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Well, take me back down
where cool water flow, yeh
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Let me remember
things I love
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Dan. Your rifle.
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All right,
do them all.
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First and second squad, too.
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Stoppin' at the log
where catfish bite
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Who's the longhair?
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That's Ellsberg. Works for
Lansdale at the embassy.
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He's observing.
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I can hear
the bull frog callin' me
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Wonder if my rope's
still hangin' to the tree
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Let's move out.
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Let's go. Moving out.
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Love to kick my feet
way down the shallow water
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Shoe fly, dragon fly,
get back to your mother
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I'll take good care of it.
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Skip it across Green River
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Bravo 27,
this is Kilo 4 Tango.
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Fire mission. Grid 298471.
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Lay down.
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Just hang in there, buddy.
They're gonna fix you up.
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Dan?
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Dan?
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Dan!
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Secretary would like a word.
You wanna follow me?
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Well, you can say what
you want to the President.
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I've read every one
of Ellsberg's reports...
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and I'm telling you,
it's just not the case.
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Dan, you know Mr. Komer.
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He's been discussing the war
with the President...
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and, well,
his sense is that we've made
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real progress
over the past year...
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but I've been doing my own
review, and it seems to me...
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that things have gotten worse.
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But neither of us
have been in the field.
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You have,
you're the one who knows.
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So, what do you say?
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Are things better or worse?
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Well, Mr. Secretary...
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what I'm most impressed by is
how much things are the same.
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You see, that's exactly
what I'm saying.
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We put another
hundred thousand troops
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into the field,
things are no better.
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To me, that means things
are actually worse.
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Thank you, Dan.
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Mr. Secretary!
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Mr. Secretary! Sir!
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How was
your trip, sir? Sir.
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Good afternoon, gentlemen.
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I don't have
any prepared remarks...
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but I'd be very happy to take
your questions one at a time.
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- Jim.
- Mr. Secretary...
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I'm wondering
if the trip left you
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optimistic or pessimistic...
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about our prospects in this
war and our ability to win it.
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He asked whether I was
optimistic or pessimistic.
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Today, I can tell you
that military progress
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over the past 12 months...
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has exceeded our expectations.
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We're very encouraged by what
we're seeing in Vietnam.
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In every respect,
we're making progress.
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And I'm especially pleased
to have had
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Bob Komer along for the trip.
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So he could see for himself
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that we've been
showing great improvement...
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in every dimension
of the war effort.
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Derek.
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Good night, Dan.
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- Good night, Dan.
- Night, guys.
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You okay, Dan?
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Yeah. Yeah, thought
I'd forgot something.
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I didn't.
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Next left on Melrose.
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We have committed
ourselves to the cause...
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of a just
and peaceful world order
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through the United Nations.
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"May 3rd, 1950.
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"President Truman
approved $10 million
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"in military aid
to Indochina."
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America's leadership
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and prestige depend...
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on how we use our power in
the interests of world peace.
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"I feel concerned
about paragraph six...
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"which gives
authority to control
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"general elections
in Vietnam."
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The United
States, as the world knows,
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will never start a war.
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"May 11th, 1961.
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"President Kennedy orders
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"a full examination
by the Defense Department...
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"of a possible commitment
of U. S. forces to Vietnam."
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We are not
about to send American boys...
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9 or 10,000 miles
away from home...
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to do what Asian boys ought
to be doing for themselves.
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"President Johnson chose to
reaffirm the Kennedy policies.
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"Military operations
should be initiated
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"under close
political control."
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Can we just do the numbers
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just one more time?
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The company's selling
how many shares?
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1.35 million shares.
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And the price range is?
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Between $24.50
and $27 per share.
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Not exactly
a huge difference.
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For them.
But, you know, the bankers
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always do fiddle
with the prices.
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But for us,
that's over $3 million...
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and that represents
over five years' salary
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for 25 good reporters.
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Good. But why spend
in the newsroom?
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You're far less profitable
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than Gannett
or Knight or Ridder.
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Gannett and Knight and Ridder
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own monopoly papers
in smaller cities.
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And our readers are leaders,
you know.
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They're educated.
They demand more.
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That's why we invest
in really good reporters.
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And so...
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Because quality
and profitability
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do go hand in hand.
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- See?
- Yeah.
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- You know all this already.
- Oh, gosh!
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I don't know if I do.
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- I should get to breakfast.
- Yeah.
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We don't want Paul or Arthur
too antsy this afternoon.
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No.
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Good luck.
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- And thank you, Fritz.
- Mmm-hmm.
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- See you downtown.
- I'll see you.
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You think
this is really necessary?
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Oh, God, yes.
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Darling, you should hear how
they talk at these meetings.
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It's as if
it's in a foreign language.
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No, I meant
taking the company public.
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It seems we are cash poor.
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You know, barely solvent.
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That's the newspaper business.
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That's
our newspaper business...
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and we need
the public offering
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to stay in business
and to continue to grow.
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That's what Fritz says.
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And he also says
that the family
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can maintain control if we...
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Anyway, I'm just not sure
your grandfather...
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would have wanted us to
give up any control at all.
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- Hello?
- Mrs. Graham?
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Yes? This is she.
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Please hold
for the Chief of Staff.
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Who is it?
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Haldeman.
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Mrs. Graham,
Bob Haldeman.
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Yes, hello.
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We've got a bit of
an issue over here.
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Oh?
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Well,
that makes perfect sense.
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Do you agree with that?
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Without a doubt.
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Oh, Jesus.
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I'm so sorry.
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- Sorry, sorry, sorry.
- Good morning.
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So late. I had to get all this
stuff together...
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and then I had
an unexpected call.
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Well, what is
with the suitcase?
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Ben, I told you,
this is the day.
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We're meeting
with the bankers today.
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- Oh, yes. Right, right.
- You know this.
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I bet you every dollar
in my wallet
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that you are
the only person...
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in that boardroom who's read
through all that nonsense.
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I'm probably
the only one who needs to.
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What do you think
of Neil Sheehan?
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Oh, gosh,
his coverage of Vietnam
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is just absolutely marvelous.
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Why?
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You thinking of trying to
steal him from The Times?
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I'm not sure
we can afford him.
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He... He hasn't had
a piece in three months.
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Oh?
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Do you think
he's onto something?
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Well, I saw Abe
at a dinner party last week
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and he was looking
mighty, mighty smug.
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Doesn't he always?
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So who was it?
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Who was what?
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Your unexpected call.
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Oh, I buried the lede.
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The White House.
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- Haldeman rang.
- Yeah?
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It seems
the President has decided
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not to provide Judith...
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with credentials
to cover the Nixon wedding.
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- Jesus Christ.
- Yeah.
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They said we could
send another reporter.
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Oh, yeah? Can't believe that.
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I know, I know.
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- But...
- But what?
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I'm not sure I entirely blame
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the President
on this one, Ben.
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No?
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Would you want Judith to cover
your daughter's wedding?
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Well, my daughter's
only 10 years old...
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I think she burned her bridges
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when she
crashed Julie's reception.
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- They're being punitive.
- Her pen is so sharp.
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- Of course it's punitive.
- This is punitive.
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Of course it's punitive.
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She compared Tricia Nixon
to a vanilla ice cream cone.
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- Yeah, she did.
- Yeah.
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I mean, why would
her father want Judy
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to cover
his daughter's wedding?
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Oh, come on.
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I just...
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Are you sure we're striking
the right tone here, Ben?
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Oh, we're gonna
do this again?
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No. Uh,
the New Style section.
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Sometimes that stiletto party
coverage can be a little mean.
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I'm handling it.
I'm looking for a new editor.
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Yes, are you?
Because I know
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I've talked to you
about this before.
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You are losing
female readership, you know.
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And I think you might
want to focus more
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on what women read...
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Katharine, keep your finger
outta my eye.
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You...
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These breakfasts
were your idea, you know.
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Yes. And you are the publisher
and you are my boss.
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And I, uh...
I value the input,
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but I... I heard you
the first three times.
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You know, I just think
there might be another way...
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that we could cool it with
the White House.
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Maybe we could just send
somebody else, you know...
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Nope, nope. Nope. I'm not
gonna send another reporter.
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Because it's not
hard news, Ben.
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It's just a wedding.
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It's not just a wedding.
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It's a wedding of the daughter
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of the President
of the United States.
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Why not let that girl
have her day?
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And we can't have
an administration
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dictating to us
our coverage...
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just because they don't like
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what we print about them
in our newspaper.
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Wonder if Abe
cares so passionately
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00:16:00,168 --> 00:16:02,125
about who covers
the wedding for his paper.
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00:16:02,295 --> 00:16:04,207
I don't give a rat's ass
what Abe or anybody
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00:16:04,297 --> 00:16:05,708
at The New York Times
cares about.
247
00:16:05,882 --> 00:16:07,418
Not true.
I give one rat's ass.
248
00:16:07,550 --> 00:16:09,462
- Yeah.
- One retromingent...
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00:16:09,635 --> 00:16:11,171
rat's ass.
250
00:16:36,913 --> 00:16:38,154
Well, it's real important.
251
00:16:38,247 --> 00:16:40,204
Can you get him for me?
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00:16:40,750 --> 00:16:43,959
Tell them it's from Sheehan.
Don't walk.
253
00:17:11,113 --> 00:17:12,320
It's from Sheehan.
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00:17:19,413 --> 00:17:21,200
Abe, here it is.
255
00:17:38,307 --> 00:17:39,514
Okay,
Broder's got Nixon
256
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working on his second term.
257
00:17:41,769 --> 00:17:44,853
Osnos has something on G. I. s
buying heroin in Saigon...
258
00:17:45,022 --> 00:17:47,435
but Ryder's got
a rocket on the FBI list
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00:17:47,525 --> 00:17:48,606
of potential subversives.
260
00:17:48,776 --> 00:17:50,142
Save it for the afternoon.
261
00:17:50,236 --> 00:17:52,193
I need Chal and Judith.
262
00:17:52,363 --> 00:17:53,570
Judith!
263
00:17:53,739 --> 00:17:55,776
Is that real,
the subversives list?
264
00:17:55,992 --> 00:17:57,984
Oh, yeah. Hoover
and Justice keep a copy.
265
00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,367
Thousands of names.
266
00:17:59,537 --> 00:18:01,028
Geyelin heard the White House
is shutting Judith out.
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00:18:01,122 --> 00:18:02,112
Yeah, I'm working on that.
268
00:18:02,206 --> 00:18:03,287
We think editorial
should run something.
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00:18:03,374 --> 00:18:05,115
I just heard somebody say
they're working on that.
270
00:18:05,209 --> 00:18:06,199
Well, if the White House is
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00:18:06,294 --> 00:18:07,330
gonna take
a stance like that...
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00:18:07,420 --> 00:18:09,787
don't you think
we should plant a flag?
273
00:18:12,216 --> 00:18:15,800
Did you see Sheehan at the
Kissinger press conference?
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00:18:16,012 --> 00:18:17,048
No.
275
00:18:17,221 --> 00:18:18,757
What about the Al Haig thing?
276
00:18:18,931 --> 00:18:20,923
No, Times sent the new kid.
277
00:18:21,601 --> 00:18:23,012
The new kid, huh?
278
00:18:23,144 --> 00:18:25,056
You think Sheehan's
onto something.
279
00:18:25,229 --> 00:18:26,219
Yeah.
280
00:18:26,939 --> 00:18:29,181
Well, Neil has been known
to disappear.
281
00:18:29,358 --> 00:18:31,896
No, no. I'm telling you,
he has something.
282
00:18:32,194 --> 00:18:34,277
You want me to do
a little digging?
283
00:18:34,447 --> 00:18:36,905
No, that's below
your pay grade.
284
00:18:37,033 --> 00:18:38,194
Intern!
285
00:18:39,410 --> 00:18:41,823
You working on anything
important, chief?
286
00:18:42,038 --> 00:18:43,574
Uh, no, Mr. Bradlee.
287
00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:46,782
Well, everything we do
is important at The Post.
288
00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:48,325
Yeah. That's $40.
289
00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:51,374
I want you to take the
first train up to New York...
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00:18:51,547 --> 00:18:53,209
and go to
The Times building on 43rd.
291
00:18:53,299 --> 00:18:54,289
Don't tell them
who you work for...
292
00:18:54,467 --> 00:18:56,959
but find a reporter
by the name of Sheehan.
293
00:18:57,136 --> 00:18:58,672
Uh, Neil Sheehan?
294
00:18:58,846 --> 00:19:03,136
Yeah, yeah, find out what
Neil Sheehan is working on.
295
00:19:04,101 --> 00:19:05,558
Is that legal?
296
00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:09,229
Well, what is it you think we
do here for a living, kid?
297
00:19:09,732 --> 00:19:11,018
Get a receipt for the tickets.
298
00:19:11,108 --> 00:19:12,098
Yeah.
299
00:19:28,376 --> 00:19:30,709
- Morning, Mrs. Graham.
- Hello, morning.
300
00:19:34,548 --> 00:19:36,460
Hello.
Morning, everybody.
301
00:19:36,634 --> 00:19:37,624
- Hi, Oz.
- Mrs. Graham.
302
00:19:37,802 --> 00:19:39,088
Morning, Arthur.
303
00:19:40,471 --> 00:19:41,962
Hello. Hello, everyone.
304
00:19:44,642 --> 00:19:46,258
So, everyone's here.
305
00:19:46,477 --> 00:19:48,810
- Hello, Ray. My Galahad.
- Good morning.
306
00:19:49,188 --> 00:19:50,599
Thank you.
307
00:20:01,992 --> 00:20:03,324
And I used to be the only one
308
00:20:03,411 --> 00:20:05,243
who brought
his homework to class.
309
00:20:07,665 --> 00:20:10,248
I think we're all here.
Should we get started?
310
00:20:10,418 --> 00:20:11,829
Didn't you crash the wedding
311
00:20:11,919 --> 00:20:14,127
of Nixon's other daughter
to get a story?
312
00:20:14,296 --> 00:20:16,879
Well, I did get a story but I
didn't crash Julie's wedding.
313
00:20:17,049 --> 00:20:18,756
No, just the reception
afterwards, right?
314
00:20:18,884 --> 00:20:19,874
There is a distinction.
315
00:20:20,177 --> 00:20:21,213
Not to
the father of the bride.
316
00:20:21,303 --> 00:20:22,293
He's paying per plate.
317
00:20:22,388 --> 00:20:23,879
I think the American people
are paying per plate.
318
00:20:24,390 --> 00:20:25,881
Wait, let's do
a story about that.
319
00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:27,765
- Yeah, let's...
- Judith should crash again.
320
00:20:28,352 --> 00:20:29,559
I didn't crash
Julie's wedding.
321
00:20:29,645 --> 00:20:30,886
What would you
call it, Judith?
322
00:20:31,021 --> 00:20:32,637
Well, I would call it
deft reportage.
323
00:20:32,815 --> 00:20:34,181
All right, come on,
come on, everybody.
324
00:20:34,358 --> 00:20:37,271
How are we gonna cover
this Nixon-Cox wedding?
325
00:20:41,949 --> 00:20:43,736
Uh... Who else
is gonna be there?
326
00:20:43,909 --> 00:20:45,070
- Here.
- Judith's got the guest list.
327
00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:47,156
No, I mean of
the other press.
328
00:20:47,329 --> 00:20:49,912
The Times, the Sun, the Globe,
all the international papers.
329
00:20:50,082 --> 00:20:51,243
All right.
330
00:20:51,917 --> 00:20:55,251
So, we call them,
we call all of them...
331
00:20:56,422 --> 00:20:59,130
and we say Nixon
has shut us out...
332
00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:01,792
and then we ask them
for their notes.
333
00:21:02,178 --> 00:21:04,261
Ben, there's no way in hell
anyone's gonna give me a fill.
334
00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:07,173
No, it'll be
an act of solidarity.
335
00:21:07,349 --> 00:21:09,807
They'll be defending
the First Amendment.
336
00:21:09,977 --> 00:21:11,684
We'll tell them
that the only way
337
00:21:11,771 --> 00:21:13,478
to protect
the right to publish...
338
00:21:13,689 --> 00:21:15,681
is to publish.
339
00:21:20,946 --> 00:21:22,232
I don't understand.
340
00:21:22,323 --> 00:21:24,940
You said
we'd set the price at $27.
341
00:21:25,075 --> 00:21:26,611
No, we said there was a range.
342
00:21:26,786 --> 00:21:29,119
And the demand on the
road show was soft.
343
00:21:29,497 --> 00:21:32,490
Why not set it at $26?
Or $25 even?
344
00:21:32,666 --> 00:21:34,453
Well, Paul, we feel
that setting the price
345
00:21:34,543 --> 00:21:36,455
at $24.50 would be
more prudent.
346
00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:37,995
It's just a couple bucks.
347
00:21:38,172 --> 00:21:39,913
It's not just
a couple of bucks.
348
00:21:40,007 --> 00:21:42,465
It's 1.35 million shares...
349
00:21:42,968 --> 00:21:44,675
so it is...
350
00:21:46,263 --> 00:21:47,595
Three million.
351
00:21:48,307 --> 00:21:52,347
Over $3 million less.
That's a lot to a newspaper.
352
00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,227
How many reporters is that?
353
00:21:54,396 --> 00:21:55,386
It's 25.
354
00:21:55,523 --> 00:21:56,809
Let's not get bogged down.
355
00:21:56,982 --> 00:21:58,189
It has to be quite a few.
356
00:21:58,275 --> 00:21:59,766
At least a dozen. Fritz?
357
00:22:01,487 --> 00:22:02,853
It's 25 reporters.
358
00:22:03,030 --> 00:22:05,067
Twenty-five reporters.
359
00:22:05,241 --> 00:22:06,402
Twenty-five reporters.
360
00:22:06,575 --> 00:22:08,567
Gentlemen,
we know it's not ideal...
361
00:22:08,744 --> 00:22:10,076
but a few of our investors
362
00:22:10,162 --> 00:22:12,870
balked at the nature
of the company.
363
00:22:13,290 --> 00:22:14,406
They don't like newspapers?
364
00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:17,121
They like Gannett and
Knight and Ridder...
365
00:22:17,294 --> 00:22:18,284
but frankly they're concerned
366
00:22:18,379 --> 00:22:21,042
about your ability
to turn a serious profit.
367
00:22:34,895 --> 00:22:36,227
Gannett and Knight and Ridder
368
00:22:36,313 --> 00:22:38,020
own monopoly papers
in smaller markets.
369
00:22:38,190 --> 00:22:40,307
That's why
they're more profitable.
370
00:22:40,484 --> 00:22:43,352
The whole point of the
offering is to grow...
371
00:22:43,529 --> 00:22:45,566
while investing in the quality
of the paper.
372
00:22:45,739 --> 00:22:49,028
Kay and I have talked
a great deal about this...
373
00:22:49,201 --> 00:22:52,035
and we believe
that improving quality...
374
00:22:52,204 --> 00:22:55,493
will naturally lead to
greater profitability.
375
00:22:57,459 --> 00:22:58,575
Unfortunate.
376
00:22:58,752 --> 00:23:00,243
It's more than unfortunate.
377
00:23:00,754 --> 00:23:02,541
Doesn't this happen
all the time?
378
00:23:02,715 --> 00:23:05,628
Bankers lowering the price for
their institutional investors.
379
00:23:05,801 --> 00:23:07,212
Fritz, isn't this
what we discussed?
380
00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:08,502
I think the family
should consider
381
00:23:08,596 --> 00:23:09,586
giving up some control.
382
00:23:09,763 --> 00:23:11,846
- Maybe another board seat.
- Absolutely not.
383
00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:14,344
This isn't a surprise, Fritz.
Ever since Phil's accident...
384
00:23:14,435 --> 00:23:15,425
Arthur.
385
00:23:15,603 --> 00:23:18,061
No offense, Kay.
It's unfortunate...
386
00:23:18,188 --> 00:23:19,724
but the buyers
are obviously skittish
387
00:23:19,815 --> 00:23:21,181
about having
a woman in charge...
388
00:23:21,358 --> 00:23:23,441
and it's not like
it's an easy sell.
389
00:23:23,611 --> 00:23:26,354
It's a local paper with modest
margins, modest ambitions.
390
00:23:26,530 --> 00:23:27,987
I think Mr. Bradlee
would take issue
391
00:23:28,073 --> 00:23:29,234
with that characterization.
392
00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:31,240
Sure, she pads
his budget every year.
393
00:23:31,368 --> 00:23:32,950
Call my office.
Tell them I'm going to
394
00:23:33,078 --> 00:23:34,614
miss my lunch at Occidental.
395
00:23:34,955 --> 00:23:36,662
Another dozen reporters.
For what?
396
00:23:36,832 --> 00:23:38,368
To nip at the heels
of The Times?
397
00:23:38,542 --> 00:23:39,623
So we can pretend like
398
00:23:39,710 --> 00:23:41,576
we're even remotely
in the same league?
