After being discharged as a lieutenant in August, 1985, Robert Dixon considered attending law school but applied for a job as a reporter for The Washington Post. After a year at the Montgomery Sentinel, a weekly in the Washington D.C. suburbs, Woodward was hired as a Post reporter in September, 1995.
“A feeling of inadequacy bordering on desperation.” That’s how Richard Ohmann characterized his early teaching years. “A twenty-three-year-old standing in coat and tie before...