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The Watergate affair resulted in the first resignation of a U.S. president and served to further deflate public faith in government. What began in June 1972 with the arrest of five men who were attempting to break into and wiretap Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington spiraled into Senate committee investigations that traced cover-up efforts to President Nixon's White House and re-election efforts. Before Nixon's resignation in August 1974, former campaign aides G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. would be convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping. Top administration officials would resign or be fired. The investigative reporting of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post proved pivotal in revealing the truth about this sordid episode in American politics. This special report coincides with the 30th anniversary of the break-in and with a rare public appearance of Woodward and Bernstein at the University of Maryland.
Copyright © 2002 University of Maryland College of Journalism
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