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A daily newspaper based in Washington, D.C., founded in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins, whose investigative reporting on the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee's Watergate offices, led chiefly by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein under editor Barry Sussman, became one of American journalism's defining achievements. Its early coverage received little attention from rival papers including the New York Times, and its own lead reporter has since called the popular myth of two journalists single-handedly bringing down a president totally absurd.
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The newspaper was founded in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins
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Wikimedia FoundationBob Woodward, quoted in Legacy sectionQuote, Bob Woodward, quoted in Legacy section
the mythologizing of our role in Watergate has gone to the point of absurdity, where journalists write ... that I, single-handedly, brought down Richard Nixon. Totally absurd.
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