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Oddly enough, it isn’t A Simple Act Of Violence where I wrote about the events that took place after the arrest of the Watergate burglars, but in Candlemoth.
Regardless, Watergate, the resultant investigation by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (played so memorably in the Alan J. Pakula film ‘All The President’s Men’ by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman respectively), is perhaps the second most important US political event in the last fifty years, the first being the assassination of JFK.
Watergate resulted in the first ever impeachment and resignation of an American president, Richard ‘Tricky Dicky’ Nixon.
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Read the book, see the film - both extraordinary. What you see in the photograph is the original printing plate of the Washington Post headline when Nixon resigned. It is reversed as this is the actual platen they used (long before computers were employed to write and print newspapers – back then it was handwritten notes, typed onto sheets of paper, and then articles were typeset by hand!)
This plate is framed in the boardroom of the Washington Post, and it was in this room that I interviewed Walter Pincus.