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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:07:21,441 --> 00:07:23,568 Uh, testing. Uh, one, two, three, four. 2 00:07:23,643 --> 00:07:25,838 Uh, Roberto, I told you before... 3 00:07:25,945 --> 00:07:28,846 that this thing doesn't, uh... because there's no... 4 00:07:28,948 --> 00:07:30,916 because the, uh, uh... You know. 5 00:07:43,129 --> 00:07:45,063 Cocksucker! 6 00:07:56,175 --> 00:07:59,167 Uh, testing. Uh, one, two, three, four. 7 00:07:59,245 --> 00:08:01,873 Uh, Roberto, this is for, uh... 8 00:08:02,014 --> 00:08:03,914 eyes only. 9 00:08:04,016 --> 00:08:07,383 Um, our eyes. 10 00:08:23,836 --> 00:08:26,304 Uh, testing. Uh, one, two, three, four. 11 00:08:27,907 --> 00:08:30,467 Uh, Roberto, this is for... 12 00:08:32,912 --> 00:08:35,380 eyes only. 13 00:08:35,481 --> 00:08:39,474 Um, our eyes. 14 00:09:14,854 --> 00:09:16,754 Okay, Roberto... 15 00:09:16,889 --> 00:09:18,880 would you, uh... would you send... 16 00:09:19,926 --> 00:09:22,087 Call Mr. Stein at my publishers... 17 00:09:22,228 --> 00:09:24,890 to pick up that, uh, package that I gave you. 18 00:09:24,997 --> 00:09:26,897 Oh! Oh, yes. 19 00:09:27,033 --> 00:09:29,058 Would you also tell Mrs. Nixon that I, um... 20 00:09:38,778 --> 00:09:40,678 Never mind. 21 00:09:40,780 --> 00:09:42,680 Oh! Oh, yes. 22 00:09:42,782 --> 00:09:44,613 I, I... I hear that the gardener's wife... that Fernando's... 23 00:09:44,684 --> 00:09:46,743 wife is in the hospital. 24 00:09:46,852 --> 00:09:49,218 Would you send her a, uh, u-uh... 25 00:09:49,288 --> 00:09:52,189 Send her a new portable radio, please. Make it a good one. 26 00:09:52,325 --> 00:09:55,260 And don't..., don't... don't tell her that it's from... 27 00:09:55,328 --> 00:09:56,590 I would... I would rather that she didn't... Just make it... 28 00:09:56,662 --> 00:09:58,425 anonymous. I... 29 00:09:58,564 --> 00:10:01,465 No! No, no, no, no, no, no. Say that, um... 30 00:10:01,567 --> 00:10:05,469 Say that it is from Friends of a Free Cuba. 31 00:10:05,571 --> 00:10:08,472 Cuba libre. 32 00:10:08,574 --> 00:10:11,008 Okay, side one. 33 00:10:11,143 --> 00:10:15,705 Um, day and date, um, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 34 00:10:15,781 --> 00:10:19,080 I'II, um... I'll write the, um, um, ...the prayer f... 35 00:10:19,185 --> 00:10:23,053 Uh, the, um, uh... the plea f... 36 00:10:23,122 --> 00:10:25,022 the prologue... 37 00:10:25,157 --> 00:10:27,057 You know. Um... 38 00:10:27,193 --> 00:10:28,626 Okay... 39 00:10:59,058 --> 00:11:01,219 Your Honor... 40 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,352 may we take the matter of the, pardon first? 41 00:11:04,530 --> 00:11:06,760 It was a complete fake. 42 00:11:06,832 --> 00:11:08,732 It solved nothing because, well... 43 00:11:08,834 --> 00:11:11,735 if there had been a trial and all the rest of it... 44 00:11:11,871 --> 00:11:13,634 Well, you know, if I had gone to prison... 45 00:11:13,706 --> 00:11:16,106 I would be a free man today. 46 00:11:16,208 --> 00:11:18,108 A free man! 47 00:11:18,177 --> 00:11:21,340 Now, the word 'pardon' has two definitions. 48 00:11:21,447 --> 00:11:25,213 First, there is the legal aspect, which is to... 49 00:11:25,317 --> 00:11:28,218 excuse a convicted man from punishment. 50 00:11:28,287 --> 00:11:32,018 Then there is the general definition of the word... 51 00:11:32,158 --> 00:11:34,126 'pardon' which is to forgive. 52 00:11:36,462 --> 00:11:38,362 'Forgive.' 53 00:11:40,433 --> 00:11:43,129 Forgive them before they ever forgive me. 54 00:11:43,235 --> 00:11:45,169 Bastards. Fuck 'em! 55 00:11:45,271 --> 00:11:48,172 Son of a bitches. 56 00:11:48,274 --> 00:11:50,174 Your Honor... 57 00:11:50,276 --> 00:11:52,676 my client has been driven almost mad... 58 00:11:52,778 --> 00:11:56,578 because he has had to carry the most terrible secrets of all... 59 00:11:56,716 --> 00:12:00,083 Iocked up inside his, breaking heart... 60 00:12:00,186 --> 00:12:02,279 and, beating mind. 61 00:12:02,354 --> 00:12:04,720 Now, you have read in the press... 62 00:12:04,857 --> 00:12:06,757 the reasons for the Watergate affair. 63 00:12:06,859 --> 00:12:09,623 Today my client is going to reveal to you... 64 00:12:09,729 --> 00:12:12,163 the reasons behind the reasons. 65 00:12:12,298 --> 00:12:15,597 You, ladies and gentlemen of the American jury... 66 00:12:15,701 --> 00:12:20,365 shall look at the face that is under the mask that is... 67 00:12:20,439 --> 00:12:22,669 that is under the mask! 68 00:12:25,344 --> 00:12:27,244 You alone shall judge his life. 69 00:12:27,346 --> 00:12:31,180 Your Honor, my client has never been convicted of anything... 70 00:12:31,283 --> 00:12:34,309 therefore, technically, he was not qualified for a pardon. 71 00:12:34,420 --> 00:12:36,650 Now, as to the definition of the word 'pardon'... 72 00:12:36,756 --> 00:12:38,621 Look, there's been no forgiveness here. 73 00:12:38,758 --> 00:12:41,158 The whole damn thing has been a sham. 74 00:12:41,293 --> 00:12:44,194 There's been no trial, no legal conviction, no punishment. 75 00:12:44,263 --> 00:12:47,164 Instead, Your Honor, my client has had to suffer... 76 00:12:47,299 --> 00:12:50,530 lifelong personal punishment and, torment... 77 00:12:50,603 --> 00:12:53,538 for what has been called, the, good of the nation. 78 00:12:53,606 --> 00:12:56,006 Look, if the nation knew the real truth... 79 00:12:56,142 --> 00:12:57,632 why, I would be in the position of-of de Gaulle... 80 00:12:57,710 --> 00:12:59,644 for instance, because I... 81 00:12:59,745 --> 00:13:01,713 Look, I had to withdraw becau... 82 00:13:13,993 --> 00:13:16,553 De Gaulle and-and, M�o... 83 00:13:16,695 --> 00:13:18,595 Mao! 84 00:13:18,697 --> 00:13:21,598 He was a kind of a Ione wolf too, you know. 85 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:24,003 As a matter of fact, he said to me once, he said... 86 00:13:24,003 --> 00:13:26,005 'I am alone with the people, waiting.' 87 00:13:26,005 --> 00:13:27,973 I will never forget that moment. 88 00:13:28,073 --> 00:13:30,473 It made the, uh, gooseflesh come out, because I... 89 00:13:30,543 --> 00:13:34,013 Look, if the American people knew what really happened, I... I... 90 00:13:34,013 --> 00:13:36,481 You see, Your Honor, I know that the whole story... 91 00:13:36,582 --> 00:13:38,482 could never be told during my lifetime... 92 00:13:38,551 --> 00:13:40,451 because the nation could not have stood the whole story. 93 00:13:40,586 --> 00:13:42,721 Take the killing of President Kennedy and the... 94 00:13:42,721 --> 00:13:45,451 Warren report and so forth. 95 00:13:45,558 --> 00:13:48,493 The nation could not have stood the whole story. 96 00:13:48,594 --> 00:13:51,825 So it was a blessing when that... Shit! What's his... Ruby. 97 00:13:51,897 --> 00:13:54,024 When he shot, O-Oswald. 98 00:13:54,166 --> 00:13:56,969 Look, I'm not saying that two rights make a wrong. 99 00:13:56,969 --> 00:13:59,938 But it was a godsend when that-that patriotic nightclub owner... 100 00:14:00,005 --> 00:14:02,530 when he-when he shot... Look, I... 101 00:14:02,675 --> 00:14:04,734 I always understood the Kennedy brothers. Oh, yeah. 102 00:14:04,877 --> 00:14:07,937 The four boys? Well, see, we were four brothers too, you know. 103 00:14:08,013 --> 00:14:10,948 My brother, Harold, you know, he had the same charisma. 104 00:14:11,083 --> 00:14:12,948 The women, they all... 105 00:14:13,085 --> 00:14:15,952 You know, he was a big, brash redhead. I... 106 00:14:16,021 --> 00:14:17,079 Shit! 107 00:14:17,189 --> 00:14:17,951 Shit! 108 00:14:18,023 --> 00:14:19,991 It was TB. 109 00:14:21,093 --> 00:14:23,254 Goddamn TB. 110 00:14:23,395 --> 00:14:26,262 Up and down both sides of the family. 111 00:14:33,305 --> 00:14:37,571 Got my little brother, Arthur, in 1925. 112 00:14:40,946 --> 00:14:42,914 And it got my brother, Harold... 113 00:14:44,216 --> 00:14:46,184 in 1933. 114 00:14:47,253 --> 00:14:50,188 But in those days you went to... 115 00:14:50,322 --> 00:14:52,491 Well, actually, my mother, she took us to... 116 00:14:52,491 --> 00:14:54,186 uh, Arizona for the dry air. 117 00:14:54,326 --> 00:14:56,692 Then I came along later in the summer too... 118 00:14:56,829 --> 00:14:59,229 to work as a barker at the carnival there... 119 00:14:59,331 --> 00:15:02,198 at the, uh, uh, Slippery Gulch rodeo. 120 00:15:02,334 --> 00:15:04,470 Then, years later, that son of a bitch wrote that I was... 121 00:15:04,470 --> 00:15:06,529 a shill for a crooked card game! 122 00:15:06,639 --> 00:15:09,199 That bastard! Son of a bitch! L-I... But... 123 00:15:09,275 --> 00:15:11,402 But my... my old man... 124 00:15:11,477 --> 00:15:15,413 he-he called it a-a fat cat's lunger clinic. 125 00:15:15,481 --> 00:15:18,416 My old man was very... He had a certain kind... He was... 126 00:15:18,484 --> 00:15:20,509 Ah, shit! 127 00:15:21,587 --> 00:15:23,521 Arthur was only seven years old. 128 00:15:23,589 --> 00:15:25,489 He was the worst. 129 00:15:25,624 --> 00:15:29,287 God, he was so cute. Goddamn TB! 130 00:15:29,395 --> 00:15:31,697 That's the reason that we came to California in the first place... 131 00:15:31,697 --> 00:15:33,460 because of the climate. 132 00:15:33,599 --> 00:15:35,533 And they all died anyway. 133 00:15:35,601 --> 00:15:37,503 I used to lay awake at night trying to figure out... 134 00:15:37,503 --> 00:15:39,061 how the hell I got... 135 00:15:41,173 --> 00:15:43,733 When I was a child... 136 00:15:43,842 --> 00:15:46,538 the sweetest sound I ever heard... 137 00:15:47,579 --> 00:15:49,479 was the sound... 138 00:15:49,548 --> 00:15:51,709 of the Santa Fe Railway. 139 00:16:06,031 --> 00:16:09,330 'Tonight I see the face of a child. 140 00:16:09,435 --> 00:16:14,099 'He is black. He is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. 141 00:16:14,173 --> 00:16:16,073 'None of that matters. 142 00:16:16,175 --> 00:16:19,111 'What does matter is that he is an American child. 143 00:16:19,111 --> 00:16:21,079 'He is American. 144 00:16:21,180 --> 00:16:23,080 'He sleeps the sleep of childhood... 145 00:16:23,182 --> 00:16:25,082 'and dreams its dreams. 146 00:16:25,184 --> 00:16:27,084 'But when he awakens... 147 00:16:27,186 --> 00:16:32,021 'he awakens to a living nightmare of poverty, neglect and despair. 148 00:16:32,124 --> 00:16:36,493 'For him, the American system is one that feeds his stomach... 149 00:16:36,562 --> 00:16:38,826 and starves his soul.' 150 00:16:38,931 --> 00:16:40,831 That's very good! 151 00:16:40,933 --> 00:16:42,833 That's-That's my favorite. That's a... 152 00:16:42,901 --> 00:16:44,801 'It breaks... It... 153 00:16:44,903 --> 00:16:46,803 'It breaks his heart... 154 00:16:46,905 --> 00:16:51,740 and in the end it may take his life on some distant battlefield.' 155 00:16:59,618 --> 00:17:01,984 I see the face... 156 00:17:02,087 --> 00:17:04,055 of another child. 157 00:17:06,892 --> 00:17:08,951 He lies awake at night... 158 00:17:09,061 --> 00:17:11,962 and he hears the train go by... 159 00:17:12,064 --> 00:17:14,259 and he dreams... 160 00:17:14,366 --> 00:17:17,267 of faraway places that he would like to go. 161 00:17:19,838 --> 00:17:23,205 Seems like an impossible dream. 