The first story I read on the Watergate page was “Woodward and Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought”. 40 years after the scandal the reporters who covered the story then have been transcribing hours of Nixon’s secret tapes applying meaning to them. After reviewing everything they have concluded that Nixon was far worse than everyone thought he was. He launched five wars during his five-and-a-half-year presidency. The war against the antiwar movement, war on the news media, war against the Democrats, war on justice, and war on history. He also disregarded the law for political advantage and participated in wiretapping and political sabotage long before the Watergate scandal.

I enjoyed the Facebook timeline over Watergate. It helped me see and understand how everything took place by putting it in a form that we see so often today. I liked how there were pictures from the different phases of the scandal. It was interesting to see the reporters that took on the case because you usually do not see much about the reporters. I also liked how there were pictures of the documents and the one with his resignation signature. I thought it was a nice way to portray the events.

In the “Deep Throat revealed” story, it talks about who Deep Throat is and how he helped in the investigation anonymously. Deep Throat was revealed in 2005 as Mark Felt who was the second highest FBI official in the US government. He aided Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their reporting of the Watergate scandal. He gave them information on how to connect Nixon with the scandal and confirmed their stories.

I thought this page on The Washington Post was interesting and very helpful in understanding the background of the Watergate break-in.  I feel like this page is more directed toward an older audience who heard about the scandal when it first happened. Our generation learned about it briefly though school but would probably never think to research it or dig this deep into it. Overall is was a very helpful source in learning more about the major government scandal.