Someone should send #Bezos this 2022 story from the #washingtonpost about All the President's Men... Redford said papers were "chicken---" for not covering Watergate because Nixon was "vindictive and mean."
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![“I said, ‘Wait a minute, hold on,” Redford recalled. “You guys are here watching me make a fool out of myself [over] something trivial, [but] is there more to this?” And they really let me have it. They said, ‘There are three things you don’t understand: You don’t understand about publishing a newspaper. In order to publish something like that you have to have the support of the publisher [and] the editor. And you have to have time. And [with] newspapers, you don’t have that time. Secondly, it’s not going to come out. Because McGovern’s going to self- destruct, Nixon’s going to win in a landslide, and nobody wants to be on the wrong side of this guy, because he’s vindictive and mean and he’ll go after newspapers.” And I said, ‘Well, how chickens--- is that?’”
After the junket, Redford went home to Utah, where he was preparing to film “The Way We Were,” reading everything he could about the break- in. “And then, when [Woodward and Bernstein’s] articles started to appear, I was right on them.”](https://plantroon.com/photo/preview/640/342101 "“I said, ‘Wait a minute, hold on,” Redford recalled. “You guys are here watching me make a fool out of myself [over] something trivial, [but] is there more to this?” And they really let me have it. They said, ‘There are three things you don’t understand: You don’t understand about publishing a newspaper. In order to publish something like that you have to have the support of the publisher [and] the editor. And you have to have time. And [with] newspapers, you don’t have that time. Secondly, it’s not going to come out. Because McGovern’s going to self- destruct, Nixon’s going to win in a landslide, and nobody wants to be on the wrong side of this guy, because he’s vindictive and mean and he’ll go after newspapers.” And I said, ‘Well, how chickens--- is that?’”
After the junket, Redford went home to Utah, where he was preparing to film “The Way We Were,” reading everything he could about the break- in. “And then, when [Woodward and Bernstein’s] articles started to appear, I was right on them.”")
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