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The movie, ‘All the President’s Men’, follows
the investigation of the Watergate scandal by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
of the Washington Post. During the course of the movie Bob and Carl follow up
on hundreds of leads to get their story. Many of those leads were unproductive.
They went to the Library of Congress to find out what books were checked out by
one of the men in the break-in of the National Democratic Headquarters
building. They were hoping that the books he was reading would give them an
idea of what he was involved in. They used the Yellow Pages and the White Pages
to find the addresses of people they wanted to contact. They also used their contacts
to provide them with information that would help them discover more clues
regarding why there was a burglary of the National Democratic Committee
Headquarters and who paid for it. In the White House, ‘Deep-throat’, was one of
their unnamed informants, who guided Bob Woodward through the investigation. Carl
and Bob got part of their story by tricking people into saying or admitting
more than they wanted to. For example, Bob stated as fact something he wasn’t
sure of, and their reluctant informant asked, “Who told you that?”, to which
they didn’t reply, since she was the one who had just confirmed the
information. The movie was a great example of how much work it was to get
information and to piece that information together into the story which led to
President Nixon’s downfall.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074119/
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