162 00:17:23,308 --> 00:17:26,209 But he is helped on his journey through life... 163 00:17:26,278 --> 00:17:29,509 by his father, by a gentle Quaker mother... 164 00:17:29,615 --> 00:17:32,584 by a great football coach... 165 00:17:34,019 --> 00:17:36,078 courageous wife... 166 00:17:37,790 --> 00:17:39,758 and loyal children. 167 00:17:40,826 --> 00:17:43,727 Tonight, ladies and gentlemen... 168 00:17:43,829 --> 00:17:45,763 he stands before you... 169 00:17:45,831 --> 00:17:48,732 nominated for president of the United States. 170 00:17:48,834 --> 00:17:52,998 You can see why I believe deeply in the American dream. 171 00:17:53,072 --> 00:17:56,007 For most of us, the American revolution has been won. 172 00:17:56,108 --> 00:17:59,236 The American dream has come true. 173 00:17:59,344 --> 00:18:03,041 Well, I ask you to help me make that dream come true... 174 00:18:03,115 --> 00:18:07,677 for millions to whom it is impossible dream today. 175 00:18:31,076 --> 00:18:33,442 Roberto? 176 00:18:33,545 --> 00:18:37,481 Would you, erase everything, please, back to... 177 00:18:37,549 --> 00:18:39,676 'I see the face of a... 178 00:18:41,487 --> 00:18:43,648 child.' 179 00:18:43,822 --> 00:18:47,417 Oh, yes, um, would you also send Fernando's wife a... 180 00:18:49,495 --> 00:18:51,395 Shit! 181 00:18:51,497 --> 00:18:53,397 Goddamn Kennedys! 182 00:18:53,499 --> 00:18:56,366 They stole the 1960 election in Chicago. 183 00:18:56,502 --> 00:18:59,403 Then they told me to go in there and blow it wide open. 184 00:18:59,505 --> 00:19:01,973 And I would have! I could have... Shit! 185 00:19:09,348 --> 00:19:12,784 Um, yes, Roberto, would you, um... 186 00:19:12,885 --> 00:19:15,285 send Fernando's wife a... 187 00:19:15,354 --> 00:19:17,515 a basket of fruit also. 188 00:19:21,026 --> 00:19:23,961 Would you make that a big basket, please? 189 00:19:25,597 --> 00:19:27,565 Poor woman. She... 190 00:19:27,699 --> 00:19:29,701 She had a... 191 00:19:29,701 --> 00:19:31,066 Because of the... She... 192 00:19:32,905 --> 00:19:36,966 Your Honor, the Watergate was nothing more than a... 193 00:19:37,109 --> 00:19:39,475 misdemeanor copping a plea, a third-rate burglary. 194 00:19:39,611 --> 00:19:42,239 It was nothing more than a convenient hook... 195 00:19:42,314 --> 00:19:44,145 upon which to hang my client's political body. 196 00:19:45,117 --> 00:19:47,984 Because before anybody in the world ever heard the word 'Watergate'... 197 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:50,054 the Nixon presidency was over. 198 00:19:50,122 --> 00:19:52,488 Your Honor, my client had faced, as you know... 199 00:19:52,624 --> 00:19:55,184 the acid test of six major crises. 200 00:19:55,327 --> 00:19:57,261 But I... See... 201 00:19:57,329 --> 00:19:59,631 this is not like 1952... 202 00:19:59,631 --> 00:20:02,566 when I could go to the public with my side of the story. 203 00:20:02,634 --> 00:20:04,636 Oh, yes! 204 00:20:04,636 --> 00:20:06,638 You see, the whole country was waiting. 205 00:20:06,638 --> 00:20:10,199 Ike had just dropped me like a... That bastard son of a... 206 00:20:10,342 --> 00:20:12,537 Well, when the cameras came on, I was going to... 207 00:20:12,644 --> 00:20:14,646 drop out of the race. 208 00:20:14,646 --> 00:20:18,082 As a matter of fact, I had promised Pat... 209 00:20:18,150 --> 00:20:20,084 that I was going to... 210 00:20:20,152 --> 00:20:22,518 Pat, of course, is my... Out of the race... Wife. 211 00:20:22,621 --> 00:20:24,521 Well, you know, it's true. 212 00:20:24,623 --> 00:20:28,460 She did still believe in me in 1952. 213 00:20:28,460 --> 00:20:29,688 When someone believes in you, someone to whom... 214 00:20:29,761 --> 00:20:31,463 you've made a promise to... 215 00:20:31,463 --> 00:20:33,465 I couldn't! I... 216 00:20:33,465 --> 00:20:36,434 Well, then when I lost in California in '62... 217 00:20:36,568 --> 00:20:38,934 I really was going to drop out of the race. 218 00:20:39,071 --> 00:20:42,529 As a matter of fact, I wrote it... Well, I wrote it down. 219 00:20:42,641 --> 00:20:45,804 And l-I carried it around in my... 220 00:20:45,877 --> 00:20:47,777 The-The promise... 221 00:20:47,879 --> 00:20:50,279 to-to Pat. 222 00:20:50,382 --> 00:20:52,282 'I promise not to run for public'... 223 00:20:52,384 --> 00:20:54,875 In my, uh, wallet... 224 00:20:54,987 --> 00:20:57,046 I couldn't! I... 225 00:20:57,189 --> 00:20:58,656 Well, even then, of course, you know, she... 226 00:20:58,724 --> 00:21:00,385 she did believe in me. 227 00:21:00,525 --> 00:21:02,459 And they spit on her down in South America. 228 00:21:02,527 --> 00:21:05,462 My God, I'm so sorry for that. But I couldn't... 229 00:21:05,530 --> 00:21:07,464 I couldn't quit... 230 00:21:07,532 --> 00:21:11,195 with my tail between my, you know, legs like that! 231 00:21:11,303 --> 00:21:14,238 My wife does not wear a mink coat! 232 00:21:14,306 --> 00:21:18,208 My wife wears a good Republican cloth coat. 233 00:21:18,310 --> 00:21:20,801 And my little dog, Checkers, he... 234 00:21:23,115 --> 00:21:25,015 And I cried. 235 00:21:25,117 --> 00:21:27,017 And the public cried with me. 236 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,611 And Ike... The old man couldn't get rid of me! Yes! 237 00:21:30,689 --> 00:21:33,954 I could always cry in public. 238 00:21:34,092 --> 00:21:36,788 Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school... 239 00:21:36,928 --> 00:21:39,055 always said that I... 240 00:21:39,197 --> 00:21:43,600 was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed. 241 00:21:43,769 --> 00:21:45,396 To be... 242 00:21:45,537 --> 00:21:47,505 or not... 243 00:21:50,642 --> 00:21:52,610 Yes. 244 00:21:53,679 --> 00:21:55,909 That is the question, all right. 245 00:21:57,249 --> 00:21:59,717 Whether 'tis nobler in the mind... 246 00:21:59,818 --> 00:22:04,278 to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune... 247 00:22:04,389 --> 00:22:07,790 or to take arms against... 248 00:22:07,893 --> 00:22:11,294 Look, I am not your stinking caddy anymore. 249 00:22:11,430 --> 00:22:13,830 Everyone used to say that Adlai Stevenson was Hamlet. 250 00:22:13,932 --> 00:22:15,661 No, no, that is not true. It was me who was really... 251 00:22:15,734 --> 00:22:17,793 Hamlet, and Ike was the king! 252 00:22:17,903 --> 00:22:20,303 I never even got to see all the rooms in the White House... 253 00:22:20,439 --> 00:22:22,339 until Johnson became president. 254 00:22:22,407 --> 00:22:25,308 Shit! Ike... Ike introduced me to a crowd one time... 255 00:22:25,410 --> 00:22:27,310 as Nick Dixon, for Christ's sake! 256 00:22:27,412 --> 00:22:28,640 See, what he would do... He would drag his coattails... 257 00:22:28,747 --> 00:22:30,772 then he would pull them away... 258 00:22:30,882 --> 00:22:33,783 and he would leave me standing there high and dry. 259 00:22:33,885 --> 00:22:36,149 I was running. L-I was always running. 260 00:22:36,254 --> 00:22:37,687 I was trying so hard to make the team that... 261 00:22:37,756 --> 00:22:39,656 I was always offside's. Well... 262 00:22:39,725 --> 00:22:41,659 Just like my old man. 263 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,729 He sold the lemon grove. Then they discovered oil on it. 264 00:22:44,896 --> 00:22:46,796 Well, shit! 265 00:22:46,865 --> 00:22:48,765 Not me. Not to the manor born. 266 00:22:48,867 --> 00:22:54,134 You see, I had to pretend not to see all the snubs and... 267 00:22:54,239 --> 00:22:55,968 the sniggers and the sneers. 268 00:22:56,074 --> 00:22:57,974 I had to put up a front. 269 00:22:58,076 --> 00:23:01,170 Welcome to Denmark! 270 00:23:02,180 --> 00:23:05,047 My-My first debate when I was in high school... 271 00:23:05,183 --> 00:23:08,084 resolved, 'Girls are no good,' and I won! 272 00:23:10,188 --> 00:23:13,453 My second debate resolved, 'Cows are better than horses.' 273 00:23:13,525 --> 00:23:15,459 You see, I... 274 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,494 I always hated girls. 275 00:23:17,596 --> 00:23:19,464 Well, you know, in high school I couldn't... 276 00:23:19,464 --> 00:23:20,453 I couldn't stay away from 'em. 277 00:23:20,565 --> 00:23:23,502 You know how it is when you're. You know what I did? 278 00:23:23,502 --> 00:23:25,493 I founded the Orthogonian Society. 279 00:23:25,570 --> 00:23:28,767 That's all boys, no girls. Just square shooters. 280 00:23:28,874 --> 00:23:30,774 And our motto was... 281 00:23:30,876 --> 00:23:33,538 'Beans, Brains, Brawn and Bowels.' 282 00:23:33,645 --> 00:23:35,545 And we-we had this... 283 00:23:35,647 --> 00:23:38,241 We-We all used to... 284 00:23:38,316 --> 00:23:41,080 All hail the mighty boar 285 00:23:41,219 --> 00:23:43,619 Our patron beast is he 286 00:23:43,789 --> 00:23:46,349 Ecrasons I'infame 287 00:23:46,425 --> 00:23:48,860 Our battle cry will be 288 00:23:48,860 --> 00:23:51,021 Brothers together 289 00:23:51,196 --> 00:23:52,993 We'll travel on and on 290 00:23:53,064 --> 00:23:54,895 Worthy the name 291 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,096 Of Orthogonian 292 00:24:05,377 --> 00:24:07,937 Resolved-Resolved to win, period... 293 00:24:08,046 --> 00:24:09,946 because that is the American system. 294 00:24:10,048 --> 00:24:12,949 You take either side... It doesn't even matter which one... 295 00:24:13,018 --> 00:24:14,952 and you go on the attack! 296 00:24:15,053 --> 00:24:17,453 It's like football... No! No, no, no, no. It's like poker. 297 00:24:17,556 --> 00:24:20,058 The winners make jokes, but the loser says... 298 00:24:20,058 --> 00:24:21,218 'Deal! Deal! Deal! Deal! Deal! ' 299 00:24:26,865 --> 00:24:30,858 Roberto, would you erase all that crap, please. 300 00:24:30,969 --> 00:24:34,427 Back to the lesser of two evils. 301 00:24:34,506 --> 00:24:37,805 No, no, no, no. Back about... Before the break-in. 302 00:24:41,112 --> 00:24:43,080 Thank you, Roberto. 303 00:24:45,116 --> 00:24:47,084 Your Honor... 304 00:24:48,186 --> 00:24:50,086 there were three charges... 305 00:24:50,188 --> 00:24:52,213 of impeachment brought against me. 306 00:24:52,324 --> 00:24:55,259 None of them could be proved. They all knew that. 307 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:56,850 Kennedy's hit man, John Doar... 308 00:24:57,829 --> 00:25:00,263 And he had a hundred bloodhounds working for him. 309 00:25:00,332 --> 00:25:03,233 They told him... And we have ways of knowing this, Your Honor... 310 00:25:03,368 --> 00:25:06,269 They told him, 'There is no case against the president, period.' 311 00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:08,670 Your Honor, the impeachment process itself was... 312 00:25:08,740 --> 00:25:10,708 simply the grandest cover-up of all. 313 00:25:10,842 --> 00:25:12,711 There can only be one... And you know this... 314 00:25:12,711 --> 00:25:14,178 one impeachment charge... 315 00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:15,610 and that is, treason, bribery and other high crimes... 316 00:25:15,714 --> 00:25:17,181 and misdemeanors. 