1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Primary_Colors_(1998) ,WEB_MKV_H264_AC3[5.1](Universal,Eng,Sub) 1280x538 2 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,090 I've Seen him do it a million times, but I can't tell... 3 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,090 you how he does it, Henry. 4 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:00,090 The right-handed part. 5 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:05,100 I can tell you what does with his left hand. He's a genius with it. 6 00:01:06,130 --> 00:01:11,090 He might put that hand on your elbow or your biceps, like he's doing now. 7 00:01:11,170 --> 00:01:15,110 A very basic move. He's interested in you. He's honored to meet you. 8 00:01:16,140 --> 00:01:19,110 But if he gets any higher, if he gets on your shoulder, like that... 9 00:01:19,180 --> 00:01:24,110 it's not as intimate. He'll share a laugh with you, a light secret. 10 00:01:24,180 --> 00:01:29,120 And if he doesn't know you that well, but wants to share something... 11 00:01:29,190 --> 00:01:31,120 emotional he'll lock you in a two-hander. 12 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,130 You'll see when he shakes hands with you, Henry. Governor. 13 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,130 Governor Stanton, this is Henry Burton. 14 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,130 I meet your grandfather when I was a boy. 15 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:48,140 I hitchhiked to Washington to hear him speak. He was a great man. 16 00:01:48,210 --> 00:01:49,140 Thank you, sir. 17 00:01:53,010 --> 00:01:55,000 He's glad you're coming on board, I can tell. 18 00:01:55,020 --> 00:01:58,310 No, I didn't say I was coming on board. I said I'd meet with him. Did you tell him I was coming on board? 19 00:01:58,350 --> 00:02:00,080 No, no. Take it easy. 20 00:02:00,150 --> 00:02:03,090 What the hell is he doing up here? He's a southern governor nobody knows. 21 00:02:03,150 --> 00:02:06,090 See? Already you are sounding like a campaign manager. 22 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,090 -Howard, I'm not. -I'm kidding. 23 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:14,100 If I said Stanton's here because he cares about adult literacy... 24 00:02:14,170 --> 00:02:16,100 -you'd say I was full of it. -Yes. 25 00:02:16,170 --> 00:02:21,100 Howard, Henry, this is Mariane Walsh, the librarian who runs these classes. 26 00:02:21,170 --> 00:02:25,110 Thank you, Governor Walsh. Governor Stanton, I'm sorry. 27 00:02:27,150 --> 00:02:28,110 I'm a little nervous. I'm sorry. 28 00:02:28,180 --> 00:02:32,120 If you'll walk with me, I'll take you up to the library. 29 00:02:36,150 --> 00:02:40,110 The walls are pretty bad, but the library is much, um... 30 00:02:40,190 --> 00:02:42,130 -Better. -Yes, yes. 31 00:02:42,190 --> 00:02:44,130 We're very proud of the library. 32 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,130 When did you start the reading program? 33 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,170 Three years ago. We have very little money. 34 00:02:50,170 --> 00:02:55,070 It's the only reading program like it in New York that I know of. 35 00:02:55,140 --> 00:02:57,070 -There may be others, but I don't,... -Know of them. 36 00:02:58,110 --> 00:02:59,080 You okay? 37 00:02:59,140 --> 00:03:02,080 -Are you okay? -I'm fine. 38 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,080 I'm Ruby. I'm a domestic. I've been in this class 2 months. 39 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,090 -Jack Washington. I'm a handyman. -Hello, Jack. 40 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,090 -Twana Carter, waitress... -Good to meet you. 41 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,090 Anthony Ramirez, freelance carpenter. 42 00:03:19,130 --> 00:03:22,100 I wanted to say welcome aboard. 43 00:03:22,170 --> 00:03:24,100 What? I'm not on board. I just... 44 00:03:24,170 --> 00:03:27,100 -You're kidding, right? -Yeah. 45 00:03:27,170 --> 00:03:30,110 Tell the governor a bit about yourself, Dewayne. 46 00:03:32,140 --> 00:03:34,110 I'm a short order chef. 47 00:03:35,150 --> 00:03:38,120 And until I come here, I couldn't read a lick. 48 00:03:38,180 --> 00:03:39,110 Dewayne's dyslexic. 49 00:03:41,150 --> 00:03:45,110 They just kept passing me up. Third grade, fourth grade. 50 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,060 I'd just sit in the back, sticking to my own self. 51 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:55,070 It was like no one noticed. 52 00:03:56,100 --> 00:03:59,070 And I went all the way through and graduated elementary school. 53 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:05,110 They sent me to Ben Franklin... that's general studies. 54 00:04:05,110 --> 00:04:08,080 They could have sent me to the Bronx Zoo. 55 00:04:08,150 --> 00:04:11,080 No one ever said: 56 00:04:11,150 --> 00:04:14,080 "Dewayne, you can't read. What will you do with... 57 00:04:14,150 --> 00:04:16,090 your sorry ass?" Excuse-me. 58 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,090 Anyway, graduation come and my mama come. 59 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,090 She took the day off from the laundry where she worked. So, we're there... 60 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:29,100 Dr. Dalembretti calls out the names on the diplomas... 61 00:04:29,170 --> 00:04:32,100 and what each kid done. 62 00:04:32,170 --> 00:04:35,110 Like "Sharonna Harris, honors." 63 00:04:35,170 --> 00:04:38,110 "Tyrone Kirby, Regents Diploma." 64 00:04:39,140 --> 00:04:41,110 And then... 65 00:04:41,180 --> 00:04:44,110 he come to my name. 66 00:04:46,150 --> 00:04:49,120 And he say, so everyone hear it... 67 00:04:52,090 --> 00:04:53,060 he said, "Dewayna Smith... 68 00:04:54,090 --> 00:04:56,060 "receives a certificate... 69 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:00,060 of attendance." 70 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:05,070 You could hear people buzzing. 71 00:05:05,140 --> 00:05:07,070 A couple of folks laughed. 72 00:05:07,140 --> 00:05:11,070 And I had to go up there and get it. I had to stand up there... 73 00:05:11,140 --> 00:05:13,080 just dying... 74 00:05:14,110 --> 00:05:17,080 trying not to look at anyone. 75 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,090 Trying not to look too stupid. 76 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:26,090 And, uh... 77 00:05:27,130 --> 00:05:30,090 Mama's in front. She has her hat on and her purse in her lap... 78 00:05:34,130 --> 00:05:36,100 tears coming down from behind her glasses... 79 00:05:37,140 --> 00:05:40,100 like someone...like someone died. 80 00:05:55,090 --> 00:05:56,050 I want to thank you... 81 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,050 for sharing that with us, Dewayne. 82 00:06:00,090 --> 00:06:03,060 I want to thank you all for having real courage. 83 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:06,060 My uncle Charlie was... 84 00:06:06,130 --> 00:06:09,070 a war hero, in World War ll. 85 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:12,070 He was sent to Iwo Jima, where they raised the flag. 86 00:06:14,110 --> 00:06:17,070 He took out four machine gun nests of japaneses soldiers... 87 00:06:17,140 --> 00:06:19,080 who had a squad of his buddies pinned down. 88 00:06:20,110 --> 00:06:23,080 Did it with one grenade, his rifle, bayonet, and bare hands. 89 00:06:23,150 --> 00:06:25,080 Shit. 90 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,090 President Truman gave him the Medal of Honor. 91 00:06:29,150 --> 00:06:31,090 And when he came home, there was a parade. 92 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,090 The town fathers came to my parents' house and said: 93 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:39,100 "Charlie, what are you going to do now" Charlie said he didn't know. 94 00:06:40,130 --> 00:06:43,100 The mayor said, "Maybe you'd like a full scholarship to the state university. 95 00:06:43,170 --> 00:06:46,100 The banker said maybe Charlie didn't want to go back to school. 96 00:06:46,170 --> 00:06:50,140 Maybe he'd like a management job with the bank. 97 00:06:50,140 --> 00:06:54,040 And the sawmill owner said, "Don't be cooped up... 98 00:06:54,110 --> 00:06:57,050 in a school or bank. Come manage my crew." 99 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,050 And you know what? Charlie turned them all down. 100 00:07:02,090 --> 00:07:04,050 -What did he do? -Nothing. 101 00:07:05,090 --> 00:07:09,050 He just laid on the couch and smoked his Luckies. Couldn't get him off it. 102 00:07:09,130 --> 00:07:11,060 Was he messed up in the head from the war? 103 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:13,060 No. 104 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:16,070 It was just that he couldn't read. 105 00:07:16,130 --> 00:07:19,070 He couldn't read and was too embarrassed to tell anyone. 106 00:07:19,140 --> 00:07:22,070 He had the courage to win the Medal of Honor... 107 00:07:22,140 --> 00:07:26,080 but didn't have the courage to do what you're doing here. 108 00:07:27,110 --> 00:07:30,080 He didn't have the courage to get the help he needed. 109 00:07:30,150 --> 00:07:35,080 So, know that I appreciate what you're doing. And I honor it. 110 00:07:35,150 --> 00:07:37,090 When people say, "Jack Stanton, why spend so much... 111 00:07:37,150 --> 00:07:38,090 effort on adult literacy?" 112 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,090 I say to them... 113 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,090 I say, " Because"... 114 00:07:46,130 --> 00:07:47,100 it gives me a chance to see courage." 115 00:07:50,130 --> 00:07:51,030 I want to thank you. 116 00:07:52,070 --> 00:07:56,030 I want to thank you for allowing me to visit here today. 117 00:08:09,090 --> 00:08:10,050 Let's get him out of here. 118 00:08:11,090 --> 00:08:12,060 He likes it. 119 00:08:13,090 --> 00:08:15,060 Governor Stanton, thank you for coming today. 120 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:20,060 I will be damned. 121 00:08:20,130 --> 00:08:21,060 I'm... Ooh! I'm sorry. 122 00:08:31,110 --> 00:08:33,080 You're going to work for him. Won't you? 123 00:08:33,140 --> 00:08:37,080 No, I'm not. I'm just going to meet him and talk. 124 00:08:37,150 --> 00:08:42,090 -About what? -Well, about going to work for him. 125 00:08:42,150 --> 00:08:45,090 How can you quit on Adam Larkin and get in bed with some... 126 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,090 cracker who's done piss for blacks in his state? 127 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:49,090 I could say the same about Larkin. 128 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:53,030 But he will. He has to wait. He's a black Congressman. 129 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:58,030 I don't like Larkin. I don't know what Stanton wants, but... 130 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:02,040 I do. He wants to use the grandson of a civil rights leader... 131 00:09:02,110 --> 00:09:04,040 a black man in politics, and a vote getter. 132 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,050 That's hilarious. Yeah, put a black man on the team,... 133 00:09:08,110 --> 00:09:10,050 that'll roll in those votes. 134 00:09:10,110 --> 00:09:12,050 That's why so many black men run the country. 135 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,050 If politics upsets you, work for the Black Advocate. 136 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,050 We're never disillusioned. 137 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:19,050 Hand me that tie. 138 00:09:20,090 --> 00:09:22,060 Get your own damn tie. 139 00:09:22,130 --> 00:09:27,060 No, no tie, no suit. Just leather jacket cool. 140 00:09:29,100 --> 00:09:32,070 I'll be back in 2 hours, then we can discuss the Black Advocate. 141 00:09:34,110 --> 00:09:35,070 Don't be mad. 142 00:09:35,140 --> 00:09:39,080 Okay, be mad, but only for 2 hours. Wait up for me. 143 00:09:43,110 --> 00:09:45,080 Oh, my God. My boy. 144 00:09:45,150 --> 00:09:48,080 Henry Burton. I am mighty honored. 145 00:09:48,150 --> 00:09:51,090 I'm Arlen Sporken, the Governor's media consultant. 146 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,090 Non-fat caffeine? 147 00:09:55,160 --> 00:10:00,100 I am delighted you're on board. Honey, get me a sandwich. 148 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,100 Only if you pinch my cheek and call me sugar. 149 00:10:03,170 --> 00:10:06,100 I'll get it. We're going to win this thing. 150 00:10:06,170 --> 00:10:09,110 Absolutely. But the big question is Ozio. You think.... 151 00:10:09,170 --> 00:10:11,110 has the "cagones" to run. 152 00:10:11,180 --> 00:10:13,110 It's cojones. 153 00:10:13,180 --> 00:10:17,110 I don't know Ozio well enough to judge his cojones. 154 00:10:17,180 --> 00:10:19,120 They're big, but they're glass. 155 00:10:21,150 --> 00:10:23,120 Governor, it's nice to... 156 00:10:23,190 --> 00:10:25,120 You remember Miss Walsh. 157 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,130 -Sorry. -You all right, darling? 158 00:10:29,190 --> 00:10:33,130 Thank you for this, um, opportunity to discuss the, um... 159 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,130 The program. A great program, don't you think, Henry? 160 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,140 Yes. It's an excellent program. 161 00:10:42,170 --> 00:10:44,140 Now, tell the board what we discussed. 162 00:10:44,210 --> 00:10:45,140 Yes, I will. 163 00:10:46,180 --> 00:10:48,150 -I'll just see my way out. Thank you. 164 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,080 She's on the board of the teacher's union. 165 00:10:54,150 --> 00:10:56,090 Ah, a teacher and a librarian. 166 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,090 It's the missus. 167 00:11:01,130 --> 00:11:02,090 Hi, darling. 168 00:11:03,130 --> 00:11:07,090 Honey, I'm sorry. We got stuck here. 169 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,100 But great news...We made real progress with the teachers. 170 00:11:12,140 --> 00:11:15,110 Tonight? Are you sure? Oh, I'm so sorry, honey. 171 00:11:15,170 --> 00:11:17,110 Charlie, did you know we have a meeting with the guy from the.... 172 00:11:17,170 --> 00:11:19,110 Portsmouth Democratic Committee? 173 00:11:19,180 --> 00:11:22,110 Goddamn it, Charlie. 174 00:11:23,150 --> 00:11:26,120 Are you Uncle Charlie, the Medal of honor winner? 175 00:11:26,180 --> 00:11:29,120 Well, I'm Uncle Charlie. And whatever else he says. 176 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,120 If you'll stop popping my eardrum, I'll leave now. 177 00:11:34,190 --> 00:11:38,130 Don't...Susan, don't go. Susan, just stay... 178 00:11:42,170 --> 00:11:46,130 -We better go. Where's the plane? -Teterboro. 179 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,140 Shit. All the way out there? Okay, let's go. 180 00:11:49,210 --> 00:11:53,070 Arlen, see you in D. C. Daisy, come with Howard tomorrow. Henry... 181 00:11:53,140 --> 00:11:55,080 Mitch, Charlie, let's go. 182 00:11:55,150 --> 00:11:58,080 Go? But I came to talk to you about... 183 00:11:58,150 --> 00:11:59,080 We'll talk on the plane. 184 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:05,080 -But I teach classes in the morning. -Call in sick. 185 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,090 -The kids won't mind. -Can I make a phone call? 186 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,090 When we get there. Now, let's talk... 187 00:12:31,150 --> 00:12:32,120 Hi, honey. 188 00:12:36,150 --> 00:12:38,120 This is Henry Burton. My wife, Susan. 189 00:12:38,190 --> 00:12:41,120 I met you 25 years ago at your grandfather's. 190 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:45,130 You were running under the sprinkler in little wet underpants. 191 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:46,130 He was a great man. 192 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:47,130 Thank you. 193 00:12:47,270 --> 00:12:50,170 Jack Stanton could also be a great man if he weren't such a... 194 00:12:50,170 --> 00:12:54,070 -thoughtless, undisciplined shit. -Why is this a big deal? 195 00:12:55,110 --> 00:12:57,070 Because it is big! First impressions count, asshole. 196 00:12:57,140 --> 00:13:01,080 This is New Hampshire. These people don't know you. 197 00:13:01,150 --> 00:13:03,080 They probably don't even remember your state. 198 00:13:03,150 --> 00:13:06,080 They know Orlando Ozio, the Governor of a real state. 199 00:13:06,150 --> 00:13:08,080 But they came to meet you and you didn't show. 200 00:13:08,150 --> 00:13:12,090 I talked to the head of their Democratic party about fly... 201 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:16,090 fishing for an hour and 45 minutes. Do you realize how... 202 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:22,100 indescribably boring fly-fishing is? 203 00:13:22,170 --> 00:13:25,100 Do you realize I've now committed to doing this,... 204 00:13:25,170 --> 00:13:26,100 this thing with him? 205 00:13:26,170 --> 00:13:31,110 I'm going fly-fishing because of you, you asshole! 206 00:13:31,180 --> 00:13:34,110 It's not funny. You can't do this to me Jack. 207 00:13:35,150 --> 00:13:37,110 We've been at this a month and you're already fucking up. 208 00:13:38,180 --> 00:13:44,120 The only shot we have is to be perfect. 209 00:13:44,190 --> 00:13:49,130 Barely adequate won't swing it. Jack, you can't blow off... 210 00:13:49,190 --> 00:13:51,060 Primrose Lane... 211 00:13:52,100 --> 00:13:55,070 Life's a holiday on Primrose Lane. 212 00:13:55,130 --> 00:13:58,070 When l'm walking down Primrose Lane... 213 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:02,070 -with you... -You're not funny. 214 00:14:03,110 --> 00:14:05,080 I have to find a phone. 215 00:14:05,140 --> 00:14:07,080 When we get to the apartment. 216 00:14:09,110 --> 00:14:13,070 Honey, it was so great today, this reading program. 217 00:14:13,150 --> 00:14:18,090 You should have seen the people. And the teacher was inspirational. 218 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:23,090 Tell me how good the curriculum was. We can replicate a good curriculum. 219 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,100 You can't sell a program without a good teacher. 220 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:30,100 Henry, was the teacher that inspirational? 221 00:14:31,140 --> 00:14:33,100 Well, she was... 222 00:14:39,140 --> 00:14:42,110 She was a pretty typical school board bureaucrat, I thought. 223 00:14:49,150 --> 00:14:52,050 We got it on a 6-month sublet. Better than a hotel. 224 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:56,060 Cheaper, too. We can keep clothes and store stuff. We have privacy. 225 00:14:57,090 --> 00:14:59,060 I don't give a shit about privacy. I'm here to get known... 226 00:14:59,130 --> 00:15:01,060 I can't do that in private. 227 00:15:01,130 --> 00:15:04,070 It's like the end of the campaign, not the beginning. 228 00:15:05,100 --> 00:15:07,070 Goddamn it, Charlie. No cable? 229 00:15:07,140 --> 00:15:12,070 You can't run for President of the United fucking States without CNN! 230 00:15:12,140 --> 00:15:15,080 -Do you have any bags? -No, I didn't expect to come. 231 00:15:15,150 --> 00:15:17,080 -You want something to eat? -Yeah. 232 00:15:17,150 --> 00:15:20,080 This is the worst damn place I've ever seen! 233 00:15:21,150 --> 00:15:22,580 Charlie. Darling. 234 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:27,080 It's four A.M. This is not how to introduce yourself to the neighbors. 235 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,090 I'll make you coffee, Henry. 236 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:33,100 Well, I'm out of here tomorrow morning. 237 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:37,100 I know we got to go cheap, but not this cheap. Not loser cheap. 