All the President's Men

Last year for Scribbler as an assignment besides writing and designing the magazine we were told to watch a movie about journalists... there are several. I stuck with All the Presidents Men because I remembered when the identity of Deep Throat was revealed in 2005. My dad had always pushed the story on me, telling me it was something that I MUST watch/read. So last year I watched the film. This year, since I am going to Washington D.C. over the weekend, I figured what better to bring then my dad's taped copy with pages falling out. After all the book was written by two writers for the Washington Post and I am going to Washington D.C. for a journalism conference.

It started off as just a break-in story. The headquarters for the Democratic National Committee had been broken into. No foul play or anything. Just some people who had a lot of money appeared to have broken in. Bob Woodward, follows the story to the court where he finds out that one of the people that broke into the building works for the CIA. How fishy is that? Someone that is supposed to ideally catch criminals, or intercept Russian intelligence is breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.

So far I enjoy this book. The investigating reminds me of In Cold Blood and Lucky. At the moment the book is a little hard to follow, perhaps I'm just anxious about the trip... But, there are a lot of names and places and it's very fast paced. I find it interesting that even though this book was written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein it's written in third person instead of first.