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Chapter 8
Howard Baker Jr. was born on November 15, 1925 in Scott Country. He attended University of Tennessee and received a law degree there. His studies were interrupted when, in WW2, he served as a lieutenant on a PT boat. He married Joy Dirksen in 1951. His legal practice was doing well, but he later turned to politics, as a moderate republican. In 1966 he was elected senator of Tennessee, in an easily won election. He was reelected in 1972, even with support of many African Americans, who had shown to be very against the Republican Party.
 * Howard Baker **



In 1973 he served as Republican leader and vice chairman on the Senate Watergate Committee, and was involved in many of the hearings. He also posed the question "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" He was very interested in the role of the CIA in the scandal and investigated Lee R. Pennington, Lou Russell and James W. McCord. His good performance at the hearings earned him positive political response, and he even, though unsuccessfully, made several attempts at running for presidency. In 1987 Ronald Reagan appointed him White house Chief of Staff and he is currently the Ambassador to Japan.

 Carl Bernstein was born to parents Al and Sylvia Bernstein on the 14th of February in 1944. As Members of The American Communist Party, his parents were black listed during the red scare, and went into hiding after a wave of Jewish persecution. While attending public schools Bernstein worked for the Washington Star as a copy boy, eventually working his way up though the ranks becoming a reporter for the Washington Star.
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At age 22 Bernstein got a job at the Washington Post as a journalist that covered the local courts and police activity. After many requests for reassignment Bernstein was denied his requests. Bernstein was very aggravated with the Washington Post and applied to Rolling Stone but soon enough a new story came along that would change his life forever. In June 1972, he teamed up with journalist Bob Woodward to investigate the arrests of five burglars at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Hotel. As other news papers looked at the burglary as just a small event with no importance Bernstein and Woodward looked deeper into the matter. Bernstein and Woodward looked to try to uncover who was really behind it linking it with President Nixon and some of the highest ranking officials in his administration. After finding many clues and an informant named “Deep Throat” they were able to link Nixon with the Watergate burglary. Soon after Woodward and Bernstein wrote a news article for the Washington Post that reviled this scandal. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward won the Pulitzer Prize along with many of the top journalism awards. After writing many more influential pieces about the subject Carl Bernstein he quit the Washington Post and Started working of ABC television.

__BOB WOODWARD __
 Bob Woodward was born on March 26th 1943 to Jane and Alfred Woodward and grew up in Wheaton Illinois. He graduated from Yale University in 1965 and served as a communications officer in the U.S. Navy from 1965 to 1970. Woodward joined the Washington Post in 1971 and teamed up with Carl Bernstein to investigate and report the June 17, 1972 burglary of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C. at the Watergate office building. Under Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee, their work became known for being the first to report on a number of political " dirty tricks " used by the Nixon re-election committee during his campaign for reelection. The Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for the reporting of the Watergate scandal. Woodward was promoted to assistant managing editor for the Metro section in 1979. He became assistant managing editor for Investigative News in 1982. Since then he has written a number of other books, including: //The Brethren// (1979), about the Supreme Court, with Scott Armstrong; //Wired// (1984), about the comedian John Belushi; //Veil// (1987), about the CIA; //The Commanders// (1991), about the Panama and Persian Gulf wars; //Bush at War// (2002), on the president's 'war on terror'; and //Plan of Attack// (2004), on the preparations for the war in Iraq.

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