The question
How would you describe yourself in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Investigative reporter and author; associate editor of The Washington Post
I don't know how to do it, but know that I love it.
N/A, N/A, Bob Woodward's Official Website, 1 June 2024 source ↗
I don't know.
Loyal, funny, driven.
Empathetic, humble and strong.
Competitive, curious, silly.
I don’t know whether I feel pride. I think pride is hubris. I think it is an emotion that if you bask in it, it’s like hate; it will destroy you. So I don’t make those kinds of assessments. I like what I do. I am repeatedly struck by how I have missed part of the story, always.
I don't know how to do it, but know that I love it.
Oh, yes, I had teachers at Wheaton. A community high school history teacher named Elizabeth Duncan who taught American history and was a great teacher. Very forceful, very insistent that we write essays to answer questions, and not short answers. Somebody who through force of personality made history interesting and important.
I think I dropped the ball here. I should have pushed much, much harder on the skepticism about the reality of WMD; in other words, [I should have] said, 'Hey, look, the evidence is not as strong as they were claiming.'
I don't know how to do it, but know that I love it.
I don't know how to do it, but know that I love it.
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