Discovery Channel said today that the All The President’s Men documentary from Robert Redford’s Sundance Productions and Partisan Pictures will premiere April 21 at 8 PM. First publicized last April when Redford opened his new company with producing partner Laura Michalchyshyn, the Peter Schnall-directed and -produced All The President’s Men Revisited examines the wide-ranging Watergate scandal that crippled and killed Richard Nixon’s presidency. Andrew Lack, Michalchyshyn and Redford are executive producers. Nancy Daniels and Denise Contis are executive producers for Discovery.
Redford of course starred with Dustin Hoffman in the 1976 feature All The President’s Men. That film was based on Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s bestselling book on the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s DC HQ at the Watergate complex and the deep corruption in the 37th President’s administration. Nixon eventually became the first president to resign from office in August 1974. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the reporters earning a Pulitzer Prize for their work. The documentary includes interviews with former Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart; NBC News’ Tom Brokaw; MSNBC host Joe Scarborough; Joan Felt, daughter of former FBI Deputy Director Mark “Deep Throat” Felt; and former Nixon deputy assistant Alexander Butterfield, the man who revealed the existence of the secret White House taping system.
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I have little doubt that Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman and the two Watergate journalist were well meaning. Unfortunately, objectively their action has been that of Patsies for the ultra-right of the US. Watergate was an ultra-right wing coup to rid Nixon. That is why even after 40 years, the ultra-right has not been suspected. By all accounts, Nixon was an astute politician. So why would he order a raid when he was already 26 points ahead of McGovern? The Watergate culprits were arrested at their 3rd attempt to break into the Watergate complex. Smacks of courting arrest to me, but how many Americans still remember that fact. The official version of Watergate has always bothered me. I have written my hypothesis in “Watergate – The Political Assassination”.
Do read it with an open mind. Although I was never a Nixon supporter, I can see why he did what he did and the plot against him. The film and book is just so much myth for the Us public.
Let us have a proper re-evaluation. Did Nixon do anything that was worse than LBJ’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident? or JFK’s assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem? or Reagan’s Iran-Contra? or G W Bush’s WMD and Iraq War? Yet they all got away scot free when only Nixon had to resign. Maybe as said by George Schultz, Nixon upset too many ultra-rightists with his rapprochement with China, ending the Vietnam War, and the SALT with the USSR. He also completed the de-segregation of the South, and won re-election with more than 60% of the popular vote, winning all the southern states and all but two of the 51 US states. He lamented the deaths of some 45,000 S service men and women, but had nothing to say for the 3 million Vietnamese he killed in order to win “Peace with Honour”