As Saturday unfolded, Sussman enlisted another reporter, Carl Bernstein, to gather biographical information on the burglars.VIII The team soon figured out that four of the burglars were from Miami’s Cuban-American community, and Sussman—a heavyset, thirty-eight-year-old newspaper veteran from Tennessee who had been at the paper for nearly a decade—dispatched a reporter accompanying Nixon to Key Biscayne to talk to the exile community in Florida. Mid-afternoon Saturday, Woodward headed to the courthouse for the burglars’ preliminary hearing, where he had several confounding exchanges with
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