Betty Metzger: The First Journalist to Get These Documents Published

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Bob Greene: In first part of miniseries, we visited Washington Post newsroom recreated for 1976 film All the President's Man. He says filmmakers never once show reporter Betty Metzger; she was there and broke story on FBI spying a year before Watergate. Greene: She did more to safeguard American democracy and free press than Weinstein ever did. The Burglary is one of the most important books in my library," he says.

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.