February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 307 days remaining until the end of the year (308 in leap years).

Events[link]

• 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
• 425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
• 1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
• 1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.
• 1617 – Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
• 1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
• 1700 – The island of New Britain is discovered.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
• 1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
• 1812 – Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
• 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
• 1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
• 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
• 1861 – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
• 1870 – The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
• 1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
• 1902 – Second Boer War: Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
• 1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
• 1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
• 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
• 1939 – United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
• 1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
• 1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies
• 1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
• 1943 – The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
• 1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
• 1955 – Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
• 1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
• 1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
• 1964 – The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
• 1971 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
• 1973 – The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
• 1976 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
• 1986 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
• 1988 – Sumgait Pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was in the target of a violent pogrom.
• 1989 – Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
• 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
• 2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
• 2002 – Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
• 2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
• 2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
• 2007 – The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.
• 2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
• 2012 – Chardon High School shooting in Chardon, Ohio.

Births[link]

• 272 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (d. 337)
• 1689 – Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer, choir director, historian, and geographer (d. 1775)
• 1691 – Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (d. 1754)
• 1702 – Johann Valentin Görner, German composer (d. 1762)
• 1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia (d. 1769)
• 1779 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1842)
• 1789 – Manuel Rodríguez, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader (d. 1818)
• 1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
• 1831 – Hiram Bond Everest, American co-founder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913)
• 1847 – Ellen Terry, English actress (d.1928)
• 1848 – Hubert Parry, English composer (d. 1918)
• 1867 – Irving Fisher, American economist (d. 1947)
• 1862 – Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (d. 1937)
• 1870 – Louis Coerne, American composer and music educator (d. 1922)
• 1875 – George Rodocanachi, Greek-British physician (d. 1944)
• 1877 – Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (d. 1952)
• 1877 – Adela Verne, English pianist (d. 1952)
• 1878 – Alvan T. Fuller, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
• 1879 – René Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (d. 1944)
• 1886 – Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)
• 1888 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974)
• 1888 – Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler (d. 1950)
• 1888 – Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976)
• 1890 – Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
• 1891 – Anne Samson, Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2004)
• 1891 – David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d. 1971)
• 1892 – William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1895 – Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1943)
• 1897 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993)
• 1899 – Charles Best, Canadian scientist (d. 1978)
• 1902 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)
• 1902 – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
• 1903 – Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
• 1904 – James T. Farrell, American writer (d. 1979)
• 1904 – Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
• 1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
• 1904 – André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
• 1905 – Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1907 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
• 1907 – Walter Wolf, German politician (d. 1977)
• 1910 – Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
• 1910 – Peter De Vries, American writer (d. 1993)
• 1910 – Genrikh Gasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer (d. 1995)
• 1910 – Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
• 1910 – Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aerospace engineer (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Oscar Heidenstam, English bodybuilding champion (d. 1991)
• 1912 – Lawrence Durrell, English writer (d. 1990)
• 1912 – Kusumagraj,Vishnu Vāman Shirwādkar, Indian writer (d. 1999)
• 1913 – Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (d. 1989)
• 1913 – Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)
• 1915 – Denis Whitaker, Canadian soldier, businessman and author (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Olavi Virta, Finnish singer (d. 1972)
• 1917 – John Connally, American politician (d. 1993)
• 1921 – Theodore Van Kirk, American navigator of the Enola Gay
• 1922 – Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
• 1923 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990)
• 1925 – Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)
• 1926 – David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate
• 1927 – Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
• 1929 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby footballer and coach (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1930 – Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
• 1930 – Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1930 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
• 1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Raymond Berry, American football player
• 1934 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
• 1934 – N. Scott Momaday, American writer
• 1934 – Ralph Nader, American author, activist and political figure
• 1934 – Van Williams, American actor
• 1935 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
• 1954 – Uri Shulevitz, American author and illustrator
• 1936 – Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer
• 1936 – Roger Mahony, American cardinal and Archbishop
• 1937 – David Ackles, American singer songwriter (d. 1999)
• 1937 – Barbara Babcock, American actress
• 1938 – Jake Thackray, English singer songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1939 – Peter Revson, American racecar driver (d. 1974)
• 1940 – Pierre Duchesne, Canadian politician
• 1940 – Howard Hesseman, American actor
• 1940 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor (d. 2011)
• 1941 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician
• 1942 – Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1942 – Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
• 1942 – Michel Forget, Canadian actor
• 1943 – Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1943 – Morten Lauridsen, American composer
• 1944 – Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer
• 1944 – Roger Scruton, British philosopher
• 1945 – Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
• 1947 – Alan Guth, American physicist and cosmologist
• 1947 – Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
• 1949 – Rosalinda Galli, Italian voice actress
• 1950 – Julia Neuberger, English rabbi and politician
• 1951 – Lee Atwater, American political figure (d. 1991)
• 1951 – Steve Harley, British musician (Cockney Rebel)
• 1952 – Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor
• 1953 – Yolande Moreau, Belgian actress
• 1953 – Gabriela Svobodová, Czech cross country skier
• 1954 – Neal Schon, American musician (Journey and Santana)
• 1955 – Peter Christopherson, English musician and video director
• 1957 – Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator
• 1957 – Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
• 1957 – Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)
• 1957 – Timothy Spall, English actor
• 1958 – Naas Botha, South African rugby union footballer
• 1958 – Max Crivello, Itallian artist
• 1958 – Nancy Spungen, American murder victim (d. 1978)
• 1959 – Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• 1960 – Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
• 1961 – James Worthy, American basketball player
• 1962 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
• 1962 – Grant Show, American actor
• 1963 – Pär Nuder, Swedish politician
• 1964 – Todd Bodine, American race car driver
• 1965 – Noah Emmerich, American actor
• 1965 – Joakim Sundström, Swedish sound editor and sound designer
• 1965 – Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist
• 1966 – Donal Logue, Canadian actor
• 1968 – Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player
• 1969 – Brad Vander Ark, American musician (The Verve Pipe)
• 1970 – Michael A. Burstein, American writer
• 1970 – Kent Desormeaux, American jockey
• 1970 – Matthias Lechner, German art director
• 1970 – Goran Markov, Macedonian footballer
• 1970 – Patricia Petibon, French opera singer
• 1971 – Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist
• 1971 – Paul Hudson, British television presenter
• 1971 – "Chilli" Thomas, American singer (TLC)
• 1972 – Jennifer Lyon, American television personality (d. 2010)
• 1973 – Peter André, Australian singer
• 1973 – Ali Tabatabaee, American-Iranian singer (Zebrahead)
• 1973 – Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby footballer
• 1974 – Colin Edwards, American motorcycle racer
• 1974 – Carte Goodwin, American politician
• 1975 – Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
• 1975 – Shelby Walker, American mixed martial artist (d. 2006)
• 1976 – Tony Gonzalez, American football player
• 1977 – Lance Hoyt, American wrestler
• 1977 – Ji Sung, South Korean actor
• 1977 – James Wan, Australian film director
• 1978 – James Beattie, English footballer
• 1979 – Andreas Voss, German footballer
• 1980 – Bobby V, American singer (Mista)
• 1980 – Brandon Beemer, American actor
• 1980 – Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton
• 1980 – Nick Speed, American Hip Hop producer
• 1980 – Scott Prince, Australian rugby player
• 1981 – Josh Groban, American singer
• 1981 – Cameron Ling, Australian Rules footballer
• 1981 – Élodie Ouédraogo, Belgian athlete
• 1983 – Duje Draganja, Croatian swimmer
• 1983 – Devin Harris, American basketball player
• 1983 – Kate Mara, American actress
• 1983 – Hayley Angel Wardle, English actress
• 1984 – David Noel, American basketball player
• 1984 – Lotta Schelin, Swedish footballer
• 1984 – Antti Tuisku, Finnish singer
• 1985 – Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian footballer
• 1985 – Braydon Coburn, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Yovani Gallardo, American baseball player
• 1986 – Jonathan Moreira, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 – Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Shota Shimizu, Japanese musician
• 1989 – David Button, English footballer
• 1991 – Azeem Rafiq, Pakistani cricketer
• 1992 – Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer
• 1994 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player

