Bob Woodward bio: net worth, age, height, weight, wife, kids, wiki.

Robert Upshur Woodward is a well-known investigative journalist in the United States. He began working for The Washington Post as a reporter in 1971 and is currently an assistant editor. In 1972, he collaborated with Carl Bernstein on the Watergate Scandal, which resulted in multiple government investigations and, eventually, President Richard Nixon’s resignation. He is also a published author, having written 19 books about American politics.

Bob Woodward Biography & Profile Summary

Bob Woodward Early Life

Bob Woodward was born on the 26th of March 1943 in Geneva, Illinois, U.S. to parents, Jane (formerly, Upshur), and Alfred Eno Woodward II. His father worked as a lawyer, who would later become the chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court.  His parents got divorced when he was just 12 years old, and he, his sister, and his brother were raised by his father, who later re-married.

When it comes to his education, he had attended Yale College with a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) scholarship and had studied history and English literature there. He completed his B.A in 1965 and began a 5-year tour of duty in the U.S. Navy.  During his time in the Navy, he served aboard the USS Wright and was one of two officers assigned to move or handle nuclear launch codes the Wright carried in its capacity as a NECPA. He has also served as the communications officer on the USS Fox under Admiral Robert O. Welander.

He was discharged as a lieutenant in August of 1970, and he started taking graduate courses in Shakespeare and international relations at George Washington University. He worked at the Montgomery Sentinel for a year before getting hired by The Washington Post as a reporter in 1971.Advertisement

Bob Woodward Personal Life

Bob Woodward married Kathleen Middlekauff in 1966, who he originally met in high school. However, they got divorced just three years later in 1969. He married Frances Kuper in 1974 but got divorced five years later in 1979. He married Elsa Walsh in 1989, who works as a writer for The New Yorker and is also the author of Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three American Women.  Together, they have two daughters, Taliesin Woodward and Diana Woodward.

Bob Woodward Age, Height, and Weight

Being born on 26 March 1943, Bob Woodward is 77 years old as of today’s date 24th January 2021. His height is 1.75 M tall, and his weight is around 74 Kg.

Bob Woodward Career

Although Bob Woodward was hired as a reporter for The Washington Post in 1971, things would only change for the better in the following year. He and Carl Bernstein were both asked to report on the 17th of June 1972 burglary of the HQ of the Democratic National Committee in a Washington, D.C., office building called Watergate. They were able to expose several dirty tricks employed by the Nixon re-election committee. They also wrote a book about the scandal titled “All the President’s Men,” which in turn was adapted into a 1976 film of the same title.

Both the movie and the book brought them much acclaim and recognition. In 1996, Bob Woodward and Brian Duffy published a story in which they stated a United States Department of Justice investigation into the fund-raising activities had revealed that Chinese agents sought to direct contributions from foreign sources to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) before the 1996 presidential campaign.

He has also written four books that are focused on former American President George W. Bush’s presidency. These books are “Bush at War” (2002), “Plan of Attack” (2004), “The State of Denial” (2006), and “The War Within: A Secret White House History.”

He wrote a column in The Washington Post on the 22nd of February 2013 in which he criticized former American President Barack Obama’s administration for their statements in 2012 and 2013 that the United States federal budget sequester had been proposed by Republicans in Congress. Bob Woodward has written the book “Wired” which was based on Hollywood drug culture and the death of popular American actor and comedian, John Belushi.  Bob Woodward currently serves as the associate editor for The Washington Post.

Bob Woodward Net worth

Bob has acquired an estimated amount of net worth of $25 million.

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