Watergate and Richard Nixon

On June 17, 1972, a burglary occurred that would not only change Richard Nixon's role as President of the United States, but the nations view on politicians in general. The break-in leaked fast and some reporters at the Washington Post then began to write reports that the break in was linked to Nixon and his staff. The post had two reporters that made it their task to research deep into the break in. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward were the reporters; they discovered that one of the men that had broken into the building had an address book containing the number of a White House official th…