But the project actually began less as an attempt to retell the Watergate story than to revise it.

The tapes do not change the fundamental outlines of the Watergate story.

When the Watergate story broke, Woodward called on his friend.

Nixon believed that Frost's softball questions would allow him to tell the public his side of the Watergate story for the first time.

Joan had been absorbed in the Watergate story since the televised hearings had begun over a year earlier.

He also recalled being told that the Watergate story had "no legs."

And by election day in November, the Watergate story seemed like old news.

And if he were with us today I think he'd be getting a fine boot out of this Watergate story.

At a certain point, breaking the next Watergate story seems to be beside the point for the business side of newspapers.

You know, that's the way the Watergate story got started.