Woodstein- The Watergate Era
In 1972 the United States was in a social turmoil. Vietnam was at its height and three of the biggest rock-and-roll artists of all time had just died. Riots were all the rage; hippies and radicals were everywhere. The country was in upraise. And thanks to two reporters on the Washington Post, the infamous Watergate scandal was revealed; just a little more fuel to the fire of the late '60s and early '70s. For the second time in our history, impeachment was brought upon a president. For the first and only time in our history, the President resigned. On June 17, 1972 Bob Woodward, a reporter for the Washington Post, got a call to follow a case involving the Watergate offices. Five men had been arrested in the Democratic headquarters carrying no less than two thousand dollars in cash and a few thousand dollars in highly technical equipment for listening to other peoples' conversations. He was assigned to the story with a fellow reporter, Carl Bernstein. (Woodward, Bernstein. 4) It looked, on the surface, to be a very basic story. However, more and more questions kept coming up. These were questions about who people were and why they were in the five arrested men's address books. There were two
Those types of things are invasive of people's privacy, and they are illegal. (Plato and to knowingly disobey the law is wrong. The two reporters imposed on people's personal lives and made many political people very angry. Bernstein literally pushed his way into the Nixon's book keeper's house and got her talking (off the record, of course) and then wrote down all that he remembered. The White House was denying all the little facts, throwing out minor details that could be inaccurate. The President said, 'I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the American people elected me to do for the people of the United States. To get the facts, Woodward and Bernstein not only approached Grand Jurors, but Bernstein produced a fake F. During this whole thing, one doesn't realize how many laws Woodstein proceeded to break. As a result of this, Woodstein was asked to report to a hearing over the President's tapes by Judge Sirica. However, neither Woodward nor Bernstein has been reprimanded for breaking any laws. 283) After all of the hard work Woodstein had put in, on March 1, 1974 the Washington Grand Jury indicted seven former White House and campaign aids with conspiracy to obstruct justice. Even then, he would give no solid information, only cryptic clues and only off the record.
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