how the life and actions of the two figures you have chosen illuminate important aspects of the Watergate scandal.

Answer: Answers will vary. You might have chosen individuals like Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, or John Dean and Mark "Deep Throat" Felt, or John Ehrlichman and G. Gordon Liddy. Woodward and Bernstein could represent the role of investigative journalism in acting as a check on government power. Dean and Felt could represent the role of people with integrity within the government exposing the misdeeds of others. Ehrlichman and Liddy could represent the abuse of power of those empowered by an administration with misguided ethics.

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He rule that richard nixon and his top aides play in the watergate scandal was : they may or may not have taken part in the break in but absolutely played a part in the attempted cover-up

In watergate scandal, a break-in happened in the Democratic national committee headquarters. Nixon's cover up and administration's resistance eventually led to a constitutional crisis.