{"id":4758,"date":"2017-04-21T09:49:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:02:41","slug":"all-the-presidents-men-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2017\/04\/21\/all-the-presidents-men-2\/","title":{"rendered":"All The President’s Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPicture open windows, green grass and birds singing in the trees\u2014suddenly a phone rings\u2014 \u201cWoodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake.\u00a0 The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line.\u00a0 Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear [can you hear the noise like a needle dragged quickly across a spinning record?].\u00a0 Could he come in?\u201d<\/p>\n

The film, \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d opens to five men in Democratic headquarters slipping through a door whose latch had been taped to keep it from locking.\u00a0 Shortly after a break in is reported and several plain clothed cops enter and find these would be burglars hunkered down in a back office loaded down with special equipment.<\/p>\n

The next time we see them we are in court \u2018they\u2019 have a shmancy, fancy lawyer representing them and \u2018they\u2019 haven\u2019t even placed their first call yet.\u00a0 So how did he know where to find them?\u00a0 Why do they all have aliases? And why do their names trace back to the CIA?\u00a0 That is what Bob Woodward, journalist for the Washington Post, is left wondering.\u00a0 He was sent on this assignment with the assumption that this was just small fry, but he smells a lot more going on.<\/p>\n

Woodward is reluctantly joined with fellow journalist Carl Bernstein who is opposite to Woodward in many ways.\u00a0 He wears his hair long, he smokes and is liberal.\u00a0 However, their journalism works out great.\u00a0 Secret messages and dangerous meetings in dark parking garages with anonymous informants, multiple interviews with dead ends follow as the two journalists work to figure out the maze of this story.\u00a0 They are not sure how far up the chain of command it leads, but some pretty important people in D.C. have been named.\u00a0 Even Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollow the money,\u201d Deep Throat the informant says.\u00a0 But who is Deep Throat?\u00a0 The intrigue continues with stories of stolen documents, planted information, spies and fake letters.\u00a0 Slowly the leads begin to work out the kinks.\u00a0 The money trail is hot and it leads to the top.\u00a0 Many people have a lot of explaining to do.<\/p>\n

Front page in loud headlines the story runs, \u201cTestimony Ties Top Nixon Aid To Secret Fund,\u201d can you hear the heads rolling?\u00a0 Then, \u201cWood-Stein!\u201d They have made a name for themselves and somehow the Washington Post Executive Editor, Ben Bradlee\u2019s ethics and even patriotism is called into question.\u00a0 The storm deepens and charges are hurled of rumor mongering and outright lying.\u00a0 It is late in the game but Woodward and Bernstein are beginning to question themselves and wondering if their confidential informant is setting them up.<\/p>\n

Finally Deep Throat really opens up, \u201cGet out your notebook.\u201d\u00a0 Then he tells Woodward that their lives are in danger.\u00a0 Important people, powerful people are not happy.\u00a0 There is surveillance and bugging in many of the places that they circulate.<\/p>\n

Bob Bradlee cautions that First Amendment rights are at stake.\u00a0 If they can be silenced the position of the press is precarious and the information that the American people are \u2018allowed\u2019 access to hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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