THE 1970S 1969 1979
FOREIGN POLICIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON
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Woodward and Bernstein
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McNeil and Leherer
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Peyton and Brady
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Mitchell and Lowe
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Detailed explanation-1: -While a reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward teamed up with Carl Bernstein, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the men was James W. McCord Jr.; a former Central Intelligence Agency employee and a security man for Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect the President, popularly known as “CREEP". Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward pursued the story for two years.
Detailed explanation-3: -Relying heavily upon anonymous sources, Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered information suggesting that knowledge of the break-in, and attempts to cover it up, led deeply into the upper reaches of the Justice Department, FBI, CIA, and the White House.
Detailed explanation-4: -The film stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, respectively; it was produced by Walter Coblenz for Redford’s Wildwood Enterprises.