238 00:15:47,140 --> 00:15:50,150 -So, why did you quit Larkin? -What? 239 00:15:50,150 --> 00:15:53,050 Why did you stop working for Adam Larkin? Careful, it's hot. 240 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:57,050 I just, um... 241 00:15:59,090 --> 00:16:01,060 I know...you can't talk about your old boss to your new one. 242 00:16:01,130 --> 00:16:03,060 I don't have a new boss yet. 243 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:10,070 Larkin's very different from Jack. Very cool. 244 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:15,060 Never blinks. A professional. 245 00:16:18,110 --> 00:16:20,080 He would never swallow tea without testing it. 246 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,080 That's the real thing experience teaches you. Isn't it? 247 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,090 How not to get burned. 248 00:16:30,150 --> 00:16:33,090 -Do people ever learn that? -Not the best people. 249 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:54,040 Adam taught me a lot... 250 00:16:54,110 --> 00:16:59,050 but it was all the same. He never surprised me. 251 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,050 No one ever voted with us because it was right. 252 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,050 They always asked for a lulu. 253 00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:06,050 Lulu? 254 00:17:07,090 --> 00:17:10,060 It's New York for artificial sweetener. 255 00:17:12,100 --> 00:17:15,070 Anyway, we'd win and then be gutted... 256 00:17:15,130 --> 00:17:17,070 in the Senate. We'd settle for their version. 257 00:17:17,130 --> 00:17:20,070 Then the White House would veto, which was no surprise. 258 00:17:20,140 --> 00:17:26,080 Then we'd celebrate our great moral victory. We'd forced a veto. 259 00:17:27,110 --> 00:17:29,080 So you dropped out. 260 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:36,090 So why are you here? 261 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:41,090 Tell me. 262 00:17:42,130 --> 00:17:43,090 Tell me. 263 00:17:46,130 --> 00:17:47,100 It's four in the morning. 264 00:17:48,130 --> 00:17:50,100 Let's just tell the truth. 265 00:17:55,070 --> 00:17:56,040 Okay. Well... 266 00:17:57,070 --> 00:18:01,030 I always wondered how it would be to work with someone... 267 00:18:01,110 --> 00:18:03,050 who actually cared about... 268 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:05,050 I mean... 269 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,050 it couldn't always have been the way it is now. 270 00:18:10,090 --> 00:18:12,060 It must have been different in my grandfather's time. 271 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:15,060 You were there. You had Kennedy. I didn't. 272 00:18:16,090 --> 00:18:20,050 I've never heard a president say "destiny" and "sacrifice"... 273 00:18:20,130 --> 00:18:22,060 without thinking, "bullshit." 274 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:26,070 Okay, maybe it was bullshit with Kennedy, too, but... 275 00:18:27,140 --> 00:18:31,070 but people believed it. 276 00:18:33,110 --> 00:18:36,080 And, I guess, that's what I want. 277 00:18:36,150 --> 00:18:38,080 I want to believe it. 278 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,090 I want to be part of something that's history. 279 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:47,090 I bet this is the longest answer to a five word... 280 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,090 question you've ever gotten. 281 00:18:51,060 --> 00:18:52,030 No, it isn't. 282 00:18:53,060 --> 00:18:56,030 The longest was the one I got to... 283 00:18:56,100 --> 00:18:58,030 "Do you do much fly-fishing?" 284 00:19:00,070 --> 00:19:02,040 It's a good answer, Henry. 285 00:19:04,070 --> 00:19:06,040 History is what we're about, too. 286 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:09,050 What else is there? 287 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,050 Hey, March. Some guy about an automobile insurance scam. 288 00:19:21,090 --> 00:19:24,060 -It's me. Don't hang up again. -Fuck you. 289 00:19:24,130 --> 00:19:26,060 l'm in a coffee shop in New Hampshire. l may not... 290 00:19:26,130 --> 00:19:28,060 find another phone. Listen. 291 00:19:28,130 --> 00:19:32,070 l think this guy could be the real thing. 292 00:19:32,140 --> 00:19:35,070 He's so incredible you could work for him. 293 00:19:35,140 --> 00:19:38,070 l mean, this son of a bitch actually likes these people. 294 00:19:38,140 --> 00:19:40,080 He's worth the risk. 295 00:19:41,110 --> 00:19:43,080 Help me get him out of here. We have a fund-raiser in 20 minutes. 296 00:19:44,110 --> 00:19:47,080 You bastard. I waited for you all night. 297 00:19:47,150 --> 00:19:49,080 l can explain about that. 298 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:53,090 I got you some stuff at the drugstore. 299 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,090 I can't go to Mammoth Falls without clothes. 300 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:01,100 Give me your keys. Daisy can pack some things and bring them to you. 301 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,100 Why, I can't pack the things? 302 00:20:03,170 --> 00:20:06,100 Because you're going to Mississippi. 303 00:20:06,170 --> 00:20:09,100 We have to set up campaign headquarters before we go. Keys. 304 00:20:10,170 --> 00:20:14,110 Hey, I thought you were supposed to tell us to hurry? 305 00:20:18,150 --> 00:20:21,120 Susan... Mrs. Stanton, I'm not sure. I mean, I don't know. 306 00:20:22,150 --> 00:20:25,120 I've never helped run a presidential campaign before. 307 00:20:25,190 --> 00:20:28,120 Well, neither have we. 308 00:20:28,190 --> 00:20:32,130 That's how history is made, Henry... by the first-timers. 309 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:41,140 Are you, uh...? 310 00:20:42,170 --> 00:20:43,140 Is this...? 311 00:20:46,180 --> 00:20:48,140 Where are the state party people? 312 00:20:49,180 --> 00:20:52,080 They're tied up with the congressional races. We're it. 313 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:54,080 All right. 314 00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:59,090 Get me the national commitee mailing lists of every donor... 315 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,090 since the beginning of time. 316 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:06,100 I also need a complete database of voting records on every candidate... 317 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,100 so we can set up a rapid response negative operation. 318 00:21:09,170 --> 00:21:11,100 How do we do that, honey? 319 00:21:13,140 --> 00:21:14,100 Don't you, uh...? 320 00:21:15,140 --> 00:21:17,110 Don't any of you have any special skills? 321 00:21:19,140 --> 00:21:20,110 I speak Hebrew. 322 00:21:23,150 --> 00:21:24,110 Great. 323 00:21:25,150 --> 00:21:27,120 -Now, double click on "Pro-Choice". 324 00:21:29,150 --> 00:21:31,120 Now call up the Harris vote. 325 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:33,120 No, no! 326 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,130 Why can't I learn this? 327 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,130 This announcement is for the candidate briefing on the 23rd. 328 00:21:42,170 --> 00:21:45,130 -Put it on five hundred leaflets. -And then what? 329 00:21:47,170 --> 00:21:49,140 Hand them out. 330 00:21:55,110 --> 00:21:58,080 Call only the Orthodox and Conservative synagogues. 331 00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:02,080 Speak only to the rabbis and start off in Hebrew. 332 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:07,090 -How's that? -Great. We need to file that with... 333 00:22:08,130 --> 00:22:09,090 Excuse me. 334 00:22:13,130 --> 00:22:15,100 Terry? Terry! 335 00:22:19,140 --> 00:22:22,110 Just hold out the leaflets for people. Don't stalk them. 336 00:22:28,150 --> 00:22:31,110 -How y'all doing? We're...coming along. 337 00:22:32,150 --> 00:22:35,120 -We don't have much staff yet. -No, but what we have is choice. 338 00:22:36,150 --> 00:22:39,120 Meet the most brilliant political strategist in the party. 339 00:22:39,190 --> 00:22:42,120 This is Richard Jemmons. Richard is my right arm, Henry Burton. 340 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,130 -I sure admired your granddaddy. -Great. 341 00:22:48,170 --> 00:22:50,130 I'll pick you up at 7:00 for dinner. We can talk a little policy. 342 00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:53,070 Nice meeting you. Say hi to Winona for me. 343 00:22:53,140 --> 00:22:54,070 Who? 344 00:22:55,110 --> 00:22:58,070 He means Jennifer. Every girl Richard falls for is Winona Ryder to him. 345 00:22:58,140 --> 00:23:00,080 Oh, that's, uh... 346 00:23:01,110 --> 00:23:02,080 psychotic. 347 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:13,090 Does that smell good or what? 348 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:17,090 I'm glad you made it. 349 00:23:25,140 --> 00:23:28,100 -It smells so good. -We got it all set up for you. 350 00:23:30,140 --> 00:23:32,110 -He's down there. -He's got chicken. 351 00:23:32,180 --> 00:23:34,110 Hey, Will, how's business? 352 00:23:35,150 --> 00:23:37,110 Hey, Amalee, the Gov's here. 353 00:23:38,150 --> 00:23:40,120 You got your mojo working tonight? 354 00:23:40,180 --> 00:23:42,120 Ain't no end to it, Gov. 355 00:23:44,150 --> 00:23:45,120 Hei, Lo! 356 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:49,130 Gov's here. 357 00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:54,060 How are you, honey? 358 00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:58,070 I had to tell Jackie you were too busy working to baby-sit... 359 00:23:58,130 --> 00:24:00,070 and he was not happy. 360 00:24:04,110 --> 00:24:06,110 How are you doing, Will? 361 00:24:06,110 --> 00:24:10,070 Not so good since my mama died. I miss her like a pain. 362 00:24:11,110 --> 00:24:14,080 You got to let that happen. Your mama deserves it. 363 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,090 Your pain will heal, but give your mama her due. 364 00:24:18,150 --> 00:24:21,090 We got to miss our mamas. Nobody loves us like them. 365 00:24:22,130 --> 00:24:24,090 Your mama still with you, Henry? 366 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,090 No. She's in Beverly Hills with her second husband. 367 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,090 You're a lucky man. 368 00:24:28,130 --> 00:24:29,100 Thank you. 369 00:24:30,130 --> 00:24:32,100 And the next time I see my mama, she's blind. 370 00:24:33,140 --> 00:24:36,110 A year later, she's got just one leg from diabetes. 371 00:24:37,140 --> 00:24:40,110 She could have done anything, my mama. Been anything. 372 00:24:40,180 --> 00:24:42,110 God bless the mamas. 373 00:24:42,180 --> 00:24:44,110 My mama worked her whole life. 374 00:24:44,180 --> 00:24:46,110 My mama raised seven children. 375 00:24:47,150 --> 00:24:49,120 If Ozio doesn't run, we focus on New Hampshire. 376 00:24:49,190 --> 00:24:51,050 He does we focus on the South. 377 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:53,060 He may wait until New Hampshire. 378 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:57,060 Shouldn't we wait for the Governor for this? 379 00:24:57,130 --> 00:25:01,060 He's in a mama-thon. That'll go on all night in the south. 380 00:25:01,130 --> 00:25:04,070 My mama worked her whole life for her family... 381 00:25:04,130 --> 00:25:07,070 and never did anything for herself! 382 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:12,060 And now they're cutting her up! Cutting pieces out of her! 383 00:25:13,110 --> 00:25:15,080 Why is that happening to her? 384 00:25:15,110 --> 00:25:19,070 l looked over Jordan and what did l see 385 00:25:19,150 --> 00:25:21,080 Coming for to carry me home 386 00:25:21,150 --> 00:25:23,090 You know what Richard's favorite song is? 387 00:25:24,150 --> 00:25:29,090 It is the most American goddamn song I can think of. 388 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,090 A Southern governor wrote it. Know what I'm thinking of? 389 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:37,100 You are my sunshine My only sunshine 390 00:25:37,170 --> 00:25:42,100 You make me happy when skies are gray 391 00:25:42,170 --> 00:25:44,110 I didn't know a Southern governor wrote that. 392 00:25:44,170 --> 00:25:48,110 You'll never know, dear How much l love you 393 00:25:48,180 --> 00:25:53,050 Please don't take my sunshine away 394 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:58,050 The other night, dear As l lay sleeping 395 00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:03,060 l dreamt l held you in my arms 396 00:26:04,090 --> 00:26:09,050 When l awoke, dear l was mistaken 397 00:26:09,130 --> 00:26:14,070 And l hung my head and cried 398 00:26:15,110 --> 00:26:19,060 You are my sunshine My only sunshine 399 00:26:19,140 --> 00:26:24,080 You make me happy when skies are gray 400 00:26:24,150 --> 00:26:29,080 You'll never know, dear How much l love you... 401 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:33,090 I have a list of all grassroots organizations in New Hampshire. 402 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:34,090 Great. Put it on my desk. 403 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,090 These rabbis are putty in my hands. 404 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:40,090 Fantastic. 405 00:26:43,130 --> 00:26:46,100 I started out with 200, I have one left. Know how I did it? 406 00:26:48,170 --> 00:26:50,110 I'm speechless. 407 00:26:51,070 --> 00:26:55,030 I think my grandfather would endorse the Governor, Jesse. Even if you ran. 408 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,050 Okay. You, too, my friend, Okay. 409 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,050 -Where the fuck are my clothes? -Relax. 410 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:04,050 Daisy got sidetracked to Washington. 411 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:07,060 Does this guy even have a chance in hell? 412 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:08,060 I haven't canvassed hell lately. 413 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:12,060 But if we worked for guys who had a chance, we wouldn't have Richard. 414 00:27:12,130 --> 00:27:14,060 Shit. He's bird-dogging. 415 00:27:14,130 --> 00:27:17,070 Why don't you go over to my hotel room with me? 416 00:27:17,130 --> 00:27:20,070 -You're crushing my originals. -Sorry. 417 00:27:20,140 --> 00:27:22,070 You don't know you're missing. 418 00:27:24,110 --> 00:27:26,080 Wait. Don't embarrass him. 419 00:27:26,140 --> 00:27:28,080 I got cable movies. Want to walk the snake? 420 00:27:29,110 --> 00:27:31,080 What, you don't believe me? 421 00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:34,080 Baby, I got a python in here. 422 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:44,090 Gee, I've never seen one that old before. 423 00:27:52,070 --> 00:27:55,040 Come on, bud. Park the Mustang back in the garage. 424 00:27:58,070 --> 00:27:59,040 Fuck you! 425 00:27:59,110 --> 00:28:02,040 Fuck you, you redneck son of a bitch! 426 00:28:02,110 --> 00:28:05,050 Ever hear of Anita Hill? You're lucky she's cool. 427 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:08,050 I wouldn't have done it if she wasn't. 428 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:11,050 And you know when a muffin is cool... when to show her your cock. 429 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:13,060 Where'd you go to school? 430 00:28:14,090 --> 00:28:18,050 Hotchkiss. You're a tight-ass preppie elitist from hotchkiss. 431 00:28:18,130 --> 00:28:20,060 -Bullshit! -Bullshit it's bullshit! 432 00:28:20,130 --> 00:28:25,070 You called me a redneck, which I'm proud to say I am. You are a honky. 433 00:28:25,140 --> 00:28:28,070 You just look black, and it's your best part. 434 00:28:28,140 --> 00:28:30,110 Lets you intimidate the palefaces, especially lib-labs, 435 00:28:30,140 --> 00:28:33,080 and work that voodoo sexual shit on white girls. 436 00:28:33,140 --> 00:28:38,080 I'm probably blacker than you are. I got some slave in me, I can feel it. 437 00:28:38,150 --> 00:28:39,080 You are crazy. What? 438 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,090 -You got a visitor. -It's not a visitor. It's me. 439 00:28:43,150 --> 00:28:46,090 -Where the fuck is my suitcase? -I got it. 440 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,790 You can't let a lady carry a suitcase, down South. 441 00:28:51,060 --> 00:28:54,030 Henry, I'm glad you got a wardrobe, because we're having dinner... 442 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:56,030 with a very important person. 443 00:28:57,070 --> 00:28:59,030 -Who? -Governor Ozio's son. 444 00:28:59,100 --> 00:29:02,040 What the fuck does Ozio's son want? 445 00:29:02,110 --> 00:29:07,040 It could be that Ozio's looking for someone to endorse. 446 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,040 Jesus! 447 00:29:09,110 --> 00:29:11,050 -That'd be something. -You think? 448 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,050 -This must be handled just right. -Just right. 449 00:29:22,090 --> 00:29:24,060 Mind eating pig with your hands? 450 00:29:24,130 --> 00:29:26,060 -Is there any other way. -Not in the South. 451 00:29:30,100 --> 00:29:32,070 Jack, the governor's been watching you. 452 00:29:32,140 --> 00:29:36,070 He was hoping when you next pass our way, you stop in. Get to know us. 453 00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:42,070 Absolutely, Jimmy. You got the book. When can we meet with... 454 00:29:42,150 --> 00:29:43,080 Jimmy's dad, Governor Ozio? 455 00:29:44,110 --> 00:29:46,080 Do you mind us talking business? 456 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,090 No, no. How else will I learn? 457 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,090 Next Tuesday we're in AIbany, on our way to New Hampshire. 458 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,090 -How's Tuesday? -Let's look. 459 00:30:01,130 --> 00:30:04,100 Tuesday. Let me just scroll down here. 460 00:30:07,140 --> 00:30:10,110 Tuesday's pretty full, but maybe I can slot you in somewhere. 461 00:30:14,140 --> 00:30:18,100 We land at four then do a drop-by at the Teachers Union cocktail party... 462 00:30:18,180 --> 00:30:21,120 before their dinner at the Sheraton. 463 00:30:21,180 --> 00:30:25,120 I'd skip that, but they'd notice. I'm the only candidate invited to the party. 464 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:32,120 I know. The Governor turned it down because he's the speaker at the dinner. 465 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,130 Good. You'll both be at the Sheraton. 466 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,730 You can meet after the cocktail party and before the dinner... in his suite. 467 00:30:42,170 --> 00:30:43,140 Perfect. 468 00:30:44,170 --> 00:30:46,140 -I'll see him there. -Excellent. 469 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,080 Fuck all, Henry! Fuck all! You don't know fuck all about briefing me! 470 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,130 You make me look like a fucking amateur. 471 00:31:03,130 --> 00:31:08,090 Like a boob-assed, barefoot, dipshit, third rate, Southern fried.... 472 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:09,100 piece of shit alderman! 473 00:31:10,130 --> 00:31:12,100 You didn't know Ozio was speaking at the dinner... 474 00:31:12,170 --> 00:31:15,100 to keep me from shooting my mouth off! 475 00:31:16,140 --> 00:31:19,110 -Hello, Richard. -If you'd like to make a call... 476 00:31:19,180 --> 00:31:24,110 Shit! What the fuck kind of operation do we got here? 477 00:31:24,180 --> 00:31:28,120 How did we get scheduled for a drop in when he's the main speaker? 478 00:31:28,180 --> 00:31:30,120 Get me Howard! 479 00:31:30,190 --> 00:31:32,120 -You threw the phone out the window. -Stop the car. 480 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,130 Don't kill us, just stop it. 481 00:31:36,190 --> 00:31:38,130 I think it landed in the brush. 482 00:31:38,190 --> 00:31:40,130 You're wrong. It landed in the trees. I saw it. 483 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,130 I'll look like shit going to that cocktail party. 