All the President's Men: A Paranoia Trilogy

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The film All the President's Men was the final installment in director Alan Pecula's so-called paranoia trilogy. In fact, both Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein credit Bob Redford with shaping their book before they even wrote it. It was Robert Redford who transformed their Washington Post investigation into secret government conspiracies into a story about how journalists tell the truth.

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.