Over 50 years ago, President Richard Nixon, fresh off a landslide reelection, made history not through triumph but through disgrace. His resignation (on August 9, 1974) marked the fall of an ...
In their dogged reporting of the Watergate scandal, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the crimes that forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency in August 1974.
Forty years ago this week, The Washington Post — and its self-described “young and hard-digging reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein” — took home a Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage ...