sarasota, venice calling on shop owners at surf shops. they re all right there close to the beach. i don t know if they made it or not. . i m sorry to hear that. i ve been trying to convey this to viewers, but it s better coming from you than me. give us a sense of the emotional state. you ve lost every single thing. your sense of where do i go from here? yeah. you re in shock. i guess we re still at that stage of what it all is to you. business suits gone. it doesn t always hit you until after, hey, i don t have a tie. i asked my brother to lend me one or something like that. you know, it s just everything. i m looking down at one of my business cards. little things like that. we have to reorder those. it s everything. it s the electric toothbrush you had, gone. thank you for sharing your story.
it was the height of the 72 primary campaign season. nixon was running for office again. the bureau was empty. i was brand new at cbs news. the assignment editor looks around, he s like, ah, let the new girl go. i bought into the idea that it was a nothing burger. i went to the court and the room was empty. there was one other reporter, this guy from the washington post metro page. it was bob woodward. in come the five burglars, dressed in business suits. nine months on the police beat, i ve never seen a burglar who was well dressed. it just telegraphed mystery. there were these little things that cropped up that were suspicious. our police reporter had learned that first day that they had sequential 100-dollar bills
burglars in business suits breaking into the democratic national committee offices at the watergate building well, i m not a crook. reporter: but old-fashioned shoe leather reporting by the washington post bob woodward and carl bernstein uncovered links to the white house and nixon s re-election campaign, taking down a president. what did the president know and when did he first know it reporter: watergate would change journalism and the political language just follow the money. reporter: and gate ever since attached to scandals large and small, think of bridgegate, deflategate, weinergate i began by telling the president there was a cancer growing on the presidency. reporter: it became emblematic of abuse of power, attorney general threatening the washington post publisher. tell her she is going to get caught in the big wringer if she publishes. reporter: she would not be bullied and there was a smoking gun. 3,700 hours of incriminating white house tapes, minus
primary campaign season. nixon was running for office again. the bureau was empty. i was brand new at cbs news. the assignment editor looks around, he s like, ah, let the new girl go. i bought into the idea that it was a nothing burger. i went to the court and the room was empty. there was one other reporter, this guy from the washington post metro page. it was bob woodward. in come the five burglars, dressed in business suits. nine months on the police beat, i ve never seen a burglar who was well dressed. it just telegraphed mystery. there were these little things that cropped up that were suspicious. our police reporter had learned that first day that they had sequential 100-dollar bills in their pockets. says to me that somebody
post metro page, and it was bob woodward. in come the five burglars dressed in business suits. nine months on the police beat i had never seen a burglar who was well-dressed. it just telegraphed mystery. you would just see little things that cropped up that were suspicious. our police reporter had learned that first day that they had sequential $100 bills in their pockets. this says to me that somebody probably paid these guys. when the d.c. police caught them, they had something like 35 rolls of undeveloped film and very advanced cameras with them, so they weren t just looking for one file. they were looking for tons of information. what s going on here? this isn t just a local break-in after all.