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'''''All The President's Men''''' follows the discovery and subsequent news coverage of the Watergate scandal by ''[[American Newspapers|Washington Post]]'' reporters Carl Bernstein ([[Dustin Hoffman]]) and Bob Woodward ([[Robert Redford]]) during the [[The Seventies|early 1970s]]. The film was adapted by [[William Goldman]] from the book of the same title, which chronicles the investigative reporting of Woodward and Bernstein from their initial reports on the Watergate break-in to the revelation of the [[Richard Nixon]] tapes in 1973.
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''All the President's Men'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2010.
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Not to be confused with ''[[All the King's Men]]'', which is usually accepted to be a fictionalized account of a different chapter in US politics.
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* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: Bob Woodward.
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The film essentially condenses the investigation to a streamlined narrative, and takes some liberties with narrative devices (for instance, the phrase "follow the money" was invented for the film by Goldman).
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* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Nixon, obviously.
* [[Visible Boom Mic]]: One is seen late in the film when the pair are walking toward Bradlee's office.
** In the version shown on Turner Classic Movies, the mic was digitally removed.
* [[The Watcher]]: Deep Throat. [[Justified Trope|Understandable]], as Nixon was known to [[You Have Failed Me...|fire anyone who he even thought was against him]]; indeed, Woodward and Bernstein were so certain their contact would be killed they made it clear they would not reveal his identity until after he died. (Although Deep Throat,
* [[What the Hell, Hero?|What The Hell, Nixon?]]: one of the editors questions why the ''Post'' is digging into Watergate. Partly because nobody else was covering the story at all, but mostly because the break-in itself made no sense.
{{quote|'''Scott''': Why would the Republicans do it? McGovern's self-destructed just like Humphrey, Muskie, the bunch of them. I don't believe this story. It doesn't make sense. }}
** Until Woodward and Bernstein uncover evidence that a hired trickster - Segretti - was sabotaging Democratic primaries. All of a sudden, the break-in made more sense...
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