If you were to ask your colleagues, “Who was Paul Revere?” most would probably know the answer. He was, after all, immortalized in the Longfellow poem that begins, “Listen, my children, and you shall ...

Mr. Rosen is a reporter based in Washington, D.C., and a historian of the Watergate era. On July 1, 1975, under gray skies, two Watergate prosecutors arrived in the office of the White House counsel.