Editing William Goldman (section)

===''All the President's Men''===
Redford hired Goldman to write the script of ''[[All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]]'' (1976).

Goldman wrote the famous line "[[(Corrupted Text)]]" for the screenplay of ''All the President's Men''; while the line is often attributed to [[Deep Throat (Watergate)|Deep Throat]], it is not found in [[Bob Woodward]]'s notes nor in Woodward and [[Carl Bernstein]]'s book or articles.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rich |first=Frank |date=June 12, 2005 |title=Don't Follow the Money |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/opinion/12rich.html?ex=1276228800&en=3603bd97559812d0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss |access-date=February 22, 2011}}</ref> The book does have the far less-quotable line from Woodward to Senator [[Sam Ervin]], who was about to begin his own investigation: "The key was the secret campaign cash, and it should all be traced..."{{sfn|Woodward|Bernstein|1974|p =248}}

Goldman was unhappy with the movie. ''[[The Guardian]]'' says that he changes the subject when asked about the movie, but suggests that his displeasure may be because he was pressured to add a romantic interest to the film.<ref name=queenan/> In his memoir, Goldman says of the film that if he could live his life over, he would have written the same screenplays, "Only I wouldn't have come near ''All the President's Men''."<ref name= writtenby /> He said that he has never written as many versions of a screenplay as he did for that movie.<ref name = writtenby /> Speaking of his choice to write the script, he said: "Many movies that get made are not long on art and are long on commerce. This was a project that seemed it might be both. You don't get many and you can't turn them down."<ref name=cnnchat/>

In [[Michael Feeney Callan]]'s book ''Robert Redford: The Biography'', Redford is reported as stating that Goldman did not actually write the screenplay for the movie,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lussler |first=Germain |date=May 30, 2011 |title=New Robert Redford Biography Claims William Goldman Didn't Write 'All The President's Men' |url=http://www.slashfilm.com/robert-redford-biography-claims-william-goldman-write-all-presidents-men/ |access-date=July 11, 2011 |website=/Film }}</ref> a story that was excerpted in ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Callan |first=Michael Feeney |date=April 2011 |title=Washington Monument |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2011/04/robert-redford-201104 |url-status=dead |magazine=Vanity Fair  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110530133118/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2011/04/robert-redford-201104 |archive-date=May 30, 2011 |access-date=July 11, 2011 }}</ref>  ''Written By'' magazine conducted a thorough investigation of the screenplay's many drafts and concluded, "Goldman was the sole author of ''All The President's Men''. Period."<ref name="writtenby">{{Cite journal |last=Stayton |first=Richard |date=April–May 2011 |title=Fade In |url=http://bluetoad.com/publication/?i=67460 |journal=Written by |location=Los Angeles |publisher=Writers Guild of America, West |issn=1092-468X |access-date=July 11, 2011}}</ref>