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Actor Character/Person Role/Job THE PRESIDENT AND ALL OF HIS MEN

Richard Nixon 37th US President

39th VP under Nixon until 1973; resigned amid charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery & conspiracy (replaced by , who was the House Minority Leader) VP replacing Agnew, later became 38th US Gerald Ford President

Special counsel to Nixon; set up the "plumbers" unit to investigate info leaks from Nixon's domestic policy adviser; directed the "plumbers" unit H.R. “Bob” Haldeman Nixon’s chief of staff Haldeman's right-hand man; was the deputy director of Nixon's re-election campaign when the break-in occurred at his urging Nixon’s 1972 midwest campaign manager; Kenneth Dahlberg his check for $25k to wound up in bank acct of a Watergate burglar Attorney General; then quit AG to be John Randolph John Mitchell chairman of CREEP; linked to a slush fund that funded the burglary Replaced Mitchell as chairman of CREEP Clark MacGregor (July to Nov 1972) Became Attorney General in 1972 (5 days before Watergate break-in) when Mitchell resigned as AG to go work for CREEP; resigned in 1973 Former CIA agent and mastermind of the break-in; Member of the White House E. Howard Hunt "plumbers"; his phone # was found on a WG burglar, linking break-in to WH Former FBI agent who helped plan the break- G. Gordon Liddy in at DNC offices; spent over 4 years in prison; now an actor, author & talk-show host Commerce secretary & later the finance chairman for CREEP; raised nearly $60 Maurice Stans million for Nixon's re-election; insisted that he had no knowledge how some of the money he raised wound up in the cover-up. Treasurer for CREEP; resigned and then Stephen Collins Hugh Sloan became a source to “Woodstein”

Meredith Baxter Wife of Hugh Sloan; she had a baby during Debbie Sloan Birney the movie/time frame

Lawyer who created a smear tactic Robert Walden Donald Segretti campaigning against Democrats in 1972 while serving on the CREEP WH Press Secretary; called break-in a “third Ronald L. Ziegler rate burglary”

THE WASHINGTON POST

Dustin Hoffman Reporters for who investigated the Watergate break in and exposed the scandal/illegal activities

Anonymous source, later revealed to be Mark Hal Holbrook Felt of FBI

Florida investigator whose probe of crisp Ned Beatty $100 bills found on Watergate burglars provided link to CREEP; Bernstein’s source Editor in Chief of The Washington Post during ; backed up “Woodstein” Jack Warden Harry Rosenfeld rather than assigning story to more senior national reporters Managing editor of The Washington Post Martin Balsam during Watergate scandal; worked closely with “Woodstein” Managing Editor for The Washington Post; gets most of the credit for working with “Woodstein” for Watergate stories Reporter for The Washington Post who said Ken Clawson was in her apt having drinks Penny Fuller Sally Aiken when he clamed to have written the Canuck letter (reporter’s real name was Marilyn Berger) Night police beat reporter at The Washington Post who passed along a tip (initials “HH” and David Arkin Eugene Bachinski “WH” in an address/phone book found on a WG burglar) to Woodward

AT THE WATERGATE OFFICE COMPLEX Security guard who alerted the police to a Frank Wills Frank Wills break in Henry Calvert Bernard L. Barker 1 of the 5 Watergate burglars

Dominic Chianese Eugenio R. Martinez 1 of the 5 Watergate burglars

Nate Esformes Virgilio R. Gonzales 1 of the 5 Watergate burglars Ron Hale 1 of the 5 Watergate burglars 1 of the 5 Watergate burglars; was later convicted of burglary, wiretapping & Richard Herd James W. McCord, Jr. conspiracy; was hired to provide security for the RNC & CREEP; a former officer in the CIA and FBI

MISCELLANEOUS PEOPLE 15th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court, Warren Burger nominated by Nixon; he, along with 7 other justices, voted to impeach Nixon Anchor for CBS Evening News from 1962- 1981; called “the most trusted man in America”