Bob Woodward of the Washington Post reports what appears to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National Headquarters in the run-up to the 1972 elections. He's astonished to learn that prominent defense lawyers are already on the case, and the revelation of Republican fund organizers' names and addresses on the accused raises his suspicions even further. After the Post's editor goes with the story and assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it, they discover that the trail is leading higher and higher inside the Republican Party—and eventually into the White House.
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Bob Woodward of the Washington Post reports what appears to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National Headquarters in the run-up to the 1972 elections. He's astonished to learn that prominent defense lawyers are already on the case, and the revelation of Republican fund organizers' names and addresses on the accused raises his suspicions even further. After the Post's editor goes with the story and assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it, they discover that the trail is leading higher and higher inside the Republican Party—and eventually into the White House.
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