All the President's Men

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The final installment in our cover-up trilogy is 1976's All the President's Men. And this is also where we began with reporter Bob Woodward and his anonymous Watergate source Deep Throat. We're going to give Deep Throat another listen, only this time let's focus on what he's telling us. Cover-up had little to do with Watergate. It was mainly to protect the covert operations. FBI. CIA. Justice. Now this is a revelation straight out of the parallax view. These two movies have in common? A Fall Guy.

A remixed complete version of our two part Watergate series from last year: Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the legends and the myths. The 1976 film All the President’s Men remains our most authoritative account of Watergate. The film is also responsible for the myth of Deep Throat. Your host follows the myth… from 1976 to the present. Plus a reporter from the Washington Post newsroom who never made it into All the President’s Men yet did more to safeguard the free press and American democracy than Woodstein ever did.