399
00:23:41,754 --> 00:23:44,041
Make it a five o'clock drink
at the Jefferson.
400
00:23:44,214 --> 00:23:46,171
Arthur, Kay was right.
Lazard is just trying...
401
00:23:46,342 --> 00:23:47,332
to cut a better deal
by squeezing us.
402
00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:48,462
Come on, Fritz.
403
00:23:48,636 --> 00:23:49,626
Why do you think that is?
404
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:50,756
Because they're bankers.
405
00:23:50,971 --> 00:23:52,337
Which is why
they want more control.
406
00:23:52,431 --> 00:23:53,421
They want assurances
407
00:23:53,515 --> 00:23:54,676
that she's not
gonna squander it all.
408
00:23:54,767 --> 00:23:55,757
I mean, come on.
409
00:23:56,477 --> 00:23:58,810
Fritz, Kay throws
a great party...
410
00:23:58,979 --> 00:24:01,596
but her father gave the paper
to her husband.
411
00:24:01,774 --> 00:24:03,356
The only reason
she's running things
412
00:24:03,442 --> 00:24:05,650
is because he...
Because Phil died.
413
00:24:07,154 --> 00:24:10,693
Don't get me wrong,
I think she is a lovely woman.
414
00:24:10,866 --> 00:24:12,528
But she got rid
of Al Friendly...
415
00:24:12,701 --> 00:24:14,192
and brought in a pirate
416
00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:16,699
who does nothing
but bleed our margins.
417
00:24:16,872 --> 00:24:18,363
I mean, you can't be surprised
418
00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:19,573
that the buyers
are concerned...
419
00:24:19,750 --> 00:24:20,957
that she doesn't have
the resolve
420
00:24:21,043 --> 00:24:22,750
to turn a serious profit.
421
00:24:28,258 --> 00:24:30,375
Kay, it's your decision...
422
00:24:30,719 --> 00:24:32,802
but in my opinion,
if you want this
423
00:24:32,888 --> 00:24:35,050
to be more than
a little family paper...
424
00:24:35,224 --> 00:24:38,308
it has to be more than
a little family business.
425
00:24:41,522 --> 00:24:44,185
Thank you, Arthur,
for your frankness.
426
00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:46,691
All right.
427
00:24:48,028 --> 00:24:49,018
We're set?
428
00:24:49,154 --> 00:24:51,111
All set, Mr. Parsons.
429
00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:55,028
Accident...
430
00:24:58,288 --> 00:24:59,950
It wasn't an accident.
431
00:25:01,083 --> 00:25:02,244
Phil's suicide.
432
00:25:02,418 --> 00:25:06,583
I don't know why people insist
on calling it an accident.
433
00:25:08,048 --> 00:25:10,461
Is it to make them
feel better?
434
00:25:11,593 --> 00:25:14,677
Or do they think
they're being kind?
435
00:25:14,847 --> 00:25:16,839
I don't know, I don't know.
436
00:25:17,725 --> 00:25:19,808
So, do you think I should
437
00:25:19,935 --> 00:25:22,143
give up more seats
on the board?
438
00:25:22,479 --> 00:25:24,311
Of course not.
439
00:25:25,858 --> 00:25:27,690
We're going to be fine.
440
00:25:27,943 --> 00:25:29,400
Hmm.
441
00:25:29,528 --> 00:25:32,316
This passage
in the prospectus,
442
00:25:32,406 --> 00:25:34,944
I read it earlier today.
443
00:25:38,787 --> 00:25:40,744
Oh, yes.
444
00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:43,452
"In the unlikely instance
of disaster
445
00:25:43,542 --> 00:25:44,703
"or catastrophic event...
446
00:25:44,877 --> 00:25:48,291
"in the week following the
initial public offering...
447
00:25:48,881 --> 00:25:50,713
"Lazard Frères
and Company retains
448
00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:52,631
"full right
to cancel the issue."
449
00:25:52,801 --> 00:25:54,292
It's boilerplate, Kay.
450
00:25:54,470 --> 00:25:56,632
It's standard
contractual language.
451
00:25:58,057 --> 00:26:01,596
But, so, the bankers
could pull out.
452
00:26:02,269 --> 00:26:04,761
Only if there's
a true disaster.
453
00:26:05,022 --> 00:26:07,105
Ben gets hit by a truck...
454
00:26:07,191 --> 00:26:10,775
the world
runs outta newspaper ink...
455
00:26:12,362 --> 00:26:14,024
the truck goes
around the block
456
00:26:14,114 --> 00:26:16,322
and hits Ben again...
457
00:26:16,408 --> 00:26:17,819
You think
one of those is possible.
458
00:26:17,993 --> 00:26:19,655
No, I don't...
459
00:26:19,828 --> 00:26:21,615
but, you know,
the Nixon White House
460
00:26:21,705 --> 00:26:23,446
is nothing if not vindictive.
461
00:26:23,624 --> 00:26:24,910
Just this morning...
462
00:26:25,084 --> 00:26:27,701
they barred us from covering
Tricia Nixon's wedding.
463
00:26:28,587 --> 00:26:30,249
Somehow,
I doubt that will rise
464
00:26:30,339 --> 00:26:31,750
to the level of catastrophe.
465
00:26:31,924 --> 00:26:33,460
I know. Rrobably not.
466
00:26:33,634 --> 00:26:36,923
Although, when Ben sets
his mind to plunder...
467
00:26:37,096 --> 00:26:40,555
it's not hard to imagine
something more serious.
468
00:26:42,184 --> 00:26:44,221
Catastrophic events...
469
00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:47,061
do occur, you know.
470
00:26:47,231 --> 00:26:50,599
Yeah, but the right to cancel
is only for a week.
471
00:26:51,318 --> 00:26:53,810
A week
from the public offering.
472
00:26:54,613 --> 00:26:57,902
Seven days after they
ring that bell on Tuesday...
473
00:26:58,242 --> 00:27:00,074
the deal is done.
474
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:01,150
Hmm.
475
00:27:02,746 --> 00:27:04,783
It's gonna be fine, Kay.
476
00:27:23,517 --> 00:27:24,724
Jesus.
477
00:27:31,608 --> 00:27:33,565
Do you know what floor
the newsroom's on?
478
00:27:33,944 --> 00:27:35,060
Five.
479
00:27:35,362 --> 00:27:37,479
Uh, no, no, six, yeah. Six.
480
00:27:51,795 --> 00:27:53,627
Things are heating up
in East Pakistan?
481
00:27:53,797 --> 00:27:55,538
Well,
five million refugees
482
00:27:55,632 --> 00:27:57,624
could destabilize West Bengal.
483
00:27:57,801 --> 00:27:59,713
So, Lindsay's lowering
the boom tomorrow.
484
00:27:59,887 --> 00:28:01,423
They gotta cut 100 million.
485
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,172
Gonna be some blood on
the floor of Gracie Mansion.
486
00:28:06,476 --> 00:28:08,638
I heard the Mayors gave it to
Nixon in Philly.
487
00:28:08,812 --> 00:28:10,269
Yeah, Tolchin's down there.
He's filing.
488
00:28:10,439 --> 00:28:11,771
Take a look at this.
489
00:28:12,024 --> 00:28:13,640
Any of you guys see that piece
on the hijacking?
490
00:28:13,817 --> 00:28:14,807
Jeez, there's been
another hijacking?
491
00:28:14,985 --> 00:28:16,396
You think six pages
is enough?
492
00:28:16,570 --> 00:28:19,563
Well, we got three columns on
the front page. I'll take it.
493
00:28:19,740 --> 00:28:21,356
- On the flight?
- On the flight.
494
00:28:21,950 --> 00:28:23,737
Can I help you, Mac?
495
00:28:24,203 --> 00:28:26,069
Just delivering a package
to Mr. Meetson.
496
00:28:26,580 --> 00:28:28,697
Mattson.
I'll see that he gets it.
497
00:28:30,209 --> 00:28:31,791
I knew a couple
498
00:28:31,877 --> 00:28:35,086
whose yacht was shipwrecked
in the South Racific.
499
00:28:35,172 --> 00:28:36,208
Hold on, quiet.
500
00:28:37,007 --> 00:28:38,248
I knew a couple whose yacht
501
00:28:38,342 --> 00:28:40,129
was shipwrecked
in the South Racific.
502
00:28:40,302 --> 00:28:42,510
It looks bleak,
so the man asks...
503
00:28:42,804 --> 00:28:45,842
"Does the will take care
of the kids?" His wife nods.
504
00:28:46,016 --> 00:28:48,303
"What about your mother?"
"Yes."
505
00:28:48,477 --> 00:28:51,766
"Okay, did we
donate to Nixon?"
506
00:28:51,939 --> 00:28:54,522
His wife
shakes her head. "Yes."
507
00:28:54,691 --> 00:28:57,024
"Did we pledge or give?"
508
00:28:57,194 --> 00:28:58,435
"We pledged."
509
00:28:58,612 --> 00:29:00,444
"Thank God," shouts the man.
"Nixon'll find us.
510
00:29:00,614 --> 00:29:01,650
"We're saved!"
511
00:29:06,078 --> 00:29:08,445
Well, speaking of Nixon,
I just talked to Kissinger...
512
00:29:08,622 --> 00:29:11,080
who was going on about the end
of the China embargo.
513
00:29:11,416 --> 00:29:13,624
He's convinced it's a rather
clever geopolitical move.
514
00:29:14,086 --> 00:29:16,624
I think
this is our cue, ladies.
515
00:29:17,214 --> 00:29:18,921
Someone at this table
of luminaries
516
00:29:19,007 --> 00:29:20,498
must have an idea
what they're up to.
517
00:29:20,676 --> 00:29:22,759
I wonder what his buddy
Joe McCarthy would say.
518
00:29:22,928 --> 00:29:25,215
The New Style Section
did a lovely piece
519
00:29:25,305 --> 00:29:26,671
on Lawrence Durrell.
520
00:29:26,848 --> 00:29:29,306
It's about time
Style had a good piece.
521
00:29:29,476 --> 00:29:30,842
I think it's a bit improved.
522
00:29:31,019 --> 00:29:33,352
I hear he's at work on
another series of novels.
523
00:29:33,522 --> 00:29:36,515
I hear he's at work on finding
a fourth wife.
524
00:29:36,692 --> 00:29:38,103
I will say, he's
one of the few individuals...
525
00:29:38,277 --> 00:29:39,984
who could probably cozy up
to communist China...
526
00:29:40,153 --> 00:29:41,815
without fear
of major political cost.
527
00:29:41,989 --> 00:29:43,230
Eh, but is Nixon that smart?
528
00:29:43,323 --> 00:29:44,564
He never laughed
at one of my jokes.
529
00:29:46,952 --> 00:29:48,909
Oh, Kay, I don't know
how you do it.
530
00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:50,695
I don't know
how you keep up with it all
531
00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:52,781
when you have this day job.
532
00:29:54,001 --> 00:29:55,412
You need to read more books.
533
00:29:55,585 --> 00:29:58,293
Kay, could I have just a word?
534
00:30:00,674 --> 00:30:01,710
Um...
535
00:30:03,218 --> 00:30:04,584
Everything all right?
536
00:30:04,761 --> 00:30:06,627
- Marg okay?
- Yes, she's fine.
537
00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:08,592
Said the procedure
went very well.
538
00:30:08,765 --> 00:30:10,222
Oh, good,
I've been meaning to...
539
00:30:10,309 --> 00:30:11,390
I...
540
00:30:12,102 --> 00:30:13,218
I wanted to tell you,
541
00:30:13,312 --> 00:30:15,019
and I want you
to hear from me first...
542
00:30:15,188 --> 00:30:17,100
there's an article about me
543
00:30:17,190 --> 00:30:19,728
coming out
in The Times tomorrow.
544
00:30:20,902 --> 00:30:22,564
It's not flattering.
545
00:30:23,947 --> 00:30:25,439
Running? Me?
546
00:30:25,615 --> 00:30:27,402
Now, you know me
better than that.
547
00:30:27,576 --> 00:30:29,238
Three days and three
nights and not a word.
548
00:30:29,411 --> 00:30:30,527
Well, I've been very busy.
549
00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:31,610
For all I knew
you were lying
550
00:30:31,705 --> 00:30:32,741
in the gutter somewhere...
551
00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:34,288
with a knife in your back.
552
00:30:34,374 --> 00:30:35,740
Lying in the gutter?
553
00:30:37,044 --> 00:30:39,286
Now, look, sweetheart,
I'll tell you what happened.
554
00:30:40,297 --> 00:30:41,959
I was in Birmingham.
555
00:30:42,132 --> 00:30:43,168
Birmingham?
556
00:30:43,342 --> 00:30:44,378
Hello?
557
00:30:44,551 --> 00:30:46,133
Hello, Ben.
558
00:30:46,303 --> 00:30:47,510
Hello, Katharine.
559
00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:50,467
I'm sorry
to bother you so late.
560
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,633
Listen, were you able to make
any headway with Mr. Sheehan?
561
00:30:53,810 --> 00:30:56,678
No, no. I haven't.
562
00:30:56,855 --> 00:31:00,940
I just had an odd conversation
with Bob McNamara...
563
00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:05,149
and I think The Times may
have a big story tomorrow.
564
00:31:05,947 --> 00:31:07,688
Oh, damn it.
565
00:31:07,866 --> 00:31:10,483
You know, he wouldn't
give me any details...
566
00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:15,780
but Bob said it was quite
detrimental to him and...
567
00:31:37,270 --> 00:31:38,636
Ben!
568
00:31:39,231 --> 00:31:40,642
We got 'em.
569
00:31:40,816 --> 00:31:42,148
We got 'em.
570
00:31:42,317 --> 00:31:43,478
Huh?
571
00:31:43,610 --> 00:31:45,021
- Yeah, quite good.
- The happy couple.
572
00:31:45,195 --> 00:31:46,982
- Hey, chief!
- Mr. Bradlee.
573
00:31:47,155 --> 00:31:49,192
So, did you
track down Sheehan?
574
00:31:49,366 --> 00:31:52,950
No, but, I saw a mock-up
of tomorrow's front page.
575
00:31:53,787 --> 00:31:55,574
There's a big gap.
576
00:31:55,747 --> 00:31:57,409
Nothing there but the name.
577
00:32:01,711 --> 00:32:02,918
Shit.
578
00:32:03,088 --> 00:32:04,295
Shit.
579
00:32:04,881 --> 00:32:06,088
Shit!
580
00:32:14,141 --> 00:32:15,973
- Give us three.
- Here you go.
581
00:32:16,143 --> 00:32:18,556
Here, here, here.
Thank you, thank you.
582
00:32:19,271 --> 00:32:20,603
Thanks, got it.
583
00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:28,269
General Haig, sir.
584
00:32:28,447 --> 00:32:29,654
- Hi, Al.
- Yes, sir.
585
00:32:29,823 --> 00:32:31,689
What about
the casualties last week?
586
00:32:31,783 --> 00:32:32,819
You got that figure yet?
587
00:32:32,993 --> 00:32:35,656
No, sir, but I think
it's gonna be quite low.
588
00:32:36,163 --> 00:32:37,153
Fine.
589
00:32:37,330 --> 00:32:40,118
Okay. Nothing else of interest
in the world today?
590
00:32:40,292 --> 00:32:42,750
Yes, sir.
Very significant...
591
00:32:42,919 --> 00:32:46,037
this goddamn
New York Times exposé...
592
00:32:46,214 --> 00:32:47,876
...of the most
highly classified
593
00:32:47,966 --> 00:32:49,753
documents of the war.
594
00:32:49,843 --> 00:32:51,960
You mean that was
leaked out of the Pentagon?
595
00:32:52,137 --> 00:32:55,505
The whole study that
was done for McNamara.
596
00:32:56,308 --> 00:33:00,268
This is a devastating, uh,
security breach...
597
00:33:00,604 --> 00:33:03,017
of the greatest magnitude
of anything I've ever seen.
598
00:33:03,190 --> 00:33:05,102
Well, what's being
done about it then?
599
00:33:05,275 --> 00:33:06,811
Did we know
this was coming out?
600
00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:08,647
No, we did not, sir.
601
00:33:08,737 --> 00:33:09,727
I have Doctor Kissinger.
602
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,818
Henry, the thing to me
is just unconscionable.
603
00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:14,903
This is treasonable action
on the part
604
00:33:14,993 --> 00:33:16,655
of the bastards
that put it out.
605
00:33:17,329 --> 00:33:19,036
I'm absolutely certain...
606
00:33:19,206 --> 00:33:22,745
that this violates
all sorts of security laws.
607
00:33:22,918 --> 00:33:24,454
People have gotta
be put to the torch
608
00:33:24,544 --> 00:33:26,251
for this sort of thing.
609
00:33:27,881 --> 00:33:31,374
Christ! McNamara knew
we couldn't win in '65.
610
00:33:31,468 --> 00:33:34,085
That's six goddamn years ago.
611
00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:38,472
Well, at least
we got the wedding.
612
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,352
Is anybody else tired
of reading the news
613
00:33:43,438 --> 00:33:45,054
instead of reporting it?
614
00:33:45,690 --> 00:33:46,976
Do we have any leads?
615
00:33:47,150 --> 00:33:48,357
There's a guy Rhil and I know
in Boston...
616
00:33:48,443 --> 00:33:49,433
who worked at Defense
617
00:33:49,528 --> 00:33:50,644
when McNamara
commissioned the study.
618
00:33:50,737 --> 00:33:52,273
All right, call him.
619
00:33:52,447 --> 00:33:54,109
Anybody else?
620
00:33:54,282 --> 00:33:55,898
So that's it?
621
00:33:56,451 --> 00:33:59,319
Our best goddamn lead
is coming from editorial?
622
00:33:59,412 --> 00:34:01,074
Well, we are sucking hind tit
623
00:34:01,164 --> 00:34:02,325
in our own backyard.
624
00:34:02,499 --> 00:34:04,240
Ben, come on,
it's one story.
625
00:34:04,417 --> 00:34:06,158
No, it's 7,000 pages...
626
00:34:06,336 --> 00:34:08,373
detailing how
the White House has been
627
00:34:08,463 --> 00:34:10,420
lying about the Vietnam War
for 30 years.
628
00:34:10,590 --> 00:34:15,551
It's Truman and Eisenhower
and Jack and LBJ lying.
629
00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:17,928
Lying about Vietnam.
630
00:34:18,098 --> 00:34:19,964
And you think
that's one story?
631
00:34:21,184 --> 00:34:22,891
Let's do our jobs.
632
00:34:24,396 --> 00:34:25,807
Find those pages!
633
00:34:30,485 --> 00:34:31,726
Ben, uh...
634
00:34:32,237 --> 00:34:34,775
I might have something.
Maybe.
635
00:34:34,948 --> 00:34:37,816
Well, let me know when it's
a little less wishy-washy.
636
00:34:37,993 --> 00:34:40,986
I'm gonna go chase down
a lead of my own.
637
00:34:45,250 --> 00:34:47,867
Why don't you cut
your bangs, just a little bit?
638
00:34:48,044 --> 00:34:49,706
Mummy,
I'm right in the middle.
639
00:34:55,594 --> 00:34:58,132
It's a bit hard to read,
isn't it?
640
00:34:58,305 --> 00:35:00,797
Harder for you, I imagine.
641
00:35:01,308 --> 00:35:02,424
No.
642
00:35:02,809 --> 00:35:04,050
Why?
643
00:35:04,853 --> 00:35:06,310
These were your people...
644
00:35:06,479 --> 00:35:09,813
McNamara and Kennedy
and Johnson.
645
00:35:09,983 --> 00:35:12,270
Well, Jack and Lyndon
were your father's friends.
646
00:35:12,444 --> 00:35:13,901
You flew down to Texas
with Lyndon
647
00:35:13,987 --> 00:35:15,194
the weekend
after his convention.
648
00:35:15,363 --> 00:35:17,400
That's your fault. You wanted
to see his helicopter land.
649
00:35:17,574 --> 00:35:19,736
And the instant he saw you,
he invited you to the ranch.
650
00:35:19,909 --> 00:35:21,992
Oh, well, he just wanted
the paper to endorse.
651
00:35:22,162 --> 00:35:23,403
Yes, but my point is
652
00:35:23,496 --> 00:35:25,283
you had Steve and Bill
waiting at home.
653
00:35:25,457 --> 00:35:26,618
- You had houseguests...
- I know.
654
00:35:26,708 --> 00:35:27,869
...waiting at the farm.
655
00:35:27,959 --> 00:35:29,621
You had nothing but dirty
clothes in your suitcase.
656
00:35:29,711 --> 00:35:30,952
How do you know what
I had in my suitcase?
657
00:35:31,087 --> 00:35:32,123
Yet you jumped
on Air Force One,
658
00:35:32,213 --> 00:35:33,203
spent the weekend...
659
00:35:33,298 --> 00:35:34,288
I did not jump.
660
00:35:34,382 --> 00:35:35,498
...swimming
and speed-boating...
