wrote in his notebook, Institute of Heraldry, Department of the Army, technician, age 53. He hitched up his trousers. Four down, 19 to go.

Woodward memorized the next five cards. Straining not to look guilty, he asked the clerk where the chief judge’s chambers were.

The man frowned, “You’re sure spending a lot of time with those files. I’m not so sure that you’re allowed to even look in there.”

Woodward said he would be back—as soon as he had checked something with the chief judge. Upstairs, in a third-floor washroom, he wrote down the five names and the other information. That left 14. At the rate he was going, the job would take all morning.

On the third try, he was able to memorize six cards.

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