317 00:25:17,282 --> 00:25:19,182 Well, so they brought a load of... 318 00:25:19,284 --> 00:25:22,947 Well, shit, we gave them a load of chicken-shit charges against me... 319 00:25:23,054 --> 00:25:25,955 and none of them stuck, and none of their theories either. 320 00:25:26,024 --> 00:25:28,993 You see, I happen to know what was going on inside the committee. 321 00:25:29,094 --> 00:25:30,994 Shit, the theories, for Christ's sake! 322 00:25:31,062 --> 00:25:34,964 Let's see, there was the tip of the... iceberg theory. Hmm? 323 00:25:35,066 --> 00:25:38,194 Oh, yes, then there was the narrow... escape theory. 324 00:25:38,336 --> 00:25:40,736 Oh, the robber baron baloney and all that crap... 325 00:25:40,805 --> 00:25:44,707 Oh! We must not forget the higher Standard... of... conduct theory. 326 00:25:44,809 --> 00:25:46,709 That's rich! 327 00:25:46,811 --> 00:25:49,211 The Founding Fathers caused the White House... 328 00:25:49,314 --> 00:25:52,215 to be built in a swamp in the first place, for Christ's sake... 329 00:25:52,317 --> 00:25:54,217 and Congress up on a goddamn hill! 330 00:25:54,286 --> 00:25:55,654 The Founding Fathers were nothing more than... 331 00:25:55,654 --> 00:25:57,713 a bunch of snotty English shits... 332 00:25:57,822 --> 00:26:00,723 who never trusted any elected president to begin with! 333 00:26:00,825 --> 00:26:04,022 So, why then, Your Honor, did my client resign voluntarily... 334 00:26:04,162 --> 00:26:07,097 when the fact is that Richard Nixon not only need not have quit... 335 00:26:07,198 --> 00:26:09,598 but in fact could have stayed on beyond the... 336 00:26:09,668 --> 00:26:14,037 Your Honor, something happened to my client. 337 00:26:14,172 --> 00:26:17,437 The year is 1945. 338 00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:19,441 Okay, Roberto... 339 00:26:19,544 --> 00:26:23,947 that is the end of the, prologue. 340 00:26:24,049 --> 00:26:26,609 The next section will be, um... 341 00:26:26,685 --> 00:26:28,720 1945... 342 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,620 through 1952. 343 00:26:30,722 --> 00:26:34,214 So would you please make a separate... 344 00:26:34,326 --> 00:26:37,090 uh, you know, for each of the... You know. 345 00:26:37,262 --> 00:26:38,194 Okay, Your Honor... 346 00:26:38,263 --> 00:26:39,161 Okay, Your Honor... 347 00:26:39,264 --> 00:26:41,232 in 1939 I went to Cuba. 348 00:26:41,399 --> 00:26:44,300 I... 349 00:26:44,369 --> 00:26:47,634 A-A-After I almost got disbarred... 350 00:26:47,706 --> 00:26:50,106 for signing some client's name to a... 351 00:26:52,210 --> 00:26:54,872 Roberto, would you erase that, please? 352 00:26:55,013 --> 00:26:57,743 Your Honor, I am trying to tell you... 353 00:26:57,816 --> 00:27:00,842 about 1945. 354 00:27:00,952 --> 00:27:03,443 I was just getting out of the navy. 355 00:27:03,521 --> 00:27:06,649 An ad appeared in the Whittier Daily News. 356 00:27:07,726 --> 00:27:09,626 I will never forget it. 357 00:27:09,728 --> 00:27:11,457 It said... 358 00:27:11,563 --> 00:27:14,498 'Wanted: Young man... 359 00:27:14,599 --> 00:27:17,500 'interested in running for Congress. 360 00:27:17,569 --> 00:27:19,469 Veteran preferred.' 361 00:27:19,571 --> 00:27:23,473 And then they listed the name of a committee... 362 00:27:23,608 --> 00:27:25,508 to contact. 363 00:27:25,610 --> 00:27:29,273 So, well, l-I took some of my poker winnings and I... 364 00:27:29,381 --> 00:27:31,440 flew out there in my uniform, of course. 365 00:27:31,549 --> 00:27:35,417 If the choice of this committee comes to me... 366 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,923 I promise to wage an aggressive and vigorous campaign... 367 00:27:40,025 --> 00:27:44,086 based on a platform of practical liberalism. 368 00:27:47,065 --> 00:27:48,965 Well, it was those men... 369 00:27:49,067 --> 00:27:51,592 l-I did, Your Honor. I answered the ad. 370 00:27:52,837 --> 00:27:55,328 They called themselves the Committee of 100. 371 00:27:55,407 --> 00:27:59,070 But the name's changed many times over the years, oh, yes. 372 00:27:59,177 --> 00:28:03,079 Committee for a Free Iran, a free Guatemala... 373 00:28:03,214 --> 00:28:04,203 a free Congo... 374 00:28:05,216 --> 00:28:08,344 a free... 375 00:28:08,420 --> 00:28:10,320 But always Taiwan. Oh, yes. 376 00:28:10,455 --> 00:28:13,447 Always for a free Taiwan. 377 00:28:13,525 --> 00:28:16,460 So, they did, Your Honor. They selected me. 378 00:28:16,561 --> 00:28:20,429 And they took my client up to Bohemian Grove. 379 00:28:20,532 --> 00:28:23,467 Now, that is where the China plan was... 380 00:28:25,136 --> 00:28:28,105 That's where I got the message. 381 00:28:29,441 --> 00:28:31,341 Yes. 382 00:28:31,443 --> 00:28:34,606 Up there in, uh, Bohemian Grove... 383 00:28:34,713 --> 00:28:36,078 deep in the California Redwoods... 384 00:28:37,082 --> 00:28:41,212 with the-the dogs and the guards and... 385 00:28:41,319 --> 00:28:45,380 the prostitutes from Guerneville at the caveman camp... I... 386 00:28:45,457 --> 00:28:47,391 Your Honor, this young man, Richard Nixon... 387 00:28:47,492 --> 00:28:49,824 this boy from a poor family... 388 00:28:49,928 --> 00:28:52,829 a boy who never had a break, who never had a chance... 389 00:28:52,931 --> 00:28:54,990 he was just overwhelmed by these big men... 390 00:28:55,066 --> 00:28:56,090 on the Committee of 100... 391 00:28:59,003 --> 00:29:01,904 because they showed him a vision... 392 00:29:02,006 --> 00:29:05,237 of the riches and power of this world... 393 00:29:05,343 --> 00:29:08,244 and he drank their words and their visions, he... 394 00:29:08,346 --> 00:29:11,247 He had a little sip of their whiskey too... 395 00:29:11,349 --> 00:29:13,249 this poor boy who couldn't drink. 396 00:29:13,318 --> 00:29:15,252 Didn't know how to drink... 397 00:29:15,353 --> 00:29:18,220 because of his strict Quaker background. 398 00:29:18,356 --> 00:29:20,324 And so, he... 399 00:29:21,159 --> 00:29:25,255 I may have said and done some things up there that... 400 00:29:25,396 --> 00:29:27,626 came back to haunt me... 401 00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:29,666 25 years later... 402 00:29:29,734 --> 00:29:33,170 when the real China card was played. 403 00:29:33,238 --> 00:29:36,139 I... Your Honor, that first night up there in the Grove... 404 00:29:36,274 --> 00:29:38,640 I couldn't sleep all night. I was awake... Then... 405 00:29:38,743 --> 00:29:40,643 Well, you know, the big German shepherd dogs... 406 00:29:40,745 --> 00:29:42,645 they're howling all night, you know. 407 00:29:42,714 --> 00:29:45,114 But it was way off, you know, in the in... 408 00:29:45,216 --> 00:29:46,718 And the men, you know, they're... they're laughing... 409 00:29:46,718 --> 00:29:48,117 singing, dancing. 410 00:29:48,219 --> 00:29:50,779 You know, football songs mostly. Marches, you know. 411 00:29:50,855 --> 00:29:53,790 So, naturally, I was unable to get any... AII the... 412 00:29:53,858 --> 00:29:57,385 But it was, you know... It was way off there in the... 413 00:29:57,529 --> 00:29:59,429 distance. 414 00:30:17,982 --> 00:30:19,950 It was very... 415 00:30:21,052 --> 00:30:24,021 far away. 416 00:30:46,077 --> 00:30:48,170 It's a little out of... 417 00:30:49,914 --> 00:30:52,348 But you were my mother's piano... 418 00:30:52,417 --> 00:30:56,376 and that fucking museum is not going to get you! 419 00:31:25,850 --> 00:31:28,785 Your Honor, I forgot to tell you about the whores. 420 00:31:28,853 --> 00:31:30,684 Now, look, these guys were not homos from... 421 00:31:30,755 --> 00:31:33,223 Westchester County or Cambridge. 422 00:31:33,358 --> 00:31:36,293 You know, this is not old money or 'the better sort.' 423 00:31:36,427 --> 00:31:39,521 I mean, these guys were Armenians and, Italians and Irish. 424 00:31:39,631 --> 00:31:42,191 You know, assorted white trash. Men! 425 00:31:42,367 --> 00:31:44,969 And what they wanted was a political laboratory... 426 00:31:44,969 --> 00:31:47,938 and that is what they made California into... 427 00:31:48,039 --> 00:31:50,906 a kind of a, uh, proving ground for later on. 428 00:31:51,042 --> 00:31:55,604 You understand why all this was music to my ears? 429 00:32:08,192 --> 00:32:10,160 Your Honor, it was the words. 430 00:32:10,261 --> 00:32:12,661 That was the real music to my ears, because l-I... 431 00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:14,664 You know what Coach said? 432 00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:17,166 Coach said if you could run... me, number 23... 433 00:32:17,268 --> 00:32:19,668 if you could run the ball the way you run your mouth... 434 00:32:19,771 --> 00:32:21,873 winning the big prizes, why... 435 00:32:21,873 --> 00:32:24,842 I'm gonna be a winner... Yes! Because I've always been... 436 00:32:24,909 --> 00:32:26,740 Now, these guys dancing with the hookers, these... 437 00:32:26,811 --> 00:32:27,879 guys were real winners! 438 00:32:27,879 --> 00:32:29,710 I couldn't dance, not worth a goddamn. My old man... 439 00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:31,442 he wouldn't dance. 440 00:32:31,582 --> 00:32:32,708 He said it gave him a, You know... 441 00:32:32,784 --> 00:32:34,445 it aroused him. You know? 442 00:32:34,552 --> 00:32:37,953 Me too! So now, you can imagine I took a hell of a kidding on that. 443 00:32:38,056 --> 00:32:41,287 But... you know what I did when I ran for student council president? 444 00:32:41,426 --> 00:32:42,723 I promised a liberal dress and dance code. And you... 445 00:32:42,794 --> 00:32:44,386 know something? I won! 446 00:32:46,531 --> 00:32:48,396 My old man hated politicians. 447 00:32:48,533 --> 00:32:49,727 So there's me saying, 'Daddy, when I grow up I'm gonna... 448 00:32:49,801 --> 00:32:51,428 be an old-fashioned man. 449 00:32:51,502 --> 00:32:54,403 I'm gonna be an honest lawyer. I'm not gonna take any bribes.' 450 00:32:54,505 --> 00:32:56,666 Shit! If he'd gone beyond the sixth grade, poor bastard... 451 00:32:56,774 --> 00:32:59,242 would know that we were all crooks! 452 00:33:01,312 --> 00:33:03,803 Well, shit! 453 00:33:03,915 --> 00:33:06,315 I had the last laugh on that son of a bitch! 454 00:33:06,417 --> 00:33:08,817 When I won that scholarship to Duke... I... You see... 455 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:10,820 I still was not a winner yet. 456 00:33:10,922 --> 00:33:13,823 A winner does not have to break into the dean's office the... 457 00:33:13,925 --> 00:33:15,790 way I did to find out what his grades are. 458 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,360 But I did graduate third in my class, though. 459 00:33:18,463 --> 00:33:19,691 But then, when we all went to New York to... 460 00:33:19,764 --> 00:33:21,994 interview for some big time law firms... 461 00:33:22,166 --> 00:33:25,033 I was a little out of my league, and I knew that. 462 00:33:25,169 --> 00:33:26,693 But I also knew this... I knew that New York... 463 00:33:26,771 --> 00:33:28,534 was the big time. Oh, yeah. 464 00:33:28,639 --> 00:33:30,539 The big, big money! 465 00:33:30,641 --> 00:33:34,042 I mean, New York, with the clubs and the fast track! 466 00:33:34,145 --> 00:33:36,545 I'll tell you this... in New York, money talks! 