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Scenic Overlook No. 2 off the George Washington Parkway in Virginia June 11, 2012, the spot where burglar James W. McCord Jr. met White House aide John Caufield who promised clemency from the highest level of the White House if he would take the fall for the Watergate Hotel break-in. June 17, 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the infamous Watergate break-in, which brought down the presidency of Richard M. Nixon. Nixon resigned in August 1974 for his administration's role in a June 17, 1972, burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in the US capital and the subsequent cover-up. He became the only American president ever to resign the office. Many inaccurate ideas and myths related to Nixon's role in the burglary and its cover-up have found long life over the years, reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who broke the story, wrote in an op-ed piece The Washington Post on Saturday. AFP PHOTO/Jim Watson (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)