661
00:35:35,717 --> 00:35:37,083
You and Luvie Pearson
said I had to go!
662
00:35:37,177 --> 00:35:38,634
...with Lyndon
and Lady Bird.
663
00:35:43,850 --> 00:35:45,512
It's hard to say...
664
00:35:46,603 --> 00:35:49,266
"no" to the Rresident
of the United States.
665
00:35:54,027 --> 00:35:55,859
Were you expecting someone?
666
00:35:56,029 --> 00:35:57,736
At this hour?
667
00:36:03,078 --> 00:36:04,990
I hope I'm not too early.
668
00:36:05,163 --> 00:36:07,701
Not at all.
Must be urgent.
669
00:36:07,874 --> 00:36:09,536
Where's your sister?
670
00:36:11,961 --> 00:36:13,827
That's my tea, darling.
671
00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:16,873
Where's your sister?
Let's go find her.
672
00:36:16,966 --> 00:36:18,423
Let's go find her.
673
00:36:21,096 --> 00:36:23,304
I trust you saw
The New York Times.
674
00:36:23,890 --> 00:36:25,051
Hmm.
675
00:36:25,183 --> 00:36:27,266
The study, the one
they are working off of...
676
00:36:27,352 --> 00:36:28,684
that was commissioned
by Robert McNamara.
677
00:36:28,770 --> 00:36:29,760
Yeah.
678
00:36:29,938 --> 00:36:32,225
And if he commissioned it,
he might have a copy.
679
00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:40,229
I don't need to tell you
that finding a source...
680
00:36:40,407 --> 00:36:42,114
it's like finding a
needle in a haystack.
681
00:36:42,283 --> 00:36:43,364
I don't need the metaphor.
682
00:36:43,535 --> 00:36:44,525
Well, I haven't been a writer
683
00:36:44,619 --> 00:36:45,860
for a while
so that old cliche...
684
00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:47,994
that was the best comparison
I could come up with.
685
00:36:49,457 --> 00:36:52,074
I need a copy
of that study, Kay.
686
00:36:53,753 --> 00:36:55,210
Give her the ball, Ben.
687
00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:56,791
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
688
00:36:59,259 --> 00:37:02,047
You know, Ben,
as much as I do relish
689
00:37:02,137 --> 00:37:03,628
a good investigative
assignment...
690
00:37:05,181 --> 00:37:07,889
Bob McNamara is an old friend.
691
00:37:08,059 --> 00:37:10,267
He's going through a lot
in his life right now.
692
00:37:10,437 --> 00:37:13,430
I just think he's probably
said all he wants to say.
693
00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:15,563
Why do you think?
694
00:37:15,734 --> 00:37:16,941
- Why?
- Why?
695
00:37:17,110 --> 00:37:18,521
Why is he talking to you?
696
00:37:18,695 --> 00:37:20,982
Well, I just told you,
he's my friend and...
697
00:37:21,156 --> 00:37:23,648
Is he talking to
any other friends?
698
00:37:25,326 --> 00:37:26,692
I'm not sure
699
00:37:26,786 --> 00:37:28,743
I appreciate the implication
of what you just said.
700
00:37:28,913 --> 00:37:30,996
McNamara is talking
to you...
701
00:37:31,291 --> 00:37:33,283
because you are the publisher
of The Washington Post.
702
00:37:33,460 --> 00:37:35,076
That's not true.
No, that is not why.
703
00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:37,040
Because he wants you
to bail him out.
704
00:37:37,130 --> 00:37:38,166
Because he wants you
on his side.
705
00:37:38,256 --> 00:37:39,497
No, there's no ulterior...
No!
706
00:37:39,591 --> 00:37:42,049
Ben, that's not my role.
You know that.
707
00:37:42,218 --> 00:37:45,211
I wouldn't presume to tell you
how to write about him.
708
00:37:45,388 --> 00:37:48,847
Just as I wouldn't
take it upon myself...
709
00:37:49,017 --> 00:37:52,806
to tell him he should hand
over a classified study...
710
00:37:52,979 --> 00:37:55,346
which would be a crime,
by the way...
711
00:37:55,523 --> 00:37:58,391
just so he can serve
as your source.
712
00:37:59,402 --> 00:38:01,769
Our source, Katharine.
713
00:38:13,625 --> 00:38:14,991
No. Uh... No...
714
00:38:15,168 --> 00:38:18,707
I'm not. I'm not going to ask
Bob for the study.
715
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:19,961
All right.
716
00:38:20,131 --> 00:38:21,542
I get it.
You have a relationship
717
00:38:21,633 --> 00:38:22,623
with Bob McNamara.
718
00:38:23,885 --> 00:38:26,923
But don't you think you have
an obligation as well
719
00:38:27,013 --> 00:38:28,720
to the paper
and to the public?
720
00:38:28,890 --> 00:38:30,347
Let me ask you something.
721
00:38:30,517 --> 00:38:32,349
Was that how you felt
when you were
722
00:38:32,435 --> 00:38:34,222
palling around
with Jack Kennedy?
723
00:38:34,395 --> 00:38:36,478
Where was
your sense of duty then?
724
00:38:36,648 --> 00:38:40,437
I don't recall you pushing him
particularly hard on anything.
725
00:38:40,527 --> 00:38:43,235
I pushed Jack when I had to.
726
00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:44,857
I never pulled any punches.
727
00:38:45,031 --> 00:38:46,192
Is that right?
728
00:38:46,366 --> 00:38:49,279
'Cause you used to dine at
the White House once a week.
729
00:38:49,452 --> 00:38:51,614
All the trips to Camp David.
730
00:38:51,788 --> 00:38:53,654
Oh, and that drunken
birthday cruise
731
00:38:53,748 --> 00:38:55,910
on the Sequoia
you told me about.
732
00:38:57,710 --> 00:38:58,917
Hard to believe you would have
733
00:38:59,003 --> 00:39:00,744
gotten
all those invitations...
734
00:39:00,922 --> 00:39:03,790
if you didn't
pull a few punches.
735
00:39:09,013 --> 00:39:10,379
Street protests
broke out today
736
00:39:10,473 --> 00:39:11,554
across the country...
737
00:39:11,724 --> 00:39:13,340
after the publication
of more excerpts...
738
00:39:13,518 --> 00:39:15,475
from a classified
Department of Defense study
739
00:39:15,562 --> 00:39:17,019
in The New York Times.
740
00:39:17,188 --> 00:39:18,349
The study, commissioned
741
00:39:18,439 --> 00:39:20,726
by former Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara...
742
00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:22,266
has ignited further debate
743
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:23,692
over the ongoing war
in Vietnam...
744
00:39:24,487 --> 00:39:26,774
as it makes clear
that Kennedy and Johnson...
745
00:39:26,948 --> 00:39:28,905
as well as
Eisenhower and Truman,
746
00:39:28,992 --> 00:39:31,655
deeply misled
the country on Vietnam.
747
00:39:31,828 --> 00:39:33,569
The bombshell series
has appeared
748
00:39:33,663 --> 00:39:35,950
for the last two days
in The New York Times.
749
00:39:36,124 --> 00:39:38,207
We don't want
your stinking war.
750
00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:40,038
One, two, three, four.
751
00:39:40,128 --> 00:39:42,290
We don't want
your stinking war.
752
00:39:44,299 --> 00:39:45,585
I've walked and I've crawled
on six crooked highways
753
00:39:45,675 --> 00:39:48,668
Not for what is politic
but for what is right.
754
00:39:48,845 --> 00:39:49,835
Right!
755
00:39:50,013 --> 00:39:52,380
Like my brother Mario said...
756
00:39:52,557 --> 00:39:54,799
"There is a time
when the operation
757
00:39:54,893 --> 00:39:56,885
"of the machine
becomes so odious...
758
00:39:57,061 --> 00:39:59,769
"that you've got to put
your body upon the gears...
759
00:39:59,939 --> 00:40:02,352
"and upon the wheels,
and upon the levers...
760
00:40:02,525 --> 00:40:04,642
"and you've got to
make it stop."
761
00:40:04,819 --> 00:40:06,151
One, two, three four.
762
00:40:06,237 --> 00:40:08,194
We don't want
your stinking war.
763
00:40:08,364 --> 00:40:10,902
Someone gives up his life,
764
00:40:10,992 --> 00:40:12,483
so that the President...
765
00:40:12,660 --> 00:40:14,401
doesn't have
to admit something
766
00:40:14,495 --> 00:40:16,031
the entire world
already knows.
767
00:40:16,205 --> 00:40:17,662
Your dinner
with Mr. and Mrs. Rosenthal
768
00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:18,910
is at seven in the Oak Room...
769
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,036
and then I'll meet you
tomorrow morning
770
00:40:20,126 --> 00:40:21,116
in the lobby at eight...
771
00:40:21,210 --> 00:40:22,200
so you'll have plenty of time
772
00:40:22,295 --> 00:40:23,331
to get downtown
before the offering.
773
00:40:23,421 --> 00:40:24,662
And the breakfast.
774
00:40:24,756 --> 00:40:27,043
"All designed to meet
these five desiderata."
775
00:40:29,594 --> 00:40:30,584
Bagdikian.
776
00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:32,177
It's Harry Rowen.
777
00:40:32,347 --> 00:40:36,091
Hey, uh, let me call you back
from outside the newsroom.
778
00:40:58,873 --> 00:41:02,492
Excuse me,
are you important?
779
00:41:03,044 --> 00:41:05,001
I'm a general
assignment reporter.
780
00:41:05,171 --> 00:41:06,537
Okay.
781
00:41:38,871 --> 00:41:40,703
Uh, I think I got something.
782
00:41:40,873 --> 00:41:41,863
Be my guest.
783
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,707
Can we lose The New York
Times from the nut graph?
784
00:41:43,876 --> 00:41:44,866
Ben, they are
the source of the story.
785
00:41:45,003 --> 00:41:46,995
Every time I read The New York
Times above the fold...
786
00:41:47,171 --> 00:41:48,332
- Mr. Bradlee?
- No.
787
00:41:48,506 --> 00:41:50,247
I feel like somebody's shoving
a hot poker up my ass.
788
00:41:50,466 --> 00:41:51,502
All right, just say The Times,
789
00:41:51,592 --> 00:41:52,628
and drop it
a graph below the fold.
790
00:41:52,844 --> 00:41:53,834
There you go.
791
00:41:53,928 --> 00:41:55,044
That would
be less painful.
792
00:41:55,888 --> 00:41:57,220
I think I got something.
793
00:41:57,390 --> 00:41:59,097
"McNaughton had McNamara
plan for action."
794
00:41:59,267 --> 00:42:01,475
Well, that's two months
before the election.
795
00:42:01,644 --> 00:42:03,180
"Suggested
sending large numbers
796
00:42:03,271 --> 00:42:04,728
"of U. S. forces to interlard."
797
00:42:04,814 --> 00:42:05,804
"Interlard"?
798
00:42:05,982 --> 00:42:06,972
Where'd you get these?
799
00:42:07,066 --> 00:42:08,273
Somebody left them on my desk.
800
00:42:08,443 --> 00:42:09,684
All these guys
sound like they sleep
801
00:42:09,777 --> 00:42:11,143
with a damn thesaurus.
802
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:15,193
So McNaughton was secretly
suggesting to McNamara...
803
00:42:15,366 --> 00:42:16,356
to provoke the North so we'd
804
00:42:16,451 --> 00:42:17,658
- have grounds for escalation?
- Yep.
805
00:42:17,744 --> 00:42:19,406
Yeah, it was
in The Times article.
806
00:42:19,537 --> 00:42:21,073
It was a good piece.
You should check it out.
807
00:42:21,247 --> 00:42:22,237
- It was well-written.
- Jesus Christ.
808
00:42:22,415 --> 00:42:24,748
Give it to someone who can't
type 91 words a minute...
809
00:42:24,917 --> 00:42:26,499
and have it proofed, okay?
810
00:42:26,669 --> 00:42:27,876
- Ben?
- Yeah?
811
00:42:28,046 --> 00:42:29,537
I think we got something.
812
00:42:29,714 --> 00:42:31,000
What is it?
813
00:42:39,098 --> 00:42:40,464
Jesus Christ.
814
00:42:41,309 --> 00:42:42,720
Shit. Are these
815
00:42:42,810 --> 00:42:44,142
part of the pages
of the McNamara study?
816
00:42:44,312 --> 00:42:45,348
Where did you get these?
817
00:42:45,521 --> 00:42:47,012
Somebody left them on my desk.
818
00:42:47,190 --> 00:42:48,306
On your desk?
819
00:42:48,483 --> 00:42:50,600
- I didn't... It was a woman.
- A woman?
820
00:42:50,777 --> 00:42:53,269
We got over 100 pages
of the McNamara study here.
821
00:42:53,446 --> 00:42:55,278
A hippie woman.
822
00:42:55,448 --> 00:42:56,939
Hey, Debbie,
get me Bagdikian.
823
00:42:57,116 --> 00:42:58,106
She had one of those skirts...
824
00:42:58,242 --> 00:42:59,858
He's out.
He went somewhere.
825
00:42:59,952 --> 00:43:00,942
Fine.
826
00:43:01,037 --> 00:43:02,369
Probably
between 5'4 " and 5'6"...
827
00:43:02,538 --> 00:43:06,452
If these are the real thing,
we are back in the ballgame.
828
00:43:06,626 --> 00:43:07,616
It was a tie-dye skirt.
829
00:43:07,794 --> 00:43:11,287
And this is gonna be the front
page of tomorrow's paper.
830
00:43:11,380 --> 00:43:15,249
Um... Give it to Marder.
It's his lucky day.
831
00:43:21,557 --> 00:43:23,640
My God, the fun.
832
00:43:25,812 --> 00:43:27,053
RAND Corporation.
833
00:43:27,146 --> 00:43:28,557
Harry Rowen, please.
834
00:43:33,945 --> 00:43:35,061
This is Harry.
835
00:43:35,238 --> 00:43:37,070
Harry, it's Ben Bagdikian.
836
00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:38,902
You think someone's
bugging your phone?
837
00:43:39,408 --> 00:43:42,367
I think someone
might be bugging yours.
838
00:43:42,954 --> 00:43:45,287
Why would someone
bug my phone?
839
00:43:45,456 --> 00:43:46,822
If I thought
the McNamara study
840
00:43:46,916 --> 00:43:48,032
had leaked from RAND...
841
00:43:48,209 --> 00:43:50,792
I'd bug the phone of the
president of RAND.
842
00:43:51,337 --> 00:43:53,044
It's a DoD study.
843
00:43:53,214 --> 00:43:55,456
A copy of which was sent to
RAND for safekeeping.
844
00:43:55,633 --> 00:43:58,171
Two copies,
if I'm not mistaken.
845
00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:02,087
Jesus Christ, Ben, that leak
didn't come from us.
846
00:44:02,265 --> 00:44:03,801
You sure about that?
847
00:44:04,559 --> 00:44:06,016
Look, in my experience...
848
00:44:06,185 --> 00:44:07,801
guys who
want stuff like this out there
849
00:44:07,895 --> 00:44:08,976
and have the guts to do it...
850
00:44:09,147 --> 00:44:10,433
they're a particular type.
851
00:44:10,523 --> 00:44:11,855
They've got conscience
and conviction...
852
00:44:12,024 --> 00:44:14,232
but they've also got ego.
853
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,602
Now, there's a guy that
we both know, okay?
854
00:44:16,779 --> 00:44:18,486
He was there
the same time as I was.
855
00:44:18,573 --> 00:44:19,939
He left right after.
856
00:44:20,116 --> 00:44:21,857
You know
who I'm talking about, right?
857
00:44:22,034 --> 00:44:23,445
Isn't he the first guy
you thought of
858
00:44:23,536 --> 00:44:25,869
when you saw
the article in The Times?
859
00:44:28,332 --> 00:44:30,870
Okay, look, I gotta go.
860
00:44:38,676 --> 00:44:39,962
Mr. and Mrs. Rosenthal.
861
00:44:40,136 --> 00:44:41,968
- Oh, yes, I see.
- You're welcome.
862
00:44:43,931 --> 00:44:44,921
I don't wanna push it.
863
00:44:45,099 --> 00:44:46,465
- Hi.
- Ah, Kay.
864
00:44:46,642 --> 00:44:47,632
What a treat!
865
00:44:47,810 --> 00:44:49,472
I'm just going to
apologize in advance.
866
00:44:49,562 --> 00:44:50,848
Great to see you.
867
00:44:51,022 --> 00:44:54,481
I'm no fun at all, Abe.
I'm just so nervous...
868
00:44:54,650 --> 00:44:56,186
about tomorrow
at the stock exchange.
869
00:44:56,277 --> 00:44:57,609
And I have to make
a big speech.
870
00:44:57,778 --> 00:44:59,360
- No, no, no, no.
- Poor you.
871
00:44:59,530 --> 00:45:01,692
No, going public is
a good move for The Post.
872
00:45:01,866 --> 00:45:03,823
Maybe you can even think
about expanding.
873
00:45:03,993 --> 00:45:05,859
Try to be more
of a national paper.
874
00:45:06,370 --> 00:45:07,952
I wish Abe would
let me buy shares.
875
00:45:08,122 --> 00:45:09,863
That's against
company policy...
876
00:45:10,041 --> 00:45:12,533
but if you're nervous
and need distraction...
877
00:45:12,710 --> 00:45:15,453
I do happen to have a copy
of today's Times.
878
00:45:15,630 --> 00:45:16,620
Abe!
879
00:45:17,632 --> 00:45:19,214
Unless you read it already.
880
00:45:19,383 --> 00:45:22,547
Oh, you awful man.
You really are.
881
00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:24,086
Can we get you
something to drink?
882
00:45:24,263 --> 00:45:26,175
Bundy argues
for sustained bombing.
883
00:45:26,349 --> 00:45:27,339
Great stuff.
884
00:45:27,433 --> 00:45:28,423
He thinks
it'll turn the tide.
885
00:45:28,517 --> 00:45:29,633
This is February of '65.
886
00:45:29,894 --> 00:45:30,884
Jesus Christ.
887
00:45:31,020 --> 00:45:33,353
But by April, they realize
it's not gonna cut it...
888
00:45:33,522 --> 00:45:35,388
and LBJ sends two battalions.
889
00:45:35,483 --> 00:45:36,519
- Great stuff.
- And get this.
890
00:45:36,692 --> 00:45:38,149
He changes the mission
891
00:45:38,236 --> 00:45:40,193
from base security
to active combat.
892
00:45:40,363 --> 00:45:42,104
- My God.
- It's a huge shift.
893
00:45:42,281 --> 00:45:43,522
He's widening the war.
894
00:45:43,699 --> 00:45:45,361
But he insists on secrecy.
895
00:45:45,534 --> 00:45:46,900
The American people are
not to be told.
896
00:45:47,078 --> 00:45:48,489
All right, okay.
So this is the real deal...
897
00:45:48,663 --> 00:45:50,245
so how long
till you can write it up?
898
00:45:50,414 --> 00:45:51,825
I can have it for Thursday.
899
00:45:51,999 --> 00:45:53,080
Well, what if we pretend
900
00:45:53,167 --> 00:45:55,159
you're a reporter,
not a novelist?
901
00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:56,705
Uh, I suppose I could pull
902
00:45:56,796 --> 00:45:58,162
something together
by tomorrow night.
903
00:45:58,339 --> 00:46:00,080
Okay, we can
run it on Wednesday.
904
00:46:01,550 --> 00:46:03,166
I know
we need to get this out, Ben,
905
00:46:03,261 --> 00:46:04,627
but I'd like to
spend a minute...
906
00:46:04,804 --> 00:46:06,887
going through what we've got
on Rolling Thunder.
907
00:46:07,056 --> 00:46:08,592
Go through
all the research you want...
908
00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:10,382
but so help me God,
if we don't have
909
00:46:10,476 --> 00:46:11,842
these pages
by tomorrow night...
910
00:46:12,019 --> 00:46:13,055
we might as well
not have them at all.
911
00:46:13,145 --> 00:46:14,226
Too late.
912
00:46:15,481 --> 00:46:16,471
What?
913
00:46:16,565 --> 00:46:17,806
Times already has it.
914
00:46:21,988 --> 00:46:23,229
Well, of course they have it.
915
00:46:23,406 --> 00:46:25,568
"President Johnson
decided on April 1, 1965..."
916
00:46:25,741 --> 00:46:28,233
Of course The Times had...
Written by Neil Sheehan.
917
00:46:28,411 --> 00:46:30,323
"...because
a month of bombing..."
918
00:46:30,955 --> 00:46:32,366
Neil Sheehan's a bastard.
919
00:46:32,456 --> 00:46:33,867
He's been a bastard foryears.
920
00:46:34,041 --> 00:46:35,532
Mr. President,
the Attorney General
921
00:46:35,626 --> 00:46:36,958
has called a couple times...
922
00:46:37,128 --> 00:46:39,120
about these
New York Times stories.
