All the President’s Men by Alan J. Pakula (1976, 138 min.).While researching a burglary, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) stumble upon a possible connection between the burglars and a White House staffer. Aided by a guilt-ridden turncoat and the cryptic guidance of Woodward's mystery source known as Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook), Woodward, and Bernstein "follow the money" all the way to the top of the Nixon administration. Despite Deep Throat's warnings that their lives are in danger, Woodward and Bernstein are determined to get the story and reveal its presidential cover-up. The Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and US Capitol Building are iconic DC images, but in All the President’s Men they are transformed into symbols of authority, representing the abuse of power by the nation’s leaders.

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