All the President's Men

             When I first decided to watch this movie I did not know much about what it would be about. Then after getting into the movie I finally realized it was about the Watergate scandal. Before I watched this movie, I have only herd about this scandal, but I never actually knew anything about it. This is why this movie was so interesting to me.
             This movie was about the cracking of the Watergate scandal and the reporters who scooped it. It was two men of the Washington Post named Woodward and Bernstein. To see the story unfold and reveal itself, and to find out what ultimately happened interested me very much. I really did not know anything about this movie going into watching it. That is why this movie was so good for me to watch because everybody who watched this movie knew the end of it, but since I never knew anything about this topic, it got me hooked. I do not remember talking about this subject in government class, but I do know that this relates to government in many ways.
             What I found interesting is that I did not know that Nixon resigned from office, I always thought that he just finished out his term and left. I did not realize that he resigned from office because of his role in the Watergate scandal.
             I was pretty interested in finding out a little bit more about this story, so I decided to go up on the internet and get a little more information about this. I actually came across the article that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein had written in the Washington Post on June 19, 1972. It was long, but at the same time attention-grabbing because they talked about the five men that were arrested, and the bugging of the Democratic headquarters. These two men must have been pretty good at their job because of the fact that they were just assigned to cover a routine burglary at the National Democratic Committee headquarters at the Watergate offices, and they ended up doing an investigation that led all the way to Nix...

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