484 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,130 I'm Ozio's warm-up act, and he knows it. 485 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,140 But, somehow, we didn't know it! 486 00:31:49,170 --> 00:31:51,090 Get out of the goddamed brush. I told you, it landed in the trees. 487 00:31:51,140 --> 00:31:54,080 Jimmy probably told his dad he has nothing to worry about. 488 00:31:54,140 --> 00:31:58,080 He would have even if Henry hadn't screwed up. Here's the phone. 489 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,080 It was in the brush. 490 00:32:01,150 --> 00:32:06,090 Well, you wouldn't have found it if I hadn't thrown it out of the car. 491 00:32:15,130 --> 00:32:16,100 -Are you here? -No. 492 00:32:17,130 --> 00:32:19,100 Sorry, he's not here. 493 00:32:20,140 --> 00:32:22,100 Henry Burton. Can I take a message? 494 00:32:26,140 --> 00:32:28,110 Oh, God. I see. 495 00:32:30,150 --> 00:32:32,110 No, I got it, I got it. 496 00:32:34,150 --> 00:32:36,120 -How reliable is Daisy? -Hundred percent. 497 00:32:37,150 --> 00:32:39,120 Then we just got bad news. 498 00:32:39,190 --> 00:32:43,120 In an interview in the next Manhattan Magazine, Ozio blasts you. 499 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,130 "His state's last in everything. He knows shit about education." 500 00:32:49,170 --> 00:32:51,070 You were right about the meeting. 501 00:32:53,100 --> 00:32:54,070 This is bad. 502 00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:56,990 You have to hit back, Jack. 503 00:32:57,140 --> 00:32:59,090 Not too hard or you lose the liberals. 504 00:32:59,140 --> 00:33:02,010 -You'll lose them anyway. -Richard? Are you with us? 505 00:33:02,110 --> 00:33:05,110 I'd give him a little poke. We'll then look better when he drops out. 506 00:33:05,310 --> 00:33:08,080 When who drops out? Ozio's 24 points ahead of us. 507 00:33:08,150 --> 00:33:11,090 Exactly. If he's willing to acknowledge us in this race... 508 00:33:11,150 --> 00:33:14,090 then he's the stupidest fucking Italian since Nero... 509 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:19,090 or he's not going to race. He'll sit on his throne and snipe. 510 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,700 -Doesn't matter. I won't do it. -Jack... 511 00:33:22,130 --> 00:33:26,090 Susan, I'm not going negative. Any jackass can burn down a barn. 512 00:33:26,170 --> 00:33:28,100 -It isn't negative. It's self-defense. -I'm not going to do it! 513 00:33:41,150 --> 00:33:42,120 Shane! 514 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,160 Come back, Shane. 515 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,060 Run for president. 516 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:01,820 -Hello? -How you doing, Henry? 517 00:34:02,140 --> 00:34:03,070 Uh, fine. 518 00:34:03,140 --> 00:34:06,070 There was a bender on the interstate. 519 00:34:06,140 --> 00:34:08,080 I'm on my way to meet the family, so cancel Howard. 520 00:34:08,140 --> 00:34:10,080 Yeah, okay. 521 00:34:10,150 --> 00:34:13,080 And, um, governor, look... 522 00:34:13,150 --> 00:34:15,080 about the Teachers Union dinner... 523 00:34:15,150 --> 00:34:17,090 l know how much l lay on you. 524 00:34:17,150 --> 00:34:22,090 I know how hard you work for me, and I'm honored by it. 525 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,090 l'm honored. 526 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:27,100 -But I should have thought... -Forget it. 527 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,100 Now, get out of that office and rest. 528 00:34:30,130 --> 00:34:34,090 Stay home. Open a bottle of Chablis. What are you doing this weekend, Henry? 529 00:34:35,140 --> 00:34:38,110 Setting up a list of meetings... 530 00:34:38,170 --> 00:34:40,110 Do you think it's at all possible to get yourself laid? 531 00:34:42,150 --> 00:34:43,730 -Sir? -I'm serious. 532 00:34:44,150 --> 00:34:48,110 I don't want you too horny to think straight or too burned out to kick ass when we need... 533 00:34:48,180 --> 00:34:51,050 to start rolling. What are you doing Thanksgiving? 534 00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:55,060 You said your mama's in Beverly Hills, so if you're free... 535 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,060 come spend it with Susan, Jackie and me. It's not... 536 00:34:57,130 --> 00:34:59,060 like being with your mama... 537 00:34:59,130 --> 00:35:01,060 but we're family, too. 538 00:35:03,100 --> 00:35:06,070 Thank you. Yes, I'd like that. 539 00:35:06,140 --> 00:35:07,070 Good, good. 540 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:10,070 And, the reason I won't take on Ozio... 541 00:35:10,140 --> 00:35:15,080 is so I don't give that sonofabitch the power to make me the sonofabitch. 542 00:35:15,140 --> 00:35:17,080 All right? See you, Henry. 543 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:21,080 Right. 544 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,090 Dear Lord, thank you for what we're about to receive. 545 00:35:29,130 --> 00:35:31,090 Okay, son. Here we go. 546 00:35:32,130 --> 00:35:34,100 Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. 547 00:35:37,130 --> 00:35:38,100 Who the hell are all these people? 548 00:35:39,140 --> 00:35:41,100 -Most are from shelters. -You're kidding. 549 00:35:41,170 --> 00:35:44,110 He invites them every year. That's the good news. 550 00:35:44,170 --> 00:35:47,110 The bad news is, he also invites his friends. 551 00:35:47,180 --> 00:35:51,040 People he's been collecting since kindergarden so he can take them aboard when he sails. 552 00:35:51,110 --> 00:35:54,050 And some of them really suck. 553 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:55,050 Henry? Daisy? 554 00:35:57,090 --> 00:35:58,050 She has the same problem. 555 00:36:00,090 --> 00:36:02,060 Meet Lucille Kaufman, an old friend of mine from New York. 556 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,060 I marched with your grandfather. 557 00:36:06,100 --> 00:36:08,060 Lucille and I went to law school. 558 00:36:08,130 --> 00:36:11,070 You're Jack's coordinator? Do something about his clothes. 559 00:36:11,130 --> 00:36:15,070 And the campaign posters. And Arlen Sporken too. 560 00:36:15,140 --> 00:36:19,070 I'm swamped, or I'd join the campaign full-time. 561 00:36:19,140 --> 00:36:21,080 Henry, I want you to meet my son, Jackie. 562 00:36:23,110 --> 00:36:25,080 This is our family doctor, Dr. Beauregard. 563 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:30,070 You and Jack must find a way to educate them Yankees. 564 00:36:31,150 --> 00:36:33,090 Maybe if they both wear capes. 565 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,090 This is Randy Culligan. I gave Randy his first job as a law clerk. 566 00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:17,050 Folks, may l have your attention? 567 00:37:17,130 --> 00:37:21,070 Folks, you all know me. I'm Jackie Stanton's mama. 568 00:37:25,110 --> 00:37:28,080 How about if we sing a chorus of... 569 00:37:28,140 --> 00:37:30,080 "You are My sunshine"... 570 00:37:30,150 --> 00:37:34,080 in honor of the great Southern governors of America? 571 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:39,080 You are my sunshine My only sunshine 572 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:44,090 You make me happy when skies are gray 573 00:37:52,070 --> 00:37:55,040 You're kidding. You're kidding. Hey! Hey! 574 00:37:56,070 --> 00:37:58,040 Wait, wait. 575 00:37:58,110 --> 00:38:00,040 Ozio just dropped out. 576 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,050 That's fantastic! Yes! 577 00:38:09,090 --> 00:38:11,050 Gentlemen, welcome to the first debate of the... 578 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,050 Democratic Presidential Primary. 579 00:38:14,090 --> 00:38:16,060 Remember to keep your responses to one minute. 580 00:38:17,090 --> 00:38:19,060 God, I'm so nervous, I'm sick. 581 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:24,070 -Health care. -What l want to say about health care is... 582 00:38:24,130 --> 00:38:29,070 while it's vital that every American be covered... 583 00:38:29,140 --> 00:38:33,070 it's also vital that we conserve as well as expend. 584 00:38:33,140 --> 00:38:37,080 We're providing a safety net for folks on welfare... 585 00:38:38,110 --> 00:38:39,080 -Oh, shit. 586 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:41,080 Oh, man... 587 00:38:41,150 --> 00:38:44,090 -What did you see? -Nothing. No one. 588 00:38:44,150 --> 00:38:47,090 You're missing one of the great assholes of our time. 589 00:38:49,130 --> 00:38:52,030 l can't help feeling sad as l listen to Senator Martin. 590 00:38:53,060 --> 00:38:56,030 l remember a time when being a Democrat... 591 00:38:56,100 --> 00:39:00,030 meant more than just giving welfare recipients a safety net. 592 00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:02,040 It meant giving them a ladder... 593 00:39:02,100 --> 00:39:05,040 giving them a way to climb back to an equal height. 594 00:39:05,110 --> 00:39:08,040 If we don't control spending... 595 00:39:08,110 --> 00:39:12,050 and shore up the economy of this country, our economy will go under. 596 00:39:12,110 --> 00:39:17,050 -This is a new economic era. -Who are we shoring the economy up for? 597 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,050 Your bond-holding fat cats? 598 00:39:20,090 --> 00:39:24,050 No, not just bond holders. Ordinary men and women will benefit, too. 599 00:39:25,090 --> 00:39:27,060 Why is he doing this? 600 00:39:29,100 --> 00:39:31,070 Because he just has to get on the good side of Lawrence Harris. 601 00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:36,070 A lower deficit means working families... 602 00:39:36,140 --> 00:39:38,070 will have lower mortgage rates. 603 00:39:38,140 --> 00:39:40,070 Okay, not bad, but shut up. 604 00:39:41,110 --> 00:39:43,080 Now Governor Nilson's idea has merit. 605 00:39:44,110 --> 00:39:46,080 We must provide jobs for those who need work. 606 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:48,080 Jack, excuse me. 607 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,090 What, if anything are you against? 608 00:39:58,130 --> 00:40:00,100 l'm against doing nothing while people are suffering. 609 00:40:02,130 --> 00:40:06,090 l'm against dismissing any idea that might help because it isn't my idea. 610 00:40:06,170 --> 00:40:08,100 Senator, you've met these people. 611 00:40:08,170 --> 00:40:13,110 Are you saying we do nothing to help unless we come up with it? 612 00:40:13,180 --> 00:40:15,110 -Nailed him! -He's toast! 613 00:40:16,150 --> 00:40:20,100 What I meant was... -Kicking ass and taking names! 614 00:40:25,150 --> 00:40:27,120 -How was it? -You took it. It was yours. 615 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,130 Governor...March Cunningham, The Black Advocate. 616 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,130 Were you ever arrested during the Vietnam war? 617 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,130 No. 618 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,130 You weren't arrested in Chicago? 619 00:40:38,170 --> 00:40:41,140 No, I was accidentally detained, then released. 620 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,140 The record was expunged. 621 00:40:43,210 --> 00:40:45,140 How were you released? 622 00:40:46,180 --> 00:40:50,130 They realized it was a mistake. It was a long time ago. Check your records. 623 00:40:51,110 --> 00:40:52,080 -Come on. We'll be late. 624 00:40:52,150 --> 00:40:54,080 You guys go ahead. I'll meet you. 625 00:41:05,630 --> 00:41:07,100 What are you doing here? 626 00:41:07,430 --> 00:41:11,000 Why is the Black Advocate suddenly interested in Stanton? 627 00:41:11,470 --> 00:41:12,900 They're not. I am. 628 00:41:13,170 --> 00:41:16,100 I'm finding out who he is because a friend of mine works for him. 629 00:41:16,170 --> 00:41:18,110 March, come on, don't do this. 630 00:41:18,170 --> 00:41:22,110 Aren't you interested, too? Know why he was released? He called... 631 00:41:22,180 --> 00:41:24,110 a U.S. senator to get him out of jail... 632 00:41:24,180 --> 00:41:28,120 then persuaded Mayor Daley to expunge his record. 633 00:41:28,180 --> 00:41:29,120 -So? 634 00:41:29,250 --> 00:41:33,720 So?? He was already so manipulative in the 60s that he got in bed with... 635 00:41:34,190 --> 00:41:38,330 the same mayor of Chicago who busted the protestors at the Convention. 636 00:41:38,460 --> 00:41:41,930 No, I don't care. Stanton was never a radical. He's a politician. 637 00:41:43,300 --> 00:41:45,130 He knew he couldn't get elected with a record, so he had it expunged. 638 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:49,140 You want to work for that? A man who just wants to get elected? 639 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,270 No, I want to work for a man who fights the really good fight, and then... 640 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,080 -watch a Republican get elected. -Do you know the difference? 641 00:41:54,140 --> 00:41:57,080 I know the difference between a man who believes what I do... 642 00:41:57,150 --> 00:41:59,080 and lies about it to get elected... 643 00:41:59,150 --> 00:42:04,090 and one who doesn't give a fuck. I'll take the liar. 644 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,090 -How did he do this to you? -Do what? What are you... 645 00:42:11,130 --> 00:42:14,100 Why are you making him into the devil? Get to know him. 646 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:17,100 Spend a few days with us here. 647 00:42:19,130 --> 00:42:21,100 I miss you. We could be together. 648 00:42:24,140 --> 00:42:27,110 I think you'd fuck me just to get good press for Stanton. 649 00:42:38,150 --> 00:42:39,120 We're in trouble. 650 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,120 What does she have? 651 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,130 What the fuck is the Black Advocate doing covering Stanton? 652 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,060 They're not. It's...she's... It's personal. 653 00:42:55,410 --> 00:42:58,070 Don't matter. We're fucked. If some little shitty paper... 654 00:42:58,140 --> 00:43:01,080 like the Black Advocate can dig this up... 655 00:43:01,140 --> 00:43:06,080 then we're fucking flying blind. They'll all come after us. 656 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,080 I mean, did you see any other President there tonight? 657 00:43:09,150 --> 00:43:11,090 We're it. We're the fucking ball game. 658 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:15,090 Now every fucking flea that ever nipped his ass will want a piece of us. 659 00:43:16,130 --> 00:43:21,090 It'll be the war thing, the drug thing... and the woman thing. That's the killer. 660 00:43:22,130 --> 00:43:25,100 -You have to talk to him about that. -Me? No. You're the strategy guy. 661 00:43:25,170 --> 00:43:27,100 But you're the body man. 662 00:43:27,170 --> 00:43:29,100 We could talk to Susan. 663 00:43:29,170 --> 00:43:31,110 Are you out of your fucking mind? 664 00:43:32,140 --> 00:43:34,110 "Mrs. Stanton, we need to know who Jack's plugging... 665 00:43:34,180 --> 00:43:38,110 -so we can have spin control". -Then let's just quit. 666 00:43:38,180 --> 00:43:39,110 If we won't act,... 667 00:43:39,180 --> 00:43:43,120 let's work for someone we're not too chicken-shit to protect. 668 00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:51,060 Okay, we'll set up a meeting. 669 00:43:51,130 --> 00:43:53,060 -Him or her? -Shit, her! 670 00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:57,070 Goddamn, this is going to be rough. 671 00:43:59,100 --> 00:44:03,060 I have to be in Concord in an hour to meet Jack. What's the crisis? 672 00:44:10,110 --> 00:44:13,080 It's campaign business. It's private. 673 00:44:13,150 --> 00:44:14,080 Oh, please. 674 00:44:14,150 --> 00:44:18,090 Lucille is one of my closest friends and part of this campaign. 675 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,090 What's the crisis? 676 00:44:44,350 --> 00:44:46,660 Say you're out in the woods, taking a shit... 677 00:44:46,780 --> 00:44:50,120 and a wild boar comes charging at you. 678 00:44:51,090 --> 00:44:53,050 Do you pull your britches up and run? 679 00:44:56,090 --> 00:45:00,090 Or do you try to pull your britches up and grab the doves you just shot... 680 00:45:00,130 --> 00:45:04,070 and then try to run, all at the same time? 681 00:45:06,100 --> 00:45:09,070 Or do you just forget about the fucking doves... 682 00:45:09,140 --> 00:45:11,070 pull your britches up and run, because you ain't got time... 683 00:45:11,140 --> 00:45:13,070 to aim and button your fly? 684 00:45:17,110 --> 00:45:18,080 And if you miss... 685 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,090 you don't want to die with your dick hanging out. See what I'm saying? 686 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,090 I think I speak for everyone when I say no. 687 00:45:31,130 --> 00:45:32,090 Well, I mean... 688 00:45:34,130 --> 00:45:35,100 what if you're not prepared for the boar... 689 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:40,100 get caught with your britches down and lose the doves? 690 00:45:40,170 --> 00:45:41,100 What Richard is saying is... 691 00:45:44,140 --> 00:45:47,110 if you get caught in the forest... 692 00:45:47,180 --> 00:45:51,040 Forget the shit-in-the-woods metaphor. What are you talking about? 693 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,050 Okay. Say this boar is part of... 694 00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:57,050 I don't believe this. 695 00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,050 who do the boars represent? The Republicans? 696 00:46:00,090 --> 00:46:02,060 -No. The press. -The press? 697 00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,060 Yes. Don't they? 698 00:46:04,130 --> 00:46:06,060 Yeah, the press. 699 00:46:07,500 --> 00:46:10,060 Now, you're dealing with these wild boars... 700 00:46:10,130 --> 00:46:13,970 and suddenly they say things like "Marijuana"... 701 00:46:15,100 --> 00:46:17,070 "Chicago." Maybe a woman comes forward... 702 00:46:17,140 --> 00:46:20,070 Bullshit. That's not going to happen. 703 00:46:20,140 --> 00:46:22,080 -Absolutely not. -I don't think so, either. 704 00:46:23,110 --> 00:46:24,080 But... 705 00:46:26,110 --> 00:46:28,080 I just want to figure this out. 706 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,080 If it did happen... 707 00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,090 he won't get trapped like Hart, because we know the rules. 708 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:39,140 If some bimbo comes forward, we just say " Bullshit." 709 00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,100 -Bullshit is right. -What are you suggesting we do? 710 00:46:43,130 --> 00:46:46,100 -How do we deal with it? -By knowing more than they do. 711 00:46:46,170 --> 00:46:50,340 By being prepared, so when a story hits, we can fight back with the truth. 712 00:46:50,540 --> 00:46:53,640 Impossible! How can we know what garbage they'll come up with? 713 00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,450 That's the point, Lucille. That's the whole ever-fucking point. 714 00:46:57,970 --> 00:47:00,650 We need to hire an operative to do research. 715 00:47:01,820 --> 00:47:03,550 Investigate our lives. 716 00:47:04,090 --> 00:47:08,050 Investigate everything...everything anyone could make into an allegation. 717 00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,060 But we don't play that game. 718 00:47:10,130 --> 00:47:12,060 We play the people's game. 719 00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:16,060 We say, "The republicans and media want to talk about trash." 720 00:47:16,130 --> 00:47:18,070 We talk about your future." 721 00:47:18,930 --> 00:47:21,570 We don't shot doves in this campaign. We protect them. 722 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,070 What do you mean? 723 00:47:28,110 --> 00:47:30,080 Don't the doves represent the people? 724 00:47:31,110 --> 00:47:34,080 -No. -Then who are the doves? 