Notes Reveal How Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Broke the
Watergate Story
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NBC Nightly News
John Seigenthaler/Pete
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02/04/2005
02/04/2005
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2005
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More than 30 years after the Watergate scandal first broke, the notes of Washington Post reporters Bob
Woodward and Carl Bernstein have gone on public display at the University of Texas at Austin. Scholars
are sifting through the notes, hoping they reveal the identity of the reporters' main source, "Deep Throat.”
Keywords
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Watergate, Scandal, Muckrakers, Watchdog, Reporters, Richard Nixon,
Media, Scandal, Burglary, Resignation, Investigative Journalism, Reporter's Notes, Archives, Republican
Party, GOP, Barry Goldwater, Watergate Hotel, Deep Throat, Fred Buzhardt, University of Texas at
Austin, Professor, William Gaines, Austin, Texas
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"Notes Reveal How Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Broke the Watergate Story." Pete Williams,
correspondent. NBC Nightly News. NBCUniversal Media. 4 Feb. 2005. NBC Learn. Web. 12 November
2014
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Williams, P. (Reporter), & Seigenthaler, J. (Anchor). 2005, February 4. Notes Reveal How Bob
Woodward and Carl Bernstein Broke the Watergate Story. [Television series episode]. NBC Nightly News.
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Transcript
Notes Reveal How Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Broke the Watergate Story
JOHN SEIGENTHALER, anchor:
More than three decades since the first pieces of the Watergate puzzle began to emerge, the notes of the
two reporters who broke that story and became famous themselves went on public display today for the
first time, and scholars are already searching through them looking for clues to the biggest unsolved
mystery of Watergate. Here's NBC's justice correspondent, Pete Williams.
PETE WILLIAMS reporting:
Once reporters' notes, now historical documents. The scraps of paper that fueled one of the biggest
political firestorms in US history.
President RICHARD NIXON: (From file footage) I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon
tomorrow.
WILLIAMS: Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pieced the Watergate story
together bit by bit. Now that raw material has been carefully catalogued and made part of the permanent
archives of the University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. BOB WOODWARD: It's a pretty complete portrait of what happened to us during that two years.
WILLIAMS: This actual page from Woodward's notebook shows the beginning. Quote, "Five men
arrested at Democratic National Headquarters."
Mr. CARL BERNSTEIN: They knew it, too.
WILLIAMS: The archives reveal how much Woodward and Bernstein came to rely on sources in Mr.
Nixon's own party.
Mr. BERNSTEIN: The Republican Party came together, recognized what this President had done, and is-© 2008-2014 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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and was really responsible for him leaving office.
WILLIAMS: After Nixon resigned, one of his lawyers, Fred Buzhardt, helped them reconstruct what
ultimately led the President to step down.
And former Senator Barry Goldwater told them he began to think Nixon was, quote, "off his head." But
nothing in what's been made public so far reveals the identity of their mystery source, nicknamed "Deep
Throat.”
Even so, these journalism students drove from Illinois to be first in line to look for clues.
Professor WILLIAM GAINES (University of Illinois Journalism Department): We would like to explain,
I think, not only who Deep Throat is, but what Deep Throat's role was in Watergate.
WILLIAMS: The Watergate archives will continue to grow as sources, including Deep Throat, die,
freeing Woodward and Bernstein to reveal yet more secrets. Pete Williams, NBC News, Washington.
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