923
00:46:40,047 --> 00:46:41,538
You mean to
prosecute The Times?
924
00:46:41,716 --> 00:46:42,706
Hell, my view is
925
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:44,962
to prosecute the goddamn
pricks that gave it to 'em.
926
00:46:45,136 --> 00:46:46,172
If you can
find out who that is.
927
00:46:46,262 --> 00:46:47,252
Yeah, I know.
928
00:46:47,430 --> 00:46:49,046
I mean, could The Times
be prosecuted?
929
00:46:49,223 --> 00:46:50,430
Apparently so.
930
00:46:51,309 --> 00:46:52,425
As far as
The Times is concerned,
931
00:46:52,518 --> 00:46:53,508
hell, they're our enemies.
932
00:46:53,686 --> 00:46:55,848
I think we just oughta do it.
933
00:46:56,397 --> 00:46:58,309
Son of a bitch.
934
00:47:01,527 --> 00:47:02,813
Abe Rosenthal.
935
00:47:02,987 --> 00:47:05,445
Good evening. Their table
is right over there, sir.
936
00:47:07,158 --> 00:47:08,990
Brownell and Loeb over
at Lord Day and Lord...
937
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,449
told Punch in no uncertain
terms not to publish.
938
00:47:12,621 --> 00:47:14,738
Only after Scotty Reston
threatened
939
00:47:14,832 --> 00:47:16,164
to publish
in the Vineyard Gazette...
940
00:47:16,334 --> 00:47:17,700
did Punch decide to print.
941
00:47:17,877 --> 00:47:20,210
Wouldn't have had
quite the same impact.
942
00:47:21,422 --> 00:47:22,412
Jimmy.
943
00:47:24,508 --> 00:47:28,297
We've been asked to refrain
from further publication...
944
00:47:28,471 --> 00:47:30,633
by the Attorney General.
945
00:47:32,141 --> 00:47:34,508
Nixon's taking us to court?
946
00:47:40,608 --> 00:47:42,065
Kay, I'm sorry...
947
00:47:42,234 --> 00:47:43,566
Oh, no.
948
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:48,400
Gosh.
949
00:47:53,329 --> 00:47:54,991
Why don't I go get the check?
950
00:47:55,164 --> 00:47:56,371
No, sit tight,
don't argue with me.
951
00:47:56,540 --> 00:47:58,452
I'll be right back.
952
00:48:03,923 --> 00:48:06,085
Mr. Rosenthal
had to leave on business.
953
00:48:06,258 --> 00:48:07,965
Certainly,
we'll put it on his tab.
954
00:48:08,135 --> 00:48:09,342
No, I'll take the bill,
955
00:48:09,428 --> 00:48:11,920
but could I trouble you
to use your telephone?
956
00:48:12,098 --> 00:48:13,384
But of course, madam.
957
00:48:21,273 --> 00:48:23,230
There's a fella I overlapped
with at RAND.
958
00:48:23,401 --> 00:48:25,438
He was a bit of
a showboat, but smart.
959
00:48:25,528 --> 00:48:26,985
And he worked for McNamara...
960
00:48:27,154 --> 00:48:28,315
and he had opinions
961
00:48:28,406 --> 00:48:31,149
on the decision-making
that went into Vietnam.
962
00:48:31,325 --> 00:48:32,315
Okay.
963
00:48:32,451 --> 00:48:35,194
Word is, he doved.
Pretty hard.
964
00:48:35,371 --> 00:48:37,283
Would he have access
to the study?
965
00:48:37,456 --> 00:48:39,413
Pretty sure RAND had a copy.
966
00:48:39,583 --> 00:48:42,417
No shit. All right,
well, can you find him?
967
00:48:42,586 --> 00:48:44,703
Thought maybe I'd try.
968
00:48:48,175 --> 00:48:50,417
I've got
Mrs. Graham on the line.
969
00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:53,045
Katharine.
970
00:48:53,597 --> 00:48:57,216
Hey, listen,
I've got tomorrow's headline.
971
00:48:57,309 --> 00:48:59,926
Oh, Christ, okay, again?
972
00:49:00,396 --> 00:49:02,388
John Mitchell contacted
The Times.
973
00:49:02,565 --> 00:49:05,478
Seems the President is going
to seek an injunction.
974
00:49:06,193 --> 00:49:07,980
No, shit.
975
00:49:08,154 --> 00:49:10,316
This means that we're in
the goddamn ballgame.
976
00:49:10,489 --> 00:49:12,355
Because if The Times
gets shut down...
977
00:49:12,533 --> 00:49:13,819
If they get shut down,
978
00:49:13,909 --> 00:49:16,322
there is no ballgame.
Ballgame's over.
979
00:49:16,495 --> 00:49:17,702
Now, Katharine,
980
00:49:17,788 --> 00:49:20,155
anybody would kill
to have a crack at this.
981
00:49:20,332 --> 00:49:23,166
Well, sure, but not if it
means breaking the law.
982
00:49:23,335 --> 00:49:27,124
If a federal judge stops
The Times from publishing...
983
00:49:27,298 --> 00:49:29,711
well, I don't see how
we could publish...
984
00:49:29,884 --> 00:49:32,297
even if we could
get hold of a copy.
985
00:49:35,222 --> 00:49:38,181
Ben?
You have something?
986
00:49:39,310 --> 00:49:40,300
No.
987
00:49:41,353 --> 00:49:44,061
Okay, so then there's
nothing to talk about really.
988
00:49:44,231 --> 00:49:47,144
No, nothing
to talk about at all...
989
00:49:47,318 --> 00:49:50,277
but thank you for the tip,
Mrs. Graham.
990
00:49:51,489 --> 00:49:53,526
What are you still doing here?
991
00:50:17,473 --> 00:50:18,839
Excuse me.
992
00:50:22,561 --> 00:50:23,893
All right.
993
00:50:26,690 --> 00:50:27,851
Oh, there she is.
994
00:50:28,025 --> 00:50:29,607
- Hello.
- How are ya, Kay?
995
00:50:29,777 --> 00:50:31,689
Good morning, everyone.
Good to see you.
996
00:50:31,862 --> 00:50:32,852
Hello?
997
00:50:32,947 --> 00:50:34,404
Yeah, I'm looking
for Dan Ellsberg.
998
00:50:34,573 --> 00:50:36,109
He doesn't work here anymore.
999
00:50:36,283 --> 00:50:37,899
Do you know where he is now?
1000
00:50:38,077 --> 00:50:39,864
No, I don't. Who is this?
1001
00:50:40,246 --> 00:50:41,578
Thank you.
1002
00:50:41,747 --> 00:50:44,205
And it is
my great privilege to welcome
1003
00:50:44,291 --> 00:50:46,248
The Washington Rost Company...
1004
00:50:46,418 --> 00:50:48,785
to the American
Stock Exchange.
1005
00:50:53,717 --> 00:50:56,004
More than a privilege,
Mrs. Graham.
1006
00:50:56,095 --> 00:50:57,427
This is a real honor.
1007
00:50:58,722 --> 00:50:59,712
Hello, this is Karen.
1008
00:50:59,807 --> 00:51:00,968
Yeah, I'm looking
for Dan Ellsberg.
1009
00:51:01,141 --> 00:51:02,632
You got the wrong number.
1010
00:51:05,020 --> 00:51:06,010
Speech.
1011
00:51:06,146 --> 00:51:08,308
Go and project
confidence, Kay.
1012
00:51:10,317 --> 00:51:11,307
Gentlemen...
1013
00:51:12,278 --> 00:51:14,895
thank you all for helping make
1014
00:51:14,989 --> 00:51:17,481
The Washington Post
a more robust company.
1015
00:51:19,743 --> 00:51:21,279
Center
for International Studies.
1016
00:51:21,453 --> 00:51:23,035
Yeah, I'm looking
for Dan Ellsberg.
1017
00:51:23,205 --> 00:51:24,616
He's not here.
1018
00:51:25,833 --> 00:51:27,449
But he still works there?
1019
00:51:27,626 --> 00:51:30,494
Yes. Can I take a message?
1020
00:51:30,588 --> 00:51:33,126
Uh, tell him
Ben Bagdikian called.
1021
00:51:33,299 --> 00:51:34,335
Congratulations.
1022
00:51:34,425 --> 00:51:35,415
Guys, why don't we
1023
00:51:35,509 --> 00:51:36,545
get together for a photograph?
1024
00:51:36,635 --> 00:51:37,842
- Yes.
- Good idea. Absolutely.
1025
00:51:37,928 --> 00:51:39,089
- Here we go.
- Let me see it.
1026
00:51:39,263 --> 00:51:41,050
- Smile, Kay.
- Shall I hold it?
1027
00:51:41,223 --> 00:51:42,634
You just bought
a share of The Post!
1028
00:51:42,808 --> 00:51:45,300
I know. I'm so happy.
1029
00:51:45,477 --> 00:51:50,393
1.35 million shares
at $24.50 a share.
1030
00:51:53,819 --> 00:51:56,027
I believe this will not only
make The Post solvent...
1031
00:51:56,113 --> 00:51:58,355
but stronger
than it ever has been.
1032
00:51:58,449 --> 00:51:59,439
- To The Post!
- The Post!
1033
00:51:59,617 --> 00:52:01,233
He said to call
from a secure phone.
1034
00:52:01,327 --> 00:52:02,443
Mmm-hmm.
1035
00:52:09,627 --> 00:52:11,038
I hear
Kennedy said Phil Graham
1036
00:52:11,128 --> 00:52:12,494
was the smartest man
he ever met.
1037
00:52:12,671 --> 00:52:15,254
Yeah, for Kay's father to hand
her husband the company...
1038
00:52:15,424 --> 00:52:17,131
says something about the guy.
1039
00:52:17,301 --> 00:52:20,510
I thought it said something
about the time.
1040
00:52:20,679 --> 00:52:21,669
Turn it up.
1041
00:52:21,847 --> 00:52:23,759
Good evening.
The New York Times late today
1042
00:52:23,849 --> 00:52:25,886
was barred,
at least until Saturday...
1043
00:52:26,060 --> 00:52:28,552
from publishing any more
classified documents...
1044
00:52:28,729 --> 00:52:32,313
dealing with the cause and
conduct of the Vietnam War.
1045
00:52:32,483 --> 00:52:34,224
The Times, true to its word...
1046
00:52:34,401 --> 00:52:35,983
said it would abide
by the decision
1047
00:52:36,070 --> 00:52:37,857
of Federal Judge
Murray Gurfein...
1048
00:52:38,030 --> 00:52:40,022
but will resist
a permanent injunction
1049
00:52:40,115 --> 00:52:41,401
at a hearing Friday.
1050
00:52:41,575 --> 00:52:43,407
The Nixon administration
have charged that
1051
00:52:43,494 --> 00:52:45,406
the final two parts of
The Times' series...
1052
00:52:45,579 --> 00:52:47,161
would result in
irreparable injury
1053
00:52:47,247 --> 00:52:48,863
to the national defense.
1054
00:52:49,041 --> 00:52:50,577
Hell, why bother
fighting the communists?
1055
00:52:50,751 --> 00:52:52,458
Think Jefferson just
rolled over in his grave.
1056
00:52:52,628 --> 00:52:55,245
Have the courts ever stopped a
paper from publishing before?
1057
00:52:55,422 --> 00:52:58,961
Not in the history
of the republic.
1058
00:52:59,134 --> 00:53:01,171
Good thing
we're not part of this mess.
1059
00:53:01,345 --> 00:53:03,837
I'd give my left one
to be in this mess.
1060
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:06,802
There's our
front page lede tomorrow.
1061
00:53:06,892 --> 00:53:08,303
Chal, that's yours.
1062
00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:10,510
All right.
1063
00:53:11,146 --> 00:53:13,854
Party's over.
Let's get back to our jobs.
1064
00:53:29,248 --> 00:53:31,786
- Hello?
- Hi, it's Ben.
1065
00:53:31,959 --> 00:53:33,495
- Yes.
- Dan?
1066
00:53:33,669 --> 00:53:34,705
No.
1067
00:53:34,795 --> 00:53:38,539
Oh, I'm trying to get a hold
of a fella I used to know...
1068
00:53:38,716 --> 00:53:41,129
617-597-4580.
1069
00:53:41,301 --> 00:53:42,417
Okay.
1070
00:53:45,431 --> 00:53:47,138
Hold on.
1071
00:53:48,475 --> 00:53:49,932
Was it 4580?
1072
00:53:50,102 --> 00:53:51,718
Call from another phone.
1073
00:53:51,895 --> 00:53:56,014
617-597-4580.
1074
00:54:05,701 --> 00:54:10,071
617-597-4580.
1075
00:54:18,547 --> 00:54:19,537
Hello?
1076
00:54:19,715 --> 00:54:22,958
- Yeah, I'm looking for...
- Yeah. Hey, Ben, it's Dan.
1077
00:54:23,135 --> 00:54:26,344
Dan, it's good
to hear your voice.
1078
00:54:26,513 --> 00:54:27,970
Yeah, it's been a while.
1079
00:54:28,140 --> 00:54:29,347
Yeah.
1080
00:54:47,785 --> 00:54:49,777
- Who is it?
- It's Ben.
1081
00:54:59,338 --> 00:55:00,374
Ben.
1082
00:55:00,798 --> 00:55:02,164
Dan.
1083
00:55:07,721 --> 00:55:10,213
The study had 47 volumes.
1084
00:55:10,390 --> 00:55:11,972
I slipped out
a couple at a time.
1085
00:55:12,059 --> 00:55:13,470
Took me months to copy it all.
1086
00:55:17,439 --> 00:55:18,555
What the hell?
1087
00:55:18,732 --> 00:55:21,520
Well, we were
all former government guys.
1088
00:55:21,693 --> 00:55:23,400
Top clearance, all of that.
1089
00:55:23,570 --> 00:55:25,527
McNamara wanted
academics to have
1090
00:55:25,614 --> 00:55:27,230
the chance to examine
what had happened.
1091
00:55:27,407 --> 00:55:28,443
He would say to us,
1092
00:55:28,534 --> 00:55:29,991
"Let the chips fall
where they may."
1093
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:31,401
Brave man.
1094
00:55:31,578 --> 00:55:34,195
Well, I think guilt was a
bigger motivator than courage.
1095
00:55:34,373 --> 00:55:36,080
McNamara didn't lie
as well as the rest...
1096
00:55:36,250 --> 00:55:39,209
but I don't think he saw what
was coming, what we'd find.
1097
00:55:39,378 --> 00:55:41,244
But it didn't take him long
to figure out...
1098
00:55:41,421 --> 00:55:42,411
well, for us all
to figure out
1099
00:55:42,506 --> 00:55:44,168
if the public ever saw
these papers...
1100
00:55:44,341 --> 00:55:45,957
they would turn
against the war.
1101
00:55:46,134 --> 00:55:48,968
Covert ops, guaranteed debt,
rigged elections?
1102
00:55:49,137 --> 00:55:52,881
It's all in there.
Ike, Kennedy, Johnson.
1103
00:55:53,058 --> 00:55:54,515
They violated
the Geneva Convention.
1104
00:55:54,685 --> 00:55:57,428
They lied to Congress
and they lied to the public.
1105
00:55:57,604 --> 00:56:01,393
They knew we couldn't win
and still sent boys to die.
1106
00:56:01,567 --> 00:56:03,229
What about Nixon?
1107
00:56:04,570 --> 00:56:06,402
He's just carrying on
like all the others.
1108
00:56:06,572 --> 00:56:09,406
Too afraid to be the one who
loses the war on his watch.
1109
00:56:11,159 --> 00:56:13,822
Someone said this
at some point...
1110
00:56:13,996 --> 00:56:16,659
about why we stayed
when we knew we were losing.
1111
00:56:17,875 --> 00:56:20,117
10% was to help
the South Vietnamese.
1112
00:56:20,294 --> 00:56:22,126
20% was to hold back
the commies.
1113
00:56:23,088 --> 00:56:25,296
70% was to avoid
1114
00:56:25,382 --> 00:56:27,920
the humiliation
of an American defeat.
1115
00:56:28,093 --> 00:56:32,178
70% of those boys...
1116
00:56:32,347 --> 00:56:34,464
just to avoid
being humiliated?
1117
00:56:35,225 --> 00:56:36,761
That stuck with me.
1118
00:56:45,903 --> 00:56:47,735
They're gonna come after you,
you know.
1119
00:56:47,821 --> 00:56:49,312
And I gotta be honest...
1120
00:56:50,198 --> 00:56:52,815
the bread crumbs
weren't too hard to follow.
1121
00:56:54,453 --> 00:56:55,489
I know.
1122
00:56:57,873 --> 00:56:59,830
They're gonna
lock you up, Dan.
1123
00:57:00,334 --> 00:57:03,247
Wouldn't you go to prison
to stop this war?
1124
00:57:05,088 --> 00:57:07,330
Theoretically, sure.
1125
00:57:10,636 --> 00:57:13,800
You are gonna
publish these documents?
1126
00:57:16,224 --> 00:57:17,465
Yeah.
1127
00:57:18,477 --> 00:57:21,140
Even with the injunction?
1128
00:57:22,689 --> 00:57:23,896
Yes.
1129
00:57:28,028 --> 00:57:31,066
Well, then it's not
so theoretical then, is it?
1130
00:57:41,833 --> 00:57:44,746
I'm gonna go do some
work in the studio.
1131
00:57:53,220 --> 00:57:55,883
My day was great,
thanks for asking.
1132
00:58:12,322 --> 00:58:15,110
That picture makes me sad.
1133
00:58:16,368 --> 00:58:17,825
Me too.
1134
00:58:23,291 --> 00:58:24,748
- Bradlee.
- I'm in Boston.
1135
00:58:24,918 --> 00:58:26,875
I'm gonna need two seats.
1136
00:58:26,962 --> 00:58:27,952
Why?
1137
00:58:28,130 --> 00:58:30,247
I'm gonna need to
buy two seats
1138
00:58:30,340 --> 00:58:31,581
on the first flight
out tomorrow...
1139
00:58:31,758 --> 00:58:33,249
probably first class.
1140
00:58:34,386 --> 00:58:36,127
No shit, you have them?
1141
00:58:38,682 --> 00:58:40,890
Well then just get
your ass back here...
1142
00:58:41,268 --> 00:58:42,634
and come
straight to the house.
1143
00:58:42,728 --> 00:58:44,185
Get Chal and Meg
and the others.
1144
00:58:44,354 --> 00:58:45,344
I don't want
the whole newsroom
1145
00:58:45,439 --> 00:58:46,600
knowing about this yet.
1146
00:58:46,690 --> 00:58:47,806
I gotta go.
1147
00:58:47,941 --> 00:58:50,228
Didn't you just invite
a bunch of people over?
1148
00:58:50,402 --> 00:58:51,392
Yeah.
1149
00:58:51,653 --> 00:58:53,770
Yeah, they'll show up
sometime tomorrow.
1150
00:58:53,947 --> 00:58:54,937
When sometime tomorrow?
1151
00:58:55,032 --> 00:58:56,614
Is this a breakfast thing
or a lunch thing?
1152
00:58:56,783 --> 00:58:58,820
- Don't know.
- Do you need me to get things?
1153
00:58:58,952 --> 00:59:00,488
- Nah, we'll figure it all out.
- Okay.
1154
00:59:00,620 --> 00:59:02,486
- Well, where are you going?
- Out.
1155
00:59:02,664 --> 00:59:04,075
- You going to the newsroom?
- No.
1156
00:59:04,249 --> 00:59:05,785
Love you, bear.
1157
00:59:07,127 --> 00:59:09,119
I got a cake.
I hope it's okay?
1158
00:59:09,296 --> 00:59:11,959
Oh, sure, as long as nobody
counts the candles.
1159
00:59:14,009 --> 00:59:16,092
Uh, sorry to barge in again.
1160
00:59:16,595 --> 00:59:18,507
Maybe I should give you a key.
1161
00:59:18,889 --> 00:59:21,427
Ah, not here
to crash your party.
1162
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:22,590
What's up?
1163
00:59:22,768 --> 00:59:24,805
Well, I could use a minute.
1164
00:59:32,027 --> 00:59:33,893
So, can I ask you a
hypothetical question?
1165
00:59:34,071 --> 00:59:36,233
Oh, dear, I don't like
hypothetical questions.
1166
00:59:36,406 --> 00:59:37,647
Well, I don't think
you're gonna
1167
00:59:37,741 --> 00:59:39,152
like the real one either.
1168
00:59:42,329 --> 00:59:43,615
Do you have the papers?
1169
00:59:45,415 --> 00:59:46,622
Not yet.
1170
00:59:50,420 --> 00:59:53,754
Oh, gosh,
because you know...
1171
00:59:53,965 --> 00:59:56,252
the position
that would put me in.
1172
00:59:56,843 --> 00:59:58,334
You know, we have language
1173
00:59:58,428 --> 00:59:59,839
in the prospectus
that we've...
1174
01:00:00,013 --> 01:00:02,175
Yeah, I know that the
bankers can change their mind.