725 00:47:34,150 --> 00:47:37,080 Forget the doves. Henry, you agree with this? 726 00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:39,090 Yes. 727 00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,090 We'll do it. I'll tell Jack. I want Libby Holden. 728 00:47:45,130 --> 00:47:47,100 If we're hiring someone to find the dirt... 729 00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,100 we must have someone who knows us, who we trust. 730 00:47:50,130 --> 00:47:53,030 -Is she out of the hospital -Yes. 731 00:47:53,100 --> 00:47:55,040 -And she's okay? -Who is she? 732 00:47:56,070 --> 00:47:58,940 She was Jack's chief of staff 20 years ago. She had a breakdown. 733 00:47:59,070 --> 00:48:02,040 She suddenly became incoherent during a press conference. 734 00:48:02,110 --> 00:48:05,050 She's been in and out of mental hospitals for years! 735 00:48:05,110 --> 00:48:07,050 She seems very stable now. 736 00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,050 You and Henry can fly back and brief her. 737 00:48:11,070 --> 00:48:14,260 Well, that's good that she's stable. 738 00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,760 Because you're putting the campaign in her hands. 739 00:48:18,090 --> 00:48:20,060 Yes, I know. 740 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,060 That's good. 741 00:48:28,300 --> 00:48:32,570 -Then are we the doves? -Lucille, we can forget the metaphors... 742 00:48:34,110 --> 00:48:37,080 Actually, I think we're the ones taking the shit in the woods. 743 00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:47,080 Henry, I'm just thrilled, thrilled y'all came back. 744 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,090 I have a million messages for you. 745 00:48:50,130 --> 00:48:52,030 He looks like a band leader. I'm getting rid of it. 746 00:48:55,060 --> 00:48:57,030 Henry, How you doing? 747 00:48:58,070 --> 00:49:00,030 On behalf of Jack Stanton, thanks for your support. 748 00:49:00,100 --> 00:49:02,040 Call them assistants, not secretaries. 749 00:49:03,070 --> 00:49:04,040 Jennifer, look who's back. 750 00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:08,040 "Shalom" 751 00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,050 You're working on Friday, wearing a yarmulke? 752 00:49:11,110 --> 00:49:14,050 Actually, I'm dressed for work. Hi, H. B. 753 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,050 I'm here. Who's going to talk to me? 754 00:49:19,090 --> 00:49:21,060 Srta. Holden. Henry Burton. 755 00:49:23,090 --> 00:49:26,060 -Hi. I'm Terry Hicks. -Jennifer. 756 00:49:28,100 --> 00:49:31,070 -Hello. Lib. -Hello, shit-for-brains. 757 00:49:31,130 --> 00:49:33,070 You learned how to watch your mouth yet? 758 00:49:33,140 --> 00:49:36,070 I will not let you fuck up this campaign, too! 759 00:49:37,110 --> 00:49:39,070 That was 20 years ago. 760 00:49:40,110 --> 00:49:42,080 Yes, I was thinner then. I had a waist. 761 00:49:43,110 --> 00:49:45,080 -Peter Goldsmith. -EIla Louise Harriman. 762 00:49:45,150 --> 00:49:47,080 -Where is this happening? -What? 763 00:49:47,150 --> 00:49:49,080 The fucking meeting. 764 00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,090 I'll need a safe house. I know the one. 765 00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,090 Little. Nice rose garden. 766 00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,090 Call Becky Raymond. 673-4982. 767 00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:04,100 Tell her it's for the Governor. She'll understand. Now, staff. 768 00:50:06,130 --> 00:50:09,100 I want her. The one who looks like Winona Ryder. 769 00:50:09,170 --> 00:50:11,110 Gorgeous. Is she smart? 770 00:50:11,170 --> 00:50:13,110 Oh, she's smart. 771 00:50:13,180 --> 00:50:16,110 I want her right away. Start. 772 00:50:18,150 --> 00:50:22,110 A Black Advocate reporter dug up the Governor's Chicago arrest. 773 00:50:22,180 --> 00:50:24,120 -We know we can't stop that. 774 00:50:26,150 --> 00:50:29,120 But we're concerned there may be other things. 775 00:50:29,190 --> 00:50:31,130 -Like Cashmere Mcleod. -Who? 776 00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,130 Boy! You really don't know shit, do you? 777 00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,130 -Susan's hairdresser? -And Jack's porkpie. 778 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,130 -What? -Oh, for Christ's sake, act your age. 779 00:50:41,170 --> 00:50:44,140 Jack Stanton fucks around and he's got enemies. 780 00:50:45,170 --> 00:50:48,140 But what can Susan's hairdresser do to us? 781 00:50:48,210 --> 00:50:51,080 Sell her story to the "Flash" for $150.000... 782 00:50:51,150 --> 00:50:54,080 minus the 10% she's giving to the slimesucking... 783 00:50:54,150 --> 00:50:58,090 shitty night school attorney who's agenting the deal. 784 00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:03,080 -You know this? -No, I imagined it in the booby hatch! 785 00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:06,090 -It's bullshit. -In your dreams, sweetheart. 786 00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,100 She can't hurt us. She's selling a story. 787 00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,100 She has no proof, no credibility. 788 00:51:11,130 --> 00:51:15,090 She's the tip of the iceberg. Now Jack, he's done some pretty stupid things. 789 00:51:16,140 --> 00:51:20,100 He's poked his pecker in some sorry trash bins. We have to... 790 00:51:20,180 --> 00:51:25,110 stop them before they stop us. Crush them and sweep them up. 791 00:51:25,180 --> 00:51:28,120 From now on, you can call me the Dustbuster. 792 00:51:29,150 --> 00:51:32,120 You know, honey child...I'm stronger than dirt. 793 00:51:32,190 --> 00:51:33,120 I believe you. 794 00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,130 We could offer her $200,000 not to print it. 795 00:51:37,190 --> 00:51:39,130 Then kill her to make sure? 796 00:51:39,190 --> 00:51:41,130 The important thing is he did nothing wrong. 797 00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:45,120 -He should act pissed off. -But not too pissed off. He is running for President. 798 00:51:45,150 --> 00:51:48,140 More like, "It's too bad, but we don't take it seriously." 799 00:51:48,170 --> 00:51:50,670 "This ain't nearly as frightening as things that happen to real,... 800 00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:52,970 people like losing a job or getting foreclosed. 801 00:51:53,110 --> 00:51:55,080 -Where's the fuck's light? -I'm looking for it. 802 00:51:55,140 --> 00:51:57,080 "Shit happens, but we're calm in a shit storm." 803 00:51:58,110 --> 00:52:01,080 Or maybe, "We expected this kind or crap." 804 00:52:01,150 --> 00:52:03,080 -Right. The usual media trash bash. 805 00:52:03,150 --> 00:52:06,090 But why did he do it? Did he figure Cashmere would be so fucking... 806 00:52:06,150 --> 00:52:08,090 honored she'd never betray the secret? 807 00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:12,090 -Maybe it isn't true. -Would it matter? 808 00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:15,100 -It'd be better if it wasn't true. -Why? 809 00:52:16,130 --> 00:52:19,100 Hitler was faithful to Eva Braun. Does that make him better? 810 00:52:20,140 --> 00:52:22,100 Or Jefferson or Roosevelt or Kennedy, or any of the... 811 00:52:22,170 --> 00:52:24,100 guys who fucked around? 812 00:52:25,140 --> 00:52:27,110 But we can't say that in interviews. 813 00:52:29,140 --> 00:52:31,110 No. Of course not. 814 00:52:31,510 --> 00:52:35,350 Today, a potentially explosive development for Governor... 815 00:52:35,420 --> 00:52:39,350 Jack Stanton in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination. 816 00:52:39,420 --> 00:52:43,360 A hairdresser has alleged a long term affair with the married candidate. 817 00:52:43,430 --> 00:52:47,360 The story, unconfirmed, appeared today in the Flash." 818 00:52:47,430 --> 00:52:50,360 Stanton has made no statement regarding the young woman,... 819 00:52:50,430 --> 00:52:51,360 Cashmere McLeod... 820 00:52:51,430 --> 00:52:54,370 but the accusation directly follows the disclosure... 821 00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:59,370 that Governor Stanton was arrested in 1968 in Chicago. 822 00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,380 Fucking Eyewitness News. 823 00:53:02,410 --> 00:53:04,380 Ted Koppel wants someone from the team for his show. 824 00:53:04,450 --> 00:53:07,380 -"60 minutes" too. -Do we have to take this? 825 00:53:07,450 --> 00:53:10,380 They're dignifying this garbage and treating it like a real story. 826 00:53:10,450 --> 00:53:12,390 We can't ignore it. 827 00:53:12,450 --> 00:53:15,390 They could write off Chicago... it was 30 years ago. 828 00:53:15,460 --> 00:53:17,390 Or Cashmere... she was paid for her story. 829 00:53:17,460 --> 00:53:20,390 But the two, right on top of each other? 830 00:53:20,460 --> 00:53:25,400 People will say, "Do we want a former radical hippy who messes with hairdressers?" 831 00:53:25,470 --> 00:53:27,400 He did not fuck Cashmere McLeod. 832 00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,410 If you can't handle that fact, leave now. 833 00:53:36,380 --> 00:53:38,350 Okay, let's think this through. 834 00:53:40,380 --> 00:53:42,350 Who has thoughts about "60 minutes"? 835 00:53:42,420 --> 00:53:46,390 I think do it. Say yes to all these interviews. 836 00:53:46,420 --> 00:53:48,360 Show them we've nothing to hide. 837 00:53:48,420 --> 00:53:51,360 And the sooner the better... We have 2 weeks left to the primary. 838 00:53:52,390 --> 00:53:55,360 We should act like we expected this... 839 00:54:59,390 --> 00:55:01,400 Henry, my man! Sit down, have some coffee. 840 00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,360 You going to get some sleep tonight? 841 00:55:03,430 --> 00:55:07,370 Absolutely. Don't you worry. I was just going over some ideas with Danny, here. 842 00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,370 Danny Scanion, this is my friend, Henry Burton. 843 00:55:12,410 --> 00:55:14,380 Can I get you something? Apple fritter? 844 00:55:16,410 --> 00:55:21,370 Danny works here every night, 12-hour, $5,25 an hour. 845 00:55:21,450 --> 00:55:25,390 Like I was telling the Governor, I don't mind. I'd mind if I couldn't work. 846 00:55:26,420 --> 00:55:28,390 -"Apple fritter?" -Not for me. 847 00:55:30,430 --> 00:55:33,330 What was the best game you saw all year? College, not pro. 848 00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:36,330 Utah state versus San Diego state. 849 00:55:38,370 --> 00:55:41,340 That was a great game. I saw it. Great ground game. 850 00:55:43,370 --> 00:55:45,340 You need a good ground game. 851 00:55:47,380 --> 00:55:50,340 -"Apple fritter?" -No, I just said... 852 00:55:50,410 --> 00:55:52,350 I'll have one, Dan. But just one. 853 00:55:52,410 --> 00:55:55,350 I'll make some fresh coffee. 854 00:55:56,380 --> 00:55:58,350 -If you want some, you call me. -Thank you, Danny. 855 00:56:04,390 --> 00:56:08,350 You look tired, Governor. Maybe it's time to go home. 856 00:56:08,430 --> 00:56:11,370 They'll kill me with trash. -No. Not if you don't let them. 857 00:56:11,430 --> 00:56:14,370 It's my own damn fault. I didn't keep it together. 858 00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:20,360 We can still win this thing. We're going to win it. 859 00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,840 And the hits you're taking are nothing compared to what... 860 00:56:23,850 --> 00:56:25,680 average folks go through. 861 00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:29,370 Losing their jobs, losing their homes. Keep that in mind. 862 00:56:29,450 --> 00:56:31,390 Keep the folks in your mind. 863 00:56:32,350 --> 00:56:35,320 -It's about them, isn't it? -It's about them. It's about history. 864 00:56:35,390 --> 00:56:40,330 That's truer for Susan than for me. It's always been about them. 865 00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:44,630 Like this fella, Danny Scanion. He's worked every day since he was 14. 866 00:56:46,370 --> 00:56:48,340 Couldn't get insurance, couldn't get his leg fixed right. 867 00:56:49,370 --> 00:56:53,330 Doesn't complain. Doesn't do anyone any harm. 868 00:56:53,410 --> 00:56:55,340 Aching to do good. 869 00:56:59,380 --> 00:57:01,350 God, if you let a man like that go down... 870 00:57:01,420 --> 00:57:03,350 you don't deserve to take up space on this planet, do you? 871 00:57:03,420 --> 00:57:05,350 We won't let him go down. 872 00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,370 Bummer. Bummer. 873 00:57:26,410 --> 00:57:27,370 What? Libby? 874 00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:31,380 -She's got tapes. -Who has tapes? 875 00:57:31,410 --> 00:57:35,310 Cashmere, the hair slut, you moron. She's playing them tomorrow. 876 00:57:35,380 --> 00:57:37,320 I have no time for ineptitude! 877 00:57:38,350 --> 00:57:42,310 Now tell Jack and Susan the cunt's got tapes and get your ass back to Mammoth Falls. 878 00:58:01,380 --> 00:58:05,340 Honey, I have to run. I will. Hold on. 879 00:58:06,380 --> 00:58:08,350 The new member of the swimming team wants to talk to you. 880 00:58:09,420 --> 00:58:12,350 Hey, Jackie Boy. That's great. You made it. 881 00:58:13,390 --> 00:58:15,360 That's great. We're proud of you. 882 00:58:16,390 --> 00:58:19,360 No, that's just a bunch of campaign garbage. 883 00:58:19,430 --> 00:58:21,360 Governor, this can't wait. 884 00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:26,360 We'll call you tonight. I love you too. Bye bye. What is it? 885 00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:31,410 Libby says Cashmere McLeod has tapes of you and her talking... 886 00:58:31,410 --> 00:58:33,520 on the phone together and... 887 00:58:33,570 --> 00:58:36,510 she's going to play them at a press conference tomorrow. 888 00:58:38,350 --> 00:58:42,310 -I'm sorry. -How bad? 889 00:58:42,380 --> 00:58:44,320 -I don't know. -Did you tell her... 890 00:58:45,350 --> 00:58:47,320 -Henry, excuse us. -Sure. 891 00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:59,320 lt's cold here, Sam, but these are friendly people. Reminds me of home. 892 00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:02,340 I like her hair that way. It softens her face. 893 00:59:03,370 --> 00:59:05,340 Yes. It could be longer, though. 894 00:59:05,410 --> 00:59:07,340 lf you spent a day with us... 895 00:59:07,410 --> 00:59:11,340 you'd see what the folks really care about is the future. 896 00:59:11,410 --> 00:59:15,350 -He's gotten fat. -He jogs, so how much does he eat? 897 00:59:15,420 --> 00:59:16,350 Can you imagine what he eats? 898 00:59:17,390 --> 00:59:18,350 What's he governor of? 899 00:59:18,420 --> 00:59:21,350 Let me see...it's not Georgia... 900 00:59:21,420 --> 00:59:23,360 not Florida... 901 00:59:25,390 --> 00:59:27,360 Sam, l'm not going to dignify that trash. 902 00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:32,300 At a time when the American people have a lot to be concerned about... 903 00:59:33,330 --> 00:59:35,300 I saw a picture of the hairdresser. Not bad. 904 00:59:36,340 --> 00:59:39,310 l don't think this is fair. 905 00:59:40,340 --> 00:59:45,300 People suffer and struggle and go through all sorts of crazy things. 906 00:59:45,380 --> 00:59:47,310 What matters is, we're still here. 907 00:59:48,250 --> 00:59:51,880 lf you want to draw a political lesson from that about Jack's character... 908 00:59:51,990 --> 00:59:54,370 here it is. He will stick. 909 00:59:54,390 --> 00:59:56,320 He will work through tough times. 910 00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:00,330 He will bust his butt for the American People. 911 01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,330 "Bust his butt." The mouth on her. 912 01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:05,330 He should take her in hand. 913 01:00:07,370 --> 01:00:09,340 She's honest. They had problems. Maybe that's when he... 914 01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:10,340 screwed the hairdresser. 915 01:00:21,380 --> 01:00:23,350 You watching? It's going off now. 916 01:00:23,420 --> 01:00:25,350 And we're out. Thanks, everyone. 917 01:00:27,390 --> 01:00:28,360 It's over. 918 01:00:28,420 --> 01:00:31,360 How'd it play? Wasn't she fantastic? 919 01:00:32,330 --> 01:00:35,300 Yeah, great. But they'd like to see hair a little longer. 920 01:00:48,340 --> 01:00:49,310 Hey, Henry! 921 01:00:51,350 --> 01:00:54,310 -How long are you in town? -Not long. 922 01:00:54,380 --> 01:00:56,320 No time to talk. We got to get to Sailor's and.... 923 01:00:56,380 --> 01:00:58,320 watch Cashmere with an expert. 924 01:00:58,390 --> 01:01:00,320 You take care of yourself, dear. 925 01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:03,320 I'll be home for dinner. We'll take my truck. 926 01:01:14,370 --> 01:01:17,340 So you met Jack and Susan in Florida working for McGovern? 927 01:01:19,370 --> 01:01:20,340 What were they like? 928 01:01:21,380 --> 01:01:22,340 Glorious. 929 01:01:23,380 --> 01:01:25,350 Golden. Golden. 930 01:01:26,380 --> 01:01:27,350 Did they have any... 931 01:01:31,390 --> 01:01:32,280 Please, mister, please... 932 01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:37,290 Don't play B17... 933 01:01:38,330 --> 01:01:40,290 lt was our song, lt was our song 934 01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,300 Sing with me, Henry! 935 01:01:44,330 --> 01:01:45,300 Please, mister, please... 936 01:01:47,340 --> 01:01:50,300 lf you know what l mean... 937 01:01:53,340 --> 01:01:55,310 Play that song again. 938 01:02:00,350 --> 01:02:01,320 Sailorman! 939 01:02:03,350 --> 01:02:05,320 Good to see you, Libby. How was the booby hatch? 940 01:02:06,350 --> 01:02:10,310 A better class of drugs than the old days. Where's the beer? 941 01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:15,330 Welcome to the world of electronics. 942 01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:20,320 Brewski. Here she comes. 943 01:02:22,370 --> 01:02:23,340 Recording. 944 01:02:28,380 --> 01:02:30,340 I know just what she looked like in high school. 945 01:02:30,410 --> 01:02:32,350 l'm Sherman Preslay, Miss Mcleod's attorney. 946 01:02:32,410 --> 01:02:34,350 l want to make one thing clear. 947 01:02:35,380 --> 01:02:37,350 We'll take no questions until after the tapes are played. 948 01:02:38,390 --> 01:02:40,350 This will not be an inquisition. 949 01:02:40,420 --> 01:02:42,360 Yeah, right. We get the inquisition. 950 01:02:43,390 --> 01:02:46,360 The tapes were recorded on Miss McLeod's phone machine. 951 01:02:47,100 --> 01:02:50,660 The portions you will hear were recorded just before Thanksgiving. 952 01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:54,370 Governor Jack Stanton seduced me... 953 01:02:57,410 --> 01:02:59,370 and l have tapes to prove it. 954 01:03:02,410 --> 01:03:05,380 -l'm on my way to meet with the family. -But you said you loved me... 955 01:03:07,420 --> 01:03:12,380 You said no one could do the things l did to you. l could come up there. 956 01:03:12,450 --> 01:03:14,390 God, what a whiny bitch. 957 01:03:14,460 --> 01:03:16,390 Remember that time l met you in Dallas? 958 01:03:18,430 --> 01:03:20,390 l get hot just thinking about it. 959 01:03:21,430 --> 01:03:25,390 -What you doing this weekend? -Nothing, now that you're leaving. 960 01:03:26,430 --> 01:03:29,400 Open a bottle of Chablis. Do you think it's possible to get laid? 961 01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:34,340 l'd say it's entirely possible, if you postpone that trip. 962 01:03:35,380 --> 01:03:36,340 l'm too homy to think straight. 963 01:03:37,380 --> 01:03:40,350 As you can see, these tapes were recorded on... 964 01:03:40,410 --> 01:03:42,350 Miss McLeod's phone machine. 965 01:03:42,420 --> 01:03:44,350 I'll record the rest of it. Let's go to work. 966 01:03:45,390 --> 01:03:47,350 I'll kill him. How could he be so dumb? 967 01:03:47,420 --> 01:03:49,360 There are some abrupt cutouts. 968 01:03:50,390 --> 01:03:52,360 l'm on my way to meet the family. 969 01:03:52,390 --> 01:03:54,360 An abrupt cutout right there. 970 01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:56,360 What are you doing this weekend? 