{"id":5283,"date":"2018-04-20T09:50:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5283"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:41:57","slug":"a-president-embroiled-in-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2018\/04\/20\/a-president-embroiled-in-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"A President Embroiled in Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Presidential knowledge of political interference.\u00a0 Shady business practice.\u00a0 Hard-nosed journalists trying to get the truth out, despite being labeled as fake news.\u00a0 This may sound as if it is coming from the political climate of today.\u00a0 In reality, it is the film \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men,\u201d a harrowing retelling of the Watergate scandal.\u00a0 A conspiracy to sabotage the 1972 Presidential election by the Republican party, it was the driving force in former President Nixon\u2019s resignation, which involved spy games and espionage.<\/p>\n

The film follows green-as-grass reporter, Bob Woodward, played by Robert Redford, and the slightly more experienced Carl Bernstein, played by Dustin Hoffman.\u00a0 The two have fallen onto a case that no one at the time seemed to care about: the Watergate scandal, a plan that was put into place to wiretap the Democratic National Committee office in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 Pushing strong through continued deadends and cold leads, Bernstein and Woodward push on to uncover a conspiracy that reaches all the way to the President of the United States, Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n

What may sound like a small story of two journalists following a nothing story becomes a telling of true events with as much pull as any spy novel could every give.\u00a0 It\u2019s a gripping \u201cwho done it\u201d from start to stop.\u00a0 Redford and Hoffman really dig into their roles, playing the characters in ways that feel very natural.\u00a0 The surrounding cast members as well really pull themselves into their roles.\u00a0 Every relationship and line is put forth with a genuine feeling that is sometimes lost in hard-nosed crime stories.<\/p>\n

If you only have time to see one of the great films that will be shown throughout the weekend, \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d may be the right choice for you, especially for fans of suspense and thrillers.\u00a0 Doors for the event open at 7 a.m. with a showing of \u201cPineapple Express,\u201d followed by the Friday Trilogy, for what is being billed as the \u201cWake and Bake\u201d experience.\u00a0 There will be brownies and other food offered outside to support the UMPI film association.<\/p>\n

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Presidential knowledge of political interference.\u00a0 Shady business practice.\u00a0 Hard-nosed journalists trying to get the truth out, despite being labeled as fake news.\u00a0 This may sound as if it is coming from the political climate of today.\u00a0 In reality, it is the film \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men,\u201d a harrowing retelling of the Watergate scandal.\u00a0 A conspiracy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8681,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions\/8681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}