🔎 "All the President's Men" @ 50

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Jonathan Karl interviews Woodward and Bernstein on June 14 in the Presidential Suite of the Watergate Hotel. Photo: ABC News Fifty years after publication of "All the President's Men," co-authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein met ABC's Jonathan Karl for a "This Week" interview in the Presidential Suite of the Watergate Hotel — part of the complex where a break-in wound up sinking President Nixon. Woodward, 81, told Karl that the book — which hit the streets on June 15, 1974 — was written out of necessity after Bernstein had the idea ("we'd written these stories that no one believed") and they signed a contract. Bernstein, 80, jumped in: "A little bit more than that. We didn't think the truth about Watergate was going to ever come out." Why it matters: The interview captures the first-person backstory of the most famous book in journalism history. How it happened: Woodward was 29 and Bernstein was 28 in 1972, when they had their first co-byline on a Watergate story. Woodward said they were "living in a world where even our colleagues at The Washington Post were saying, you know: 'Those two young kids ... are off on some sort of bender.'" Woodward (left) and Bernstein in The Washington Post newsroom in 1973. Photo: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images "My mother had a house in Naples, Florida," Woodward said. We went down there with our boxes of data. Carl sat out by the swimming pool in the most awful pair of green shorts you've ever seen — let alone his body — and ... had a little table and his typewriter there." "I sat in the kitchen. And we said: To get this done, we're going to have to each do 10 pages a day, and then we can go out to dinner. And so that's what we did." Watch the interview ... Watch the movie trailer.

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🔎 "All the President's Men" @ 50

By Mike Allen

Woodward (left) and Bernstein in the Post newsroom in 1973. Photo: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images

Fifty years after the publication of "All the President's Men," co-authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein met for an ABC interview at the Watergate Hotel — part of the complex where a break-in wound up sinking President Nixon. Woodward, 81, told ABC that the 1974 book was written out of necessity. ("We'd written these stories that no one believed."). Bernstein, 80, jumped in: "A little bit more than that. We didn't think the truth about Watergate was going to ever come out." Why it matters: The interview captures the first-person backstory of the most famous book in journalism history. How it happened: Woodward was 29 and Bernstein was 28 in 1972 when they had their first co-byline on a Watergate story. Woodward said they were "living in a world where even our colleagues at the Washington Post were saying, you know: 'Those two young kids ... are off on some sort of bender.'" "My mother had a house in Naples, Florida," Woodward said. "We went down there with our boxes of data. Carl sat out by the swimming pool and had a little table and his typewriter there." "I sat in the kitchen. And we said: To get this done, we're going to have to each do 10 pages a day, and then we can go out to dinner. And so that's what we did." Watch the interview ...