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I just don't understand it, Bob.
I've logged a lot of miles.
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I've followed
the sales textbook by the letter.
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I've applied myself diligently.
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I mean, I try and I try,
and I just cannot get in the door.
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- I mean... what am I doin' wrong?
- Earl, sit down.
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Sure, you've got a great product,
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but you have to remember
what you're really selling: yourself.
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So it's not necessarily what I say
as how I say it?
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That's right, Earl.
A good salesman can sell anything.
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And I remember when you were
a good salesman at the beginning.
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Something's changed.
I don't want to pry,
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but is everything all right at home,
with Margie?
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- Will there be anything else?
- Leave it.
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- Just leave it.
- Yes, sir.
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- Thank you.
- Thanks.
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I watched you walking in front
of my desk in an agitated manner,
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smoking without having asked
if you could smoke in my presence.
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0121, mark.
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OK, listen up. Fire team
discipline in there at all times.
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Keep your radios on at all times
during the entire penetration.
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Check yourselves. False IDs?
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- Jim.
- No wallets, no keys?
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We rendezvous where?
The Watergate, room 214. When?
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At 0300 hours.
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Jawohl, mein fartin' f�hrer.
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I swear, Frank,
I'm gonna make you a new asshole.
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Let's get the fuck out of here.
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Years of decency
and clean living are over.
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If anything goes wrong, sit tight.
You'll hear from me or Howard.
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Personally, if anything goes wrong,
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I'll be calling the President
of the United States.
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I'm not just gonna be
a good salesman.
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No, doggone it,
I'm gonna be a great salesman.
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- That's the spirit.
- Thanks.
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And remember, Earl,
always look them in the eye.
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Nothing sells like sincerity.
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Five men wearing
white surgical gloves, business suits,
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carrying camera and electronic
surveillance equipment
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were arrested in the headquarters
of the Democratic Committee.
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They were unarmed.
Nobody knows yet why they were there
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or what they were looking for.
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Good evening, General Haig.
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Good evening, sir.
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Judge John Sirica today
sentenced the Watergate burglars
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to terms ranging up to 40 years.
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The White House continues
to deny any involvement.
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Presidential counsel, John Dean,
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testified before
the Senate Watergate committee
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that the scandal reaches
to the highest levels.
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Presidential aides
Haldeman and Ehrlichman
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were ordered to resign today.
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In a stunning announcement, White
House aide Alexander Butterfield
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revealed the existence
of a secret taping system.
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vice President Agnew resigned
today after pleading no contest
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to a charge of income tax evasion.
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The president has fired
the Watergate special prosecutor,
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Archibald Cox, provoking the greatest
constitutional crisis in history.
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Eight resolutions
calling for the impeachment
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of the president were referred
to the judiciary committee by the House.
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It was disclosed to Judge Sirica
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that there is
an 18-and-a-half-minute gap
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in a June 20th, 1972
taped conversation
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between the president
and Bob Haldeman.
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Shock and anger are coming
from all sectors of the nation.
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Sirica ordered the president
to turn over tapes
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to special prosecutor Leon Jaworski.
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The tapes contain conversations
between the president and his aides
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and are believed to include discussions
of the scandal.
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The White House has not yet
responded to Judge Sirica's order
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and it is not yet known
whether the president will comply.
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Yeah.
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These are the tapes you requested,
Mr. President.
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OK.
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Cocksucker!
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Nixon's never been good
with these things, Al.
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I'll take care of it, sir.
Do you mind, sir?
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- Sorry.
- OK. Go on.
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You know, Al,
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if Hoover were alive,
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these tapes would never have gotten out.
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I want the little shit back.
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- Mr. Hoover was a realist, sir.
- Yeah. Not like the others.
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Dean, McCord, the rest.
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We never got our side
of the story out, Al.
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People have forgotten.
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Such violence.
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The tear gassing, the riots,
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burning the draft cards,
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the Black Panthers.
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We fixed it, AI,
and they hate me for it.
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'Cause it's Nixon.
They always hated Nixon.
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You're all set, sir.
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- OK.
- Good night, Mr. President.
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Good night, AI.
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Hey, Al.
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Men in your profession,
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give 'em a pistol
and then leave the room.
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I don't have a pistol, AI.
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Goddamn it.
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Pause.
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Start.
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- They did what?
- Install bugs, photo documents.
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It was a fishing expedition. It was
their fourth attempt at the DNC.
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O'Brien doesn't use that office.
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Possibly looking for an illegal
Hughes donation to the Democrats,
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so they couldn't make an issue
of your Hughes money.
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It was a legal contribution.
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Not clear the burglars
knew what they were looking for.
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They were headed for
McGovern's office later that same night.
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- Christ, did Mitchell know?
- I don't know.
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Mitchell's out of his mind.
Martha put her head through a window.
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- Jesus. Through a window?
- Yeah, they're taking her to Bellevue.
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- Maybe she'll stay this time.
- Martha's an idiot.
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She'll do anything
to get Mitchell's attention.
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If Mitchell had been minding the store
instead of Martha,
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we wouldn't have Magruder
running some third-rate burglary.
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We feel the bigger concern
is Gordon Liddy.
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- Liddy? That fruitcake? What about him?
- That's just it, sir. He is a nut.
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Used to work with the plumbers,
turns up running this Watergate caper.
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Remember his plan to firebomb Brookings
using Cubans as firemen?
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- What's Liddy got?
- He was using some campaign cash
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that was laundered for us
through Mexico, the FBI's onto it.
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- We could have a problem with that.
- That's a campaign finance violation.
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- So if...
- Liddy takes the rap for Watergate,
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we can take care of him
and that lets us off the hook.
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I don't have time for this.
Just handle it, Bob.
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Keep it out of the White House.
I gotta see Kissinger.
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He's throwing a tantrum,
threatening to quit. Again.
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What else?
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Well, sir, one of the people implicated
is still on the White House payroll.
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Who? Not another goddamn Cuban.
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Uh, no, sir. A guy named Hunt.
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Howard Hunt, sir.
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Hunt? Howard Hunt?
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Left his White House
phone number in his hotel room.
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He works for Colson.
He used him on the Pentagon Papers.
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After arrest, he dumps his wiretapping
stuff into his White House safe.
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We're trying to figure out when he
stopped being a White House consultant.
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Howard Hunt is working
for the White House? Jesus Christ.
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This is goddamn Disneyiand.
Since when?
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Since Chappaquiddick.
He wanted dirt on Kennedy.
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- Colson brought him in.
- You know Hunt, sir?
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Yeah, on the list of horribles.
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I know what he is
and I know what he tracks back to.
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- He was involved in the plumbers?
- Definitely.
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Colson had him break into Bremer's
apartment after Bremer shot Wallace
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to plant McGovern's campaign literature.
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I had nothing to do with that.
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- He was in this Ellsberg thing?
- Yes. You approved it.
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- I did?
- Right after the Pentagon Papers broke.
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They went in to get his psychiatric
records. We were working on China.
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Fuck.
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What the fuck?! You're not
supposed to take pictures of me!
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Take pictures of the files!
Give me the fuckin' film!
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Howard Hunt.
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Jesus Christ. You open up that scab,
you�ll uncover a lot of pus.
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What do you mean?
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- Where's Hunt now?
- He's in hiding.
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- He sent Liddy in to talk to Dean.
- And?
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- He wants money.
- Pay him.
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Pay him? I told him get out
of the country. It's crazy to start...
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What the hell are you doing,
John, screwing with the CIA?
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I don't care how much he wants.
Pay him.
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- What are we paying him for, sir?
- Silence.
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But you're covered.
It's only this Ellsberg thing,
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and if that comes out,
it's national security.
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Cut ourselves loose from these clowns,
and that's all there is to it.
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No, it's more than that.
I want Hunt paid.
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We've never done that before, sir.
How do we do it?
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We should set up a Cuban defense fund
on this and take care of all of 'em.
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- Should we talk to Trini about paying?
- Keep Trini out.
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And for God's sake, keep Colson out.
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It's time to baptize
our young counsel here, Mr. Dean.
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That means John can never talk about it.
Attorney-client privilege.
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So get to it.
John, you stay close to this, OK?
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- Don't worry, sir.
- Good.
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OK.
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Did I approve the Ellsberg thing?
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Huh?
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I'm glad we tape
all these conversations,
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but I never approved
the break-in at the Ellsbergs'.
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Maybe I approved it after the fact.
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Someday we gotta
start transcribing these tapes.
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You approved that before the fact
because I went over it with you. But...
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- No one's gonna see these tapes.
- Right.
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It's more of a problem for Ehrlichman.
He fixed Hunt up with the phony CIA IDs.
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But... what else does Hunt have on us?
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We gotta turn off the FBI, Bob.
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You go to the CIA and tell Helms
that Hunt is blackmailing the president.
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Tell him Hunt and his Cuban friends
know too damn much,
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and, uh, if he goes public,
if Hunt goes public,
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it will be a fiasco for the CIA.
He�ll know what I'm talking about.
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- Ail right.
- Play it tough.
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That's the way they play it,
that's the way we're gonna play it.
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Don't lie to Helms
and say there's no involvement.
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Just say this is, uh,
a sort of comedy of errors,
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bizarre, without getting into it.
And, uh...
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Say the president believes
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it's gonna open up the whole
Bay of Pigs thing again.
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And tell Helms he should call
the FBI, call Pat Gray,
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and say that we wish,
for the sake of the country,
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don't go any further
into this... hanky-panky, period.
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Bay of Pigs?
That was Kennedy's screw-up.
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- Why would that threaten us?
- Just do what I say, Bob.
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The only problem
with that, sir...
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- ...gets us to obstruction of justice.
- Got nothing to do with justice.
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- It's national security.
- How is this national security?
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The president says it is.
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Now, this isn't a moral issue, Bob.
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My job is to protect this country
from its enemies,
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and its enemies are inside the walls.
We gotta keep our enemies at bay,
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or our whole program
goes down the tubes.
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Vietnam, China, the Soviet Union.
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- Look at the big picture...
- Damn.
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...we end up doing a hell of a lot
of good in this world.
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Let's not screw it up
with a shit-ass, third-rate burglary.
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What should
I tell Ziegler to tell the press?
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Tell 'em what we always
tell 'em. Anything but the truth.
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- Fuck!
- Say the president believes
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it's gonna open up
the whole Bay of Pigs thing again.
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- Put me in this position.
- Bay of Pigs?
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- Expose me like this.
- Why would that threaten us?
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Why don't they fucking shoot me?
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In the election of 1860,
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Lincoln said the question
was whether this nation could exist,
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half-slave or half-free.
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In the election of 1960,
with the world around us,
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the question is whether the world
will exist half-slave or half-free.
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I think, in the final analysis,
it depends upon what we do here
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in the United States. I think
it's time America started moving again.
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- Mr. Nixon?
- When it comes to experience,
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through the years I have sat
on the National Security Council,
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I have been in the cabinet,
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I have met with
the legislative leaders...
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- Be quiet.
- Relax, everybody, relax.
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...discussions with 35 presidents,
nine prime ministers,
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- two emperors and the Shah of Iran.
- Jesus Christ.
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Has he told them
how many push-ups he can do yet?
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- ...hydroelectric power.
- What the hell happened?
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He just got out of the hospital.
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He hasn't taken one hour off.
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When we consider
the line-up of the world,
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we find there are 590 million people
on our side,
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800 million people
on the Communist side...
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- Shoulda slapped makeup on.
- It's not a beauty contest.
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- We'd better hope not.
- ...600 million people who are neutral.
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What are you doing to him, Murray?
He's not well.
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- He doesn't have to debate Kennedy.
- The odds are 5-3 against us.
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- When it comes to politics...
- He can win without this.
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Senator, one minute for rebuttal.
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Castro is only the beginning of our
difficulties throughout Latin America.
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Oh, shit, he's gonna do it.
Here it comes.
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We've seen Cuba go
to the Communists.
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Eight jet minutes
from the coast of Florida.
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We must attempt to strengthen the
democratic anti-Castro forces in exile.
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These fighters have had
no support from our government.
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- Son of a bitch!
- What?
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Kennedy was briefed last week
by CIA. He's using it against us.
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We can't respond,
he welshed on a deal.
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- It's a disgrace.
- ...we might never have had Castro.
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- Why didn't we?
- Mr. Nixon?
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- Man, he's treading water.
- All right, come on.
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He violated national security.
Attack the bastard.
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...Constitution of the United States,
so help me God.
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- Mr. Nixon.
- Yeah.
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I think...
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I think that's the sort
of, uh, very dangerous
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- and irresponsible suggestion that...
- It's over. More coffee?
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...helping Cuban exiles
who oppose Castro would
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not only be a violation
of international law,
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it would be an open invitation
for Mr. Khrushchev...
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It's still very close.
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Senator Kennedy's lead
is about, uh, 700,000.
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Think Daley stuffed
the ballot boxes himself?
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In Texas,
they had the goddamn cattle voting.
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It was the closest race in history,
Dick, and he stole it. Son of a bitch.
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He outspent us and he still cheated.
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A guy who's got everything.
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I can't believe it.
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We came to Congress together. We were
like brothers, for Christ's sake.
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Got all the figures. It's an obvious
fraud. We ask for a recount.
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Don't be ridiculous. Nobody has
contested a presidential election.
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Who's gonna do the counting?
The Democrats control Texas, Illinois.
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- We shift 25,000 votes in two states.
- And how long will that take?
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- Six months, a year?
- What happens to the country?
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If I'd called his shot on Cuba,
I'd have won.
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- That's what I say.
- Made me look soft.
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"I feel very sorry for Nixon
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because he does not know who he is."
You believe this?
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"At each stop he has to decide which
Nixon he's going to be at the moment,
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which must be very exhausting."
Jack Kennedy.
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- It's a disgrace.
- "Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar.
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If he had to stick to the truth,
he'd have very little to say.
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If you vote for Nixon, then you
oughta go to hell." Harry S. Truman.
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That's what killed us, Dick, not Cuba.
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It's the personality problem. You gonna
let the Democrats get away with this?
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Goes to Harvard. His father hands him
everything on a silver platter.
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All my life,
they've been sticking it to me.
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Not the right clothes, not
the right schools, not the right family.
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And then he steals from me.
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Heh, he says I have no class,
and they love him for it.
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Dick, you're only 47.
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If you contest this election,
you'll be finished.
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You gotta swallow this one.
They stole it fair and square.
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We'll get 'em next time, Dick.
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We'll get 'em next time.
307
00:20:59,008 --> 00:21:02,635
What makes you think there's
gonna be a next time, Murray?
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Because if he's not this Nixon,
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he's nobody.
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- Good morning, sir.
- Hi.
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- Hi.
- Hi.
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We lost.
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I know.
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I hate to lose.
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It makes us human.
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It's not fair, Buddy.
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I can take the insults,
I can take the name-calling.
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But I can't take the losing.
I hate it.
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00:21:58,776 --> 00:22:02,278
We don't have to put ourselves
through this again, Dick.
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We worked for it. We earned it.
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00:22:06,408 --> 00:22:10,245
- It's ours.
- It is. We know that.
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00:22:12,581 --> 00:22:14,833
And it's enough that we know.
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Just think of the girls.
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They're still young.
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We never see them.
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00:22:31,267 --> 00:22:35,061
I lost my parents when I was young.
I don't want them to lose theirs.
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Maybe I should get out of the game.
328
00:22:51,203 --> 00:22:53,538
What do you think, Buddy?
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And go back to being a lawyer.
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End up with something solid,
some money at the end of the line.
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00:23:02,506 --> 00:23:04,090
You know, I, uh...
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00:23:06,176 --> 00:23:09,596
I keep thinking of my old man tonight.
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- He was a failure too.
- You're not a failure, Dick.
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00:23:14,018 --> 00:23:17,520
You know how much money he
had in the bank when he died?
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Nothing.
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00:23:21,150 --> 00:23:23,318
He was so damned honest.
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But I miss him.
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I miss him a hell of a lot.
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00:23:50,137 --> 00:23:53,389
- Dad! Dad!
- I got the beets for him.
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- Dad.
- Is she in there?
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00:23:54,808 --> 00:23:58,978
I don't have time for you right now.
I got work to do.
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00:24:09,490 --> 00:24:11,616
- How is thy son?
- very well, thank you.
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00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:14,619
- What'd he say?
- He said, in life,
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00:24:14,703 --> 00:24:18,206
- there's no free ride.
- What'd you say?
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00:24:18,290 --> 00:24:20,917
I told them I didn't need a ride,
I need a suit.
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00:24:21,001 --> 00:24:26,214
Oh, no. Harold,
he doesn't respond well to humor.
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00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:28,925
Maybe Mother can help straighten it out.
348
00:24:29,009 --> 00:24:32,136
I'd rather get a whippin'
than listen to another of her talks.
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00:24:32,221 --> 00:24:35,098
Relax, Dick.
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Donald, finish thy sweeping,
then pick out the bad apples.
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Yes, Mother.
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I'm working.
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00:24:47,569 --> 00:24:50,571
Richard, come with me, would thee?
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00:24:51,740 --> 00:24:53,658
Why me?
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00:25:00,207 --> 00:25:04,877
Because Harold hast thy father's will
is no reason to admire him.
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00:25:04,962 --> 00:25:10,008
Let Harold's worldliness
be a warning to thee, not an example.
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00:25:10,092 --> 00:25:11,759
Yes, Mother.
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Harold may have lost touch
with his Bible,
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but thee must never lapse.
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00:25:24,356 --> 00:25:25,982
Now, give it to me.
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00:25:30,946 --> 00:25:32,905
Do not tell a lie, Richard.
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00:25:32,990 --> 00:25:36,659
The corn silk cigarette Harold
gave thee behind the store this morning.
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00:25:36,744 --> 00:25:40,371
I don't have them. Mother, I...
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00:25:40,456 --> 00:25:42,415
I promise I didn't smoke.
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00:25:44,501 --> 00:25:46,127
I see.
366
00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:51,632
Well, then Richard, we have
nothing more to talk about, do we?
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Please!
368
00:25:54,094 --> 00:25:55,136
Please.
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00:25:56,013 --> 00:25:58,306
Mother, I'm sorry. It was...
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00:25:58,390 --> 00:26:02,643
It was just one time. I'm sorry.
371
00:26:05,939 --> 00:26:07,648
So am I.
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00:26:09,068 --> 00:26:12,236
Thy father will have
to know of thy lying.
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00:26:12,321 --> 00:26:15,656
No, please, don't... don't...
don't tell him.
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00:26:15,741 --> 00:26:17,992
I�ll never do it again,
I promise. Please.
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00:26:18,077 --> 00:26:22,747
- Richard, I expected more from thee.
- Please, Mama.
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00:26:22,831 --> 00:26:25,208
I shall never let thee down again.
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00:26:27,169 --> 00:26:29,712
Then this shall be our little secret.
378
00:26:34,802 --> 00:26:37,637
Remember, I see into thy soul.
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00:26:38,889 --> 00:26:42,558
Thee may fool the world,
even thy father,
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00:26:42,643 --> 00:26:46,562
but not me, Richard. Never me.
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00:26:49,108 --> 00:26:50,775
Mother...
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00:26:51,777 --> 00:26:54,862
...think of me always
as thy faithful dog.
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00:27:10,879 --> 00:27:14,340
- Thank you.
- We'll say grace in the next room.
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00:27:22,224 --> 00:27:25,685
- Richard.
- Is it my turn?
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00:27:29,690 --> 00:27:32,441
Oh, Heavenly Father,
we humbly thank you...
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00:27:32,526 --> 00:27:35,611
I'll do it. There's a couple
of things I wanna say.
387
00:27:36,738 --> 00:27:39,407
Could thee at least remove
thy apron, Frank?
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00:27:39,491 --> 00:27:44,162
This blood pays the bills, Hannah.
I'm not ashamed of how I earn my money.
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00:27:47,166 --> 00:27:49,167
Heavenly Father,
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00:27:49,251 --> 00:27:52,503
you told Adam in the garden,
after that business with the snake,
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that man would have to earn his way
by the sweat of his face.
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00:27:57,384 --> 00:27:59,552
Well, as far as I can tell, Father,
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00:27:59,636 --> 00:28:03,514
what was true in Eden
is true in Whittier, California.
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00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:07,685
So we ask you now to remind
certain of our young people
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00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:11,647
the only way to get a new suit to go to
the promenade with Margaret O'Herlihy,
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00:28:11,732 --> 00:28:14,483
who happens to be a Catholic,
by the way,
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00:28:14,568 --> 00:28:18,946
is to work for it. Amen.
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00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:21,032
- Amen.
- Amen.
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00:28:21,116 --> 00:28:24,869
- Amen.
- Are we gonna pray now, Daddy?
400
00:28:24,953 --> 00:28:28,289
- Don't be silly.
- You think this is funny?
401
00:28:28,373 --> 00:28:31,834
Maybe a trip to the
wood she�ll straighten you out.
402
00:28:31,919 --> 00:28:35,254
Pretty soon you boys are gonna
have to get out there and scratch.
403
00:28:35,339 --> 00:28:38,216
'Cause you're not gonna
get anywhere on your good looks.
404
00:28:38,300 --> 00:28:40,468
Just ask those fellas.
405
00:28:40,552 --> 00:28:43,012
Charity's only gonna get you so far,
406
00:28:43,096 --> 00:28:45,848
even with saints
like your mother around.
407
00:28:45,933 --> 00:28:50,061
Struggle's what gives life meaning.
Not victory, struggle.
408
00:28:50,145 --> 00:28:53,856
When you quit struggling,
they've beaten you.
409
00:28:53,941 --> 00:28:57,109
And then you end up in the street
with your hand out.
410
00:29:00,030 --> 00:29:01,864
My mother was a saint,
411
00:29:01,949 --> 00:29:05,326
but my old man struggled his whole life.
412
00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:09,872
They could call him a little man,
a poor man,
413
00:29:09,957 --> 00:29:11,540
but they never beat him.
414
00:29:11,625 --> 00:29:17,046
I always tried to remember that,
when things didn't go my way.
415
00:29:17,130 --> 00:29:19,048
Let's really get fired up now!
416
00:29:19,132 --> 00:29:24,178
- Get on your stand, Nixon!
- Twenty-eight, 44!
417
00:29:35,607 --> 00:29:38,359
- What's Nixon doing here?
- He thinks he can make it.
418
00:29:38,443 --> 00:29:40,945
Four years of being a tackling dummy.
Poor guy.
419
00:29:41,029 --> 00:29:44,031
- All right! Let's go, defense!
- Hike!
420
00:29:48,370 --> 00:29:53,082
Worst athlete I've ever seen.
But he's got guts.
421
00:29:56,128 --> 00:29:58,671
OK, let's go! Let's do it!
422
00:29:58,755 --> 00:30:02,967
In California's gubernatorial race,
Nixon returned to the political arena
423
00:30:03,051 --> 00:30:08,264
in a long and acrimonious bid against
popular incumbent Edmund G. Brown.
424
00:30:08,348 --> 00:30:13,102
Brown's campaign has benefited greatly
from the support of President Kennedy,
425
00:30:13,186 --> 00:30:15,563
while Nixon has had trouble
convincing voters
426
00:30:15,647 --> 00:30:17,940
this is not another run
for the presidency.
427
00:30:18,025 --> 00:30:20,192
With only a few precincts
left unreported,
428
00:30:20,277 --> 00:30:22,778
all indications are
of another defeat for Nixon,
429
00:30:22,904 --> 00:30:27,116
who lost the presidency just two
years ago by a paper-thin margin.
430
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,493
It seems his brief political comeback
431
00:30:29,578 --> 00:30:31,495
- is in ruins.
- Making a statement?
432
00:30:33,165 --> 00:30:35,416
Thank you, Fidel Castro.
433
00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:38,961
- You're not going to blame Castro?
- I sure am!
434
00:30:39,046 --> 00:30:42,131
Goddamn missile crisis united
the country behind Kennedy.
435
00:30:42,215 --> 00:30:44,800
He was supporting Brown.
People were scared.
436
00:30:44,885 --> 00:30:46,927
Castro staged this just to beat you.
437
00:30:47,012 --> 00:30:49,472
Before you join the jubilation
of my being beaten,
438
00:30:49,556 --> 00:30:51,766
remember people vote
not out of love but fear.
439
00:30:51,808 --> 00:30:57,188
They don't teach that at Sunday school
or the Whittier Community Playhouse.
440
00:30:57,272 --> 00:31:01,317
- I should go check in with our people.
- I'm glad they don't, Dick.
441
00:31:01,401 --> 00:31:05,529
I'm glad they don't because life
is tough and it is unfair
442
00:31:05,614 --> 00:31:09,283
and sometimes you forget
that in your self pity.
443
00:31:10,911 --> 00:31:15,706
You forget sometimes, Dick, that I had
a life before you, before California.
444
00:31:17,459 --> 00:31:19,460
Cocksucker!
445
00:31:22,923 --> 00:31:26,050
Don't you want to listen
to Governor Brown's victory speech?
446
00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:29,553
Nope. Not going to listen
to any more speeches ever again.
447
00:31:29,638 --> 00:31:31,597
Amen to that.
448
00:31:31,681 --> 00:31:32,807
It's over, Dick.
449
00:31:34,267 --> 00:31:37,228
- I'll concede in the morning.
- Not that.
450
00:31:46,822 --> 00:31:48,114
Buddy?
451
00:32:07,801 --> 00:32:09,593
I have always stood by you.
452
00:32:09,678 --> 00:32:13,264
I campaigned for you
when I was pregnant.
453
00:32:13,348 --> 00:32:17,143
During Checkers, when Ike
wanted you out, I told you to fight.
454
00:32:18,854 --> 00:32:21,605
This is different, Dick.
455
00:32:21,690 --> 00:32:23,149
You've changed.
456
00:32:25,152 --> 00:32:29,113
You've grown more bitter,
like you're at war with the world.
457
00:32:29,197 --> 00:32:31,198
You weren't that way before.
458
00:32:33,368 --> 00:32:36,579
I'm 50 years old now, Dick.
459
00:32:36,663 --> 00:32:39,415
How many millions of miles
have I traveled?
460
00:32:39,499 --> 00:32:43,127
How many millions of peoples' hands
have I shaked I just don't like?
461
00:32:43,211 --> 00:32:46,839
How many thank-you notes have I written?
462
00:32:46,923 --> 00:32:50,092
It's as if I, I don't know,
just went to sleep a long time ago
463
00:32:50,177 --> 00:32:52,386
and missed the years between.
464
00:32:54,890 --> 00:32:56,432
I've had enough.
465
00:32:59,102 --> 00:33:02,271
What are you saying?
What are you talking about?
466
00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:05,858
I want a divorce.
467
00:33:07,611 --> 00:33:11,947
My God. Divorce?
What about the girls?
468
00:33:14,075 --> 00:33:19,079
The girls'll grow up. They only
know you from television anyway.
469
00:33:19,164 --> 00:33:22,333
- It'll ruin us, our family.
- No, you're ruining us.
470
00:33:22,417 --> 00:33:24,960
If we stay with you,
you'll take us down with you.
471
00:33:25,086 --> 00:33:27,254
This isn't political.
This is our life.
472
00:33:27,339 --> 00:33:28,797
Everything's political.
473
00:33:28,882 --> 00:33:32,468
- I'm political, you're political.
- No, I'm not. I'm finished.
474
00:33:39,267 --> 00:33:41,685
Well, this is just
what they want, Buddy.
475
00:33:43,104 --> 00:33:44,563
Don't you see?
476
00:33:47,859 --> 00:33:51,445
They want to drive us apart, to beat us.
477
00:33:51,530 --> 00:33:54,532
We can't let them do it.
478
00:33:54,616 --> 00:33:56,659
We've been through too much together.
479
00:33:56,743 --> 00:33:59,036
We belong together.
480
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,289
That's what you said
the first time we met.
481
00:34:02,958 --> 00:34:05,125
You didn't even know me.
482
00:34:06,169 --> 00:34:07,920
Oh, yes, I did.
483
00:34:10,966 --> 00:34:13,717
I asked you to marry me, didn't I?
484
00:34:13,802 --> 00:34:16,595
On our first date.
485
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,974
I said it because I knew...
486
00:34:20,016 --> 00:34:22,643
I knew you were the one.
487
00:34:24,312 --> 00:34:26,522
So solid.
488
00:34:26,606 --> 00:34:29,024
So strong.
489
00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:31,360
- So beautiful.
- Hi, I'm Pat Ryan.
490
00:34:33,029 --> 00:34:36,031
- Richard Nixon.
- It's a pleasure to meet you.
491
00:34:36,116 --> 00:34:37,908
Pleasure to meet you.
492
00:34:54,175 --> 00:34:56,010
Well, in a way, yes.
493
00:34:56,052 --> 00:34:58,262
Don't tell me you've
been cutting my part.
494
00:34:58,346 --> 00:35:02,057
Of course, honey, you know I
would never deceive you. Don't you?
495
00:35:31,087 --> 00:35:33,839
You were the most beautiful thing
I'd ever seen.
496
00:35:36,551 --> 00:35:39,386
I don't want to lose you.
497
00:35:41,806 --> 00:35:44,767
- Ever.
- Dick, don't.
498
00:35:51,650 --> 00:35:53,567
You really want me to quit?
499
00:35:58,073 --> 00:36:00,240
We can be happy.
500
00:36:01,534 --> 00:36:03,577
We really can.
501
00:36:05,372 --> 00:36:08,082
The girls and I love you, Dick.
502
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,129
And if I stop,
503
00:36:14,214 --> 00:36:18,008
there'll be no more talk of divorce?
504
00:36:27,018 --> 00:36:30,521
I�ll do it. No more.
505
00:36:33,149 --> 00:36:34,775
Are you serious?
506
00:36:36,152 --> 00:36:38,654
Yeah. I'm out.
507
00:36:40,156 --> 00:36:41,699
Is that the truth?
508
00:36:44,953 --> 00:36:48,789
I'll never run again. I promise.
509
00:36:51,292 --> 00:36:52,710
Yeah.
510
00:36:56,047 --> 00:36:57,840
I love you, Buddy.
511
00:36:58,967 --> 00:37:00,092
I love you.
512
00:37:01,177 --> 00:37:02,970
I love you.
513
00:37:06,015 --> 00:37:07,516
Where are they?
514
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:12,062
- You don't have to make a statement.
- No!
515
00:37:12,147 --> 00:37:17,025
Gentlemen, I can tell you Mr. Nixon
is a man who is graceful in defeat,
516
00:37:17,110 --> 00:37:19,027
and if he was here with us...
517
00:37:24,617 --> 00:37:26,410
Can I have some quiet, please?
518
00:37:28,997 --> 00:37:31,123
Give the... Just a second!
519
00:37:31,207 --> 00:37:33,834
Some quiet, please. Quiet!
520
00:37:34,961 --> 00:37:36,420
Thank you!
521
00:37:37,422 --> 00:37:39,590
- Mr. Nixon!
- Uh... Ahem.
522
00:37:39,674 --> 00:37:44,178
I believe Governor Brown has a heart,
523
00:37:44,220 --> 00:37:47,765
even though he believes I do not.
524
00:37:47,849 --> 00:37:50,934
I believe he's a good American,
525
00:37:51,019 --> 00:37:53,604
even though he feels I am not.
526
00:37:53,688 --> 00:37:58,942
I'm proud of the fact that I
defended my opponent's patriotism.
527
00:37:59,778 --> 00:38:04,364
You gentlemen didn't report it,
but I'm proud I did that. And...
