Editing All the President's Men (section)

== Background ==
Woodward and Bernstein had considered the idea of writing a book about Watergate, but did not commit until actor [[Robert Redford]] expressed interest in purchasing the film rights. In ''Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"'', Woodward noted that Redford played an important role in changing the book's narrative from a story about the Watergate events to one about their investigations and reportage of the story and was thus successful in transferring the content from one [[Media (communication)|medium]] and one genre to another (see: [[media-adequacy]]).<ref>Giessen, H W (2015). "Media-Based Learning Methodology: Stories, Games, and Emotions". In Ally, Mohamed; Khan, Badrul H. (eds.). International Handbook of E-Learning Volume 2: Implementation and Case Studies. Routledge, 43-54.</ref><ref>''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0778867/ Telling the Truth about Lies: the Making of 'All the President<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Men']''from [[Internet Movie Database]]</ref>

The name of the book alludes to the [[nursery rhyme]] about [[Humpty Dumpty]] ("All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again"). An allusion similar to that was made more explicitly a quarter-century earlier in [[Robert Penn Warren]]'s 1946 novel ''[[All the King's Men]]'', which describes the career of a fictional corrupt governor, loosely based on [[Huey Long]].