All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 84, I join lecturer of English at Yale, screenwriter, host of To Live & Dialogue in LA podcast on the Yale Podcast Network, Aaron Tracy. Aaron and I discuss the tragic hubbub between Redford and Goldman, this scene as a substitute action scene and finally skip into the next minute to heap praise on the line; "I don't want a cookie."  

About Aaron Tracy (via Yale) 

Lecturer in English at Yale. Among other TV projects, Aaron is currently writing and Executive Producing a four-part limited series for Lifetime Network set in 1960s Hollywood; as well as a limited series for Sonar Entertainment about the John Edwards scandal.      Aaron has previously written on popular series such as Law & Order: SVU. He's the Creator and Executive Producer of Sequestered, a serialized thriller that ran two seasons on Sony's Crackle Network. In 2018, USA Network produced Aaron's pilot, The Tap, co-written with Andrew Lenchewski, starring Oscar-winner Tom McCarthy, and Executive Produced by one of Aaron's heroes, Rob Reiner. Aaron has also sold original TV pilots to CBS, MGM, Freeform, Alcon, UCP, Lionsgate TV, and others. In audio, Aaron is creating, writing, and producing several original scripted dramas for Audible, including an underdog NBA story with Steve Nash; a police thriller with James Patterson; and a revenge tale set around daytime TV with Kelly Ripa. Aaron hosts To Live & Dialogue in LAon the Yale Podcast Network, featuring conversations with fellow screenwriters. 

Twitter: @aarondtracy

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