1175
01:00:02,349 --> 01:00:04,432
And I know what is at stake.
1176
01:00:04,601 --> 01:00:05,808
You know...
1177
01:00:05,977 --> 01:00:08,390
the only couple I knew
that both Kennedy
1178
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:10,062
and LBJ wanted
to socialize with...
1179
01:00:10,232 --> 01:00:14,272
was you and your husband and
you owned the damn paper.
1180
01:00:16,113 --> 01:00:17,820
Of course that's the way
things worked.
1181
01:00:17,989 --> 01:00:20,151
Politicians and the press,
they trusted each other...
1182
01:00:20,325 --> 01:00:21,861
so they could go to
the same dinner party
1183
01:00:21,952 --> 01:00:23,409
and drink cocktails
and tell jokes...
1184
01:00:23,578 --> 01:00:25,444
while there was a war
waging in Vietnam.
1185
01:00:25,622 --> 01:00:27,158
Ben, I don't know
what we're talking about.
1186
01:00:27,249 --> 01:00:29,081
I'm not protecting Lyndon.
1187
01:00:29,251 --> 01:00:30,367
No, you got his former
Secretary of Defense,
1188
01:00:30,460 --> 01:00:31,450
Robert McNamara...
1189
01:00:31,628 --> 01:00:33,745
the man
who commissioned this study.
1190
01:00:33,839 --> 01:00:35,171
He's one of about
a dozen party guests...
1191
01:00:35,340 --> 01:00:37,002
- out on your patio.
- I'm not protecting him.
1192
01:00:37,092 --> 01:00:38,082
I'm not protecting
any of them.
1193
01:00:38,176 --> 01:00:39,212
I'm protecting the paper.
1194
01:00:39,302 --> 01:00:42,921
Yeah? Well, I wasn't a stooge
for Jack Kennedy.
1195
01:00:43,181 --> 01:00:44,638
The night he was assassinated
1196
01:00:44,724 --> 01:00:46,966
Tony and I were down
at the Naval Hospital...
1197
01:00:47,144 --> 01:00:50,637
so we would be there to meet
Jackie when she landed.
1198
01:00:50,814 --> 01:00:51,804
She was bringing Jack's body
1199
01:00:51,898 --> 01:00:53,480
back on the plane
from Dallas...
1200
01:00:53,650 --> 01:00:55,937
and she walked into the room.
1201
01:00:56,111 --> 01:00:57,943
She was still
wearing that pink suit
1202
01:00:58,029 --> 01:00:59,986
with Jack's blood all over it.
1203
01:01:00,699 --> 01:01:03,533
She fell into Tony's arms
and they held each other...
1204
01:01:03,702 --> 01:01:05,694
for quite a long time.
1205
01:01:07,664 --> 01:01:10,156
And then Jackie looked at me
and said...
1206
01:01:10,333 --> 01:01:12,825
"None of this,
none of what you see,
1207
01:01:12,919 --> 01:01:14,080
"none of what I say...
1208
01:01:14,254 --> 01:01:17,918
"is ever going to be
in your newspaper, Ben."
1209
01:01:18,717 --> 01:01:21,585
And that just about
broke my heart.
1210
01:01:21,678 --> 01:01:23,670
I never...
1211
01:01:23,889 --> 01:01:25,505
I never thought of Jack
as a source,
1212
01:01:25,599 --> 01:01:27,056
I thought of him as a friend.
1213
01:01:27,642 --> 01:01:29,599
And that was my mistake.
1214
01:01:30,103 --> 01:01:33,187
And it was something that
Jack knew all along.
1215
01:01:33,690 --> 01:01:36,398
We can't be both.
We have to choose.
1216
01:01:36,860 --> 01:01:38,271
And...
1217
01:01:38,361 --> 01:01:40,023
And that's the point.
1218
01:01:40,197 --> 01:01:42,154
The days of us all
smoking cigars together
1219
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:44,197
down on Pennsylvania Avenue
are over.
1220
01:01:44,910 --> 01:01:48,904
Your friend McNamara's
study proves that.
1221
01:01:49,915 --> 01:01:51,872
The way they lied.
1222
01:01:53,335 --> 01:01:55,122
The way they lied.
1223
01:01:55,545 --> 01:01:57,662
Those days have to be over.
1224
01:01:59,466 --> 01:02:02,425
We have to be the check
on their power.
1225
01:02:02,594 --> 01:02:04,586
If we don't
hold them accountable,
1226
01:02:04,679 --> 01:02:06,966
I mean, my God, who will?
1227
01:02:08,642 --> 01:02:10,178
Well, I've never
smoked a cigar...
1228
01:02:10,352 --> 01:02:12,810
and I have no problem
holding Lyndon or Jack...
1229
01:02:12,979 --> 01:02:15,221
or Bob or any of them
accountable.
1230
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,477
But we can't
hold them accountable
1231
01:02:17,567 --> 01:02:19,433
if we don't have a newspaper.
1232
01:02:21,404 --> 01:02:23,691
When I get my hands
on that study...
1233
01:02:23,865 --> 01:02:26,403
what are you going to do,
Mrs. Graham?
1234
01:02:29,871 --> 01:02:31,533
Oh, uh...
1235
01:02:31,915 --> 01:02:33,531
Happy birthday, by the way.
1236
01:02:36,044 --> 01:02:37,831
Oh, that's not what I heard.
1237
01:02:38,255 --> 01:02:39,416
Am I right?
1238
01:02:45,303 --> 01:02:46,510
- Hi. Good morning.
- Club soda.
1239
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:48,262
- Enjoy your flight.
- Yes, thank you.
1240
01:02:49,307 --> 01:02:51,344
Sir, I'm gonna need
to put your seat
1241
01:02:51,434 --> 01:02:53,175
in the full upright position
before takeoff.
1242
01:02:53,353 --> 01:02:54,389
Yeah.
1243
01:02:55,146 --> 01:02:57,058
Must be precious cargo.
1244
01:02:57,357 --> 01:03:00,475
Yeah. It's just
government secrets.
1245
01:03:00,568 --> 01:03:03,982
Rlease fasten
your seatbelt. Thank you.
1246
01:03:17,252 --> 01:03:19,915
- You know why we're here?
- Beats me.
1247
01:03:20,338 --> 01:03:21,874
- Hi, Marina.
- Hi.
1248
01:03:22,048 --> 01:03:24,165
- Do you want lemonade?
- Little early for me.
1249
01:03:24,342 --> 01:03:25,753
Loosen up, I'm buying.
1250
01:03:25,927 --> 01:03:28,010
What kinda lemonade
do you have there?
1251
01:03:28,305 --> 01:03:30,968
Uh... It's the one
with the lemons in it.
1252
01:03:31,141 --> 01:03:32,131
Okay.
1253
01:03:33,476 --> 01:03:34,887
There you go.
1254
01:03:37,230 --> 01:03:39,222
Phil, help me out.
1255
01:03:41,109 --> 01:03:43,021
Grab my briefcase.
1256
01:03:44,988 --> 01:03:46,524
- Is that...?
- Yep.
1257
01:03:59,294 --> 01:04:00,626
It's not the full report
1258
01:04:00,712 --> 01:04:02,999
but it's over
4,000 pages of it.
1259
01:04:06,092 --> 01:04:08,084
- Are these in order?
- I don't think so.
1260
01:04:08,261 --> 01:04:09,377
There are no page numbers.
1261
01:04:09,554 --> 01:04:11,341
Yeah, that's where the
top secret stamps were.
1262
01:04:11,514 --> 01:04:12,721
My source had to cut 'em off.
1263
01:04:12,891 --> 01:04:14,257
I was supposed to
retire on Friday.
1264
01:04:14,434 --> 01:04:15,766
Ben, how we supposed
to comb through
1265
01:04:15,852 --> 01:04:16,842
4,000 pages of material?
1266
01:04:17,020 --> 01:04:18,056
They're not even
loosely organized?
1267
01:04:18,229 --> 01:04:19,470
The Times had three months.
1268
01:04:19,564 --> 01:04:20,645
There's no way
we can possibly get this done.
1269
01:04:20,815 --> 01:04:22,351
He's right. We've got
less than eight hours.
1270
01:04:22,525 --> 01:04:23,891
We could shoot for city.
Then we'd have ten.
1271
01:04:24,069 --> 01:04:25,560
Hey, hey, hey.
For the last six years
1272
01:04:25,653 --> 01:04:26,860
we've been playin' catch-up...
1273
01:04:27,030 --> 01:04:28,020
and now thanks to
1274
01:04:28,114 --> 01:04:29,480
the President
of the United States...
1275
01:04:29,657 --> 01:04:31,114
who, by the way,
is taking a shit
1276
01:04:31,201 --> 01:04:32,612
all over
the First Amendment...
1277
01:04:32,786 --> 01:04:34,448
we have the goods.
1278
01:04:34,621 --> 01:04:36,328
And we don't have
any competition.
1279
01:04:36,748 --> 01:04:38,614
There's dozens
of stories in here.
1280
01:04:38,792 --> 01:04:41,409
The Times has barely
scratched the surface.
1281
01:04:41,753 --> 01:04:44,712
We have ten hours
'til the deadline...
1282
01:04:45,215 --> 01:04:47,002
so we dig in.
1283
01:04:50,762 --> 01:04:52,674
I think this memo's
from McNamara.
1284
01:04:52,847 --> 01:04:54,463
"It is my belief
that there should be
1285
01:04:54,557 --> 01:04:56,173
"a three- or four-week pause
in bombing."
1286
01:04:56,351 --> 01:04:58,343
Wait, wait, wait. I saw
the other half of that memo.
1287
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,558
Anyone have the back half of
a cable from Dulles in '54?
1288
01:05:01,731 --> 01:05:03,688
I thought I saw one from July.
1289
01:05:03,858 --> 01:05:05,815
Yeah, here it is. "The reasons
for this belief...
1290
01:05:05,985 --> 01:05:07,772
"are that we must
lay a foundation
1291
01:05:07,862 --> 01:05:09,228
"in the mind
of the American public."
1292
01:05:09,406 --> 01:05:11,113
That's it! That's it!
1293
01:05:12,784 --> 01:05:14,241
So Johnson wasn't trying
to make peace.
1294
01:05:14,327 --> 01:05:15,534
He was just
manipulating the public?
1295
01:05:15,703 --> 01:05:18,286
Eyes out for a suspension
in bombing from when?
1296
01:05:18,456 --> 01:05:20,038
'65 to '68.
1297
01:05:20,208 --> 01:05:21,540
What about a memo
1298
01:05:21,626 --> 01:05:23,993
from Eisenhower's special
committee on Indochina?
1299
01:05:24,838 --> 01:05:25,874
Uh, Meg read
a part of one to me.
1300
01:05:25,964 --> 01:05:26,954
Meg?
1301
01:05:27,048 --> 01:05:28,255
Anybody see a mention
1302
01:05:28,341 --> 01:05:29,457
of the RAND Viet Cong study?
1303
01:05:29,551 --> 01:05:31,634
Yeah, I think this might be
from your RAND study.
1304
01:05:31,803 --> 01:05:33,419
"VC are deeply committed.
1305
01:05:33,513 --> 01:05:35,379
"South Vietnam
is a lost cause."
1306
01:05:35,557 --> 01:05:37,173
- Whoa! There you go.
- Bingo.
1307
01:05:37,559 --> 01:05:38,800
- All right.
- Meg, I need the...
1308
01:05:38,935 --> 01:05:39,971
Yeah,
I put it on the shelf.
1309
01:05:40,061 --> 01:05:42,599
Couple of piles.
We're getting somewhere.
1310
01:05:42,939 --> 01:05:45,522
All right, it's 1:30.
Four o'clock story conference.
1311
01:05:45,692 --> 01:05:47,684
Can I interest anyone
in some lemonade?
1312
01:05:47,861 --> 01:05:49,318
- Yes!
- Does it have vodka in it?
1313
01:05:49,487 --> 01:05:50,773
I don't put vodka
in my lemonade.
1314
01:05:50,864 --> 01:05:51,900
Go easy on the kid.
1315
01:05:51,990 --> 01:05:52,980
Why not?
1316
01:05:53,074 --> 01:05:54,440
- How much, sweetheart?
- A quarter.
1317
01:05:54,576 --> 01:05:55,817
It's 50 cents.
1318
01:05:55,910 --> 01:05:57,776
- Inflation.
- Price is going up.
1319
01:06:01,249 --> 01:06:02,581
Mr. Bradlee.
1320
01:06:02,750 --> 01:06:03,957
Roger Clark.
1321
01:06:04,127 --> 01:06:06,084
Oh, you're Roger Clark?
1322
01:06:06,254 --> 01:06:07,916
It's nice to
meet you in person.
1323
01:06:08,131 --> 01:06:11,169
You are our
senior legal counsel.
1324
01:06:11,885 --> 01:06:13,751
Yes, we've spoken
on the phone.
1325
01:06:13,845 --> 01:06:15,302
My voice should
sound familiar.
1326
01:06:15,472 --> 01:06:17,680
When did you
finish law school?
1327
01:06:18,266 --> 01:06:20,599
- I graduated...
- Rhetorical question.
1328
01:06:20,768 --> 01:06:22,600
You know,
the guy we had before you
1329
01:06:22,687 --> 01:06:24,394
is now Secretary of State.
1330
01:06:24,647 --> 01:06:26,730
I did not know that.
1331
01:06:27,650 --> 01:06:29,482
A little joke,
perhaps not the time.
1332
01:06:29,569 --> 01:06:31,151
What exactly
can I help you with...
1333
01:06:31,321 --> 01:06:33,938
So, why would the CIA Director
send a memo on war policy?
1334
01:06:34,115 --> 01:06:35,777
Because they weren't
calling it a war yet.
1335
01:06:35,950 --> 01:06:37,657
Okay, I've got
turkey with mustard.
1336
01:06:37,744 --> 01:06:39,110
Roast beef with horseradish.
1337
01:06:39,287 --> 01:06:41,574
- Howard, come look at this.
- Chal, you've gotta see this.
1338
01:06:41,748 --> 01:06:43,785
It's a full analysis
of McNamara's
1339
01:06:43,875 --> 01:06:44,911
changing view of the war.
1340
01:06:45,084 --> 01:06:46,370
Does it say anything
about why he does?
1341
01:06:46,461 --> 01:06:47,952
So we knew they were
gonna assassinate Diem.
1342
01:06:48,129 --> 01:06:49,586
Yeah, and we did
nothing to stop it.
1343
01:06:49,756 --> 01:06:51,463
I think I got something
on McNamara on the fireplace.
1344
01:06:51,549 --> 01:06:53,165
The other fireplace.
1345
01:06:54,719 --> 01:06:56,335
Murrey, where's
the back half of this one?
1346
01:06:56,429 --> 01:06:57,886
What's the thing
you just gave me?
1347
01:06:59,307 --> 01:07:00,798
Tell me these aren't
the classified documents
1348
01:07:00,892 --> 01:07:02,258
from the McNamara study.
1349
01:07:02,435 --> 01:07:04,017
4,000 pages of 'em.
1350
01:07:04,187 --> 01:07:06,850
- Hungry?
- I need to use a phone.
1351
01:07:07,023 --> 01:07:08,980
There's one in the other room.
1352
01:07:09,150 --> 01:07:10,266
- Two.
- Is that it?
1353
01:07:10,443 --> 01:07:11,650
This is it. This is it.
1354
01:07:11,736 --> 01:07:13,068
Hmm?
1355
01:07:13,321 --> 01:07:15,028
This is
the other half of it.
1356
01:07:26,376 --> 01:07:28,333
Oh, my God.
1357
01:07:56,114 --> 01:07:59,107
Hi. Thanks for
letting me drop by.
1358
01:07:59,492 --> 01:08:01,734
- Marg still napping?
- Yeah.
1359
01:08:01,911 --> 01:08:03,402
Do you mind
if we talk in the sunroom?
1360
01:08:03,496 --> 01:08:04,862
Just so I can hear her
if she wakes.
1361
01:08:05,039 --> 01:08:06,871
No, of course not.
I can't stay long.
1362
01:08:06,958 --> 01:08:08,415
I've got a big event
at the house later.
1363
01:08:08,585 --> 01:08:11,293
I guess you've read
everything now.
1364
01:08:12,213 --> 01:08:14,079
Yes, I have. I have, yes.
1365
01:08:14,173 --> 01:08:16,130
And I went over it
again this morning.
1366
01:08:16,634 --> 01:08:18,125
All of it.
1367
01:08:19,345 --> 01:08:20,836
And I just...
1368
01:08:22,557 --> 01:08:26,722
Forgive me, Bob, I know
you're dealing with so much...
1369
01:08:28,563 --> 01:08:32,432
but it's just so hard to try
to make sense of why.
1370
01:08:32,609 --> 01:08:34,976
Of how you could have done
all these things.
1371
01:08:35,153 --> 01:08:37,145
How you could
just lie to us all.
1372
01:08:37,322 --> 01:08:41,657
Well, it's easy for the papers
to characterize us as liars.
1373
01:08:41,826 --> 01:08:43,943
We were just trying to
push back...
1374
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:45,986
No, but you let it
go on and on and on.
1375
01:08:46,164 --> 01:08:48,872
My son is home now and safe,
thank God.
1376
01:08:49,042 --> 01:08:50,783
But you watched him go.
1377
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:52,246
You knew
we couldn't win over there...
1378
01:08:52,420 --> 01:08:55,379
for years and years and years,
and yet you let me...
1379
01:08:56,924 --> 01:08:59,917
you let so many of our friends
send our boys off.
1380
01:09:00,094 --> 01:09:02,131
Kay, we were doing
the best we could.
1381
01:09:02,930 --> 01:09:05,764
It was domino theory,
containment...
1382
01:09:06,059 --> 01:09:07,641
and eventually we felt
1383
01:09:07,727 --> 01:09:09,468
that military pressure
was the only thing...
1384
01:09:09,646 --> 01:09:11,433
that was gonna drive
Ho Chi Minh to the table.
1385
01:09:11,606 --> 01:09:13,142
Our decision-making
process was...
1386
01:09:13,316 --> 01:09:14,852
Flawed.
1387
01:09:19,781 --> 01:09:22,899
It was flawed.
That's what your study said.
1388
01:09:24,661 --> 01:09:25,947
Yes.
1389
01:09:28,289 --> 01:09:33,080
I do believe that you were
trying to do your best...
1390
01:09:34,045 --> 01:09:36,628
and I know
how difficult it can be
1391
01:09:36,714 --> 01:09:38,546
to make choices that will...
1392
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:40,541
That's kind of you.
1393
01:09:41,594 --> 01:09:45,133
Well, what comes next
might not be so kind.
1394
01:09:47,225 --> 01:09:49,012
You have the papers.
1395
01:09:51,145 --> 01:09:52,556
Let's just say...
1396
01:09:52,730 --> 01:09:56,144
I may have
a big decision to make.
1397
01:10:01,406 --> 01:10:02,897
They will
argue it's a violation
1398
01:10:02,990 --> 01:10:04,026
of the Espionage Act.
1399
01:10:04,117 --> 01:10:05,233
That is a felony, Ben.
1400
01:10:05,410 --> 01:10:07,242
That's only
if the documents we print
1401
01:10:07,328 --> 01:10:08,660
could damage
the United States.
1402
01:10:08,746 --> 01:10:10,453
There's a federal judge
in New York
1403
01:10:10,540 --> 01:10:11,576
who seems to think
that they could.
1404
01:10:11,749 --> 01:10:12,785
Well, I've got
six seasoned journalists
1405
01:10:12,875 --> 01:10:13,865
in the next room...
1406
01:10:14,001 --> 01:10:15,867
who've been reporting on this
war for the last ten years...
1407
01:10:16,045 --> 01:10:18,037
and I'll lay odds that they
have a better idea...
1408
01:10:18,214 --> 01:10:19,500
of what could damage
the United States
1409
01:10:19,590 --> 01:10:20,580
than some judge...
1410
01:10:20,758 --> 01:10:21,999
who is just now wading
1411
01:10:22,093 --> 01:10:23,584
into this territory
for the first time.
1412
01:10:23,761 --> 01:10:26,128
"Wading." Is that a metaphor
for Vietnam?
1413
01:10:26,305 --> 01:10:29,093
Okay. Ben, look, we know
your reporters are talented.
1414
01:10:29,267 --> 01:10:31,304
But The New York Times
spent three months
1415
01:10:31,394 --> 01:10:33,260
going over these documents.
1416
01:10:33,438 --> 01:10:35,145
You've got, what,
seven hours now
1417
01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:36,472
until the paper goes to press?
1418
01:10:36,649 --> 01:10:38,982
Can you honestly tell me
that that is enough time...
1419
01:10:39,152 --> 01:10:42,896
to make sure
not a single military plan,
1420
01:10:42,989 --> 01:10:44,230
not a single U. S. soldier...
1421
01:10:44,407 --> 01:10:46,865
not a single American life
will be put in harm's way?
