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Answer:
I'm pretty sure it's the first answer
Explanation:
In the excerpt, it talks about the narrator being solemn and filled with sorrow.
they were both about land. In King Philip’s War the Englishmen were intruding on the Indian’s land. In Bacon’s Rebellion indentured servants did not get the land they agreed upon with the lords, since the land belonged to the Native Americans. In both of these situations the colonists tried to justify their actions by saying they were robbed of land.
This can easily be answered by looking up their names or "the Watergate scandal" on Google. If you didn't have access to Google, however, you should know that the Watergate scandal involved former President Nixon spying on his political opponents at the Watergate hotel. Although this is not infallible logic, if you had to make an 'educated guess', Nixon was the president at the time. The president lives in Washington D.C, the US capital. This should lead you to believe that the Washington Post might have uncovered this scandal. Indeed those two reporters worked for the Washington Post.