From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
All the President's Men is a 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two of the journalists who investigated the first Watergate break-in and ensuing scandal for The Washington Post. The book chronicles the investigative reporting of Woodward and Bernstein from Woodward's initial report on the Watergate break-in through the resignations of H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and the revelation of the Nixon tapes by Alexander Butterfield in 1973. It relates the events behind the major stories the duo wrote for the Post, naming some sources who had previously refused to be identified for their initial articles, notably Hugh Sloan. It also gives detailed accounts of Woodward's secret meetings with his source Deep Throat, whose identity was kept hidden for over 30 years.
Cast of characters
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The President
The President's Men
(listed with their 1972 positions in either the president's executive staff or in his re-election committee, where applicable)
White House
- Alexander P. Butterfield, Deputy Assistant to the President
- Dwight L. Chapin, Deputy Assistant to the President
- Ken W. Clawson, Deputy Director of Communications for the President
- Charles W. Colson, Chief Counsel for the President
- John W. Dean III, White House Counsel
- John D. Ehrlichman, Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
- H.R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff
- E. Howard Hunt, Jr., President's Special Investigations Unit ("White House Plumbers")
- Henry A. Kissinger, National Security Advisor
- Egil Krogh, Jr., head of the President's Special Investigations Unit ("White House Plumbers")
- Gerald Warren, White House Press Secretary, succeeding Ziegler
- David R. Young, special assistant at the National Security Council
- Ronald L. Ziegler, White House Press Secretary
Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP)
- Kenneth H. Dahlberg, CRP's Midwest finance chairman
- Herbert W. Kalmbach, personal attorney to United States President Richard Nixon and Deputy Finance Chairman of CRP
- G. Gordon Liddy, CRP employee
- Clark MacGregor, CRP Chairman
- Jeb Stuart Magruder, Deputy Director, and assistant to the Director of CRP
- Robert C. Mardian, CRP political coordinator
- John N. Mitchell, Attorney General, and CRP campaign director
- Robert C. Odle, Jr., Director of Administration ("office manager") for CRP
- Kenneth W. Parkinson, CRP counsel
- Herbert L. Porter, CRP organizer and former White House aide
- Donald H. Segretti, political operative for CRP
- Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., CRP treasurer
- Judy Hoback Miller, CRP bookkeeper
- Maurice H. Stans, CRP finance chairman
- Gordon C. Strachan, staff assistant to Herbert G. Klein but was assigned to be H.R. Haldeman's liaison to CRP
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Rest of the President's Men
The Burglars
The Prosecutors
The Judge
The Washington Post
The Senator
The Informant
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