971 01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:00,370 That's picked up in mid-sentence, or it could be. 972 01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:03,370 Open a bottle of Chablis. Do you think it's at... 973 01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:05,370 all possible to get laid? 974 01:04:06,410 --> 01:04:10,370 That breakup in the middle could be static or they used it to cover. 975 01:04:11,410 --> 01:04:16,370 Wait a second. Wait a goddamn second. Play that again. 976 01:04:18,420 --> 01:04:20,390 Do you think it's at all possible to get laid? 977 01:04:23,420 --> 01:04:24,390 -Again. 978 01:04:25,430 --> 01:04:27,390 -Just again. Damn it! -Do you think it's at all... 979 01:04:27,460 --> 01:04:29,400 possible to get laid? 980 01:04:32,370 --> 01:04:33,330 Yourself. 981 01:04:34,370 --> 01:04:35,340 Yourself. 982 01:04:37,370 --> 01:04:40,340 Henry, are you cracking up ? Two of us would be one too many. 983 01:04:41,380 --> 01:04:43,340 Un-fucking-believable! 984 01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:47,350 He said, "Do you think it's at all possible to get yourself laid? 985 01:04:47,420 --> 01:04:50,350 He said he didn't want me to be too horny to think straight. 986 01:04:50,420 --> 01:04:55,360 It was before Thanksgiving. Play it again from the top. 987 01:04:55,420 --> 01:04:56,360 Just his lines. 988 01:04:56,420 --> 01:04:57,360 Shit! 989 01:04:57,430 --> 01:05:00,360 l'm on my way to meet the family. 990 01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:04,360 There was an accident, a bender, on the interstate. 991 01:05:04,430 --> 01:05:06,370 That's the family he was going to meet. Next. 992 01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:08,370 What you doing this weekend? 993 01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:11,370 -An abrupt cutout, right? 994 01:05:13,410 --> 01:05:15,380 He said, "What are you doing this weekend, Henry?" 995 01:05:18,410 --> 01:05:20,380 He called me Henry. I remember the whole call, it meant so much to me. 996 01:05:21,420 --> 01:05:22,380 Christ, we got her! 997 01:05:23,420 --> 01:05:26,390 You got her. We don't. How do we prove it? 998 01:05:28,420 --> 01:05:31,390 Oh, no, no. No, Libby, They... 999 01:05:31,460 --> 01:05:34,380 We can't let them get away with this. This cannot be a world... 1000 01:05:34,500 --> 01:05:37,160 that lets them get away it. 1001 01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:41,320 Imagine a black boy saying that. What a privileged fucking life you've had. 1002 01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,340 But never mind about the world, baby. 1003 01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:45,340 I won't let them get away with it. 1004 01:05:45,410 --> 01:05:49,340 I'll track down Ted Koppel and Larry King are this weekend. 1005 01:05:49,410 --> 01:05:51,380 Can you nail their cellular phone conversations? 1006 01:05:51,410 --> 01:05:53,380 I have to rent a van. Sure. 1007 01:05:53,410 --> 01:05:57,350 Do it. Then we'll pick the best ones. Let's go, Henry. 1008 01:05:58,390 --> 01:06:00,350 We have to change the world now. 1009 01:06:02,390 --> 01:06:05,360 You asshole! Yes, it was off a cellular phone. 1010 01:06:05,430 --> 01:06:08,400 But don't pull that outraged puppy shit with me. 1011 01:06:08,430 --> 01:06:11,960 You haven't suddenly become an innocent just because the tape is phony. 1012 01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:15,370 I wish we'd castrated you when we had the chance. 1013 01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:17,370 Libby, you're on a cell phone. 1014 01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:18,370 Oh, shit! 1015 01:06:20,410 --> 01:06:23,380 Yes, I'm goddamn sure I know who did it. 1016 01:06:24,410 --> 01:06:27,380 Yes. I'll get it done. 1017 01:06:28,420 --> 01:06:29,380 Okay. Bye. 1018 01:06:30,420 --> 01:06:32,320 You know who did it? 1019 01:06:32,390 --> 01:06:34,320 Yes. Oh, yes, indeed. 1020 01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:39,330 A triumphant day, huh, Randy? Perhaps your best ever. 1021 01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:42,330 -Is that Cashmere on the line? -No. 1022 01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:45,330 Then say good-bye to Sherman Presley. 1023 01:06:46,370 --> 01:06:48,340 It's not Sherman Preslay, whoever he is. 1024 01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:52,340 -You're branched out. Electronics now. -What do you mean? 1025 01:06:52,410 --> 01:06:55,370 You've been recording your friend the governor's private conversations. 1026 01:06:55,410 --> 01:06:59,350 Why would I do that? I'm a big Stanton supporter. 1027 01:06:59,410 --> 01:07:01,350 I always have been. 1028 01:07:03,220 --> 01:07:06,360 I've been here 20 seconds and you've already exhausted my patience. 1029 01:07:06,380 --> 01:07:08,690 I want a signed confession. 1030 01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:12,390 Libby, put that away before you get yourself in trouble! 1031 01:07:12,430 --> 01:07:14,400 Randy, you wet fart of a human turd... 1032 01:07:14,430 --> 01:07:18,160 you ambushed Jack Stanton. You either admit it or you die. 1033 01:07:18,180 --> 01:07:20,410 -You're crazy! -Certi-fucking-fiably. 1034 01:07:20,430 --> 01:07:23,410 -At last, a fact! -You'll go to jail, too. 1035 01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:25,380 I don't know anything about this. 1036 01:07:26,410 --> 01:07:30,370 He's shocked. He had no idea. Now, are you going to write this out? 1037 01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:32,310 I don't know what you mean! 1038 01:07:34,350 --> 01:07:37,320 You know what? I'm going to blow your nuts off. 1039 01:07:38,350 --> 01:07:42,310 Yes, I am a gay lesbian woman. I do not mythologize the male organ. 1040 01:07:42,390 --> 01:07:47,330 Now, you tiny scumbag, I know you did it. 1041 01:07:47,390 --> 01:07:49,330 You're on retainer to the Flash. 1042 01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:52,330 And you, you stupid shit... 1043 01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:55,330 the crap Jack actually did wasn't enough...you had to embellish it. 1044 01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:58,340 -Mister, you're about to become missus. 1045 01:08:00,370 --> 01:08:02,340 You have a choice to make. And quickly. 1046 01:08:03,380 --> 01:08:06,350 Just how crazy is Libby? And you have to do it now. One... 1047 01:08:06,410 --> 01:08:11,350 two... This is going to be fun. 1048 01:08:11,420 --> 01:08:13,350 Okay. Okay. Okay! 1049 01:08:14,390 --> 01:08:17,360 Very good. Very wise. 1050 01:08:18,390 --> 01:08:21,360 Now, I want you to be eloquent in this letter. 1051 01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:25,370 Guilt-ridden about your jealousy and greed. 1052 01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:30,360 You couldn't live with yourself if you deprived America of this man. 1053 01:08:31,410 --> 01:08:36,310 Tonight, an aide of Governor Jack Stanton, is joining us to play a tape. 1054 01:08:37,340 --> 01:08:39,310 l haven't heard the tape, but my producer has. 1055 01:08:40,350 --> 01:08:42,320 We'd like to thank her for letting us go on with such... 1056 01:08:42,380 --> 01:08:44,320 short notice. Here we go. 1057 01:08:45,350 --> 01:08:47,320 l can be there in 15 minutes. 1058 01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:49,320 l could come up there. 1059 01:08:49,390 --> 01:08:52,330 No, l can't wait. l have to have it now. 1060 01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:56,330 Entirely. l get hot just thinking about it. 1061 01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:58,330 Look at King. Look at his face. 1062 01:09:01,370 --> 01:09:02,340 That sounded like me. 1063 01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:06,340 lt was you, asking the head waiter at Café Des Artistes... 1064 01:09:06,410 --> 01:09:09,340 to seat you right away because you hadn't eaten all day. 1065 01:09:10,380 --> 01:09:12,350 -But how... -We recorded it off your cell phone. 1066 01:09:14,380 --> 01:09:18,340 l'd like to read a letter from the man who did this to Governor Stanton. 1067 01:09:19,390 --> 01:09:23,350 "To whom it May concern: l am an employee of the Flash" 1068 01:09:24,390 --> 01:09:26,360 l took innocent statements of Governor Stanton's... 1069 01:09:26,430 --> 01:09:28,360 off his cellular phone... 1070 01:09:28,430 --> 01:09:31,400 edited them and paid Cashmere McLeod to pretend... 1071 01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:33,300 she was talking to him. 1072 01:09:34,340 --> 01:09:37,300 l did this for my own gain and advancement. 1073 01:09:37,370 --> 01:09:41,310 l confess it now because l cannot live with the fear... 1074 01:09:41,380 --> 01:09:45,610 that l may deprive the American people of a great man." 1075 01:09:47,350 --> 01:09:50,320 Signed, Randy Culligan, Attorney-at-law. 1076 01:09:50,380 --> 01:09:52,320 Now l think the media owes Governor Stanton an apology... 1077 01:09:52,390 --> 01:09:56,320 for spreading this unsubstantiated garbage. 1078 01:09:56,390 --> 01:09:57,320 Very good, girl. 1079 01:09:57,390 --> 01:10:00,830 lt should be harder than this to smear an innocent man. 1080 01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:04,330 We'll be right back with your phone calls. 1081 01:10:05,370 --> 01:10:07,330 How did you get my cellular? 1082 01:10:09,370 --> 01:10:10,340 Henry, well done. 1083 01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:48,360 I want to thank you all for sticking with us through all this. 1084 01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:52,370 We haven't much time, but with your help... 1085 01:10:52,440 --> 01:10:56,370 and the grace of God, we'll get done what needs to be done. 1086 01:10:57,410 --> 01:10:59,380 It's been pretty awful, but we're still here. 1087 01:11:10,420 --> 01:11:12,390 lt would be easy to get laughs... 1088 01:11:12,460 --> 01:11:17,390 by doing some cheap blow-dry jokes...so l'll get started. 1089 01:11:19,430 --> 01:11:21,400 lt all started innocently for Governor Stanton. 1090 01:11:22,430 --> 01:11:25,400 He walked in one day and asked for a little trim. 1091 01:11:25,470 --> 01:11:27,400 And some longer bangs. 1092 01:11:30,440 --> 01:11:32,340 They just don't care about the fine points. 1093 01:11:33,380 --> 01:11:35,350 No, it would ruin the punch line. 1094 01:11:36,380 --> 01:11:39,350 Does anyone survive one of these feeding frenzies? 1095 01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:42,350 lf they've been around a while, maybe. 1096 01:11:42,390 --> 01:11:45,390 But this is the first thing most people will hear about... 1097 01:11:45,420 --> 01:11:47,360 Stanton, so he's history. 1098 01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:53,360 O'r the land... 1099 01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:56,370 of the free... 1100 01:11:57,400 --> 01:11:59,370 and the home 1101 01:12:00,400 --> 01:12:03,370 of the brave 1102 01:12:11,420 --> 01:12:12,380 Thank you, Phil. 1103 01:12:15,420 --> 01:12:18,390 As head of the Portsmouth Democratic Party... 1104 01:12:18,460 --> 01:12:21,390 it is my pleasure to introduce... 1105 01:12:21,460 --> 01:12:24,390 one of the south's most progressive governors... 1106 01:12:24,460 --> 01:12:28,400 and the husband of one the best fly-fishers I've met. 1107 01:12:28,470 --> 01:12:31,400 Please welcome Governor Jack Stanton. 1108 01:12:42,450 --> 01:12:44,410 Thank you for that kind introduction, Tommy. 1109 01:12:44,480 --> 01:12:47,420 And thank you for the fish. 1110 01:12:49,150 --> 01:12:53,710 He gave me a big, slab-sided, white bellied fella. Looked a lot like me. 1111 01:12:54,660 --> 01:12:58,730 Put it on the grill, gave it some heat. Kind of like what they're doing to me. 1112 01:12:59,500 --> 01:13:02,430 Thank you for coming tonight. I know you work hard... 1113 01:13:02,500 --> 01:13:05,430 and have little time to rest. 1114 01:13:05,500 --> 01:13:07,440 Some of us got more time than we'd like. 1115 01:13:08,470 --> 01:13:10,440 Right. I understand. 1116 01:13:11,480 --> 01:13:14,440 Since this factory closed, how many of you have found work? 1117 01:13:14,510 --> 01:13:15,940 Raise your hands. 1118 01:13:19,480 --> 01:13:21,450 How many of you work jobs that just pay the rent, no matter... 1119 01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:23,450 how many hours you work? 1120 01:13:25,490 --> 01:13:27,460 My mama worked jobs like that after my daddy died. 1121 01:13:28,490 --> 01:13:31,460 I remember her coming home from work just bone weary. 1122 01:13:32,430 --> 01:13:36,390 I know she wanted to play with me and ask me about school. 1123 01:13:36,410 --> 01:13:38,860 But sometimes you're too tired to do anything but eat and... 1124 01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:40,990 blob out in front of the tube. 1125 01:13:41,020 --> 01:13:42,800 You got that one right. 1126 01:13:44,440 --> 01:13:46,410 I don't have to tell you how hard it is to find work... 1127 01:13:46,480 --> 01:13:49,410 or anything at all about hard times. 1128 01:13:50,450 --> 01:13:54,410 So I'm going to do something really outrageous. 1129 01:13:54,480 --> 01:13:56,420 I'm going to tell the truth. 1130 01:13:59,460 --> 01:14:01,420 I know what you're thinking. 1131 01:14:01,490 --> 01:14:03,430 "He must be really desperate to do that." 1132 01:14:03,490 --> 01:14:06,430 But if you've had to swallow enough sh...garbage... 1133 01:14:07,460 --> 01:14:09,430 You can say "shit". We're X-rated. 1134 01:14:11,470 --> 01:14:13,440 Me too, if you believe the papers. 1135 01:14:23,480 --> 01:14:24,450 Here's the truth. 1136 01:14:25,480 --> 01:14:29,440 No politician can re-open this factory or bring back the... 1137 01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:31,490 shipyard jobs or make your union strong again. 1138 01:14:31,490 --> 01:14:33,390 No politician can make it be the way it was. 1139 01:14:33,460 --> 01:14:37,390 Because we now live in a world without economic borders. 1140 01:14:38,430 --> 01:14:41,400 Push a button in New York and a billion dollars moves to Tokyo. 1141 01:14:41,460 --> 01:14:45,400 In that world, muscle jobs go where muscle labor is cheap,... 1142 01:14:45,470 --> 01:14:47,400 and that is not here. 1143 01:14:49,440 --> 01:14:51,410 So to compete, you have to exercise a different muscle... 1144 01:14:51,470 --> 01:14:53,410 the one between your ears. 1145 01:14:54,440 --> 01:14:57,410 -He's lost them. -Fuck them. He's got me. 1146 01:14:57,480 --> 01:14:59,410 The whole country must go back to school. 1147 01:15:00,450 --> 01:15:03,420 We have to get smarter, learn new skills. And I promise this: 1148 01:15:03,490 --> 01:15:07,420 I will work hard for you. I will think about you. 1149 01:15:07,490 --> 01:15:11,430 I will fight to make education a lifetime thing in this country... 1150 01:15:11,490 --> 01:15:13,430 to give you the support you need to move up. 1151 01:15:15,470 --> 01:15:19,420 But you have got to do the heavy lifting your own selves. 1152 01:15:20,470 --> 01:15:22,440 Now, I've taken a lot of hits in this campaign. 1153 01:15:23,470 --> 01:15:25,440 But you know what that means? 1154 01:15:25,510 --> 01:15:28,440 It means someone thinks you're only interested in that kind of garbage. 1155 01:15:28,510 --> 01:15:32,000 So Tuesday, when you go to cast your vote, think about that. 1156 01:15:33,550 --> 01:15:36,490 Think about what you're really interested in. 1157 01:15:36,550 --> 01:15:38,490 Then pick your candidate. 1158 01:15:57,540 --> 01:15:59,510 I don't think I'll be able to take it if he loses. 1159 01:16:01,540 --> 01:16:05,500 If he does lose, maybe we could go away for a while. 1160 01:16:06,550 --> 01:16:08,520 Try some non-campaign sex. See if it holds up. 1161 01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:17,530 Goddamn it, Richard, why are you always in my room? 1162 01:16:17,590 --> 01:16:19,530 Because it's neater. 1163 01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:23,530 Henry, when this is over, we should work together. 1164 01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:25,530 Set up a consulting firm. 1165 01:16:25,600 --> 01:16:29,540 Both of you, enough "when this is over, we are pros" crap. 1166 01:16:29,610 --> 01:16:32,470 You may be pros, but I'm emotionally involved. 1167 01:16:33,510 --> 01:16:35,480 -Can I sleep here? -No! 1168 01:16:35,550 --> 01:16:36,480 Okay, shit. 1169 01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:43,490 See, a pro knows how to say good-bye.. 1170 01:16:49,230 --> 01:16:51,490 It's primary day in New Hampshire and the polls are still open. 1171 01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:54,500 Harris is a serious man and has serious things to say. 1172 01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:57,500 The people recognize that. 1173 01:16:57,570 --> 01:17:02,500 We'll see some upsets today, but the biggest will be for Jack Stanton. 1174 01:17:02,570 --> 01:17:06,510 Stanton, like Romney, Muskie and Hart before him, flamed... 1175 01:17:06,580 --> 01:17:09,510 then burned out. He's just stirring the ashes now. 1176 01:17:10,550 --> 01:17:12,520 They can't understand why we don't quit. 1177 01:17:14,550 --> 01:17:16,520 I mean, don't we know we're over? 1178 01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:21,520 An entire industry of political experts has explained... 1179 01:17:21,590 --> 01:17:22,520 why we're dead. 1180 01:17:22,590 --> 01:17:24,530 Why are still walking around? 1181 01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:28,330 ... rain across the upper Midwest. 1182 01:17:29,270 --> 01:17:36,470 We predict Lawrence Harris to win in New Hampshire. 1183 01:17:37,510 --> 01:17:40,480 Well, so what? It's his state. He has to win here. 1184 01:17:41,510 --> 01:17:45,470 Governor Jack Stanton, who is still campaigning, has decided to... 1185 01:17:45,550 --> 01:17:50,490 fight right down to the wire and is out on this cold and rainy night... 1186 01:17:50,550 --> 01:17:55,490 working to get last minute votes. This has been his technique and... 1187 01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:57,490 many are surprised at how effective it's been. 1188 01:17:58,530 --> 01:18:00,500 According to exit polls, an overwhelming number... 1189 01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:02,500 of Stanton voters say that what decided them was actually... 1190 01:18:02,570 --> 01:18:04,500 meeting the governor. 1191 01:18:05,540 --> 01:18:08,500 So, we predict Governor Jack Stanton... 1192 01:18:08,570 --> 01:18:11,510 a close second to Lawrence Harris. 1193 01:18:11,570 --> 01:18:12,510 I'll be a son of a bitch! 1194 01:18:12,580 --> 01:18:15,510 Don't be discouraged. We can still win! 1195 01:18:15,580 --> 01:18:19,510 Are you crazy? Didn't you hear? We're second. We're alive. 1196 01:18:19,580 --> 01:18:21,520 We're a fucking miracle. 1197 01:18:34,500 --> 01:18:36,470 We have a chance now, a real chance. 1198 01:18:36,530 --> 01:18:38,470 If we could just eliminate Harris. 1199 01:18:38,540 --> 01:18:43,470 -Harris will take Colorado. -And Florida, unless you hit him. 1200 01:18:43,540 --> 01:18:45,470 I'll get Florida. It's the South. 1201 01:18:45,540 --> 01:18:49,480 But it's Jewish. You must fire a silver bullet in Florida. 1202 01:18:49,550 --> 01:18:51,480 Without Harris, we can win. 1203 01:18:51,550 --> 01:18:55,480 No. Negative will boomerang. I know it. I'm not going negative. 1204 01:18:56,520 --> 01:18:59,490 For President, Jack Stanton or Lawrence Harris? 1205 01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:04,480 l served my country in Korea and my boy Jeff fought in the Gulf War. 1206 01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:07,500 Jack Stanton dodged the Vietnam draft... 1207 01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:11,500 And covered up his anti-war arrest record. 1208 01:19:12,540 --> 01:19:14,500 l believe in real solutions and telling the truth. 1209 01:19:14,570 --> 01:19:17,510 Jack Stanton believes in glib answers to tough question... 1210 01:19:17,570 --> 01:19:19,510 about his country and himself. 1211 01:19:20,540 --> 01:19:23,510 l'm Lawrence Harris. l'll fight the tough fights. 1212 01:19:23,580 --> 01:19:27,520 l won't run away. lt's a question of character. 