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Thank you. 2002. It's September 26, 1972 in Washington, D.C.

The reporter Carl Bernstein is sitting at his desk in the newsroom of the Washington Post.

He rubs his eyes and looks up at the clock. It's already 11.20 at night. Somehow it got really late.

But Bernstein can't afford to go home. He still has a lot of work ahead of him,

calls to make, sources to track down, an endless series of tasks as he and a fellow reporter Bob Woodward

tried to untangle the mysteries behind Watergate. It's been a long few months, ever since the story

broke. And at first, it didn't appear to be much of a story at all. Five men were caught

burglarizing an office. It seemed like nothing more than a small-scale crime.

But the office belonged to the Democratic National Committee.

And sensing something was up, Woodward and Bernstein kept digging.

And soon Watergate ballooned into something much bigger than a petty crime.

Recently, the two reporters found that the Watergate burglars received funding

from top officials running President Nixon's re-election campaign.

And the accusations ran all the way to the top.

Sources have pointed their fingers at John Mitchell, the former head of the campaign, and a former attorney general.

Mitchell has been accused of handling a secret slush fund, which was used to finance

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