467 00:33:36,647 --> 00:33:39,047 Oh, yeah. Money talks, talks, talks, talks, talks. 468 00:33:39,117 --> 00:33:42,177 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 469 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,880 Anyway, Your Honor, what I wanted to do... 470 00:33:44,989 --> 00:33:47,890 I wanted to join the Dulles brothers' law firm. 471 00:33:47,992 --> 00:33:49,687 That's Sullivan and Cromwell. You know, thick... 472 00:33:49,794 --> 00:33:52,354 plush carpeting and... 473 00:33:52,463 --> 00:33:56,422 East Coast shits is what they really were. 474 00:33:56,567 --> 00:33:59,058 Well, my two friends, they, um... 475 00:33:59,203 --> 00:34:02,070 they did get taken on by one of the big law firms. 476 00:34:02,173 --> 00:34:06,405 I did not. Well, then I tried to join the FBI. 477 00:34:06,511 --> 00:34:08,411 I got turned down again. 478 00:34:08,513 --> 00:34:10,743 I mean, Hoover- I worshipped Hoover! See? 479 00:34:10,815 --> 00:34:12,680 Then years later that son of a bitch Hoover, he... 480 00:34:12,784 --> 00:34:14,081 tried to stab me in the back! 481 00:34:14,185 --> 00:34:16,085 Fuck him! Your Honor... 482 00:34:16,154 --> 00:34:17,678 What I'm trying to say here is that the Committee... 483 00:34:17,789 --> 00:34:19,086 of 100 had a plan... 484 00:34:19,157 --> 00:34:21,091 and that was it. 485 00:34:21,192 --> 00:34:23,092 In 1946, '48, '50, right on through. 486 00:34:23,227 --> 00:34:25,787 I... Look. 487 00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:31,634 I was very young. 488 00:34:32,737 --> 00:34:35,205 I was a kid. 489 00:34:35,339 --> 00:34:37,830 And they gave me the blueprint... 490 00:34:39,744 --> 00:34:41,712 for my life. 491 00:34:42,780 --> 00:34:44,748 You understand that? 492 00:34:47,552 --> 00:34:51,613 Well, tha-that's when, uh, Murray Chotiner came into the picture. 493 00:34:51,722 --> 00:34:54,418 Well, because Murray, he was the link to Lansky... 494 00:34:54,559 --> 00:34:57,858 and Ratner and-and the Mob and... 495 00:34:59,363 --> 00:35:01,695 You see, what Hiss and the Kennedys, all those... 496 00:35:01,766 --> 00:35:04,030 East Coast pricks, never understood was... 497 00:35:04,168 --> 00:35:07,069 that I would be a winner because I was a loser. 498 00:35:07,171 --> 00:35:08,695 That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life... 499 00:35:08,773 --> 00:35:11,037 and that is my secret. 500 00:35:11,175 --> 00:35:12,743 To make it in this rat race, you have to dream of failing... 501 00:35:12,743 --> 00:35:15,507 every day. I mean, that is reality. 502 00:35:15,646 --> 00:35:17,807 Jews, niggers, Reds, kikes... 503 00:35:17,949 --> 00:35:19,814 old Nixons, new Nixons. 504 00:35:19,951 --> 00:35:23,717 Because I am an American. A real American... that's me! 505 00:35:23,821 --> 00:35:26,984 I'm not some rich Ivy League prince that thinks that he is a winner. 506 00:35:27,058 --> 00:35:30,619 See? What the big guys thought was, is that I was a dogcatcher. 507 00:35:30,761 --> 00:35:33,924 Yeah, I was. I am! And a used car salesman too. 508 00:35:34,065 --> 00:35:35,930 Oh, s-sure, fine! 509 00:35:36,067 --> 00:35:37,932 And a siding and a shingle man. 510 00:35:38,035 --> 00:35:41,539 Because I knew that today the dogcatcher is king! 511 00:35:41,539 --> 00:35:44,030 And all those crooks and those shysters... 512 00:35:44,142 --> 00:35:47,009 and those mobsters and those lobsters... I mean, lobbyists... 513 00:35:47,078 --> 00:35:49,380 I mean, all the well... fed... all the welfare bums... 514 00:35:49,380 --> 00:35:50,745 and tramps in this country... 515 00:35:50,848 --> 00:35:53,316 that is your palace guard! 516 00:35:58,689 --> 00:36:00,657 Shit. 517 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,751 Let 'em suck on that for a while. 518 00:36:20,711 --> 00:36:22,679 Shit! 519 00:36:24,916 --> 00:36:27,476 I could have beaten Kennedy. 520 00:36:27,585 --> 00:36:29,520 I could have won... 521 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,488 in 1960. 522 00:36:31,589 --> 00:36:33,524 But, see... 523 00:36:33,524 --> 00:36:37,392 goddamn C.I.A., they went and they told Kennedy all about the... 524 00:36:37,528 --> 00:36:39,393 the track-two operation against Castro... 525 00:36:39,530 --> 00:36:42,761 and then Jack, he out-red-baited me by attacking Castro... 526 00:36:42,833 --> 00:36:44,698 and that made me look soft. 527 00:36:44,835 --> 00:36:47,702 I mean, they promised me that the invasion would... 528 00:36:47,838 --> 00:36:50,241 the 'executive action' against Castro... 529 00:36:50,241 --> 00:36:52,209 would take place before the election. 530 00:36:52,343 --> 00:36:54,208 I mean, God, how they screwed me! 531 00:36:54,345 --> 00:36:56,711 I could have won. I could have won. I could have beaten Kennedy. 532 00:36:56,814 --> 00:36:59,214 Look, it was me with the 54-12 Special Group... 533 00:36:59,317 --> 00:37:01,717 who'd planned the whole damn thing in the first place. 534 00:37:01,819 --> 00:37:04,686 Yeah, I would have bombed 'em. How I would have bombed 'em! 535 00:37:04,822 --> 00:37:07,723 But, you see, Castro, he was very smart. Boy. Boy, boy. 536 00:37:07,825 --> 00:37:09,759 When Eisenhower refused to meet with Castro... 537 00:37:09,827 --> 00:37:11,988 when he came to this country before the election... 538 00:37:12,129 --> 00:37:14,029 And then that son of a bitch Castro... 539 00:37:14,165 --> 00:37:15,689 he went up there and he had lunch with the goddamn... 540 00:37:15,766 --> 00:37:17,028 colored waiters... 541 00:37:17,134 --> 00:37:19,034 at the Theresa Hotel in Harlem! 542 00:37:19,170 --> 00:37:20,694 I would have got him! We already had the poison... 543 00:37:20,771 --> 00:37:22,033 for Christ's sake! 544 00:37:22,139 --> 00:37:25,506 We had tested it on some monkeys... Shit! Where's my fucking drink? 545 00:37:26,510 --> 00:37:29,274 H-H-Hey, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack. 546 00:37:29,380 --> 00:37:32,281 I mean, shit, nobody could beaten Kennedy, for Christ's sake. 547 00:37:32,383 --> 00:37:34,619 He was a big, good-Iookin' Irishman, and he... 548 00:37:34,619 --> 00:37:36,109 had that shock of hair. 549 00:37:36,220 --> 00:37:39,121 Just like my brother Harold. They had the same charisma, you know. 550 00:37:39,257 --> 00:37:40,690 The women, they all jump up and down... Shit! His wife... 551 00:37:40,758 --> 00:37:43,158 was a goddamn clotheshorse. 552 00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:44,694 Shit! Pat was 48 years old, for Christ's sake! 553 00:37:44,795 --> 00:37:46,729 What was Jackie, thir... 554 00:37:46,831 --> 00:37:49,197 What the fuck is this, for Christ's sake? 555 00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:52,201 And-And... I went to the wedding. Did you know that? 556 00:37:52,303 --> 00:37:55,170 And Jack, he liked me. Oh, no, he did. Jack liked me. 557 00:37:55,306 --> 00:37:57,968 He congratulated me when I beat Helen Gahagan Douglas. 558 00:37:58,075 --> 00:38:00,976 His old man even contributed money to my campaign. 559 00:38:01,045 --> 00:38:03,946 Well, it's true, of course, you know, that we were... 560 00:38:04,048 --> 00:38:06,608 black Irish and they were... 561 00:38:06,751 --> 00:38:09,914 Look, we both had our tragedies. 562 00:38:12,323 --> 00:38:14,223 Brothers. 563 00:38:14,325 --> 00:38:16,293 Four boys. 564 00:38:18,296 --> 00:38:20,196 And the Catholic thing... 565 00:38:20,264 --> 00:38:22,164 I never used that. 566 00:38:22,266 --> 00:38:24,200 I didn't! 567 00:38:25,636 --> 00:38:29,094 Shit. See, then the debates came along. 568 00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:32,505 And everybody said that I was like Cicero. They said... 569 00:38:32,610 --> 00:38:34,771 They said, 'How well he speaks! ' 570 00:38:34,845 --> 00:38:36,676 And then when Demosthenes spoke, everybody... 571 00:38:36,747 --> 00:38:37,736 said, 'How smart! Yes! ' 572 00:38:40,051 --> 00:38:44,215 Goddamn Jack, he was something else. I'll tell you that. 573 00:38:44,288 --> 00:38:46,882 Then -Then I got rattled... 574 00:38:46,991 --> 00:38:48,686 when the press got a hold of that Howard Hughes... 575 00:38:48,793 --> 00:38:50,124 Ioan to my brother... 576 00:38:50,227 --> 00:38:52,252 for that wacko scheme of his... 577 00:38:52,396 --> 00:38:54,887 to sell Nixon burgers! 578 00:38:57,601 --> 00:39:01,332 And then Haldeman, he goes and calls Martin Luther King... 579 00:39:01,439 --> 00:39:03,669 a nigger on the teleph... 580 00:39:03,774 --> 00:39:06,140 But the worst was, three days before the election... 581 00:39:06,210 --> 00:39:09,373 when I slipped and called for peace and surrender. 582 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,505 That was the dumbest thing I ever did! 583 00:39:16,053 --> 00:39:19,784 My poor goddamn dumb brothers. 584 00:39:19,857 --> 00:39:24,294 Did you know that I had to put all my brothers under surveillance... 585 00:39:24,395 --> 00:39:26,886 because of that... 586 00:39:27,064 --> 00:39:29,965 Then my brother Don's kid, he goes and runs off and joins... 587 00:39:30,034 --> 00:39:32,434 some dirty hippie commune. 588 00:39:32,536 --> 00:39:34,672 Then they have to get some investigator to wade... 589 00:39:34,672 --> 00:39:36,469 through all that crap... 590 00:39:36,574 --> 00:39:39,475 drag him back by the ears, put him to work for... 591 00:39:42,179 --> 00:39:45,876 l-Imean, my goddamn family alone... 592 00:39:45,950 --> 00:39:47,918 could have ruined me! 593 00:39:58,028 --> 00:39:59,928 Shit. 594 00:40:00,030 --> 00:40:02,266 I still couldn't sleep. 595 00:40:02,266 --> 00:40:04,166 Right up to the election. Shit. 596 00:40:04,301 --> 00:40:06,201 I couldn't neutralize the Hughes thing because the... 597 00:40:06,303 --> 00:40:07,702 Committee of 100, they were tapping her... 598 00:40:07,772 --> 00:40:09,637 Marilyn Monroe. 599 00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:12,641 You know, the Kennedy boys, you know, they were all big studs... 600 00:40:12,743 --> 00:40:14,643 like their old man. 601 00:40:14,745 --> 00:40:16,680 Like my brother, Harold. 602 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,749 And you know something else? That is what killed... 603 00:40:18,749 --> 00:40:20,114 him too. That's right! 604 00:40:20,251 --> 00:40:23,152 No women allowed up at Bohemian Grove. No, sir, not real women! 605 00:40:23,220 --> 00:40:25,120 We were a different type from that Kennedy crowd. 606 00:40:25,256 --> 00:40:27,121 I was sure as hell a different type. 607 00:40:27,258 --> 00:40:28,759 You know, in all those years, I never... I didn't... 608 00:40:28,759 --> 00:40:30,158 l-I... l-I... Not one time, I didn't... 609 00:40:30,261 --> 00:40:32,396 But I didn't quit! That's right! 610 00:40:32,396 --> 00:40:34,999 Not even in '74! I could have! I... 611 00:40:34,999 --> 00:40:37,399 I could have burned the tapes and stonewalled it. 612 00:40:37,501 --> 00:40:39,628 Let the big guys fight it out up there at Bohemian Grove. 613 00:40:40,905 --> 00:40:42,270 And let the country go fascist by 1980. 614 00:40:42,406 --> 00:40:44,775 Oh, that's right, Your Honor. I am talking shooting... 615 00:40:44,775 --> 00:40:46,538 it out in the streets. 