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It's almost over now, when did Woodward become such a tool?
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All the Presidents' men in on TCM (Original Post)
irisblue
Oct 2015
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Lovely bit of foreshadowing in that film when Redford blurts out, "I'm a Republican."
BeyondGeography
Oct 2015
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marym625
(17,997 posts)1. unfortunately, after the movie went to his head
BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)2. Lovely bit of foreshadowing in that film when Redford blurts out, "I'm a Republican."
And Hoffman looks at him like, wtf?
longship
(40,416 posts)3. A great flick.
I love the way that Woodward and Bernstein are portrayed. And Jason Robards as Ben Bradley is utterly brilliant casting. (The entire supporting cast also.)
R&K
MinM
(2,650 posts)4. Lt. Bob Woodward presided over the Chief of Naval Operations' code-room ..
Woodward presided over the CNO's code-room, reading every communication that went in and out, while acting, also, as a briefer and a courier. This, he tells us, is how he met Deep Throat, while cooling his heels outside the Situation Room in the White House. It was 1970 and, according to Woodward, Mark Felt was sitting in the next chair.
The Moorer-Radford affair is not usually considered a part of the Watergate story, though it deserves to be. The Nixon Administration learned of the Pentagon spy-ring in late 1971, but the affair did not become public until almost three years later. By then, the Watergate story was almost played out.
While president, Nixon was determined to keep the affair secret, telling Kissinger aide David Young, "If you love your country, you'll never mention it." But the Pentagon's chief investigator, W. Donald Stewart, was more forthcoming. Asked how seriously the affair should have been taken, Stewart replied with a rhetorical question: "Did you see that film, Seven Days in May? That's what we were dealing with..."
read more: http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/06/08/strange-bedfellows/
The Moorer-Radford affair is not usually considered a part of the Watergate story, though it deserves to be. The Nixon Administration learned of the Pentagon spy-ring in late 1971, but the affair did not become public until almost three years later. By then, the Watergate story was almost played out.
While president, Nixon was determined to keep the affair secret, telling Kissinger aide David Young, "If you love your country, you'll never mention it." But the Pentagon's chief investigator, W. Donald Stewart, was more forthcoming. Asked how seriously the affair should have been taken, Stewart replied with a rhetorical question: "Did you see that film, Seven Days in May? That's what we were dealing with..."
read more: http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/06/08/strange-bedfellows/
The truth is Woodward has always been a tool. A rather spooky one at that.