1213 01:19:27,580 --> 01:19:30,520 Paid for by the Harris for President Committee. 1214 01:19:42,500 --> 01:19:45,070 Okay. I'm going to kill the son of a bitch. 1215 01:19:47,500 --> 01:19:49,470 AIthough I think he's a fine man... 1216 01:19:49,540 --> 01:19:52,470 and agree we need to lower the deficit, I don't agree... 1217 01:19:52,540 --> 01:19:54,480 with Senator Harris's... 1218 01:19:54,540 --> 01:19:58,480 proposal to reduce or even freeze cost of living... 1219 01:19:58,550 --> 01:20:00,480 adjustments for Social Security. 1220 01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:04,490 I also disagree with Senator Harris about Medicare. 1221 01:20:07,520 --> 01:20:10,490 Senator Harris and I also disagree about the Middle East. 1222 01:20:12,530 --> 01:20:16,490 While in the Senate my opponent cast many votes regarding the... 1223 01:20:16,570 --> 01:20:19,500 security and future of the state of Israel. 1224 01:20:22,540 --> 01:20:24,510 I agree with many of his votes, but some... It's important... 1225 01:20:24,570 --> 01:20:26,510 to stand with our friends. 1226 01:20:26,580 --> 01:20:30,510 And America has no better friend than the state of Israel. 1227 01:20:39,490 --> 01:20:41,460 We're up three points and climbing... 1228 01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:44,460 so a meeting with the Rainbow Coalition might... 1229 01:20:46,500 --> 01:20:47,460 Who is it? 1230 01:20:47,530 --> 01:20:49,460 William McCollister. 1231 01:20:49,530 --> 01:20:52,470 Can I call you back? I'll just be five minutes. 1232 01:20:57,510 --> 01:20:59,480 You don't remember me, Mr Burton? 1233 01:21:00,510 --> 01:21:02,480 Willie, the barbecue place. Come on in. 1234 01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:07,480 What are you doing here? 1235 01:21:07,550 --> 01:21:11,490 I figured it would be easier to talk face-to-face with a brother... 1236 01:21:11,550 --> 01:21:15,490 than to the Gov, even though he's like a brother. 1237 01:21:17,530 --> 01:21:21,490 I, um...I flew here because my daughter Loretta's with child... 1238 01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:25,500 and she says Jack Stanton's the daddy. 1239 01:21:29,540 --> 01:21:30,510 Right. 1240 01:21:34,480 --> 01:21:35,440 Has he landed yet? 1241 01:21:36,480 --> 01:21:38,450 He's in the men's room. 1242 01:21:39,480 --> 01:21:41,450 -Is he alone? -What do you mean? 1243 01:21:42,490 --> 01:21:43,450 Doesn't matter. 1244 01:21:48,490 --> 01:21:52,450 -We're in the lead. -Good, good. 1245 01:21:52,530 --> 01:21:55,460 Harris is second. Actually, undecided's killing everyone. 1246 01:21:55,530 --> 01:21:58,470 Willie McCollister came to see me last night. 1247 01:21:58,500 --> 01:22:01,470 His daughter's pregnant and says you're the father. 1248 01:22:10,510 --> 01:22:12,480 -Who else knows? -He says no one. 1249 01:22:12,550 --> 01:22:15,480 -What does he want? -I don't know. 1250 01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:20,490 I just can't catch a break, can I? 1251 01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:23,490 All right, all right. 1252 01:22:24,530 --> 01:22:27,500 -Is Willie still here? -No, he went back this morning. 1253 01:22:28,530 --> 01:22:32,490 I can't leave before the primary. If this gets out, it'll kill us. You... 1254 01:22:32,570 --> 01:22:37,510 and Howard have to fly back to Mammoth Falls tomorrow. Talk to him. 1255 01:22:37,570 --> 01:22:40,510 We have to make sure he knows this is a mistake. 1256 01:22:41,540 --> 01:22:44,510 They're good people, but not sophisticated. I want them to know. 1257 01:22:45,550 --> 01:22:48,520 Why pick me? Because I'm black? 1258 01:22:49,550 --> 01:22:51,520 No. Because Willie picked you. 1259 01:22:53,560 --> 01:22:56,530 You don't have to talk. Howard knows what to say. 1260 01:22:56,590 --> 01:22:59,530 But you should be there, because he came to you. 1261 01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:04,520 Governor, if I'm doing this, then there's something I need to know. 1262 01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:06,530 I am not the father of that child. 1263 01:23:08,570 --> 01:23:10,540 Henry, you will never have to be ashamed to be part... 1264 01:23:10,610 --> 01:23:12,540 of this campaign. Understand. 1265 01:23:12,610 --> 01:23:16,540 You'll never have to swallow it, duck it or apologize for it. 1266 01:23:16,610 --> 01:23:18,550 I'll make sure that doesn't happen. 1267 01:23:19,580 --> 01:23:20,550 Guys? 1268 01:23:38,530 --> 01:23:39,500 Hey, Mr. Burton. 1269 01:23:41,540 --> 01:23:42,500 Hey, Gov. 1270 01:23:46,540 --> 01:23:49,510 You remember Howard Ferguson. He works with the Governor, too. 1271 01:23:58,550 --> 01:23:59,520 What can I do for you? 1272 01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:06,520 The Governor is very concerned about this situation with your daughter. 1273 01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:12,520 He'd like to see it resolved as I'm sure you would. 1274 01:24:14,570 --> 01:24:16,540 He wants her to have an amniocentesis performed... 1275 01:24:16,610 --> 01:24:20,540 so paternity can be established. 1276 01:24:20,610 --> 01:24:21,540 A what? 1277 01:24:21,610 --> 01:24:24,550 It's a medical procedure performed in a hospital. 1278 01:24:26,580 --> 01:24:28,550 A needle is inserted into the abdomen. 1279 01:24:28,620 --> 01:24:31,590 Amniotic fluid is draw from your daughter's womb. 1280 01:24:31,590 --> 01:24:35,490 Genetic material is compared with the Governor's to... 1281 01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:37,490 to determine if he is the father. 1282 01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:38,490 I don't understand. 1283 01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:40,500 Normally it's used to determine fetal health. 1284 01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,500 That's what you'll tell the hospital. 1285 01:24:43,570 --> 01:24:46,500 You want to make sure the baby's healthy. 1286 01:24:46,570 --> 01:24:48,500 -A needle? -It's a common procedure. 1287 01:24:48,570 --> 01:24:52,510 -They'd put a needle in her belly? -Look, Mr. McCollister... 1288 01:24:52,580 --> 01:24:55,510 some people want to destroy Governor Stanton. 1289 01:24:56,550 --> 01:24:59,510 He doesn't think you do. But he can't allow this. You can't. 1290 01:25:01,550 --> 01:25:03,520 I'm sure Loretta's a fine person, but she's a child. 1291 01:25:03,590 --> 01:25:06,520 And children are impressionable. 1292 01:25:06,590 --> 01:25:10,530 She ain't said a word to anybody. She's a good girl. 1293 01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:15,530 I'm sure she is. And the Governor wants to help her... 1294 01:25:15,600 --> 01:25:20,540 and you, through this. He is prepared to be very generous. 1295 01:25:21,570 --> 01:25:24,540 He will help provide for the baby. 1296 01:25:25,570 --> 01:25:29,530 He will do this because he believes you are his friend. 1297 01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:35,480 But we must resolve this. 1298 01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:39,490 We must determine that he is not father of that child. 1299 01:25:42,530 --> 01:25:43,490 I'm sure that you... 1300 01:25:45,530 --> 01:25:47,500 you know, you understand... 1301 01:25:49,530 --> 01:25:51,500 our position. 1302 01:25:58,540 --> 01:25:59,510 Pull over. 1303 01:26:01,540 --> 01:26:02,510 Pull over. 1304 01:26:22,570 --> 01:26:26,520 I'm Izzi Rosenblat, with "Schmooze for Jews." 1305 01:26:26,600 --> 01:26:29,540 My guest today is presidential nominee... 1306 01:26:29,610 --> 01:26:32,470 and JFK lookalike, Governor Jack Stanton. 1307 01:26:33,510 --> 01:26:35,480 Jack, when we were talking before... 1308 01:26:35,540 --> 01:26:38,480 you said your mama liked Vegas. 1309 01:26:38,550 --> 01:26:42,480 As a tip to our listeners, where does she stay? 1310 01:26:42,550 --> 01:26:44,490 She's loyal to the MGM Grand. 1311 01:26:44,550 --> 01:26:47,490 MGM Grand. Listen up, you Vegas fans. 1312 01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:50,490 And who is her favorite act? Is it Wayne Newton? 1313 01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:51,490 Absolutely. 1314 01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:53,490 Everyone loves Wayne Newton. 1315 01:26:53,560 --> 01:26:57,500 He came on this show. Of course, that was many years ago. 1316 01:26:57,570 --> 01:27:01,500 Now, to satisfy the curiosity of our Vegas fans... 1317 01:27:01,570 --> 01:27:06,510 when your mother plays blackjack, where does she stand pat? Sixteen? 1318 01:27:06,580 --> 01:27:10,510 She's a bit of a gambler. Sometimes she goes up to 17. 1319 01:27:12,550 --> 01:27:13,520 Oh, my. Excuse me, Governor. 1320 01:27:13,580 --> 01:27:16,520 I'm told we have Senator Harris on the phone. 1321 01:27:17,550 --> 01:27:20,520 Hello. This is indeed an honor. 1322 01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:24,530 Governor Stanton was telling us his mother loves Las Vegas. 1323 01:27:24,590 --> 01:27:29,530 Does your mother have a favorite vacation spot? 1324 01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:30,530 My mother's dead. 1325 01:27:32,500 --> 01:27:33,470 Oh. I'm sorry. 1326 01:27:34,500 --> 01:27:36,470 And Jack Stanton should be ashamed of his scaring... 1327 01:27:36,540 --> 01:27:38,470 elderly people down here. 1328 01:27:38,540 --> 01:27:40,480 You mean about going up to seventeen? 1329 01:27:41,510 --> 01:27:42,480 I don't follow you. 1330 01:27:43,510 --> 01:27:46,480 He's telling people l want to cut their Social Security. 1331 01:27:46,550 --> 01:27:48,480 Larry, it's in your book. 1332 01:27:48,550 --> 01:27:51,490 You're playing sleazy politics! 1333 01:27:51,550 --> 01:27:53,490 Izzi, can I speak? 1334 01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:57,490 Be my guest, governor. What am I saying? You're are my guest! 1335 01:27:58,530 --> 01:28:02,490 Larry, I'm looking at your campaign, page 18, paragraph 3. 1336 01:28:03,530 --> 01:28:07,490 It says you want to "study" a freeze of cost of living adjustments. 1337 01:28:08,540 --> 01:28:12,500 That's one possibility. We might want to rework how they're calculated. 1338 01:28:12,580 --> 01:28:17,510 Cost of living adjustments are calculated to keep up with inflation. 1339 01:28:17,580 --> 01:28:19,510 I guess you don't like that. 1340 01:28:19,580 --> 01:28:22,520 -Wait! l don't say that! -lt's in your book. 1341 01:28:22,590 --> 01:28:25,520 l said it has to be studied. Who knows? 1342 01:28:25,590 --> 01:28:29,520 We might want to spend more on cost of living adjustments. 1343 01:28:29,590 --> 01:28:33,460 Senator Harris, Who is your favorite comedian? 1344 01:28:33,530 --> 01:28:36,460 I'm just telling folks what my positions are. 1345 01:28:36,530 --> 01:28:40,470 No, you're distorting my positions. That's why no trusts politicians. 1346 01:28:40,540 --> 01:28:43,470 -You can't defend your positions. -You're playing games. 1347 01:28:43,540 --> 01:28:46,470 Folks, we can't keep spending money this way. 1348 01:28:46,540 --> 01:28:51,480 But you just said you might to spend more on cost of living adjustments. 1349 01:28:51,550 --> 01:28:52,480 No, l, uh... 1350 01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:55,480 Excuse me. Now listen... 1351 01:28:58,520 --> 01:28:59,490 Excuse me. 1352 01:29:02,530 --> 01:29:04,490 What happened? Did he hang up? 1353 01:29:05,530 --> 01:29:09,490 Yes, yes. Well, so tell me, Governor... 1354 01:29:09,570 --> 01:29:10,500 who's your favorite comedian? 1355 01:29:11,530 --> 01:29:14,500 -The phones haven't stopped ringing! -It was fantastic. 1356 01:29:15,540 --> 01:29:18,510 We couldn't believe it when Harris called. Could we? 1357 01:29:18,570 --> 01:29:21,510 He's fucked. We'll walk away with Florida. 1358 01:29:22,550 --> 01:29:24,510 Wait! Turn on CNN. 1359 01:29:25,550 --> 01:29:28,520 Senator Harris suffered two heart attacks... 1360 01:29:28,580 --> 01:29:32,450 the first after a phone call with Governor Jack Stanton... 1361 01:29:32,520 --> 01:29:35,460 during a Florida radio show. 1362 01:29:36,490 --> 01:29:37,460 Jesus. 1363 01:29:38,490 --> 01:29:41,460 -Oh, shit. We heard him having it. -He remains in a coma. 1364 01:29:41,530 --> 01:29:44,470 His condition is critical. But hospital sources will not comment... 1365 01:29:44,530 --> 01:29:47,470 on the Senator's condition at this point. 1366 01:29:48,500 --> 01:29:51,470 lt's difficult to say what affect this will have on the campaign. 1367 01:30:03,520 --> 01:30:05,490 The vote's in 2 days. What do we do? 1368 01:30:07,520 --> 01:30:10,490 Go back to Mammoth Falls, and Daisy stays and pulls the negative ads. 1369 01:30:10,560 --> 01:30:12,490 I understand how you feel, but... 1370 01:30:13,530 --> 01:30:15,500 We go back to Mammoth Falls. 1371 01:30:24,540 --> 01:30:28,510 I was so prideful, so fucking smug. 1372 01:30:28,540 --> 01:30:30,510 You couldn't have known. 1373 01:30:30,850 --> 01:30:34,450 We were going to win. I could have been gracious. 1374 01:30:34,570 --> 01:30:38,250 I'm sorry. The man cuts a vicious negative ad... 1375 01:30:38,300 --> 01:30:40,580 ambushes you on a talk show and calls you sleazy... 1376 01:30:40,690 --> 01:30:43,960 and you're supposed to be gracious? Am I missing something here? 1377 01:30:44,530 --> 01:30:45,460 Is Jackie okay? 1378 01:30:45,530 --> 01:30:47,460 He's fine. Go on. Don't stop the meeting. 1379 01:30:49,500 --> 01:30:52,470 Harris is a smart man and he's right about the damn issue. 1380 01:30:52,530 --> 01:30:54,470 The bastard rubbed your nose in it. 1381 01:30:54,540 --> 01:30:58,470 And I rubbed his nose back. But that's not how you win the big ones. 1382 01:31:00,510 --> 01:31:02,480 I don't know what to do now. 1383 01:31:03,510 --> 01:31:07,480 I guess I'll fly back tonight, address the victory party. 1384 01:31:08,520 --> 01:31:11,490 Try to get Mrs. Harris on the phone again. 1385 01:31:11,550 --> 01:31:15,490 She hasn't returned my phone calls, but you can't blame her. 1386 01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:17,490 What do you think? 1387 01:31:22,530 --> 01:31:28,100 Henry. What the fuck were you and Howard staring at? 1388 01:31:28,570 --> 01:31:29,500 Nothing. No one. 1389 01:31:29,570 --> 01:31:32,440 Bullshit. Who was that woman with Susan? 1390 01:31:32,510 --> 01:31:35,440 It looked like Fat Willie's wife. 1391 01:31:35,510 --> 01:31:37,450 Why is she worth staring at? 1392 01:31:40,480 --> 01:31:42,450 Henry, what the fuck is going on here? 1393 01:31:42,520 --> 01:31:43,450 Nothing! 1394 01:31:58,500 --> 01:31:59,470 All right. All right. 1395 01:32:04,510 --> 01:32:08,470 Son of a bitch! Amniocentesis, you motherfucker! 1396 01:32:10,510 --> 01:32:14,470 -Susan, I'm sorry. -When were you going to tell me?! 1397 01:32:39,540 --> 01:32:40,510 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 1398 01:32:45,550 --> 01:32:48,520 l know we wish Senator Harris a full and speedy recovery. 1399 01:32:48,580 --> 01:32:52,520 l think the people of Florida will understand if l forego... 1400 01:32:52,590 --> 01:32:58,530 any talk of victory or defeat... and ask them to join me in prayer. 1401 01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:01,530 I know New York. Everything is driven by the tabloids. 1402 01:33:01,600 --> 01:33:04,530 -Where's Henry? Daisy? -I don't know. I flew in with you. 1403 01:33:04,600 --> 01:33:06,530 Brad, do we have the New York numbers? 1404 01:33:06,600 --> 01:33:11,540 You're at 22% and Harris is running at 18%, comatose. 1405 01:33:13,580 --> 01:33:15,540 -Shit, Henry. -Sorry. 1406 01:33:15,610 --> 01:33:19,550 How do you think New York will take the thing with Harris? 1407 01:33:19,620 --> 01:33:24,550 Well, Susan, I think first we have to see if Harris is still in. 1408 01:33:24,620 --> 01:33:26,550 That's not very helpful. Lucille? 1409 01:33:27,590 --> 01:33:29,560 Well, if Harris is out and Ozio doesn't jump in... 1410 01:33:29,630 --> 01:33:32,490 I say we win by default. 1411 01:33:32,560 --> 01:33:34,500 My God, this poor woman. 1412 01:33:35,530 --> 01:33:37,500 l want to thank all of you... 1413 01:33:37,570 --> 01:33:40,500 for your remarkable outpouring of affection. 1414 01:33:41,540 --> 01:33:46,500 lt's obvious my husband will not be able to continue his campaign. 1415 01:33:47,540 --> 01:33:50,510 Fantastic! I mean, well... you know what I mean. 1416 01:33:50,580 --> 01:33:51,510 We have asked our good friend former Governor... 1417 01:33:51,580 --> 01:33:52,510 Fred Picker of Florida. 1418 01:33:52,580 --> 01:33:55,520 to carry on. 1419 01:33:55,580 --> 01:34:03,510 To continue to raise questions in a meaningful, honorable way. 1420 01:34:03,590 --> 01:34:06,530 She's not too upset to give us a poke. 1421 01:34:07,560 --> 01:34:10,530 Come on. Her husband may be dying and she thinks Jack did it. 1422 01:34:10,600 --> 01:34:13,530 l turn the campaign over to Governor Picker. 1423 01:34:17,570 --> 01:34:20,540 Excuse me. This is a rather emotional time. 1424 01:34:21,580 --> 01:34:23,550 Governor, do you think you can win the nomination? 1425 01:34:24,580 --> 01:34:29,540 Well, l'm not out to, win the nomination. 1426 01:34:29,620 --> 01:34:33,490 l'm out to continue what Senator Harris began... 1427 01:34:33,560 --> 01:34:37,490 to give Americans an honest choice on the issues. 1428 01:34:37,560 --> 01:34:38,490 But if you won the nomination? 1429 01:34:38,560 --> 01:34:41,500 lt's really premature to talk about that now. 1430 01:34:41,560 --> 01:34:44,500 l haven't had time to think about it. 1431 01:34:46,540 --> 01:34:50,490 What l have thought about is the best way l can help Senator Harris. 1432 01:34:51,570 --> 01:34:56,510 As l know him as a man of action rather than words... 1433 01:34:56,580 --> 01:35:01,520 the best action is for me to go down and donate a pint of blood,... 1434 01:35:01,580 --> 01:35:05,520 because that's what he needs now. 1435 01:35:07,560 --> 01:35:09,520 lf you want to come with me and donate a pint,... 1436 01:35:09,590 --> 01:35:11,530 Mrs. Harris would appreciate it. 1437 01:35:12,560 --> 01:35:15,530 Jesus Christ, we should have thought of that. That blood thing. 1438 01:35:17,570 --> 01:35:18,530 Great goddamn move. 1439 01:35:19,570 --> 01:35:23,230 How do we run against this guy if he's not going to run? 1440 01:35:23,570 --> 01:35:27,540 Shit, he'll run. But till he announces it he's the flavor of the week... 1441 01:35:27,610 --> 01:35:30,540 and golden. We just wait until he comes out. 1442 01:35:35,220 --> 01:35:38,690 Lawrence Harris made several negative spots. 1443 01:35:39,260 --> 01:35:43,390 His pollsters have advised more. Will you go in that direction? 1444 01:35:43,560 --> 01:35:48,500 No. l won't be doing any spots or having any polls,... 1445 01:35:48,560 --> 01:35:50,500 because l'm not paying any pollsters. 1446 01:35:50,570 --> 01:35:53,100 l'm not hiring folks to tell me what you're thinking... 1447 01:35:53,370 --> 01:35:55,300 or how to get at you. 1448 01:35:55,470 --> 01:35:57,410 Then what are you going to do? 1449 01:35:57,470 --> 01:35:59,410 Just talk straight. 1450 01:35:59,480 --> 01:36:02,510 Jesus Christ. Who is this guy? 1451 01:36:02,580 --> 01:36:05,510 Don't panic. He's as much as admitted he's running. 1452 01:36:05,580 --> 01:36:08,520 So now we'll see some tarnish on the golden image. 1453 01:36:09,550 --> 01:36:12,520 The media giveth and... go fuck yourself. 1454 01:36:13,460 --> 01:36:17,530 Governor, why did you quit politics in 1978? 1455 01:36:17,860 --> 01:36:21,530 There were a lot of reasons. l had personal problems. 1456 01:36:23,870 --> 01:36:26,330 This can't be easy to talk about. 1457 01:36:26,400 --> 01:36:27,530 No, it's not. 1458 01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:30,540 But l guess it's part of the game now, so l'll be candid. 1459 01:36:31,370 --> 01:36:32,270 l got too wrapped up in... 1460 01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:38,480 being governor, and l began to neglect my family. 1461 01:36:39,210 --> 01:36:41,480 My wife fell in love with another man. 1462 01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:46,280 l quit, in part to see if l could salvage my marriage... 