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  1. All the President's Men: Directed by Alan J. Pakula. With Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam. "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

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    • Drama, History, Thriller
    • Alan J. Pakula
    • 1976-04-09
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  3. It explores how the Watergate scandal would be covered in the present day, whether such a scandal could happen again and who Richard Nixon was as a man. W. Mark Felt , deputy director of the FBI during the early 1970s, revealed his identity as Deep Throat in 2005, and this is also covered in the documentary.

  4. Apr 19, 2022 · The Nixon: Archival footage. The premise: Liam Neeson, 72, stars as FBI agent Mark Felt, who revealed in 2005, at the age of 91, that he had been “Deep Throat” — the anonymous source who provided crucial information to Woodward and Bernstein.

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  5. May 16, 2013 · James McCord. A former officer in the CIA and FBI, James M. McCord was one of the five original men arrested for breaking into the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. He was later convicted of...

    • The Watergate Break-In
    • Nixon's Obstruction of Justice
    • Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Investigate
    • The Saturday Night Massacre
    • Nixon Resigns

    The origins of the Watergate break-in lay in the hostile political climate of the time. By 1972, when Republican President Richard M. Nixon was running for reelection, the United States was embroiled in the Vietnam War, and the country was deeply divided. A forceful presidential campaign therefore seemed essential to the president and some of his k...

    It later came to light that Nixon was not being truthful. A few days after the break-in, for instance, he arranged to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars in “hush money” to the burglars. Then, Nixon and his aides hatched a plan to instruct the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to impede the FBI’s investigation of the crime. This was a more ser...

    By that time, a growing handful of people—including Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, trial judge John J. Sirica and members of a Senate investigating committee—had begun to suspect that there was a larger scheme afoot. At the same time, some of the conspirators began to crack under the pressure of the cover-up. Anonymous w...

    When Cox refused to stop demanding the tapes, Nixon ordered that he be fired, leading several Justice Department officials to resign in protest. (These events, which took place on October 20, 1973, are known as the Saturday Night Massacre.) Eventually, Nixon agreed to surrender some—but not all—of the tapes. Early in 1974, the cover-up and efforts ...

    Finally, on August 5, Nixon released the tapes, which provided undeniable evidence of his complicity in the Watergate crimes. In the face of almost certain impeachment by Congress, Nixon resignedin disgrace on August 8, and left office the following day. Six weeks later, after Vice President Gerald Fordwas sworn in as president, he pardoned Nixon f...

  6. Aug 8, 2021 · Forty-seven years ago today, President Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal. A story worth retelling and exploring, Hollywood of course took it on in 1976’s seminal journalism film, “All the President’s Men.” “Men” was added to the Library’s National Film Registry in 2010.

  7. Two green reporters and rivals working for the Washington Post, Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman), research the botched 1972 burglary of the Democratic...

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    • Drama
    • PG
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