During the 1972 US presidential elections, in which Richard Nixon ran again and won for the Republican Party, reporters from The Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, investigated a break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Complex in Washington D.C.

This seemingly minor investigation would give rise to the Watergate Scandal, when the two journalists – with the help of an FBI informant – discovered links between the raid and the White House, implicating President Nixon, who would end up becoming the only leader in the country to resign in 1974.

Image: Still from the film All the President’s Men (1976)

All the President’s Men

This event is part of the cycle ‘All the President’s Men’, taking place between October and December at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Learn more