The President 's Men, The Amazing Reporting Effort By Bob Woodward

Among them would be Bob Bernstein, and Carl Woodward, reporters for The Washington Post. They used a background source “Deep Throat” to uncover the relationship between the scandal and the White House. “Deep Throat” later announced was W.Mark Felt. The Senate makes a special committee that nominated Archibald Cox to head the special investigations. James D St. Clair was appointed to be Nixon’s defense counsel. Startling information shocked the nation. There was a check of $25000 in one of the burglar’s bank account. Archibald then learns that Nixon taped all his conversations in the white house. Archibald demanded tapes but Nixon denied. Archibald was getting close to uncovering the case so Nixon demanded him to be fired. He demanded Attorney General Richardson but he protested and resigned. Next in line was Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus who also protested and resigned. Finally, Solicitor General Robert Bork carried out orders. John Sirica, a judge and he also realized not all the pieces of the puzzle were put together.

As time progressed and the investigation began to uncover the truth about what transpired at the Watergate apartment complex several things became evident: most of the burglars were ex-CIA and ex-FBI personnel, the burglars were paid with money directly from the re-election campaign and President Nixon not only knew about and sanctioned the break-in but deliberately attempted to cover it up. When called before Congress to testify about his knowledge, White House staffer John Dean testified that Nixon and his aides attempted to “stonewall” the investigation. As Congress continued its inquiry, it became clear

On June 17, 1972, Woodward was asked to cover a story for his job at the "Washington Post." There had been a burglary at the Watergate hotel. When he arrived at the newsroom, he discovered that this wasn 't an ordinary burglary, and he wasn 't the only one reporting on it. The burglars had broken into the headquarters of the Democratic national committee in the Watergate office-apartment-hotel-complex. Bernstein had the same assignment. The two men had no appreciation for each other.

President Richard M. Nixon’s administration had to face many international and domestic challenges in the United States between 1968 and 1974, some positive and some negative. His achievements in expanding peaceful relationships with both China and the Soviet Union are contrastingly different with his continuation of the Vietnam War. In the end, Nixon’s scandals and abuse of presidential power caught up to him, and his administration did much to corrode America’s faith in the government.

The two reporters named Carl Bernstien and Bob Woodward realized that this break in was some how involved in the up coming election but they did not know how. Their first move was to follow where the money for the break in came from. The Money led them to find a safe full of money that was to go to the Re-election of President Nixon. This Money came From the Committee to re-elect the president or CRP for sort.

Richard Nixon, though created a large credibility gap within the US, he accomplished a lot for the country. He served five years in the presidential office as a republican (1969-1974), and he was the only president to resign from office in history. Although through his presidency he had accomplished many things, such as creating revenue sharing, ending the draft, and creating anticrime laws, he still had a rough time rebuilding his reputation after many assumptions of corruption in his office. Though he never admittedly pledged guilty to his crimes of taking government funds for his own personal gain, there was proof that he was. After the Watergate scandal, the American people set their mind to believe what the proof led to, so Nixon’s

Watergate is the popular name for the political scandal and constitutional crisis that began with the arrest of five burglars who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office in Washington D.C. on the night of June 17, 1972. It ended with the resignation of president Richard M. Nixon. The burglars and two co-potters-G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt were indicated on charges of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping. Four monthes later, they were convicted and sentenced to prison terms by District Court Judge John J. Sirica, who was convicted that pertinent details had not been unveiled during the trial and proffered leniency in exchange for further information. As it

The Watergate Scandal was truly the biggest political scandal in United States History. Over forty people where charged with crimes relating to the scandal. Bernstein and Woodward were given a fantastic oppourtunity to uncover something truly significant in history. The twenty-one months of investigative reporting done by these two men would ruin Nixon’s name and make these two common everyday reporters lives change forever. Woodward first got his life changing call on June 17th 1972 with his editor telling him about a small invasion of the Democratic Party Headquarters. With being related to the scandal, two members of President Nixon’s cabinet, H.R. Hadlemen and John Ehrlichman, quickly resigned. When first thought of the president even having something to do with the Watergate Scandal, he made every effort to possibly hide this career ruining event. The break in was first found by a security guard by the name of, Frank Wills. Wills saw a piece of tape covering a broken lock. Wills was

