Unknown Story
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- Did you hear Buckomickdoofh is running for President of the USA? It was all over the radio?
- No way really
- This what it was like along time ago when people belived everything they heard on radiio and newspapers.
- My fellow Americans , I had nothing to do with the Watergate break-in.
- He's got my vote
- Vote For Nixon
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- Yah I tsust him
- In the early days of newspapers and radio, people had so much trust in it they would believe everything and anything. They had trust in every word that came from a politician. But that trust was short lasted.
- President Nixons was completely behind the Watergate break-in.
- In August 1974, the Democratic Party offices, located in the Watergate building, were broken into. President Nixon and his staff desperately tried to cover up the break-in.
- Headline - August 9, 1974
- NIXON RESIGNS
- SLAMM
- All politicians LIE! Dam the you Nixon!
- He managed to keep his name out of the scandal and was re-elected in November 1972. The people had so much trust in Nixon and his word and no one thought two journalists could crack the case.
- At the Washington post headquarters
- Two reporters for the Washington Post newspaper,, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, were investigating the burglary. They had an anonymous tip from a source named "Deep Throat".
- The two reporters broke the story and investigators discovered the tapes of all Nixon's conversations that became the "smoking gun".
- Trust in the media and politicians forever changed when Nixon lied on TV to the American people, only to be proven guilty by Burnstein and Woodward.