Watergate at 50: Why the ‘heroic-journalist’ myth still defines the scandal. “Sometimes, people accuse us of ‘bringing down a president,’ which of course we didn’t do, and shouldn’t have done,” Graham said. “The processes that caused [Nixon’s] resignation were constitutional.”

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The fetishization of Woodward and Bernstein is pretty fucking nauseating, and I say this as someone who despises Richard Nixon just as badly.

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Most people that were 50 when Watergate happened are dead now.