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    Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s book, All the President’s Men, was written in 1974 during the Watergate Scandal and combines history with journalism. Bernstein and Woodward are journalists for the Washington Post. These two share a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Watergate and have coauthored several bestsellers, which includes this book. All the President’s Men, is about the Watergate scandal and how they uncovered it. As this book was written by two journalists, there are differences to

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    All the President’s Men is a remarkable film that tells the story of two Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, that sought to find out what truthfully happened in the Democratic Party Headquarters burglary in 1972. Through their interviews and research, they followed the money that led to uncovering a nefarious presidential reelection campaign. In their persistence, the two exposed a suspicious break-in and unearthed the corruption in the administration that lies beneath it

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    Watergate Scandal Ever since the beginning of time, scandals have occurred. But one of the biggest and infamous scandals is the Watergate. Approximately forty years ago from date, a Watergate protector found a small portion of tape attached on the lock of on the National Democratic Headquarters door. Then it all began. The Watergate’s attempted break in was a part of a bigger operation by President Nixon. The rumor was Nixon’s supporters and people involved in the scandal wanted to tarnish the

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    Power is earned, not given. There are many different types of power that people can earn. Power becomes a problem when it is not questioned or tested. Therefore, the one with the power would have total control over anything or anyone they wanted, or they would feel that way. People with power feel invincible when it is not questioned. Throughout history it has been proven that this creates a problem. For example, Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal is similar to the scandal with Father Flynn

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    Namely, the time and energy necessary to uncover the minutiae that Woodward and Bernstein found would not be available to reporters of today. The seemingly endless amount of stories the media covers today restrict the amount of time a news outlet has to devote to one story. Woodward and Bernstein spent a better part of eighteen months investigating Watergate. I imagine you would be hard-pressed to find an editor willing to let a journalist

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    The biggest political scandal in the US yet, the Watergate scandal follows a series of events leading up to the end of the Nixon presidency. Starting with the break-in of the Democratic National Committee in 1972, and the inconsistencies in subsequent investigations set the ball rolling toward the unpleasant end of Richard Nixon’s political career. Not only did it expose the conspiracy to subvert the political process, it also paved way for a wave of political and democratic reforms in the US. In

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    Optimistic voters believed there was no link between the president and the burglars and Nixon was reelected. Initial investigations were heavily influenced by the media, particularly through the works of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and their mysterious source “Deep Throat”. During

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    Brazil’s Ever Changing Political Landscape Never a quiet month in Brazil’s political scene. In May, there was the overwhelming impact of the taped conversation between President Temer and Joesley Batista, the meat tycoon, which allegedly addressed bribe payments and other criminal acts. Further convolutions in June, as the Prosecutor General denounced the head of the Executive branch for corruption. When conventional wisdom began to take hold that the country might witness the second government

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    A man was accused of burglaring a gym in Lexington, Kentucky. He almost got away with it but little did he know that he forgot to log out on his facebook account at the crime scene. The man's name is Russel Pipe, 30, he went to the Workout Facility 24/7 Facility. Russel entered the gym at around 2 AM and checked all the doorknobs inside the facility. He was caught through surveillance camera that were installed inside the facility and it was reported that he made several calls and used computers

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    story, the newspaper reported that five men have been detained for breaking into Watergate office complex, the headquarters of Democratic National Committee to obtain wiretap and collect sensitive details of political opponents. Two reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward were put on the case by Washington Post to unveil circumstances surrounding the scandal. On investigation, they suspected that the intrusion

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