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Authors: Bob Woodward,Carl Bernstein
All the President's Men
| All the President's Men |
| Woodward, Bob Bernstein, Carl |
| (2012) |
Contents
To the President’s other men and women—in the White House and elsewhere—who took risks to provide us with confidential information. Without them there would have been no Watergate story told by the
Washington Post.
And to our parents.
Acknowledgments
Like the
Washington Post’s
coverage of Watergate, this book is the result of a collaborative effort with our colleagues—executives, editors, reporters, librarians, telephone operators, news aides. Since June 17, 1972, we have had their assistance, support and advice. Some persons stand out. Our particular gratitude to Katharine Graham, Benjamin
C.
Bradlee, Howard Simons, Harry M. Rosenfeld, Barry Sussman, Leonard Downie, Jr., Lawrence Meyer, Larry Fox, Bill Brady, Douglas Feaver, Elisabeth Donovan, Philip Geyelin, Meg Greenfield, Roger Wilkins and Maureen Joyce.
Others contributed their time, energy and counsel to the preparation of this book. We are indebted to Taylor Branch, Mary Graham, Elizabeth Drew, Haynes Johnson and David Obst for their help and kindness. To Nora Ephron, Barbara Cohen and Richard Cohen, special affection and thanks.
Richard Snyder and the staff of Simon and Schuster—in particular Chris Steinmetz, Elise Sachs, Harriet Ripinsky and Sophie Sorkin, who prepared the manuscript for production—extended us enormous tolerance as deadlines were missed, production schedules altered and complicated technical problems accommodated. Throughout, the staff, especially Dan Green, Milly Marmur, Helen English and Terry Mincieli, was a source of enthusiasm and, more important, friendship.
This book would not have been possible without the work of Robert Fink, who assisted us in the research, lent us his ideas and gently offered us his criticism.
And most of all, our appreciation and respect to Alice Mayhew, our editor, whose thought and guidance are reflected on every page.
C
ARL
B
ERNSTEIN
B
OB
W
OODWARD
Washington, D.C.
February 1974
Cast of Characters
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
R
ICHARD
M. N
IXON
THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
| A LFRED C. B ALDWIN III | Security guard, Committee for the Re-election of the President (CRP) |
| A LEXANDER P. B UTTERFIELD | Deputy Assistant to the President; aide to H. R. Haldeman |
| J OHN J. C AULFIELD | Staff aide to John Ehrlichman |
| D WIGHT L. C HAPIN | Deputy Assistant to the President; appointments secretary |
| K ENNETH W. C LAWSON | Deputy Director of Communications, the White House |
| C HARLES W. C OLSON | Special Counsel to the President |
| K ENNETH H. D AHLBERG | Midwest Finance Chairman, CRP |
| J OHN W. D EAN III | Counsel to the President |
| J OHN D. E HRLICHMAN | Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs |
| L. P ATRICK G RAY III | Acting Director, FBI |
| H. R. H ALDEMAN | Assistant to the President; White House Chief of Staff |
| E. H OWARD H UNT , J R . | Consultant to the White House |
| H ERBERT W. K ALMBACH | Deputy Finance Chairman, CRP; personal attorney to the President |
| H ENRY A. K ISSINGER | Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs |
| R ICHARD G. K LEINDIENST | Attorney General of the United States |
| E GIL K ROGH , J R. | Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs; aide to Ehrlichman |
| F REDERICK C. L ARUE | Deputy Director, CRP; aide to John Mitchell |
| G. G ORDON L IDDY | Finance Counsel, CRP; former aide on John Ehrlichman’s staff |
| C LARK M ACGREGOR | Campaign Director, CRP |
| J EB S TUART M AGRUDER | Deputy Campaign Director, CRP, former Haldeman aide and Deputy Director of White House Communications |
| R OBERT C. M ARDIAN | Political Coordinator, CRP; former Assistant Attorney General |
