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

To get the facts, Woodward and Bernstein not only approached Grand Jurors, but Bernstein produced a fake F.B.I. identification card to get people to talk to him. Woodward climbed a balcony to get pictures of Donald Segretti, an attorney involved in the Watergate incident. 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.

And to the man who would preside at such an impeachment trial-the Chief Justice of the Untied States, Warren Burger-

During this whole thing, one doesn't realize how many laws Woodstein proceeded to break. They approached Grand Jury witnesses. (Woodward, Bernstein.201) That is highly illegal and according to Socrates, if one lives in a country willingly then surely one must agree with the laws. (Plato and to knowingly disobey the law is wrong. However, neither Woodward nor Bernstein has been reprimanded for breaking any laws.

Woodstein were writing stories daily to be published for the Washington Post, but the White House was denying all of the accusations they could. The White House was denying all the little facts, throwing out minor details that could be inaccurate. However, then Woodstein called Hugh Sloan's attorney (Hugh Sloan having been in the middle of all this) and asked if they had the basic story right, he maintained a "No Comment" status; in essence confirming everything CREEP was being accused of. (Woodward, Bernstein. 283)

According to Aristotle to be good is to find a median between two extremes. Not only does one have to find the median, one has to have good intentions and a good way of getting to the median. Woodstein didn't find a median, but was there really a median to be found in this incident? To be a good reporter one must find all the facts, and then present them to the general public.

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