Bob Woodward honors Robert Redford after “All of the President’s Males” star’s dying at 89: A ‘drive for good’

Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor and Sundance founder who died Tuesday at 89, received't quickly be forgotten — Bob Woodward will be certain of it.

In a deeply felt assertion posted to social media, the legendary investigative reporter paid tribute to his good friend of 5 a long time, who portrayed him within the acclaimed movie All the President's Men.

"Robert Redford was real, a noble and principled drive for good who fought efficiently to seek out and talk the reality," Woodward wrote. "Over 50 years of friendship, he at all times mentioned what he was going to do after which did it."

Woodward famous that it was Redford who urged him and his reporting companion, Carl Bernstein, to show their landmark work breaking open the Watergate scandal into the best-selling 1974 ebook All of the President's Males, which finally served as the idea for the movie. "His impression and affect on my life can’t be overstated," Woodward mentioned. "I beloved him, and admired him — for his friendship, his fiery independence, and the best way he used any platform he had to assist make the world higher, fairer, brighter for others."

Woodward, 82, predicted that Redford — who earned the uncommon distinction of being nominated for each appearing and directing Oscars, and received in 1980 for guiding Extraordinary Individuals — "can be remembered as one of many nice storytellers in our nation's historical past. He elevated tales past the mainstream."

Directed by Alan J. Pakula and launched in 1976, All of the President's Males took purpose on the very coronary heart of political corruption in America, chronicling in searing element President Richard Nixon's plot to spy on his political adversaries, Woodward and Bernstein's reporting that uncovered the plot within the Washington Submit, and the impeachment course of that led to Nixon's resignation.

Redford was a driving drive behind the venture, shopping for the rights to Woodward and Bernstein's ebook shortly after its launch and tapping William Goldman to jot down the display screen adaptation. Woodward additional famous that their friendship didn't cease there.

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The veteran reporter included in his tribute a sequence of quotes from interviews spanning the previous 50 years, with Redford weighing in on all the pieces from the state of democracy in America to present President Donald Trump to his personal legacy.

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"Time strikes on and it’s important to transfer on with it or get misplaced behind," Woodward quoted from considered one of his current interviews with Redford. "At one time there was a protracted highway forward of me and now that highway is quite a bit shorter and I don't have plenty of time to fiddle. So that you do the perfect you possibly can with what you've received left… We now have to do one thing that adjustments the state of affairs, adjustments the dialogue. Similar to we did a few years in the past with Watergate."

In closing, Woodward signed off, "Godspeed, Robert Redford."

Woodward is considered one of many icons of the twentieth century paying their respects to considered one of its most revered stars.

Jane Fonda, who starred reverse Redford in a number of movies, together with Barefoot within the Park and Our Souls at Night time, mentioned she "can't cease crying" in a press release shared with Leisure Weekly, including that Redford "stood for an America we’ve to maintain combating for."

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