1463 01:36:46,360 --> 01:36:49,160 but l couldn't. So then l just wanted to make sure... 1464 01:36:49,160 --> 01:36:49,190 my boys knew we loved them. but l couldn't. So then l just wanted to make sure... 1465 01:36:49,190 --> 01:36:52,190 my boys knew we loved them. 1466 01:36:53,230 --> 01:36:56,200 l think if you ask them, they'll say we made it through okay. 1467 01:36:57,230 --> 01:37:00,200 They're in college now and when Mrs. Harris asked me to do this..... 1468 01:37:00,270 --> 01:37:03,200 they were very enthusiastic. l guess you could say... 1469 01:37:03,270 --> 01:37:06,210 l'm doing this for them, too. 1470 01:37:06,540 --> 01:37:08,510 Awesome. The best I've ever seen. 1471 01:37:08,580 --> 01:37:10,510 What do we do? 1472 01:37:11,550 --> 01:37:13,510 Well, now we panic. 1473 01:37:21,560 --> 01:37:22,520 Hey, amnio man! 1474 01:37:23,560 --> 01:37:25,530 God, how in the hell did you find out? 1475 01:37:25,590 --> 01:37:27,530 Loretta talked to a schoolmate. 1476 01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:31,570 "Current Affairs" just offered the McCollisters $250,000. 1477 01:37:31,570 --> 01:37:34,470 Fat Willie threw them off the property. 1478 01:37:34,540 --> 01:37:37,470 I stashed them in another county. I could fucking kill Jack. 1479 01:37:37,540 --> 01:37:39,470 He says he's not the father. 1480 01:37:39,540 --> 01:37:41,480 He's probably not. It doesn't matter. 1481 01:37:41,540 --> 01:37:44,480 Shit begets shit. Cashmere made anything possible. 1482 01:37:45,510 --> 01:37:46,480 Didn't she? 1483 01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:51,480 I'm a good consultant and I know New York, but I'm not a magician. 1484 01:37:51,550 --> 01:37:53,490 The rumor's about you and the black girl... 1485 01:37:53,560 --> 01:37:57,490 Say I gave blood to disprove the charge and... 1486 01:37:57,560 --> 01:37:59,490 we're waiting for the results. 1487 01:37:59,560 --> 01:38:00,490 Too defensive. 1488 01:38:01,530 --> 01:38:04,500 And look at the contrast between why you gave blood and why Picker did. 1489 01:38:04,570 --> 01:38:06,500 I agree. But it might be good to get on some TV shows... 1490 01:38:06,570 --> 01:38:08,500 like "Oprah" and "Geraldo". 1491 01:38:08,570 --> 01:38:11,510 You mean strip away those last annoying shreds of dignity... 1492 01:38:11,570 --> 01:38:13,510 and wallow in trash. 1493 01:38:13,580 --> 01:38:16,510 Why campaign in New York at all? 1494 01:38:16,580 --> 01:38:19,510 You have to. You can't skip New York. 1495 01:38:19,580 --> 01:38:21,550 They'll kill me. 1496 01:38:21,550 --> 01:38:23,520 No, it'll just feel like they have. 1497 01:38:24,550 --> 01:38:27,520 But you'll survive. We all find a way to survive. 1498 01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:36,460 That's why I'm so happy to be in New York...to have the opportunity to... 1499 01:38:37,500 --> 01:38:39,470 If you'd just give me a chance. 1500 01:38:43,510 --> 01:38:46,470 Give me a chance to, to answer your questions. 1501 01:38:50,510 --> 01:38:51,480 I love New York! 1502 01:38:58,520 --> 01:39:00,490 Bugger, bugger, bugger! 1503 01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:02,490 You're a phony! A pederast! 1504 01:39:06,530 --> 01:39:10,490 You're a sick, hetero fuck! 1505 01:39:28,250 --> 01:39:31,250 I don't know how much more of this I can take. 1506 01:39:31,450 --> 01:39:33,450 Tomorrow we start Connecticut.. 1507 01:39:33,520 --> 01:39:36,460 Picker's speaking at a rally there. We hit it, too. 1508 01:39:36,530 --> 01:39:41,460 He can't. He's meeting with the Lubavitcher Rebbe. 1509 01:39:41,530 --> 01:39:43,460 What? Who the fuck decided that? 1510 01:39:43,530 --> 01:39:46,470 The Rebbe. You can't win New York without him. 1511 01:39:46,700 --> 01:39:49,470 Norman knows New York. It's his call. 1512 01:39:49,610 --> 01:39:53,870 Susan's right. You go to the rally. I better keep the appointment. 1513 01:40:38,490 --> 01:40:40,450 Thank you. Well, this is kind of overwhelming. 1514 01:40:42,490 --> 01:40:45,460 He's nervous now. He's the man now. 1515 01:40:49,500 --> 01:40:51,470 I didn't expect this. 1516 01:40:54,500 --> 01:40:58,490 And all the folks giving blood in the back out there in the tents... 1517 01:40:58,540 --> 01:41:01,480 I want to thank them. I really do. 1518 01:41:06,510 --> 01:41:08,480 Would you all do me a favor? 1519 01:41:08,550 --> 01:41:11,490 Don't shout quite so loud. Thanks. 1520 01:41:16,520 --> 01:41:21,480 I really mean it. I wish everyone would just calm down a little. 1521 01:41:21,730 --> 01:41:24,550 When I say "everyone", I mean the press and the TV... 1522 01:41:24,570 --> 01:41:26,500 crews and all my colleagues... 1523 01:41:26,570 --> 01:41:32,440 and all the folks who make a living advising my colleagues. 1524 01:41:32,510 --> 01:41:34,440 I think we need to calm down some. 1525 01:41:36,480 --> 01:41:37,450 You know... 1526 01:41:39,480 --> 01:41:41,450 this is a terrific country. 1527 01:41:42,480 --> 01:41:45,450 But sometimes we go a little crazy. Maybe that's part of... 1528 01:41:45,520 --> 01:41:49,460 our greatness, part of our freedom. 1529 01:41:50,490 --> 01:41:53,460 But if we don't watch out and calm down,... 1530 01:41:53,530 --> 01:41:55,460 it all may spin out of control. 1531 01:41:57,500 --> 01:42:00,470 You know, the world is getting more and more complicated. 1532 01:42:00,540 --> 01:42:04,470 Politicians have to explain things to you... 1533 01:42:04,540 --> 01:42:06,470 in simpler terms... 1534 01:42:06,540 --> 01:42:10,480 so that they can get their little oversimplified explanations... 1535 01:42:10,550 --> 01:42:14,480 on the evening news. 1536 01:42:15,520 --> 01:42:18,490 And eventually, instead of even trying to explain... 1537 01:42:18,550 --> 01:42:21,490 they give up and start slinging mud at each other. 1538 01:42:21,560 --> 01:42:24,490 And it's all to keep you excited, keep you watching... 1539 01:42:24,560 --> 01:42:28,500 like you watch a...a car wreck or a... 1540 01:42:28,560 --> 01:42:34,500 wrestling match. That's just what it's like professional wrestling. 1541 01:42:36,540 --> 01:42:39,510 It's staged and it's fake and it doesn't mean anything. 1542 01:42:41,540 --> 01:42:45,500 That goes for the debates. We don't hate our opponents. 1543 01:42:45,580 --> 01:42:47,510 Hell! Half the time we don't even know them. 1544 01:42:48,550 --> 01:42:52,510 But it seems it's the only way we know how to keep you all riled up. 1545 01:42:54,560 --> 01:42:56,520 So what I want to do is quiet things down... 1546 01:42:56,590 --> 01:43:01,530 and start having a conversation... 1547 01:43:01,600 --> 01:43:07,540 about what sort of country we want this to be in the next century. 1548 01:43:09,570 --> 01:43:11,540 And I want Governor Stanton to know that I... 1549 01:43:11,610 --> 01:43:13,540 welcome him to this conversation. 1550 01:43:14,580 --> 01:43:17,550 Okay. This show is yours. You gentlemen know the rules. 1551 01:43:17,610 --> 01:43:20,550 No eye-gouging, no chair-tossing. 1552 01:43:20,620 --> 01:43:22,550 Three knockdowns, I stop the bout. 1553 01:43:22,620 --> 01:43:24,550 I hope he doesn't lose it. Geraldo will go after... 1554 01:43:24,620 --> 01:43:26,550 him and Picker's very smooth. 1555 01:43:26,620 --> 01:43:29,560 -He won't lose it. -Frankly, he doesn't have anything to lose. 1556 01:43:34,530 --> 01:43:36,500 ls there any truth whatsoever... 1557 01:43:36,560 --> 01:43:38,500 to the awful allegation that you are the father of a... 1558 01:43:38,570 --> 01:43:40,500 child by a teenage girl? 1559 01:43:40,570 --> 01:43:41,500 Oh, shit. 1560 01:43:41,570 --> 01:43:46,510 No, it's good it's out there. Now, if Jack just keeps the answer short... 1561 01:43:46,540 --> 01:43:49,510 by the publicity over the phony Cashmere McLeod tapes. 1562 01:43:49,580 --> 01:43:52,510 Her family are good people. They're my friends. 1563 01:43:52,580 --> 01:43:54,510 l just spoke with the father... 1564 01:43:54,580 --> 01:43:58,520 and he apologized for causing me so much trouble. 1565 01:43:59,550 --> 01:44:02,520 I think that's all we need to know, Jack. Right, folks? 1566 01:44:03,560 --> 01:44:07,520 Jesus Christ. Picker actually saved him. I've never seen that before. 1567 01:44:08,560 --> 01:44:12,520 Maybe this is the first time. Maybe Picker's the real thing. 1568 01:44:13,570 --> 01:44:17,530 You know what your problem is, Hotchkiss? You got galloping TB. 1569 01:44:17,610 --> 01:44:19,540 You don't mean tuberculosis, right? 1570 01:44:20,580 --> 01:44:22,540 No, I mean True Believerism. You talk and act like a pro... 1571 01:44:22,610 --> 01:44:26,550 but inside you're just like Libby, who actually goes crazy... 1572 01:44:26,610 --> 01:44:30,550 when her candidate turns out not to be a rock. 1573 01:44:31,590 --> 01:44:33,490 In '78, she actually wore a button that said... 1574 01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:36,490 "I'm A Picker Person" and nose dived when he quit the race. 1575 01:44:37,530 --> 01:44:40,490 -Didn't even try to find out why... -He told us why. 1576 01:44:42,530 --> 01:44:45,500 What? He wanted to stay home with his kids? 1577 01:44:45,570 --> 01:44:48,500 "I'd rather be dad than president"? Give me a fucking break. 1578 01:44:49,700 --> 01:44:53,540 The race among Democratic contenders is still a toss-up. 1579 01:44:53,610 --> 01:44:55,540 Polls taken after both men appeared on "Geraldo"... 1580 01:44:55,610 --> 01:44:57,580 indicate that governor Picker... 1581 01:44:57,580 --> 01:45:00,550 has a substantial lead... 1582 01:45:00,620 --> 01:45:04,550 but there has been a remarkable 5% increase for Governor Stanton. 1583 01:45:05,590 --> 01:45:06,550 Fucking Norman Asher. 1584 01:45:13,600 --> 01:45:15,560 I'm taking a leave of absence. I can't stay and take... 1585 01:45:15,630 --> 01:45:17,560 orders from Norman Asher. 1586 01:45:17,630 --> 01:45:19,570 We're from different parts of the jungle. The thing's... 1587 01:45:19,630 --> 01:45:21,570 about gone anyway. 1588 01:45:21,640 --> 01:45:23,570 I can't believe this. 1589 01:45:24,610 --> 01:45:28,570 Why? Henry, I've been through this shit a hundred times. 1590 01:45:29,610 --> 01:45:32,580 These guys love you then they stop loving you. 1591 01:45:32,650 --> 01:45:34,580 Yeah, but Stanton's different. 1592 01:45:34,650 --> 01:45:35,580 Yeah, he's different. 1593 01:45:36,620 --> 01:45:38,590 He was worth it. 1594 01:45:39,620 --> 01:45:41,590 You take care of your ass, Hotchkiss. 1595 01:45:46,630 --> 01:45:47,600 I'll see you next time. 1596 01:45:59,570 --> 01:46:01,540 I'm sorry about losing Daisy and Richard... 1597 01:46:01,610 --> 01:46:03,540 but we're pros and these things happen. 1598 01:46:04,580 --> 01:46:09,540 Now, I want to talk about something Richard said about Picker... 1599 01:46:09,620 --> 01:46:11,550 that I want to find out. 1600 01:46:12,590 --> 01:46:15,560 Why did Picker quit in '78? 1601 01:46:21,460 --> 01:46:23,430 All I heard about was a condo development... 1602 01:46:23,630 --> 01:46:25,570 named Clearwater Estates... 1603 01:46:25,630 --> 01:46:29,570 where the state and county matched funds to build a connecting road. 1604 01:46:30,610 --> 01:46:31,570 And? 1605 01:46:32,610 --> 01:46:33,570 Nothing specific. 1606 01:46:35,610 --> 01:46:37,580 The project developer was a guy named Edgardo Reyes. 1607 01:46:37,650 --> 01:46:40,580 Edgardo Reyes is the brother of Antonia Reyes. 1608 01:46:41,650 --> 01:46:46,590 Picker's former wife. Did anyone ever follow this up. 1609 01:46:46,650 --> 01:46:47,590 No. 1610 01:46:49,620 --> 01:46:51,520 Well, Libby, let's go. 1611 01:46:54,560 --> 01:46:55,530 What? 1612 01:46:58,570 --> 01:46:59,530 What? 1613 01:47:00,570 --> 01:47:02,540 -I'm trying to decide. -Decide what? 1614 01:47:03,270 --> 01:47:05,540 Whether I want to do this for you, you stupid shit! 1615 01:47:06,170 --> 01:47:09,140 I bust dust. I protect you. I don't do in the opponent. 1616 01:47:09,250 --> 01:47:11,250 What the fuck is the difference? 1617 01:47:12,180 --> 01:47:15,250 All the difference in the world. All the moral difference. 1618 01:47:16,280 --> 01:47:19,250 I'm not too interested in tearing Fred Picker down. 1619 01:47:20,290 --> 01:47:23,260 -And if he's bad? A crook? -It'll out. 1620 01:47:23,330 --> 01:47:26,260 But when? Say he wins the nomination... 1621 01:47:26,330 --> 01:47:30,260 and then it comes out. Now, look at this. 1622 01:47:32,100 --> 01:47:35,270 Results of the blood test Dr. Beauregard gave me. 1623 01:47:36,200 --> 01:47:39,210 Congratulations. I'm sure this will help. 1624 01:47:39,310 --> 01:47:40,570 But it won't. 1625 01:47:41,610 --> 01:47:45,570 You know it. It won't matter my blood doesn't match Loretta's baby's. 1626 01:47:45,650 --> 01:47:47,580 It won't matter I can't be the father. 1627 01:47:48,620 --> 01:47:50,520 It would only matter if I were the father. Because... 1628 01:47:50,590 --> 01:47:52,520 guilt is what's interesting. 1629 01:47:52,590 --> 01:47:55,520 Am I supposed to accept this and let Picker slide in... 1630 01:47:55,590 --> 01:47:58,530 because you were a "Picker Person" in the 70s? 1631 01:47:58,660 --> 01:48:02,230 You mean injustice for all? That's a stupid fucking argument! 1632 01:48:02,400 --> 01:48:04,530 Okay, but this isn't. 1633 01:48:04,600 --> 01:48:07,230 Picker could be guilty of fraud. 1634 01:48:07,300 --> 01:48:09,540 If he used influence to help his brother in-law,... 1635 01:48:09,580 --> 01:48:10,940 he's not fit to be president. 1636 01:48:10,970 --> 01:48:12,540 -He could be a real shit. 1637 01:48:14,580 --> 01:48:18,530 Forget who you thought he was. You gotta find out who he really is. 1638 01:48:27,590 --> 01:48:28,560 Get packed. 1639 01:48:32,590 --> 01:48:34,560 We are in limbo now, Henry. 1640 01:48:36,600 --> 01:48:40,560 We are outside the mainstream. 1641 01:48:42,600 --> 01:48:43,570 We are in purgatory. 1642 01:48:45,610 --> 01:48:46,570 We are lost. 1643 01:48:46,640 --> 01:48:50,510 Libby, if you don't shut up, I'm going to kill myself. 1644 01:48:52,550 --> 01:48:56,510 We are testing our limits. We are in the pits. 1645 01:48:56,580 --> 01:48:58,520 Remember the words to "Limbo Rock"? 1646 01:48:58,590 --> 01:49:02,520 "How low can you go"? 1647 01:49:07,760 --> 01:49:12,160 Is there a reason why we're meeting him in Neo-Bwanaland and not his office? 1648 01:49:12,200 --> 01:49:14,230 Two reasons... no recording devices, and... 1649 01:49:14,280 --> 01:49:16,340 I've always wanted to see this hotel. 1650 01:49:18,570 --> 01:49:22,590 Yes, I had his business, and I hoped that being the Governor's brother-in-law... 1651 01:49:22,610 --> 01:49:24,540 would be an advantage. 1652 01:49:24,780 --> 01:49:28,150 But Mr. Righteous wouldn't cut me any slack. 1653 01:49:28,220 --> 01:49:31,250 We did Clearwater straight up. 1654 01:49:33,190 --> 01:49:36,560 It would be God's little joke if he got nailed for it anyway. 1655 01:49:37,590 --> 01:49:40,850 Freddy didn't know you hired his wife and brother to get to him? 1656 01:49:41,330 --> 01:49:44,260 Know? Absolutely not. 1657 01:49:45,200 --> 01:49:49,300 Thank you, Mr. Reyes. My friend and I are very grateful. 1658 01:49:49,500 --> 01:49:51,500 Know? 1659 01:49:51,570 --> 01:49:55,510 What the fuck did he know? He was half stoned most of the time? 1660 01:49:56,540 --> 01:49:58,510 Stoned? 1661 01:50:00,550 --> 01:50:04,510 Oh, dear. I really said something I shouldn't, didn't I? 1662 01:50:04,590 --> 01:50:06,520 Hey! Freddy's staffers don't like to hear that. 1663 01:50:08,160 --> 01:50:09,220 Stoned how? 1664 01:50:09,960 --> 01:50:12,630 "Toot-toot-tootsie, good bye." 1665 01:50:13,560 --> 01:50:18,520 You look disappointed. You didn't know he was a fucking maricone cokehead? 1666 01:50:19,070 --> 01:50:21,540 -Cocaine. He loved the shit. 1667 01:50:22,100 --> 01:50:26,140 We all did, but he's the only one who's a candidate for sainthood. 1668 01:50:26,410 --> 01:50:31,540 I'm afraid that's a little hard to buy. It just doesn't fit. 1669 01:50:31,610 --> 01:50:34,550 Maybe not now. Twenty years ago... 1670 01:50:34,620 --> 01:50:38,550 almost everyone was doing everything. Right, Libby? 1671 01:50:38,620 --> 01:50:41,550 But where did he score? How could he keep it quiet in the governor's mansion? 1672 01:50:42,190 --> 01:50:48,550 There was a guy. A young guy, Lorenzo Delgado. 1673 01:50:49,000 --> 01:50:50,900 Upper-class Cuban, a lawyer. 1674 01:50:51,130 --> 01:50:55,200 He and the Governor knew each other socially. So it was all right. 1675 01:50:56,740 --> 01:50:59,700 The joke is that Delgado just got out of prison... 1676 01:50:59,890 --> 01:51:02,510 and lives in a halfway house in Hialeah. 1677 01:51:03,580 --> 01:51:06,510 And saint Freddy is about to be president. 1678 01:51:07,550 --> 01:51:10,710 Yeah, that is a joke. You must get a lot of laughs telling it at parties. 1679 01:51:11,590 --> 01:51:13,520 I don't talk about Freddy. 1680 01:51:14,560 --> 01:51:17,530 I'm talking to you because you're from his campaign. 1681 01:51:18,560 --> 01:51:19,530 It's just... 1682 01:51:21,560 --> 01:51:23,530 I'm not the only guy in town who knows this. 1683 01:51:25,570 --> 01:51:28,540 He should never have returned to the game. 1684 01:51:29,570 --> 01:51:30,540 Now he'll go down. 1685 01:51:32,090 --> 01:51:33,940 This is America. 1686 01:51:35,080 --> 01:51:37,040 You can bank on it. 1687 01:51:45,590 --> 01:51:47,550 Lorenzo Delgado. 1688 01:51:47,620 --> 01:51:50,490 On the porch, through there. 1689 01:51:59,530 --> 01:52:00,500 Lorenzo? 1690 01:52:00,570 --> 01:52:01,500 Right in there. 1691 01:52:08,540 --> 01:52:09,510 Sr. Delgado? 1692 01:52:10,550 --> 01:52:12,510 We're here about Freddy Picker. 1693 01:52:15,550 --> 01:52:16,520 Sit down, sit down. 1694 01:52:21,560 --> 01:52:22,520 Are you from the campaign? 1695 01:52:23,560 --> 01:52:25,530 I've been expecting you. 1696 01:52:26,560 --> 01:52:31,520 Tell Freddy he has nothing to fear from me. Nothing, you understand? 1697 01:52:33,570 --> 01:52:35,540 This happened after him. 1698 01:52:39,570 --> 01:52:42,540 I fucked my brains out in jail. Nothing else to do. 1699 01:52:44,580 --> 01:52:47,550 And there were so many boys who spent all day in the gym... 1700 01:52:47,620 --> 01:52:49,550 working out. 1701 01:52:58,530 --> 01:53:00,490 I like this porch. 1702 01:53:01,630 --> 01:53:04,500 I can't do it all the time. Depends on the weather. 1703 01:53:06,530 --> 01:53:07,500 It's strange. 1704 01:53:09,540 --> 01:53:11,510 My body temperature is always off. 1705 01:53:12,570 --> 01:53:16,510 Too hot or too cold. It's never just right. 1706 01:53:16,580 --> 01:53:20,510 Sometimes the tiniest breeze can start me shivering. 1707 01:53:22,550 --> 01:53:24,520 I can't do anything about it. 1708 01:53:25,550 --> 01:53:29,510 I can't turn it off. I just have to let it ride. 1709 01:53:34,560 --> 01:53:37,530 So, are you Freddy's friend now? 1710 01:53:46,570 --> 01:53:48,540 You just knew it would be good. 1711 01:53:49,580 --> 01:53:54,480 You knew it would be irresistible. But this has every fucking thing. 1712 01:53:54,550 --> 01:53:57,480 Sex, drugs, corruption. 1713 01:53:57,550 --> 01:54:02,490 And none of it -none of it, Henry, my man- is clear-cut venality. 1714 01:54:02,560 --> 01:54:07,490 It's all kind of human and awful and sad. 1715 01:54:09,530 --> 01:54:10,500 So now we'll find out. 1716 01:54:11,530 --> 01:54:13,500 Find out what? We just found out. 1717 01:54:14,540 --> 01:54:18,490 Don't play dumb with me. This is a test... 1718 01:54:18,570 --> 01:54:23,510 of us and them. Actually, of us and them, and us again. 1719 01:54:23,580 --> 01:54:26,510 I mean, we got the dirt. 1720 01:54:26,580 --> 01:54:29,520 Now it's about them - Jack and Susan. What will they do with it? 1721 01:54:29,580 --> 01:54:33,520 Isn't that what we're both really after here? 1722 01:54:34,560 --> 01:54:38,510 I mean, after 25 years, I get to see what they're about. 1723 01:54:38,590 --> 01:54:42,530 Not just hypothesize, not just hope. This is it! 1724 01:54:42,600 --> 01:54:46,530 Graduation day. They graduate, or I do. 1725 01:54:47,570 --> 01:54:50,540 Be honest. Isn't that what you're really after, too? 1726 01:54:51,570 --> 01:54:53,540 Watch the road! 1727 01:54:53,610 --> 01:54:54,540 Isn't it? 1728 01:55:13,590 --> 01:55:16,560 Feast your eyes, Governor. You too, m'lady. 1729 01:55:16,630 --> 01:55:18,560 Henry, a transcript of our tour. 1730 01:55:33,610 --> 01:55:35,580 Well, this...this is remarkable. 