Read more about the Watergate investigation by the Washington Post, and then look through the Watergate files of the Ford Presidential Library. Both websites have extensive materials to let you sharpen your understanding of the Watergate scandal and its implications, so your first job is to explore both sites to make sure you have a good grasp of the details of Watergate. Both websites carry short biographies of people important to the Watergate story. Browse the People and Key Players sections of each site and pick two people whose actions and stories interest you. Use the information about them to answer the next question. Explain in a short essay of two to three paragraphs how the life and actions of the two figures you have chosen illuminate important aspects of the Watergate scandal.

The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were key subjects in the Watergate scandal. It was thanks to their report, in addition to the release of recordings from the White House, that Nixon’s sabotage and blackmail were made public.

Explanation:

They got key information from “Deep Throat,” whose identity remained hidden throughout the trial. When asked if they tried to convince him to reveal himself, Woodward sais Deep Throat hung up the phone. Despite that, W. Mark Felt confessed to being the mysterious voice before his death.

Bernstein affirms that even if there might still be many enigmas about the case, what´s really important is that the story got to be known for everyone to know the illegal and unconstitutional actions of the president.

Not long after Watergate, Woodward, and Bernstein would be portrayed by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in the movie “All the President’s Men.”

You might have chosen individuals like Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, or John Dean and Mark “Deep Throat” Felt, or John Ehrlichman and G. Gordon Liddy. Woodward and Bernstein could represent the role of investigative journalism in acting as a check on government power. Dean and Felt could represent the role of people with integrity within the government exposing the misdeeds of others. Ehrlichman and Liddy could represent the abuse of power of those empowered by an administration with misguided ethics.

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