When is it OK to stop pursuing a story?\u00a0 When the president calls you out, the CIA or how about the entire Republican party teaming up to discredit your reporting?\u00a0 For Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, they couldn\u2019t stop. \u00a0What they were on to was too important for the nation and for \u201cthe future of our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
When skepticism was at an all-time high, no questions were answered and government officials were carefully crafting responses, it was essential that Bernstein and Woodward kept pushing.\u00a0 It was essential to stop members of the government from becoming a bunch of tyrannical jerks. \u00a0They were breaking rules and keeping it secret from the American people.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t cool: there should be no secrets kept by a government from its people.<\/p>\n
The rules Nixon\u2019s team were breaking, and the manner in which they were being broken, dangerously gathered the nation\u2019s attention.\u00a0 The Republicans were using government resources to illegally gain information about their opposition.\u00a0 These resources were much more than little campaign interruptions that had been done previously.\u00a0 Instead, they broke in secretly and stole documents: secrets as well as personal information that could be used against Nixon\u2019s opponents.\u00a0 The FBI, the CIA, Nixon\u2019s personal aid and others all were participating in Watergate in some capacity.<\/p>\n
The persistence, determination and curiosity that the Washington Post reporters showed in pursuing Watergate is what revealed the case to the public.\u00a0 If it weren\u2019t for these reporters, the incidents would have been swept under the rug and eventually forgotten.\u00a0 It was Bernstein and Woodward who knew how big this really was. \u00a0Ben Bradlee\u2019s support was also instrumental in the story\u2019s publication.\u00a0 He stood by his journalists when the heat of the entire nation was on.\u00a0 By having the support of their editor, the reporters could work more confidently, pursuing leads. \u00a0Eventually, they broke the case that led to Nixon\u2019s resignation.\u00a0 This finally pulled back the curtain to reveal the president\u2019s ugly tru<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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