Just reading about the reporting of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein wore me out.

I was aware of the basics of Watergate before reading “All The President’s Men” but the details of the entirety of their reporting is staggering. If the film version of the story included everything, it might take four days to watch.

It was odd picturing the story in my mind as I read. I know what Woodward looks like, and yet every time he was mentioned all I saw was Robert Redford. With no clear picture in my mind of Bernstein, I was of course forced to go with Dustin Hoffman in his stead.

The two make so many phone calls, and pursue so many sources in such a dogged fashion that I am sure that I would have given up long before anything significant came out of their Watergate stories. It is striking, even now, even knowing how everything eventually turns out, to see how borderline comical the details were by the time they came out.

How so many high-ranking people thought they could get away with whatever they wanted shows an arrogance that really reigns as the theme of the story. At every step, as every detail came out, those involved offered new denials and language that said all allegations were ridiculous. Of course they all turned out later to be true.

One thing I could not get over was the convention of referring to the reporters as “Bernstein and Woodward.” I think that in any casual conversation, anyone would say it the other way. I would bet that they decided to just do it alphabetically in the book, which is fine if that’s how they want it. But I still found it jarring each time I came across it. Maybe they should put out a new press release so that we all commonly refer to them in alphabetical terms.

I did check Google, and the combination of “Woodward and Bernstein” and “Woodward & Bernstein” far surpasses that of “Bernstein and Woodward” and “Bernstein & Woodward.” I’m not about to cross Google.

Tomorrow marks the 30th day of June, and thus the 30th consecutive day of blogging for me. Fortunately, I already know exactly what I am writing about and it should be a fantastic time for all (with great pictures of bees!). Similar Bat time. Same Bat channel.