IT IS Saturday June 17, 1972 and in the luxurious Watergate office building in Washington five men have been arrested after breaking into the Democratic Party’s headquarters.
Despite the political sensitivity of the burglary, especially in an election year, no one takes it particularly seriously. President Nixon is way ahead in the polls and the Democrats are tearing themselves apart over Vietnam, so what possible motive could the Republicans have for staging such a reckless enterprise?
As the city’s newspaper of record the feels obliged to send a reporter to the arraignment the following day. It being a Sunday the paper’s big guns are otherwise engaged so staff reporter Bob Woodward is sent along. It would change his life and begin a chain of events that, two years later, would see the
