Bob Woodward us an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. Over the last 22 years he has authored or co-authored seven number one national bestselling books. Woodward and Carl Bernstein, in their Pulitzer Prize-winning Watergate reporting for The Washington Post and in their two books, All the President’s Men (1974) and The Final Days (1976), set the standard for modern investigative journalism. Since then, Woodward’s number one bestsellers have been groundbreaking studies of the Supreme Court in The Brethren (1974), the Hollywood drug culture in Wired (1984), the CIA in Veil (1987), the Pentagon and the Gulf War in The Commanders (1991).

What eventually caused Watergate to turn from an odd political sideshow into an ultimately fatal, inescapable scandal was dogged investigative reporting — but there, again, the history we remember is not the history that actually happened. It wasn’t just the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who broke open the story but a half-dozen other reporters, all working far from the cozy corners of D.C. power

None of whom were immortalized onscreen by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. Woodward and Bernstein mattered, yes, but not in the way that the popular history recorded in the gauzy, laudatory movie All the President’s Men tells us. Under a slightly different set of circumstances, it’s not even clear that Woodward and Bernstein’s names would be synonymous with Nixon’s downfall. Without their competitors at other newspapers, Nixon would have almost surely survived. — New York Magazine.

Liberals will regulate all of the Congressional districts designed to represent Orange County, California, for the very first time since the mid-1950s. The region has long been a Nationalist stronghold — it’s where Ronald Reagan began his political career, and it’s also where another famous Republican, the only U.S. president to resign, Richard Nixon, grew up.

“Well, you have to remember the politics of the two major parties. The interesting thing is — I explained this to my students quite a bit — is during the ’60s and ’70s, each party had a liberal and a moderate and a conservative wing. So it wasn’t like today where one party is absolutely conservative and the other is absolutely progressive. It didn’t function like that. Jacob Javits was a liberal Republican. And then you look at some of the Southern Democrats. They were extremely conservative, but yet they were Democrats, and yet they were Republicans.”

Greg Cumming.

“The cool and faceless men of Richard M. Nixon’s Washington, who had denied and ridiculed the threatening implications of Watergate for 10 months, became a group of sadly recognizable human beings last week—anxious men publicly struck with the simple fear of going to jail, of being treated as so many burglars and bagmen, of eating their meals off metal trays.”

“High government officials found themselves scrambling to establish their innocence, or relative innocence, of the damning scandal. The President himself last week took a new line on the affair. No one in “a position of major importance in the Administration,” he said, would be immune from criminal prosecution. The scramble for position immediately turned more public and frantic.

John N. Mitchell, who had once commanded the Justice Department, spent three hours being questioned by a Justice Department lawyer before a grand jury. John W. Dean 3d, who had investigated Watergate for the President, announced he would not be made a “scapegoat.” Jeb Stuart Magruder, whose work for the President’s landslide re‐election had Won him the job of supervising the inaugural, reportedly supplied a key piece of information in the investigation.” — New York Times.

5 men were arrested in 1972 while attempting to break into the Democratic Party’s Watergate Washington headquarters. They had badgering gadgets and camera equipment with them. Several of the suspects were discovered to have ties to top Conservative Party officials. An official investigation constrained President Nixon to turn over audio tapes made at the White House.

“Today the luxury Watergate hotel’s phone number ends in 1972 – the year of the burglary – and callers are greeted by a message that begins: “There’s no need to break in,” as well as recordings of President Richard Nixon. This month’s 50th anniversary of the break-in is being marked by books, exhibitions, TV dramas and a four-part CNN documentary series, Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal, narrated by Dean himself.” — The Washington, David Smith.

“Nixon, who was very bright and understood how the government operated and what the levers of power really are was somebody who also could experience shame and accepted the rule of law. When the supreme court ruled against him, that was it. I can’t imagine, in a similar situation, Trump complying with a court order from the supreme court saying turn over your tapes.”

Dean also knew immediately that the Nixon administration was doing things in a different way. It kept a list of adversaries. It had permitted the September 1971 offenses of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office, the defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, an untold story of the War In vietnam. With Dean being aware of the atrocities done by Richard Nixon and his administration, Dean chose to detect and expose the Nixon administration, along with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Their political exposé led to the resignation of the president.

“I knew enough of the criminal law to know this is either extortion or bribery. Now, my reaction is kind of interesting. I had just gotten married and I said, ‘Holy cow, we’re in trouble!’ So I decided then I’ve got to make the cover-up work and that’s when I dove in with both feet. It was foolish.”

Jhon Dean.

Dean added: “It’s only later in March, 1973, when Hunt starts extorting me personally for money that I said the same thing’s going to happen to everybody – it’s going to follow us the rest of our lives. There’ll be no end to it and Nixon has got to get out in front of it and we all have got to stand up and account for the mistakes we’ve made.”

Jhon Dean.