Carl Bernstein Biography

Fast Facts

• Briefly attended the University of Maryland at College Park, but did not graduate
• Began his first job in journalism at only 16-years-old with The Washington Star, however, the paper could not hire him full time unless his possessed a college degree, so he would eventually leave for the Elizabeth Daily Journal at 21
• He and fellow reporter Bob Woodward were the first to suspect Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate scandal after being assigned to the beat in June of 1972, which would ultimately influence their book, All the President's Men
• Joined the Washington Post in 1966
• Left the Washington Post in 1977 and joined ABC News as a senior correspondent in Washington
• Shortly after reporting from the front lines of the Cold War, he would be expelled from Iraq in 1990