528
00:38:04,449 --> 00:38:06,950
And I would appreciate,
for once, gentlemen,
529
00:38:07,035 --> 00:38:09,661
if you would just print what I say.
530
00:38:11,039 --> 00:38:14,249
For 16 years, uh,
ever since the Hiss case,
531
00:38:14,375 --> 00:38:17,795
you've had a lot of fun. A lot of fun.
532
00:38:17,879 --> 00:38:21,256
But recognize you have a responsibility,
533
00:38:21,382 --> 00:38:24,802
if you're against the candidate,
to give him the shaft.
534
00:38:24,886 --> 00:38:28,555
But if you do that, at least put
one lonely reporter on the campaign
535
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:33,143
who will report
what the candidate says now and then.
536
00:38:33,228 --> 00:38:38,190
I think, all in all,
I've given as good as I've taken.
537
00:38:38,274 --> 00:38:40,025
But as I leave you, I...
538
00:38:40,109 --> 00:38:44,988
I want you to know,
just think what you're gonna be missing.
539
00:38:45,907 --> 00:38:48,367
You won't have Nixon
to kick around anymore.
540
00:38:48,451 --> 00:38:50,244
Kick around anymore.
541
00:38:57,919 --> 00:38:59,586
Uh...
542
00:39:00,547 --> 00:39:04,007
Because, gentlemen,
this is my last press conference.
543
00:39:04,092 --> 00:39:07,678
- Thank you and good day.
- Is this the end of politics for you?
544
00:39:12,392 --> 00:39:13,809
Will you run again?
545
00:39:17,647 --> 00:39:21,733
In California, we can
officially write the political obituary
546
00:39:21,818 --> 00:39:25,028
of Richard Milhous Nixon.
A small town lawyer like Lincoln,
547
00:39:25,113 --> 00:39:28,866
Nixon became a representative at 33
and a senator at 35,
548
00:39:28,950 --> 00:39:32,327
as part of the postwar Republican sweep
of the congressional elections
549
00:39:32,412 --> 00:39:35,289
that attacked FDR's
big-government New Deal.
550
00:39:35,331 --> 00:39:37,875
Running as
a South Pacific veteran,
551
00:39:37,959 --> 00:39:40,127
victories over
Congressman Jerry Voorhis
552
00:39:40,211 --> 00:39:43,547
and Senator Helen Gahagan Douglas
made it clear that, to Nixon,
553
00:39:43,631 --> 00:39:47,551
politics was war. He didn't
have opponents, he had enemies.
554
00:39:47,635 --> 00:39:49,928
Why, she's pink,
right down to her underwear!
555
00:39:50,013 --> 00:39:52,848
Nixon became one of the
leading lights on the notorious
556
00:39:52,932 --> 00:39:56,560
House Un-American Activities Committee,
questioning labor leaders,
557
00:39:56,644 --> 00:39:59,605
Spanish Civil War veterans,
Hollywood celebrities.
558
00:39:59,689 --> 00:40:03,108
- They'd all be sent back to Russia.
- But it was the Alger Hiss case
559
00:40:03,192 --> 00:40:05,068
that made Nixon a household name.
560
00:40:05,153 --> 00:40:07,195
One of the architects
of the United Nations,
561
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,656
intimate of FDR
and Oliver Wendell Holmes,
562
00:40:09,741 --> 00:40:12,326
Alger Hiss was
a State Department diplomat
563
00:40:12,368 --> 00:40:15,162
accused by freelance journalist
Whittaker Chambers
564
00:40:15,246 --> 00:40:17,831
of passing secret documents
to the Soviet Union.
565
00:40:17,916 --> 00:40:20,375
- Hiss is lying.
- Hiss claimed he was being set up
566
00:40:20,460 --> 00:40:23,962
by Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover
to discredit the New Deal's policies.
567
00:40:24,047 --> 00:40:29,051
I am not, and never have been,
a member of the Communist party.
568
00:40:29,135 --> 00:40:31,887
The case came down
to an Underwood typewriter
569
00:40:31,971 --> 00:40:35,182
and a roll of film hidden
in a pumpkin patch.
570
00:40:36,184 --> 00:40:40,771
I asked Hiss if he'd known Chambers.
When he said no, I knew he was lying.
571
00:40:40,855 --> 00:40:42,105
I knew I had him.
572
00:40:42,190 --> 00:40:46,193
After two trials, Hiss was
convicted not of spying but of per jury.
573
00:40:46,277 --> 00:40:48,946
To some, Nixon was a hero and a patriot.
574
00:40:49,030 --> 00:40:52,032
But to many, he was a self-promoter.
575
00:40:52,116 --> 00:40:54,242
Eleanor Roosevelt
angrily condemned him.
576
00:40:54,327 --> 00:40:58,622
Nixon continued to tear into Truman,
Acheson and the Democratic party
577
00:40:58,706 --> 00:41:01,291
for losing mainland China in 1949,
578
00:41:01,376 --> 00:41:04,795
and blamed the Korean War
on a weak foreign policy.
579
00:41:04,879 --> 00:41:08,548
I promise to expose and to continue
to expose the people that have sold
580
00:41:08,633 --> 00:41:12,094
- this country down the river!
- His speeches, if more subtle
581
00:41:12,178 --> 00:41:16,181
than those of his Republican ally,
Joe McCarthy, were just as aggressive.
582
00:41:17,350 --> 00:41:19,935
The direct result
of Truman's decision
583
00:41:20,019 --> 00:41:22,145
is that China has gone Communist!
584
00:41:22,230 --> 00:41:25,107
Mao is a monster! Why?
585
00:41:25,191 --> 00:41:28,485
Who in the State Department
is watching over American interests?
586
00:41:28,569 --> 00:41:30,779
Who has given the Russians
the atomic bomb?
587
00:41:30,863 --> 00:41:35,867
The Soviet Union is an example of the
slave state in the ultimate development.
588
00:41:36,703 --> 00:41:39,830
Driven by demons that
seemed more personal than political,
589
00:41:39,914 --> 00:41:44,918
Nixon became Eisenhower's
vice presidential candidate in 1952.
590
00:41:45,003 --> 00:41:47,004
But then came the Checkers crisis.
591
00:41:47,088 --> 00:41:50,007
Nixon was accused
of hiding a secret slush fund.
592
00:41:50,091 --> 00:41:53,593
About to be kicked off the ticket
by Ike, he went live on television...
593
00:41:53,678 --> 00:41:57,931
- ...in an unprecedented appearance.
- ...give this television audience
594
00:41:58,016 --> 00:42:01,018
a complete financial history.
Everything I've earned...
595
00:42:01,102 --> 00:42:03,645
The list included their house,
their Oldsmobile,
596
00:42:03,730 --> 00:42:07,816
Pat's Republican cloth coat. And lastly,
in what was to become history,
597
00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:10,986
a sentimental gift
from a Texas businessman.
598
00:42:11,070 --> 00:42:14,489
You know what it was? It was a little
cocker spaniel dog in a crate
599
00:42:14,615 --> 00:42:16,825
that he'd sent
all the way from Texas,
600
00:42:16,909 --> 00:42:20,162
black and white, spotted.
And our little girl Tricia,
601
00:42:20,246 --> 00:42:22,247
the six-year-old, named it Checkers.
602
00:42:22,331 --> 00:42:26,209
- Fifty-eight million people saw it.
- Like all kids, they love the dog.
603
00:42:26,294 --> 00:42:29,504
It was shameless. It was manipulative.
604
00:42:29,589 --> 00:42:32,674
Regardless of what they say about him,
we're gonna keep him.
605
00:42:32,759 --> 00:42:34,801
It was a huge success.
606
00:42:35,595 --> 00:42:39,056
He stayed on the national scene,
serving two terms as vice president
607
00:42:39,140 --> 00:42:43,310
under Eisenhower, against Khrushchev
at the Kitchen Debate in Moscow
608
00:42:43,394 --> 00:42:49,191
and stoned by Latin mobs in Venezuela.
Nixon once again became a national hero.
609
00:42:49,275 --> 00:42:52,360
But it all came to a crashing end
against Kennedy in 1960
610
00:42:52,445 --> 00:42:56,031
and Pat Brown in California in '62.
611
00:42:56,115 --> 00:42:59,618
And thus ends
a great American political story.
612
00:42:59,702 --> 00:43:03,538
The truth is we never knew
who Richard Nixon really was,
613
00:43:03,623 --> 00:43:06,625
and now that he is gone, we never will.
614
00:43:14,550 --> 00:43:16,426
Poor little Tricia.
615
00:43:16,511 --> 00:43:20,180
I told her her daddy couldn't get a job
in this city when he got out of Duke.
616
00:43:20,264 --> 00:43:23,975
Every white-shoe lawyer firm turned
me down. Didn't have the right look.
617
00:43:24,060 --> 00:43:26,561
- I couldn't even get into the FBI.
- Hi! How are ya?
618
00:43:26,687 --> 00:43:29,856
Did you catch that picture of you
in the news last week, Dick?
619
00:43:29,941 --> 00:43:32,734
- You were standin' on Fifth Avenue.
- Oh, yeah.
620
00:43:32,819 --> 00:43:36,822
You were lookin' straight ahead and
everyone else was lookin' the other way,
621
00:43:36,906 --> 00:43:40,325
like you just farted or somethin'.
622
00:43:40,409 --> 00:43:44,287
It said, "Who remembers Dick Nixon?"
623
00:43:44,372 --> 00:43:47,124
Unbelievable. I was screamin'.
624
00:43:47,208 --> 00:43:49,167
Yeah, that was hilarious, Martha.
625
00:43:49,252 --> 00:43:52,921
They were looking the other direction,
waiting for the light to change.
626
00:43:53,005 --> 00:43:55,549
Typical of the press,
they wouldn't correct it.
627
00:43:55,591 --> 00:43:58,301
I think we oughta catch Rocky
before he leaves.
628
00:43:58,386 --> 00:44:01,096
I'm sure it's just a little
run of bad luck, Mr. Nixon.
629
00:44:01,180 --> 00:44:04,099
- He can walk this direction, can't he?
- Oh, I don't know.
630
00:44:04,183 --> 00:44:07,894
- I've read some nice things about you.
- Maybe where you come from.
631
00:44:07,979 --> 00:44:12,732
But where I come from, Dick Nixon is
as misunderstood as a fox in a hen-house.
632
00:44:12,817 --> 00:44:15,986
And do you know why?
Because, my darlin',
633
00:44:16,070 --> 00:44:18,321
they all think that
your smile and your face
634
00:44:18,406 --> 00:44:21,700
are never in the same place
at the same time.
635
00:44:21,784 --> 00:44:24,578
You and me, we're gonna
have to work on that, sweetie.
636
00:44:24,620 --> 00:44:27,330
Someone freshen Martha's drink.
She's down a quart.
637
00:44:27,415 --> 00:44:30,000
Well, zip-a-Dee-doo-dah!
638
00:44:30,084 --> 00:44:34,337
- I think he is frightened by my charm.
- I know I am.
639
00:44:34,422 --> 00:44:37,841
- Pat can't stand her.
- It's the thing she does.
640
00:44:37,925 --> 00:44:40,844
- She talks at night.
- Talks all day too.
641
00:44:40,928 --> 00:44:43,013
How the hell can you
put up with her, John?
642
00:44:43,097 --> 00:44:46,933
Well, I'm in love with her.
And she's great in bed.
643
00:44:48,269 --> 00:44:51,605
If a Rockefeller can't
become president of the United States,
644
00:44:51,647 --> 00:44:53,523
then what is the point of democracy?
645
00:44:53,608 --> 00:44:57,485
The point of democracy is that even the
son of a grocer can become president.
646
00:44:57,570 --> 00:44:59,863
And you came damn close, Dick.
How are you?
647
00:44:59,947 --> 00:45:02,532
Hi, John.
New York treating you all right?
648
00:45:02,617 --> 00:45:04,784
I'm sorry I haven't
been able to see you.
649
00:45:04,869 --> 00:45:08,038
- You're looking happy, Rocky.
- Happy. Happy, Dick Nixon.
650
00:45:08,122 --> 00:45:10,207
- You remember him.
- Nice to see you again.
651
00:45:10,291 --> 00:45:15,795
- You're obviously making him happy.
- Oh! Repartee, Dick! That's marvelous!
652
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:20,217
What you predicting? Your boy
Goldwater gonna split the party?
653
00:45:20,301 --> 00:45:22,969
- Some say you are, Rocky.
- Let me tell you something.
654
00:45:23,054 --> 00:45:27,724
Every time the Republican party is a
home to extremism, we lose the election.
655
00:45:27,808 --> 00:45:30,101
- You oughta know better than anybody.
- Yeah.
656
00:45:30,186 --> 00:45:32,896
This guy Goldwater
is as stupid as McCarthy.
657
00:45:32,980 --> 00:45:36,983
And McCarthy never did you any good
in the long run, now, did he?
658
00:45:37,068 --> 00:45:38,818
That's right.
659
00:45:39,820 --> 00:45:45,533
- I hate these cocktail parties.
- John, I'm in hell.
660
00:45:45,618 --> 00:45:49,704
I'll be mentally dead in two years
and physically dead in four.
661
00:45:49,830 --> 00:45:54,918
Make some money, Dick.
Prove yourself to the Wall Street crowd.
662
00:45:55,002 --> 00:45:58,588
Let Goldwater and Rockefeller
take the fall against Kennedy.
663
00:45:58,673 --> 00:46:01,091
I don't know.
I miss making love to the people.
664
00:46:01,175 --> 00:46:03,301
I miss entering a room.
665
00:46:03,386 --> 00:46:07,555
I miss the pure acting of it, John.
666
00:46:09,058 --> 00:46:11,309
I gotta get back in the arena.
667
00:46:14,855 --> 00:46:17,357
Ladies and gentlemen, it's showtime!
668
00:46:17,441 --> 00:46:21,444
Come on up.
Right this way, ladies and gentlemen.
669
00:46:21,529 --> 00:46:25,865
It's for you, it's for me.
It's Studebaker for 1963.
670
00:46:27,034 --> 00:46:30,745
Amen. Bless you for being here.
There's a man that loves Studebakers.
671
00:46:30,871 --> 00:46:34,040
- Can I get your autograph?
- Mr. Nixon, please run again.
672
00:46:34,125 --> 00:46:37,419
The ex-vice president of the United
States, Richard M. Nixon!
673
00:46:39,755 --> 00:46:43,925
- You throw a hell of a party, Jack.
- The party ain't even started yet.
674
00:46:44,010 --> 00:46:47,304
I've asked these gals out to the ranch
for a little private thing.
675
00:46:47,388 --> 00:46:50,098
We're gonna have some fun,
I guarantee ya.
676
00:46:50,182 --> 00:46:52,809
And there's some fellas
I'd really like you to meet.
677
00:46:52,893 --> 00:46:56,896
Trini and I got an early plane. We're
hoping to be back in New York for...
678
00:46:56,981 --> 00:47:02,068
It'll be OK. These guys are interesting.
And quiet. The girls are too.
679
00:47:02,153 --> 00:47:05,322
It's not often us Texans
get an opportunity to entertain
680
00:47:05,406 --> 00:47:07,741
- the future president.
- Here.
681
00:47:07,783 --> 00:47:10,160
Like you said, Jack,
I'm just a New York lawyer.
682
00:47:10,244 --> 00:47:13,371
- We'll see about that.
- Mr. Nixon, are you gonna run again?
683
00:47:13,456 --> 00:47:15,707
- I don't know.
- He will! I guarantee it!
684
00:47:21,255 --> 00:47:23,506
- Name it, baby.
- That little convertible?
685
00:47:23,591 --> 00:47:26,051
I'll buy you a diamond ring.
I'll buy you one.
686
00:47:26,135 --> 00:47:27,719
- Thank you.
- Hello, baby.
687
00:47:27,803 --> 00:47:29,846
Hey, wait, wait, wait.
688
00:47:29,930 --> 00:47:34,351
This is Julie there.
And that's Tricia.
689
00:47:34,435 --> 00:47:39,189
- Oh, yeah.
- She reminds me a bit of you, Sandy.
690
00:47:39,273 --> 00:47:43,318
She really is wholesome.
But, um, what about you?
691
00:47:43,402 --> 00:47:46,780
- What do you like?
- Well, I like music.
692
00:47:46,822 --> 00:47:50,825
- I like jazz.
- Jazz, yeah. Guy Lombardo.
693
00:47:50,951 --> 00:47:52,327
How about rock and roll?
694
00:47:52,411 --> 00:47:54,829
- Elvis Presley?
- Yeah, he's good. Yeah.
695
00:47:54,914 --> 00:47:57,374
- Decent guy.
- Well, I guess,
696
00:47:57,458 --> 00:48:02,003
for me, it also depends on
what I'm doin' to the music, Dick.
697
00:48:03,297 --> 00:48:07,384
- Yeah.
- So, what's it like bein' so famous?
698
00:48:07,468 --> 00:48:09,636
A vice president!
699
00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:13,181
Well, it's, uh, not like that, Sandy.
700
00:48:14,475 --> 00:48:17,685
You see, the reason I got
into politics in the first place was,
701
00:48:17,770 --> 00:48:21,231
well, to do something for the people.
702
00:48:21,315 --> 00:48:25,235
So, how are you two doing?
703
00:48:25,319 --> 00:48:29,239
You know, Dick, there's more privacy
in the back of the...
704
00:48:29,323 --> 00:48:34,077
- No, Trini, we're fine here.
- OK.
705
00:48:34,161 --> 00:48:38,581
Hell, Kennedy just pissed Cuba away
to the Russians. Just pissed it away.
706
00:48:38,666 --> 00:48:42,585
And he doesn't know what the hell
he's doin' in Vietnam.
707
00:48:42,670 --> 00:48:45,255
These are dangerous times,
especially for business.
708
00:48:45,339 --> 00:48:49,592
- Agreed.
- We know what you tried to do for Cuba.
709
00:48:49,677 --> 00:48:53,513
If you had been elected in '60,
Castro would be dead now.
710
00:48:59,270 --> 00:49:02,355
Gentlemen, I tried.
I told Kennedy to go into Cuba.
711
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:06,234
He heard me and he made his decision.
I appreciate your sentiments.
712
00:49:06,318 --> 00:49:09,028
I've heard them
from many fine Cuban patriots.
713
00:49:09,113 --> 00:49:11,614
But it's nothing
I can do anything about.
714
00:49:12,867 --> 00:49:16,911
It's a long drive to Dallas. Trini and I
have a plane to catch tomorrow. So...
715
00:49:17,037 --> 00:49:20,707
- Dick, these boys want you to run.
- Absolutely.
716
00:49:20,791 --> 00:49:23,042
- That's right.
- Now, they're serious.
717
00:49:23,127 --> 00:49:26,296
They can deliver the South
and put Texas in your column.
718
00:49:26,380 --> 00:49:27,964
They would have done it in '60.
719
00:49:28,048 --> 00:49:31,217
Only if Kennedy dumps Johnson.
That'll never happen.
720
00:49:31,302 --> 00:49:34,929
I don't think you know how much
people hate Kennedy down here.
721
00:49:35,014 --> 00:49:39,309
He's Comin' to town tomorrow, and they
will run his ass outta town on a rail!
722
00:49:39,393 --> 00:49:41,644
- Damn right.
- That we will.
723
00:49:41,729 --> 00:49:45,899
We are willing to give you a shit pot
full of money to get rid of him.
724
00:49:45,941 --> 00:49:47,692
More than you ever dreamed of.
725
00:49:50,946 --> 00:49:55,575
Nobody's gonna beat Kennedy in '64
with all the money in the world.
726
00:49:59,246 --> 00:50:03,082
Suppose Kennedy don't run in '64.
727
00:50:04,418 --> 00:50:05,585
Not a chance.
728
00:50:08,088 --> 00:50:09,672
Yeah.
729
00:50:10,883 --> 00:50:15,094
Well, gentlemen, I promised my wife I...
I'm out of politics.
730
00:50:15,179 --> 00:50:19,557
You just came down here for the weather,
is that right, Mr. Nixon?
731
00:50:19,642 --> 00:50:23,853
I came down here
to close a deal for Studebaker.
732
00:50:23,938 --> 00:50:28,024
- What about '68, Dick?
- Five years, Trini.
733
00:50:28,108 --> 00:50:30,652
In politics, that's an eternity.
734
00:50:30,736 --> 00:50:35,532
Dick... your country needs you.
735
00:50:35,616 --> 00:50:38,826
Unfortunately, the country's
not available right now.
736
00:51:00,558 --> 00:51:05,311
President Kennedy's due in
from Fort Worth in about an hour.
737
00:51:05,396 --> 00:51:08,940
- Kennedy is due in from Fort Worth.
- Yeah, I know.
738
00:51:09,024 --> 00:51:11,276
OK. Let's go through here.
739
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,736
- Excuse us.
- Excuse me. Coming through.
740
00:51:13,821 --> 00:51:16,197
- Excuse us.
- Thank you.
741
00:51:16,282 --> 00:51:20,201
Step away from the gate there.
Thank you.
742
00:51:25,916 --> 00:51:28,668
Go find the pilot.
Let's get out of here.
743
00:52:12,338 --> 00:52:15,715
Look, Edgar, these, uh...
these guys were really strange.
744
00:52:15,799 --> 00:52:18,926
- You know, extremists.
- What do you mean by "strange"?
745
00:52:19,011 --> 00:52:21,012
- Right-wing stuff.
- Birchers?
746
00:52:21,096 --> 00:52:23,681
- Birchers, yeah.
- This thing's pretty straight.
747
00:52:23,766 --> 00:52:27,810
- In Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald...
- Oswald's got a Cuba connection?
748
00:52:27,895 --> 00:52:31,105
- To Castro?
- ...maximum security facility.
749
00:52:31,231 --> 00:52:33,858
- Mrs. Kennedy...
- He's a real Communist.
750
00:52:33,942 --> 00:52:36,110
Well, that makes sense.
751
00:52:36,236 --> 00:52:38,946
OK, well, thank you, Edgar.
752
00:52:40,491 --> 00:52:45,244
Senator Ted Kennedy, arriving early
this morning with his mother and sister.
753
00:52:45,329 --> 00:52:51,084
Hoover says this Oswald
checks out as a beatnik,
754
00:52:51,126 --> 00:52:54,796
- a real bum.
- Dick, you should call Bobby.
755
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,840
He doesn't want me at the funeral.
756
00:52:57,925 --> 00:53:01,094
- You don't have to go.
- De Gaulle's gonna be there.
757
00:53:01,136 --> 00:53:06,683
- McMillan. Adenauer.
- We go now to the rotunda...
758
00:53:06,767 --> 00:53:09,352
Nixon can't not be there.
759
00:53:09,436 --> 00:53:13,439
Then call him.
I'm sure it was an oversight.
760
00:53:13,524 --> 00:53:17,151
- Yeah.
- ...to pay their respects...
761
00:53:17,277 --> 00:53:20,571
- Jesus.
- ...to their fallen leader.
762
00:53:20,656 --> 00:53:22,865
It's awful.
763
00:53:22,950 --> 00:53:26,619
- It's an awful thing for this country.
- Dick?
764
00:53:28,455 --> 00:53:30,915
No, it's his way.
765
00:53:30,999 --> 00:53:33,042
He hates me.
766
00:53:33,127 --> 00:53:35,712
He and Teddy.
767
00:53:35,796 --> 00:53:37,714
They always hated me.
768
00:53:37,798 --> 00:53:42,093
They've lost their brother.
You know what that means, Dick.
769
00:53:43,137 --> 00:53:47,014
These are perhaps the last
images of him alive with his family.
770
00:53:50,477 --> 00:53:53,146
Please, make it stop!
771
00:53:54,690 --> 00:53:57,024
Hold him tighter.
Hold him tighter.
772
00:53:58,902 --> 00:54:01,070
Hold him tighter. Hold him tighter.
773
00:54:02,156 --> 00:54:05,366
Daddy, please make it stop!
774
00:54:05,451 --> 00:54:07,118
Hold him tighter.
775
00:54:07,202 --> 00:54:09,412
The infection's spread to his spine.
776
00:54:11,582 --> 00:54:12,915
Come on!
777
00:54:30,934 --> 00:54:32,018
Stop it!
778
00:54:33,479 --> 00:54:35,813
Get off!
779
00:54:55,459 --> 00:54:57,001
You're it!
780
00:55:07,471 --> 00:55:09,722
No. No, don't!
781
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,442
If I'd been president,
they never would've killed me.
782
00:55:24,238 --> 00:55:27,490
Vice President Johnson,
shown here being sworn in...
783
00:55:27,574 --> 00:55:30,743
- Dick, are you gonna call? Bobby.
- Hmm?
784
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:38,251
I'll go through Johnson.
We�ll be invited.
785
00:55:44,174 --> 00:55:47,927
This is a sad time
for all people.
786
00:55:48,011 --> 00:55:50,847
I ask for your help.
787
00:55:50,931 --> 00:55:54,308
...and are going
to see Vietnam through
788
00:55:54,393 --> 00:55:56,769
to an honorable peace...
789
00:56:00,232 --> 00:56:03,234
...to defend an honored cause,
790
00:56:03,318 --> 00:56:06,320
whatever the price,
whatever the burden...
791
00:56:06,446 --> 00:56:12,326
...whatever the sacrifice
that duty may require.
792
00:56:12,452 --> 00:56:17,665
Accordingly... I shall not seek...
793
00:56:19,167 --> 00:56:21,711
...and I will not accept...
794
00:56:21,795 --> 00:56:25,923
...the nomination of my party
for another term as your president.
795
00:56:27,885 --> 00:56:31,762
Good night, and God bless all of you.
796
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:36,475
Johnson's withdrawal
resurrects Richard Nixon
797
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:40,062
as a strong Republican candidate
with a secret plan to end the war.
798
00:56:40,147 --> 00:56:43,357
His mother, Hannah Nixon,
just before her death last year,
799
00:56:43,483 --> 00:56:46,152
commented on her son's chances.
800
00:56:46,236 --> 00:56:51,741
Mrs. Nixon, do you think your son
will ever return to politics?
801
00:56:51,825 --> 00:56:54,952
I don't think he has a choice.
802
00:56:55,037 --> 00:56:57,872
He has always been a leader.
803
00:56:57,956 --> 00:57:02,501
Do you think he'd make
a great president, Mrs. Nixon?
804
00:57:02,586 --> 00:57:05,755
If he's on God's side, yes.
805
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,383
You must be very proud of your son.
806
00:57:09,468 --> 00:57:12,678
I have always been proud
of all of my children.
807
00:57:16,516 --> 00:57:19,101
Of course,
no one can see into the future.
808
00:57:19,186 --> 00:57:21,395
We didn't know this day would come.
809
00:57:21,521 --> 00:57:24,023
- Where'd he go?
- In the side door.
810
00:57:24,107 --> 00:57:27,026
- Is that Mitchell?
- Shit! Missed him.
811
00:57:28,528 --> 00:57:31,697
I thought that guy was gonna
kiss your hand on the side of it.
812
00:57:31,782 --> 00:57:33,950
- Congratulations, sir.
- Yeah, thanks.
813
00:57:34,034 --> 00:57:36,994
Jesus, Dick!
I've never seen anything like it.
814
00:57:37,079 --> 00:57:39,580
Even the goddamn Times
is saying you've got it.
815
00:57:39,665 --> 00:57:42,833
- Vietnam's gonna put you in there.
- We got the press this time.
816
00:57:42,918 --> 00:57:47,630
- We got the big mo. We're back.
- So you've decided.
817
00:57:51,134 --> 00:57:53,177
Were you planning to tell me?
818
00:57:54,721 --> 00:57:57,848
We haven't announced
anything yet, but...
819
00:57:59,851 --> 00:58:02,061
Jesus. Uh... Pat?
820
00:58:04,940 --> 00:58:07,984
Uh, wait in the living room,
will you, fellas? What is it, John?
821
00:58:08,068 --> 00:58:11,654
You need her, Dick. In '60,
she was worth five, six million votes.
822
00:58:11,738 --> 00:58:15,324
Yeah. Don't worry.
I'll use the old Nixon charm.
823
00:58:16,702 --> 00:58:18,911
In there. OK.
824
00:58:19,955 --> 00:58:21,247
Who could resist that?
825
00:58:26,712 --> 00:58:28,254
Buddy?
826
00:58:31,091 --> 00:58:32,466
You should be going.
827
00:58:32,592 --> 00:58:35,469
Primaries are soon,
aren't they? New Hampshire.
828
00:58:35,554 --> 00:58:38,180
I love you, Buddy. I need you.
829
00:58:38,265 --> 00:58:40,725
I don't want them to love me.
830
00:58:40,809 --> 00:58:43,769
But I need you out there.
831
00:58:43,854 --> 00:58:48,858
It won't be like the last time.
The war's crippled the Democrats.
832
00:58:48,942 --> 00:58:51,527
I can win. We deserve it.
833
00:58:51,611 --> 00:58:54,697
It's ours, Buddy, at last.
834
00:58:54,781 --> 00:58:58,034
Nobody knows that better than you.
835
00:58:58,118 --> 00:59:00,119
Frank Nixon's boy.
836
00:59:00,203 --> 00:59:04,373
Do you remember what Mom said?
We're not like other people. We...
837
00:59:04,458 --> 00:59:06,584
We don't choose our way.
838
00:59:07,627 --> 00:59:09,879
We can really change things, Buddy.
839
00:59:09,963 --> 00:59:13,549
We got a chance to get it right.
We can change America.
840
00:59:13,633 --> 00:59:17,261
It was our dream, Buddy,
together, always.
841
00:59:19,222 --> 00:59:23,392
- Do you really want this, Dick?
- Yeah. This, above all.
842
00:59:23,477 --> 00:59:28,773
- And then you'll be happy?
- Yeah, you know I will. Yes! I will.
843
00:59:29,858 --> 00:59:31,942
Then I'll be there for you.
844
00:59:32,027 --> 00:59:34,904
And we are gonna win this time.
I can feel it.
845
00:59:34,988 --> 00:59:36,489
Yeah!
846
00:59:37,532 --> 00:59:40,409
You're the strongest woman
I ever met, Buddy.
847
00:59:40,494 --> 00:59:43,579
- Can I just ask for one thing?
- Anything.
848
00:59:43,663 --> 00:59:46,082
- Would you kiss me?
- Yeah!
849
00:59:53,465 --> 00:59:55,758
We're gonna win the race.
850
00:59:57,511 --> 01:00:01,764
My thanks. It's on to Chicago
and let's win there. Thank you.
851
01:00:01,848 --> 01:00:04,767
I would never question
Senator Kennedy's patriotism.
852
01:00:04,851 --> 01:00:08,604
But going around the country,
promising peace at any price
853
01:00:08,688 --> 01:00:11,524
is, uh, exactly what the
North Vietnamese want to hear.
854
01:00:11,566 --> 01:00:13,067
Cue the crowd.
855
01:00:14,986 --> 01:00:17,488
Go to this bald guy.
Yeah, he's great, isn't he?
856
01:00:18,573 --> 01:00:20,699
I, unlike Senator Kennedy,
857
01:00:20,784 --> 01:00:23,619
have a plan to end the war immediately.
858
01:00:23,703 --> 01:00:28,624
But not for peace at any price,
but peace with honor.
859
01:00:28,708 --> 01:00:32,586
What do you think this plan is, Edgar?
A nuclear attack?
860
01:00:32,671 --> 01:00:35,464
He's lying, Clyde. Always has.
861
01:00:35,549 --> 01:00:38,050
That's why Nixon's always been useful.
