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 -Amiti Colson
 ====== Things the Movie got right ======
+A lot of the WaPo editors played themselves in the movie.  John McMartin, Foreign Editor, Paul Lambert, National Editor, Basel Hoffman and Stanley Bennett Clay were both Assistant Metro Editors. cite:Blu-ray commentary and documentaries, and American Film Institute/:https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/53913 --Andrew Mullins
 The movie used the actual names of the Watergate burglars along with Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's real names of investigative journalists who wrote about Watergate. --Caroline Collier
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 The time frame between Watergate and when this movie came out is very interesting I think; Nixon resigned less than two years before this film was released in theaters. All the President's Men shows the power that journalism and a free press have in this country. Two men helped to check the power of the President of the United States when our other institutions failed, and I think it was an important message to tell to a nation that was probably feeling at the time pretty helpless and concerned about what the future would hold. - Sam Hartz
+Redford bought the rights to //All the President's Men// on July 7 1974.  On August 6, the White House Nixon tapes showed the president approved the cover up, and on August 9, 1974 Nixon resigned.  The movie was made and released in 1976 right before the election between Ford and Carter.  Although Gerald Ford was fairly popular, albeit pretty boring, it is argued that the release of the movie in the Summer of 1976 had a direct impact on Carter winning the election. --Andrew Mullins