Deaths[link]

• 956 – Theophylact, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 917)
• 1659 – Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
• 1699 – Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c.1625)
• 1706 – John Evelyn, English diarist (b. 1620)
• 1720 – Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
• 1735 – John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (b. 1667)
• 1795 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Jamapese sumo wrestler (b. 1750)
• 1844 – Nicholas Biddle, American businessman (b. 1786)
• 1887 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
• 1892 – Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)
• 1902 – Peter Handcock, Australian soldier (b. 1869)
• 1902 – Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Anglo-Australian soldier (b. 1864)
• 1921 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
• 1931 – Chandrasekhar Azad,Indian revolutionaries (b. 1906)
• 1932 – William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
• 1936 – Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (b. 1852)
• 1936 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1849)
• 1941 – William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
• 1943 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (b. 1859)
• 1964 – Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
• 1968 – Frankie Lymon, American singer (The Teenagers) (b. 1942)
• 1969 – Marius Barbeau, Canadian folklorist (b. 1883)
• 1970 – Marie Dionne, Canadian quintuplet (b. 1934)
• 1972 – Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
• 1973 – Bill Everett, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
• 1977 – John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
• 1978 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)
• 1980 – George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1981 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
• 1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)
• 1986 – Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (b. 1929)
• 1987 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
• 1987 – Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (b. 1921)
• 1987 – Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
• 1989 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
• 1989 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
• 1992 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
• 1993 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1998 – George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
• 1998 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
• 1999 – Horace Tapscott American musician (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
• 2003 – John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Jessica Lunsford, murder victim (b. 1995)
• 2006 – Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
• 2006 – Linda Smith, English comedian (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
• 2008 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and commentator (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Boyd Coddington, American automobile designer (b. 1944)
• 2008 – Myron Cope, American sports broadcaster (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Madeleine Ferron, Canadian writer (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Nanaji Deshmukh, Indian Politician (b.1916)
• 2011 – Frank Buckles, last surviving American World War I veteran (b. 1901)
• 2011 – Duke Snider, American baseball player (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances[link]

