The purpose of this research is to critically examine All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The most popular account of the entire Watergate affair, the book remains an excellent example of investigative reporting. The book covers the eighteen month period during which Bernstein and Woodward, working as reporters for The Washington Post, systematically uncovered many of the details surrounding President Richard Nixon’s illegal political activities.

Woodward and Bernstein were assigned the story as it first broke in June of 1972, with the arrest of five burglars who had been apprehended while breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. The reporters’ subsequent investigation, pursued in true detective fashion, utilized fragmentary clues found n address books, telephone calls, informants, and …