All the President’s Men
Author: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Release: June 15, 1974
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Genre: True Crime, Politics
ISBN: 978-0-671-21781-5
Declassified by Agent Palmer: Fifty years later, All the President’s Men is still the ultimate true crime book
Quotes and Lines
To those who sat nearby in the newsroom, it was obvious that Woodstein was not always a smoothly operating piece of journalistic machinery. The two fought, often openly. Sometimes they battled for fifteen minutes over a single word or sentence. Nuances were critically important; the emphasis had to be just right. The search for the journalistic mean was frequently conducted at full volume, and it was not uncommon to see one stalk away from the other’s desk. Sooner or later, however (usually later), the story was hammered out.
…the willingness of the President’s men to fight dirty and for keeps, regardless of what effect the slashing might have on the government and the nation.