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Honorine
  • Leander
  • Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
  • February 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• National Day, celebrates the first independence of Dominican Republic from Haiti in 1844.
• The second day of Ayyám-i-Há (Bahá'í Faith)
• George Herbert, pastor and poet, 1633 (commemoration, Anglican Communion)
• First Equirria (Roman Empire)

External links[link]

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Katherine Albrecht, EdD is the founder of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN), a national consumer organization created in 1999 to educate consumer-citizens about shopper surveillance. She is a consumer privacy advocate and spokesperson against radio-frequency identification (RFID). Albrecht devised the term "spy chips" to describe RFID tags such as those embedded in passport cards and certain enhanced United States driver's licenses. She holds a Doctor of Education degree from Harvard University. Katherine Albrecht is a resident of Nashua, New Hampshire.

Albrecht was interviewed about RFID chips in Aaron Russo's 2006 documentary America: From Freedom to Fascism.

Publications[link]

Books[link]

Albrecht and Liz McIntyre (CASPIAN's communications director) co-authored the book Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move, which won the November 2005 Lysander Spooner Award for advancing the literature of liberty. The book lays out the potential implications of RFID on privacy and civil liberties. RFID industry representatives have criticized it, claiming the authors exaggerate some RFID privacy threats. In a lengthy rebuttal, Albrecht asked why critics don't "mention sworn patent documents from IBM describing ways to secretly follow innocent people in libraries, theaters, and public restrooms through the RFID tags in their clothes and belongings? Where is […] outrage over BellSouth's patent-pending plans to pick through our garbage and skim the data contained in the RFID tags we discard?"^[1]

Articles and papers[link]

• Albrecht, Katherine. "Supermarket Cards: The Tip of the Retail Surveillance Iceberg." Denver University Law Review, Volume 79, Issue 4, Summer 2002. pp. 534–539 and 558–565.

• Position Paper on the Use of RFID in Consumer Products. Co-authored with Liz McIntyre and Beth Givens. November 14, 2003. [1]

• "RFID: The Doomsday Scenario." In: RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy, eds. S. Garfinkel and B. Rosenberg. New Jersey: Addison Wesley. 2006. pp. 259–273.

• "RFID: The Big Brother Bar Code." (Co-authored with Liz McIntyre) ALEC Policy Forum, Winter 2004, Volume 6, Number 3, pp. 49–54.

Radio talk show host[link]

Albrecht is the host of a two-hour radio talk show on Saturday afternoons on WSMN (1590 kHz) in Nashua.^[2]

Previously, she hosted a two-hour daily program called "Uncovering the Truth with Katherine Albrecht" on the We The People Radio Network (WTPRN)^[3] from April 2007 until the network ceased all programming in October 2008. Albrecht was the first former WTPRN host to carry on elsewhere with a syndicated program, now broadcasting "The Dr. Katherine Albrecht show" on the GCN Radio network.

Media relations for Ixquick[link]

On January 27, 2008, Dr. Katherine Albrecht became Head U.S. Media Relations for Ixquick.com to help raise awareness for the privacy-friendly meta-search engine. She is responsible for strategy, execution, and management of all media communications and marketing initiatives in the U.S.

See also[link]

• Microchip implant (human)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Spy Chips Website
• Albrecht's rebuttal to RFID industry criticism
• Official CASPIAN Website

Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward at the meeting with International Visitors Leadership Program participants at the Department of State, Washington, DC
Born	Robert Upshur Woodward (1943-03-26) March 26, 1943 (age 69) Geneva, Illinois, U.S.
Education	Yale University, B.A., 1965
Occupation	Journalist
Notable credit(s)	The Washington Post
Spouse	Elsa Walsh
Children	Two daughters
Website
http://www.bobwoodward.com/

Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist and non-fiction author. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter, and is currently an associate editor of the Post.

While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward was teamed up with Carl Bernstein; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. Gene Roberts, the former executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and former managing editor of The New York Times, has called the work of Woodward and Bernstein "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time."^[1]

Woodward continued to work for The Washington Post after his reporting on Watergate. He has since written over a dozen books on American politics, most of which have topped bestsellers lists.