862
01:00:41,346 --> 01:00:43,055
Hold still.
863
01:00:43,140 --> 01:00:45,724
- OK, who's next?
- The Negro.
864
01:00:45,809 --> 01:00:48,435
No, we gotta have a Negro.
This guy right here.
865
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:49,562
Negro, front row.
866
01:00:50,730 --> 01:00:53,983
- Mr. Nixon, sir.
- Yeah.
867
01:00:54,067 --> 01:00:56,986
We all know you have built your career
868
01:00:57,070 --> 01:00:59,989
on smearing people as Communists.
869
01:01:00,073 --> 01:01:02,825
And now you are building your campaign
870
01:01:02,909 --> 01:01:05,327
on the divisions in this country,
871
01:01:05,412 --> 01:01:08,914
stirring up hatred
and turning people against each other.
872
01:01:08,999 --> 01:01:12,168
- What the fuck's he doing? A speech!
- Cut him off.
873
01:01:12,252 --> 01:01:14,712
- I can't. This isn't Russia.
- Sounds like a Negro.
874
01:01:14,796 --> 01:01:18,424
- Saying Negro things. What's he doing?
- Sounded white when we screened.
875
01:01:18,508 --> 01:01:20,509
Doesn't sound white now,
sounds like Angela Davis.
876
01:01:20,594 --> 01:01:23,470
When are you gonna tell us
what you really stand for?
877
01:01:23,555 --> 01:01:26,015
- Go to commercial!
- There are no commercials.
878
01:01:26,099 --> 01:01:28,142
- You bought the whole half hour.
- Shit!
879
01:01:28,226 --> 01:01:32,521
When are you going to take off that mask
and show us who you really are?
880
01:01:32,606 --> 01:01:33,814
Shut up and sit down!
881
01:01:33,899 --> 01:01:36,400
- OK. OK.
- It's a high hard one, chief.
882
01:01:36,484 --> 01:01:38,944
- Park it.
- There are divisions in this country.
883
01:01:39,029 --> 01:01:42,656
- That's because you created them.
- I did not. The Democrats did.
884
01:01:42,782 --> 01:01:45,492
If it's dialogue you want,
you're more likely to get it from me
885
01:01:45,577 --> 01:01:48,204
than from people burning down cities.
Just think about it.
886
01:01:48,288 --> 01:01:50,497
- Dr. King said the same thing.
- Oh, please.
887
01:01:50,582 --> 01:01:53,542
You know, young man,
who a great hero is? Abraham Lincoln.
888
01:01:53,627 --> 01:01:56,170
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Lincoln. Is he beautiful?
889
01:01:56,254 --> 01:01:59,298
He believed in common ground.
He brought this country together.
890
01:02:00,634 --> 01:02:02,509
I love that man. I love him.
891
01:02:02,594 --> 01:02:05,971
I want the son of a bitch
who got that agitator in here fired!
892
01:02:06,056 --> 01:02:09,391
- I have another question.
- There's a little girl sitting here.
893
01:02:09,476 --> 01:02:12,770
- A little girl sitting with a sign.
- Bag the spook. Go to the girl.
894
01:02:12,854 --> 01:02:15,564
- Can you see the girl?
- There are three simple words:
895
01:02:15,649 --> 01:02:17,942
"Bring us together."
That is what I want,
896
01:02:18,026 --> 01:02:21,445
and that is what the great
silent majority of Americans want.
897
01:02:21,529 --> 01:02:26,075
And that is why I want to be president.
To bring us together.
898
01:02:26,159 --> 01:02:29,662
- Give me a break, Mary.
- Now, you all know me. I'm one of you.
899
01:02:29,704 --> 01:02:32,081
I grew up here,
a stone's throw from here,
900
01:02:32,165 --> 01:02:36,710
- on a lemon ranch in Yorba Linda.
- Poorest lemon ranch in California.
901
01:02:36,836 --> 01:02:39,880
Poorest lemon ranch in California,
I can assure you of that.
902
01:02:39,965 --> 01:02:43,884
- My dad sold it before they found oil.
- My dad sold it before they found oil.
903
01:02:43,969 --> 01:02:47,221
- But it was all we had.
- But it was all we had.
904
01:02:47,305 --> 01:02:52,184
- My dad built the house with his hands.
- You're new here. What's your name?
905
01:02:52,269 --> 01:02:54,228
Joaquin, Mr. Hoover.
906
01:02:55,188 --> 01:02:56,689
oh.
907
01:02:57,399 --> 01:03:03,028
My father sacrificed everything he had
so that his sons could go to college.
908
01:03:03,113 --> 01:03:07,741
- A gentle Quaker mother quietly wept
- Oh, Christ.
909
01:03:07,826 --> 01:03:10,452
- when he went to war.
- Turn this crap off, Clyde.
910
01:03:10,537 --> 01:03:13,038
- It's giving me a headache.
- A great teacher.
911
01:03:13,915 --> 01:03:15,708
You may go, Joaquin.
912
01:03:18,628 --> 01:03:23,757
- I want to see him, Clyde.
- Edgar, he works in the kitchen.
913
01:03:23,883 --> 01:03:27,511
Not the boy, you idiot. Nixon.
914
01:03:28,888 --> 01:03:32,725
Hear what he said in Oregon
about me having too much power?
915
01:03:32,767 --> 01:03:36,312
It's between Nixon and a Kennedy again.
916
01:03:36,396 --> 01:03:40,357
- Who do you want?
- Kennedy?
917
01:03:40,442 --> 01:03:42,151
Never.
918
01:03:42,235 --> 01:03:45,863
He'll fry in hell for what he did to me.
919
01:03:45,947 --> 01:03:48,157
But Nixon don't know that.
920
01:03:48,241 --> 01:03:51,452
Which is why I'm gonna have
to remind him that he needs us
921
01:03:51,536 --> 01:03:54,413
a hell of a lot more than we need him.
922
01:04:18,772 --> 01:04:20,731
Your boy's on the way up.
923
01:04:23,109 --> 01:04:26,362
You know, I met this guy years ago
in Havana. You know that.
924
01:04:28,448 --> 01:04:30,115
Come on!
925
01:04:33,453 --> 01:04:35,079
He's folding, Johnny.
926
01:04:38,792 --> 01:04:40,834
No, no, no.
You just wait a second.
927
01:04:41,461 --> 01:04:43,837
Olly's Boy on the inside!
928
01:04:44,756 --> 01:04:46,548
Come on! Come on!
929
01:04:52,806 --> 01:04:57,851
And a tragedy! Olly's Boy
has fallen on the sixteenth pole.
930
01:05:00,855 --> 01:05:04,650
Sunday's Chance goes on
to win it in 25,000...
931
01:05:05,944 --> 01:05:07,569
A bit extreme, isn't it?
932
01:05:08,655 --> 01:05:11,865
It's the drama.
Look, the crowd loves this shit.
933
01:05:13,243 --> 01:05:14,576
May I have your autograph?
934
01:05:14,661 --> 01:05:17,413
Hey, there's Randolph Scott over there.
Look at that.
935
01:05:17,497 --> 01:05:19,665
Cash these for me, would you, Johnny?
936
01:05:23,336 --> 01:05:26,130
- Easy! Easy, easy!
- It's a two-dollar bet, Edgar.
937
01:05:26,214 --> 01:05:29,383
You got thousands coming on this.
I mean, what the fuck?
938
01:05:29,467 --> 01:05:33,762
I told you, just cash it, Johnny.
And don't swear around me. Come on.
939
01:05:33,847 --> 01:05:35,180
Uh-huh.
940
01:05:36,391 --> 01:05:38,016
Hello.
941
01:05:39,686 --> 01:05:42,688
Edgar. Wonderful to see you.
942
01:05:42,772 --> 01:05:44,106
- Clyde.
- Mr. Nixon.
943
01:05:44,190 --> 01:05:46,608
- Hi.
- Thank you for coming, Richard.
944
01:05:46,693 --> 01:05:48,777
OK. Winning?
945
01:05:48,862 --> 01:05:52,823
Actually, I've just had a bit of luck.
Are you gonna win?
946
01:05:52,907 --> 01:05:54,908
You should ask Bobby.
947
01:05:55,034 --> 01:05:58,078
- Little Bobby.
- Yeah, Bobby Kennedy.
948
01:05:58,163 --> 01:05:59,621
Yeah.
949
01:05:59,706 --> 01:06:02,249
Would you, uh, walk with me
down to the paddock?
950
01:06:02,333 --> 01:06:05,294
- I'd like to look at the horses.
- Can we talk here?
951
01:06:05,378 --> 01:06:07,880
I got the police chiefs in San Diego.
952
01:06:07,922 --> 01:06:11,925
Actually, I'm trying
to spare you an embarrassment.
953
01:06:12,051 --> 01:06:16,388
That was Johnny Roselli you just
passed. He's on his way back.
954
01:06:18,057 --> 01:06:20,559
Roselli? Johnny Roselli?
955
01:06:20,643 --> 01:06:25,939
Yes. You know him, Richard? No?
From Cuba?
956
01:06:31,196 --> 01:06:35,032
- Hey, Johnny Roselli. How're you doin'?
- Dick Nixon.
957
01:06:35,116 --> 01:06:36,450
How are you?
958
01:06:36,534 --> 01:06:39,828
I never met the man. Uh...
959
01:06:39,913 --> 01:06:42,748
Well, I know you've...
960
01:06:43,583 --> 01:06:47,961
...been very careful not to.
That's why I'm so concerned.
961
01:06:50,465 --> 01:06:51,507
OK.
962
01:06:51,591 --> 01:06:54,801
They're off and running!
963
01:07:01,976 --> 01:07:04,686
You�ll win the nomination.
964
01:07:04,771 --> 01:07:08,857
- It could be 1960 all over again.
- Love you, Dick!
965
01:07:08,942 --> 01:07:13,195
And Bobby's got the magic
like a goddamn rock star.
966
01:07:13,279 --> 01:07:16,865
They climb all over each other
just to touch his clothes.
967
01:07:16,950 --> 01:07:21,203
He'll ride his brother's corpse
right into the White House.
968
01:07:21,287 --> 01:07:26,416
If things remain as they are.
He's got the anti-war vote.
969
01:07:26,501 --> 01:07:29,503
Or he'll steal it, like his brother.
970
01:07:29,587 --> 01:07:32,005
Bobby's a mean little son of a bitch.
971
01:07:32,131 --> 01:07:35,926
He had the IRS audit my mother
when she was dying in the nursing home.
972
01:07:36,010 --> 01:07:39,680
- I know.
- We should shoot the son of a bitch.
973
01:07:43,476 --> 01:07:48,522
- I wanna fight just as dirty, Edgar.
- His women. Use his women.
974
01:07:51,109 --> 01:07:53,652
Any information you have.
975
01:07:53,736 --> 01:07:56,530
The son of a bitch is not
gonna steal from me again.
976
01:07:56,614 --> 01:08:00,033
Can you back me up on this?
Can I count on your support?
977
01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:06,248
I look at it from the point of view that
the system can only take so much abuse.
978
01:08:06,332 --> 01:08:09,251
- It adjusts itself eventually.
- Yeah.
979
01:08:09,335 --> 01:08:13,463
But there are times...
There are savage outbursts.
980
01:08:13,548 --> 01:08:17,926
The late Dr. King, for example.
Amoral hypocrite.
981
01:08:18,011 --> 01:08:20,762
Screwing women
like a degenerate tomcat,
982
01:08:20,847 --> 01:08:25,851
stirring up the blacks,
preaching against our system.
983
01:08:25,935 --> 01:08:29,646
Sometimes the system
comes very close to cracking.
984
01:08:32,692 --> 01:08:36,028
We've already had one radical
in the White House.
985
01:08:36,070 --> 01:08:38,363
I don't believe we
could survive another.
986
01:08:44,203 --> 01:08:46,955
- Well, like I said, Edgar...
- You ask...
987
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,583
...if you can count on my support.
988
01:08:51,878 --> 01:08:54,212
As long as I can count on yours.
989
01:08:56,716 --> 01:08:58,258
Yeah.
990
01:09:00,762 --> 01:09:03,096
Yeah, the old queen did it on purpose.
991
01:09:03,222 --> 01:09:05,265
No, he wasn't protecting me.
992
01:09:05,350 --> 01:09:09,186
- He was just putting me on notice.
- That he knew Roselli?
993
01:09:09,270 --> 01:09:12,481
- No.
- Hoover knew a lot of gangsters.
994
01:09:12,565 --> 01:09:15,233
Johnny Roselli wasn't just any gangster.
995
01:09:15,318 --> 01:09:19,905
Johnny Roselli was one of the
gangsters who set up Track Two in Cuba.
996
01:09:21,824 --> 01:09:24,284
Oh, well, I know all about that.
997
01:09:24,369 --> 01:09:27,120
I don't understand it.
Track Two is Chile.
998
01:09:27,246 --> 01:09:31,833
Yeah, Chile, Congo,
Guadalajara, Iran, Cuba.
999
01:09:31,918 --> 01:09:36,880
Wherever there was need for, uh,
an executive action capability,
1000
01:09:36,964 --> 01:09:39,091
there's Track Two.
1001
01:09:39,133 --> 01:09:44,262
In Cuba, Track One
was, uh, the Bay of Pigs invasion.
1002
01:09:44,347 --> 01:09:46,848
Track Two was our idea.
1003
01:09:46,933 --> 01:09:50,727
We thought that the invasion wouldn't
work unless we got rid of Castro.
1004
01:09:50,812 --> 01:09:56,525
So we asked ourselves, uh,
"Who else wants Castro dead?"
1005
01:09:56,609 --> 01:09:59,611
The Mafia or money people?
1006
01:09:59,696 --> 01:10:02,572
So we put together Track Two.
1007
01:10:16,170 --> 01:10:19,631
First assassination attempt was in '60.
1008
01:10:19,716 --> 01:10:23,385
- Just before the election.
- Before? Eisenhower approved that?
1009
01:10:23,469 --> 01:10:27,305
Yeah. Well, he didn't veto it.
1010
01:10:27,390 --> 01:10:30,392
I ran the White House side,
1011
01:10:30,476 --> 01:10:34,062
and the Mob contact was Johnny Roselli.
1012
01:10:34,147 --> 01:10:39,359
One of the CIA guys was this jackass,
Howard Hunt.
1013
01:10:39,444 --> 01:10:42,237
- Jesus.
- Yeah.
1014
01:10:42,321 --> 01:10:44,865
Not just Howard Hunt,
but Frank Sturgis
1015
01:10:44,949 --> 01:10:49,035
and all those other Cubans.
1016
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,037
All of them in the Watergate.
1017
01:10:53,416 --> 01:10:56,626
They're all involved in Cuba.
1018
01:11:01,507 --> 01:11:05,385
Yeah, Hunt reported to my military aide.
1019
01:11:05,470 --> 01:11:09,306
I don't know how much Hunt knows
or the Cubans, but...
1020
01:11:10,725 --> 01:11:12,642
...you never know.
1021
01:11:12,727 --> 01:11:16,688
So you wanted Castro dead.
Everybody wanted Castro dead.
1022
01:11:17,607 --> 01:11:21,318
You know, if Hunt
and the others are CIA...
1023
01:11:21,402 --> 01:11:25,030
...why don't we just dump this
back in the CIA's lap,
1024
01:11:25,114 --> 01:11:29,618
- let Dick Helms take the fall?
- Because...
1025
01:11:29,702 --> 01:11:33,371
Because Helms knows too much.
1026
01:11:34,540 --> 01:11:37,667
If there's anyone in this country
who knows more than me,
1027
01:11:37,752 --> 01:11:41,379
it's Hoover and Helms, and you
don't fuck with Dick Helms, period.
1028
01:11:41,464 --> 01:11:45,759
All right. But why,
if Kennedy was so clean in all this,
1029
01:11:45,843 --> 01:11:49,721
- didn't he cancel Track Two?
- 'Cause he didn't even know about it.
1030
01:11:51,641 --> 01:11:55,560
The CIA, uh, never told him.
They just kept it going.
1031
01:11:56,395 --> 01:11:59,189
It had a life of its own
like it was some...
1032
01:12:00,483 --> 01:12:03,485
...kind of a thing, you know?
1033
01:12:03,569 --> 01:12:05,529
It doesn't even know it exists.
1034
01:12:05,613 --> 01:12:09,491
It just eats people
when it doesn't need 'em anymore.
1035
01:12:09,575 --> 01:12:13,119
Two days after the Bay of Pigs,
1036
01:12:13,204 --> 01:12:17,499
Kennedy called me
and he reamed me out.
1037
01:12:17,583 --> 01:12:21,503
- He just found out about Track Two.
- You never told him?
1038
01:12:21,587 --> 01:12:24,422
I didn't want him to get the credit.
1039
01:12:25,550 --> 01:12:27,384
He said I'd stabbed him in the back
1040
01:12:27,468 --> 01:12:30,637
and called me a two-bit
grocery clerk from Whittier.
1041
01:12:39,856 --> 01:12:42,232
That's the last time I ever saw him.
1042
01:12:46,612 --> 01:12:51,825
See, when I saw Bobby
lying there on the floor,
1043
01:12:51,909 --> 01:12:55,662
arms stretched out like that,
his eyes staring...
1044
01:12:58,457 --> 01:13:01,042
...I knew then I'd be president.
1045
01:13:02,211 --> 01:13:05,714
His death paved the way, didn't it?
1046
01:13:05,798 --> 01:13:08,884
Yeah. Vietnam, the Kennedys
1047
01:13:08,968 --> 01:13:12,262
cleared a path
through the wilderness just for me.
1048
01:13:14,348 --> 01:13:16,308
Over the bodies.
1049
01:13:18,936 --> 01:13:20,645
Four bodies.
1050
01:13:27,820 --> 01:13:29,362
You mean two.
1051
01:13:30,698 --> 01:13:32,699
Two bodies.
1052
01:13:34,076 --> 01:13:37,120
Four.
1053
01:13:49,091 --> 01:13:51,927
How many did you have?
1054
01:13:52,011 --> 01:13:54,179
Hundreds of thousands?
1055
01:13:58,392 --> 01:14:01,353
Where would we be without death, huh?
1056
01:14:03,522 --> 01:14:05,106
Abe?
1057
01:14:10,863 --> 01:14:12,781
Who's helping us?
1058
01:14:13,991 --> 01:14:17,202
Is it God, or is it...
1059
01:14:18,788 --> 01:14:20,413
...death?
1060
01:15:13,968 --> 01:15:15,385
Harold.
1061
01:15:16,762 --> 01:15:18,763
Harold, why don't you sit down, huh?
1062
01:15:21,642 --> 01:15:23,018
Here.
1063
01:15:27,273 --> 01:15:28,940
That was a whopper.
1064
01:15:35,031 --> 01:15:37,157
You'll be able to do it now.
1065
01:15:38,492 --> 01:15:41,369
- What?
- Go to law school.
1066
01:15:41,454 --> 01:15:44,622
- Mom and Dad'll be able to afford it.
- Harold.
1067
01:15:45,708 --> 01:15:48,126
Mama expects great things from you.
1068
01:15:49,253 --> 01:15:52,130
Can I... Can I get you anything?
1069
01:15:55,259 --> 01:15:56,843
Relax, Dick.
1070
01:15:58,054 --> 01:16:00,180
It's just me, all right?
1071
01:16:06,103 --> 01:16:08,480
The desert's so beautiful, isn't it?
1072
01:16:14,945 --> 01:16:16,821
I want to go home, Dick.
1073
01:16:17,990 --> 01:16:19,908
Time to go home.
1074
01:16:21,327 --> 01:16:25,830
You... You're not gonna quit
on me now, are you, Harold?
1075
01:17:12,670 --> 01:17:14,337
Richard.
1076
01:17:16,674 --> 01:17:20,009
- I can't.
- You must.
1077
01:17:21,220 --> 01:17:25,849
This law school,
it's a gift from thy brother.
1078
01:17:25,933 --> 01:17:29,185
He had to die for me to get it?
1079
01:17:33,065 --> 01:17:35,817
Something has to come of this.
1080
01:17:37,361 --> 01:17:40,446
It's meant to make us stronger.
1081
01:17:40,531 --> 01:17:44,325
Thee art stronger than Harold,
stronger than Arthur.
1082
01:17:44,410 --> 01:17:50,248
- God has chosen thee to survive.
- What about happiness, Mother?
1083
01:17:52,543 --> 01:17:56,504
Thee will find thy peace
at the center, Richard.
1084
01:17:56,589 --> 01:18:01,384
Strength in this life,
happiness in the next.
1085
01:18:49,475 --> 01:18:51,935
Now tell me you didn't want this, Buddy.
1086
01:19:00,653 --> 01:19:02,028
Hey!
1087
01:19:21,465 --> 01:19:24,926
When the strongest nation
in the world can be tied down
1088
01:19:25,010 --> 01:19:29,305
for four years in a war in Vietnam
with no end in sight,
1089
01:19:29,390 --> 01:19:33,726
when the richest nation in the world
can't manage its own economy,
1090
01:19:33,811 --> 01:19:37,272
when the nation with the greatest
tradition of the rule of law
1091
01:19:37,356 --> 01:19:40,608
is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness,
1092
01:19:40,693 --> 01:19:44,821
when a nation that has been known for
a century for equality of opportunity
1093
01:19:44,905 --> 01:19:48,408
is torn by unprecedented
racial violence,
1094
01:19:48,492 --> 01:19:52,036
when the president of the United States
cannot travel abroad
1095
01:19:52,121 --> 01:19:56,582
or to any major city at home without
fear of a hostile demonstration,
1096
01:19:56,667 --> 01:20:01,754
then it is time for new leadership
for the United States of America.
1097
01:20:04,550 --> 01:20:08,636
As we look at America, we see cities
enveloped in smoke and flame,
1098
01:20:08,721 --> 01:20:11,264
millions of Americans
crying out in anguish,
1099
01:20:11,348 --> 01:20:16,769
"Did we come all the way for this?
Did American boys die in Normandy
1100
01:20:16,854 --> 01:20:19,564
and Valley Forge for this?"
1101
01:20:19,648 --> 01:20:23,109
I pledge to you
that the current wave of violence
1102
01:20:23,193 --> 01:20:25,278
will not be the wave of the future.
1103
01:20:27,906 --> 01:20:31,701
Now let us begin
by committing ourselves to the truth,
1104
01:20:31,785 --> 01:20:35,788
to find the truth, to speak the truth
and to live the truth.
1105
01:20:35,914 --> 01:20:39,375
A new voice is being heard
across America today.
1106
01:20:39,460 --> 01:20:42,337
It is not the voice
of the protesters or the shouters.
1107
01:20:42,421 --> 01:20:46,591
It is the quiet voice of the majority
of Americans who've been forgotten,
1108
01:20:46,675 --> 01:20:50,011
the non-shouters,
the, uh, non-demonstrators.
1109
01:20:50,095 --> 01:20:55,058
They're the good people. They work hard
and they save and they pay their taxes.
1110
01:20:55,142 --> 01:20:57,560
Now, who are they?
Let me tell you who they are.
1111
01:20:57,644 --> 01:20:59,812
They're in this audience
by the thousands.
1112
01:20:59,938 --> 01:21:02,482
They're the white Americans
and black Americans,
1113
01:21:02,566 --> 01:21:05,193
Mexican Americans
and Italian Americans.
1114
01:21:05,277 --> 01:21:07,570
They're the great silent majority,
1115
01:21:07,654 --> 01:21:11,074
and they have become angry, finally.
Angry, not with hate,
1116
01:21:11,158 --> 01:21:13,826
but angry, my friends,
because they love America
1117
01:21:13,911 --> 01:21:18,122
and they don't like what's happened
to America these last four years.
1118
01:21:18,207 --> 01:21:23,503
Let us understand North Vietnam cannot
defeat or humiliate the United States.
1119
01:21:23,587 --> 01:21:25,671
Only Americans can do that!
1120
01:21:29,051 --> 01:21:30,885
I say to you tonight...
1121
01:21:30,969 --> 01:21:34,972
I say to you tonight we must have
a new feeling of responsibility,
1122
01:21:35,057 --> 01:21:39,352
of self-discipline. We must look
to renew state and local government.
1123
01:21:39,436 --> 01:21:44,482
We must have a complete reform
of a big, bloated federal government.
1124
01:21:44,566 --> 01:21:46,692
Those of us in public service know
1125
01:21:46,777 --> 01:21:49,695
we can have full prosperity
in peacetime.
1126
01:21:49,780 --> 01:21:51,864
Yes, we can cut the defense budget.
1127
01:21:51,990 --> 01:21:54,867
We can reduce, uh,
conventional forces in Europe.
1128
01:21:54,993 --> 01:21:57,078
We can restore the natural environment.
1129
01:21:57,162 --> 01:22:00,331
We can improve health care,
make it more available to all people.
1130
01:22:00,416 --> 01:22:03,876
And yes, we can have a complete reform
of this government.
1131
01:22:04,002 --> 01:22:07,338
We can have a new American revolution!
1132
01:22:20,352 --> 01:22:23,896
The whole world is watching!
The whole world is watching!
1133
01:22:32,990 --> 01:22:34,907
It'd be a disaster.
1134
01:22:35,033 --> 01:22:38,244
There's a lot of sympathy
out there for Cambodia.
1135
01:22:38,328 --> 01:22:41,414
Tiny, little, neutral Buddhist country.
1136
01:22:41,498 --> 01:22:44,709
They'll be rioting in the streets,
on your front lawn!
1137
01:22:44,793 --> 01:22:49,297
Building the Cambodian army up? That
would be harder than a Vietnamese Army.
1138
01:22:49,381 --> 01:22:54,385
They have no tradition. Mr. President,
the government there will collapse.
1139
01:22:54,470 --> 01:22:57,722
- So you're saying do nothing.
- No, sir, continue the bombing.
1140
01:22:57,806 --> 01:23:00,641
The same old horseshit.
Well, that's not good enough.
1141
01:23:00,726 --> 01:23:03,269
I'm sick of being pushed around
by the Vietnamese
1142
01:23:03,353 --> 01:23:07,315
like we're some, uh,
you know, pitiful giant.
1143
01:23:07,399 --> 01:23:10,276
They're using our POWs
to humiliate us.
1144
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:13,196
What we need now
is a bold move into Cambodia
1145
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:16,616
and go right after their
VC base camps
1146
01:23:16,700 --> 01:23:20,786
and, uh... make 'em scream,
hit 'em in the ass.
1147
01:23:20,871 --> 01:23:24,165
- What do you think, Henry?
- Well, as you know,
1148
01:23:24,249 --> 01:23:27,668
most of my staff have weighed in
against this incursion.
1149
01:23:27,753 --> 01:23:32,673
They believe it will fail to achieve
anything fundamental militarily
1150
01:23:32,758 --> 01:23:36,093
and will result
in crushing criticism domestically.
1151
01:23:36,178 --> 01:23:39,972
I didn't ask what your staff thinks.
What do you think, Henry?
1152
01:23:40,098 --> 01:23:42,767
What I think is they're cowards.
1153
01:23:42,851 --> 01:23:46,395
Their opposition
represents the cowardice
1154
01:23:46,480 --> 01:23:50,900
of the eastern establishment.
They don't realize, as you do, sir,
1155
01:23:50,984 --> 01:23:53,528
that the Communists
only respect strength
1156
01:23:53,612 --> 01:23:55,988
and they will only negotiate
in good faith
1157
01:23:56,073 --> 01:23:58,866
if they fear the mad man, Richard Nixon.
1158
01:23:58,951 --> 01:24:02,662
Exactly!
Unpredictability is our best asset.
1159
01:24:02,746 --> 01:24:06,457
We gotta take the war to 'em, hit 'em
where it hurts, right in the nuts.
1160
01:24:06,542 --> 01:24:10,836
- More assassinations. Right, Al?
- That's what they're doing.
1161
01:24:10,921 --> 01:24:14,632
See, your people in the State
Department, Bill, they don't understand.
1162
01:24:14,716 --> 01:24:17,552
- Mr. President...
- Electrify people with bold moves.
1163
01:24:17,636 --> 01:24:22,139
Bold moves make history.
Like, uh... Teddy Roosevelt, TR,
1164
01:24:22,224 --> 01:24:26,185
rushing up San Juan Hill.
Small event, but dramatic.
1165
01:24:26,270 --> 01:24:29,313
- People took notice.
- They'll take notice, all right.
1166
01:24:29,398 --> 01:24:34,402
If we sneak out of this war,
another will start a mile down the road.
1167
01:24:34,486 --> 01:24:38,239
We bite the bullet here in Cambodia.
There.
1168
01:24:39,032 --> 01:24:41,117
We bomb the hell out of these people.
1169
01:24:45,622 --> 01:24:48,499
Tonight, American
and South Vietnamese units
1170
01:24:48,584 --> 01:24:50,334
will attack the headquarters
1171
01:24:50,419 --> 01:24:54,505
for the entire Communist military
operation in South Vietnam.
1172
01:24:54,590 --> 01:24:57,758
This is not an invasion of Cambodia.
1173
01:24:57,843 --> 01:25:02,930
We take this action not for the purpose
of expanding the war into Cambodia,
1174
01:25:03,015 --> 01:25:06,350
but for the purpose
of ending the war in Vietnam.
1175
01:25:11,231 --> 01:25:12,815
All across the nation,
1176
01:25:12,899 --> 01:25:15,610
major student protests
against the U.S. invasion
1177
01:25:15,694 --> 01:25:18,446
of Cambodia rocked college campuses.
1178
01:25:18,530 --> 01:25:22,199
At Jackson State, two Negro students
were killed and ten were wounded.
1179
01:25:22,284 --> 01:25:25,745
- ...unanimously and united behind...
- In the streets of New York,
1180
01:25:25,829 --> 01:25:28,372
protesters were attacked
by construction workers
1181
01:25:28,457 --> 01:25:31,667
supporting President Nixon's policies.
1182
01:25:32,919 --> 01:25:36,297
In Washington, protesters
have barricaded the White House
1183
01:25:36,381 --> 01:25:38,424
and are camping out
at the Lincoln Memorial.
1184
01:25:50,020 --> 01:25:54,065
See, when I think of those kids
out there in Vietnam doing their duty,
1185
01:25:54,107 --> 01:25:57,234
uh, I bet they were scared.
I was when I was there.
1186
01:25:57,694 --> 01:25:59,195
But when it comes down to it,
1187
01:25:59,279 --> 01:26:03,407
you really have to look up to these men
because they're the greatest.
1188
01:26:08,413 --> 01:26:10,247
I mean, you see these bums, you know,
1189
01:26:10,332 --> 01:26:13,834
blowing up the campuses,
burning books and so forth.
1190
01:26:13,919 --> 01:26:17,004
And they call themselves
"flower children."
1191
01:26:17,089 --> 01:26:20,841
I call them spoiled rotten.
And I tell you what would cure them.
1192
01:26:20,926 --> 01:26:25,304
A good, old-fashioned trip to my Ohio
father's woodshed. Right, Julie?
1193
01:26:25,389 --> 01:26:28,140
- Right, Dad.
- That's what these bums need.
1194
01:26:28,225 --> 01:26:31,352
- Well, thanks and congratulations.
- Thank you, sir.
1195
01:26:31,436 --> 01:26:34,438
Yeah. OK. Thanks, everybody. Bye.
1196
01:26:35,524 --> 01:26:37,733
The whole world is watching.