616 00:40:46,610 --> 00:40:49,579 I mean civil war in this country by 1977... 617 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,615 You understand why I had to withdraw? 618 00:40:52,716 --> 00:40:54,718 Why I had to lay my life on the line to stop... 619 00:40:54,718 --> 00:40:57,050 fascism and communism? 620 00:40:57,188 --> 00:40:59,679 Fuck! The goddamn Yankees, Ford... They get the... 621 00:40:59,790 --> 00:41:02,088 fuckin' presidency anyway! 622 00:41:02,193 --> 00:41:05,424 And the goddamn cowboys, Bush They get the C.I.A. 623 00:41:05,563 --> 00:41:06,697 And what the hell do I get for following orders... 624 00:41:06,697 --> 00:41:09,564 for 30 goddamn years? 625 00:41:09,667 --> 00:41:13,068 Is this it? A fuckin' pardon? And disgrace? Shit! 626 00:41:15,139 --> 00:41:19,235 Look, I tried to give them their dirty little war in Chile. 627 00:41:21,779 --> 00:41:23,679 Did you know... 628 00:41:23,781 --> 00:41:25,681 that that Allende... 629 00:41:25,749 --> 00:41:27,979 was a worse whoremonger... 630 00:41:28,052 --> 00:41:30,418 than you-know-who? 631 00:41:37,595 --> 00:41:38,619 You see... 632 00:41:39,630 --> 00:41:42,030 they didn't have to kill him like that. 633 00:41:42,099 --> 00:41:43,999 Not like that, they didn't. 634 00:41:44,101 --> 00:41:46,001 But, look, I could have hung tough. 635 00:41:46,103 --> 00:41:48,970 I could have called on my political base like de Gaulle. 636 00:41:49,039 --> 00:41:51,439 I could have called out Main Street against Wall Street, but I didn't. 637 00:41:51,542 --> 00:41:54,443 I said, 'I'll go! ' I did it for ev For Christ's... 638 00:41:54,512 --> 00:41:57,481 I did it for the little people, for Maggie and Jiggs... 639 00:41:57,548 --> 00:41:59,448 for my people for all... 640 00:41:59,517 --> 00:42:02,645 the failed ranchers and farmers people just like my old man. 641 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:04,688 I did it for the goddamn cab drivers and the fuckin'... 642 00:42:04,755 --> 00:42:06,985 grocery store clerks... 643 00:42:07,091 --> 00:42:10,618 and the cockroach capitalists and the traveling salesmen, I... 644 00:42:10,728 --> 00:42:14,289 For the forgotten American. For the silent majority. 645 00:42:14,431 --> 00:42:17,264 In their name I said, screw all the wise men... 646 00:42:17,334 --> 00:42:20,701 all the tough guys who've sold us out and stabbed us in the... 647 00:42:20,804 --> 00:42:24,205 Look, I was not elected president on some other planet. 648 00:42:24,308 --> 00:42:25,969 I'm America! 649 00:42:26,110 --> 00:42:29,011 I am a winner who lost every battle up to and including the war. 650 00:42:29,079 --> 00:42:31,343 I am not the American nightmare! 651 00:42:31,415 --> 00:42:34,282 I am the American dream. Period! 652 00:42:34,351 --> 00:42:36,512 And that is why the system works... 653 00:42:36,654 --> 00:42:38,747 because I am the system. 654 00:42:38,856 --> 00:42:40,414 Period! 655 00:42:45,029 --> 00:42:48,226 So what I did was, I talked and I stalled... 656 00:42:48,365 --> 00:42:50,701 and then I finally unleashed Haig... 657 00:42:50,701 --> 00:42:52,896 and that provoked the Saturday Night Massacre. 658 00:42:53,003 --> 00:42:55,335 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. You see? This - 659 00:42:55,439 --> 00:42:57,566 This is before I went crazy... 660 00:42:57,708 --> 00:42:59,677 and they had to bring in the army... 661 00:42:59,677 --> 00:43:00,666 to shoot me down on the floor of the Oval Office... 662 00:43:00,744 --> 00:43:02,644 because I was nuts. 663 00:43:02,746 --> 00:43:05,271 Oh, yeah. They would've done that, all right. 664 00:43:05,382 --> 00:43:06,679 You see, there was a sinister force loose in the... 665 00:43:06,750 --> 00:43:08,684 White House, all right... 666 00:43:08,752 --> 00:43:10,947 but it sure as hell was not me. 667 00:43:11,088 --> 00:43:13,955 Look, in the end, I was just a... 668 00:43:14,024 --> 00:43:16,959 I was just an unindicted co-conspirator... 669 00:43:17,061 --> 00:43:18,961 like everybody else... 670 00:43:19,063 --> 00:43:21,964 in the United States of America. 671 00:43:22,099 --> 00:43:23,999 Yes, that's right, goddamn it! 672 00:43:34,411 --> 00:43:36,743 Yes... Mother. 673 00:43:38,382 --> 00:43:40,350 You were right. 674 00:43:41,452 --> 00:43:42,749 There never was... 675 00:43:43,787 --> 00:43:45,277 a 'new Nixon.' 676 00:43:46,323 --> 00:43:48,223 I am a square... 677 00:43:48,292 --> 00:43:50,760 and I always have been. 678 00:43:50,894 --> 00:43:53,226 But I believed in the system. 679 00:43:53,297 --> 00:43:55,197 And that's all I did. 680 00:43:55,299 --> 00:43:57,199 I got out to protect the system. 681 00:43:57,334 --> 00:44:00,237 And look, I did not invent the system, Mother. 682 00:44:00,237 --> 00:44:03,695 I did. I got out to protect the presidency. 683 00:44:07,044 --> 00:44:09,911 My God, my God, my God, my God... 684 00:44:10,014 --> 00:44:12,915 how I used to love being president! 685 00:44:13,017 --> 00:44:15,918 I used to enjoy that so much. 686 00:44:16,020 --> 00:44:18,818 I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed it. 687 00:44:20,991 --> 00:44:24,324 I used to love to sit in the Lincoln study... 688 00:44:24,461 --> 00:44:26,725 with the fireplace going... 689 00:44:27,865 --> 00:44:30,629 and the air conditioning on. 690 00:44:30,701 --> 00:44:33,693 I used to love to sit in there and think about... 691 00:44:33,804 --> 00:44:36,102 Lincoln and, uh, Washington. 692 00:44:38,242 --> 00:44:40,608 What a liar he was, huh? That fuckin' Washington! 693 00:44:43,313 --> 00:44:47,511 I had -The Rose Garden was so fragrant. 694 00:44:47,584 --> 00:44:49,074 Oh! The yacht. 695 00:44:51,121 --> 00:44:53,055 Sequoia. 696 00:44:53,123 --> 00:44:57,526 I used to love to sit topside on the fantail of the Sequoia. 697 00:44:57,628 --> 00:45:00,529 Down the Potomac, back to the navy yard... 698 00:45:00,631 --> 00:45:03,566 sipping drinks with a friend... 699 00:45:03,667 --> 00:45:05,567 and talking geopolitics. 700 00:45:07,137 --> 00:45:10,538 Oh, yes, and the-the jiga-jiga... th-the nigger... 701 00:45:10,607 --> 00:45:11,665 t-the colored waiters bringing up... 702 00:45:11,742 --> 00:45:14,302 steaks from the galley. 703 00:45:16,847 --> 00:45:17,836 You know what I really used to enjoy? 704 00:45:18,849 --> 00:45:21,716 I used to get a kick out of calling in coaching plays... 705 00:45:21,819 --> 00:45:24,720 to the Redskin coaching staff on the white phone... 706 00:45:24,822 --> 00:45:26,687 and going over the bombing targets in Cambodia with... 707 00:45:26,757 --> 00:45:28,092 Henry on the red phone... 708 00:45:28,092 --> 00:45:29,650 at the same time! 709 00:45:29,827 --> 00:45:32,193 That's fun! 710 00:45:32,262 --> 00:45:35,288 Oh, we were just rolling along up there, you know. 711 00:45:35,432 --> 00:45:37,332 Everything was just going along so... 712 00:45:37,401 --> 00:45:38,663 But you know what happened? The goddamn press and... 713 00:45:38,736 --> 00:45:41,102 the liberals, they had... 714 00:45:54,084 --> 00:45:56,552 Shit! Fuck! 715 00:46:26,884 --> 00:46:29,853 Roberto, when CBS calls... 716 00:46:29,987 --> 00:46:32,285 don't you tell them that I... 717 00:46:33,290 --> 00:46:35,190 Okay. 718 00:46:35,292 --> 00:46:37,453 You just remember what I told you. Okay? 719 00:46:37,561 --> 00:46:39,930 The press and the liberals, they're yellow! 720 00:46:39,930 --> 00:46:42,023 Oh, yes, they hated me... 721 00:46:42,132 --> 00:46:44,532 because they were scared too... shitless! 722 00:46:44,668 --> 00:46:47,136 Because I was their mess boy! 723 00:46:47,237 --> 00:46:50,729 And you know something, Roberto? You are mine.! 724 00:46:50,841 --> 00:46:53,002 And you watch out, se�or... 725 00:46:53,076 --> 00:46:55,010 because your turn is coming. 726 00:46:55,078 --> 00:46:58,946 All you new guys... you Cubans, you immigrants... 727 00:46:59,049 --> 00:47:01,517 you'd better watch out for the liberals. Oh, yeah. 728 00:47:01,585 --> 00:47:04,154 The colored found that out when it was too late... 729 00:47:04,154 --> 00:47:05,519 that it was the North, not the South... 730 00:47:05,656 --> 00:47:07,715 They'll come after you the way they came after me, and that... 731 00:47:07,791 --> 00:47:10,123 is what made me: Their fear! 732 00:47:10,260 --> 00:47:14,924 And remember this, Roberto... I knew who I was: Nobody. 733 00:47:15,065 --> 00:47:18,228 All they knew was that they didn't want to be me. 734 00:47:18,368 --> 00:47:22,031 So you use 'em... the press and the liberals. You let 'em use you. 735 00:47:22,105 --> 00:47:25,268 You get in bed with 'em. You fuck 'em! Cuba libre! 736 00:48:08,418 --> 00:48:10,318 I still have... 737 00:48:10,420 --> 00:48:12,285 the nightmare. 738 00:48:12,422 --> 00:48:15,084 But it is the American nightmare. 739 00:48:15,158 --> 00:48:19,618 Shit. That's Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam, he's the American nightm... 740 00:48:19,763 --> 00:48:24,291 He's become nothing but a pitiful giant, an old man being... 741 00:48:24,434 --> 00:48:27,028 eaten alive by an army of 'EIIsbergers' and, uh... 742 00:48:27,137 --> 00:48:31,074 Ralph Naders and Jane Fondas, all led by Hiss. 743 00:48:31,074 --> 00:48:34,009 Alger Hiss! 744 00:48:34,144 --> 00:48:35,736 And all the Red rats of the Roosevelt I mean... 745 00:48:35,846 --> 00:48:38,508 the Rosenberg spy gang and the campus crowd... 746 00:48:38,582 --> 00:48:40,516 They're all Jews, you know, every good... 747 00:48:40,651 --> 00:48:43,518 Look, Lansky and Ratner, they're supposed to be big anticommu... 748 00:48:43,654 --> 00:48:46,521 I mean, even Chotiner- even Murray, he's a goddamn kike! 749 00:48:46,590 --> 00:48:47,750 Well, the Committee of 100 would not touch any... 750 00:48:47,824 --> 00:48:49,485 of them with a ten-foot pole. 751 00:48:49,626 --> 00:48:52,527 But when it comes time to hide the bodies in the closet... 752 00:48:52,629 --> 00:48:55,063 oh, yeah, then they pick up the phone and they call Chotiner. 753 00:48:55,165 --> 00:48:57,065 Then he contracts Miami and the Jews. 754 00:48:57,167 --> 00:48:59,931 Well, I beat 'em, the Jews almost. 755 00:49:00,037 --> 00:49:01,937 See... 756 00:49:02,005 --> 00:49:04,337 It was the, um, Committee of 100... 757 00:49:04,441 --> 00:49:07,535 and the China plan people that I... 758 00:49:07,678 --> 00:49:09,578 l-I couldn't handle. 759 00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:11,739 So that is the reason, Your Honor, that we... 760 00:49:11,815 --> 00:49:15,046 had to invent Deep Throat... 761 00:49:15,152 --> 00:49:18,121 and use Watergate to... 762 00:49:18,221 --> 00:49:20,121 get out with a pardon... 763 00:49:20,223 --> 00:49:22,123 so that... 764 00:49:22,259 --> 00:49:24,193 Because of the... 765 00:49:28,365 --> 00:49:30,333 Oh, God. 766 00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,108 Shit! 767 00:49:39,209 --> 00:49:42,042 Shit! Goddamn it! 768 00:49:42,112 --> 00:49:44,103 Where is my mother's Bible? 769 00:49:44,214 --> 00:49:45,841 Oh, yeah. 770 00:49:45,916 --> 00:49:48,544 By that Kissinger shit! 771 00:49:48,618 --> 00:49:50,609 'American Foreign Policy. 772 00:49:50,754 --> 00:49:52,619 Henry 'Asshole' Kissinger.' 