All the President's Men
Politics
LC Class E860 .B47 | | |
Followed by | The Final Days |
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Watergate scandal |
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Events |
People |
All the President's Men is a 1974
A film adaptation, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein respectively, was released in 1976. That same year, a sequel to the book, The Final Days, was published, which chronicled the last months of Richard Nixon's presidency, starting around the time their previous book ended.
Background
Woodward and Bernstein had considered the idea of writing a book about Watergate, but did not commit until actor Robert Redford expressed interest in purchasing the film rights. In Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men", Woodward noted that Redford played an important role in changing the book's narrative from a story about the Watergate events to one about their investigations and reportage of the story.[3]
The name of the book alludes to the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty ("All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again"). An allusion similar to that was made more explicitly a quarter-century earlier in Robert Penn Warren's 1946 novel All the King's Men, which describes the career of a fictional corrupt governor, loosely based on Huey Long.
Important individuals
The President
The President's Men
They are listed with their 1972 positions in either the president's executive staff or in his re-election committee, where applicable.
White House
- Alexander Butterfield, Deputy Assistant to the President
- Dwight Chapin, Deputy Assistant to the President
- Ken W. Clawson, Deputy Director of Communications for the President
- Charles Colson, Chief Counsel for the President
- John Dean, White House Counsel
- John Ehrlichman, Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
- H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff
- E. Howard Hunt Jr., President's Special Investigations Unit ("White House Plumbers")
- Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor
- Egil Krogh, head of the President's Special Investigations Unit ("White House Plumbers")
- Gerald Warren, White House Press Secretary, succeeding Ziegler
- David R. Young, special assistant at the National Security Council
- Ron Ziegler, White House Press Secretary
Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP)
- Kenneth H. Dahlberg, CRP's Midwest finance chairman
- Herbert W. Kalmbach, personal attorney to President Richard Nixon and Deputy Finance Chairman of CRP
- G. Gordon Liddy, CRP employee
- Clark MacGregor, CRP Chairman
- Jeb Stuart Magruder, Deputy Director, and assistant to the Director of CRP
- Robert Mardian, CRP political coordinator
- Attorney General, and CRP campaign director
- Robert Odle, Director of Administration ("office manager") for CRP
- Kenneth Parkinson, CRP counsel
- Herbert Porter, CRP organizer and former White House aide[4]
- Donald Segretti, political operative for CRP
- Hugh W. Sloan Jr., CRP treasurer
- Judy Hoback Miller, CRP bookkeeper
- Maurice Stans, CRP finance chairman
- Herbert G. Klein but was assigned to be H. R. Haldeman's liaison to CRP
Rest of the President's Men
- Alfred C. Baldwin III
- Jack Caulfield
- L. Patrick Gray, acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Attorney General(succeeding John Mitchell)
- Fred LaRue, no rank, title, salary or even listing in the White House directory
- Powell A. Moore
- Kenneth Rietz
- DeVan L. Shumway
The Burglars
- Bernard L. Barker
- Virgilio R. Gonzalez
- Eugenio R. Martinez
- James W. McCord, Jr.
- Frank A. Sturgis
The Prosecutors
- Henry E. Petersen, United States Assistant Attorney General
- Earl J. Silbert, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
- Donald E. Campbell, Assistant U.S. Attorney[5]
- Seymour Glanzer, Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
The Judge
- John J. Sirica, District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
The Washington Post
- Carl Bernstein, Reporter
- Bob Woodward, Reporter
- Benjamin C. Bradlee, Executive Editor
- Katharine Graham, Publisher
- Harry M. Rosenfeld, Metropolitan Editor
- Howard Simons, Managing Editor
- Barry Sussman, City Desk Editor
- Brett Gurganious, Local News Reporter
The Senator
- Sam Ervin (D–NC), chair of the Senate Watergate Committee
The Informant
- Deep Throat (revealed in 2005 to be Mark Felt)[1]
Publication
Dick Snyder of Simon & Schuster purchased the right to publish the book through the agent David Obst. The authors received an advance of $55,000.[6] In his memoir, Michael Korda said of the book's publication that it "transformed book publishing into a red-hot part of media" and books became "news" instead of history.
Because the book was embargoed until publication day, there were no advance copies for reviewers. Simon & Schuster became known as the "Watergate" publisher by following up All the President's Men with books by John Dean, Maureen Dean, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell.[7]
See also
- All the Prime Minister's Men, 2021 documentary
- The Final Days, 1976 book
References
- ^ W. Mark Felt.
- ISBN 978-0-8262-1768-4.
- Internet Movie Database
- ISBN 9780786717095– via Google Books.
- ^ David Rosenbaum (June 30, 1973). "PROSECUTORS QUIT WATERGATE CASE". NYT. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
- ISBN 0679-456597.