The Washington Post had just begun to come into its own in the early 1970s when a pair of young Post reporters,Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,began to uncover serious wrongdoing in the Nixon White House.

• 70年代初期，在《邮报》的两个年轻记者鲍勃·伍德沃德和卡尔·伯恩斯坦开始揭露尼克松白宫的严重不道德行为时，《华盛顿邮报》才刚刚开始步入繁盛期。