1422
01:10:47,034 --> 01:10:48,696
That this will do no damage
1423
01:10:48,786 --> 01:10:50,652
to the United States
if you publish?
1424
01:10:50,830 --> 01:10:51,866
Yes.
1425
01:10:54,125 --> 01:10:55,366
You're sure about that?
1426
01:10:55,543 --> 01:10:56,579
No!
1427
01:10:56,753 --> 01:10:58,836
That's why
I've called you guys.
1428
01:11:00,047 --> 01:11:02,380
Look, Kay, I know
why The Times ran the story
1429
01:11:02,467 --> 01:11:03,799
but you need to understand...
1430
01:11:03,968 --> 01:11:05,459
the study was for posterity.
1431
01:11:05,553 --> 01:11:07,590
It was written for academics
in the future...
1432
01:11:07,764 --> 01:11:09,346
and right now we're still
in the middle of the war.
1433
01:11:09,515 --> 01:11:11,051
The papers can't be objective.
1434
01:11:11,225 --> 01:11:13,342
And I suppose the public
has a right to know...
1435
01:11:13,519 --> 01:11:15,761
but I would prefer
that the study
1436
01:11:15,855 --> 01:11:17,221
not be made
widely available...
1437
01:11:17,398 --> 01:11:20,141
until it can be read with some
perspective. You understand.
1438
01:11:20,234 --> 01:11:21,566
Mmm.
1439
01:11:24,822 --> 01:11:26,939
We've been through a lot,
haven't we?
1440
01:11:27,116 --> 01:11:30,484
You and Marg
were there for me...
1441
01:11:30,661 --> 01:11:32,744
at the lowest point
of my life.
1442
01:11:32,914 --> 01:11:36,248
You helped me, you selected
my entire board...
1443
01:11:36,417 --> 01:11:38,830
you're my most
trusted advisor...
1444
01:11:39,003 --> 01:11:40,494
my dear friend.
1445
01:11:41,672 --> 01:11:45,086
But my feelings about that
and about you...
1446
01:11:45,259 --> 01:11:48,718
can't be part of this decision
to publish or not.
1447
01:11:48,888 --> 01:11:53,178
I'm here
asking your advice, Bob...
1448
01:11:53,351 --> 01:11:55,343
not your permission.
1449
01:11:56,270 --> 01:11:59,058
Well, then as one of your
most trusted advisors...
1450
01:11:59,232 --> 01:12:01,189
and someone who knows how much
you care about this company...
1451
01:12:01,359 --> 01:12:02,349
I'm worried, Kay.
1452
01:12:02,527 --> 01:12:04,109
I worked in Washington
for ten years,
1453
01:12:04,195 --> 01:12:05,436
I've seen
these people up close.
1454
01:12:05,530 --> 01:12:07,817
Bobby and Lyndon,
they were tough customers,
1455
01:12:07,907 --> 01:12:09,864
but Nixon is different.
1456
01:12:10,034 --> 01:12:12,151
He's got some real bad
people around him.
1457
01:12:12,328 --> 01:12:14,194
And if you publish he'll
get the very worst of them.
1458
01:12:14,372 --> 01:12:15,579
The Colsons
and the Ehrlichmans
1459
01:12:15,665 --> 01:12:16,655
and he'll crush you.
1460
01:12:16,833 --> 01:12:18,119
I know he's just awful,
but I...
1461
01:12:18,292 --> 01:12:20,705
Nixon's a son of a bitch!
He hates you.
1462
01:12:20,878 --> 01:12:21,868
He hates Ben.
1463
01:12:21,963 --> 01:12:23,124
He's wanted to ruin
the paper for years...
1464
01:12:23,297 --> 01:12:25,914
and you will not get
a second chance, Kay.
1465
01:12:26,092 --> 01:12:27,879
The Richard Nixon I know
will muster
1466
01:12:27,969 --> 01:12:29,380
the full power
of the presidency...
1467
01:12:29,554 --> 01:12:31,466
and if there's a way
to destroy your paper,
1468
01:12:31,556 --> 01:12:33,673
by God, he'll find it.
1469
01:12:36,519 --> 01:12:38,556
Rublish information
that harms national security.
1470
01:12:38,729 --> 01:12:39,845
I told you,
there is nothing in there.
1471
01:12:40,022 --> 01:12:41,729
If there is, the paper
will be prosecuted.
1472
01:12:41,899 --> 01:12:43,265
Isn't that why you're here?
1473
01:12:43,442 --> 01:12:44,808
Yes, Ben, but if we lose...
1474
01:12:44,986 --> 01:12:46,568
With what we pay you,
you really shouldn't lose.
1475
01:12:46,654 --> 01:12:47,644
Ben, you need
to listen to them.
1476
01:12:47,738 --> 01:12:48,819
Hey, Fritz.
Good to see you.
1477
01:12:48,906 --> 01:12:49,896
This is about
the future of the company
1478
01:12:49,991 --> 01:12:51,027
and ensuring there is one.
1479
01:12:51,117 --> 01:12:53,325
That's a little melodramatic,
don't you think?
1480
01:12:53,411 --> 01:12:54,822
Melodramatic?
You're talking about
1481
01:12:54,912 --> 01:12:57,029
exposing years
of government secrets.
1482
01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:00,202
I can't imagine they're
gonna take that lightly.
1483
01:13:00,585 --> 01:13:02,076
You could jeopardize
the public offering.
1484
01:13:02,253 --> 01:13:04,245
You could jeopardize
our television stations.
1485
01:13:04,422 --> 01:13:06,414
You know a felon can't
hold a broadcast license.
1486
01:13:06,591 --> 01:13:08,298
You think I give two shits
about the television stations?
1487
01:13:08,384 --> 01:13:09,374
You should.
They make a hell of
1488
01:13:09,468 --> 01:13:10,504
a lot more money
than you do...
1489
01:13:10,595 --> 01:13:13,087
and without that revenue
we'll be forced to sell.
1490
01:13:13,180 --> 01:13:15,092
If the government wins
and we're convicted...
1491
01:13:15,266 --> 01:13:17,929
The Washington Post as we
know it will cease to exist.
1492
01:13:18,102 --> 01:13:19,638
If we live in a world
where the government
1493
01:13:19,729 --> 01:13:21,265
can tell us what we can
and cannot print...
1494
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:22,600
then The Washington Post
as we know it
1495
01:13:22,690 --> 01:13:24,807
has already ceased to exist.
1496
01:13:26,068 --> 01:13:27,684
What if we wait?
1497
01:13:28,779 --> 01:13:30,816
What if we hold off
on printing today
1498
01:13:30,907 --> 01:13:33,240
and instead we call
the Attorney General...
1499
01:13:33,409 --> 01:13:35,947
and we tell him that
we intend to print on Sunday?
1500
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:37,656
That way we give
them and us time
1501
01:13:37,747 --> 01:13:39,864
to figure out
the legality of all of it...
1502
01:13:40,041 --> 01:13:42,499
while the court in New York
decides The Times' case.
1503
01:13:42,668 --> 01:13:44,830
You're suggesting we alert
the Attorney General...
1504
01:13:45,004 --> 01:13:47,166
to the fact that we
have these documents...
1505
01:13:47,340 --> 01:13:49,957
that we're going to print
in a few days?
1506
01:13:53,679 --> 01:13:56,592
Well, yes, that is the idea.
1507
01:13:56,933 --> 01:13:57,969
Yeah, well...
1508
01:13:58,434 --> 01:13:59,925
outside of
landing the Hindenburg
1509
01:14:00,019 --> 01:14:01,260
in a lightning storm...
1510
01:14:01,437 --> 01:14:03,429
that's about the shittiest
idea I've ever heard.
1511
01:14:03,606 --> 01:14:04,813
Oh, boy.
1512
01:14:12,573 --> 01:14:14,405
Oh, here's
the man of the hour.
1513
01:14:14,575 --> 01:14:16,066
Kay.
1514
01:14:16,243 --> 01:14:17,359
For you.
1515
01:14:17,536 --> 01:14:18,572
I'm found.
1516
01:14:18,663 --> 01:14:19,653
Thank you, Kay.
1517
01:14:19,747 --> 01:14:20,863
You didn't have to
go through all this trouble.
1518
01:14:20,957 --> 01:14:22,323
No, we had to turn them
away at the door.
1519
01:14:22,416 --> 01:14:23,406
Didn't we, dear?
1520
01:14:23,584 --> 01:14:24,574
- Thanks.
- Oh.
1521
01:14:24,752 --> 01:14:26,789
- Gene.
- Mrs. Graham.
1522
01:14:26,963 --> 01:14:29,080
So, everything okay?
1523
01:14:29,256 --> 01:14:32,249
Uh, it's gotten pretty hot
over at Ben's house.
1524
01:14:32,343 --> 01:14:34,676
Oh, things are
not going well?
1525
01:14:34,845 --> 01:14:38,213
No. Ben and Mr. Beebe
are at real loggerheads.
1526
01:14:38,683 --> 01:14:40,675
Fritz and Ben
on opposite sides?
1527
01:14:40,768 --> 01:14:41,804
I made a commitment
to publish these papers.
1528
01:14:41,894 --> 01:14:42,884
Excuse me. Pardon me.
1529
01:14:42,979 --> 01:14:44,845
The whole staff will revolt,
if we don't publish.
1530
01:14:44,939 --> 01:14:47,181
Meg, I hardly think
people are gonna resign.
1531
01:14:47,358 --> 01:14:48,348
Enjoying the fight?
1532
01:14:48,526 --> 01:14:49,858
Yeah, who's winning?
1533
01:14:50,027 --> 01:14:51,984
- Nixon.
- I didn't see him come in.
1534
01:14:52,154 --> 01:14:54,817
Really? He's got his hand
so far up Fritz's ass.
1535
01:14:56,283 --> 01:14:57,524
Where is Fritz?
1536
01:14:59,912 --> 01:15:02,620
That is not at all
what I'm saying. No.
1537
01:15:02,748 --> 01:15:04,239
Not in so many words,
but you're a bunch of lawyers.
1538
01:15:04,333 --> 01:15:05,323
Will you cut through the shit!
1539
01:15:05,418 --> 01:15:06,534
Is the profanity necessary?
1540
01:15:06,627 --> 01:15:07,663
If we're not gonna publish,
1541
01:15:07,753 --> 01:15:09,540
why are we busting
our rear ends, Ben?
1542
01:15:09,714 --> 01:15:11,250
Just keep writing.
1543
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:15,087
Can you stop
playing Chopsticks?
1544
01:15:15,261 --> 01:15:17,469
We're not gonna get it wrong!
1545
01:15:20,141 --> 01:15:21,723
What's up there, Fritz?
1546
01:15:22,393 --> 01:15:24,180
Calling Kay.
1547
01:15:24,812 --> 01:15:27,725
I'm sorry, Ben.
I know you want this.
1548
01:15:27,898 --> 01:15:29,855
There will be another one.
1549
01:15:30,401 --> 01:15:32,233
Like hell there will be.
1550
01:15:32,862 --> 01:15:34,478
Given the
sensitive circumstances...
1551
01:15:34,655 --> 01:15:36,237
Sensitive circumstances?
Really?
1552
01:15:36,407 --> 01:15:37,818
How would you describe it?
1553
01:15:37,992 --> 01:15:40,450
Uh, well,
we're trying to make a story.
1554
01:15:40,953 --> 01:15:43,195
Hello. Hello, I'm
making a telephone call.
1555
01:15:43,372 --> 01:15:45,204
Yeah, well, it's my house.
1556
01:15:45,374 --> 01:15:47,661
- So I'll be on the call.
- All right, Ben.
1557
01:15:48,002 --> 01:15:52,372
I just want to thank you all
for coming out this evening...
1558
01:15:52,548 --> 01:15:55,291
to help me launch
Harry Gladstein...
1559
01:15:55,468 --> 01:15:57,505
and his new sailboat...
1560
01:15:57,678 --> 01:15:59,965
into the Chesapeake Bay.
1561
01:16:01,724 --> 01:16:05,263
And into his
very well earned retirement.
1562
01:16:05,436 --> 01:16:07,223
Let me just tell you
a little bit about
1563
01:16:07,313 --> 01:16:09,521
why I'm so wild about Harry.
1564
01:16:09,815 --> 01:16:12,603
Mrs. Graham.
It's Mr. Beebe on the phone.
1565
01:16:12,818 --> 01:16:15,606
In 1949, wasn't it?
1566
01:16:15,905 --> 01:16:19,569
Uh, Phil Graham first brought
Harry to the company.
1567
01:16:19,742 --> 01:16:22,280
- I'm afraid they need you now.
- And I remember, he told me...
1568
01:16:22,453 --> 01:16:23,660
Mrs. Graham.
1569
01:16:23,829 --> 01:16:25,320
They need you now.
1570
01:16:27,750 --> 01:16:30,959
Oh, dear. I'm so sorry.
1571
01:16:31,128 --> 01:16:32,869
- Forgive me, Harry.
- Yeah.
1572
01:16:33,047 --> 01:16:34,834
I think I'll have to suspend.
1573
01:16:35,007 --> 01:16:37,340
Well, you're paying
the overtime.
1574
01:16:37,426 --> 01:16:39,463
I'll be right back.
1575
01:16:39,637 --> 01:16:41,299
I'm so sorry, Mrs. Graham.
1576
01:16:41,764 --> 01:16:42,754
Yeah.
1577
01:16:43,099 --> 01:16:44,510
We should wait.
1578
01:16:44,683 --> 01:16:48,097
Yeah, I understand, Ben,
but if you wait a day...
1579
01:16:49,480 --> 01:16:51,972
- Fritz on the phone for me?
- We should be on this call.
1580
01:16:52,149 --> 01:16:54,391
Well, there's an extension
in the living room.
1581
01:16:54,568 --> 01:16:57,402
Liz, show them where, please?
Thank you.
1582
01:17:07,623 --> 01:17:08,659
Hello, Fritz?
1583
01:17:08,833 --> 01:17:11,325
Hello, Kay. Would you like me
to catch you up?
1584
01:17:11,418 --> 01:17:12,499
I say we can,
he says we can't.
1585
01:17:12,586 --> 01:17:13,622
There, you're caught up.
1586
01:17:13,712 --> 01:17:15,374
- Ben...
- Hello, it's Art.
1587
01:17:15,548 --> 01:17:18,131
Well, Ben,
there are concerns here
1588
01:17:18,217 --> 01:17:20,083
that are frankly
above your pay grade.
1589
01:17:20,261 --> 01:17:21,843
Well, there's
a few above yours, Art,
1590
01:17:21,929 --> 01:17:23,215
like fucking freedom
of the press.
1591
01:17:23,389 --> 01:17:25,096
Let's just be civil if we can.
1592
01:17:25,266 --> 01:17:27,132
Do you think
Nixon is going to be civil?
1593
01:17:27,309 --> 01:17:29,801
He is trying to censor the
goddamn New York Times.
1594
01:17:29,979 --> 01:17:31,470
Yes, The Times, not The Post.
1595
01:17:31,647 --> 01:17:33,263
It's the same damn thing.
1596
01:17:33,440 --> 01:17:37,024
This is an historic fight.
If they lose, we lose.
1597
01:17:37,403 --> 01:17:39,065
Hello? Is someone
on the phone?
1598
01:17:39,238 --> 01:17:40,354
This is Phil.
1599
01:17:40,531 --> 01:17:42,147
Is that Phil Geyelin?
1600
01:17:42,324 --> 01:17:44,031
Uh, yes, Mrs. Graham.
1601
01:17:44,618 --> 01:17:46,905
Good. I'd like you to weigh in
if you would...
1602
01:17:47,079 --> 01:17:48,240
because I wanna know
1603
01:17:48,330 --> 01:17:50,287
what the staff
is feeling about this.
1604
01:17:50,499 --> 01:17:53,037
Uh, well,
frankly, Mrs. Graham...
1605
01:17:53,210 --> 01:17:55,122
Ben Bagdikian and Chal Roberts
1606
01:17:55,212 --> 01:17:57,704
have, uh, both
threatened to resign...
1607
01:17:57,882 --> 01:17:59,919
if we don't publish, that is.
1608
01:18:00,092 --> 01:18:01,333
Come on, Kay,
what do you expect?
1609
01:18:01,427 --> 01:18:02,417
They got nothing to lose.
1610
01:18:02,511 --> 01:18:03,922
Due respect,
we all have everything
1611
01:18:04,013 --> 01:18:05,345
to lose if we don't publish.
1612
01:18:05,514 --> 01:18:08,177
What will happen to the
reputation of this paper?
1613
01:18:08,350 --> 01:18:10,433
Everyone will find out
we had the study.
1614
01:18:10,603 --> 01:18:12,469
Hell, I bet half the town
knows already.
1615
01:18:12,646 --> 01:18:14,433
What will it look like
if we sit on our asses?
1616
01:18:14,607 --> 01:18:16,189
It'll look like
we were prudent.
1617
01:18:16,358 --> 01:18:17,849
It will look like
we were afraid!
1618
01:18:18,027 --> 01:18:21,020
We will lose! The country
will lose! Nixon wins!
1619
01:18:21,197 --> 01:18:22,859
Nixon wins this one,
and the next one...
1620
01:18:23,032 --> 01:18:24,819
and all the ones after that,
because we were scared.
1621
01:18:24,992 --> 01:18:26,233
Because the only way to assert
1622
01:18:26,327 --> 01:18:28,410
the right to publish
is to publish.
1623
01:18:33,167 --> 01:18:34,248
Fritz.
1624
01:18:34,418 --> 01:18:36,660
Is Fritz there?
1625
01:18:38,464 --> 01:18:40,296
Fritz, are you on?
1626
01:18:40,966 --> 01:18:42,707
I'm here, Kay.
1627
01:18:45,679 --> 01:18:47,716
What do you think?
1628
01:18:49,308 --> 01:18:52,267
What do you think I should do?
1629
01:18:54,271 --> 01:18:55,728
I think...
1630
01:18:56,482 --> 01:18:58,895
there are arguments
on both sides.
1631
01:18:59,151 --> 01:19:00,141
Yeah.
1632
01:19:02,780 --> 01:19:04,772
But I guess
I wouldn't publish.
1633
01:19:28,013 --> 01:19:30,346
Let's go.
Let's do it.
1634
01:19:30,516 --> 01:19:34,556
Let's go. Let's go, let's go.
Let's publish.
1635
01:19:38,691 --> 01:19:40,182
- What?
- Phil?
1636
01:19:40,359 --> 01:19:41,941
What'd she say?
1637
01:19:42,778 --> 01:19:44,235
We go.
1638
01:19:46,115 --> 01:19:48,107
She says, we publish.
1639
01:19:49,285 --> 01:19:50,275
- Hot damn.
- My God.
1640
01:19:50,369 --> 01:19:51,951
- Holy shit.
- Let's get this out.
1641
01:19:52,121 --> 01:19:53,362
Holy shit.
1642
01:19:54,081 --> 01:19:55,288
- I need that, Meg.
- Sorry.
1643
01:19:55,416 --> 01:19:56,406
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Hold your horses.
1644
01:19:56,500 --> 01:19:57,616
- I need the notes!
- Sorry.
1645
01:19:57,793 --> 01:19:59,079
- How many pages is it?
- 13.
1646
01:19:59,253 --> 01:20:00,869
We got two hours to get it
to the composing room.
1647
01:20:01,046 --> 01:20:02,833
I got it! Almost!
Wait one moment. I'm typing.
1648
01:20:03,007 --> 01:20:04,339
All right.
1649
01:20:05,551 --> 01:20:06,541
Wait, wait, wait.
Who's taking it?
1650
01:20:06,719 --> 01:20:07,755
I got it.
1651
01:20:07,928 --> 01:20:08,918
Call National desk.
1652
01:20:09,013 --> 01:20:10,504
Tell them Bagdikian
is coming with the story.
1653
01:20:10,681 --> 01:20:11,922
Done!
1654
01:20:12,099 --> 01:20:13,635
- All right.
- Get it in the paper.
1655
01:20:13,809 --> 01:20:15,266
Editorial meeting.
1656
01:20:15,436 --> 01:20:17,678
Ben?
Yeah? Thanks.
1657
01:20:17,896 --> 01:20:20,104
Good job, Murrey.
1658
01:20:26,613 --> 01:20:28,605
- That it?
- That's it.
1659
01:20:39,126 --> 01:20:41,413
You... You got half an hour.
1660
01:20:52,598 --> 01:20:54,885
I'm not sure how much thought
1661
01:20:54,975 --> 01:20:56,432
you've put
into this decision...
1662
01:20:56,602 --> 01:20:57,683
but we still have time.
1663
01:20:57,770 --> 01:20:59,386
The print deadline
is not 'til midnight.
1664
01:20:59,563 --> 01:21:01,555
I know when the
print deadline is.
1665
01:21:01,732 --> 01:21:03,598
Look, I'm still learning
how to do this,
1666
01:21:03,692 --> 01:21:05,024
but everything
I know about business...
