Reporting Corruption: All the President’s Men
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Robert Redford Was as Real as It Gets
Brian Hamill / TriStar Pictures / Alamy https://www.theatlantic.com/author/k-austin-collins/ The late actor’s talent could seem invisible until the right conditions made it heroically apparent. By K. Austin Collins September 16, 2025 For a long stretch of its opening act, All the President’s Men —the canonical paranoid thriller from 1976 — isn’t just about the brewing Watergate scandal, or about the battle between a cagey political machine and an enterprising newspaper . It’s also about Robert Redford , who died today at the age of 89, at work. A group of burglars is arrested while attempting a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, and a reporter, Bob Woodward (Redford), gets a call from his editor, who tells him to start asking questions. He begins pestering attorneys, listening in at court hearings, and making phone calls—potential leads; strangers who may know something; names jotted down, circled, and scribbled out haphazardly on his yellow legal pad. He, in ...