773 00:49:54,725 --> 00:49:56,625 Kissinger, Kissinger, Kissinger! 774 00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:58,762 Look, I don't owe any of them a goddamn cent... 775 00:49:58,762 --> 00:50:00,320 much less an apology! 776 00:50:00,464 --> 00:50:02,830 Especially him.! 777 00:50:12,876 --> 00:50:15,310 You I owe... 778 00:50:15,412 --> 00:50:17,380 Mother. 779 00:50:19,116 --> 00:50:21,084 Only you. 780 00:50:38,935 --> 00:50:41,301 Oh. My, my, my, my, my, my. 781 00:50:41,405 --> 00:50:44,374 He's got the same... Just like I've got... 782 00:50:45,809 --> 00:50:47,709 I like that. That's cute. 783 00:50:47,811 --> 00:50:49,779 I like that. 784 00:51:08,632 --> 00:51:10,566 Oh, no! 785 00:51:15,138 --> 00:51:17,106 'Dear Master... 786 00:51:18,241 --> 00:51:21,210 'The two boys that you left with me... 787 00:51:21,344 --> 00:51:23,710 'are very bad to me. 788 00:51:23,780 --> 00:51:25,680 'Their dog Jim... 789 00:51:25,782 --> 00:51:27,682 'is very old... 790 00:51:27,751 --> 00:51:31,278 'and he will never talk or play with me. 791 00:51:31,388 --> 00:51:35,051 'One Saturday the boys went hunting. 792 00:51:35,158 --> 00:51:38,184 'While going through the woods, one of the boys tripped... 793 00:51:38,295 --> 00:51:40,729 'and fell on me. 794 00:51:40,897 --> 00:51:43,195 'I lost my temper... 795 00:51:43,266 --> 00:51:45,461 'and I bit him. 796 00:51:45,569 --> 00:51:48,197 'He kicked me in the side. 797 00:51:48,338 --> 00:51:50,636 'I started to run. 798 00:51:50,740 --> 00:51:52,640 'When I got home... 799 00:51:52,742 --> 00:51:54,972 'I was very sore. 800 00:51:55,078 --> 00:51:59,447 'I wish you would come home right now... 801 00:51:59,516 --> 00:52:01,484 'Mother. 802 00:52:04,387 --> 00:52:06,355 'Your good dog... 803 00:52:08,158 --> 00:52:09,989 Richard.' 804 00:52:22,772 --> 00:52:24,865 'Now I lay me... 805 00:52:25,008 --> 00:52:27,340 down to sleep.' 806 00:52:27,410 --> 00:52:30,777 Arthur used to say that little prayer for Mother. 807 00:52:30,914 --> 00:52:34,179 'Lf I could die before I... ' 808 00:52:34,317 --> 00:52:37,445 What the hell are you looking at? Fucking Kissinger! 809 00:52:37,554 --> 00:52:39,419 You Judas son of a bitch! 810 00:52:39,523 --> 00:52:42,424 You wrote that I was praying for guidance after the Watergate... 811 00:52:42,526 --> 00:52:44,585 on the rug that the shah gave me. 812 00:52:44,694 --> 00:52:46,821 Wait until Deep Throat tells the American people... 813 00:52:46,897 --> 00:52:49,229 the truth about Dr. Shit-ass! 814 00:52:49,366 --> 00:52:52,858 Yes! How Dr. Shit-ass took a fortune from the shah... 815 00:52:53,003 --> 00:52:54,868 and how you and the other guy... 816 00:52:55,005 --> 00:52:57,940 fixed the shah up in New York with a bunch of nice young boys.! 817 00:52:58,008 --> 00:52:59,771 That's right, Henry. Deep Throat is going to strike again... 818 00:52:59,910 --> 00:53:01,673 and you are going to get yours. 819 00:53:01,778 --> 00:53:03,939 I made you, and I can break you... 820 00:53:04,014 --> 00:53:05,982 you slimy, two-faced... 821 00:53:06,082 --> 00:53:08,380 brown-nosed, ass-licking... 822 00:53:08,518 --> 00:53:10,679 kraut son of a bitch! 823 00:53:15,125 --> 00:53:17,889 Mother? I... Mother, please. Have mercy on me. 824 00:53:18,028 --> 00:53:21,531 Shit! Stop it! Stop this crap, for Christ's sake! Stop it! 825 00:53:21,531 --> 00:53:24,500 Think of something good. Like what? What, what, what, what, what? 826 00:53:24,601 --> 00:53:26,501 Yes, um... Oh, yes! Um... 827 00:53:26,603 --> 00:53:27,837 Playing 'king of the pool' with Bebe down at... 828 00:53:27,837 --> 00:53:29,998 Key Biscayne at 2:00 a. M... 829 00:53:30,140 --> 00:53:32,005 just splashing around... 830 00:53:32,142 --> 00:53:34,144 Shit! What else? What else, what else? 831 00:53:34,144 --> 00:53:35,845 O yes. Having, uh, dinner at Pompano Beach at... 832 00:53:35,845 --> 00:53:37,813 the Cork and Screw. 833 00:53:37,914 --> 00:53:40,314 Hobo steaks, ice creams and Pistachio, that was... 834 00:53:40,417 --> 00:53:42,817 Aw, shit, shit, shit! 835 00:53:42,919 --> 00:53:45,012 They gave you the Nobel Peace Prize... 836 00:53:45,155 --> 00:53:47,457 and me they called the Mad Bomber! 837 00:53:47,457 --> 00:53:49,823 Look, I had to do it. 838 00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:54,124 I promised to get us out with honor. I could not go soft. 839 00:53:54,264 --> 00:53:56,630 Did you know that I was in Russia... 840 00:53:56,766 --> 00:53:59,200 during the heaviest part of the bombing in Cambodia? 841 00:53:59,269 --> 00:54:00,793 You know, the Russians, they suffered too in the war. 842 00:54:00,870 --> 00:54:03,202 They lost 25 million... 843 00:54:03,273 --> 00:54:05,707 And I knelt beside the monuments in Moscow... 844 00:54:05,775 --> 00:54:08,869 and I read the diaries of the children the dead children. 845 00:54:08,945 --> 00:54:11,311 Me. Not him, me.! 846 00:54:11,448 --> 00:54:14,849 And how they died. 847 00:54:14,951 --> 00:54:19,320 They gave that whoremaster the Nobel Prize... 848 00:54:19,389 --> 00:54:21,448 and me they called freak... 849 00:54:21,558 --> 00:54:24,254 madman, juke, callicak... 850 00:54:24,394 --> 00:54:26,294 Look, they even said... 851 00:54:26,396 --> 00:54:27,795 that I stole the goddamn silverware out of the White House... 852 00:54:27,864 --> 00:54:30,094 for Christ's sake! 853 00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,067 The mad bomber theory was Henry's idea in the first place... 854 00:54:33,203 --> 00:54:35,103 to scare the North Vietnamese! 855 00:54:35,205 --> 00:54:37,105 And that fat fuck... 856 00:54:37,173 --> 00:54:40,074 is walking around telling everybody that I'm nuts? 857 00:54:40,210 --> 00:54:43,668 And all the time he thinks that he is Napoleon? 858 00:54:43,747 --> 00:54:45,681 Or Metternich, for Chri... 859 00:54:45,749 --> 00:54:47,649 Son of a bitch! I... 860 00:54:47,751 --> 00:54:50,652 And then those kids tearing up Washington after Cambodia? 861 00:54:50,754 --> 00:54:52,654 Fuck 'em! 862 00:54:52,756 --> 00:54:55,054 Those kids will not judge me. 863 00:54:55,158 --> 00:54:57,058 I couldn't sleep. 864 00:54:57,193 --> 00:54:58,751 I came down to the Lincoln Monument to talk to... 865 00:54:58,862 --> 00:55:00,591 the kids. I was so ashamed. 866 00:55:00,697 --> 00:55:03,097 All I could think of to talk about was about football... 867 00:55:03,166 --> 00:55:05,066 Fuck 'em! 868 00:55:05,201 --> 00:55:07,260 Those kids will not evaluate my life! 869 00:55:07,337 --> 00:55:10,568 Because I am a Quaker, goddamn it! 870 00:55:20,817 --> 00:55:22,785 I'm sorry, Mother. 871 00:55:25,689 --> 00:55:27,657 I'm sorry. 872 00:55:31,061 --> 00:55:33,154 My mother always used to say... 873 00:55:34,464 --> 00:55:37,126 that there is no path to peace. 874 00:55:38,168 --> 00:55:40,500 Peace is... 875 00:55:40,603 --> 00:55:42,867 the path. 876 00:55:43,006 --> 00:55:44,974 That's what my mother said. 877 00:56:02,258 --> 00:56:04,590 Roberto... 878 00:56:04,694 --> 00:56:06,594 would you erase everything, please... 879 00:56:06,730 --> 00:56:09,324 back to... 880 00:56:09,466 --> 00:56:12,697 the Committee of 100, please? 881 00:56:12,769 --> 00:56:13,861 Thank you. 882 00:56:13,937 --> 00:56:14,767 Thank you. 883 00:56:16,306 --> 00:56:18,206 Your Honor... 884 00:56:18,274 --> 00:56:22,176 the Committee of 100, they were winners. 885 00:56:22,278 --> 00:56:24,178 They were real winners. 886 00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:27,181 Not me. Not yet. I was not... But, look... I was not a quitter. 887 00:56:27,283 --> 00:56:29,183 See, the Hiss case was the key... 888 00:56:29,285 --> 00:56:30,775 because the Hiss case proved that I could manage a crisis... 889 00:56:30,854 --> 00:56:32,321 that I could save the... 890 00:56:32,455 --> 00:56:34,457 Well, shit, I could save the Committee if l-I could... 891 00:56:34,457 --> 00:56:35,583 save the goddamn country... 892 00:56:35,658 --> 00:56:38,593 Your Honor, I would like to talk for a minute, if I may... 893 00:56:38,728 --> 00:56:40,593 about the Hiss case. 894 00:56:40,697 --> 00:56:43,598 If Alger Hiss could look down his Ivy League snoot... 895 00:56:43,700 --> 00:56:46,134 at the House Un-American Activities Committee and get away with it... 896 00:56:46,236 --> 00:56:48,636 then HUAC was through, the Committee was through... 897 00:56:48,772 --> 00:56:50,672 I was sure as hell through! 898 00:56:50,774 --> 00:56:52,674 So what do I do? 899 00:56:52,742 --> 00:56:54,677 I have ten days to prove that Alger Hiss is a high... 900 00:56:54,677 --> 00:56:55,666 Communist agent... 901 00:56:55,779 --> 00:56:57,679 in our State Department... 902 00:56:57,747 --> 00:56:59,772 or else everybody is going to say that we've been... 903 00:56:59,849 --> 00:57:02,215 made into a laughingstock... 904 00:57:02,318 --> 00:57:04,718 by a clever psychopath named Whittaker Chambers... 905 00:57:04,788 --> 00:57:06,688 who has set the Committee up to... Shit. 906 00:57:06,790 --> 00:57:09,190 'Psychopath,' for Christ's sake. 907 00:57:09,259 --> 00:57:10,783 Whittaker wasn't a psychopath. He was a goddamn genius. 908 00:57:10,860 --> 00:57:13,328 That's what he was. 909 00:57:13,463 --> 00:57:16,364 As a matter of fact, Whittaker was the only one that I could even... 910 00:57:16,466 --> 00:57:18,457 I think of the two of us, underneath the... 911 00:57:18,601 --> 00:57:20,501 Just... 912 00:57:20,603 --> 00:57:23,163 rocking... 913 00:57:23,239 --> 00:57:24,866 rocking. 914 00:57:26,676 --> 00:57:28,610 Yes? Whittaker? 915 00:57:30,713 --> 00:57:32,510 You have been what? A disciple of the devil? 916 00:57:33,483 --> 00:57:36,384 And what are you now? Now you are on God's side? 917 00:57:36,486 --> 00:57:39,387 No, no, no, no. I'm not laughing at you. 918 00:57:39,522 --> 00:57:41,581 Whittaker, I know that you're serious. 919 00:57:41,658 --> 00:57:43,888 Because I told you about my mother... 920 00:57:44,027 --> 00:57:46,018 and the Quakers and everything. 921 00:57:46,162 --> 00:57:48,255 Look, Whittaker, I'm going to come over to see you... 922 00:57:48,431 --> 00:57:51,832 Because misery loves company, that's why. 923 00:57:51,935 --> 00:57:54,699 Whittaker, look, we all get low sometimes. 924 00:57:54,804 --> 00:57:57,671 And then we need cheering up. We need to talk to somebody. 925 00:57:57,807 --> 00:58:00,105 You know, man to... 926 00:58:00,210 --> 00:58:04,169 Straight from the... I... Yeah. 927 00:58:04,881 --> 00:58:08,078 Yes. 928 00:58:08,218 --> 00:58:10,550 I feel that way about you... too. 929 00:58:11,521 --> 00:58:13,546 No, no, look, Whittaker, we are going to use your plan... 930 00:58:14,524 --> 00:58:17,459 because there is no way that we can prove... 931 00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:18,788 that you and Alger Hiss were in the Communist... 932 00:58:18,862 --> 00:58:20,489 Party at the same time. 933 00:58:20,563 --> 00:58:22,866 But we can prove this: I know I can prove that you and... 934 00:58:22,866 --> 00:58:24,458 Hiss knew each other. 935 00:58:24,534 --> 00:58:26,559 In fact, that you were very close. That you... 936 00:58:27,570 --> 00:58:29,561 You were both creatures of the Party? And what are you now? 937 00:58:30,507 --> 00:58:32,441 Both creatures of the government. 