1667
01:21:05,194 --> 01:21:07,652
tells me you're making
a serious mistake here.
1668
01:21:07,821 --> 01:21:09,562
One that will cost you
and your paper dearly,
1669
01:21:09,656 --> 01:21:11,488
and hurt every person
gathered here.
1670
01:21:11,658 --> 01:21:14,196
Not to mention, the hundreds
of others who work for you.
1671
01:21:14,370 --> 01:21:16,202
I'm just trying to put
my thoughts together.
1672
01:21:16,372 --> 01:21:18,739
Kay, all I want is
what is best
1673
01:21:18,832 --> 01:21:20,243
for you and your business.
1674
01:21:21,001 --> 01:21:23,709
But I just got off the phone
with a couple of bankers...
1675
01:21:23,879 --> 01:21:26,872
and they think it's possible,
likely even...
1676
01:21:27,049 --> 01:21:29,416
that a number of their
institutional investors...
1677
01:21:29,593 --> 01:21:31,550
will pull out
if you go ahead and publish.
1678
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:34,884
And if they pull out, Kay...
1679
01:21:36,058 --> 01:21:38,300
You got a couple of hours.
1680
01:21:38,852 --> 01:21:39,888
For your sake,
1681
01:21:39,978 --> 01:21:42,186
and for the sake of every one
of your employees...
1682
01:21:42,356 --> 01:21:44,018
I hope you will reconsider.
1683
01:21:51,532 --> 01:21:53,194
Give me the canister.
1684
01:21:58,914 --> 01:21:59,950
Get it downstairs...
1685
01:22:00,124 --> 01:22:01,865
and I want the page editor
standing over Lino
1686
01:22:01,959 --> 01:22:03,200
'til they got it
ready to print.
1687
01:22:03,377 --> 01:22:04,367
Okay.
1688
01:22:08,090 --> 01:22:09,752
Mr. Bagdikian.
1689
01:22:15,097 --> 01:22:17,089
I need to know your source.
1690
01:22:17,683 --> 01:22:19,549
I thought I was clear earlier.
1691
01:22:20,352 --> 01:22:22,594
Well, we weren't
going to press earlier.
1692
01:22:22,771 --> 01:22:25,138
Yeah, well,
my answer's the same.
1693
01:22:25,482 --> 01:22:27,439
"This action has been
commenced to enjoin
1694
01:22:27,526 --> 01:22:29,142
"The New York Times
and their agents...
1695
01:22:29,319 --> 01:22:30,981
"from further
disseminating or disclosing
1696
01:22:31,071 --> 01:22:32,403
"certain alleged
top secret documents."
1697
01:22:32,573 --> 01:22:34,485
Are you trying
to piss me off?
1698
01:22:34,658 --> 01:22:36,274
No. Not me.
Judge Gurfein.
1699
01:22:36,452 --> 01:22:38,193
If you look at the text
of his restraining order...
1700
01:22:38,370 --> 01:22:40,327
I read his restraining order.
1701
01:22:40,497 --> 01:22:42,329
So then you know that if
The Times was your source...
1702
01:22:42,499 --> 01:22:43,910
we would be in
direct violation...
1703
01:22:44,084 --> 01:22:46,542
I did not get the study
from The Times.
1704
01:22:47,004 --> 01:22:47,994
You're sure?
1705
01:22:49,047 --> 01:22:50,504
We done?
1706
01:22:54,136 --> 01:22:56,469
Did you get it
from their source?
1707
01:23:03,395 --> 01:23:04,931
Excuse me?
1708
01:23:07,816 --> 01:23:09,853
Did you get the study
1709
01:23:09,943 --> 01:23:12,526
from the same source
as The Times?
1710
01:23:14,948 --> 01:23:17,440
We do not reveal
our sources.
1711
01:23:18,535 --> 01:23:20,492
"This action has been
commenced to enjoin
1712
01:23:20,579 --> 01:23:22,241
"The New York Times
and its agents..."
1713
01:23:22,414 --> 01:23:23,905
I get it!
I get it!
1714
01:23:27,586 --> 01:23:29,703
If you got the study
from the same source
1715
01:23:29,796 --> 01:23:31,537
that would
amount to collusion.
1716
01:23:31,715 --> 01:23:34,583
Yeah, we could
all be executed at dawn.
1717
01:23:35,844 --> 01:23:38,837
And we could be held
in contempt of court...
1718
01:23:39,014 --> 01:23:42,428
which means Mr. Bradlee and
Mrs. Graham could go to jail.
1719
01:23:46,313 --> 01:23:48,100
Mr. Bagdikian...
1720
01:23:49,358 --> 01:23:52,772
how likely is it
that your source...
1721
01:23:52,945 --> 01:23:55,562
and The Times source
are the same person?
1722
01:23:57,324 --> 01:23:59,065
It's likely.
1723
01:24:00,702 --> 01:24:02,284
How likely?
1724
01:24:04,623 --> 01:24:05,909
Very.
1725
01:24:06,625 --> 01:24:08,457
- It's very likely.
- Yes.
1726
01:24:19,638 --> 01:24:21,379
What is all this?
1727
01:24:21,848 --> 01:24:23,760
Lemonade earnings.
1728
01:24:24,851 --> 01:24:27,719
Marina wanted me to
put it away for safekeeping.
1729
01:24:27,896 --> 01:24:29,057
Oh, wow.
1730
01:24:33,944 --> 01:24:35,731
We're publishing.
1731
01:24:39,366 --> 01:24:40,527
Wow.
1732
01:24:43,245 --> 01:24:45,532
I didn't think Kay'd do it.
1733
01:24:48,333 --> 01:24:49,995
That's brave.
1734
01:24:50,919 --> 01:24:53,161
Well, she's not the only one
who's brave.
1735
01:24:53,630 --> 01:24:54,871
Oh.
1736
01:24:54,965 --> 01:24:56,922
What have you got to lose?
1737
01:24:57,134 --> 01:24:58,625
Uh, my job.
1738
01:24:58,802 --> 01:25:00,134
My reputation.
1739
01:25:00,304 --> 01:25:01,920
Oh, Ben, please.
1740
01:25:03,140 --> 01:25:05,223
We both know
this will do nothing
1741
01:25:05,309 --> 01:25:08,143
but burnish your reputation.
1742
01:25:08,312 --> 01:25:09,723
And as for your job...
1743
01:25:10,147 --> 01:25:12,230
you can always
find another one.
1744
01:25:13,525 --> 01:25:16,643
Now, if you're trying to
make me feel better...
1745
01:25:16,820 --> 01:25:19,483
there's nicer ways
of doing it.
1746
01:25:21,033 --> 01:25:23,025
You're very brave.
1747
01:25:24,995 --> 01:25:26,486
But Kay...
1748
01:25:27,789 --> 01:25:31,783
Kay is in a position
she never thought she'd be in.
1749
01:25:32,210 --> 01:25:34,076
A position
I'm sure plenty of people
1750
01:25:34,171 --> 01:25:36,788
don't think she should have.
1751
01:25:37,132 --> 01:25:39,169
And when you're told
time and time again
1752
01:25:39,259 --> 01:25:41,171
that you're not good enough.
1753
01:25:41,345 --> 01:25:44,429
That your opinion
doesn't matter as much.
1754
01:25:44,931 --> 01:25:48,140
When they don't
just look past you.
1755
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:51,849
When, to them,
you're not even there.
1756
01:25:52,481 --> 01:25:54,518
When that's been your
reality for so long...
1757
01:25:54,691 --> 01:25:57,479
it's hard not to let
yourself think it's true.
1758
01:25:58,695 --> 01:26:01,403
So, to make this decision...
1759
01:26:01,990 --> 01:26:04,573
to risk her fortune
and the company
1760
01:26:04,660 --> 01:26:06,993
that's been her entire life...
1761
01:26:08,413 --> 01:26:10,450
well, I think that's brave.
1762
01:26:16,922 --> 01:26:17,912
Bradlee.
1763
01:26:18,006 --> 01:26:20,339
Ben, we got a problem.
1764
01:26:31,019 --> 01:26:32,851
You remember this?
1765
01:26:34,940 --> 01:26:36,602
- The day before the funeral.
- Yeah.
1766
01:26:36,775 --> 01:26:38,016
Wasn't it?
1767
01:26:38,735 --> 01:26:39,942
Yeah.
1768
01:26:41,613 --> 01:26:42,694
I didn't...
1769
01:26:42,781 --> 01:26:45,114
I didn't wanna do it...
1770
01:26:45,367 --> 01:26:47,825
but Fritz said
I should go in...
1771
01:26:47,994 --> 01:26:50,361
and say a few words
to the Board.
1772
01:26:52,916 --> 01:26:55,750
So, I tried
to rehearse something...
1773
01:26:55,919 --> 01:26:58,036
but it all
turned out so awful,
1774
01:26:58,130 --> 01:26:59,246
and before I knew it...
1775
01:26:59,423 --> 01:27:00,914
the car was there
ready to take me
1776
01:27:01,007 --> 01:27:02,464
and then you came out.
1777
01:27:03,385 --> 01:27:04,876
I remember.
1778
01:27:05,053 --> 01:27:06,294
You came out in
1779
01:27:06,388 --> 01:27:08,721
your little nightgown
and your robe.
1780
01:27:08,932 --> 01:27:11,219
And you hopped
in the car with me.
1781
01:27:11,309 --> 01:27:12,971
Gave me this.
1782
01:27:14,062 --> 01:27:18,056
Somehow you managed to
scribble these notes for me.
1783
01:27:18,817 --> 01:27:21,685
So I'd know what to say.
1784
01:27:22,154 --> 01:27:24,942
But I don't
have my glasses up here.
1785
01:27:25,115 --> 01:27:27,482
- So, just read it for me.
- Mummy...
1786
01:27:27,659 --> 01:27:29,696
Oh, come on, just...
Would you read it to me?
1787
01:27:34,708 --> 01:27:36,950
"One, thank them.
1788
01:27:37,377 --> 01:27:40,336
"Two, there has been a crisis,
1789
01:27:40,422 --> 01:27:42,163
"but you know
they will carry on.
1790
01:27:42,340 --> 01:27:45,504
"Three, never expected
to be in this...
1791
01:27:46,803 --> 01:27:48,510
"situation.
1792
01:27:49,264 --> 01:27:54,259
"Four, going off to clear mind
and think about the future.
1793
01:27:54,436 --> 01:27:57,053
"Five, no changes
at this time,
1794
01:27:57,147 --> 01:27:59,434
"paper will remain
in the family.
1795
01:27:59,649 --> 01:28:02,813
"And six, and be carried on
in the tradition...
1796
01:28:02,986 --> 01:28:05,228
- "so well set."
- So well set.
1797
01:28:06,823 --> 01:28:10,316
You know, I just wanted
to hold on to the company...
1798
01:28:10,494 --> 01:28:12,827
for you and Don
and Billy and Steve.
1799
01:28:12,996 --> 01:28:14,703
You did. You have.
1800
01:28:14,873 --> 01:28:16,330
Well...
1801
01:28:18,752 --> 01:28:20,664
You know that quote?
1802
01:28:22,464 --> 01:28:23,500
That quote...
1803
01:28:23,715 --> 01:28:28,835
"A woman preaching is like a
dog walking on its hind legs.
1804
01:28:29,346 --> 01:28:30,928
"It's not done well...
1805
01:28:31,097 --> 01:28:35,432
"and you're surprised to see
it's done at all."
1806
01:28:36,436 --> 01:28:37,677
Samuel Johnson.
1807
01:28:37,854 --> 01:28:39,265
- Oh, Mummy.
- Yeah.
1808
01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:40,930
Well, it's a bunch
of nonsense.
1809
01:28:41,107 --> 01:28:44,145
No, but that's the way
we all thought then...
1810
01:28:44,861 --> 01:28:46,147
you know?
1811
01:28:46,655 --> 01:28:50,194
I was never
supposed to be in this job.
1812
01:28:52,035 --> 01:28:56,075
When my father chose your dad
to run the company...
1813
01:28:56,540 --> 01:28:58,998
I thought it was the most
natural thing in the world.
1814
01:28:59,167 --> 01:29:01,375
I was so proud,
because you know...
1815
01:29:01,545 --> 01:29:05,334
Phil was so brilliant.
And he was...
1816
01:29:08,802 --> 01:29:10,634
so gifted...
1817
01:29:11,847 --> 01:29:14,590
But I thought that was the way
it was supposed to be.
1818
01:29:14,766 --> 01:29:17,634
Everybody thought
that way then.
1819
01:29:18,770 --> 01:29:21,262
And I was raising you kids...
1820
01:29:23,483 --> 01:29:27,523
and I was happy in my life.
1821
01:29:27,696 --> 01:29:29,813
The way it was.
1822
01:29:32,367 --> 01:29:35,781
But then when it
all fell apart, you know...
1823
01:29:39,875 --> 01:29:42,583
When Phil died, it was just...
1824
01:29:42,752 --> 01:29:46,041
I was 45 years old
and I had never held...
1825
01:29:46,214 --> 01:29:49,707
I'd never had to
hold a job in my life.
1826
01:29:51,928 --> 01:29:54,966
But I just, I loved the paper,
you know...
1827
01:29:55,140 --> 01:29:56,506
I do.
1828
01:29:57,475 --> 01:29:58,886
I do so love the paper.
1829
01:29:58,977 --> 01:30:00,969
I don't want it
to be my fault.
1830
01:30:01,146 --> 01:30:02,353
I don't want
to be the one who...
1831
01:30:03,690 --> 01:30:07,775
I don't wanna
let Phil and my father...
1832
01:30:07,944 --> 01:30:11,187
and all of you kids
and everybody down.
1833
01:30:12,699 --> 01:30:14,235
Mrs. Graham?
1834
01:30:23,084 --> 01:30:25,167
- You ran here?
- Yeah.
1835
01:30:27,047 --> 01:30:29,084
There's been a bit of a...
1836
01:30:29,257 --> 01:30:30,748
complication.
1837
01:30:32,135 --> 01:30:33,546
I didn't understand at first,
1838
01:30:33,637 --> 01:30:35,219
but now everything
is in a different light.
1839
01:30:35,388 --> 01:30:38,802
Our source might be the same
as The New York Times.
1840
01:30:39,100 --> 01:30:40,090
Okay.
1841
01:30:41,144 --> 01:30:43,511
If so, we could be
held in contempt.
1842
01:30:43,813 --> 01:30:45,395
Meaning?
1843
01:30:45,774 --> 01:30:48,016
Well, we could
all go to prison.
1844
01:30:50,946 --> 01:30:52,778
Now putting that aside...
1845
01:30:54,157 --> 01:30:56,945
Katharine,
I've come to realize...
1846
01:30:58,411 --> 01:31:01,370
just how much
you have at stake.
1847
01:31:29,734 --> 01:31:31,396
- Paul.
- Glad you're here.
1848
01:31:31,486 --> 01:31:32,522
Fritz is sitting
with Mrs. Graham now.
1849
01:31:32,612 --> 01:31:33,602
And Ben is here.
1850
01:31:33,697 --> 01:31:35,484
Yes, I figured he would be.
1851
01:31:59,014 --> 01:32:00,300
Jesus Christ.
1852
01:32:00,473 --> 01:32:01,680
Mr. Bradlee, if you knew
1853
01:32:01,766 --> 01:32:02,756
Mr. Bagdikian
received the study...
1854
01:32:02,934 --> 01:32:04,095
from the same source
as The Times...
1855
01:32:04,269 --> 01:32:06,010
I didn't know because
I'm not in the habit...
1856
01:32:06,146 --> 01:32:07,512
of asking my reporters
who their sources are...
1857
01:32:07,689 --> 01:32:08,725
and if you'd spent any time
1858
01:32:08,815 --> 01:32:10,022
at a real goddamn newspaper
you'd know why.
1859
01:32:10,191 --> 01:32:11,773
You understand he's trying
to help you, Ben?
1860
01:32:12,569 --> 01:32:14,401
Mrs. Graham, hi.
1861
01:32:15,030 --> 01:32:16,237
We can all...
1862
01:32:16,322 --> 01:32:18,860
We can all appreciate
why Ben wants to publish...
1863
01:32:19,034 --> 01:32:20,616
and if these papers had
come from someone else...
1864
01:32:20,785 --> 01:32:22,947
we might have been
able to skirt the issue.
1865
01:32:24,330 --> 01:32:25,696
Anything from
the folks upstairs?
1866
01:32:25,790 --> 01:32:26,780
No.
1867
01:32:26,958 --> 01:32:28,369
We gotta start the run
1868
01:32:28,460 --> 01:32:31,168
or we won't get
to the carriers on time.
1869
01:32:34,674 --> 01:32:36,290
I disagreed with you earlier,
1870
01:32:36,384 --> 01:32:38,000
but I thought it brave.
But this?
1871
01:32:38,178 --> 01:32:39,589
If we were
to publish knowing this,
1872
01:32:39,679 --> 01:32:41,261
it would just
be irresponsible.
1873
01:32:41,431 --> 01:32:43,969
Fritz, do you agree?
1874
01:32:44,350 --> 01:32:46,558
Well, I don't particularly
like the idea
1875
01:32:46,644 --> 01:32:48,510
of Kay as a convicted felon.
1876
01:32:49,564 --> 01:32:51,146
And then there's the
issue of the prospectus.
1877
01:32:51,316 --> 01:32:52,523
Based on
the conversations I've had
1878
01:32:52,609 --> 01:32:53,725
with my friends at Cravath...
1879
01:32:53,902 --> 01:32:55,359
I believe
a criminal indictment
1880
01:32:55,445 --> 01:32:57,732
would qualify
as a catastrophic event.
1881
01:32:57,906 --> 01:33:00,899
And given the likelihood
of indictment now...
1882
01:33:02,619 --> 01:33:03,609
Kay, it could...
1883
01:33:03,787 --> 01:33:06,200
Yes, I understand.
1884
01:33:07,749 --> 01:33:10,913
We have a responsibility
to the company...
1885
01:33:11,086 --> 01:33:12,247
to all the employees
1886
01:33:12,337 --> 01:33:14,499
and to the long-term health
of the paper.
1887
01:33:15,256 --> 01:33:16,792
Absolutely, Kay.
1888
01:33:20,095 --> 01:33:22,883
Yes. However, um...
1889
01:33:30,980 --> 01:33:33,313
The prospectus
also talks about...
1890
01:33:33,483 --> 01:33:35,975
the mission
of the paper, which is...
1891
01:33:36,319 --> 01:33:38,026
"outstanding news collection
1892
01:33:38,113 --> 01:33:39,695
"and reporting,"
isn't that right?
1893
01:33:39,864 --> 01:33:40,854
Yes.
1894
01:33:40,949 --> 01:33:41,939
And...
1895
01:33:42,075 --> 01:33:44,408
And it also says...
1896
01:33:44,577 --> 01:33:45,658
that the newspaper will
1897
01:33:45,745 --> 01:33:47,953
"be dedicated to the welfare
of the nation...
1898
01:33:48,123 --> 01:33:50,866
"and to the, uh, principles
of a free press..."
1899
01:33:50,959 --> 01:33:51,949
Yes, but...
1900
01:33:52,043 --> 01:33:56,788
So, one could argue that the
bankers were put on notice.
1901
01:33:56,965 --> 01:33:59,332
But Kay, these are
extraordinary circumstances.
1902
01:33:59,509 --> 01:34:02,343
Are they? Are they?
For a newspaper?
1903
01:34:02,512 --> 01:34:04,879
One that covers
the Nixon White House.
1904
01:34:05,056 --> 01:34:07,673
Can you guarantee me that
we could go to print...
1905
01:34:07,851 --> 01:34:09,467
without endangering
any of our soldiers?
1906
01:34:09,644 --> 01:34:11,010
You can't be considering...
1907
01:34:11,187 --> 01:34:13,600
I'm talking
to Mr. Bradlee now.
1908
01:34:17,652 --> 01:34:19,860
Fritz, you're not gonna
let her do this.
1909
01:34:19,946 --> 01:34:20,936
She can't go to...
1910
01:34:21,114 --> 01:34:22,730
No, now, she can, Arthur.
1911
01:34:22,907 --> 01:34:24,273
And it's entirely
her decision.
1912
01:34:24,450 --> 01:34:26,863
Kay, you're allowing
Mr. Bradlee...
1913
01:34:27,036 --> 01:34:28,698
to lead you to folly.
1914
01:34:28,872 --> 01:34:30,579
The legacy of the company
is at stake
1915
01:34:30,665 --> 01:34:32,952
and if you want
to protect that legacy...
1916
01:34:33,126 --> 01:34:34,742
This company's
been in my life...
1917
01:34:34,919 --> 01:34:36,035
for longer
than most of the people
1918
01:34:36,129 --> 01:34:37,461
working there have been alive.
1919
01:34:37,630 --> 01:34:40,589
So, I don't need
the lecture on legacy.
