WP/AP: Robert Redford Reflects on Watergate Film

[PhilipShore]

Washington Post/AP
Robert Redford Reflects on Watergate Film
February 15, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/15/AR2006021501965.html

NEW YORK -- "All the President's Men," the classic 1976 film about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's unraveling of Watergate, opens with hammering typewriter keystrokes that sound like gunshots.

Thirty years later, those shots _ forged by relentless digging by two unlikely Washington Post reporters _ still reverberate.

More important than the unmasking of Deep Throat, Redford says, are the similarities of Nixon's cover-up to the secretive nature of the current Bush administration.

Watergate, he says, "is happening everyday. It's pretty transparent; it's not something you have to reach for or exaggerate. You can go right down the list ... of things like Watergate happening almost on a regular basis with this particular administration."

[Gabi Hayes]

1. ?

[MnFats]

2. that film was actually damn scarey. First Amendment almost went down...

in flames....

young DUers who haven't read the book (please do, it's very important and contains a lot that's not in the film) ought to take the time to read it.
once you get started it's hard to put down even though you know the outcome.

Woodward:
"Deep Throat says our lives may be in danger."

yeah. and it was not an idle threat or gossip.


compare to today's times.....

[OneBlueSky]

3. my ongoing fantasy about Robert Redford is . . .

that he can be convinced to run for president as a Democrat in 2008 . . . with someone strong on defense/national security (Wes Clark?) as his running mate . . . we'd win in a landslide . . .