Little things that trip you up

AT the crucial moment of their investigation into the Watergate scandal, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein told Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee that Deepthroat had confirmed the conspiracy ran to the highest levels of the White House.

Bradlee was faced with one of those fateful decisions — to publish and be damned.

In exasperation, he turned to the two reporters and said: “You know the results of the latest Gallup Poll?” he asked them. “Half the country never even heard of the word Watergate. Nobody gives a shit.”