1731 01:55:39,620 --> 01:55:42,590 How did he think he could ever get away with this? 1732 01:55:47,630 --> 01:55:48,600 What do we do with it? 1733 01:55:50,560 --> 01:55:53,530 The Times...No, the Wall Street Journal is more authoritative, in a way... 1734 01:55:54,570 --> 01:55:57,540 Through an intermediary, someone not connected to the campaign. 1735 01:56:01,180 --> 01:56:04,540 -I don't think so. -What do you mean? 1736 01:56:05,380 --> 01:56:07,250 I think there's nothing of use here. 1737 01:56:11,290 --> 01:56:12,350 You must be kidding. 1738 01:56:12,400 --> 01:56:14,250 Nope. It doesn't meet my standards. 1739 01:56:15,190 --> 01:56:16,260 What do you mean? 1740 01:56:16,320 --> 01:56:20,160 I mean, madame, Henry and I don't think the use of this material is proper. 1741 01:56:21,100 --> 01:56:25,550 We have a moral objection. And I have an historical beef. 1742 01:56:26,200 --> 01:56:28,370 Come on. Why get it if you weren't going to use it? 1743 01:56:29,100 --> 01:56:31,140 As Susan said, he could have been a shit. 1744 01:56:31,140 --> 01:56:31,270 He isn't, but he could have been. As Susan said, he could have been a shit. 1745 01:56:31,270 --> 01:56:33,570 He isn't, but he could have been. 1746 01:56:34,140 --> 01:56:38,580 But you're off the point. The point is we don't do this sort of thing. 1747 01:56:39,610 --> 01:56:42,580 I'll be relentless busting dust and guarding your ass. 1748 01:56:42,630 --> 01:56:44,580 I'd have shot Randy Collegian's weenie off for you. 1749 01:56:44,650 --> 01:56:46,590 Well, maybe I would have. 1750 01:56:46,650 --> 01:56:51,520 But this is something else. This is hurting someone else. This sucks. 1751 01:56:51,590 --> 01:56:55,530 You want to know why this sucks? Because you told me so. 1752 01:56:56,560 --> 01:56:58,530 Remember when, Jackie? 1753 01:56:59,570 --> 01:57:01,540 Let me refresh your memory. 1754 01:57:14,580 --> 01:57:17,550 -Weren't they gorgeous? -But look at you. 1755 01:57:17,620 --> 01:57:19,550 You little shit. I told you I used to have a waist. 1756 01:57:20,590 --> 01:57:23,560 Hush up. Don't ruin it. You remember when this was? 1757 01:57:25,590 --> 01:57:26,560 You don't, do you? 1758 01:57:26,630 --> 01:57:28,560 Miami headquarters in '72. 1759 01:57:29,600 --> 01:57:31,570 This was taken just after the convention. 1760 01:57:31,630 --> 01:57:33,570 I'll never forget that convention. 1761 01:57:33,630 --> 01:57:37,570 Libby, for Christ's sake, what's the point? 1762 01:57:37,640 --> 01:57:39,570 The point is Eagleton. 1763 01:57:40,610 --> 01:57:43,580 Remember, Jack? I must have known you, what, two days then? 1764 01:57:44,610 --> 01:57:46,580 We hear that McGovern had chosen a vice president who... 1765 01:57:46,650 --> 01:57:48,580 had electric shock therapy. 1766 01:57:50,550 --> 01:57:55,510 And I consider the possibility that we way lose to that fuckbrain Nixon. 1767 01:57:55,590 --> 01:57:59,530 Before that, I was absolutely convinced we would win. 1768 01:57:59,590 --> 01:58:03,530 Can you imagine, Henry? We were so fucking young. 1769 01:58:04,570 --> 01:58:08,520 And this one, he takes me out. 1770 01:58:08,600 --> 01:58:11,540 We go to an outdoor Cuban joint. Remember, Jack? 1771 01:58:11,610 --> 01:58:14,540 My head's in my hands. I mean, life has ended. 1772 01:58:14,610 --> 01:58:17,540 I say, "They did it! The CIA." 1773 01:58:17,610 --> 01:58:21,550 I couldn't believe that Tom Eagleton would really be a nutcase. 1774 01:58:21,620 --> 01:58:24,550 They had to have take him and made him crazy. 1775 01:58:24,620 --> 01:58:28,550 It couldn't be that McGovern was a complete fucking amateur! 1776 01:58:28,620 --> 01:58:32,560 I said to Jack: "We got to get the same capability as the CIA." 1777 01:58:33,590 --> 01:58:36,560 Remember, Jack? "We have to do dirt, too." 1778 01:58:36,630 --> 01:58:40,570 And you said, "No. Our job is to end all that." 1779 01:58:40,630 --> 01:58:45,570 "Our job is to make it clean. Because if it's clean, we win." 1780 01:58:46,610 --> 01:58:49,580 " Because our ideas are better." 1781 01:58:51,550 --> 01:58:53,510 You remember that, Jack? 1782 01:58:54,550 --> 01:58:56,520 That was a long time ago. 1783 01:58:57,550 --> 01:58:59,520 Libby, you said it yourself. 1784 01:59:00,550 --> 01:59:03,520 We were young. We didn't know how the world worked. 1785 01:59:05,560 --> 01:59:06,530 Now we know. 1786 01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:11,520 If we don't move on this Picker situation, two things will happen. 1787 01:59:11,600 --> 01:59:13,530 First. We're dead. 1788 01:59:13,600 --> 01:59:18,540 Everything we've worked for since Miami 25 years ago dies, and fast. 1789 01:59:19,570 --> 01:59:22,540 The second thing that happens is someday, soon when they're sick of... 1790 01:59:22,610 --> 01:59:26,550 Picker's quiet, righteous act some intrepid journalist... 1791 01:59:26,610 --> 01:59:28,550 will stumble onto this. 1792 01:59:29,580 --> 01:59:33,540 And if he doesn't, the Republicans will lead him to it next fall. 1793 01:59:33,620 --> 01:59:36,560 It will be like Eagleton, only it'll be our fault this time... 1794 01:59:36,620 --> 01:59:41,560 for letting it happen. Your fault, Libby. 1795 01:59:43,600 --> 01:59:46,570 Honey, you may be right. All of it may be right. 1796 01:59:47,600 --> 01:59:51,500 But we can't do it because it ain't who we're supposed to be. 1797 01:59:51,570 --> 01:59:54,510 We could leak part of it... the Clearwater. 1798 01:59:54,580 --> 01:59:56,510 The Republicans know that. 1799 01:59:56,580 --> 01:59:59,510 And they won't get the rest soon? You think Reyes will... 1800 01:59:59,580 --> 02:00:01,510 only tell this story once? 1801 02:00:01,580 --> 02:00:03,520 I'm sorry, Libby. There's no discussion. 1802 02:00:04,550 --> 02:00:06,520 You're right, none. 1803 02:00:07,550 --> 02:00:10,520 Henry and I decided. This dies here. 1804 02:00:10,590 --> 02:00:11,520 I don't think so. 1805 02:00:17,560 --> 02:00:19,530 I'm sorry, sweetheart, but it does. 1806 02:00:20,570 --> 02:00:21,530 And here's why. 1807 02:00:24,570 --> 02:00:27,540 Know what this is? Test results on Jack's blood and Uncle... 1808 02:00:27,610 --> 02:00:30,540 Charlie's blood taken over the years. 1809 02:00:31,580 --> 02:00:33,550 And this is the report Jack gave me that proves he... 1810 02:00:33,610 --> 02:00:35,550 didn't father Loretta's baby. 1811 02:00:35,620 --> 02:00:38,550 And you know what, Jack? It's not your blood. 1812 02:00:39,590 --> 02:00:40,550 Isn't that a riot? 1813 02:00:42,590 --> 02:00:44,560 The blood Dr. Beauregard took wasn't from you... 1814 02:00:44,630 --> 02:00:47,560 it was from Uncle Charlie. 1815 02:00:48,600 --> 02:00:52,500 You sent him in your place because Dr. Beauregard loves... 1816 02:00:52,570 --> 02:00:54,500 you and wants to "teach those Yankees a lesson." 1817 02:00:55,540 --> 02:00:57,500 He doesn't love you enough to lose his license. 1818 02:00:58,540 --> 02:01:01,510 Once he knows I have proof, he'll fold. 1819 02:01:02,540 --> 02:01:04,510 That won't prove you're the father of Loretta's baby. 1820 02:01:04,580 --> 02:01:06,510 In fact, I think you're not. 1821 02:01:07,550 --> 02:01:09,520 But it proves you thought you might be. 1822 02:01:10,550 --> 02:01:14,510 And that proves you fucked her. And that will kill your chances. 1823 02:01:14,590 --> 02:01:18,520 You would do that? You would end his political career? 1824 02:01:20,160 --> 02:01:21,330 You see, Jack? 1825 02:01:22,560 --> 02:01:24,530 She hasn't even heard. 1826 02:01:25,270 --> 02:01:28,540 She isn't even upset that you fucked your 17-year-old babysitter. 1827 02:01:29,570 --> 02:01:33,530 And you know why? It's never the cheat who goes to hell. 1828 02:01:33,610 --> 02:01:35,540 It's always the one who he cheated on. 1829 02:01:35,610 --> 02:01:37,540 That's why you still talk in that tender voice about... 1830 02:01:37,610 --> 02:01:39,550 being in it for the folks and... 1831 02:01:39,610 --> 02:01:44,550 Susan can only talk in that voice from hell about your political career. 1832 02:01:45,590 --> 02:01:50,490 Now what kind of shit is that, Jack?! Oh, excuse me. I forgot. 1833 02:01:50,560 --> 02:01:53,490 It's the same old shit. The shit no one ever calls you on, ever... 1834 02:01:53,560 --> 02:01:58,500 Because you are so completely fucking special! 1835 02:01:59,530 --> 02:02:02,500 Because everyone was always so proud of you. 1836 02:02:03,540 --> 02:02:06,510 Me, too. Me, the worst. 1837 02:02:08,540 --> 02:02:13,500 It's just makes it a lot easier for me. I mean,... 1838 02:02:13,580 --> 02:02:15,510 it's totally depressing. 1839 02:02:15,580 --> 02:02:19,520 What have I been doing this for my whole, pathetic, fucking life?! 1840 02:02:22,560 --> 02:02:26,520 So, here's the deal. If you move on Freddy Picker, who I think we... 1841 02:02:26,590 --> 02:02:31,530 all agree is a flawed, but decent man, I move on you. 1842 02:02:33,570 --> 02:02:34,530 Yes... 1843 02:02:36,570 --> 02:02:39,540 I will destroy this village in order to save it. 1844 02:02:49,580 --> 02:02:51,480 Tomorrow we... 1845 02:03:05,530 --> 02:03:06,500 Is that for me? 1846 02:03:08,540 --> 02:03:09,500 No, darling. 1847 02:03:11,540 --> 02:03:12,510 Where are we? 1848 02:03:12,570 --> 02:03:15,510 Coming up to my beautiful condo by the river. 1849 02:03:16,540 --> 02:03:19,510 You want to come in for some coffee? Booze? Diet Coke? 1850 02:03:20,550 --> 02:03:21,510 No, darling. 1851 02:03:24,550 --> 02:03:28,510 Deliver this for me, will you? I'm not going to use it. 1852 02:03:29,560 --> 02:03:32,530 You're giving them the blood test info? 1853 02:03:33,560 --> 02:03:36,530 Why not? Picker will go down anyway. We can't save him. 1854 02:03:38,570 --> 02:03:42,520 The point of this was to see if they'd turn him in, and they will. 1855 02:03:42,600 --> 02:03:44,540 They didn't even fucking hesitate. 1856 02:03:47,570 --> 02:03:50,480 So... that's that. 1857 02:03:51,510 --> 02:03:54,480 Let them swing, Libby, Let them sweat a little. 1858 02:03:55,520 --> 02:03:56,480 Oh, honey. 1859 02:03:59,520 --> 02:04:00,490 You see that moon? 1860 02:04:02,520 --> 02:04:05,490 That's me. It's beautiful, huh? 1861 02:04:06,530 --> 02:04:07,490 But Henry... 1862 02:04:10,530 --> 02:04:13,500 it's only reflected light. It needs the sun. 1863 02:04:15,540 --> 02:04:17,500 The Stantons are my sun. 1864 02:04:18,540 --> 02:04:22,500 I lived my life drawing light and warmth from them. 1865 02:04:23,540 --> 02:04:26,510 Without them, I'm bleak and cold... 1866 02:04:26,580 --> 02:04:28,510 and airless for eternity. 1867 02:04:34,550 --> 02:04:35,520 You be careful, Henry. 1868 02:04:37,560 --> 02:04:39,530 You still have something of an atmosphere. 1869 02:04:40,560 --> 02:04:42,530 Just find yourself a life, Okay? 1870 02:04:53,570 --> 02:04:54,540 Go now. 1871 02:05:04,580 --> 02:05:06,550 Try to get some sleep. 1872 02:05:07,590 --> 02:05:09,560 Can you find your way from here? 1873 02:05:09,620 --> 02:05:10,560 Oh, sure. 1874 02:05:12,590 --> 02:05:15,560 From here? There are only two ways you can go from here. 1875 02:05:17,600 --> 02:05:18,560 Bye, sweetie. 1876 02:05:38,620 --> 02:05:40,590 God, no, no. 1877 02:05:54,570 --> 02:05:56,540 No, she's a very close friend of mine. Let me through. 1878 02:06:25,600 --> 02:06:27,570 A lot of us here today grew up with Libby Holden. 1879 02:06:28,600 --> 02:06:31,570 She was our friend, our big sister... 1880 02:06:32,610 --> 02:06:36,570 she bullied us, she drove us crazy. 1881 02:06:37,610 --> 02:06:40,580 And, worst of all, she remembered everything about us. 1882 02:06:41,620 --> 02:06:45,570 Everything that we hoped to be, everything we wanted the world to be. 1883 02:06:46,620 --> 02:06:50,520 All those young promises made, Libby remembered in the original wording. 1884 02:06:53,560 --> 02:06:55,530 Before she died, she wrote me a note. 1885 02:06:56,560 --> 02:06:57,530 It said: 1886 02:06:58,570 --> 02:07:01,530 "I am so fucking disappointed in you." 1887 02:07:02,570 --> 02:07:04,540 "Shape up." 1888 02:07:06,570 --> 02:07:08,540 I am so sorry that I disappointed her. 1889 02:07:08,610 --> 02:07:12,540 I am so sorry that I can't look at her and say... 1890 02:07:12,610 --> 02:07:15,550 that I will promise to do better. 1891 02:07:17,580 --> 02:07:19,550 She lent us her courage and her warmth... 1892 02:07:19,620 --> 02:07:22,550 and her madness. 1893 02:07:26,590 --> 02:07:29,560 She had the most amazing heart. 1894 02:07:34,600 --> 02:07:36,570 Long trip. 1895 02:07:38,610 --> 02:07:39,570 No press that I can see. 1896 02:07:40,610 --> 02:07:41,570 Not yet. 1897 02:07:54,550 --> 02:07:55,520 Follow me, Governor. 1898 02:07:57,560 --> 02:07:59,530 This is the only copy left. 1899 02:08:00,560 --> 02:08:04,520 It might help you know what someone else may find. 1900 02:08:04,600 --> 02:08:07,530 I shouldn't have looked for it. I'm sorry. 1901 02:08:10,570 --> 02:08:11,540 Fucking cocaine. 1902 02:08:13,570 --> 02:08:16,540 I was really so successful in everything I did... 1903 02:08:16,610 --> 02:08:19,550 business, politics. 1904 02:08:20,580 --> 02:08:23,550 Hell, I could handle anything... except cocaine. 1905 02:08:25,590 --> 02:08:27,550 But I didn't know that because of cocaine. 1906 02:08:28,590 --> 02:08:30,560 That's what fucked up my marriage, not anything else. 1907 02:08:32,590 --> 02:08:33,560 And... 1908 02:08:36,600 --> 02:08:39,570 I did go to bed with Lorenzo once or twice. 1909 02:08:42,600 --> 02:08:45,570 Ìt was a coke thing. I could do anything, so I did that, too. 1910 02:08:48,610 --> 02:08:50,510 I'm seeing a really nice woman now. 1911 02:08:53,550 --> 02:08:55,520 I suppose I have to tell her. 1912 02:08:56,550 --> 02:08:58,520 Hell of a price to pay, isn't it? 1913 02:09:00,550 --> 02:09:01,520 Well, maybe no one will find out. 1914 02:09:03,560 --> 02:09:04,520 Well, you did... in a day. 1915 02:09:07,560 --> 02:09:09,530 I should never have said yes to Mrs. Harris, but... 1916 02:09:09,600 --> 02:09:13,530 I thought I'd give it a week, and it just took off. 1917 02:09:13,600 --> 02:09:16,540 Once I did that blood thing... 1918 02:09:16,600 --> 02:09:18,540 It was great politics. 1919 02:09:18,610 --> 02:09:20,540 Yeah, amazing, wasn't it? 1920 02:09:23,580 --> 02:09:26,550 Jack, thank you for coming here. The honorable way you're... 1921 02:09:28,620 --> 02:09:34,550 I was wrong to stay in. I just hope when I quit, they won't hit it as hard. 1922 02:09:35,590 --> 02:09:37,560 And my boys... 1923 02:09:39,630 --> 02:09:43,560 I don't want them to know about Lorenzo. 1924 02:09:44,630 --> 02:09:50,500 But probably the bottom line is I'm going to be a national joke. 1925 02:09:53,540 --> 02:09:56,510 And I'll have to explain it all to my boys, either way. 1926 02:09:58,550 --> 02:10:00,510 Because no matter what I do... 1927 02:10:01,550 --> 02:10:04,520 the press will find out the rest, won't they? 1928 02:10:05,550 --> 02:10:08,520 If they think it will sell one newspaper, yes. 1929 02:10:11,560 --> 02:10:13,530 Oh, my God. 1930 02:10:22,570 --> 02:10:26,530 If there's anything I can do, anything to make it a little better... 1931 02:10:39,590 --> 02:10:41,550 l can still hear the soft summer wind... 1932 02:10:41,620 --> 02:10:44,560 ln the live oak trees 1933 02:10:46,590 --> 02:10:48,560 And those Williams boys... 1934 02:10:48,630 --> 02:10:53,500 They still mean a lot to me, Hank and Tennessee. 1935 02:10:54,530 --> 02:10:59,490 l guess we're all gonna be... what we're gonna be... 1936 02:11:00,540 --> 02:11:05,500 So what do you do with good ol'boys like me? 1937 02:11:07,550 --> 02:11:08,510 I love that song...the line about the Williams boys. 1938 02:11:08,580 --> 02:11:12,520 It's never just Hank. The picture's not complete without Tennessee. 1939 02:11:16,560 --> 02:11:18,520 Governor, I'm resigning from the campaign. 1940 02:11:23,560 --> 02:11:25,530 I don't accept your resignation. 1941 02:11:26,570 --> 02:11:29,540 I don't feel comfortable about this anymore. 1942 02:11:29,600 --> 02:11:31,540 -About what? -This. 1943 02:11:32,570 --> 02:11:34,540 This line of work. 1944 02:11:34,610 --> 02:11:37,540 I spoke to Richard. He's back on board. 1945 02:11:37,610 --> 02:11:41,550 I'm putting him in charge... campaign manager. 1946 02:11:41,610 --> 02:11:43,550 I'm bringing Daisy back, too. 1947 02:11:43,620 --> 02:11:46,550 -That's not what this is about. -Then what is it? 1948 02:11:47,590 --> 02:11:48,550 Libby. 1949 02:11:49,590 --> 02:11:51,490 Her test. You flunked it. 1950 02:11:51,560 --> 02:11:54,490 But just now I passed it. So which grade do I get, Henry? 1951 02:11:54,560 --> 02:11:56,500 If she hadn't died... 1952 02:11:56,560 --> 02:12:00,500 Then I'd have leaked the file and felt bad about it. 1953 02:12:00,570 --> 02:12:03,500 But I'd have been wrong not to. 1954 02:12:03,570 --> 02:12:06,510 What I did now, I did for Libby. But it wasn't right. 1955 02:12:06,570 --> 02:12:09,510 If Picker hadn't quit, he'd have taken the party down with him... 1956 02:12:09,580 --> 02:12:11,510 Just a matter of when. 1957 02:12:11,580 --> 02:12:14,510 And how. And who took him down. 1958 02:12:14,580 --> 02:12:16,520 Those are fine points, Henry. 1959 02:12:16,580 --> 02:12:19,520 They're "how many angels fit on the head of a pin "points. 1960 02:12:19,590 --> 02:12:23,520 This is hardball. Do you mean you just realized that and can't handle it? 1961 02:12:23,590 --> 02:12:26,530 I know you better than that. 1962 02:12:27,560 --> 02:12:31,520 This is it, Henry. This is the price you pay to lead. 1963 02:12:31,600 --> 02:12:34,530 You don't think Lincoln was a whore before he was a president? 1964 02:12:34,600 --> 02:12:39,540 He had to tell his stories and smile his shit-eating back-country grin. 1965 02:12:39,740 --> 02:12:42,140 He did that so one day he'd have the opportunity... 1966 02:12:42,150 --> 02:12:46,150 to stand before the nation and appeal to our better nature.. 1967 02:12:46,310 --> 02:12:51,480 That's where the bullshit stops. That's what it's all about. 1968 02:12:51,510 --> 02:12:54,890 so we can make the most of it, to do it the right way. 1969 02:12:54,950 --> 02:12:56,890 You know that there are plenty of people in this game... 1970 02:12:56,960 --> 02:12:59,390 who don't think that way. 1971 02:13:00,560 --> 02:13:03,500 They'll sell their souls, lie to people, divide them,... 1972 02:13:03,760 --> 02:13:06,220 play on their fears, for nothing. 1973 02:13:06,340 --> 02:13:08,200 Just for the prize. 1974 02:13:08,340 --> 02:13:10,300 I don't care. 1975 02:13:12,540 --> 02:13:15,510 I'm sorry, but I'm not comparing the players. 1976 02:13:16,540 --> 02:13:18,510 I don't like the game. 1977 02:13:20,550 --> 02:13:23,520 I want to work for something small, like voter registration. 1978 02:13:24,550 --> 02:13:26,520 And after that, who do they vote for? 1979 02:13:27,550 --> 02:13:29,520 Who can do this better than me? 1980 02:13:29,590 --> 02:13:34,530 Is there anyone else who can win this election...who'd do more... 1981 02:13:34,590 --> 02:13:37,530 for people than I would? Who'd think about the folks I care about? 1982 02:13:38,570 --> 02:13:39,530 Oh, shit! 1983 02:13:40,570 --> 02:13:42,540 They're here so quick? 1984 02:13:42,600 --> 02:13:44,540 That damned driver. I knew it. 1985 02:13:46,570 --> 02:13:48,540 Okay. We'll go talk to them together. Come on. 1986 02:13:50,510 --> 02:13:54,470 Don't shake your head, Henry. We worked so hard together to get here. 1987 02:13:55,520 --> 02:13:57,480 It's there for us now. 1988 02:13:58,520 --> 02:14:02,480 We can do incredible things. We can change this whole country. 1989 02:14:05,530 --> 02:14:10,490 I'm going to win this. And when I do, we're going to make history. 1990 02:14:10,560 --> 02:14:13,500 Look at me and tell me it's not going to happen. 1991 02:14:13,570 --> 02:14:17,500 Look at me and tell me you don't want to be part of it. 1992 02:14:19,540 --> 02:14:21,510 Jesus, Henry! 1993 02:14:21,570 --> 02:14:27,510 You want me to beg? I can't do it without you. Don't leave me now. 1994 02:14:30,550 --> 02:14:34,510 You're still with me, aren't you? Say you are. Say it. 1995 02:14:36,560 --> 02:14:41,520 Come on, Henry! This is ridiculous. You gotta be with me! 1996 02:15:38,620 --> 02:15:39,590 Congratulations. 1997 02:15:40,620 --> 02:15:41,590 Congratulations. 1998 02:15:58,570 --> 02:16:00,540 Now don't break our hearts. 1999 02:16:01,570 --> 02:16:03,540 Mazel tov, Sr. Presidente. 2000 02:16:11,580 --> 02:16:13,550 Mr. President.