1197
01:26:55,669 --> 01:26:59,714
Less than 24 hours after
President Nixon called them bums,
1198
01:26:59,798 --> 01:27:03,718
four students were shot dead
at Kent State University in Ohio.
1199
01:27:03,802 --> 01:27:06,721
Enraged student groups are calling
1200
01:27:06,805 --> 01:27:09,181
for a general strike
tomorrow to shut down...
1201
01:27:09,307 --> 01:27:13,519
I tell you, the soldiers were provoked.
Now, stop this pussyfooting around.
1202
01:27:13,603 --> 01:27:15,146
Jesus Christ, dead kids.
1203
01:27:15,188 --> 01:27:18,190
How the hell did we give the Democrats
a weapon like this?
1204
01:27:18,316 --> 01:27:21,485
Well, one way or the other,
Kent State is not good.
1205
01:27:21,570 --> 01:27:24,697
- We have to get out in front of this.
- Follow the money.
1206
01:27:24,781 --> 01:27:28,200
- Sir?
- These kids are manipulated
1207
01:27:28,326 --> 01:27:31,287
by the Communists,
like Chambers and Hiss.
1208
01:27:31,371 --> 01:27:32,872
What's the matter with you?
1209
01:27:32,956 --> 01:27:37,084
- This isn't '48. They'll never buy it.
- How do you know that, John?
1210
01:27:37,169 --> 01:27:39,086
What's Hoover found,
for God's sake?
1211
01:27:39,171 --> 01:27:43,466
He called the other day, sir.
He asked for President Harding.
1212
01:27:44,176 --> 01:27:47,762
- We can have a national prayer day.
- Never complain, never explain.
1213
01:27:47,846 --> 01:27:51,807
Come on, these
are not fraternity pranks, John.
1214
01:27:51,892 --> 01:27:54,059
No, this is anarchy.
It's a revolution.
1215
01:27:54,144 --> 01:27:57,146
- I wouldn't go that far, sir.
- Why not?
1216
01:27:58,356 --> 01:28:02,651
Well, is it worth it, sir? I mean,
is the war worth a one-term presidency?
1217
01:28:02,736 --> 01:28:05,112
Right now I think
that's what we're looking at.
1218
01:28:05,197 --> 01:28:08,407
I will not go down as the first
American president to lose a war.
1219
01:28:08,492 --> 01:28:11,452
Going to Cambodia, bombing Hanoi,
bombing Laos buys us time
1220
01:28:11,536 --> 01:28:14,371
so we can get out and give
the South Vietnamese a chance.
1221
01:28:14,456 --> 01:28:18,250
- Exactly, sir.
- If we keep our heads, we'll win this.
1222
01:28:18,376 --> 01:28:20,878
- What, win Vietnam, sir?
- No, no.
1223
01:28:21,838 --> 01:28:26,133
No, but we can drive a stake through
the heart of the Communist alliance.
1224
01:28:26,218 --> 01:28:29,428
Henry's getting strong signals
from the Chinese.
1225
01:28:29,513 --> 01:28:32,097
They fear the Vietnamese
more than the Russians
1226
01:28:32,182 --> 01:28:35,100
and they're worried
about a united Vietnam.
1227
01:28:35,185 --> 01:28:38,354
Now, if we stick it out,
we'll end up negotiating separately
1228
01:28:38,438 --> 01:28:41,148
with both the Chinese and the Soviets.
1229
01:28:41,233 --> 01:28:44,485
And we'll get better deals
than we ever dreamed of from both.
1230
01:28:44,569 --> 01:28:50,074
- That is triangular diplomacy.
- Exactly, Mr. President.
1231
01:28:50,158 --> 01:28:53,160
That's what geopolitics is about.
1232
01:28:53,245 --> 01:28:56,831
The linking of the whole world
for self-interest.
1233
01:28:56,915 --> 01:28:59,750
You tell me, Ron,
how the hell I can explain that on TV
1234
01:28:59,835 --> 01:29:03,087
to a bunch of simpleminded reporters
and, uh, weeping mothers.
1235
01:29:03,171 --> 01:29:04,964
But what am I telling the press
1236
01:29:05,048 --> 01:29:07,591
- about Kent State?
- Tell 'em what the hell you like.
1237
01:29:07,676 --> 01:29:10,803
- They don't understand anyway.
- Excuse me, sir.
1238
01:29:12,097 --> 01:29:15,015
Are you saying you're
gonna recognize Red China?
1239
01:29:15,100 --> 01:29:17,810
That would cost us
our strongest support.
1240
01:29:17,894 --> 01:29:20,688
No, I can do this because
I spent my whole career
1241
01:29:20,772 --> 01:29:24,525
- building anti-Communist credentials.
- If Kennedy or Johnson tried it,
1242
01:29:24,609 --> 01:29:27,069
they'd have crucified them,
and rightfully so.
1243
01:29:27,153 --> 01:29:31,240
Damned risky, Mr. President.
Why don't we wait until the second term?
1244
01:29:31,324 --> 01:29:34,535
- This will get us a second term.
- This will get me a second term.
1245
01:29:34,619 --> 01:29:38,414
Damn it, without risk, there's
no heroism, there's no history.
1246
01:29:38,498 --> 01:29:41,208
Nixon was born to do this.
Give history a nudge.
1247
01:29:41,293 --> 01:29:42,835
- Come on!
- Hear, hear.
1248
01:29:42,919 --> 01:29:47,131
If Cambodia doesn't work,
we'll bomb Hanoi if we have to.
1249
01:29:47,215 --> 01:29:50,759
That's right.
And if necessary, I'll drop the big one.
1250
01:29:54,514 --> 01:29:57,182
We have to entertain the possibility.
1251
01:30:02,647 --> 01:30:05,357
Goddamn it! Who cooked this damn steak?
1252
01:30:05,442 --> 01:30:08,277
Manolo, there's blood all over my plate.
Take it away.
1253
01:30:08,361 --> 01:30:09,987
I'm sorry, sir.
1254
01:30:22,876 --> 01:30:24,543
You all right?
1255
01:30:25,670 --> 01:30:27,171
Yeah.
1256
01:30:28,548 --> 01:30:32,551
My brother, Harold,
was the same age as those kids, John.
1257
01:30:32,636 --> 01:30:37,097
- Tuberculosis got him.
- It wasn't your fault.
1258
01:30:37,182 --> 01:30:41,101
The soldiers were kids too.
They just panicked.
1259
01:30:41,186 --> 01:30:42,353
Yeah.
1260
01:30:43,772 --> 01:30:47,107
They were throwing rocks,
John, just rocks.
1261
01:30:50,028 --> 01:30:52,029
They don't think I feel,
1262
01:30:52,113 --> 01:30:55,115
but I feel too much sometimes.
1263
01:30:56,117 --> 01:31:00,162
I just can't let a whole policy
be dominated by our sentimentality.
1264
01:31:00,246 --> 01:31:04,124
You're doing the right thing.
Don't let 'em shake you.
1265
01:31:06,211 --> 01:31:09,380
You know, it broke my heart
when Harold died.
1266
01:31:09,422 --> 01:31:12,257
That was a long time ago.
1267
01:31:13,551 --> 01:31:15,260
Yeah.
1268
01:31:15,345 --> 01:31:18,430
I think that's when it starts,
when you're a kid.
1269
01:31:18,556 --> 01:31:22,393
The laughs and snubs
and slights you get
1270
01:31:22,435 --> 01:31:25,813
because you're poor or Irish
1271
01:31:25,897 --> 01:31:29,441
or Jewish or just ugly.
1272
01:31:30,694 --> 01:31:34,071
Get off that. That leads nowhere.
1273
01:31:35,031 --> 01:31:39,284
But you should offer condolences
to the families of those kids.
1274
01:31:39,369 --> 01:31:40,744
Sure.
1275
01:31:42,038 --> 01:31:45,833
I'd like to.
I'd like to offer my condolences.
1276
01:31:48,753 --> 01:31:50,713
But Nixon can't.
1277
01:32:05,437 --> 01:32:08,188
Enraged student groups
across the country
1278
01:32:08,273 --> 01:32:10,357
are calling for
a general strike tomorrow
1279
01:32:10,442 --> 01:32:14,820
to shut down the entire university
system until the Vietnam War is ended.
1280
01:32:14,904 --> 01:32:17,489
Oh, this is nothing
compared to Venezuela.
1281
01:32:17,574 --> 01:32:21,452
When I was vice president, Ike sent me
down there like a blocking tackle.
1282
01:32:21,494 --> 01:32:24,455
They threw rocks, broke out windows.
1283
01:32:24,497 --> 01:32:27,624
Almost overturned the car.
Read Six Crises, Bob.
1284
01:32:27,709 --> 01:32:30,085
- I did, sir.
- Pat was brave.
1285
01:32:34,591 --> 01:32:38,385
Jesus, they're serious.
Why are we stopping? Come on, move it!
1286
01:32:43,767 --> 01:32:46,894
- Jesus!
- Get that little punk!
1287
01:32:46,978 --> 01:32:48,854
Tackle! Go on, get him!
1288
01:32:48,938 --> 01:32:50,064
Yeah!
1289
01:32:52,692 --> 01:32:55,819
Yeah. Reminds me
of my days at Whittier.
1290
01:32:55,904 --> 01:32:58,530
- These kids are useless.
- Probably flunking.
1291
01:32:58,656 --> 01:33:01,366
Nothing to do except come here
and chase girls.
1292
01:33:02,160 --> 01:33:05,913
Their parents' fault.
They're poisoning the upper class, Bob.
1293
01:33:05,997 --> 01:33:09,541
- Too soft, too many cars, color TVs.
- Don't forget the South, the West.
1294
01:33:09,667 --> 01:33:12,377
Good football colleges.
More with than against you.
1295
01:33:12,462 --> 01:33:16,006
Let's not forget they're just kids.
They don't vote.
1296
01:33:16,091 --> 01:33:18,801
This is the fall of the Roman Empire.
Are you blind?
1297
01:33:18,885 --> 01:33:21,261
We're putting the fig leaves
on the statues.
1298
01:33:32,148 --> 01:33:34,024
Mr. President.
1299
01:33:34,109 --> 01:33:36,652
- Bob.
- I don't know what to say, sir.
1300
01:33:36,736 --> 01:33:40,030
Soon as we learned from the Secret
Service that you were en route,
1301
01:33:40,115 --> 01:33:42,533
the director was notified.
He should be here.
1302
01:33:42,575 --> 01:33:46,912
- So where the hell is he?
- Rushing back from his tennis game.
1303
01:33:48,039 --> 01:33:49,873
- So let's go.
- Told me to take you
1304
01:33:49,958 --> 01:33:52,167
- to his conference room.
- No, his office.
1305
01:33:52,252 --> 01:33:55,546
I want a private conversation with him.
I don't wanna be bugged.
1306
01:33:55,588 --> 01:33:57,422
- Then his office will be fine.
- OK.
1307
01:34:06,307 --> 01:34:07,599
All right.
1308
01:34:09,561 --> 01:34:13,230
- How's the job going, Bob?
- Frankly, it stinks, sir.
1309
01:34:13,314 --> 01:34:15,232
I have no access.
1310
01:34:16,526 --> 01:34:20,195
- We'll see to that.
- He's nervous, sir.
1311
01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:23,115
He's heard you're looking
for a new director.
1312
01:34:23,199 --> 01:34:26,618
- Certainly isn't acting like it.
- That's Helms.
1313
01:34:26,744 --> 01:34:31,623
He's the epitome of sang-froid.
A world-class poker player.
1314
01:34:31,749 --> 01:34:34,459
Yeah? Well, I own the fucking casino.
1315
01:34:41,217 --> 01:34:45,387
I'm honored, Dick,
that you've come all the way out here
1316
01:34:45,471 --> 01:34:48,098
to Virginia to visit us at last.
1317
01:34:50,393 --> 01:34:53,478
- My friends call me Mr. President.
- Then so shall I.
1318
01:34:53,563 --> 01:34:56,940
- Mr. Helms.
- Arrange for some coffee,
1319
01:34:57,025 --> 01:34:58,859
will you, General Cushman?
1320
01:35:01,279 --> 01:35:02,821
Gentleman, please.
1321
01:35:09,454 --> 01:35:13,790
Bob Cushman is a lieutenant general
in the Marine Corps,
1322
01:35:13,875 --> 01:35:17,544
deputy director of the CIA.
1323
01:35:17,629 --> 01:35:22,174
- This is what you use him for?
- I didn't choose him as my deputy.
1324
01:35:22,258 --> 01:35:26,970
- You did.
- You live pretty well out here.
1325
01:35:27,055 --> 01:35:30,557
I understand why you keep
your budgets classified.
1326
01:35:31,851 --> 01:35:34,686
I suppose you're unhappy...
1327
01:35:36,189 --> 01:35:40,651
...because I haven't implemented
your domestic intelligence plan.
1328
01:35:40,693 --> 01:35:42,319
Yeah, you're correct.
1329
01:35:42,403 --> 01:35:45,906
I'm concerned these students
are being funded by foreign interests
1330
01:35:45,990 --> 01:35:49,910
whether they know it or not.
The FBI's useless in this area.
1331
01:35:49,994 --> 01:35:52,412
I want your full attention
on this matter.
1332
01:35:52,497 --> 01:35:55,207
We've tried, but so far
we've come up with nothing.
1333
01:35:55,291 --> 01:35:58,377
Then find something!
I want these leaks stopped.
1334
01:35:58,461 --> 01:36:02,256
Jack Anderson, The New York Times,
the State Department.
1335
01:36:02,340 --> 01:36:05,342
- I wanna know who's talking.
- I'm sure you realize
1336
01:36:05,426 --> 01:36:07,678
that this is a tricky area,
1337
01:36:07,720 --> 01:36:11,390
given our charter and
the Congressional oversight committee.
1338
01:36:11,474 --> 01:36:15,269
Screw congressional oversight.
I know damn well, going back to the '50s
1339
01:36:15,353 --> 01:36:19,147
this agency reports what it wants
and buries what it wants.
1340
01:36:19,232 --> 01:36:24,236
- Pay close attention to this.
- Is something else bothering you?
1341
01:36:24,320 --> 01:36:25,904
Yes.
1342
01:36:25,989 --> 01:36:28,615
It involves some old
and forgotten papers...
1343
01:36:29,826 --> 01:36:32,035
...things I signed as vice president.
1344
01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:37,249
I want the original in my office
and I don't want copies anywhere else.
1345
01:36:38,459 --> 01:36:41,128
You're referring, I believe,
1346
01:36:41,212 --> 01:36:44,548
to chairing
the special operations group
1347
01:36:44,632 --> 01:36:47,467
- as vice president.
- Yeah.
1348
01:36:48,761 --> 01:36:51,596
As you know, that was unique.
1349
01:36:53,349 --> 01:36:58,103
Not an operation so much
as an organic phenomenon.
1350
01:36:58,187 --> 01:37:02,524
It grew, it changed shape,
1351
01:37:02,608 --> 01:37:06,320
it developed appetites.
1352
01:37:07,613 --> 01:37:12,617
It's not unusual in such cases
that things aren't committed to paper.
1353
01:37:13,619 --> 01:37:15,537
That could be very embarrassing.
1354
01:37:16,748 --> 01:37:21,293
I, for one, saw to it that my name was
never connected with these operations.
1355
01:37:22,253 --> 01:37:23,337
Diem.
1356
01:37:27,383 --> 01:37:28,967
Trujillo.
1357
01:37:29,052 --> 01:37:30,344
Lumumba.
1358
01:37:30,428 --> 01:37:31,636
Guatemala.
1359
01:37:34,015 --> 01:37:36,141
Iran.
1360
01:37:36,684 --> 01:37:37,809
Cuba.
1361
01:37:46,152 --> 01:37:50,405
It's a shame you didn't
take similar precautions, Dick.
1362
01:37:55,953 --> 01:37:59,915
I'm interested in those documents
that put your people together
1363
01:37:59,999 --> 01:38:02,459
with the gangster elements.
1364
01:38:03,795 --> 01:38:06,838
- All the documents.
- President Kennedy threatened
1365
01:38:06,923 --> 01:38:10,175
to smash the CIA into 1,000 pieces.
1366
01:38:10,259 --> 01:38:12,302
You could do the same.
1367
01:38:14,430 --> 01:38:16,556
I'm not Jack Kennedy. Uh...
1368
01:38:16,641 --> 01:38:21,436
- Your agency is secure.
- Not if I give you all the cards.
1369
01:38:27,318 --> 01:38:31,655
I promised the American people
peace with honor in Southeast Asia.
1370
01:38:33,116 --> 01:38:37,244
That may take time.
Two, maybe three years.
1371
01:38:37,328 --> 01:38:40,956
But, in the meantime,
your agency will continue
1372
01:38:41,040 --> 01:38:43,500
at current levels of funding.
1373
01:38:45,002 --> 01:38:48,088
Current levels may not be sufficient.
1374
01:38:48,172 --> 01:38:53,093
Well, the president will support
a reasonable request for an increase.
1375
01:38:53,177 --> 01:38:54,886
And me?
1376
01:38:56,389 --> 01:38:59,808
of course,
you will continue as DCI, Dick.
1377
01:39:00,852 --> 01:39:02,811
You're doing a magnificent job.
1378
01:39:05,148 --> 01:39:07,732
Of course, I accept. I'm flattered.
1379
01:39:09,068 --> 01:39:14,197
And I want you to know that
I serve only one president at a time.
1380
01:39:14,282 --> 01:39:19,369
Yes. And you'll give
General Cushman full access.
1381
01:39:23,207 --> 01:39:25,876
It could take a little time.
1382
01:39:25,918 --> 01:39:28,670
But I'll order a search
for your papers.
1383
01:39:28,754 --> 01:39:31,590
- Good.
- It does raise...
1384
01:39:31,674 --> 01:39:34,885
- ...a troubling issue.
- What?
1385
01:39:34,927 --> 01:39:37,304
Castro.
1386
01:39:38,556 --> 01:39:42,350
- Yes?
- We have recent intelligence
1387
01:39:42,435 --> 01:39:45,437
that a Soviet nuclear submarine
1388
01:39:45,521 --> 01:39:50,942
- has docked at Cienfuegos.
- We'll launch a formal protest.
1389
01:39:51,027 --> 01:39:55,238
I don't think we can treat this
as a formality.
1390
01:39:56,782 --> 01:40:01,828
Mr. Kennedy gave the Russians a verbal
promise that he would not invade Cuba.
1391
01:40:01,913 --> 01:40:05,957
But you authorized Dr. Kissinger
to put this in writing?
1392
01:40:08,961 --> 01:40:13,173
- Are you tapping Kissinger?
- My job, unpleasant at times,
1393
01:40:13,257 --> 01:40:15,592
is to know what others
don't want me to know.
1394
01:40:15,676 --> 01:40:19,137
Not if you have spies
in the White House.
1395
01:40:19,222 --> 01:40:22,349
It is not my practice
to spy on the president.
1396
01:40:22,433 --> 01:40:26,144
Dr. Kissinger manages to convey his
innermost secrets to the world
1397
01:40:26,229 --> 01:40:28,063
without my help.
1398
01:40:29,357 --> 01:40:31,191
Dick...
1399
01:40:31,275 --> 01:40:34,986
We've lived with communism in Cuba
for ten years.
1400
01:40:35,071 --> 01:40:38,698
But it's never been the policy
of this government to accept that.
1401
01:40:38,783 --> 01:40:43,036
- And it's certainly not CIA policy.
- CIA policy?
1402
01:40:43,120 --> 01:40:47,332
The CIA has no policy
except what I dictate to you.
1403
01:40:49,919 --> 01:40:54,506
I tried to, uh, adjust to the world
as it is today,
1404
01:40:54,590 --> 01:40:58,176
not as you or I wanted it
to be ten years ago.
1405
01:40:58,261 --> 01:41:01,972
Is that why you and Kissinger
are negotiating with the Chinese?
1406
01:41:03,307 --> 01:41:07,435
This is a very dangerous direction,
Mr. President.
1407
01:41:07,520 --> 01:41:11,690
Terrible consequences can result
from such enormous errors of judgment.
1408
01:41:13,693 --> 01:41:17,571
If we were able to separate
China from Russia once and for all,
1409
01:41:17,655 --> 01:41:20,198
we can, we could create
a balance of power
1410
01:41:20,283 --> 01:41:22,909
that would secure peace
into the next century.
1411
01:41:22,994 --> 01:41:26,413
And offer Cuba to the Russians
as a consolation prize?
1412
01:41:28,541 --> 01:41:34,254
- Cuba would be a small price to pay.
- So President Kennedy thought.
1413
01:41:38,676 --> 01:41:43,179
I never thought Kennedy
was ready for the presidency.
1414
01:41:47,643 --> 01:41:49,603
Well, now...
1415
01:41:49,687 --> 01:41:52,355
...I would never, uh...
1416
01:41:52,440 --> 01:41:55,150
...never consider...
1417
01:41:56,694 --> 01:41:58,778
His death was awful.
1418
01:41:59,905 --> 01:42:02,365
It was an awful thing
for this country.
1419
01:42:04,660 --> 01:42:06,036
Yeah.
1420
01:42:08,664 --> 01:42:11,291
Do you ever think of death, Dick?
1421
01:42:12,710 --> 01:42:16,588
Flowers are a continual reminder
of our mortality.
1422
01:42:17,590 --> 01:42:20,717
- Do you appreciate flowers?
- No.
1423
01:42:22,345 --> 01:42:25,597
No, they make me sick
and they smell like death.
1424
01:42:27,725 --> 01:42:30,060
I had two brothers die young.
1425
01:42:31,896 --> 01:42:33,855
Let me tell you,
1426
01:42:33,939 --> 01:42:36,483
there are worse things than death.
1427
01:42:36,567 --> 01:42:38,026
Yes.
1428
01:42:41,030 --> 01:42:43,782
There's such a thing as evil.
1429
01:42:46,243 --> 01:42:50,664
You must be familiar
with my favorite poem by Yeats,
1430
01:42:50,748 --> 01:42:52,749
The Second Coming.
1431
01:42:55,419 --> 01:42:57,837
Black Irish, very moving.
1432
01:43:00,424 --> 01:43:05,136
Turning and turning
in the widening gyre
1433
01:43:05,262 --> 01:43:09,349
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
1434
01:43:09,433 --> 01:43:12,435
Things fall apart
1435
01:43:12,520 --> 01:43:16,314
The center cannot hold
1436
01:43:16,399 --> 01:43:20,777
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
1437
01:43:20,861 --> 01:43:25,907
And everywhere, the ceremony
of innocence is lost
1438
01:43:25,991 --> 01:43:30,245
The best lack all conviction
1439
01:43:30,329 --> 01:43:36,292
And the worst are full
of passionate intensity
1440
01:43:38,796 --> 01:43:41,631
But it ends so beautifully ominous.
1441
01:43:43,342 --> 01:43:46,177
What rough beast
1442
01:43:46,303 --> 01:43:50,265
Its hour come round at last
1443
01:43:50,349 --> 01:43:55,353
Slouches toward Bethlehem
to be born?
1444
01:43:57,690 --> 01:43:59,190
Yes.
1445
01:44:00,484 --> 01:44:04,112
This country stands at such a juncture.
1446
01:44:09,577 --> 01:44:11,161
Manolo?
1447
01:44:15,166 --> 01:44:16,583
Mano?
1448
01:44:16,667 --> 01:44:19,377
- Mr. President.
- Yeah.
1449
01:44:19,462 --> 01:44:22,922
I'm sorry. I was asleep.
1450
01:44:24,175 --> 01:44:25,925
What can I get you?
1451
01:44:27,344 --> 01:44:30,013
- Well, you know.
- of course.
1452
01:44:44,403 --> 01:44:47,238
Do you miss Cuba, Manolo?
1453
01:44:48,407 --> 01:44:50,366
Yes, Mr. President.
1454
01:44:55,539 --> 01:44:59,959
We let you down, didn't we?
Your people.
1455
01:45:00,044 --> 01:45:03,087
That was Mr. Kennedy, sir.
1456
01:45:09,386 --> 01:45:12,263
You don't think he was a hero, do you?
1457
01:45:14,391 --> 01:45:17,227
He was a politician.
1458
01:45:26,987 --> 01:45:29,197
Did you cry when he died?
1459
01:45:33,452 --> 01:45:34,953
Yes, sir.
1460
01:45:36,539 --> 01:45:37,914
Why?
1461
01:45:39,291 --> 01:45:41,668
I don't know.
1462
01:45:43,003 --> 01:45:46,589
He made me...
1463
01:45:46,674 --> 01:45:49,259
...see the stars.
1464
01:45:56,141 --> 01:45:58,434
How did he do that?
1465
01:46:00,771 --> 01:46:02,480
Those kids.
1466
01:46:04,483 --> 01:46:08,027
Why do they hate me so much?
1467
01:47:46,418 --> 01:47:49,420
Hi, I'm Dick Nixon.
1468
01:47:49,546 --> 01:47:51,255
Hi, there.
1469
01:47:53,008 --> 01:47:54,968
- Where you from?
- Syracuse.
1470
01:47:55,052 --> 01:47:58,429
Oh, yeah, the, uh, orangemen.
1471
01:47:58,514 --> 01:48:01,099
Now, there's a football program.
1472
01:48:01,183 --> 01:48:05,395
Jim Brown and that other tailback,
1473
01:48:05,437 --> 01:48:08,606
- the one with the blood disease.
- Ernie Davis.
1474
01:48:08,691 --> 01:48:10,692
Yeah, right, right, right.
1475
01:48:10,943 --> 01:48:14,654
I used to play a little ball myself
at Whittier.
1476
01:48:14,738 --> 01:48:19,826
Of course, they used
to use me as a tackling dummy.
1477
01:48:19,910 --> 01:48:22,370
We didn't come here
to talk about football.
1478
01:48:24,832 --> 01:48:26,624
Yeah, I understand that.
1479
01:48:27,960 --> 01:48:31,587
- How old are you, young lady?
- Nineteen.
1480
01:48:32,297 --> 01:48:33,589
Yeah.
1481
01:48:34,466 --> 01:48:39,178
Well, probably most of you think
I'm a real SOB. I know that.
1482
01:48:39,263 --> 01:48:41,848
I understand how you feel.
But, you know,
1483
01:48:41,932 --> 01:48:44,642
I want peace too.
But peace with honor.
1484
01:48:44,727 --> 01:48:47,020
- What does that mean?
- Bullshit.
1485
01:48:47,104 --> 01:48:50,690
Well, you can't have peace
without a price.
1486
01:48:50,774 --> 01:48:54,444
Sometimes you have to be
willing to fight for peace,
1487
01:48:54,486 --> 01:48:56,487
and sometimes to die.
1488
01:48:56,613 --> 01:49:00,366
Yeah? Tell that to the GIs who are
gonna die tomorrow in Vietnam.
1489
01:49:00,451 --> 01:49:04,037
- What lets you kill women and children?
- What you have to understand
1490
01:49:04,121 --> 01:49:07,040
is we're willing to die
for what we believe in.
1491
01:49:07,124 --> 01:49:09,125
- That's the truth.
- Yeah.
1492
01:49:09,209 --> 01:49:10,626
Yeah.
1493
01:49:12,755 --> 01:49:16,507
Look, that man up there,
he lived in similar times.
1494
01:49:16,633 --> 01:49:20,970
Oh, he had chaos, civil war,
hatred between the races.
1495
01:49:21,055 --> 01:49:25,391
- This is all bullshit.
- Sometimes I go to the Lincoln Room
1496
01:49:25,476 --> 01:49:28,936
at the White House and just pray.
But, you know,
1497
01:49:29,021 --> 01:49:33,232
liberals act like idealism
belongs to them.
1498
01:49:33,317 --> 01:49:35,735
That's not true.
1499
01:49:35,819 --> 01:49:41,657
My family went Republican
because Lincoln freed the slaves.
1500
01:49:41,742 --> 01:49:43,951
My grandmother was an abolitionist.
1501
01:49:44,036 --> 01:49:48,164
It was Quakers who founded Whittier,
my hometown...
1502
01:49:48,248 --> 01:49:51,084
- Address the issues.
- ...to abolish slavery.
1503
01:49:51,168 --> 01:49:54,253
They were, you know,
conservative Bible folk,
1504
01:49:54,338 --> 01:49:58,299
but they had a powerful sense
of right and wrong.
1505
01:49:58,383 --> 01:50:01,761
Forty years ago,
I was like you.
1506
01:50:01,845 --> 01:50:06,432
- Looking for answers. See?
- Come on.
1507
01:50:06,517 --> 01:50:08,434
Tricky Dick himself.
1508
01:50:09,520 --> 01:50:14,732
My mother used to feed hobos
stopping over at our house.
1509
01:50:14,817 --> 01:50:16,275
We got him.
1510
01:50:16,360 --> 01:50:18,069
- Don't push, pig.
- Move away.
1511
01:50:18,153 --> 01:50:21,405
It's OK, Bob, we're just rapping,
my friends and I.
1512
01:50:21,490 --> 01:50:24,200
In fact, we agree on a lot of things,
don't we?
1513
01:50:24,284 --> 01:50:27,578
No, we don't.
You say you want to end the war,
1514
01:50:27,704 --> 01:50:33,334
- so why don't you?
- Change always comes slowly.
1515
01:50:34,378 --> 01:50:36,462
I pulled out more than half the troops.
1516
01:50:36,547 --> 01:50:40,091
I'm trying to cut the military budget
for the first time in 30 years.
1517
01:50:40,175 --> 01:50:42,135
I want a volunteer army.
1518
01:50:42,219 --> 01:50:45,096
But it's also a question
of American credibility.
1519
01:50:45,180 --> 01:50:47,932
- Our position in the world.
- Come on, Mr. Nixon.
1520
01:50:48,016 --> 01:50:52,687
- It's a civil war between Vietnamese.
- You don't want the war.
1521
01:50:52,771 --> 01:50:56,315
We don't want the war.
The Vietnamese don't want the war.
1522
01:50:56,400 --> 01:50:58,401
So why does it go on?
1523
01:51:03,907 --> 01:51:06,200
- You should be going, Mr. President.
- OK.
1524
01:51:06,869 --> 01:51:08,202
Please.
1525
01:51:11,248 --> 01:51:13,499
You can't stop it, can you?
1526
01:51:14,459 --> 01:51:16,127
Even if you wanted to.
1527
01:51:16,211 --> 01:51:19,964
'Cause it's not you, it's the system.
1528
01:51:20,048 --> 01:51:23,050
The system won't let you stop it.
1529
01:51:26,555 --> 01:51:29,515
There's... There's more at stake here
1530
01:51:29,600 --> 01:51:32,185
than what you want or what I want.
1531
01:51:32,269 --> 01:51:33,644
Then what's the point?
1532
01:51:33,770 --> 01:51:37,356
What's the point of being president?
You're powerless!
1533
01:51:37,441 --> 01:51:40,776
No! No, I'm not powerless.
1534
01:51:40,861 --> 01:51:43,654
Because I understand the system,
I believe I can...
1535
01:51:43,780 --> 01:51:47,158
I can control it,
maybe not control it totally,
1536
01:51:47,242 --> 01:51:49,994
but tame it enough
to make it do some good.
1537
01:51:51,371 --> 01:51:54,040
Sounds like you're talking
about a wild animal.
1538
01:51:57,377 --> 01:51:59,503
Yeah, maybe I am.
1539
01:51:59,588 --> 01:52:02,173
We really must go,
Mr. President. Please.
1540
01:52:02,257 --> 01:52:06,302
- Hey, what about the war, man?
- When you gonna get us out?