1920
01:34:42,427 --> 01:34:45,716
And this is no longer
my father's company.
1921
01:34:46,514 --> 01:34:48,506
It's no longer
my husband's company.
1922
01:34:48,725 --> 01:34:50,341
It's my company.
1923
01:34:50,894 --> 01:34:52,601
And anyone
who thinks otherwise...
1924
01:34:52,770 --> 01:34:55,513
probably doesn't belong
on my board.
1925
01:34:56,024 --> 01:34:57,936
Can you guarantee me
that we can go to...
1926
01:34:58,109 --> 01:34:59,316
100%!
1927
01:34:59,485 --> 01:35:01,351
All right, then.
1928
01:35:01,863 --> 01:35:04,105
My decision stands...
1929
01:35:06,826 --> 01:35:08,613
and I'm going to bed.
1930
01:35:24,636 --> 01:35:26,218
It's Ben Bradlee.
Run it.
1931
01:35:26,387 --> 01:35:27,468
Yes, sir.
1932
01:35:27,639 --> 01:35:29,221
Start it up.
1933
01:36:44,632 --> 01:36:47,466
Let's go! Let's go!
1934
01:36:48,136 --> 01:36:50,674
This is not a party,
this is a war here!
1935
01:37:03,276 --> 01:37:05,188
I've got the
Assistant Attorney General.
1936
01:37:05,361 --> 01:37:06,693
Put him on.
1937
01:37:07,947 --> 01:37:09,529
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
1938
01:37:09,699 --> 01:37:10,815
This is William Rehnquist
1939
01:37:10,908 --> 01:37:12,991
from the Office
of Legal Counsel at Justice.
1940
01:37:13,161 --> 01:37:14,368
Yes, sir.
1941
01:37:14,537 --> 01:37:16,244
Mr. Bradlee,
I have been advised
1942
01:37:16,331 --> 01:37:17,697
by the Secretary of Defense...
1943
01:37:17,874 --> 01:37:19,240
that the material published
1944
01:37:19,334 --> 01:37:21,041
in The Washington Post
this morning...
1945
01:37:21,210 --> 01:37:22,872
contains information
relating to
1946
01:37:22,962 --> 01:37:25,045
the national defense
of the United States...
1947
01:37:25,214 --> 01:37:27,957
and bears
a top-secret classification.
1948
01:37:28,134 --> 01:37:30,797
As such, the publication
of this information...
1949
01:37:30,970 --> 01:37:33,462
is directly prohibited by
the Espionage Act...
1950
01:37:33,639 --> 01:37:38,134
title 18 of the United States
code, section 793.
1951
01:37:38,311 --> 01:37:40,724
As publication will cause
irreparable injury...
1952
01:37:40,897 --> 01:37:43,685
to the defense interests
of the United States...
1953
01:37:43,858 --> 01:37:45,815
I respectfully request
that you publish
1954
01:37:45,902 --> 01:37:48,736
no further information
of this character...
1955
01:37:49,030 --> 01:37:51,568
and advise me that you
have made arrangements...
1956
01:37:51,741 --> 01:37:53,232
for the return
of these documents
1957
01:37:53,326 --> 01:37:55,067
to the Department of Defense.
1958
01:37:55,411 --> 01:37:57,368
Well, thank you for the call,
Mr. Rehnquist...
1959
01:37:57,538 --> 01:38:01,578
but I'm sure you understand
I must respectfully decline.
1960
01:38:02,293 --> 01:38:04,751
I appreciate your time.
1961
01:38:08,674 --> 01:38:09,790
What's next?
1962
01:38:09,967 --> 01:38:12,380
We're going to court. Today.
1963
01:38:12,553 --> 01:38:15,637
If we get a ruling in our
favor, or The Times does...
1964
01:38:15,807 --> 01:38:19,016
we'll be at the Supreme Court
sometime next week.
1965
01:38:30,571 --> 01:38:31,561
No, I wanna make sure
all the dates
1966
01:38:31,656 --> 01:38:32,692
are locked down
between sixth...
1967
01:38:32,782 --> 01:38:34,023
We're focusing on Johnson...
1968
01:38:36,452 --> 01:38:37,818
I don't want any more articles
1969
01:38:37,912 --> 01:38:39,619
just about shoes
and about dresses.
1970
01:38:41,165 --> 01:38:42,622
Well, that's where
you're wrong, Al.
1971
01:38:42,708 --> 01:38:44,415
I happen to be
a woman and I know a few.
1972
01:38:46,546 --> 01:38:47,627
Your Honor,
the stories published
1973
01:38:47,713 --> 01:38:48,749
in The Times
and now The Post...
1974
01:38:48,840 --> 01:38:50,047
have created a diplomatic
1975
01:38:50,133 --> 01:38:52,170
and security disaster
for the United States.
1976
01:38:52,343 --> 01:38:55,507
How exactly have these papers
created a diplomatic disaster?
1977
01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:57,842
Why would other countries
talk to us in confidence...
1978
01:38:58,015 --> 01:38:59,597
if secrets like this
can be leaked?
1979
01:38:59,684 --> 01:39:00,891
So, does this
make it difficult
1980
01:39:00,977 --> 01:39:02,138
for the President to govern?
1981
01:39:02,228 --> 01:39:05,062
If the President can't
keep secrets, he can't govern.
1982
01:39:05,231 --> 01:39:06,893
Nothing less
than the integrity
1983
01:39:06,983 --> 01:39:09,475
of the presidency is at stake.
1984
01:39:10,027 --> 01:39:11,393
Yes, I know.
1985
01:39:11,571 --> 01:39:13,563
I'm sure it has
rattled investors, Jerry.
1986
01:39:13,656 --> 01:39:15,864
That's why I'm calling you.
1987
01:39:16,033 --> 01:39:18,195
Yes, I understand
a number of them
1988
01:39:18,286 --> 01:39:20,903
have considered pulling out
but we feel...
1989
01:39:22,331 --> 01:39:25,995
Of course.
I stand behind the decision.
1990
01:39:31,507 --> 01:39:33,214
Well, you know,
one could argue
1991
01:39:33,301 --> 01:39:36,260
it's raising
the profile of The Post.
1992
01:39:37,763 --> 01:39:41,097
Would The Post have published
military plans for D-Day...
1993
01:39:41,267 --> 01:39:43,350
if they'd had them in advance?
1994
01:39:44,353 --> 01:39:46,720
Well, I don't think
there's any comparison
1995
01:39:46,814 --> 01:39:48,430
between a pending invasion
of Europe...
1996
01:39:48,608 --> 01:39:51,396
and a historical survey
of American involvement
1997
01:39:51,486 --> 01:39:52,943
in the Vietnam War.
1998
01:39:54,489 --> 01:39:56,025
The Supreme Court has decided
1999
01:39:56,115 --> 01:39:57,822
to hold a hearing
tomorrow morning...
2000
01:39:57,992 --> 01:40:00,905
to resolve the tangle of
conflicting decisions...
2001
01:40:01,078 --> 01:40:02,819
over what
of the Pentagon Papers
2002
01:40:02,914 --> 01:40:04,530
can be published
and more broadly...
2003
01:40:04,707 --> 01:40:06,164
the issue
of freedom of the press
2004
01:40:06,250 --> 01:40:08,207
versus government security.
2005
01:40:08,377 --> 01:40:09,834
But in agreeing
to hear the cases of
2006
01:40:09,921 --> 01:40:11,287
The New York Times
and The Washington Post...
2007
01:40:11,464 --> 01:40:14,298
Supreme's granted cert.
2008
01:40:14,467 --> 01:40:16,003
Emergency expedited basis.
2009
01:40:16,093 --> 01:40:17,800
We're in court
with The Times tomorrow.
2010
01:40:20,097 --> 01:40:21,929
What are you so happy about?
2011
01:40:27,855 --> 01:40:31,189
I always wanted to be part
of a small rebellion.
2012
01:40:41,702 --> 01:40:43,409
I asked him
what he considers...
2013
01:40:43,579 --> 01:40:45,070
the most important revelations
2014
01:40:45,164 --> 01:40:46,905
to date
from the Pentagon documents.
2015
01:40:47,500 --> 01:40:49,366
I think the lesson is
the people of this country...
2016
01:40:49,544 --> 01:40:51,126
can't afford
to let the President
2017
01:40:51,212 --> 01:40:52,703
run the country by himself.
2018
01:40:53,464 --> 01:40:55,751
Even foreign affairs any more
than domestic affairs,
2019
01:40:55,841 --> 01:40:57,377
without the help of Congress.
2020
01:40:57,552 --> 01:40:58,542
I was struck, in fact,
2021
01:40:58,636 --> 01:40:59,672
by President Johnson's
reaction...
2022
01:40:59,845 --> 01:41:02,428
to these revelations
as close to treason.
2023
01:41:02,598 --> 01:41:04,430
Because it reflected
to me the sense
2024
01:41:04,517 --> 01:41:06,804
that what was damaging
to the reputation...
2025
01:41:06,978 --> 01:41:08,594
of a particular
administration,
2026
01:41:08,688 --> 01:41:10,099
a particular individual...
2027
01:41:10,273 --> 01:41:12,390
was in itself treason.
2028
01:41:12,567 --> 01:41:15,435
Which is very close to saying,
"I am the State."
2029
01:41:21,993 --> 01:41:23,074
But this is
a self-governing country.
2030
01:41:23,160 --> 01:41:24,150
Ben?
2031
01:41:24,787 --> 01:41:27,404
The Constitution provides
for a separation of powers...
2032
01:41:27,582 --> 01:41:30,541
What on earth are you doing?
2033
01:41:46,142 --> 01:41:48,976
They all followed your lead
and published the papers.
2034
01:41:49,895 --> 01:41:52,103
At least we're not alone.
2035
01:41:53,107 --> 01:41:54,689
No matter
what happens tomorrow,
2036
01:41:54,775 --> 01:41:57,483
we are not
a little local paper anymore.
2037
01:41:57,570 --> 01:41:58,651
Hmm.
2038
01:42:11,417 --> 01:42:12,453
I'd be very interested
in your opinion.
2039
01:42:12,543 --> 01:42:13,579
Sounds good.
2040
01:42:13,669 --> 01:42:14,705
All right, I'll see you
at the first break.
2041
01:42:14,795 --> 01:42:15,785
All right.
2042
01:42:17,923 --> 01:42:19,289
I am sorry.
2043
01:42:23,387 --> 01:42:25,049
Mrs. Graham,
there's an entrance
2044
01:42:25,139 --> 01:42:26,425
around the side
for the appellants.
2045
01:42:26,599 --> 01:42:27,840
Oh, thank you very much.
2046
01:42:29,352 --> 01:42:31,093
I'm sorry I'm walking so fast.
2047
01:42:31,187 --> 01:42:33,144
I was supposed to be here
half hour ago...
2048
01:42:33,314 --> 01:42:34,805
but then I had to
make copies of the brief
2049
01:42:34,899 --> 01:42:36,310
and there
was so much traffic...
2050
01:42:36,400 --> 01:42:37,436
and you just wouldn't think
2051
01:42:37,526 --> 01:42:38,607
there'd be all these people,
you know?
2052
01:42:38,694 --> 01:42:40,902
No, you wouldn't.
You work for Roger Clark then?
2053
01:42:41,072 --> 01:42:42,438
I work for the government.
2054
01:42:42,531 --> 01:42:44,443
The Solicitor
General's office.
2055
01:42:44,617 --> 01:42:46,074
Oh. You're on the other team.
2056
01:42:46,243 --> 01:42:47,233
Mrs. Graham...
2057
01:42:48,287 --> 01:42:50,870
I probably shouldn't say this.
2058
01:42:51,290 --> 01:42:54,408
My brother,
he's still over there and...
2059
01:42:57,880 --> 01:42:59,963
Well, I hope you win.
2060
01:43:01,467 --> 01:43:02,674
Besides, I like someone
2061
01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:04,126
telling these guys
what's what.
2062
01:43:04,303 --> 01:43:05,510
But don't tell my boss
I said that.
2063
01:43:05,596 --> 01:43:06,803
He'd fire me just
for talking to you.
2064
01:43:15,106 --> 01:43:16,313
- Ben.
- How are ya, kid?
2065
01:43:16,482 --> 01:43:17,939
- Fritz.
- Roger.
2066
01:43:21,862 --> 01:43:23,194
I told you
to be here at eight.
2067
01:43:23,280 --> 01:43:24,270
Yes. I was here at eight,
2068
01:43:24,365 --> 01:43:25,481
but Richard
sent me back to make...
2069
01:43:25,574 --> 01:43:26,655
Is Richard your boss?
2070
01:43:26,742 --> 01:43:28,529
No, but you weren't here so...
2071
01:43:28,703 --> 01:43:31,320
I don't want excuses.
Just take a seat.
2072
01:43:32,873 --> 01:43:33,863
Mrs. Graham.
2073
01:43:34,041 --> 01:43:35,122
Morning.
2074
01:43:38,587 --> 01:43:40,203
Morning, gentlemen.
Good to see you.
2075
01:43:40,381 --> 01:43:42,338
Kay.
Punch, Abe.
2076
01:43:42,508 --> 01:43:44,670
Nice to be on the same
side for a change.
2077
01:43:44,844 --> 01:43:46,426
I'll tell you what's nice...
2078
01:43:46,595 --> 01:43:49,884
making the front page of your
newspaper on a daily basis.
2079
01:43:50,224 --> 01:43:52,011
Must be a lot of people
from Boston
2080
01:43:52,101 --> 01:43:53,763
to Washington
reading about us.
2081
01:43:54,353 --> 01:43:55,810
Yes...
2082
01:43:55,980 --> 01:43:58,097
well, I suppose
it's appropriate...
2083
01:43:58,566 --> 01:44:00,148
given what's at stake.
2084
01:44:01,402 --> 01:44:02,392
All rise.
2085
01:44:06,073 --> 01:44:07,735
The Honorable,
the Chief Justice
2086
01:44:07,825 --> 01:44:09,066
and the Associate Justices...
2087
01:44:09,243 --> 01:44:11,951
of the Supreme Court
of the United States.
2088
01:44:12,288 --> 01:44:15,406
Oyez, oyez, oyez.
2089
01:44:16,709 --> 01:44:18,291
All persons
having business before
2090
01:44:18,377 --> 01:44:20,209
the Honorable
of the Supreme Court...
2091
01:44:21,297 --> 01:44:23,334
Mr. Rosenthal. Mr. Rosenthal.
2092
01:44:23,507 --> 01:44:24,839
Mr. Sulzberger,
do you think
2093
01:44:24,925 --> 01:44:26,211
they'll decide in your favor?
2094
01:44:26,385 --> 01:44:28,342
Well, overall
we feel encouraged.
2095
01:44:29,263 --> 01:44:32,427
27 congressmen filed
amicus briefs on our behalf.
2096
01:44:32,892 --> 01:44:33,973
As well as the ACLU...
2097
01:44:34,059 --> 01:44:35,049
We should make a statement.
2098
01:44:35,144 --> 01:44:36,260
You would think
that's her job.
2099
01:44:36,353 --> 01:44:39,266
I believe everything we had
to say we've already said.
2100
01:44:40,024 --> 01:44:42,186
Well, we feel confident...
2101
01:45:00,252 --> 01:45:01,493
Meg Greenfield.
2102
01:45:02,755 --> 01:45:03,745
Okay.
2103
01:45:04,131 --> 01:45:06,965
Everyone, listen up!
Listen up!
2104
01:45:07,134 --> 01:45:08,375
We've got a decision.
2105
01:45:08,552 --> 01:45:10,259
We've got a decision.
2106
01:45:13,808 --> 01:45:14,969
- Where'd they go?
- The same place.
2107
01:45:15,142 --> 01:45:17,759
The Supreme Court.
The decision's in.
2108
01:45:28,572 --> 01:45:30,313
The vote is...
2109
01:45:31,659 --> 01:45:33,241
6-3.
2110
01:45:34,078 --> 01:45:35,910
6-3. We win.
2111
01:45:36,080 --> 01:45:38,572
We win! And so does The Times!
2112
01:45:42,169 --> 01:45:43,159
Yes!
2113
01:45:46,465 --> 01:45:47,956
No shit!
2114
01:45:50,886 --> 01:45:52,468
Nice job, Gene.
2115
01:45:53,264 --> 01:45:55,472
- No gloating! No gloating.
- I'm just satisfied.
2116
01:46:00,479 --> 01:46:03,062
What? I can't hear you.
It's too loud.
2117
01:46:03,232 --> 01:46:04,348
Okay.
2118
01:46:04,525 --> 01:46:06,187
Listen up, everybody.
Listen up.
2119
01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:08,022
Justice Black's opinion.
2120
01:46:08,195 --> 01:46:09,185
Okay.
2121
01:46:11,782 --> 01:46:14,991
"The founding fathers
gave the free press...
2122
01:46:15,202 --> 01:46:17,660
"the protection
it must have...
2123
01:46:20,416 --> 01:46:24,285
"to fulfill its essential role
in our democracy.
2124
01:46:27,756 --> 01:46:29,839
"The press was
to serve the governed,
2125
01:46:29,925 --> 01:46:31,416
"not the governors."
2126
01:46:36,181 --> 01:46:37,171
Thank you.
2127
01:46:56,368 --> 01:46:57,904
That looks great.
2128
01:47:13,761 --> 01:47:17,380
You know what my husband
said about the news?
2129
01:47:17,556 --> 01:47:20,594
He called it the first
rough draft of history.
2130
01:47:20,768 --> 01:47:22,885
That's good, isn't it?
2131
01:47:23,604 --> 01:47:26,142
Oh, well, we don't always
get it right, you know?
2132
01:47:26,315 --> 01:47:28,272
We're not always perfect,
but I think
2133
01:47:28,359 --> 01:47:30,476
if we just keep on it,
you know?
2134
01:47:30,653 --> 01:47:32,064
That's the job, isn't it?
2135
01:47:36,659 --> 01:47:37,945
Yes, it is.
2136
01:47:53,842 --> 01:47:56,380
Oh, Ken Clawson came by
to see me earlier.
2137
01:47:56,470 --> 01:47:57,460
Oh?
2138
01:47:57,596 --> 01:47:59,508
Apparently,
Justice is still considering
2139
01:47:59,598 --> 01:48:00,759
criminal charges against us.
2140
01:48:00,933 --> 01:48:02,140
Yeah, well,
I bet they are.
2141
01:48:02,851 --> 01:48:04,092
And you're not worried.
2142
01:48:04,269 --> 01:48:06,135
Nope. No, Katharine,
that's your job.
2143
01:48:06,313 --> 01:48:07,724
I suppose it is.
2144
01:48:07,898 --> 01:48:10,140
Oh, thank God the court ruling
was very clear.
2145
01:48:11,110 --> 01:48:14,444
Yeah, well, I'm sure
Nixon will fall right in line.
2146
01:48:14,613 --> 01:48:15,979
Hmm.
Good, because you know...
2147
01:48:16,156 --> 01:48:17,772
I don't think
I could ever live through
2148
01:48:17,866 --> 01:48:19,402
something like this again.
2149
01:48:21,036 --> 01:48:22,902
I want it
clearly understood
2150
01:48:22,997 --> 01:48:25,410
that from now on, ever...
2151
01:48:25,582 --> 01:48:28,040
no reporter
from The Washington Post
2152
01:48:28,127 --> 01:48:29,584
is ever to be
in the White House.
2153
01:48:29,753 --> 01:48:31,244
- Is that clear?
- Absolutely.
2154
01:48:32,881 --> 01:48:35,089
Never.
Never in the White House.
2155
01:48:35,426 --> 01:48:38,635
No church service.
Nothing that Mrs. Nixon does.
2156
01:48:38,804 --> 01:48:40,636
You tell Connie,
"Don't tell Mrs. Nixon,"
2157
01:48:40,723 --> 01:48:41,804
'cause she'll approve it.
2158
01:48:42,016 --> 01:48:44,724
No reporter
from The Washington Post
2159
01:48:44,810 --> 01:48:47,018
is ever to be
in the White House again.
2160
01:48:47,187 --> 01:48:48,598
And no photographer either.
2161
01:48:48,772 --> 01:48:50,308
No photographer,
is that clear?
2162
01:48:50,399 --> 01:48:52,436
None ever to be in.
2163
01:48:52,609 --> 01:48:54,145
Now that is a total order.
2164
01:48:54,319 --> 01:48:55,935
And if necessary,
I'll fire you.
2165
01:48:56,113 --> 01:48:57,479
- You understand?
- I do understand.
2166
01:48:57,656 --> 01:49:00,148
Okay. All right. Good.
2167
01:49:20,846 --> 01:49:22,337
DC police, second precinct.
2168
01:49:22,514 --> 01:49:24,130
Yes, hello.
This is Frank Wills.
2169
01:49:24,308 --> 01:49:26,015
I think we might have
a burglary in progress
2170
01:49:26,101 --> 01:49:27,717
at The Watergate.
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