All the President's Men - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[kim]

Bob Woodward's apartment was at 1718 P Street, NW, near Dupont Circle. The actual building was used as a site when Woodward put a red flag in a flower pot to request a meeting with Deep Throat.

[ivan]

On Tuesday, May 31, 2005, in advance of a revelatory July 2005 "Vanity Fair" article written by his attorney and spokesman, 91-year-old Mark Felt acknowledged publicly for the first time that he was "Deep Throat," a fact corroborated by Bob Woodward and The Washington Post. At the time of the Watergate break-in, Mr. Felt was the Deputy Director of the FBI, the second-in-command.

[marc]

The code name Deep Throat is a reference to a notorious X-rated film of the same name, Deep Throat (1972).

[edgar]

The film introduced the catchphrase "follow the money", which was absent from the book, or any documentation of Watergate.

[jesus]

Neither director Alan J. Pakula nor Robert Redford were happy with screenwriter William Goldman's first draft. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were not keen on it, either. In fact, Bernstein penned a draft with his then-girlfriend Nora Ephron. Redford rejected this effort too, so he and Pakula held all-day sessions working on the script, interviewing editors and reporters throughout.