1541
01:52:06,386 --> 01:52:09,388
- The old man's moving.
- Move it. Get away.
1542
01:52:09,473 --> 01:52:12,141
She got it, Bob.
Nineteen-year-old college kid.
1543
01:52:12,226 --> 01:52:14,560
- What? Who?
- She understood something
1544
01:52:14,645 --> 01:52:17,563
that's taken me 25 years
in politics to understand.
1545
01:52:17,648 --> 01:52:21,317
The CIA, the Mafia,
those Wall Street bastards.
1546
01:52:21,401 --> 01:52:23,569
- Sir?
- The beast.
1547
01:52:23,654 --> 01:52:27,073
Nineteen-year-old kid.
She called it a wild animal.
1548
01:52:27,157 --> 01:52:28,658
Yes, sir.
1549
01:52:52,557 --> 01:52:56,435
In Washington, the size
of the crowds have swelled to over
1550
01:52:56,520 --> 01:53:00,606
a quarter of a million demonstrators
protesting the ongoing war in Vietnam.
1551
01:53:00,691 --> 01:53:03,442
There must be
a quarter million out there.
1552
01:53:03,527 --> 01:53:07,363
They've been at it for a whole year.
Young kids just like Tricia.
1553
01:53:09,116 --> 01:53:12,243
You think they got a point, Edgar?
1554
01:53:12,327 --> 01:53:18,040
- This whole damn system of government.
- Remember what Lenin said in 1917.
1555
01:53:18,125 --> 01:53:20,501
The power was lying in the street.
1556
01:53:20,585 --> 01:53:23,254
Just waiting for someone to pick it up.
1557
01:53:23,338 --> 01:53:25,631
Communists have never
been closer than now.
1558
01:53:25,716 --> 01:53:28,968
Now is the time to get back
to the old themes.
1559
01:53:29,052 --> 01:53:31,804
The ones that made you president.
1560
01:53:31,888 --> 01:53:34,307
Let the communists
know you're on to them.
1561
01:53:34,391 --> 01:53:37,601
Little bastards think they can
ruin Tricia's wedding
1562
01:53:37,686 --> 01:53:40,146
by dancing naked in the reflection pool.
1563
01:53:40,230 --> 01:53:43,149
Don't listen to 'em.
And don't quit.
1564
01:53:44,067 --> 01:53:47,403
Remember, Kennedy and King
were against the war.
1565
01:53:47,487 --> 01:53:49,280
Where are they now?
1566
01:53:51,366 --> 01:53:54,869
How the hell The Times got a hold of
this Ellsberg stuff is a disgrace.
1567
01:53:56,705 --> 01:53:59,415
Yeah. We can't keep a damn secret
in this government.
1568
01:53:59,499 --> 01:54:02,335
They're stealing papers
right out of this office.
1569
01:54:02,419 --> 01:54:04,545
Johnson had the same damn problem
1570
01:54:04,629 --> 01:54:07,673
- until he bugged his own office.
- We took that system out.
1571
01:54:07,758 --> 01:54:10,217
That was a mistake.
1572
01:54:10,302 --> 01:54:13,429
The White House was full
of Kennedy people then.
1573
01:54:13,513 --> 01:54:16,474
- It still is.
- Who's behind this?
1574
01:54:16,558 --> 01:54:20,895
Well, you have CIA people
all over this place.
1575
01:54:20,979 --> 01:54:25,358
Helms has seen to that.
Then there's Kissinger's staff.
1576
01:54:25,442 --> 01:54:29,528
Kissinger himself, I believe,
may be the leaker.
1577
01:54:29,613 --> 01:54:31,197
- Kissinger?
- Hmm.
1578
01:54:31,281 --> 01:54:34,033
He's obsessed with his own image.
1579
01:54:34,117 --> 01:54:37,370
He wants his Nobel Peace Prize
a little too much.
1580
01:54:37,454 --> 01:54:40,206
And as the late Dr. King proved,
1581
01:54:40,290 --> 01:54:43,584
even an ape can win a prize
with good press.
1582
01:54:43,668 --> 01:54:46,712
Jesus, I'd like to book him
into a psychiatrist's office.
1583
01:54:46,797 --> 01:54:50,549
He comes in here ranting and raving,
dumping his crap all over the place.
1584
01:54:52,427 --> 01:54:55,846
- Could you prove it, Edgar?
- Mr. President,
1585
01:54:55,972 --> 01:54:57,973
I always get my man.
1586
01:54:59,351 --> 01:55:00,851
Yeah, you do.
1587
01:55:00,977 --> 01:55:04,271
This damn tie. Could you help me?
1588
01:55:04,356 --> 01:55:05,773
Yeah.
1589
01:55:09,486 --> 01:55:12,655
- See, I'd be bugging myself.
- Look.
1590
01:55:14,324 --> 01:55:18,577
- Who'd get the tapes?
- No one. Your property.
1591
01:55:19,663 --> 01:55:21,747
And it would prove your case.
1592
01:55:21,832 --> 01:55:25,626
Why do you think Kissinger
is taping all your calls?
1593
01:55:26,795 --> 01:55:28,629
For history.
1594
01:55:29,881 --> 01:55:31,757
His word against yours.
1595
01:55:31,842 --> 01:55:35,261
And right now, he's got the records.
1596
01:55:39,516 --> 01:55:42,017
I'll get Manolo to do this.
1597
01:55:42,602 --> 01:55:44,728
Thanks.
1598
01:55:44,813 --> 01:55:46,897
You know, Churchill once said to me,
1599
01:55:47,023 --> 01:55:49,442
"If you want your own
history written properly,
1600
01:55:49,526 --> 01:55:51,527
you better write it yourself."
1601
01:55:51,611 --> 01:55:53,737
The only thing is, Edgar,
1602
01:55:53,822 --> 01:55:56,198
I don't want this to come back
and haunt me.
1603
01:55:56,283 --> 01:55:59,160
It won't, as long as I'm here.
1604
01:55:59,828 --> 01:56:01,328
Good.
1605
01:56:08,044 --> 01:56:09,628
This way.
1606
01:56:15,051 --> 01:56:16,760
What's wrong?
1607
01:56:17,762 --> 01:56:20,222
We're just not going
to buckle to these people.
1608
01:56:20,307 --> 01:56:22,391
No more war!
1609
01:56:29,232 --> 01:56:31,400
- It's beautiful.
- OK.
1610
01:56:36,239 --> 01:56:37,490
Yes, thank you.
1611
01:56:47,083 --> 01:56:49,919
Princess, may I?
1612
01:56:51,254 --> 01:56:52,755
Thank you.
1613
01:57:05,769 --> 01:57:09,355
I'm very proud of you today,
Princess. very.
1614
01:57:09,439 --> 01:57:10,773
Thank you, Daddy.
1615
01:57:26,915 --> 01:57:28,290
Yeah?
1616
01:57:28,375 --> 01:57:32,378
Some very secret essays on Vietnam have
been leaked to The New York Times.
1617
01:57:32,462 --> 01:57:34,713
I know, I know. Not now, Chuck.
1618
01:57:40,971 --> 01:57:43,389
- The New York Times.
- Get Ron over here.
1619
01:57:47,811 --> 01:57:50,479
It's the happiest day of my life.
1620
01:57:56,319 --> 01:58:00,114
The New York Times began
publishing the first in a series
1621
01:58:00,198 --> 01:58:05,744
of 47 volumes of top-secret Pentagon
tapes relating to the war in Vietnam.
1622
01:58:05,829 --> 01:58:09,206
The papers, leaked by defense analyst
Daniel Ellsberg,
1623
01:58:09,291 --> 01:58:14,044
reveal a pattern of government lies
and American involvement in the war.
1624
01:58:14,170 --> 01:58:17,256
Mr. President,
we are in a revolutionary situation.
1625
01:58:17,340 --> 01:58:21,010
We are under siege.
The Black Panthers, the Weathermen.
1626
01:58:21,052 --> 01:58:24,221
The State Department under Rogers
is leaking like a sieve.
1627
01:58:24,306 --> 01:58:27,766
And now this little,
insignificant little shit, Ellsberg,
1628
01:58:27,851 --> 01:58:30,686
publishing all the diplomatic secrets
of this country
1629
01:58:30,770 --> 01:58:33,731
is destroying our ability
to conduct foreign policy.
1630
01:58:33,815 --> 01:58:36,567
I wonder if people here wouldn't
think ten years in prison
1631
01:58:36,651 --> 01:58:39,194
was cheap if they could contribute
to ending this war.
1632
01:58:39,279 --> 01:58:44,825
The man has become a drug fiend. He
shot people from helicopters in Vietnam.
1633
01:58:44,909 --> 01:58:48,704
He's had sexual relations with his wife
in front of their children.
1634
01:58:48,788 --> 01:58:52,207
He sees a shrink in LA.
The man's all fucked up.
1635
01:58:52,292 --> 01:58:55,044
And now he's trying
to look good for the liberals.
1636
01:58:55,086 --> 01:58:58,088
And if he gets away with it,
everybody will follow his lead.
1637
01:58:58,214 --> 01:59:02,051
- This man must be stopped at all costs.
- I'm as frustrated as you are, Henry,
1638
01:59:02,093 --> 01:59:05,721
but don't you think this is a Democrat
problem? They started the war.
1639
01:59:05,805 --> 01:59:09,850
- It makes them look bad.
- But, Mr. President, the Russians,
1640
01:59:09,934 --> 01:59:12,853
the Vietnamese...
it makes you look like a weakling!
1641
01:59:12,937 --> 01:59:16,315
Goddamn it. How long have we had
this jackass dog? Two years?
1642
01:59:16,399 --> 01:59:19,652
Still doesn't come. We need a dog
that looks happy when the press is here.
1643
01:59:19,736 --> 01:59:22,321
- He's photogenic. Try new biscuits.
- Ah, fuck it.
1644
01:59:22,405 --> 01:59:24,948
He doesn't like me, John.
It's your fault, Henry.
1645
01:59:25,033 --> 01:59:28,744
- I beg your pardon?
- It's your people talking to the press.
1646
01:59:28,828 --> 01:59:32,206
This Ellsberg, wasn't he
a student of yours at Harvard?
1647
01:59:32,290 --> 01:59:35,501
I mean, he's your idea, Henry.
So why are you running for cover?
1648
01:59:35,585 --> 01:59:37,670
Yes, we taught
a class together at Harvard,
1649
01:59:37,754 --> 01:59:40,964
but you know these back-stabbing
Ivy League intellectuals.
1650
01:59:41,049 --> 01:59:44,885
- No, I don't, Henry.
- Prosecute The New York Times.
1651
01:59:44,969 --> 01:59:48,097
- Go for injunction.
- Yeah, but it's not, bottom line,
1652
01:59:48,139 --> 01:59:50,099
gonna change a goddamn thing, John.
1653
01:59:50,141 --> 01:59:53,894
The... question is how do we
screw Ellsberg so bad,
1654
01:59:53,978 --> 01:59:56,355
it puts the fear of God
into all leakers?
1655
01:59:56,439 --> 01:59:59,775
The other issue is how the hell
we stop these leaks once and for all?
1656
01:59:59,859 --> 02:00:03,654
Now, someone is talking to the press.
We gotta stop these leaks at any cost.
1657
02:00:03,738 --> 02:00:06,156
You hear me?
Then we can go for the big pick:
1658
02:00:06,282 --> 02:00:08,283
- China, Russia.
- Sir, if I might?
1659
02:00:08,368 --> 02:00:11,870
- Go, Chuck.
- We can do this ourselves.
1660
02:00:11,955 --> 02:00:14,456
The CIA and the FBI
aren't doing the job.
1661
02:00:14,541 --> 02:00:19,086
Now, we can create our own intelligence
unit right here inside the White House.
1662
02:00:22,090 --> 02:00:26,593
- Well, why not?
- Our own intelligence plugs the leaks?
1663
02:00:26,678 --> 02:00:30,180
- Yeah. Like plumbers.
- Plumbers.
1664
02:00:33,810 --> 02:00:36,145
I like it. I like the idea.
1665
02:00:37,147 --> 02:00:40,441
Yeah, but is it legal?
Has it ever been done before?
1666
02:00:41,568 --> 02:00:43,152
Oh, sure.
1667
02:00:43,194 --> 02:00:46,780
Lyndon, JFK, FDR.
1668
02:00:48,032 --> 02:00:52,494
I mean, Truman cut the shit out of my
investigation of the Hiss case in '48.
1669
02:00:52,579 --> 02:00:55,414
- What he did was illegal.
- With this kind of thing,
1670
02:00:55,498 --> 02:00:59,293
you got to be brutal. A leak happens,
the whole damn place should be fired.
1671
02:00:59,377 --> 02:01:02,755
Really, I mean, you do it
like the Germans in World War ll.
1672
02:01:02,839 --> 02:01:05,758
They went through these towns,
and a sniper hit one of 'em,
1673
02:01:05,842 --> 02:01:08,177
they'd line the whole
goddamn town up and say,
1674
02:01:08,219 --> 02:01:10,429
"Until you talk,
you're all getting shot."
1675
02:01:10,513 --> 02:01:12,973
Really, I think that's
what has to be done.
1676
02:01:13,057 --> 02:01:15,934
I don't think you
can be Mr. Nice Guy anymore.
1677
02:01:16,019 --> 02:01:19,313
You just whisper the word to me,
and I'll shoot Ellsberg myself.
1678
02:01:19,397 --> 02:01:23,942
- We're not Germans.
- Yeah. Ellsberg's not the issue.
1679
02:01:24,027 --> 02:01:27,237
The Pentagon Papers aren't the issue.
1680
02:01:27,363 --> 02:01:30,324
It's the lie.
1681
02:01:30,408 --> 02:01:33,619
- Mr. Hiss is lying.
- Yeah.
1682
02:01:34,746 --> 02:01:36,538
Remember, John, back in '48?
1683
02:01:36,623 --> 02:01:39,458
Nobody believed Alger Hiss
was a communist except me.
1684
02:01:39,542 --> 02:01:42,711
They loved Hiss like they
love this Ellsberg character.
1685
02:01:42,796 --> 02:01:45,547
He was their kind:
Ivy League establishment.
1686
02:01:45,632 --> 02:01:49,384
- I am not, and never have been...
- Mr. Hiss is lying.
1687
02:01:49,469 --> 02:01:52,638
- Mr. Hiss?
- I was dirt to them, nothing.
1688
02:01:52,722 --> 02:01:56,558
- And Dick kicked the shit out of 'em.
- I wouldn't have if Hiss hadn't lied
1689
02:01:56,643 --> 02:02:00,103
about knowing Chambers. The
documents were old and out of date,
1690
02:02:00,188 --> 02:02:02,731
just like these Pentagon Papers.
1691
02:02:02,816 --> 02:02:05,984
The key thing we proved
was that Hiss was a liar.
1692
02:02:06,069 --> 02:02:08,821
Then people bought that he was a spy.
1693
02:02:08,905 --> 02:02:10,697
It's the lie that gets you.
1694
02:02:12,242 --> 02:02:14,827
All right, Henry,
we're gonna go your way.
1695
02:02:14,911 --> 02:02:17,162
Crush this Ellsberg
same way we did Hiss.
1696
02:02:17,247 --> 02:02:19,081
There is no other choice,
Mr. President.
1697
02:02:19,165 --> 02:02:22,709
We�ll hit him so hard, he'll look
like everything that's sick and evil
1698
02:02:22,794 --> 02:02:25,712
about the eastern establishment.
You and your plumbers,
1699
02:02:25,797 --> 02:02:27,381
you get all the dirt
on this guy.
1700
02:02:27,465 --> 02:02:30,175
See him going to the bathroom
in front of the public.
1701
02:02:30,260 --> 02:02:32,761
And when we finish with him,
they'll crucify him.
1702
02:02:32,846 --> 02:02:34,763
Then we'll get our second term.
1703
02:02:50,196 --> 02:02:52,281
The claws are out, Frank.
1704
02:02:53,825 --> 02:02:56,702
- You seen the guys?
- They're around.
1705
02:02:56,786 --> 02:02:58,787
Why? You got a customer?
1706
02:03:01,249 --> 02:03:04,960
- The White House.
- You're fuckin' me.
1707
02:03:05,044 --> 02:03:08,255
We're gonna be plumbers, Frank.
We're gonna plug leaks.
1708
02:03:09,257 --> 02:03:12,426
- Who are we workin' for?
- A guy named Gordon Liddy.
1709
02:03:12,510 --> 02:03:15,721
He thinks he's Martin Bormann.
He wants to meet you.
1710
02:03:17,473 --> 02:03:21,935
- Gordon Liddy, Frank Sturgis.
- Hey, Frank.
1711
02:03:27,442 --> 02:03:31,194
Did you see the look on
Hoover's face? He's redder than a beet.
1712
02:03:31,279 --> 02:03:33,447
That little closet fairy's
got no choice.
1713
02:03:33,531 --> 02:03:36,575
He hates McGovern and Kennedy
so much, he's gotta love me.
1714
02:03:36,659 --> 02:03:40,245
- And Lyndon?
- He looked old, didn't he?
1715
02:03:40,330 --> 02:03:43,749
- Have you talked to Lyndon?
- I asked, "Lyndon, what would you do
1716
02:03:43,833 --> 02:03:47,920
on a scale of one to ten?" He said,
"Bomb the shit out of Hanoi, boy.
1717
02:03:48,004 --> 02:03:50,088
Bomb them where they live."
1718
02:03:50,173 --> 02:03:55,135
Yeah. Bob, tell Trini I'll be
in Key Biscayne at 4:00.
1719
02:03:55,219 --> 02:03:57,679
- With Pat?
- No, alone.
1720
02:03:57,764 --> 02:04:00,265
Pat's staying here with Mrs. Eisenhower.
1721
02:04:00,350 --> 02:04:02,517
- Yes, sir.
- Good.
1722
02:04:04,687 --> 02:04:07,773
Hi, Buddy. What are you doing here?
1723
02:04:07,857 --> 02:04:09,316
I missed you.
1724
02:04:10,944 --> 02:04:13,612
Why don't we go down
to Key Biscayne together?
1725
02:04:13,696 --> 02:04:16,907
Because I have to relax.
1726
02:04:20,662 --> 02:04:25,415
You know, I was just thinking tonight.
1727
02:04:25,541 --> 02:04:30,504
Remember when you used to drive me
on dates with other boys?
1728
02:04:30,588 --> 02:04:34,257
- Yeah.
- Didn't let me out of your sight.
1729
02:04:35,218 --> 02:04:37,803
Yeah. Sure.
1730
02:04:39,555 --> 02:04:41,556
It was a long time ago.
1731
02:04:43,351 --> 02:04:46,561
Yes, it's been a long time.
1732
02:04:51,943 --> 02:04:53,735
Now, look, Buddy.
1733
02:04:56,030 --> 02:04:58,031
I don't need that.
1734
02:05:03,955 --> 02:05:06,289
I'm not Jack Kennedy.
1735
02:05:09,961 --> 02:05:12,838
No, you're not.
1736
02:05:12,922 --> 02:05:17,926
So stop comparing yourself to him.
You have no reason to.
1737
02:05:19,429 --> 02:05:24,766
You have everything you ever wanted.
You earned it.
1738
02:05:24,851 --> 02:05:30,105
- Why can't you just enjoy it?
- I do.
1739
02:05:30,189 --> 02:05:35,902
- I do in my own way.
- Then what are you scared of, honey?
1740
02:05:35,987 --> 02:05:41,283
I'm not scared, Buddy.
You don't understand.
1741
02:05:44,454 --> 02:05:47,456
They're playing for keeps, Buddy.
1742
02:05:47,498 --> 02:05:50,917
You know, the press, the kids,
the liberals out there.
1743
02:05:51,002 --> 02:05:53,962
They're out there trying
to figure out how to tear me down.
1744
02:05:54,047 --> 02:05:57,382
- They're all your enemies?
- Yes.
1745
02:05:57,467 --> 02:06:02,596
- You, personally?
- Yes!
1746
02:06:03,723 --> 02:06:09,144
Listen, this is about me.
Why can't you understand that?
1747
02:06:09,228 --> 02:06:11,313
I mean, you of all people.
1748
02:06:12,482 --> 02:06:15,692
It's not the war. It's Nixon!
1749
02:06:17,153 --> 02:06:20,280
It's not Vietnam, it's Nixon.
They want to destroy Nixon.
1750
02:06:20,364 --> 02:06:24,910
If I expose myself just the slightest
bit, they�ll tear my insides out.
1751
02:06:24,994 --> 02:06:28,747
You want that? You know?
You want to see that, Buddy?
1752
02:06:28,831 --> 02:06:30,373
It's not pretty!
1753
02:06:31,918 --> 02:06:34,544
Sometimes I think that's
what you want, Dick.
1754
02:06:34,629 --> 02:06:36,838
What the hell are you saying?
1755
02:06:38,466 --> 02:06:40,092
Are you drunk?
1756
02:06:41,552 --> 02:06:44,054
Jesus, you sound just like them now.
1757
02:06:46,182 --> 02:06:48,642
I gotta keep fighting, Buddy,
for the country.
1758
02:06:48,726 --> 02:06:52,104
These people running things, the elite!
1759
02:06:52,188 --> 02:06:55,190
They're just soft, chicken-shit faggots.
1760
02:06:56,692 --> 02:06:59,069
They don't have
the long-term vision anymore.
1761
02:06:59,153 --> 02:07:02,989
They just want to cover their ass and
meet girls and tear each other down.
1762
02:07:03,074 --> 02:07:06,868
Oh, God, this country's in deep,
deep, deep trouble, Buddy.
1763
02:07:06,953 --> 02:07:09,454
I have to see this through, you know.
1764
02:07:09,539 --> 02:07:12,290
Mother would have expected
no less of me.
1765
02:07:15,169 --> 02:07:17,087
I'm sorry, Buddy.
1766
02:07:19,841 --> 02:07:22,968
I just wish you knew
how much I love you, that's all.
1767
02:07:23,052 --> 02:07:28,223
It took me a long time to fall
in love with you, Dick, but I did.
1768
02:07:29,100 --> 02:07:31,810
And it doesn't make you happy.
1769
02:07:31,894 --> 02:07:34,563
- You want them to love you.
- No, I don't.
1770
02:07:34,605 --> 02:07:37,482
- I'm not Jack Kennedy.
- They never will, Dick.
1771
02:07:37,567 --> 02:07:42,320
No matter how many elections you win,
they never will.
1772
02:08:07,555 --> 02:08:09,514
Gentlemen, the president.
1773
02:08:19,817 --> 02:08:23,528
Gentlemen, this is our last damn leak.
1774
02:08:23,613 --> 02:08:26,198
It's no way to run
a goddamn government.
1775
02:08:27,658 --> 02:08:31,036
We're gonna prosecute Ellsberg
and anyone else who wants to leak
1776
02:08:31,120 --> 02:08:35,290
and that means anyone here
who crosses the line, I'm going after.
1777
02:08:35,374 --> 02:08:39,169
OK? The permissiveness
of this year is over.
1778
02:08:39,253 --> 02:08:42,714
The belts are coming off and people
are gonna go to the woodshed.
1779
02:08:42,798 --> 02:08:47,093
'Cause the government cannot survive
with a counter-government inside it.
1780
02:08:47,178 --> 02:08:50,555
I know how traitors operate.
I've dealt with them all my life.
1781
02:08:50,640 --> 02:08:52,557
I've worked with these cases.
1782
02:08:52,642 --> 02:08:55,518
It's never little people.
The little people do not leak.
1783
02:08:55,603 --> 02:08:59,064
It's always some smooth son of a bitch
like Ellsberg.
1784
02:08:59,148 --> 02:09:04,069
The Harvard Hebrew boys who leak.
1785
02:09:04,153 --> 02:09:08,782
I hear people say, "But Ellsberg
did it for the good of the country.
1786
02:09:08,866 --> 02:09:11,326
People's right to know."
1787
02:09:12,328 --> 02:09:16,831
Well, that's in every case.
Alger Hiss said the same thing.
1788
02:09:16,916 --> 02:09:19,542
So did the Rosenbergs.
Look what happened to them.
1789
02:09:19,627 --> 02:09:22,170
Old Sparky got 'em.
1790
02:09:22,255 --> 02:09:24,547
They always
underestimated old Nixon, see.
1791
02:09:24,632 --> 02:09:28,134
We're gonna fight just as dirty.
This is sudden death, gentlemen.
1792
02:09:28,219 --> 02:09:30,136
We're gonna get 'em on the ground,
1793
02:09:30,221 --> 02:09:33,473
stick in our spikes and twist
and show them no mercy.
1794
02:09:33,557 --> 02:09:38,228
So, uh, starting today,
no one in this room talks to the press
1795
02:09:38,312 --> 02:09:42,565
without checking with Mr. Haldeman here.
1796
02:09:42,650 --> 02:09:46,945
That means we're on complete freeze
on The New York Times, CBS,
1797
02:09:47,029 --> 02:09:50,865
PBS, Jack Anderson
and The Washington Post.
1798
02:09:50,950 --> 02:09:54,703
Mr. Haldeman is the chief high
executioner from now on.
1799
02:09:54,745 --> 02:09:59,124
Don't come whining to me when he tells
you to do something. That's me talking.
1800
02:09:59,208 --> 02:10:02,585
If you do come to me,
I'm tougher than he is.
1801
02:10:02,670 --> 02:10:06,381
Anyone who screws with us,
his fucking head comes off.
1802
02:10:06,465 --> 02:10:07,757
You got that?
1803
02:10:11,762 --> 02:10:14,264
Well, thank you very much, gentlemen.
1804
02:10:14,348 --> 02:10:16,349
Good day to you.
1805
02:10:22,898 --> 02:10:27,652
History will never be the same.
1806
02:10:27,737 --> 02:10:30,655
We've taken a step into the future.
1807
02:10:30,740 --> 02:10:32,615
We have changed the world.
1808
02:10:32,700 --> 02:10:35,869
- Five, ten.
- What else you got?
1809
02:11:01,437 --> 02:11:04,689
I must say, you look very good,
Mr. Chairman.
1810
02:11:07,234 --> 02:11:09,819
Looks can be deceiving.
1811
02:11:09,945 --> 02:11:13,782
We know what risks you've taken
in inviting us here.
1812
02:11:13,824 --> 02:11:15,700
I took no risk.
1813
02:11:15,785 --> 02:11:19,746
I am too old to be afraid
of what anyone thinks.
1814
02:11:27,546 --> 02:11:30,840
Don't ever trust them.
They never tell the truth
1815
02:11:30,966 --> 02:11:33,593
or honor their commitments.
1816
02:11:33,677 --> 02:11:37,055
Vietnamese are like Russians.
1817
02:11:37,139 --> 02:11:38,807
Both are dogs.
1818
02:11:38,849 --> 02:11:41,935
Mr. Chairman,
there's an old saying in my country:
1819
02:11:42,019 --> 02:11:45,522
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
1820
02:11:47,149 --> 02:11:50,568
That has
the added virtue of being true.
1821
02:11:50,653 --> 02:11:53,738
Your writings have
changed the world, Mr. Chairman.
1822
02:11:57,576 --> 02:12:02,831
Bullshit.
My writings mean absolutely nothing.
1823
02:12:05,584 --> 02:12:10,296
- I want to know your secret.
- My secret, Mr. Chairman?
1824
02:12:16,887 --> 02:12:19,639
How a fat man gets so many girls.
1825
02:12:23,477 --> 02:12:28,273
Power, Mr. Chairman,
is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
1826
02:12:34,196 --> 02:12:38,616
You know,
I voted for you in your last election.
1827
02:12:38,701 --> 02:12:40,869
I was the, uh, lesser of two evils.
1828
02:12:42,496 --> 02:12:45,206
You are too modest,
Mr. Nixon.
1829
02:12:46,709 --> 02:12:49,502
You are as evil as I am.
1830
02:12:50,379 --> 02:12:52,922
We are the new emperors.
1831
02:12:54,300 --> 02:12:59,721
We are both from poor families
and others pay to feed the hunger in us.
1832
02:13:00,639 --> 02:13:03,641
In my case, millions of reactionaries.
1833
02:13:03,726 --> 02:13:07,562
In your case, millions of Vietnamese.
1834
02:13:07,646 --> 02:13:10,482
Civil war is always
the cruelest kind of war,
1835
02:13:10,566 --> 02:13:13,318
but our two nations
were forged by revolution.
1836
02:13:13,402 --> 02:13:15,236
The United States, China.
1837
02:13:15,321 --> 02:13:19,699
Peace? Is peace
all you're interested in?
1838
02:13:19,783 --> 02:13:22,368
The real war is in us.
1839
02:13:27,333 --> 02:13:31,085
History is a symptom of our disease.
1840
02:13:36,091 --> 02:13:38,843
In a surprise Christmas
bombing of Hanoi,
1841
02:13:38,928 --> 02:13:41,262
President Nixon delivered more tonnage
1842
02:13:41,347 --> 02:13:44,349
than was used at Dresden
in World War ll.
1843
02:13:44,433 --> 02:13:48,645
It is without doubt the most brutal
bombing in American history.
1844
02:13:48,729 --> 02:13:52,190
Newspapers are calling it
a Stone Age tactic
1845
02:13:52,274 --> 02:13:55,944
and Nixon a maddened tyrant.
Nixon's response:
1846
02:13:55,986 --> 02:14:00,907
"When the Vietnamese take the Paris
peace talks seriously, I�ll stop."
1847
02:14:15,839 --> 02:14:17,840
A penny for your thoughts.
1848
02:14:20,803 --> 02:14:22,971
Just think of the...
1849
02:14:23,013 --> 02:14:24,806
Think of the life Mao's led.
1850
02:14:26,225 --> 02:14:29,602
In '52, I... I called him a monster.
1851
02:14:30,646 --> 02:14:34,440
Now he could be our most important ally.
1852
02:14:34,525 --> 02:14:37,860
Only Nixon could've done that.
1853
02:14:37,945 --> 02:14:40,113
You're a long way from Whittier.
1854
02:14:41,031 --> 02:14:44,742
Yep. Yes, I am.
1855
02:14:46,870 --> 02:14:48,913
Congratulations, Dick.
1856
02:14:48,998 --> 02:14:50,999
- Mr. Ziegler.
- Mr. President,
1857
02:14:51,041 --> 02:14:53,585
the press guys asked
if you could come back.
1858
02:14:53,669 --> 02:14:56,588
- The hell with them.
- I'll go back, Mr. President.
1859
02:14:56,672 --> 02:14:59,882
No, they want you, Mr. President.
I, uh...
1860
02:14:59,967 --> 02:15:02,176
I think it would be a good move.
1861
02:15:06,765 --> 02:15:08,266
- Who's back there?
- Everybody.
1862
02:15:08,350 --> 02:15:10,226
OK.
1863
02:15:12,229 --> 02:15:15,064
Gentlemen, I go now
to discover the exact length,
1864
02:15:15,190 --> 02:15:16,899
width and depth of the shaft.
1865
02:15:25,534 --> 02:15:27,994
Ladies and gentlemen, the president.
1866
02:15:28,078 --> 02:15:30,204
- Hi.
- Hi.
1867
02:15:30,289 --> 02:15:32,624
- Mr. President...
- Congratulations, sir.
1868
02:15:32,708 --> 02:15:35,084
- Well done!
- Thank you, sir!
1869
02:15:56,357 --> 02:15:59,609
Well, it looks to me
1870
02:15:59,693 --> 02:16:03,946
like we're gonna lose a war
for the first goddamn time.
