Woodward and Bernstein didn’t bring down Nixon – but the myth that they did lives on

Woodward and Bernstein didn’t bring down Nixon – but the myth that they did lives on

In their dogged reporting of the Watergate scandal, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the crimes that forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency in August 1974.That version of Watergate has long dominated popular understanding of the scandal, which unfolded over 26 months beginning in June 1972.It is, however, a simplistic trope that not even Watergate-era principals at the Post embraced.For example, the news…