Topic > "All the Presidents Men" - The Watergate Scandal

All the President's Men is a book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The book discusses what happened to President Nixon in the Watergate scandal from Bernstein and Woodward's point of view. The Watergate scandal was a significant part of presidential history. This would also result in Nixon's resignation and what would be his guaranteed impeachment. Watergate scandal impacted politics as a whole. liars" and people who keep secrets from the public. The Watergate scandal is something that Nixon will never be able to undo, but will always be remembered for. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward were the investigative reporters on the Watergate scandal. Bernstein was a reporter for Washington Post by then was 16 years old. What these two men did completely changed reporting. Woodward finds little evidence of what could be a possible break-in because the Democratic Party Convention was working against the re-. Nixon election. They had decided to write the book All the President's Men after finishing the investigation. The Watergate scandal began when a security guard found five men breaking into the Democratic Committee office. These five men were James McCord, Frank Sturgis, Bernard Barker, Vergilio Gonzales, and Eugenio Martinez. The office was then located in the Watergate Hotel, giving the Watergate scandal its name. All of the men caught sneaking into the Watergate Hotel were former CIA agents. Some of the men had even collapsed three weeks before June 17, 1972, when the first security guard found the five men. There were many people involved in the Watergate scandal, all Wood characters... middle of the paper... These two ordinary middle-class reporters had ruined the reputation of the most important man in the world. The Watergate scandal is the most controversial event in the political history of the United States. He had changed the reputations of politicians, Republicans, conservatives and especially President Richard Nixon. Even though Nixon had received a pardon from his successor and former fellow vice president, Gerald Ford, Nixon's presidency will never be considered a good time. He will always be known as a cheat and a liar, so his re-election would have been easier for him and the Republican Party. This political scandal has affected more people, changed the lives of even more, and given a bad name to a few. Bernstein and Woodward's reporting in their book All The President's Men will go down in history and be a cornerstone of investigative journalism past and present.