All The President's Men

Here is a link to background articles and timeline for Watergate and the investigation by Woodward and Bernstein

http://jea.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/specialreport.pdf


Answer the following questions on your own blog by FRIDAY MAY 1ST:
1) What does Bob Woodward have to do to get information about the Watergate break in?

2) How difficult do you think it was to get information about a story BEFORE the internet? What would reporters have to do instead?

3) Why did Bob Woodward have to be careful about not being followed when he met with Deep Throat?

4) When Carl Berstein (Dustin Hoffman) gives Woodward the name Kenneth H. Dahlberg what does Woodward have to use to find a phone number for Dahlberg?

5) The story of Dahlberg's check ending up in the account of a Watergate burglar ends up being on the front page but it is "below the fold." What does that mean?

6) How did Bernstein get Mitchell (former Attorney General) to confirm that he was the one to control any of the secret funds?

7) What did Donald Secretti do?

8) Why do you think they need so many people to confirm information?

9) Why do you think people keep saying how much they "love this country" as they are nervous and unsure about whether to publish the stories? 

10) What was the end result of the work done on Watergate by Woodward and Bernstein?