Watergate reporters learn more from Nixon tapes

June 14, 2012 4:30 PM

Forty years ago, The Washington Post printed its first story on what would become the biggest political scandal in U.S. history. Now, the two reporters who led the paper's Watergate investigation say there was a lot more to it than they originally thought. Bill Plante reports.

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