| J OHN N. M ITCHELL | Campaign Director, CRP; former Attorney General |
| P OWELL M OORE | Deputy Press Director, CRP; former White House press aide |
| R OBERT C. O DLE , J R. | Director of Administration and Personnel, CRP; former White House staff aide |
| K ENNETH W. P ARKINSON | Attorney CRP |
| H ERBERT L. P ORTER | Scheduling Director, CRP; former aide to Haldeman |
| K ENNETH R IETZ | Youth Director, CRP |
| D ONALD H. S EGRETTI | Attorney |
| D EVAN L. S HUMWAY | Director of Public Affairs, CRP; former White House press aide |
| H UGH W. S LOAN , J R. | Treasurer, CRP; former aide to Haldeman |
| M AURICE H. S TANS | Finance Chairman, CRP; former Secretary of Commerce |
| G ORDON C. S TRACHAN | Staff assistant to Haldeman |
| G ERALD W ARREN | Deputy Press Secretary to the President |
| D AVID R. Y OUNG | Staff assistant, National Security Council; aide to Henry Kissinger, John Ehrlichman |
| R ONALD L. Z IEGLER | Press Secretary to the President |
THE BURGLARS
| B ERNARD L. B ARKER | |
| V IRGILIO R. G ONZALEZ | |
| E UGENIO R. M ARTINEZ | |
| J AMES W. M CCORD , J R . | |
| F RANK A. S TURGIS | |
THE PROSECUTION
| H ENRY E. P ETERSEN | Assistant Attorney General |
| E ARL J. S ILBERT | Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; chief prosecutor |
| D ONALD E. C AMPBELL | Assistant U.S. Attorney |
| S EYMOUR G LANZER | Assistant U.S. Attorney |
THE JUDGE
| J OHN J. S IRICA | Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia |
THE WASHINGTON POST
| K ATHARINE G RAHAM | Publisher |
| B ENJAMIN C. B RADLEE | Executive Editor |
| H OWARD S IMONS | Managing Editor |
| H ARRY M. R OSENFELD | Metropolitan Editor |
| B ARRY S USSMAN | District of Columbia Editor |
THE SENATOR
| S AM J. E RVIN , J R. | Chairman, Senate Watergate Committee |
1
J
UNE
17, 1972. Nine o’clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the
Washington Post
was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?
Woodward had worked for the
Post
for only nine months and was always looking for a good Saturday assignment, but this didn’t sound like one. A burglary at the local Democratic headquarters was too much like most of what he had been doing—investigative pieces on unsanitary restaurants and small-time police corruption. Woodward had hoped he had broken out of that; he had just finished a series of stories on the attempted assassination of Alabama Governor George Wallace. Now, it seemed, he was back in the same old slot.
Woodward left his one-room apartment in downtown Washington and walked the six blocks to the
Post.
The newspaper’s mammoth newsroom—over 150 feet square with rows of brightly colored desks set on an acre of sound-absorbing carpet—is usually quiet on Saturday morning. Saturday is a day for long lunches, catching up on work, reading the Sunday supplements. As Woodward stopped to pick up his mail and telephone messages at the front of the newsroom, he noticed unusual activity around the city desk. He checked in with the city editor and learned with surprise that the burglars had not broken into the small local Democratic Party office but the headquarters of the
Democratic National Committee in the Watergate office-apartment-hotel complex.
It was an odd place to find the Democrats. The opulent Watergate, on the banks of the Potomac in downtown Washington, was as Republican as the Union League Club. Its tenants included the former Attorney General of the United States John N. Mitchell, now director of the Committee for the Re-election of the President; the former Secretary of Commerce Maurice H. Stans, finance chairman of the President’s campaign; the Republican national chairman, Senator Robert Dole of Kansas; President Nixon’s secretary, Rose Mary Woods; and Anna Chennault, who was the widow of Flying Tiger ace Claire Chennault and a celebrated Republican hostess; plus many other prominent figures of the Nixon administration.