1871
02:16:04,031 --> 02:16:07,408
- Yep.
- You're goin' right along with it,
1872
02:16:07,493 --> 02:16:10,286
buyin' into this Kissinger bullshit,
1873
02:16:10,371 --> 02:16:14,707
this... detente with Communists.
1874
02:16:14,792 --> 02:16:17,919
Detente. Sounds like
a couple of fags dancin'.
1875
02:16:22,841 --> 02:16:26,552
Jack, we're not living in the same
country you and I knew in '46.
1876
02:16:26,637 --> 02:16:30,098
Our people are just not gonna sacrifice
in major numbers for war.
1877
02:16:30,140 --> 02:16:33,309
Can't even get 'em to accept cuts
in their gas tax.
1878
02:16:33,394 --> 02:16:37,230
Now, the Arabs and the Japanese
are draining the gold reserves...
1879
02:16:37,314 --> 02:16:38,356
Whose fault is that?
1880
02:16:38,440 --> 02:16:41,859
If we'd won in Vietnam,
we wouldn't be having this conversation.
1881
02:16:41,944 --> 02:16:45,446
Nobody's fault, Jack. It's, uh, change.
It's a fact of history.
1882
02:16:45,531 --> 02:16:48,658
Even that old cocksucker
J. Edgar Hoover's dead.
1883
02:16:48,742 --> 02:16:50,993
Now who'd have thought that possible?
1884
02:16:52,788 --> 02:16:55,456
How's the food over there in China,
Mr. Nixon?
1885
02:16:55,541 --> 02:16:57,959
It's delicious, if you're president.
1886
02:17:00,003 --> 02:17:03,548
So, what are you gonna do
about that Allende fella
1887
02:17:03,632 --> 02:17:08,136
nationalizing our businesses in Chile?
You gonna send Kissinger down there?
1888
02:17:08,178 --> 02:17:12,598
We're gonna get rid of him, Allende,
I mean, just as fast as we can.
1889
02:17:12,683 --> 02:17:16,185
- He's at the top of the list.
- How about Kissinger along with him?
1890
02:17:17,354 --> 02:17:19,188
Now, Kissinger's misunderstood.
1891
02:17:19,273 --> 02:17:21,983
He acts like a liberal
for his establishment friends,
1892
02:17:22,067 --> 02:17:25,570
- but he's even tougher than I am.
- So Kissinger stays.
1893
02:17:25,654 --> 02:17:28,197
Just like Castro, Mr. Nixon.
1894
02:17:29,825 --> 02:17:32,452
Yeah. He stays.
1895
02:17:33,912 --> 02:17:36,748
And you are comfortable
with that decision?
1896
02:17:39,877 --> 02:17:41,335
Desi's got a point.
1897
02:17:41,420 --> 02:17:46,591
What the hell are we gonna do about
the Communists in our own backyard?
1898
02:17:46,675 --> 02:17:48,843
What do you really mean, Jack?
1899
02:17:48,927 --> 02:17:52,221
I mean, I got
federal price controls on my oil.
1900
02:17:52,347 --> 02:17:56,225
And the rag heads
are beatin' the shit out of me, Dick.
1901
02:17:56,351 --> 02:18:00,188
And your EPA environmental agency
has got its thumb so far up my ass,
1902
02:18:00,230 --> 02:18:03,316
- it's scratchin' my ear!
- I think it's time for us to be...
1903
02:18:03,400 --> 02:18:06,402
- Let him finish, Bob.
- I got a federal judge orderin' me
1904
02:18:06,487 --> 02:18:11,199
to bus my grand kids halfway across this
town to go to school with nigger kids.
1905
02:18:12,534 --> 02:18:16,329
Now, Dick, Mr. President,
1906
02:18:16,413 --> 02:18:19,248
aren't you forgetting
who put you where you are?
1907
02:18:20,501 --> 02:18:24,420
The American people
put me where I am, Jack.
1908
02:18:24,505 --> 02:18:26,547
Really?
1909
02:18:26,632 --> 02:18:30,760
- Well, that can be changed.
- In a heartbeat.
1910
02:18:39,978 --> 02:18:43,773
Jack, I've learned politics
is the art of compromise.
1911
02:18:43,857 --> 02:18:47,485
I learned it the hard way.
I don't know if you have.
1912
02:18:47,569 --> 02:18:49,445
Well, let me tell you this, Jack.
1913
02:18:49,530 --> 02:18:52,240
If you don't like it,
there's an election in November
1914
02:18:52,282 --> 02:18:55,910
and you can take your money out
in the open and give it to Wallace.
1915
02:18:55,994 --> 02:18:59,872
How about it, Jack? Willing to do that?
1916
02:18:59,957 --> 02:19:05,211
Hand this country over to some pansy
poet socialist like George McGovern?
1917
02:19:07,089 --> 02:19:10,591
'Cause if you're not happy
with the EPA up your ass,
1918
02:19:10,676 --> 02:19:13,219
try the IRS.
1919
02:19:14,555 --> 02:19:16,848
Goddamn, Dick.
1920
02:19:16,932 --> 02:19:22,311
- You're not threatening me, are ya?
- Presidents don't threaten, Jack.
1921
02:19:22,437 --> 02:19:24,480
They don't have to.
1922
02:19:27,276 --> 02:19:29,443
Good day to you, gentlemen. Thank you.
1923
02:19:54,553 --> 02:19:57,847
With third party candidate
George Wallace out of the race,
1924
02:19:57,931 --> 02:19:59,807
paralyzed by an assassin's bullet,
1925
02:19:59,892 --> 02:20:02,518
Richard Nixon
has crushed George McGovern
1926
02:20:02,603 --> 02:20:05,646
in the 1972 presidential election.
1927
02:20:05,731 --> 02:20:10,526
It is the second-biggest landslide
in American history.
1928
02:20:10,611 --> 02:20:12,236
As the new term begins,
1929
02:20:12,321 --> 02:20:15,740
it does not seem the Watergate
investigations have damaged Nixon
1930
02:20:15,824 --> 02:20:19,118
politically in any significant way.
1931
02:20:20,621 --> 02:20:23,664
Probably our biggest achievement
as an administration,
1932
02:20:23,749 --> 02:20:26,918
when it's all said and done,
isn't China or Russia.
1933
02:20:27,002 --> 02:20:30,671
It's pulling out of Vietnam
without a right-wing revolt.
1934
02:20:30,756 --> 02:20:35,217
- I believe you're right.
- The presidency isn't enough anymore.
1935
02:20:36,845 --> 02:20:41,140
- Sir?
- The presidency by itself
1936
02:20:41,224 --> 02:20:45,686
won't protect us, Bob.
We're beyond politics now.
1937
02:20:49,900 --> 02:20:53,402
- Mr. Ehrlichman.
- Yeah.
1938
02:20:54,488 --> 02:20:58,699
Sir, just in from Paris. The Vietnamese
have accepted Henry's peace proposal.
1939
02:20:58,784 --> 02:21:01,118
- Good.
- The bombing worked. They're caving.
1940
02:21:01,203 --> 02:21:02,954
Congratulations!
1941
02:21:03,038 --> 02:21:07,166
That mad bomber theory
wasn't so crazy after all.
1942
02:21:07,250 --> 02:21:08,960
Henry is coming back to join us.
1943
02:21:09,044 --> 02:21:12,129
He wants to be included
in the photographs, of course.
1944
02:21:12,214 --> 02:21:14,840
- There's a surprise.
- This could be it.
1945
02:21:14,925 --> 02:21:17,802
This could be it. Four long years. Jeez.
1946
02:21:17,886 --> 02:21:21,764
Incidentally, I don't know if this is
the right time, but you should know.
1947
02:21:21,848 --> 02:21:26,018
Bill Sullivan at the FBI got back
to us with his report on Kissinger.
1948
02:21:27,729 --> 02:21:30,690
- I didn't wanna bring it up because...
- Go on.
1949
02:21:31,692 --> 02:21:36,570
Well, Sullivan, uh, thinks he's the one.
Henry's the leaker.
1950
02:21:45,706 --> 02:21:47,289
Yeah, I knew it.
1951
02:21:47,374 --> 02:21:49,959
I knew it from '69 on
and I said it all along.
1952
02:21:50,043 --> 02:21:52,586
- I remember.
- I didn't, Bob.
1953
02:21:53,922 --> 02:21:57,258
Looks like he talked to Joe Kraft
and The Times.
1954
02:21:58,260 --> 02:22:00,761
Claims that he was dead
set against the bombing,
1955
02:22:00,846 --> 02:22:04,849
that you were unstable and that, uh,
he has to handle you with kid gloves.
1956
02:22:04,933 --> 02:22:07,184
That explains
his press notices.
1957
02:22:07,269 --> 02:22:09,645
Working both sides of the fence.
Jew-boy Henry.
1958
02:22:11,440 --> 02:22:13,232
My God.
1959
02:22:13,316 --> 02:22:15,985
- He talked to The New York Times?
- Yes, he did.
1960
02:22:16,069 --> 02:22:19,113
We ought a fire his whining
ass right now, when he's on top.
1961
02:22:19,197 --> 02:22:22,867
You know what? It'd set the right
example for the this administration.
1962
02:22:22,951 --> 02:22:26,287
I would personally
volunteer for that assignment right now.
1963
02:22:33,295 --> 02:22:35,963
No. No.
1964
02:22:36,048 --> 02:22:39,800
He's our only star right now.
He'd go crying to the press.
1965
02:22:39,885 --> 02:22:42,803
He'd crucify us.
1966
02:22:42,888 --> 02:22:45,014
Son of a bitch.
1967
02:22:45,098 --> 02:22:46,932
Get someone on our staff on his ass.
1968
02:22:47,017 --> 02:22:49,518
Tap his phones.
I wanna know everyone he talks to.
1969
02:22:49,644 --> 02:22:52,605
Let's see how long
the Kissinger mystique lasts.
1970
02:22:52,689 --> 02:22:55,900
So, John, what about
these Watergate clowns?
1971
02:22:55,984 --> 02:22:59,737
This, uh, Sirica's crazy.
Thirty-five year sentence.
1972
02:22:59,821 --> 02:23:03,532
No weapons, right? No injuries.
1973
02:23:03,617 --> 02:23:05,910
There's no success.
It's just ridiculous.
1974
02:23:05,994 --> 02:23:09,538
Sirica's just trying to force someone
to testify, but they're solid.
1975
02:23:09,664 --> 02:23:13,918
What about this Washington Post crap?
Woodwind and Fernstein.
1976
02:23:14,002 --> 02:23:16,837
- Bernstein, sir.
- Who the fuck are they, anyway?
1977
02:23:16,922 --> 02:23:19,840
Bob, you working on revoking
their television license?
1978
02:23:19,925 --> 02:23:21,300
- Yes, sir, I am.
- Good.
1979
02:23:21,384 --> 02:23:24,762
Well, they're trying to connect
Bob and John with the secret fund.
1980
02:23:24,846 --> 02:23:27,848
- But they don't have much.
- They don't have anything.
1981
02:23:29,476 --> 02:23:31,644
The F.B.I.'s feeding me their reports.
1982
02:23:31,728 --> 02:23:34,855
I didn't think you should lose any
more sleep over it, sir.
1983
02:23:34,940 --> 02:23:37,525
Good man, John, good man.
1984
02:23:49,704 --> 02:23:54,959
I can therefore announce that our long
and tragic involvement in Vietnam...
1985
02:23:55,043 --> 02:23:59,046
...is at an end.
Our mission is accomplished.
1986
02:24:00,757 --> 02:24:03,759
We have a cease-fire...
1987
02:24:03,844 --> 02:24:07,471
...and our prisoners of war
are coming back home.
1988
02:24:07,556 --> 02:24:12,893
South Vietnam has the right
to determine its own future.
1989
02:24:12,978 --> 02:24:16,105
So, we have peace with honor.
1990
02:24:21,736 --> 02:24:24,321
The president will take
some of your questions now.
1991
02:24:24,406 --> 02:24:26,407
- Mr. President!
- Dan.
1992
02:24:26,491 --> 02:24:28,450
Isn't it true little has been achieved
1993
02:24:28,535 --> 02:24:31,328
that the Communists
have not been offering since 1969,
1994
02:24:31,413 --> 02:24:34,915
that in fact your administration
has needlessly prolonged the war
1995
02:24:35,000 --> 02:24:37,251
and escalated it
to new levels of violence?
1996
02:24:37,335 --> 02:24:42,631
I will, uh... try to answer
that question in some detail.
1997
02:24:42,757 --> 02:24:44,258
Mr. President!
1998
02:24:44,342 --> 02:24:46,927
What is your reaction
to James McCord's statement
1999
02:24:47,012 --> 02:24:49,096
that high-level White House officials
2000
02:24:49,181 --> 02:24:51,348
were involved
in the Watergate break-in?
2001
02:24:51,433 --> 02:24:54,602
That's the dumbest thing
I've ever heard.
2002
02:24:54,644 --> 02:24:58,105
The Washington Post is reporting
that Mr. Haldeman and Ehrlichman
2003
02:24:58,190 --> 02:25:00,941
secretly dispersed
up to $900,000 in campaign funds.
2004
02:25:01,026 --> 02:25:02,526
Is there any truth to that?
2005
02:25:02,611 --> 02:25:04,778
Now, let me make this perfectly clear.
2006
02:25:04,863 --> 02:25:08,282
I will not respond to the charges
of The Washington Post.
2007
02:25:08,366 --> 02:25:12,369
Nor will I comment on a matter
that is currently before the courts.
2008
02:25:12,454 --> 02:25:15,164
- Mr. President!
- Sir!
2009
02:25:15,248 --> 02:25:18,542
Sir, do you intend to cooperate
with Senator Ervin's committee?
2010
02:25:18,627 --> 02:25:21,670
Will you agree to the appointment
of a special prosecutor?
2011
02:25:21,796 --> 02:25:24,506
- Mr. President, sir!
- Mr. President!
2012
02:25:27,636 --> 02:25:29,845
- Thank you.
- Mr. President!
2013
02:25:35,393 --> 02:25:37,186
Mr. President, sir...
2014
02:25:37,270 --> 02:25:39,480
Ron, get in there and do something!
2015
02:25:44,486 --> 02:25:46,570
I end the longest war
in American history
2016
02:25:46,655 --> 02:25:50,699
and they keep harping on this
chicken-shit! God!
2017
02:25:50,825 --> 02:25:52,409
God!
2018
02:25:55,205 --> 02:25:57,998
You know who's behind this, don't you?
Teddy Kennedy.
2019
02:25:58,083 --> 02:26:02,253
Yeah, he drowns a broad in his car,
and he can't run for president.
2020
02:26:02,337 --> 02:26:05,130
He did get pretty
burned at Chappaquiddick.
2021
02:26:05,215 --> 02:26:08,926
My point exactly! Somebody had to die
before he got his shit in the papers!
2022
02:26:09,010 --> 02:26:12,680
Fucking Kennedys get away
with everything! Goddamn them!
2023
02:26:12,722 --> 02:26:15,140
You see me screwin'
everything that moves?
2024
02:26:16,184 --> 02:26:19,436
For Christ's sake, I did what
The New York Times editorial page
2025
02:26:19,521 --> 02:26:23,023
said for me to do!
I ended the war!
2026
02:26:23,108 --> 02:26:27,152
I got S.A.L.T. One with the Russians,
I opened China.
2027
02:26:27,237 --> 02:26:30,155
So why are these assholes
turning on me?
2028
02:26:30,240 --> 02:26:33,367
'Cause they don't like the way I look,
where I went to school!
2029
02:26:33,451 --> 02:26:36,578
- Because they're not Americans.
- They don't trust America.
2030
02:26:36,663 --> 02:26:38,289
Why would they?
2031
02:26:38,373 --> 02:26:41,250
They just come here to stick
their snouts in the trough.
2032
02:26:41,334 --> 02:26:43,294
Who are these people? Sulzberger.
2033
02:26:43,378 --> 02:26:46,088
Their parents are gold traders
from eastern Europe,
2034
02:26:46,172 --> 02:26:47,965
with due respect.
They buy things.
2035
02:26:48,049 --> 02:26:51,885
They come to "Jew" York city and buy up
things. And one of the things they buy,
2036
02:26:51,970 --> 02:26:55,973
Mr. President, is The New York Times.
You know what? You should be proud,
2037
02:26:56,057 --> 02:26:58,267
because they'll never trust you, sir.
2038
02:26:58,351 --> 02:27:01,061
Because we speak
for the average American.
2039
02:27:01,146 --> 02:27:03,731
You know why they're turning on me?
2040
02:27:03,773 --> 02:27:07,401
It's because they're not serious
about power, that's why.
2041
02:27:07,485 --> 02:27:09,653
They're playing with power.
2042
02:27:09,738 --> 02:27:12,281
They're forgetting
the national interest.
2043
02:27:12,365 --> 02:27:16,201
In the old days people knew
how to hold power, how to set limits.
2044
02:27:16,286 --> 02:27:19,997
They wouldn't have torn this country
apart over a third-rate burglary.
2045
02:27:20,081 --> 02:27:23,667
For Christ's sake, now all they
care about are their egos,
2046
02:27:23,752 --> 02:27:25,669
looking good at cocktail parties.
2047
02:27:25,754 --> 02:27:28,005
Beating out other papers
and chasing girls.
2048
02:27:28,089 --> 02:27:31,175
Wondering whether someone
said something nice about them.
2049
02:27:31,259 --> 02:27:33,093
Short-term, frivolous bullshit.
2050
02:27:33,178 --> 02:27:36,597
Ben Bradlee worrying
about Teddy Kennedy liking him.
2051
02:27:37,307 --> 02:27:39,892
- Get Mr. Dean in here, Will you?
- Mr. President,
2052
02:27:39,976 --> 02:27:44,646
I fear we are drifting toward oblivion.
We are playing a totally reactive game.
2053
02:27:44,731 --> 02:27:50,110
We have to get ahead of the ball.
Now, we all know that you are clean.
2054
02:27:50,195 --> 02:27:52,196
Right?
2055
02:27:52,280 --> 02:27:56,700
Then let's take off the gloves.
Let's do a housecleaning.
2056
02:27:56,785 --> 02:27:58,994
Housecleaning?
2057
02:28:06,461 --> 02:28:08,837
No, it could be ugly, Henry,
really ugly.
2058
02:28:08,963 --> 02:28:11,548
It must be done, sir.
Your government is paralyzed.
2059
02:28:11,633 --> 02:28:14,343
Ail kinds of shit could come out.
The Ellsberg thing.
2060
02:28:14,427 --> 02:28:16,428
You knew about that, didn't you, Henry?
2061
02:28:16,513 --> 02:28:18,847
Well, I heard something.
It sounded idiotic.
2062
02:28:18,973 --> 02:28:20,599
Idiotic.
Yeah, I suppose it was.
2063
02:28:20,683 --> 02:28:23,811
I thought it was your idea
to expose Ellsberg as a sex fiend.
2064
02:28:23,853 --> 02:28:26,230
I guess somebody just
took you too literally.
2065
02:28:26,314 --> 02:28:30,526
I never suggested a bunch of imbeciles
break into a psychiatrist's office.
2066
02:28:30,610 --> 02:28:34,405
It doesn't matter. The point is you
might lose your media darling halo
2067
02:28:34,489 --> 02:28:37,408
if the media start sniffing
around our dirty laundry.
2068
02:28:37,492 --> 02:28:41,286
Sir, I never had anything to do with
that and I resent the implication...
2069
02:28:41,371 --> 02:28:45,833
Resent it all you want, Henry,
but you're in with the rest of us.
2070
02:28:45,875 --> 02:28:50,295
Cambodia. Ellsberg.
The wiretaps you put in.
2071
02:28:50,380 --> 02:28:53,590
The president wants you to know
you can't just click your heels
2072
02:28:53,675 --> 02:28:56,969
and head back to Harvard Yard.
It's your ass too, Henry,
2073
02:28:57,053 --> 02:29:00,514
and it's in the wind
twisting with everyone else's.
2074
02:29:10,483 --> 02:29:13,277
- Sir.
- Yeah?
2075
02:29:13,361 --> 02:29:18,532
There are times when
even the president can go too far.
2076
02:29:22,412 --> 02:29:25,622
You played it perfectly, sir.
That cocksucker'll think twice
2077
02:29:25,707 --> 02:29:28,083
- before he leaks again.
- Yeah.
2078
02:29:28,168 --> 02:29:31,795
He'll be looking in his toilet bowl
every time he pulls the chain.
2079
02:29:33,756 --> 02:29:35,215
Hunt wants more money.
2080
02:29:35,300 --> 02:29:37,676
- Another 122,000.
- Fuck.
2081
02:29:37,760 --> 02:29:41,305
If he doesn't get it right away,
he's going to blow us out of the water.
2082
02:29:41,389 --> 02:29:44,308
He means it. Since his wife died
in the plane crash, he's over the edge.
2083
02:29:44,392 --> 02:29:45,934
Pay him. Pay him what he wants.
2084
02:29:46,060 --> 02:29:50,439
We gotta turn the faucet off on Hunt and
these Cubans. They're out of control.
2085
02:29:50,523 --> 02:29:52,733
John, you might want to...
2086
02:29:52,817 --> 02:29:54,902
It's gotta be Helms. He's behind this.
2087
02:29:54,944 --> 02:29:57,446
- I think we can leverage Helms.
- How?
2088
02:29:57,530 --> 02:30:01,825
When I met with him,
he kind of tipped his hand.
2089
02:30:01,910 --> 02:30:04,161
This affair,
the president wants you to know,
2090
02:30:04,245 --> 02:30:06,914
is related to the Bay of Pigs.
And if it comes out...
2091
02:30:06,956 --> 02:30:09,333
This has nothing to do
with the Bay of Pigs!
2092
02:30:10,752 --> 02:30:12,961
I have no concern
about the Bay of Pigs!
2093
02:30:13,087 --> 02:30:15,339
I couldn't believe it.
2094
02:30:15,423 --> 02:30:18,800
This is what the president
told me to relay to you, Dick.
2095
02:30:18,885 --> 02:30:21,345
I had to remind him
who he was talking to.
2096
02:30:21,429 --> 02:30:25,140
So I was wondering? What's such
dynamite in this Bay of Pigs thing?
2097
02:30:25,225 --> 02:30:26,934
Sir.
2098
02:30:30,355 --> 02:30:34,358
Though it was clearly effective, because
all of a sudden it was no problem
2099
02:30:34,442 --> 02:30:37,611
for Helms to go to the FBI
and try to put a lid on Watergate.
2100
02:30:38,488 --> 02:30:42,074
- What about the documents promised?
- He'll give us the documents.
2101
02:30:42,158 --> 02:30:45,702
But I think if we offer him
an ambassadorship,
2102
02:30:45,787 --> 02:30:48,997
the ambassadorship to Iran,
we can get rid of him. He'll go...
2103
02:30:49,082 --> 02:30:53,710
- No, I promised Iran to Townsend.
- Townsend in Belgium. It's available.
2104
02:30:53,795 --> 02:30:58,382
He gave us 300 grand. Belgium's
not worth more than 100, 150.
2105
02:30:58,466 --> 02:31:00,133
What about England?
2106
02:31:00,218 --> 02:31:03,011
Forget it.
Annenberg's paid three times that much.
2107
02:31:03,137 --> 02:31:06,306
Helms wants Iran,
or there might be a problem.
2108
02:31:06,391 --> 02:31:09,184
All his old buddies are over there
making a fortune...
2109
02:31:09,269 --> 02:31:10,727
When does this end, Bob?
2110
02:31:10,812 --> 02:31:12,312
- Executive clemency.
- What?
2111
02:31:12,397 --> 02:31:16,525
Hunt and the Cubans have nothing to lose
now. Pardon them all.
2112
02:31:16,609 --> 02:31:19,736
Nobody investigates a crime
for which criminals have been pardoned.
2113
02:31:19,821 --> 02:31:21,863
- Yeah, I like that.
- But it'll never do.
2114
02:31:21,948 --> 02:31:25,325
Pardoning them means we're guilty.
Press, the people'll go nuts.
2115
02:31:25,410 --> 02:31:28,245
Am I supposed to sit here
and watch them coming closer,
2116
02:31:28,329 --> 02:31:29,997
eating their way to the center?
2117
02:31:30,039 --> 02:31:32,207
Lyndon bugged, so did Kennedy.
2118
02:31:32,292 --> 02:31:36,920
F.D.R. cut a deal with Lucky Luciano.
Christ, even Eisenhower had a mistress.
2119
02:31:37,005 --> 02:31:40,424
What's so special about me? Huh?
2120
02:31:40,508 --> 02:31:44,970
What about Lyndon? He could make
a couple calls to the... Hell, and...
2121
02:31:45,054 --> 02:31:47,556
...shut this whole damn thing down.
2122
02:31:47,640 --> 02:31:49,266
- Anyone talk to him?
- I have.
2123
02:31:49,350 --> 02:31:51,602
- What'd he say?
- No dice, he hit the roof.
2124
02:31:51,686 --> 02:31:53,061
Why?
2125
02:31:53,146 --> 02:31:56,607
He said if you go out with a story
about how he bugged your plane,
2126
02:31:56,691 --> 02:31:58,567
he's gonna reveal...
2127
02:32:06,993 --> 02:32:08,577
He's gonna reveal...
2128
02:32:09,537 --> 02:32:11,788
- ...Vietnamese peace talks...
- Ail right.
2129
02:32:11,873 --> 02:32:13,790
All right! Stop!
2130
02:32:13,875 --> 02:32:15,542
What's the matter with you?
2131
02:32:17,003 --> 02:32:21,632
I know. I just know
we've made too many enemies.
2132
02:32:22,383 --> 02:32:26,303
There's another thing. Bob and I have to
testify before the urban committee.
2133
02:32:26,387 --> 02:32:29,598
No, you're not.
You're gonna claim executive privilege.
2134
02:32:29,682 --> 02:32:31,975
You're gonna stonewall it
all the way.
2135
02:32:32,060 --> 02:32:34,394
Plead the 5th Amendment.
I don't give a shit.
2136
02:32:34,479 --> 02:32:37,105
They can't force
the president's people to testify.
2137
02:32:37,231 --> 02:32:39,775
Executive privilege
looks like we're covering.
2138
02:32:39,859 --> 02:32:42,277
We are covering up
for God's sake.
2139
02:32:42,362 --> 02:32:44,404
Some petty, stupid shit.
2140
02:32:45,490 --> 02:32:49,409
There are things I can say what
other people said, and they'd be lies.
2141
02:32:49,494 --> 02:32:52,746
When I say them,
nobody believes me anyway.
2142
02:32:54,499 --> 02:32:57,250
Then, we're going to
have to give them Mitchell.
2143
02:32:59,128 --> 02:33:01,463
Mitchell's family.
2144
02:33:01,547 --> 02:33:04,633
Either it goes to Mitchell,
or it comes here.
2145
02:33:05,968 --> 02:33:07,761
John's right, boss.
2146
02:33:08,930 --> 02:33:12,683
It's not personal.
It's just the way the game is played.
2147
02:33:12,767 --> 02:33:15,102
Sometimes you gotta punt.
2148
02:33:20,775 --> 02:33:22,359
Jesus.
2149
02:33:22,443 --> 02:33:25,529
I'm so goddamn worn-out with this.
2150
02:33:34,664 --> 02:33:36,248
Who's gonna tell Mitchell?
2151
02:33:36,332 --> 02:33:37,999
- You do it.
- Why me?
2152
02:33:38,668 --> 02:33:42,254
'Cause he hates you. It's worse
when you get it from someone you trust.
2153
02:33:42,338 --> 02:33:44,464
Hey. He's wrong, you know.
2154
02:33:46,008 --> 02:33:48,593
About Kennedy and L.B.J. and Truman.
2155
02:33:48,678 --> 02:33:49,720
How so?
2156
02:33:49,804 --> 02:33:53,265
Well, I mean, sure, they did stuff, Bob,
but nothing like this.
2157
02:33:53,349 --> 02:33:58,562
I mean, forget about the break-in,
the, the enemies list, the... You know?
2158
02:33:58,646 --> 02:34:02,149
You got the attempted firebombing
of the Brookings Institution.
2159
02:34:02,191 --> 02:34:05,569
Planting McGovern stuff
on the guy that shot Wallace?
2160
02:34:05,653 --> 02:34:07,696
Trying to slip L.S.D. to Jack Anderson?
2161
02:34:07,780 --> 02:34:10,282
Old man plays politics
harder than anybody else.
2162
02:34:10,366 --> 02:34:12,576
You think this is about politics?
2163
02:34:12,660 --> 02:34:16,371
Do you think L.B.J. would have
ever asked Hunt to forge a cable
2164
02:34:16,456 --> 02:34:20,208
implicating Kennedy in the assassination
of the president of Vietnam?
2165
02:34:20,334 --> 02:34:22,544
How long have you known Bob,
20 years?
2166
02:34:22,628 --> 02:34:26,089
This is the Roosevelt Room,
named after our 26th president
2167
02:34:26,174 --> 02:34:28,383
20 years, you ever shake hands with him?
2168
02:34:28,468 --> 02:34:30,802
Ever have a real conversation with him?
2169
02:34:33,222 --> 02:34:36,600
No, this...
This is about Richard Nixon.
2170
02:34:36,684 --> 02:34:39,936
You got people dying because
he didn't make varsity football.
2171
02:34:40,021 --> 02:34:42,606
You got the Constitution hanging by
a thread
2172
02:34:42,690 --> 02:34:46,026
because he went to Whittier,
not to Yale.
2173
02:34:46,694 --> 02:34:48,945
And what is this Bay of Pigs thing?
2174
02:34:49,030 --> 02:34:51,198
Goes white every time you mention it.
2175
02:34:53,075 --> 02:34:56,745
- It's a code or something.
- Well, shit, even I figured that out.
2176
02:34:58,164 --> 02:35:00,040
I think he means...
2177
02:35:01,959 --> 02:35:04,669
- The Kennedy assassination...
- Yeah?
2178
02:35:04,754 --> 02:35:09,132
They went after Castro and in some
crazy way it got turned back on Kennedy.
2179
02:35:09,217 --> 02:35:13,345
I don't think the old man knows what
happened. But he's afraid to find out.
2180
02:35:13,429 --> 02:35:16,640
He's shitting peach pits every time
he thinks about it.
2181
02:35:16,724 --> 02:35:19,434
Created a Frankenstein
with those damn Cubans.
2182
02:35:19,519 --> 02:35:22,354
Eight words back in '72:
2183
02:35:22,438 --> 02:35:28,109
"I covered up." "I was wrong."
"I'm sorry."
2184
02:35:28,194 --> 02:35:30,904
And the American public
would've forgiven him.
2185
02:35:30,988 --> 02:35:34,115
But we never opened our mouths, John.
2186
02:35:35,076 --> 02:35:36,993
We failed him.
2187
02:35:37,078 --> 02:35:41,164
Dick Nixon saying "I'm sorry"?
That'll be the day.
2188
02:35:41,249 --> 02:35:43,834
His whole suit of armor would fall off.
2189
02:35:43,918 --> 02:35:48,129
- So, you tell Mitchell.
- Yeah.
2190
02:35:48,214 --> 02:35:52,217
And John, you do know
that we're next, don't you?
2191
02:36:07,441 --> 02:36:09,568
You're early, John.
2192
02:36:11,904 --> 02:36:15,615
If you'd been that stealthy at the
Watergate, we wouldn't be in this mess.
