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
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Approximate Word count = 1266
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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