woodward and bernstein had zero to do with “breaking” the water gate case. They wrote a few stories about fringe players to the story..i.e. donald segretti etc”....but one of the burglars, James McCord was the one who blew the story wide open..all a big media created myth..just like the so called “camelot kennedy” myth...
as a matter if fact. their biggest stories were printed BEFORE the 72 election...and the effect of those was the biggest landslide win ever, until 1984...