accidentally left several key pieces of evidence that eventually trailed the event back to the White House. It wasn’t the actual burglary that ended Nixon’s presidency, but his extreme effort to cover up White House involvement. John Dean, Nixon’s attorney for the scandal, who eventually turned against him in order to save his own reputation and career, wrote
The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew it , which focuses entirely on the Watergate scandal, explained that The Washington Post, particularly reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were some of the top names on Nixon’s “Enemy List” because they had a “collective mind-set at the Post, that Nixon & Company were somehow complicit in Watergate,” and relentlessly dragged him
The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew it , which focuses entirely on the Watergate scandal, explained that The Washington Post, particularly reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were some of the top names on Nixon’s “Enemy List” because they had a “collective mind-set at the Post, that Nixon & Company were somehow complicit in Watergate,” and relentlessly dragged him