{"id":6247,"date":"2020-05-15T09:51:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:41:13","slug":"the-story-of-the-nixon-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2020\/05\/15\/the-story-of-the-nixon-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the Nixon Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d is a movie that stars both Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. Both of these actors are very successful and have both won the Lifetime Achievement award. In this particular movie, they both played reporters for the Washington Post investigating Watergate. The Watergate break-in was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. It unfolded from 1972 to 1974 and led to Nixon\u2019s resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration&#8217;s subsequent attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972, failed break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C. What the Post did was important to the freedoms of the First Amendment because the Post discovered the truth of the Watergate scandal.<\/p>\n<p>If Bernstein, Woodward and their editor, Ben Bradlee, didn\u2019t pursue this story, the American public wouldn\u2019t see the presidency and the nation&#8217;s political institutions the same. A long-term effect of the Watergate scandal caused widespread distrust by the American public. They stopped trusting political institutions. If the facts of the scandal were never reported by the Washington Post, politicians would be able to get away with their lies with no consequences. So, politicians are more accountable because journalists are watching them.<\/p>\n<p>One thing you can take away from what Bernstein, Woodward and the Post did is to follow your dreams no matter how hard it can be. These journalists risked their reputations and even their lives to bring the public the truth.<\/p>\n<p>If you could only watch one movie, it should definitely be, \u201cAll The President\u2019s Men.\u201d If you take this advice to watch this movie, you\u2019ll learn about how tough the job of being a reporter really is. You\u2019ll also learn about the risks that come along with getting a story out there.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6248\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2020\/05\/15\/the-story-of-the-nixon-administration\/main\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6248\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6248\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6248\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2020\/05\/main.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/05\/main.jpg 850w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/05\/main-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/05\/main-768x456.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scene from All the President&#8217;s Men.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d is a movie that stars both Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. Both of these actors are very successful and have both won the Lifetime Achievement award. In this particular movie, they both played reporters for the Washington Post investigating Watergate. The Watergate break-in was a political scandal in the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}