938 00:58:32,509 --> 00:58:34,409 Okay. 939 00:58:34,544 --> 00:58:37,547 Whittaker, look, I think you should get some sleep. 940 00:58:37,547 --> 00:58:40,277 No, no, no, no, listen, listen. This'll help. 941 00:58:40,350 --> 00:58:45,185 'Now I lay me down to sleep... ' 942 00:58:53,329 --> 00:58:55,889 Yes. 943 00:58:56,032 --> 00:58:57,966 Pleasant dreams. 944 00:59:27,564 --> 00:59:29,498 Your Honor... 945 00:59:30,667 --> 00:59:33,135 the Hiss case brought my client national fame. 946 00:59:33,269 --> 00:59:36,966 However, in politics victory is never total. 947 00:59:37,073 --> 00:59:39,564 And as an aftermath to the Hiss case... 948 00:59:39,642 --> 00:59:42,304 I mean, for years afterwards... 949 00:59:42,445 --> 00:59:44,811 my client was subjected to a vicious and utterly... 950 00:59:44,881 --> 00:59:47,475 unprincipled smear campaign... 951 00:59:47,584 --> 00:59:51,486 in which he was accused of being a liar and a cheat and a thief... 952 00:59:51,554 --> 00:59:53,454 and a pervert... 953 00:59:53,590 --> 00:59:56,491 But the Committee of 100 saw that I had saved the day- I had. 954 00:59:56,626 --> 00:59:57,786 Alger Hiss? He was in jail for perjury. 955 00:59:57,860 --> 01:00:00,192 Whittaker Chambers? He was... 956 01:00:03,967 --> 01:00:05,867 Whittaker was dead. 957 01:00:06,970 --> 01:00:08,938 But I was on top. 958 01:00:10,239 --> 01:00:12,139 I was. 959 01:00:12,241 --> 01:00:13,071 I was on top. 960 01:00:13,176 --> 01:00:14,143 I was on top. 961 01:00:16,245 --> 01:00:18,907 The strain... It was because of the strain... 962 01:00:19,015 --> 01:00:21,449 that I had to get away. 963 01:00:21,517 --> 01:00:25,419 So I went down to Bebe's boat in Key Biscayne... 964 01:00:25,555 --> 01:00:28,456 and we talked about it down there, Bebe and I... 965 01:00:28,524 --> 01:00:30,660 and that is where we decided that I should go after... 966 01:00:30,660 --> 01:00:32,059 Helen Gahagan Douglas... 967 01:00:32,228 --> 01:00:34,628 in the 1950 senate campaign in California. 968 01:00:34,697 --> 01:00:37,598 I... Helen Douglas, she... Remarkable woman. 969 01:00:37,700 --> 01:00:39,600 Strong woman. 970 01:00:39,702 --> 01:00:41,602 Uh, noble-Iooking. 971 01:00:41,704 --> 01:00:42,796 She was, uh... There was a There was a... 972 01:00:42,872 --> 01:00:44,601 There was a quality of... 973 01:00:44,707 --> 01:00:47,676 There was kind of an aura... Sh-She had a... 974 01:00:50,513 --> 01:00:52,481 She was beautiful... 975 01:00:53,916 --> 01:00:55,941 is what she was. 976 01:00:56,019 --> 01:00:57,987 She was very beautiful. 977 01:01:01,090 --> 01:01:03,490 She was the kind of woman that I... 978 01:01:03,660 --> 01:01:05,560 Well, I thought that she... 979 01:01:05,628 --> 01:01:08,563 Well, you see, I always felt that Helen... that she... 980 01:01:12,435 --> 01:01:14,403 I liked her. 981 01:01:15,938 --> 01:01:17,906 I liked Helen. 982 01:01:20,343 --> 01:01:22,311 Shit. 983 01:01:24,447 --> 01:01:28,008 See, I could have beaten Helen Gahagan Douglas... 984 01:01:28,117 --> 01:01:29,106 without any dirty tricks. 985 01:01:30,086 --> 01:01:31,986 But, see, Chotiner and the Committee... 986 01:01:32,121 --> 01:01:35,022 they already had the money coming in from Florida and everywhere. 987 01:01:35,124 --> 01:01:38,025 It's those same jackasses from USC... 988 01:01:38,127 --> 01:01:41,654 the USC rat-fuckers or whatever the hell they called themselves. 989 01:01:41,831 --> 01:01:45,130 Then they paid those students to throw the rotten eggs at her... 990 01:01:45,201 --> 01:01:47,829 and to plant the rumors that she was a Red... 991 01:01:47,937 --> 01:01:49,837 to say that she wore pink panties... 992 01:01:49,939 --> 01:01:51,770 Oh, yes, and that her husband's real name was... 993 01:01:51,874 --> 01:01:54,138 Hesselstein or Braun or... 994 01:01:54,243 --> 01:01:57,644 Look, I was only 37 years old, for Christ's sake! 995 01:01:57,747 --> 01:02:00,147 I had nothing against Helen Gahagan Douglas. 996 01:02:00,216 --> 01:02:02,241 As a matter of fact, I thought that she was... To me she was... 997 01:02:02,351 --> 01:02:03,978 But look... 998 01:02:04,053 --> 01:02:05,987 Helen was the leader in the drive... 999 01:02:06,055 --> 01:02:07,784 to take the offshore oil rights away from the... 1000 01:02:07,890 --> 01:02:09,118 big companies, period. 1001 01:02:09,192 --> 01:02:10,784 Chotiner and the Committee wanted her dead. 1002 01:02:10,860 --> 01:02:13,590 I was to be the hatchet man, period. 1003 01:02:13,730 --> 01:02:17,291 Okay, Your Honor, so, my idea then, in that campaign... 1004 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:20,130 was to run as, uh, above party. 1005 01:02:20,236 --> 01:02:23,364 You know, as a kind of a Republicrat. 1006 01:02:23,473 --> 01:02:25,407 Oh! Yes, yes, yes. 1007 01:02:25,475 --> 01:02:27,375 A Republicrat and... 1008 01:02:27,477 --> 01:02:29,445 Yes! 1009 01:02:32,215 --> 01:02:35,618 The Reds, the Reds, the Reds, the Reds 1010 01:02:35,618 --> 01:02:38,712 Atheistic, godless, spying Reds. 1011 01:02:38,821 --> 01:02:42,848 Hiding under Democratic beds. 1012 01:02:44,393 --> 01:02:46,987 The... 1013 01:02:47,163 --> 01:02:49,631 Reds The Reds, the Reds, the Reds. 1014 01:02:49,766 --> 01:02:50,790 The Reds, the Reds, the Reds, the Reds The Reds... 1015 01:02:50,867 --> 01:02:52,596 the Reds, the Reds, the Reds. 1016 01:02:52,702 --> 01:02:55,638 That's what the country believed then, and I believed it too. 1017 01:02:55,638 --> 01:02:58,129 As a matter of fact, my platform was... 1018 01:02:58,207 --> 01:03:00,767 'I believe in America, and I believe in real estate and... 1019 01:03:00,877 --> 01:03:04,210 the Reds, the Reds, the Reds, the Reds... ' 1020 01:03:04,313 --> 01:03:05,780 The Reds, the Reds, the Reds, the Reds The Reds... 1021 01:03:05,882 --> 01:03:07,213 the Reds, the Reds, the Reds 1022 01:03:23,166 --> 01:03:26,602 I got soft, is what I did. 1023 01:03:26,736 --> 01:03:28,704 I let Alger Hiss's wife get away from me because she... 1024 01:03:28,704 --> 01:03:30,137 was a Quaker and everyth... 1025 01:03:30,239 --> 01:03:32,139 I learned my lesson, though. Oh, yeah. 1026 01:03:32,208 --> 01:03:35,336 You gotta be hard-on. I mean, these women are the worst type - 1027 01:03:35,444 --> 01:03:37,378 Dump Nixon. Never... 1028 01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:38,811 That's when the goddamn L.A. Times started calling me... 1029 01:03:38,881 --> 01:03:40,712 'Tricky Dick.' 1030 01:03:40,817 --> 01:03:43,718 And then the cartoons with the stubble and the jowls. 1031 01:03:43,786 --> 01:03:45,651 Look, I had feelings too. 1032 01:03:45,788 --> 01:03:47,590 My wife, my children, my family, they had to... 1033 01:03:47,590 --> 01:03:49,217 stomach all that crap! 1034 01:03:49,292 --> 01:03:52,420 I mean, can you imagine? Making me look like a goddamn tramp! 1035 01:03:52,862 --> 01:03:56,127 All right, yes! That's what I am! I'm a tramp! 1036 01:03:56,265 --> 01:03:59,325 There I am down in the sewer waiting for my turn... 1037 01:03:59,402 --> 01:04:01,370 just like every-fucking-body else! 1038 01:04:01,504 --> 01:04:04,530 A slimy slug crawling toward the White House... 1039 01:04:04,674 --> 01:04:06,539 down there in the swamp... 1040 01:04:06,609 --> 01:04:07,769 where the goddamn Founding Fathers put the White House... 1041 01:04:07,877 --> 01:04:10,175 in the first fucking place. 1042 01:04:10,313 --> 01:04:12,178 The goddamn L.A. Times and the Post. 1043 01:04:12,281 --> 01:04:15,444 We will get those bastards because they deserve it! 1044 01:04:15,518 --> 01:04:18,078 I mean, lording it over the whole country like that. 1045 01:04:18,221 --> 01:04:20,587 Look, I was not dumped. Oh, no, no, no, no. 1046 01:04:20,723 --> 01:04:24,284 I walked away, but I didn't quit. That's right. 1047 01:04:24,427 --> 01:04:26,895 Because I have got the patience. 1048 01:04:27,029 --> 01:04:30,487 They did not call me Iron Butt in law school for nothing. 1049 01:04:30,700 --> 01:04:32,793 Oh, yeah, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. 1050 01:04:32,902 --> 01:04:34,767 Sure. Sure, I drove Pat to her dates with other men... 1051 01:04:34,837 --> 01:04:36,771 before we were married. 1052 01:04:36,906 --> 01:04:40,307 And what of it? Nobody dumps Nixon! 1053 01:04:40,409 --> 01:04:43,276 And the Times and the Post and the rest of the goddamn country... 1054 01:04:43,412 --> 01:04:45,972 they tried to shaft Nixon and the rest of the forgotten Amer... 1055 01:04:46,115 --> 01:04:49,607 Even Ike. Ike! Ike tried to get rid of me in '56. 1056 01:04:49,752 --> 01:04:53,711 And I said to him, I said, 'Shit or get off of the godda... ' 1057 01:04:53,823 --> 01:04:55,791 Because you listen to this... Finally, Nixon... 1058 01:04:55,858 --> 01:04:57,917 only Nixon could dump Nixon. 1059 01:04:58,060 --> 01:05:00,324 Yeah! 1060 01:05:00,463 --> 01:05:02,488 Fucking tapes! Shit! 1061 01:05:02,632 --> 01:05:04,793 The tapes were an invasion of the public's privacy. 1062 01:05:04,867 --> 01:05:07,062 Not mine! The goddamn public's. 1063 01:05:07,203 --> 01:05:09,603 'Expletive deleted.' 1064 01:05:09,705 --> 01:05:11,570 For Christ's sake! 1065 01:05:11,674 --> 01:05:13,767 The whole goddamn public mind is one great big... 1066 01:05:13,876 --> 01:05:14,900 fat 'expletive deleted'... 1067 01:05:15,912 --> 01:05:18,107 as far as the Eastern establishment is concerned. 1068 01:05:18,180 --> 01:05:20,444 And, you see, that's why they hated me... 1069 01:05:20,549 --> 01:05:21,784 because they hate the ordinary American... 1070 01:05:21,784 --> 01:05:23,445 who lives down there in... 1071 01:05:23,552 --> 01:05:26,453 the armpit of this country between New York and L.A. 1072 01:05:26,555 --> 01:05:28,921 And the tapes are just one more goddamn set of lies! 1073 01:05:28,991 --> 01:05:30,959 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! 1074 01:05:38,401 --> 01:05:40,232 Me, a liar? 1075 01:05:40,303 --> 01:05:43,204 That's rich, coming from you. Oh, yeah. 1076 01:05:43,306 --> 01:05:45,297 Very easy for you... 1077 01:05:45,441 --> 01:05:47,341 to take the high road. 1078 01:05:47,443 --> 01:05:49,308 But, you see, I couldn't do that. 1079 01:05:49,412 --> 01:05:51,778 You delegated. I had to do all the dirty work... 1080 01:05:51,847 --> 01:05:54,111 right from the beginning. 1081 01:05:54,216 --> 01:05:56,776 You sat up there and you said, 'Can't somebody do... 1082 01:05:56,852 --> 01:05:58,877 something about that Castro fella? ' 1083 01:05:59,021 --> 01:06:01,216 Look, I heard you say that. 1084 01:06:01,324 --> 01:06:03,792 But you understand that it was me that had to go out... 1085 01:06:03,859 --> 01:06:06,555 there and pull the goddamn trigger! 1086 01:06:06,696 --> 01:06:08,561 I mean... 1087 01:06:08,698 --> 01:06:10,893 you are a hypocrite! 1088 01:06:18,941 --> 01:06:21,501 Then I answered that goddamn ad... 1089 01:06:21,610 --> 01:06:24,408 in that goddamn paper for congressman. 1090 01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:25,811 See, from that point on I couldn't even... I was not... 1091 01:06:25,881 --> 01:06:27,473 even able... I couldn't... 1092 01:06:27,550 --> 01:06:29,518 Fuck. I couldn't do anything. 