Woodward and Bernstein faced several obstacles while exposing the Watergate Scandal and Nixon’s involvement. At first their editor blocks them because their story lacks. They had few leads, and the leads they had led to nothing. When they called people who they thought were involved in to get information they would not talk and would hang up. Also when Bernstein called the White House Library to see if Howard Hunt checked out any material on Senator Kennedy. At first the librarian knew exactly what he was wanting and remembered he had checked out the material, then the librarian just suddenly forgot and said he did not check out any of the mentioned material. So that is some obstacle they faced while exposing the Watergate Scandal and Nixon’s

Woodward found out that the burglars were from Miami, they wore surgical gloves and had thousands of dollars in cash. It looked as if the men were trained and it was a professional operation. The first startling fact that Woodward found out was that, one of the burglers, James McCord was on the President Nixon’s payroll and belonged to the reelection committee. The White House spokesperson didn’t comment, stating that it was a “third rate burglary” (“The Post Investigates”

The FBI looked into it and found heavy connections between money that were in the burglar's possession and a fund used for political bribery. This fund was used by the Committee, allegedly for the re-election of the president, and the official organizers of his campaign. In ’73, evidence piled and piled against president’s staff, including a testimony which was given by a former member of staff while the Senate Watergate Committee were putting together an investigation. This investigation unveiled the fact that Nixon had a recording system in his offices, where he was illegally recording different conversations, without the other party’s consent. After argument upon argument, the Supreme Court of the U.S. unanimously rules that the President had to give over every single tape he had. The tapes revealed illegal activity and Nixon trying to cover up the events occurring right after the break in, such as using federal officials to push away the investigation. Facing total impeachment and conviction by the Senate, Nixon resigned from his presidency, preventing the House from impeaching

Watergate was one of the biggest political scandals to ever happen in the United States and would force President Nixon to resign from office in 1974. Watergate is office complex located in Washington D.C and at the time it was the headquarters of the Democratic Committee. There was a group of people who broke into these offices to obtain information on the coming election. Another goal of these burglars was to wiretap the committee phones and to sabotage them. Unfortunately for these want to be burglars a security guard happen upon them in the act and was able to stop them. One of the burglars was found to be an ex-FBI with links to the Nixon cabinet, at first it was denial that he had connects to the Nixon cabinet and soon it was found out

The Watergate Scandal deals with Richard Nixon being accused of many instances where he abused his power as President of the United States and his attempt to cover-up his involvement in the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex. Nixon used dirty tricks to ensure his chances of being reelected for a second term such as bugging the offices of political opponents, the order of harassment of activist groups and political figures. During the unraveling of the truth, the media proceeded to cover the Watergate break-in and Nixon along with his supporters accused the media of making “wild accusations.” Nixon strongly underestimated the competitive nature of the news media and his outcry guaranteed widespread media coverage of his political

First, the police investigated that cash on the burglars was connected to a slush fund by the organization of Nixon’s campaign. The investigation showed that Richard Nixon used tap-recording systems in his offices and many conversations were recorded. The FBI revealed that two phones in the office of Democratic Party’s Headquarters were wire-tapped. The five men in burglar obviously attempted to set the wiretapping and communicate equipment. Second, there was an illegal cover up in the organization of Nixon when the name “Howard Hunt” was found in the address book of burglars.

Once broken, the seal of Watergate could never be replaced. The five men brought arrested for breaking into the Watergate Complex had to be served fair justice. The official hearings began on January 8th, 1973 (Files 1). However, fair trials would not prevail. Edward B. Hunt ordered the payout of twenty thousand dollars to each member of the break-in team, fifty thousand for his lawyer, and seventy thousand dollars for himself (Files 6). The “hush money” proved successful. All four Cuban men pled