What If Bob Woodward Were a Woman?July 03, 2012 Last month, I
got to see Bob Woodward discuss the 40th anniversary of
Watergate at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. He’s one of the two
amazing Washington Post reporters who broke the biggest story in
American politics. In case you need a refresher, the Watergate
scandal was uncovered when the two reporters started
investigating a burglary at the Democratic National Committee
headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. Woodward and Carl Bernstein
uncovered a criminal conspiracy and White House cover-up that
led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Another 43
people, many of them senior officials, were either indicted,
tried, or went to prison because of Watergate. Although I’ve
gotten to hear from many great journalists as a journalism
student, it was amazing to see yet another one discuss his
career. These reporters are heroes in their own right, and
Woodward has remained a big name in investigative journalism,
even 40 years later. But seeing this brilliant m