2193
02:36:17,618 --> 02:36:21,162
- I was sorry to hear about your wife.
- Yes.
2194
02:36:22,832 --> 02:36:24,499
Take out the money.
2195
02:36:24,584 --> 02:36:27,711
The president would like to know
if that was the last payment.
2196
02:36:27,795 --> 02:36:30,463
- I'll bet he would.
- Is it?
2197
02:36:31,924 --> 02:36:34,885
In Richard Nixon's long history
of underhanded dealings
2198
02:36:34,969 --> 02:36:38,763
he's never had better value for his
money. If I were to open my mouth,
2199
02:36:38,848 --> 02:36:41,349
all the dominoes would fall.
2200
02:36:42,810 --> 02:36:44,895
Can I ask you a question?
2201
02:36:44,979 --> 02:36:46,897
How the hell do you have the temerity
2202
02:36:46,981 --> 02:36:49,858
to blackmail the president
of the United States?
2203
02:36:49,942 --> 02:36:54,154
That's not the question, John.
The question is, why is he paying?
2204
02:36:54,238 --> 02:36:58,074
- To protect his people.
- I'm one of his people.
2205
02:36:58,159 --> 02:37:01,536
The Cubans are his people.
And we're going to jail for him.
2206
02:37:01,621 --> 02:37:05,498
Howard, you will serve no more
than two years, then he'll pardon you.
2207
02:37:05,583 --> 02:37:08,710
Maybe. Maybe not.
2208
02:37:09,837 --> 02:37:12,797
But you don't leave your men
on the beach, John.
2209
02:37:12,882 --> 02:37:15,592
You don't make them beg for their money
like thieves.
2210
02:37:15,676 --> 02:37:19,012
You don't dump men with families
who've served their country.
2211
02:37:19,096 --> 02:37:22,098
He didn't know.
This thing has gotten out of hand.
2212
02:37:22,183 --> 02:37:26,019
You think a man as controlled as Richard
Nixon would've allowed a break-in
2213
02:37:26,103 --> 02:37:29,522
at the Democratic National Headquarters
without knowing it?
2214
02:37:29,607 --> 02:37:34,235
You think Mitchell or Haldeman wouldn't
have run it by him at least once?
2215
02:37:34,320 --> 02:37:36,905
The president's men did nothing,
2216
02:37:36,989 --> 02:37:40,700
nothing without
Richard Nixon's permission.
2217
02:37:44,330 --> 02:37:46,498
John, sooner or later...
2218
02:37:46,582 --> 02:37:51,127
Sooner, I think, you're going to learn
the lesson that's been learned
2219
02:37:51,212 --> 02:37:54,714
by everyone who's ever
gotten close to Richard Nixon.
2220
02:37:54,799 --> 02:37:59,886
That he's the darkness
reaching out for the darkness.
2221
02:38:01,430 --> 02:38:05,266
And eventually it's either you or him.
2222
02:38:07,812 --> 02:38:10,522
Your grave's already been dug, John.
2223
02:38:24,036 --> 02:38:27,330
F.B.I. director-designate
L. Patrick Gray
2224
02:38:27,415 --> 02:38:30,125
shocked the Senate
by revealing that John Dean
2225
02:38:30,209 --> 02:38:33,628
has been secretly receiving
F.B.I. reports on Watergate.
2226
02:38:33,713 --> 02:38:35,964
Crown, this is Echo Six.
How are you, sir?
2227
02:38:36,048 --> 02:38:39,009
Gray also said that Dean lied
when he claimed Howard Hunt
2228
02:38:39,093 --> 02:38:41,344
did not
have an office in the White House.
2229
02:38:41,429 --> 02:38:43,638
- How is he?
- He's in a bad mood.
2230
02:38:43,723 --> 02:38:45,974
He's running late. Have a seat.
2231
02:38:49,979 --> 02:38:52,480
This is the sort of thing
Mafia people can do.
2232
02:38:52,565 --> 02:38:55,942
Washing money, things like that.
We don't know about these things
2233
02:38:56,027 --> 02:38:58,945
- because we're not criminals.
- How much you need?
2234
02:39:00,114 --> 02:39:05,326
I would say these people will cost a
million dollars over the next two years.
2235
02:39:05,411 --> 02:39:08,204
We could get that.
2236
02:39:08,289 --> 02:39:12,459
Get a million dollars in cash.
I know where it could be gotten.
2237
02:39:15,337 --> 02:39:18,048
I'm still not confident
we can ride through this.
2238
02:39:18,132 --> 02:39:21,760
Some people are gonna have to go
to jail. Hunt's not the only problem.
2239
02:39:21,844 --> 02:39:26,514
Haldeman let me use the $350,000 cash
fund in his safe to make the payments.
2240
02:39:26,640 --> 02:39:30,393
Ehrlichman had a role, a big role,
in the Ellsberg break-in.
2241
02:39:30,478 --> 02:39:32,520
Oh, I don't know about that.
2242
02:39:32,605 --> 02:39:36,775
And... And I'm...
2243
02:39:36,859 --> 02:39:40,612
I think it's time we begin to think
in terms of cutting our losses.
2244
02:39:44,325 --> 02:39:48,411
Are you... You're saying
cut our losses, John, and all the rest.
2245
02:39:48,496 --> 02:39:52,624
And, you know, suppose the thing blows
and they indict Bob and the others?
2246
02:39:52,708 --> 02:39:55,919
Jesus, you'd never recover
from that, John. I mean...
2247
02:39:56,003 --> 02:40:00,173
No, it's better to fight it out instead
and not let people testify.
2248
02:40:00,257 --> 02:40:04,844
Sir, I, I still don't think
we can contain this anymore.
2249
02:40:05,763 --> 02:40:09,516
There's a cancer on the presidency,
and it's growing with every day...
2250
02:40:09,558 --> 02:40:11,309
Jesus, you know, every...
2251
02:40:11,393 --> 02:40:15,313
Everything's a crisis among the upper
intellectual types, the softheads.
2252
02:40:15,397 --> 02:40:18,441
The average people don't think
it's much of a crisis.
2253
02:40:18,526 --> 02:40:21,903
For Christ's sake, this is not Vietnam.
No one's dying here.
2254
02:40:21,987 --> 02:40:24,114
I mean, isn't it ridiculous?
2255
02:40:24,198 --> 02:40:27,200
- I agree. It's ridiculous but...
- It's goddamn crazy!
2256
02:40:27,284 --> 02:40:29,077
Goldwater was right when he said
2257
02:40:29,161 --> 02:40:33,164
"For Christ's sakes, everybody bugs
everybody else." We know that.
2258
02:40:34,291 --> 02:40:38,670
It's the cover-up, John,
not the deed, that's really bad here.
2259
02:40:40,548 --> 02:40:44,968
If only Mitchell could step up
and take the brunt of it, you know.
2260
02:40:45,052 --> 02:40:49,222
Give 'em the hors d'oeuvre. Maybe they
won't come back for the main course.
2261
02:40:51,058 --> 02:40:53,810
You know, that's the tragedy
in all this. Uh...
2262
02:40:53,894 --> 02:40:57,730
Mitchell's gonna get it anyway,
so it's time he assumed responsibility.
2263
02:40:57,815 --> 02:40:59,732
You're not paying attention.
2264
02:40:59,817 --> 02:41:03,236
He won't. He's told Ehrlichman he won't.
2265
02:41:03,320 --> 02:41:06,823
You tell my good friend Dick
I got suckered into this thing
2266
02:41:06,907 --> 02:41:10,743
by not paying attention
to what these bastards were doing.
2267
02:41:10,828 --> 02:41:14,164
I don't have a guilty conscience,
and he shouldn't either.
2268
02:41:15,749 --> 02:41:17,000
Yeah.
2269
02:41:21,422 --> 02:41:22,714
Well, he's right.
2270
02:41:23,632 --> 02:41:27,260
Maybe it is time to, uh,
go the hang-out route, John.
2271
02:41:27,344 --> 02:41:30,638
A full and thorough investigation.
2272
02:41:30,764 --> 02:41:35,143
We've cooperated with the F.B.I.
We'll cooperate with the Senate.
2273
02:41:35,227 --> 02:41:38,188
- What have we got to hide?
- No, we've nothing to hide.
2274
02:41:38,272 --> 02:41:40,648
No. Nothing to hide.
2275
02:41:40,774 --> 02:41:41,858
You know, the only...
2276
02:41:41,942 --> 02:41:45,445
The only fault in the plan is
they're not gonna believe the truth.
2277
02:41:45,529 --> 02:41:49,157
- That's the incredible thing.
- I agree. It's... it's tricky.
2278
02:41:50,159 --> 02:41:52,660
Everything seems to lead back here.
2279
02:41:52,745 --> 02:41:55,496
- People would never understand.
- No.
2280
02:41:55,581 --> 02:41:58,958
John, I want you to get away
from this madhouse.
2281
02:41:59,043 --> 02:42:00,835
I want these reporters.
2282
02:42:00,920 --> 02:42:05,673
I want you to go up to Camp David
for the weekend and write up a report.
2283
02:42:05,799 --> 02:42:09,093
Put everything you know
about Watergate in there and say,
2284
02:42:09,178 --> 02:42:11,971
"Mr. President, here it all is." OK?
2285
02:42:12,056 --> 02:42:14,933
You want me to put it all in writing
over my signature?
2286
02:42:16,143 --> 02:42:20,772
Well, uh... nobody knows more
about this thing than you do, John.
2287
02:42:20,856 --> 02:42:23,942
You know, the details.
That stuff I don't know. But.
2288
02:42:28,239 --> 02:42:32,867
Sir, I'm not going to
be the scapegoat for this.
2289
02:42:32,952 --> 02:42:35,787
Haldeman and Ehrlichman
are in it just as deep as I am.
2290
02:42:35,871 --> 02:42:40,667
No, now, John, you don't wanna
start down that road. I remember, uh...
2291
02:42:40,709 --> 02:42:44,254
...Whittaker Chambers
telling me back in '48.
2292
02:42:44,338 --> 02:42:46,422
He was a man who suffered greatly.
2293
02:42:46,507 --> 02:42:51,094
And he said, "On the road of the
informer, it is always night."
2294
02:42:51,178 --> 02:42:57,016
Now, it's beyond you, or even me, John.
It's the country. It's the presidency.
2295
02:42:57,101 --> 02:43:00,436
- I understand that, sir.
- You know how I feel about loyalty.
2296
02:43:00,521 --> 02:43:04,232
I'm not gonna let any of my people
go to jail, that I promise you.
2297
02:43:04,316 --> 02:43:09,445
The important thing is to keep this
away from Haldeman and Ehrlichman.
2298
02:43:09,530 --> 02:43:13,366
I'm trusting you to do this, John, and
I have complete confidence in you. OK?
2299
02:43:13,450 --> 02:43:15,243
- I'll work on it.
- OK.
2300
02:43:15,327 --> 02:43:17,870
Say hi to that wife of yours,
will you? Good.
2301
02:43:19,206 --> 02:43:21,833
- Shit.
- It happens.
2302
02:43:21,917 --> 02:43:24,127
The place is a shambles.
2303
02:43:24,211 --> 02:43:25,336
Hey!
2304
02:43:28,590 --> 02:43:32,051
I was determined that we should
get to the bottom of Watergate
2305
02:43:32,136 --> 02:43:36,472
and the truth should be fully brought
out, no matter who was involved.
2306
02:43:37,558 --> 02:43:42,312
Today, in one of the most difficult
decisions of my presidency
2307
02:43:42,396 --> 02:43:46,774
I accepted the resignations of two of my
closest associates in the White House,
2308
02:43:46,900 --> 02:43:49,319
Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman,
2309
02:43:49,403 --> 02:43:53,156
two of the finest public servants
it has been my privilege to know.
2310
02:43:57,953 --> 02:43:59,620
More light, Chief?
2311
02:44:00,622 --> 02:44:02,248
No, Bob.
2312
02:44:09,381 --> 02:44:10,673
Six bodies.
2313
02:44:10,758 --> 02:44:14,761
The counsel to the president,
John Dean, has also resigned.
2314
02:44:14,803 --> 02:44:17,555
I will not place the
blame on subordinates,
2315
02:44:17,639 --> 02:44:20,767
on people whose zeal
exceeded their judgment,
2316
02:44:20,809 --> 02:44:25,938
and who may have done wrong in a cause
they deeply believed to be right.
2317
02:44:27,608 --> 02:44:32,570
In any organization, the man at the top
must bear the responsibility.
2318
02:44:32,654 --> 02:44:37,825
That responsibility, therefore, belongs
here in this office and I accept that.
2319
02:44:37,951 --> 02:44:40,787
There can be no whitewash
at the White House.
2320
02:44:40,829 --> 02:44:43,706
Two wrongs do not make a right.
2321
02:44:43,791 --> 02:44:46,000
Now, I love America.
2322
02:44:46,085 --> 02:44:50,588
God bless America, and God bless each
and every one of you.
2323
02:44:52,549 --> 02:44:54,550
And we're clear.
2324
02:44:58,097 --> 02:44:59,555
Out.
2325
02:45:19,368 --> 02:45:20,701
Thank you.
2326
02:45:27,251 --> 02:45:29,669
Are you going to Key Biscayne?
2327
02:45:30,712 --> 02:45:32,505
- Yeah.
- Excuse me, sir.
2328
02:45:32,589 --> 02:45:34,215
When?
2329
02:45:35,884 --> 02:45:37,468
Tomorrow.
2330
02:45:44,393 --> 02:45:48,729
Ron told me that, um...
Bob Haldeman has been calling,
2331
02:45:48,814 --> 02:45:50,898
but you won't talk to him.
2332
02:45:52,401 --> 02:45:54,902
If he's convicted,
will you pardon him?
2333
02:45:58,866 --> 02:46:00,158
No.
2334
02:46:06,915 --> 02:46:10,418
Why are you cutting yourself off
from the rest of us?
2335
02:46:12,421 --> 02:46:14,630
Can't we discuss this?
2336
02:46:14,715 --> 02:46:19,635
- What exactly do you want to discuss?
- You. What you're doing.
2337
02:46:20,888 --> 02:46:24,390
- What am I doing?
- I wish I knew. You're hiding.
2338
02:46:27,769 --> 02:46:31,814
- Hiding what?
- Whatever it is you've been hiding.
2339
02:46:31,899 --> 02:46:34,734
You're letting it destroy you, Dick.
2340
02:46:36,403 --> 02:46:38,529
You won't even ask for help...
2341
02:46:43,577 --> 02:46:46,037
Manolo, uh...
2342
02:46:46,121 --> 02:46:48,414
Mrs. Nixon's finished.
2343
02:46:51,960 --> 02:46:54,504
I am the only one left, Dick.
2344
02:46:55,464 --> 02:46:57,965
If you don't even talk to me...
2345
02:47:06,808 --> 02:47:09,727
Brezhnev's coming in three days.
2346
02:47:09,811 --> 02:47:13,814
I don't wanna deal with them
and him and you.
2347
02:47:16,443 --> 02:47:19,695
How much more?
How much more is it going to cost?
2348
02:47:19,780 --> 02:47:23,282
When do the rest of us
stop paying off your debts?
2349
02:47:27,496 --> 02:47:31,290
I'd like to finish my dinner in peace
2350
02:47:31,375 --> 02:47:34,293
if it's not too much to ask.
2351
02:47:38,382 --> 02:47:40,383
No, it isn't.
2352
02:47:44,304 --> 02:47:47,807
I won't interfere with you anymore.
I'm finished trying.
2353
02:47:49,851 --> 02:47:51,894
Thank you.
2354
02:47:51,979 --> 02:47:53,729
"Thank you"?
2355
02:47:54,856 --> 02:47:57,942
Dick, sometimes I understand
why they hate you.
2356
02:48:05,826 --> 02:48:10,913
The committee will come to order.
Counsel will call the first witness.
2357
02:48:10,998 --> 02:48:12,999
Mr. John W. Dean, III.
2358
02:48:13,041 --> 02:48:15,418
After I departed the president's office
2359
02:48:15,502 --> 02:48:19,589
I went to a meeting with Haldeman
and Ehrlichman to discuss the matter.
2360
02:48:19,673 --> 02:48:23,426
The sum and substance
of that discussion was,
2361
02:48:23,510 --> 02:48:26,762
the way to handle this now
was for Mitchell to step forward.
2362
02:48:26,847 --> 02:48:30,808
It was a disappointment to me because
it was quite clear that the cover-up,
2363
02:48:30,892 --> 02:48:34,770
as far as the White House was...
was concerned, was going to continue.
2364
02:48:34,855 --> 02:48:37,690
Why is he doing this?
He's our goddamn lawyer.
2365
02:48:37,774 --> 02:48:40,359
If he had a problem,
why didn't he come talk with us?
2366
02:48:40,444 --> 02:48:43,154
Remember, the weasel's got no proof.
2367
02:48:44,531 --> 02:48:47,617
It's still an informer's word
against the president's.
2368
02:48:47,701 --> 02:48:50,453
...were all indictable
for obstruction of justice.
2369
02:48:50,537 --> 02:48:54,457
That was the reason I was disagreeing
with all that was being discussed.
2370
02:48:54,541 --> 02:48:56,042
Give 'em hell, general.
2371
02:49:02,883 --> 02:49:06,260
Mao taught me in 1963...
2372
02:49:08,847 --> 02:49:11,265
...if I have nuclear weapons...
2373
02:49:13,560 --> 02:49:16,562
...let 400 million Chinese die...
2374
02:49:17,731 --> 02:49:20,107
...300 million will be left.
2375
02:49:21,234 --> 02:49:24,195
- Mao!
- Yeah.
2376
02:49:24,821 --> 02:49:28,240
I can tell you what happened.
You want names? I can give you names.
2377
02:49:28,325 --> 02:49:30,576
Haldeman.
I'm talking about the president.
2378
02:49:30,661 --> 02:49:32,953
- Mao!
- We all know in our country...
2379
02:49:33,038 --> 02:49:34,955
I can give you the president.
2380
02:49:35,248 --> 02:49:37,583
This man in his dog heart.
2381
02:49:39,920 --> 02:49:42,254
You want him
to be your ally?
2382
02:49:43,632 --> 02:49:46,842
Well, he was your ally
for 20 years, Leonid.
2383
02:49:46,927 --> 02:49:48,511
Yes, yes, Dick.
2384
02:49:54,059 --> 02:49:56,060
Mr. Nixon...
2385
02:49:57,270 --> 02:50:00,815
Life is the best teacher,
and therefore it must not interfere
2386
02:50:00,899 --> 02:50:04,777
with the building of the S.A.L.T. Two
treaty between our great countries.
2387
02:50:08,115 --> 02:50:11,492
Peace in our era is possible.
2388
02:50:13,161 --> 02:50:17,289
- Excuse me, uh, Leonid.
- It's OK, Dick. It's OK.
2389
02:50:31,138 --> 02:50:34,140
He's spilling his guts to the
Ervin committee. Unfortunately...
2390
02:50:52,367 --> 02:50:53,701
Did you?
2391
02:50:54,494 --> 02:50:57,037
- Daddy?
- What?
2392
02:50:57,122 --> 02:50:58,831
Did you cover it up?
2393
02:51:05,464 --> 02:51:08,174
You think I'd do
something like that, honey?
2394
02:51:11,178 --> 02:51:14,930
Well, then you can't give up.
You just can't.
2395
02:51:15,015 --> 02:51:18,184
You're one of the best presidents
this country has ever had.
2396
02:51:18,226 --> 02:51:22,772
You've done what Lincoln did, brought
this country back from civil war.
2397
02:51:22,856 --> 02:51:25,858
You can't let your enemies
tear you down.
2398
02:51:25,942 --> 02:51:28,402
You've gotta stay and fight.
2399
02:51:28,487 --> 02:51:31,781
I'll go out there and make speeches.
Nobody knows the real you,
2400
02:51:31,865 --> 02:51:35,659
how sweet you are,
how nice you are to people.
2401
02:51:35,744 --> 02:51:37,953
I'll tell them.
2402
02:51:39,706 --> 02:51:42,541
You're the most
decent person I know.
2403
02:51:45,378 --> 02:51:48,005
I just hope I haven't
let you down, Kitten.
2404
02:51:49,966 --> 02:51:52,551
They just don't know
the real you.
2405
02:51:54,179 --> 02:51:56,722
They just don't know.
2406
02:51:56,807 --> 02:52:00,851
Tricky Dick always knew
what was goin' on.
2407
02:52:01,645 --> 02:52:04,772
Every last goddamn detail.
2408
02:52:04,856 --> 02:52:08,734
And my husband is not going
to take the rap this time.
2409
02:52:08,819 --> 02:52:12,905
They know they can't shut me up.
Probably end up killin' me.
2410
02:52:12,989 --> 02:52:16,283
She doesn't know what she's
talking about. Stop bothering her!
2411
02:52:16,368 --> 02:52:18,869
Hell, she's nuts.
You bastards have seen to that.
2412
02:52:18,954 --> 02:52:20,412
Will you get together again?
2413
02:52:20,497 --> 02:52:23,916
Our marriage is finished, thank you.
Stick that up your keister!
2414
02:52:30,715 --> 02:52:34,426
Now, were the visitors that
went into the White House warned
2415
02:52:34,511 --> 02:52:38,305
that their conversations with
the president would be taped?
2416
02:52:38,390 --> 02:52:40,766
Again, I am not aware
of the technical details.
2417
02:52:40,851 --> 02:52:44,311
On Friday, we have the high
school students from Ohio.
2418
02:52:44,437 --> 02:52:48,607
Saturday is the National
Women's Republican Club.
2419
02:52:48,692 --> 02:52:51,235
...Watergate wide open,
former White House aide
2420
02:52:51,319 --> 02:52:55,030
Alexander Butterfield testified
before the Senate Select committee.
2421
02:52:55,115 --> 02:52:58,868
He revealed a taping system
that may have recorded conversations
2422
02:52:58,952 --> 02:53:01,745
in the White House,
the executive office building
2423
02:53:01,830 --> 02:53:04,123
and even members of his own family.
2424
02:53:04,207 --> 02:53:07,334
All calls to the White House
2425
02:53:07,460 --> 02:53:10,296
of whatever nature and character,
would be taped?
2426
02:53:10,338 --> 02:53:13,591
- The tape would not discriminate.
- None of them had knowledge
2427
02:53:13,675 --> 02:53:16,093
that their conversations
were being taped?
2428
02:53:16,177 --> 02:53:17,803
This is a stunning revelation.
2429
02:53:17,888 --> 02:53:20,723
If such tapes exist,
they could tell us, once and for all
2430
02:53:20,807 --> 02:53:24,560
what did the president know,
and when did he know it.
2431
02:53:24,644 --> 02:53:25,978
I want Hunt paid.
2432
02:53:26,062 --> 02:53:28,272
It's time to go the hang-out route.
2433
02:53:29,983 --> 02:53:33,694
- If they fear the madman...
- It's a legal contribution.
2434
02:53:33,778 --> 02:53:35,738
Who the hell authorized this?
2435
02:53:35,822 --> 02:53:38,657
- I still don't...
- ...the CIA...
2436
02:53:40,160 --> 02:53:43,787
There's a cancer on the presidency,
and it's growing with every day...
2437
02:53:43,872 --> 02:53:45,289
...too damn much...
2438
02:53:46,082 --> 02:53:50,085
If Hunt goes public,
it'll be a fiasco for the C.I.A.
2439
02:53:50,170 --> 02:53:51,754
They're like love letters.
2440
02:53:53,673 --> 02:53:56,759
You should burn 'em.
2441
02:53:56,843 --> 02:53:59,470
Why didn't you?
2442
02:54:00,513 --> 02:54:04,016
They're evidence.
You can't legally destroy evidence.
2443
02:54:04,100 --> 02:54:08,145
You don't expect me to believe that
for one minute, do ya?
2444
02:54:10,231 --> 02:54:15,235
Does it matter what's on 'em?
Really? Murder, Dick?
2445
02:54:15,320 --> 02:54:18,697
Sex? Your secrets, your fantasies?
2446
02:54:18,782 --> 02:54:22,409
- Or is just me and you and...
- Don't be ridiculous.
2447
02:54:22,535 --> 02:54:25,412
I remember Alger Hiss.
2448
02:54:25,538 --> 02:54:28,374
I know how ugly you can be.
2449
02:54:28,416 --> 02:54:30,668
You're capable of anything.
2450
02:54:38,385 --> 02:54:41,804
See, it doesn't really matter
at the end of the day what's on them
2451
02:54:41,888 --> 02:54:46,934
because you have absolutely no remorse.
No concept of remorse.
2452
02:54:47,018 --> 02:54:51,397
You want the tapes to get out.
You want them to see you at your worst.
2453
02:54:51,439 --> 02:54:52,982
- You're drunk.
- Oh, yeah!
2454
02:54:53,066 --> 02:54:55,734
No one'll ever see those tapes,
including you.
2455
02:54:55,819 --> 02:54:58,988
And what would I find out
that I haven't known for years?
2456
02:55:01,408 --> 02:55:06,537
What makes it so damn sad is that
you couldn't confide in any of us.
2457
02:55:06,621 --> 02:55:09,665
You had to make a record
for the whole world.
2458
02:55:11,418 --> 02:55:16,880
- They were for me. They're mine.
- They're not "yours". They are you.
2459
02:55:24,097 --> 02:55:26,432
You should burn them.
2460
02:55:45,702 --> 02:55:49,121
- What has changed in you, Richard?
- Go away!
2461
02:55:59,132 --> 02:56:03,135
These guys went after Castro
seven times, ten times.
2462
02:56:03,219 --> 02:56:08,223
What, do you think people like that,
just gave up? They just don't walk away.
2463
02:56:13,313 --> 02:56:15,314
- What, do you think?
- I never said this.
2464
02:56:15,398 --> 02:56:17,274
- Seven times, ten times.
- Ten times.
2465
02:56:17,358 --> 02:56:20,903
- You think people like that gave up?
- Never.
2466
02:56:20,987 --> 02:56:24,448
Castro. These guys went after Castro.
2467
02:56:29,829 --> 02:56:32,748
If this got out,
they'd blame me for everything.
2468
02:56:32,832 --> 02:56:35,793
Forget Kennedy or Johnson. It's Nixon!
2469
02:56:54,354 --> 02:56:59,108
Whoever killed Kennedy came from
this thing we created, this beast.
2470
02:57:04,823 --> 02:57:07,991
In the latest bombshell,
the president's lawyers revealed
2471
02:57:08,076 --> 02:57:10,327
that there is
an 18-and-a-half-minute gap
2472
02:57:10,411 --> 02:57:12,412
in a critical Watergate tape.
2473
02:57:12,497 --> 02:57:16,875
Reactions of disbelief and anger are
being heard across the country.
2474
02:57:20,505 --> 02:57:22,297
My God.
2475
02:57:22,382 --> 02:57:26,885
Pat!
2476
02:57:26,970 --> 02:57:29,763
- Has he had chest pains?
- He woke up coughing blood!
2477
02:57:29,848 --> 02:57:30,889
I'm in charge here!
2478
02:57:30,974 --> 02:57:32,391
Has he been short of breath?
2479
02:57:32,475 --> 02:57:35,352
- No, and he's sure that he has T.B.!
- Why T.B.?
2480
02:57:35,436 --> 02:57:38,355
Because his family had it.
His brother had it.
2481
02:57:41,025 --> 02:57:43,360
- I think it's flooded.
- Richard.
2482
02:57:46,406 --> 02:57:48,699
Get those I.V.S started.
2483
02:57:51,369 --> 02:57:52,619
Please lie down, Dick.
2484
02:57:52,745 --> 02:57:55,164
- They need you to lie down!
- Sedate him!
2485
02:57:55,248 --> 02:57:56,623
Dick. Dick.
2486
02:58:00,712 --> 02:58:02,713
Richard?
2487
02:58:04,007 --> 02:58:07,176
- Mother.
- Pretty soon, you boys'll have to...
2488
02:58:07,260 --> 02:58:09,136
Maybe a trip to the woodshed'll...
2489
02:58:10,346 --> 02:58:11,930
Daddy?
2490
02:58:52,305 --> 02:58:56,016
Vice President Agnew
has resigned today pleading no contest
2491
02:58:56,100 --> 02:58:58,435
to charges of income tax evasion.
2492
02:58:58,519 --> 02:59:01,772
This follows Watergate Special
Prosecutor Archibald Cox's
2493
02:59:01,856 --> 02:59:05,567
continuing investigation
into President Nixon's finances.
2494
02:59:05,652 --> 02:59:07,945
The president paid no income tax
2495
02:59:08,029 --> 02:59:10,989
- in 1971 and '72
- They need you to lie down, Dick.
2496
02:59:11,074 --> 02:59:14,868
...and may have used funds to improve
his residence in San Clemente...
2497
02:59:14,953 --> 02:59:17,829
Where's the blood coming from?
What's wrong with him?
2498
02:59:17,914 --> 02:59:21,208
He's got an acute viral pneumonia
and a very serious phlebitis.
2499
02:59:21,292 --> 02:59:24,461
If a clot were to break loose,
it could go into his lungs.
2500
02:59:24,545 --> 02:59:25,712
Oh, no.
2501
02:59:25,838 --> 02:59:28,465
The president has returned
to the White House.
2502
02:59:28,549 --> 02:59:31,551
But Archibald Cox has declared war
by issuing a subpoena
2503
02:59:31,636 --> 02:59:34,805
- for nine of the president's tapes.
- Never! Over my dead body.
2504
02:59:34,889 --> 02:59:37,099
It's the president's personal property.
2505
02:59:37,183 --> 02:59:41,937
I'll never give up my tapes to a bunch
of Kennedy-loving, Democrat cocksuckers.
2506
02:59:42,021 --> 02:59:45,857
This could trigger the impeachment.
They'll go to the Supreme Court.
2507
02:59:45,942 --> 02:59:49,486
I appointed three of those bastards.
I�ll never give them my tapes.
2508
02:59:49,570 --> 02:59:52,114
Can the president afford
to ignore a subpoena?
2509
02:59:52,198 --> 02:59:56,118
Who the hell does Cox think he is? I've
never made a dime from public office.
2510
02:59:56,202 --> 02:59:59,288
I'm honest. My dad died broke. Jesus.
2511
02:59:59,372 --> 03:00:03,709
That son of a bitch Cox, he went
to the same law school as Jack Kennedy.
2512
03:00:03,751 --> 03:00:06,461
The last gasp of the establishment.
2513
03:00:06,546 --> 03:00:09,506
Yeah, they got the hell
kicked out of 'em in the election
2514
03:00:09,590 --> 03:00:11,925
so now they gotta squeal
about Watergate
2515
03:00:12,010 --> 03:00:14,928
'cause we were the first
real threat to them in years.
2516
03:00:15,013 --> 03:00:20,517
My God, we would've changed it so they
couldn't have changed it back in years.
2517
03:00:20,601 --> 03:00:21,768
Yeah.
2518
03:00:23,896 --> 03:00:26,606
- If only the, uh...
- Mr. President.
2519
03:00:26,691 --> 03:00:29,401
- Sir, Congress is...
- No, over here, sir.
2520
03:00:29,485 --> 03:00:32,654
Sir, Congress is considering
four articles of impeachment.
2521
03:00:32,739 --> 03:00:36,199
- Yeah. For what?
- They're very serious charges, sir.
2522
03:00:36,284 --> 03:00:37,951
- First, abuse of power.
- Yep.
2523
03:00:38,036 --> 03:00:40,412
- Second, obstruction of justice.
- What else?
