Frank became a security guard at the spiffy Watergate Office Building near the Potomac River. It was a hot location in the early 1970s; so choice the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters on the sixth floor.
we wanted to make it kind of semi documentary style and my character has to run for his life to figure out what is going on. actors like redford and warren beatty who were both very political they start to find a way to make a commercial vehicle that involves this kind of dark undercurrent of american society. who are you? in three days of the condor, the question is, who will win. can the press undo these dark forces? what? what did you do? i told them a story. all the president s men answers that question. did he confirm it. absolutely. bill bradley. the film is based on a book by woodward and bernstein that was written before richard nixon resigned with, and in the film, redford and hoffman represent the role that woodward and bernstein actually played in unraveling the watergate cover-up in 1972.
the real problem is laziness, that so many reporters today in these electronic news rooms don t use the old techniques. instead of using the internet as a tool to support the reporting, they stay in the office. they google for their stories. we need to get out, knock on doors. what s all the president s men really all about? it s how you get what bob woodward and i call the best attainable version of the truth. you re not going to get it sitting in the newsroom. you have to talk to sources at their homes at night when they re away from their jobs and the boss can pressure them into not saying anything. so the lesson of what i learned at the star this book is told from the point of view of this kid at about age 20 or 21 when i left the star and then went to the post. it s not the old man looking back. it s about this kid that learns
police. from there i was sent to the white house to wait for the body to come back to cover the people in lafayette square across the street who were sobbing. crowds were gathering. i covered the assassination through the weekend. it s just an example of what these wonderful people with this great newspaper let me do, even though when i went to work there, i had one foot in the pool hall, one foot in the juvenile court, and two inches of a foot in the classroom. so it s about this kid who gets this amazing seat and what he learns, which is everything that woodward and i did in watergate. you can see how in all the president s men we talk about the best obtainable version of the truth. it comes from what i learned at the star. so the lines are clear. it s about what a reporter does, perseverance, knock on doors, learn to make sources, how you deal with those sources.