The Washington Post broke the story of Watergate, and rode Richard Nixon mercilessly throughout the scandal. The front page plate of the paper announcing Richard M. Nixon's resignation hangs to this day in the Post's editor's conference room as a kind of ghoulish trophy of their victory over the 37th president.
Reporter Bob Woodward and his partner Carl Bernstein uncovered most of the story, using their mysterious souce, Deep Throat. They ultimately won a Pulitzer Prize for public service for the story. According to the Post's website, then-executive editor Ben Bradlee remembers the 26-month scandal as the "most intense moment of all our lives."
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein milked the scandal for a couple of books and a lot of pathos. Woodward in particular is still milking the story today, like the one-trick pony that he is. Form many years he still held one final card, Deep Throat's identity. I had bet on Haig, myself, but was ultimately proven wrong when William Mark Felt, Sr. was finally, uhm, fingered on May 31, 2005.