2524
03:00:40,496 --> 03:00:43,415
Third, the failure
to cooperate with Congress.
2525
03:00:43,499 --> 03:00:47,169
- And last, bombing Cambodia, sir.
- Can't impeach me for Cambodia.
2526
03:00:47,253 --> 03:00:49,338
The president can bomb anybody he likes.
2527
03:00:49,422 --> 03:00:52,299
- That's true.
- We'll win that, but the other three...
2528
03:00:52,383 --> 03:00:54,551
- Fred, they sell tickets.
- It's Ron, sir.
2529
03:00:54,635 --> 03:00:57,512
They sell tickets to an impeachment
like a damn circus.
2530
03:00:57,597 --> 03:01:00,432
OK, so they impeach me.
Well, fuck 'em!
2531
03:01:01,809 --> 03:01:04,644
Yeah, well,
it's just a matter of mathematics.
2532
03:01:04,729 --> 03:01:07,105
How many votes we have in the Senate?
2533
03:01:07,190 --> 03:01:09,441
- About a dozen.
- A dozen?
2534
03:01:09,525 --> 03:01:12,194
Jeez, I got half of 'em elected.
2535
03:01:12,278 --> 03:01:17,199
OK, so I got the South
and Goldwater and his boys.
2536
03:01:18,534 --> 03:01:20,494
I�ll take my chances in the Senate.
2537
03:01:20,578 --> 03:01:22,329
- Yes, we should.
- This damn leg.
2538
03:01:22,413 --> 03:01:24,915
Well, then, sir, we'll, uh...
2539
03:01:24,999 --> 03:01:28,335
...have to deal with the possibility
of removal from office,
2540
03:01:28,419 --> 03:01:32,214
loss of pension and possibly...
possibly even prison.
2541
03:01:32,298 --> 03:01:35,967
Yeah, well, plenty of people
did their best writing in prison.
2542
03:01:36,052 --> 03:01:38,845
- Gandhi, Lenin.
- That's right.
2543
03:01:38,971 --> 03:01:41,932
What I know about this country,
I could rip it apart.
2544
03:01:42,016 --> 03:01:45,811
If they want a public humiliation,
that's what they'll get.
2545
03:01:45,853 --> 03:01:49,689
- Yes, they will.
- I�ll never resign this office. Never.
2546
03:01:49,774 --> 03:01:53,485
- Where the fuck am I? What's in there?
- The P.O.W.s and their families.
2547
03:01:53,569 --> 03:01:56,488
- I'm supposed to be...
- Compassionate, grateful...
2548
03:01:56,572 --> 03:01:57,697
- Proud.
- Sir?
2549
03:01:57,782 --> 03:02:00,075
- Proud. Of them.
- oh, yes, of course.
2550
03:02:00,159 --> 03:02:02,577
- Fire him.
- Who?
2551
03:02:02,662 --> 03:02:07,416
- Cox. Archibald Cox. Fire him!
- He works for the attorney general.
2552
03:02:07,500 --> 03:02:10,502
- Only Richardson can fire him.
- May I echo my concern, sir?
2553
03:02:10,586 --> 03:02:15,090
- Then tell Richardson to fire him!
- Well, Richardson won't do that, sir.
2554
03:02:15,174 --> 03:02:17,843
- He�ll resign.
- The hell he will. Then fire him too.
2555
03:02:17,885 --> 03:02:21,096
If you have to go down to the janitor
at the justice department
2556
03:02:21,180 --> 03:02:22,764
fire that son of a bitch.
2557
03:02:22,849 --> 03:02:26,393
Mr. President, may I
just say something, sir?
2558
03:02:28,020 --> 03:02:30,522
I think that you should
welcome this subpoena.
2559
03:02:30,606 --> 03:02:32,524
- Why?
- Well, sir,
2560
03:02:32,608 --> 03:02:36,027
the tapes can only prove
that Dean was a liar. Right?
2561
03:02:36,112 --> 03:02:38,530
That's right, sir.
2562
03:02:41,617 --> 03:02:43,910
Well, there's more.
2563
03:02:44,036 --> 03:02:46,121
There's more than just me.
2564
03:02:46,205 --> 03:02:48,790
You can't break, my boy.
2565
03:02:48,875 --> 03:02:51,209
Even though it's ended.
2566
03:02:51,294 --> 03:02:54,754
You can't admit,
even to yourself, when it's gone.
2567
03:02:55,923 --> 03:02:58,884
Do you think those P.O.W.s
in there did?
2568
03:02:59,719 --> 03:03:02,304
Now, there's some people,
and we both know them, Al
2569
03:03:02,388 --> 03:03:04,931
think you can go stand
in the middle of a bull ring
2570
03:03:05,057 --> 03:03:06,933
and cry "mea culpa, mea culpa,"
2571
03:03:07,018 --> 03:03:11,229
while the crowd is hissing
and booing and spitting on you.
2572
03:03:12,064 --> 03:03:15,901
Well, a man doesn't cry. I don't cry.
2573
03:03:16,652 --> 03:03:19,905
You don't cry. You fight.
2574
03:03:23,743 --> 03:03:24,951
OK.
2575
03:03:25,077 --> 03:03:29,331
Ladies and gentlemen,
the president of the United States!
2576
03:03:34,337 --> 03:03:38,423
Good evening. We interrupt this program
for a special report from NBC news.
2577
03:03:38,508 --> 03:03:40,175
The country is in the midst
2578
03:03:40,259 --> 03:03:44,179
of what may be the most serious
constitutional crisis in its history.
2579
03:03:44,263 --> 03:03:48,099
President Nixon has fired special
prosecutor Archibald Cox.
2580
03:03:48,184 --> 03:03:50,602
Attorney General Elliot Richardson
has quit
2581
03:03:50,686 --> 03:03:54,481
and his deputy William Ruckelshaus
was fired when he refused to fire Cox.
2582
03:03:54,565 --> 03:03:57,484
Attorney General Robert Bork
executed Nixon's orders,
2583
03:03:57,568 --> 03:04:00,820
- fired the prosecutor.
- ...to head off impeachment proceedings
2584
03:04:00,905 --> 03:04:04,824
the president has agreed to release
transcripts of 46 taped conversations.
2585
03:04:04,909 --> 03:04:08,203
In a simple ceremony, Gerald
Ford was sworn in as vice president.
2586
03:04:08,287 --> 03:04:12,874
Citing wrongdoing, a judge has dismissed
all charges against Daniel Ellsberg.
2587
03:04:12,959 --> 03:04:16,628
A grand jury has indicted former
Nixon aides Haldeman, Ehrlichman...
2588
03:04:16,712 --> 03:04:20,215
You're a lawyer, for God's sake.
How can you let this shit go through?
2589
03:04:20,299 --> 03:04:23,426
- Look. This. Nixon can't say that.
- Well, you did say it, sir.
2590
03:04:23,511 --> 03:04:25,720
Never! I never
said that about Jews.
2591
03:04:25,805 --> 03:04:29,224
- Makes me sound like an anti-Semite.
- We can check the tapes again.
2592
03:04:29,308 --> 03:04:33,895
No need. I know what I said.
Have you lost your mind? Look, AI!
2593
03:04:33,980 --> 03:04:37,774
Nixon can't say this!
"Niggers. Niggers." It can't say that!
2594
03:04:37,858 --> 03:04:40,402
- We could delete it.
- We're doing the best we can.
2595
03:04:40,486 --> 03:04:43,530
- It's not good enough!
- Would you have us black it out, sir?
2596
03:04:43,614 --> 03:04:47,742
- We could write "expletive deleted."
- Cut all these "goddamns"
2597
03:04:47,827 --> 03:04:50,912
and "Jesus Christs" out. Jesus.
2598
03:04:50,997 --> 03:04:55,292
Mr. President. Don't you see that all
these deletion marks in the transcripts
2599
03:04:55,376 --> 03:04:58,837
make it look as though you...
you do nothing but swear?
2600
03:05:02,967 --> 03:05:05,218
It soils my mother's memory.
2601
03:05:05,303 --> 03:05:09,264
You think I want the whole goddamn
world to see my mother like this?
2602
03:05:09,348 --> 03:05:11,683
Raising a dirty-mouth?
2603
03:05:11,767 --> 03:05:16,062
We could start again, sir, but we
don't really have the staff to do that.
2604
03:05:16,188 --> 03:05:19,441
Then start over! Just start over!
2605
03:05:19,525 --> 03:05:22,611
The world will see only what I show 'em!
2606
03:05:22,695 --> 03:05:25,405
From page one, Al. Page one, Ron!
2607
03:05:25,489 --> 03:05:27,907
Ron, get in there and do something.
2608
03:05:27,992 --> 03:05:30,160
All this stuff.
2609
03:05:36,542 --> 03:05:39,252
Five seconds, Mr. President.
2610
03:05:39,337 --> 03:05:43,715
And four, three, two...
2611
03:05:48,804 --> 03:05:51,848
Good evening, my fellow Americans.
2612
03:05:51,932 --> 03:05:53,892
Tonight I'm taking an action
2613
03:05:53,976 --> 03:05:56,811
unprecedented in the history
of this office.
2614
03:05:56,896 --> 03:06:00,482
I had no knowledge of the cover-up
till John Dean told me about it
2615
03:06:00,566 --> 03:06:03,443
- on March 21st, a year ago.
- I think I'm going to throw up.
2616
03:06:03,527 --> 03:06:05,779
...no payment to Hunt
or anyone else be made.
2617
03:06:05,863 --> 03:06:10,325
- He's lost touch with reality.
- I've made my mistakes,
2618
03:06:10,409 --> 03:06:13,787
but in all my years of public life,
I have never profited.
2619
03:06:13,871 --> 03:06:17,207
Can you imagine
what this man would have been
2620
03:06:17,291 --> 03:06:20,126
- had he ever been loved?
- I've earned every penny.
2621
03:06:20,252 --> 03:06:23,963
In all of my years of public life
I have never obstructed justice.
2622
03:06:24,048 --> 03:06:27,509
It's a tragedy
because he had greatness in his grasp.
2623
03:06:27,593 --> 03:06:31,137
- I welcome this examination.
- But had the defects of his qualities.
2624
03:06:31,263 --> 03:06:34,015
- I made $250,000...
- They'll crucify him.
2625
03:06:34,100 --> 03:06:36,226
Does anybody
really care anymore?
2626
03:06:36,310 --> 03:06:38,978
...which many of you
were good enough to purchase.
2627
03:06:40,523 --> 03:06:43,858
And what happens after?
2628
03:06:43,943 --> 03:06:45,694
...every year.
2629
03:06:47,113 --> 03:06:50,824
When I, in 1968 decided to become
a candidate for the president,
2630
03:06:50,908 --> 03:06:55,537
I decided to clean the decks
and to put everything in real estate.
2631
03:06:55,621 --> 03:06:59,374
So, that's where the money came from.
That's all I own.
2632
03:06:59,458 --> 03:07:02,460
That's what we have,
and that's what we owe.
2633
03:07:02,545 --> 03:07:05,797
Because people have got to know
whether or not their president...
2634
03:07:05,881 --> 03:07:07,882
...their president is a crook.
2635
03:07:07,967 --> 03:07:11,803
Well, I am not a crook.
I've earned everything I have
2636
03:07:11,887 --> 03:07:13,513
...doesn't have a mink coat.
2637
03:07:13,597 --> 03:07:16,474
She does have a respectable
Republican cloth coat.
2638
03:07:16,559 --> 03:07:19,894
And I always tell her
she'd look good in anything.
2639
03:07:19,979 --> 03:07:25,817
There has never been any feathering
of nests. Not in this administration.
2640
03:07:26,569 --> 03:07:28,278
Now, let me just say this.
2641
03:07:28,362 --> 03:07:31,406
And I want to say this
to the television audience...
2642
03:07:31,490 --> 03:07:34,743
Supreme Court ruled today
eight to nothing that Nixon's claims
2643
03:07:34,827 --> 03:07:37,662
of executive privilege
cannot be used in criminal cases
2644
03:07:37,747 --> 03:07:41,207
- and must turn over subpoenaed tapes.
- The House Judiciary Committee
2645
03:07:41,333 --> 03:07:43,209
has voted 27 to 11
2646
03:07:43,335 --> 03:07:46,004
to recommend impeachment
to the House.
2647
03:07:46,088 --> 03:07:48,757
The deliberations
now go to the House floor.
2648
03:07:48,841 --> 03:07:52,594
In its report, the committee offers
evidence Nixon obstructed justice
2649
03:07:52,678 --> 03:07:56,723
on at least 36 occasions, that he
encouraged his aides to commit per jury
2650
03:07:56,807 --> 03:07:59,934
and that Nixon abused
the powers of his office.
2651
03:08:00,019 --> 03:08:02,604
In a separate report,
the Senate Select committee
2652
03:08:02,688 --> 03:08:06,524
details the misuse of the I.R.S.,
the F.B.I., the C.I.A.
2653
03:08:06,609 --> 03:08:08,610
and the justice department.
2654
03:08:08,694 --> 03:08:11,446
It denounces the plumbers
and it raises the question
2655
03:08:11,530 --> 03:08:16,326
of whether the United States
had a valid election in 1972.
2656
03:08:29,965 --> 03:08:31,382
Come in.
2657
03:08:43,395 --> 03:08:48,691
Victory at Sea, Al. Henry.
The Pacific Theatre.
2658
03:08:48,776 --> 03:08:52,862
Christ, you can almost hear the waves
breaking over the decks.
2659
03:08:58,452 --> 03:09:01,287
I'm afraid we have another problem,
Mr. President.
2660
03:09:02,122 --> 03:09:03,915
Excuse me, gentlemen.
2661
03:09:08,546 --> 03:09:11,089
June 23rd, '72, sir.
2662
03:09:13,759 --> 03:09:18,221
Your instructions to Haldeman
regarding the C.I.A. and the F.B.I.
2663
03:09:19,473 --> 03:09:21,015
So?
2664
03:09:21,100 --> 03:09:25,854
Your lawyers feel that
it's the smoking gun.
2665
03:09:25,938 --> 03:09:29,190
Totally out of context.
I was protecting the national security.
2666
03:09:29,275 --> 03:09:31,860
Sir, the deadline is today.
2667
03:09:35,030 --> 03:09:36,990
Can we get around this, Al?
2668
03:09:38,325 --> 03:09:42,871
It's the Supreme Court, sir.
You don't get around it.
2669
03:09:46,709 --> 03:09:48,835
If, uh...
2670
03:09:48,919 --> 03:09:53,214
If you resign, you can keep your tapes
as a private citizen.
2671
03:09:53,299 --> 03:09:55,925
You could fight them for years.
2672
03:09:58,804 --> 03:10:00,722
What if I stay?
2673
03:10:03,642 --> 03:10:06,227
You have the army.
2674
03:10:06,312 --> 03:10:07,896
The army?
2675
03:10:09,857 --> 03:10:11,316
Lincoln used it.
2676
03:10:18,157 --> 03:10:19,657
That was civil war.
2677
03:10:20,951 --> 03:10:22,327
How do you see this?
2678
03:10:26,081 --> 03:10:27,373
Oh, God.
2679
03:10:27,499 --> 03:10:30,543
We can't survive this, sir.
2680
03:10:33,505 --> 03:10:38,176
They also have you instructing Dean
to make the pay off to Hunt.
2681
03:10:38,260 --> 03:10:42,347
There's nothing in that statement
the president can't explain.
2682
03:10:42,389 --> 03:10:47,936
Sir, you talked about opening up
the whole Bay of Pigs thing again.
2683
03:10:48,020 --> 03:10:51,105
- That's right.
- Three days before, the June 20th tape.
2684
03:10:51,190 --> 03:10:54,901
- The one with the 18-minute gap.
- I don't know anything about that.
2685
03:10:54,985 --> 03:10:58,112
You mentioned
the Bay of Pigs several times.
2686
03:10:58,197 --> 03:11:02,241
Sooner or later, they're going to
want to know what that means.
2687
03:11:02,326 --> 03:11:05,244
They're going to want to
know what's on that gap.
2688
03:11:05,329 --> 03:11:08,581
It's gone. No one will
ever find out what's on it.
2689
03:11:11,335 --> 03:11:15,421
They might if there was
another recording.
2690
03:11:17,800 --> 03:11:19,717
We both know it's possible.
2691
03:11:24,431 --> 03:11:28,142
I know for a fact
that it's possible.
2692
03:11:31,230 --> 03:11:32,689
I've spoken to Ford.
2693
03:11:32,773 --> 03:11:37,610
There's a very strong chance
that he'll pardon you.
2694
03:11:37,695 --> 03:11:41,531
I don't need a goddamned deal,
for God's sake. I...
2695
03:11:41,615 --> 03:11:46,619
This is something that
you will have to do, Mr. President.
2696
03:11:48,664 --> 03:11:53,084
I thought you'd rather do it now.
2697
03:11:57,589 --> 03:11:59,590
I'll wait outside.
2698
03:12:04,847 --> 03:12:06,597
Sir.
2699
03:12:07,766 --> 03:12:11,185
May I say, sir, that if you stay now,
2700
03:12:11,270 --> 03:12:15,481
it will paralyze the nation
and its foreign policy.
2701
03:12:19,111 --> 03:12:22,447
You always had a great
sense of timing, Henry.
2702
03:12:22,489 --> 03:12:26,325
When to give and when to take.
2703
03:12:29,413 --> 03:12:33,166
How do you think Mao
and Brezhnev will react?
2704
03:12:33,250 --> 03:12:36,502
Do you think they'll
remember us, Henry,
2705
03:12:36,628 --> 03:12:39,338
after all the great things
you and I did together,
2706
03:12:39,423 --> 03:12:44,260
as some kind of...
of crooks?
2707
03:12:44,344 --> 03:12:49,057
They will understand.
To be undone by a third-rate burglary
2708
03:12:49,141 --> 03:12:52,143
is a fate of biblical proportions.
2709
03:12:54,354 --> 03:12:58,232
History will treat you far more
kindly than your contemporaries.
2710
03:12:58,317 --> 03:13:00,068
Yeah.
2711
03:13:00,152 --> 03:13:03,946
Depends who writes the history books.
2712
03:13:04,031 --> 03:13:07,492
I'm not a quitter, never have been.
2713
03:13:07,534 --> 03:13:10,495
But I'm not stupid either.
2714
03:13:10,537 --> 03:13:14,082
A trial would kill me.
That's what they want.
2715
03:13:14,166 --> 03:13:18,169
They won't get it. Fuck 'em.
2716
03:13:40,484 --> 03:13:44,570
If they harass you, I too will resign,
and I will tell the world why.
2717
03:13:44,655 --> 03:13:48,491
Don't be stupid.
The world needs you, Henry.
2718
03:13:50,035 --> 03:13:52,495
You always saw the big picture.
2719
03:13:56,041 --> 03:13:58,960
You were my equal in many ways.
2720
03:14:08,303 --> 03:14:11,264
You're the only friend I got, Henry.
2721
03:14:13,892 --> 03:14:16,227
Do you ever pray?
2722
03:14:17,396 --> 03:14:22,733
You know, believe in a supreme being?
2723
03:14:24,444 --> 03:14:28,614
Not really.
You mean on my knees?
2724
03:14:32,619 --> 03:14:36,247
My mother used to pray a lot.
2725
03:14:36,331 --> 03:14:41,252
It's been a long time
since I really prayed.
2726
03:14:47,009 --> 03:14:49,844
Let's pray, Henry.
2727
03:14:49,928 --> 03:14:54,432
Let's pray a little.
Just you and me.
2728
03:15:02,566 --> 03:15:05,359
I hope this doesn't embarrass you,
Henry.
2729
03:15:05,444 --> 03:15:08,279
No. Not at all, no.
2730
03:15:08,363 --> 03:15:12,450
This is not going to leak, is it?
2731
03:15:14,912 --> 03:15:17,955
Don't be too proud, Henry.
2732
03:15:18,040 --> 03:15:22,668
Never be too proud
to go on your knees before God.
2733
03:15:34,640 --> 03:15:37,642
God.
2734
03:15:43,607 --> 03:15:45,566
How can a...
2735
03:15:45,651 --> 03:15:49,237
How can a country come apart like this?
2736
03:15:49,321 --> 03:15:52,323
What have I done wrong?
2737
03:15:53,951 --> 03:15:58,496
I opened China.
I made peace with Russia.
2738
03:15:59,706 --> 03:16:02,833
I ended the war.
2739
03:16:04,503 --> 03:16:07,296
I did what I thought was right.
2740
03:16:12,511 --> 03:16:15,221
God, why do they hate me so?
2741
03:16:15,305 --> 03:16:19,433
It's unbelievable. It... It's insane.
2742
03:16:20,852 --> 03:16:26,274
oh, Mom, I'm sorry. God, please
forgive me, God. I didn't mean it.
2743
03:16:26,358 --> 03:16:30,027
I never wanted to do...
I don't want this to... Is it me?
2744
03:16:30,112 --> 03:16:33,864
Is this happening?
I can't believe...
2745
03:16:39,705 --> 03:16:41,539
AI.
2746
03:16:57,014 --> 03:17:02,476
They smelled the blood on me
this time, Al. I got soft, you know?
2747
03:17:03,353 --> 03:17:06,772
A rusty, metallic smell.
2748
03:17:06,898 --> 03:17:11,527
- I know it well, sir.
- It came over from Vietnam, you know?
2749
03:17:11,611 --> 03:17:14,155
- Sir?
- That smell.
2750
03:17:15,282 --> 03:17:18,200
I mean, everyone suffered so much.
2751
03:17:18,285 --> 03:17:21,412
Their boys killed.
2752
03:17:21,496 --> 03:17:25,207
They need to sacrifice something.
2753
03:17:25,292 --> 03:17:28,210
You know, appease the gods of war.
2754
03:17:29,087 --> 03:17:32,214
Mars, Jupiter.
2755
03:17:35,302 --> 03:17:38,387
I am that blood, General.
2756
03:17:40,390 --> 03:17:43,184
I am that sacrifice.
2757
03:17:43,977 --> 03:17:46,729
In the highest place of all.
2758
03:17:50,192 --> 03:17:54,362
Yeah. All leaders
must finally be sacrificed.
2759
03:17:55,614 --> 03:17:58,532
Things won't be the same after this.
2760
03:17:58,617 --> 03:18:04,330
No, I played by the rules. Rules changed
right in the middle of the game.
2761
03:18:04,414 --> 03:18:08,125
There's no respect for American
institutions anymore.
2762
03:18:09,836 --> 03:18:12,838
No, people are cynical.
2763
03:18:12,964 --> 03:18:16,592
The press, ah,
the press is out of control.
2764
03:18:18,095 --> 03:18:21,389
People spit on soldiers.
2765
03:18:21,473 --> 03:18:24,016
Government secrets mean nothing.
2766
03:18:25,477 --> 03:18:28,646
I pity the next guy who sits here.
2767
03:18:31,483 --> 03:18:33,651
Good night, gentlemen.
2768
03:18:39,574 --> 03:18:42,118
Mr. President.
2769
03:19:18,613 --> 03:19:23,534
When they look at you,
they see what they want to be.
2770
03:19:26,288 --> 03:19:31,292
When they look at me,
they see what they are.
2771
03:19:36,631 --> 03:19:39,758
Dick, please don't.
2772
03:19:46,308 --> 03:19:48,434
I can't.
2773
03:19:48,518 --> 03:19:51,520
I don't have the strength anymore.
2774
03:19:52,939 --> 03:19:55,149
It'll be over soon.
2775
03:19:55,233 --> 03:19:58,402
No, it's going to start now.
2776
03:19:59,404 --> 03:20:04,450
Oh, Buddy.
If I could just sleep.
2777
03:20:04,534 --> 03:20:07,912
- If I could just sleep.
- There'll be time for that.
2778
03:20:07,954 --> 03:20:09,830
Yeah.
2779
03:20:14,336 --> 03:20:19,173
You know, once when I was sick as a boy,
2780
03:20:19,257 --> 03:20:24,261
my mother gave me this stuff
and she made me swallow it.
2781
03:20:25,680 --> 03:20:28,891
It made me throw up all over her.
2782
03:20:30,977 --> 03:20:34,563
I wish I could do that now.
2783
03:20:40,487 --> 03:20:43,239
I'm so afraid.
2784
03:20:43,907 --> 03:20:46,700
There's darkness out there.
2785
03:20:48,495 --> 03:20:53,791
I could always see where I was going.
But it's dark out there.
2786
03:20:56,127 --> 03:21:00,381
God, I've always
been afraid of the dark.
2787
03:21:01,967 --> 03:21:03,968
Buddy.
2788
03:21:30,996 --> 03:21:36,542
There are many fine careers.
This country needs good farmers,
2789
03:21:36,626 --> 03:21:41,589
good businessmen, good plumbers
2790
03:21:41,673 --> 03:21:44,758
good carpenters.
2791
03:21:44,843 --> 03:21:48,345
I remember my old man.
2792
03:21:48,430 --> 03:21:52,016
I think that they would
have called him sort of a,
2793
03:21:52,058 --> 03:21:55,060
sort of a little man, a common man.
2794
03:21:55,145 --> 03:22:00,899
Well, he didn't consider
himself that way.
2795
03:22:00,984 --> 03:22:05,571
You know what he was?
He was a streetcar motorman first.
2796
03:22:05,655 --> 03:22:09,241
Then he was a farmer.
2797
03:22:09,326 --> 03:22:11,285
Then he had a lemon ranch.
2798
03:22:11,369 --> 03:22:15,080
It was the poorest lemon ranch
in California, I can assure you.
2799
03:22:15,206 --> 03:22:18,250
He sold it before they found oil on it.
2800
03:22:21,338 --> 03:22:23,964
Then he was a grocer.
2801
03:22:24,049 --> 03:22:26,550
But he was a great man
2802
03:22:26,635 --> 03:22:29,928
because he did his job.
2803
03:22:30,013 --> 03:22:33,182
And every job counts up to the hilt
2804
03:22:33,266 --> 03:22:35,851
regardless of what happens.
2805
03:22:37,228 --> 03:22:40,731
Nobody will ever write a book,
probably, about my mother.
2806
03:22:40,815 --> 03:22:46,820
Well, I guess all of you would
say this about your mother.
2807
03:22:48,490 --> 03:22:51,867
My mother was a saint.
2808
03:22:51,951 --> 03:22:57,498
And I think of her
two boys dying of tuberculosis
2809
03:22:57,582 --> 03:23:02,378
and seeing each of them die.
And when they died...
2810
03:23:06,841 --> 03:23:12,429
Yes, she will have no books
written about her.
2811
03:23:13,765 --> 03:23:17,351
But she was a saint.
2812
03:23:18,395 --> 03:23:22,356
Now, however, we look to the future.
2813
03:23:22,440 --> 03:23:26,652
I remember something, uh,
Theodore Roosevelt wrote
2814
03:23:26,736 --> 03:23:30,906
when his first wife died
in his twenties.
2815
03:23:30,990 --> 03:23:34,702
He thought the light had gone
from his life forever.
2816
03:23:34,786 --> 03:23:38,372
But he went on, and he not
only became president
2817
03:23:38,456 --> 03:23:41,250
but as an ex-president,
he served his country
2818
03:23:41,334 --> 03:23:45,379
always in the arena,
tempestuous, strong,
2819
03:23:45,463 --> 03:23:48,006
sometimes right, sometimes wrong.
2820
03:23:48,091 --> 03:23:51,260
But he was a man.
2821
03:23:51,344 --> 03:23:56,932
And as I leave that's an example
I think all of us should remember.
2822
03:23:57,058 --> 03:24:02,688
See, we think sometimes when, things
happen that don't go the right way;
2823
03:24:02,772 --> 03:24:06,567
we think that when someone
dear to us dies,
2824
03:24:06,651 --> 03:24:09,486
when we lose an election,
2825
03:24:09,571 --> 03:24:13,198
or when we suffer defeat
that all is ended.
2826
03:24:13,324 --> 03:24:18,287
Not true.
It's only a beginning, always,
2827
03:24:18,371 --> 03:24:22,583
because the greatness comes,
not when things go always good for you,
2828
03:24:22,667 --> 03:24:26,628
but the greatness comes
when you're really tested,
2829
03:24:26,713 --> 03:24:30,424
when you take some knocks,
some disappointments
2830
03:24:30,508 --> 03:24:32,593
when sadness comes.
2831
03:24:32,677 --> 03:24:36,764
Because only if you've been
in the deepest valley
2832
03:24:36,848 --> 03:24:42,436
can you ever know
how magnificent it is
2833
03:24:42,520 --> 03:24:44,772
to be on the highest mountain.
2834
03:24:48,359 --> 03:24:51,653
So, I say to you on this occasion,
2835
03:24:51,738 --> 03:24:56,116
we leave, proud of the people
who have stood by us and worked for us
2836
03:24:56,201 --> 03:24:59,661
and served this government
and this country.
2837
03:24:59,746 --> 03:25:02,539
They want you to continue
to serve in government
2838
03:25:02,624 --> 03:25:04,750
if that is what you wish.
2839
03:25:04,834 --> 03:25:08,337
Remember, always give your best.
2840
03:25:08,421 --> 03:25:12,674
Never get discouraged.
Never be petty.
2841
03:25:12,759 --> 03:25:16,345
Always remember, others may hate you.
2842
03:25:16,429 --> 03:25:20,682
But those who hate you don't win
unless you hate them.
2843
03:25:20,767 --> 03:25:25,437
And then, you destroy yourself.
2844
03:25:25,522 --> 03:25:31,235
And so we leave with high hopes
and good spirits and with deep humility.
2845
03:25:31,277 --> 03:25:33,445
And I say to each
and every one of you,
2846
03:25:33,530 --> 03:25:35,906
not only will we always remember you
2847
03:25:35,990 --> 03:25:41,245
but always, you will be
in our hearts.
2848
03:25:41,287 --> 03:25:45,916
And you'll be in our prayers.
2849
03:25:46,000 --> 03:25:52,005
And only then will you find what
we Quakers call "peace at the center".
2850
03:26:06,771 --> 03:26:12,734
He gave of himself with intelligence
and energy and devotion to duty.
2851
03:26:12,819 --> 03:26:18,657
Richard Nixon was buried and honored
by five presidents on April 26, 1994.
2852
03:26:18,741 --> 03:26:23,537
Less than a year after his beloved wife,
Pat, had died.
2853
03:26:23,621 --> 03:26:27,416
Nixon always maintained that
if he had not been driven from office
2854
03:26:27,500 --> 03:26:32,754
the North Vietnamese would not have
overwhelmed the South in 1975.
2855
03:26:32,839 --> 03:26:37,509
In a sideshow, Cambodian society was
destroyed and mass genocide resulted.
2856
03:26:37,594 --> 03:26:42,222
The second half of the 20th century
will be known as the age of Nixon.
2857
03:26:42,307 --> 03:26:45,809
In his absence, Russia and the
United States returned to a decade
2858
03:26:45,894 --> 03:26:48,562
of high-budget military expansion
and near war.
2859
03:26:49,480 --> 03:26:52,524
Nixon, who was pardoned
by President Ford,
2860
03:26:52,609 --> 03:26:58,196
lived to write six books and travel
the world as an elder statesman.
2861
03:26:58,281 --> 03:27:03,327
For the remainder of his life, he fought
successfully to protect his tapes.
2862
03:27:03,369 --> 03:27:08,206
The National Archives spent
14 years indexing and cataloging them.
2863
03:27:08,291 --> 03:27:12,753
out of 4,000 hours,
60 hours have been made public.
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