Watergate

Watergate was a political scandal that eventually forced president Richard Nixon to resign from his office of presidency. The water gate scandal was something that has been going on for an entire year before it was discovered and brought to the public. The scandal was uncovered and revealed to the people through the Washington Post. Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein are the journalist responsible for bringing the scandal to light.

These two reporters were everyday journalist for the Washinton Post. The Washington Post is a newspaper that usually dealt with political affairs. These two reporters heard of the watergate burglaries and began their research. The did a different type of research than repoters do today. There was no internet or computer to look up information, everything must have been done by phone or in person.

Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein began to find small clues of something that was bigger than watergate burglaries. The began to question people high up in goverment office but they acted like they had no clue. These two reporters knew that they had been told not to talk. They began to persuade people to give clues about watergate, and eventually developed a story that would change the world.

They published a story that turned Watergate Burglary into a Watergate Scandal. They revealed that the republican party had been snooping around and sabatoging the democratic party. All of this was done just to re-elect president Nixon, who would have won the election without the sabatoging. The scandal was revealed and Nixon resigned. All this is thanks to Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein, a.k.a Woodstein.