Woodward dan Carl Bernstein menurunkan laporan utama pendobrakan kantor Partai Demokrat di Hotel Watergate pada 1972 yang kemudian mengarah pada pengunduran diri Presiden AS Richard Nixon.
Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the story of the 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party office in the Watergate Hotel, ultimately leading to the resignation of US president Richard Nixon.