Honors novel blog #1

June 17th 1972, two investigators of the Washington port we're assigned to report a break in at the water gate complex in Washington D.C. As the reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, dig deeper during the investigation a mystery unfolds. Woodward used unknown sources to find out who was involved in the break at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Bob Woodward arranged secret meetings late at night with a man nicknamed 'Deep-throat' inside a parking structure. Deep throat is an unknown source who gave out information about who was responsible for handing out the pay checks to the burglars. In the story, I founded out that all of the captured buglers we're Cuban ex-CIA operatives. They we're charged in federal court. There we're five who broken that night.

As part of their investigation, Bernstein and Woodward, interview many witnesses . Many people that they questioned we're afraid to talk. They often used charm and ingenuity to get important information about the break in. The two reporters try and uncover a connection between the water gate break in and the committee to re-elect Richard Nixon. Their investigation eventually implicates several high ranking cabinet members of the Nixon administration. What they perceive to be an easy investigation turns out to be very complicated. John Mitchel, the director of the committee Richard Nixon, was convicted. He was at one time the attorney general for President. Two top Nixon aids, John Ehrlichman and HR haldeman we're convicted also. Woodward and Bernstein uncovered a special slush fund to pay the water gate buglers. The break-in was orchestrated by Gordan Liddy and Howard Hunt.