1093 01:07:07,323 --> 01:07:09,223 Well, Your Honor... 1094 01:07:09,358 --> 01:07:11,326 they called the tune... 1095 01:07:11,427 --> 01:07:13,395 the Committee of 100. 1096 01:07:13,529 --> 01:07:15,765 They took me back up there, you know. 1097 01:07:15,765 --> 01:07:17,289 Oh, yeah. Back up to the Grove. 1098 01:07:17,433 --> 01:07:19,731 No drinks this time. 1099 01:07:19,835 --> 01:07:23,566 No, no, no, no, no, no. This was strictly business. 1100 01:07:27,877 --> 01:07:31,040 'The American future lies to the East. 1101 01:07:31,914 --> 01:07:34,678 'The great free markets of the Pacific Rim... 1102 01:07:34,784 --> 01:07:36,752 'are the American destiny. 1103 01:07:36,819 --> 01:07:38,810 'Dick, you are going to be president of... 1104 01:07:38,921 --> 01:07:40,889 the United States. 1105 01:07:41,023 --> 01:07:43,321 'It is only a matter of time. 1106 01:07:43,426 --> 01:07:45,485 'President of the Pacific Rim. 1107 01:07:45,628 --> 01:07:48,688 And Taiwan will be yours.' 1108 01:07:48,831 --> 01:07:52,935 L-I will never forget Arnold Smith's voice. 1109 01:07:52,935 --> 01:07:54,835 'Taiwan will be your trigger finger. 1110 01:07:54,904 --> 01:07:57,737 Your trigger finger! ' 1111 01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:59,933 And then somebody... I forget... Oh, yes, Chotiner. 1112 01:08:00,076 --> 01:08:01,839 He said something in Yiddish, and all those jerks... 1113 01:08:01,911 --> 01:08:03,572 from Miami laughed. 1114 01:08:03,646 --> 01:08:06,274 Oh, then Haldeman's father the old man... 1115 01:08:06,415 --> 01:08:08,315 he whispered in my ear... 1116 01:08:08,451 --> 01:08:12,012 'Taiwan is the China plan... 1117 01:08:12,088 --> 01:08:14,784 'the shaft, the arrow... 1118 01:08:14,890 --> 01:08:19,122 that will plunge into the body of the East.' 1119 01:08:22,965 --> 01:08:26,025 Well, I was drawing a long bow that night. 1120 01:08:26,135 --> 01:08:28,035 I found that out later. 1121 01:08:28,137 --> 01:08:30,401 But that night I just... 1122 01:08:30,473 --> 01:08:32,441 wandered... 1123 01:08:32,508 --> 01:08:34,408 in that redwood forest... 1124 01:08:34,510 --> 01:08:36,410 all by myself. 1125 01:08:36,512 --> 01:08:38,412 You understand what they told me? 1126 01:08:38,547 --> 01:08:41,983 They told me that the China plan would be my Excalibur. 1127 01:08:42,051 --> 01:08:43,853 A plan for peace is what they told me, a plan for good... 1128 01:08:43,853 --> 01:08:45,514 for greatness. 1129 01:08:45,654 --> 01:08:47,622 My Camelot! 1130 01:08:48,757 --> 01:08:51,360 I could hear those guys out there in the woods... 1131 01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:53,191 laughing and singing. 1132 01:08:53,329 --> 01:08:55,820 Yes, I knew they were using me. Of course I knew that. 1133 01:08:55,965 --> 01:08:58,433 Do you understand what I'm saying? 1134 01:08:58,534 --> 01:09:01,230 My life ended that night. 1135 01:09:03,172 --> 01:09:05,299 God forgive me. 1136 01:09:05,374 --> 01:09:07,342 I mean... 1137 01:09:10,546 --> 01:09:13,382 I mean... 1138 01:09:13,382 --> 01:09:16,545 there were so many dirty tricks! 1139 01:09:16,652 --> 01:09:18,552 I had no one to talk to. 1140 01:09:18,687 --> 01:09:21,554 I was getting pressure from above, pressure from below. 1141 01:09:23,692 --> 01:09:25,819 Where's Deep Throat when I need him? 1142 01:09:25,895 --> 01:09:28,455 I need to leak how they made me do it! 1143 01:09:28,597 --> 01:09:30,462 Look, I am not a fool. 1144 01:09:30,599 --> 01:09:32,533 I knew that this was the crossroads. 1145 01:09:32,601 --> 01:09:35,468 I knew it was either go all the way with the China plan people... 1146 01:09:35,604 --> 01:09:37,469 or suffer the consequences. 1147 01:09:37,606 --> 01:09:39,975 That's right. I did know that I was signing a pact with... 1148 01:09:39,975 --> 01:09:41,465 the devil out in that wilderness. 1149 01:09:41,610 --> 01:09:43,635 Yes, I knew that! 1150 01:09:46,515 --> 01:09:48,483 Shit! 1151 01:09:48,584 --> 01:09:51,985 See, I can feel Mother's eyes right now beaming down on me. 1152 01:09:52,087 --> 01:09:53,748 Stop it, Mother! 1153 01:09:53,822 --> 01:09:58,156 Searchlights of truth burning into each crisis in my miserable life.! 1154 01:09:58,327 --> 01:10:00,887 Mother, do you remember when Harold lay dying in Arizona... 1155 01:10:01,864 --> 01:10:02,888 and we fought together, you and I? 1156 01:10:03,866 --> 01:10:05,800 Remember, you were by his bedside and I was... 1157 01:10:05,868 --> 01:10:07,768 out barking-Arf! 1158 01:10:07,870 --> 01:10:10,771 I was trying to bring in a little money to help out. 1159 01:10:10,873 --> 01:10:12,807 Remember I used to say, 'Step right in! Step right in! 1160 01:10:12,875 --> 01:10:15,139 Win your fortune on the ins... ' 1161 01:10:15,244 --> 01:10:17,144 And then I'd come home, Mother... 1162 01:10:17,246 --> 01:10:20,147 and you would tell me what a good boy I was... 1163 01:10:20,249 --> 01:10:21,773 and I would tell you how I wanted to grow up to be... 1164 01:10:21,850 --> 01:10:23,909 Abraham Lincoln. 1165 01:10:24,753 --> 01:10:26,914 Mother? 1166 01:10:27,022 --> 01:10:29,081 Mother? 1167 01:10:29,158 --> 01:10:31,319 Step right in. Step right in. 1168 01:10:31,460 --> 01:10:34,361 Meet real men and riches... 1169 01:10:34,463 --> 01:10:36,363 and heart's desire... 1170 01:10:36,465 --> 01:10:38,399 on the inside! 1171 01:10:41,136 --> 01:10:43,764 Mother, have mercy on your little dog. Please. 1172 01:10:44,974 --> 01:10:46,908 Do you remember... 1173 01:10:46,976 --> 01:10:48,944 your little dog? 1174 01:10:52,147 --> 01:10:54,115 Arf? 1175 01:10:55,284 --> 01:10:57,252 Arf? 1176 01:10:58,654 --> 01:11:00,884 Arf. 1177 01:11:00,956 --> 01:11:02,924 Arf, arf, arf. 1178 01:11:12,001 --> 01:11:13,901 I wish you... 1179 01:11:14,003 --> 01:11:16,267 would come home right now... 1180 01:11:16,372 --> 01:11:18,340 Mama. 1181 01:12:19,568 --> 01:12:21,536 Your Honor, I... 1182 01:12:23,339 --> 01:12:25,307 Shit! 1183 01:12:29,945 --> 01:12:31,913 All right, goddamn it! 1184 01:12:32,981 --> 01:12:34,881 You wanted to hear it. 1185 01:12:34,983 --> 01:12:36,951 This is it. 1186 01:12:48,497 --> 01:12:50,397 Your Honor... 1187 01:12:50,499 --> 01:12:52,797 I did not have a choice. 1188 01:12:52,901 --> 01:12:54,801 I mean... 1189 01:12:54,903 --> 01:12:56,803 I had to get out. 1190 01:12:56,905 --> 01:13:01,774 I had to resign right after the election, get the pardon... 1191 01:13:01,910 --> 01:13:04,879 or follow the Committee of 100's orders to prepare... 1192 01:13:04,947 --> 01:13:06,915 for a public mandate. 1193 01:13:07,015 --> 01:13:08,880 Now, that is a constitutional amendment. 1194 01:13:08,951 --> 01:13:10,077 T-That's right, Your Honor. 1195 01:13:10,185 --> 01:13:12,085 A third term for my client. 1196 01:13:12,187 --> 01:13:13,848 And whatever happened to me after that, that would've... 1197 01:13:13,922 --> 01:13:15,082 been my problem. 1198 01:13:15,190 --> 01:13:16,851 It would've all come out in the end anyway because... 1199 01:13:16,925 --> 01:13:19,086 the Patman Committee... 1200 01:13:19,228 --> 01:13:21,594 Congressman Wright Patman and his... 1201 01:13:21,730 --> 01:13:22,856 The American people must understand why I could... 1202 01:13:22,931 --> 01:13:25,593 not level with my lawyers... 1203 01:13:25,701 --> 01:13:27,601 and burn the... 1204 01:13:27,703 --> 01:13:29,694 They were stabbing me in the back anyway. Fuck 'em! 1205 01:13:29,805 --> 01:13:31,705 Patman and his committee... 1206 01:13:31,807 --> 01:13:32,831 they were following all this cash that was coming into the... 1207 01:13:32,941 --> 01:13:35,535 Committee to Re-elect the President. 1208 01:13:35,644 --> 01:13:39,045 Now, CREEP... the committee... had money in, uh... 1209 01:13:39,148 --> 01:13:42,049 Well, shit, Taiwan, of course, and-and Hong Kong... 1210 01:13:42,117 --> 01:13:45,018 and, uh... and Singapore and Rangoon, l-I... 1211 01:13:45,154 --> 01:13:46,917 Millions! Millions of dollars. 1212 01:13:47,022 --> 01:13:48,853 All right, Patman, he's a Texas radical, you know... 1213 01:13:48,924 --> 01:13:50,789 and he is very bright. 1214 01:13:50,959 --> 01:13:53,325 He is onto something here and he knows it. 1215 01:13:53,429 --> 01:13:55,693 I mean, Your Honor, that money... 1216 01:13:55,798 --> 01:13:58,289 was flooding into the Committee to Re-elect the President... 1217 01:13:58,434 --> 01:14:00,669 after the president had already been re-elected... 1218 01:14:00,669 --> 01:14:02,034 for Christ's sake! 1219 01:14:02,137 --> 01:14:07,040 I mean, after the biggest landslide in American history in 1972. 1220 01:14:07,142 --> 01:14:09,778 And Patman, he's saying, 'Why is all this money still... 1221 01:14:09,778 --> 01:14:11,336 coming in to the committee? ' 1222 01:14:11,480 --> 01:14:13,778 And especially he wants to know, Your Honor... 1223 01:14:13,882 --> 01:14:16,783 why all that money is coming in from-from Asia. 1224 01:14:16,852 --> 01:14:19,753 That money was to be used, Your Honor... 1225 01:14:19,888 --> 01:14:21,753 to re-elect Nixon in '76. 1226 01:14:21,857 --> 01:14:23,848 You know, 'Stick with Dick in '76' and all that... 1227 01:14:23,926 --> 01:14:26,292 shit, for Christ's... 1228 01:14:26,428 --> 01:14:27,861 All right, the Saigon government is sending back... 1229 01:14:27,930 --> 01:14:30,797 millions of dollars. 1230 01:14:30,899 --> 01:14:34,164 L-In the meantime, ol' Henry, he's out there talking about... 1231 01:14:34,269 --> 01:14:37,170 I... 'Peace is at hand,' some shit. 1232 01:14:37,272 --> 01:14:38,864 Even I don't know what the hell he's talking about... 1233 01:14:38,941 --> 01:14:40,409 for Christ's sake. 1234 01:14:40,409 --> 01:14:41,842 Okay, the Saigon government is kicking back... 1235 01:14:41,910 --> 01:14:45,073 millions of dollars in U.S. Aid. 1236 01:14:45,180 --> 01:14:46,841 Now, understand this-this is money that we had... 1237 01:14:46,915 --> 01:14:49,315 originally sent to them. 1238 01:14:49,418 --> 01:14:52,387 They're sending it back to me and to CREEP. 1239 01:14:52,521 --> 01:14:54,887 Now, the Committee of 100 said to me... 1240 01:14:54,990 --> 01:14:56,855 that they didn't give a shit if I went to China and got... 1241 01:14:56,925 --> 01:14:58,916 in bed with Chairman Mao. 1242 01:14:59,027 --> 01:15:01,723 They didn't give a shit about Communism. 1243 01:15:01,864 --> 01:15:03,866 What they told me was this... 1244 01:15:03,866 --> 01:15:06,235 They had to have me in the White House for eight... 1245 01:15:06,235 --> 01:15:07,532 more years because it involved... 1246 01:15:07,636 --> 01:15:10,873 What else? Money and power. 1247 01:15:10,873 --> 01:15:13,273 I mean, millions for the Bohemian Grove guys... 1248 01:15:13,342 --> 01:15:15,242 and billions for the Mob... 1249 01:15:15,310 --> 01:15:17,278 because of the... 1250 01:15:20,983 --> 01:15:22,951 because of the... 1251 01:15:24,386 --> 01:15:26,911 heroin. 1252 01:15:32,060 --> 01:15:34,893 Your Honor... 1253 01:15:35,030 --> 01:15:38,966 ladies and gentlemen of the American jury... 1254 01:15:39,067 --> 01:15:41,433 your hour has come. 1255 01:15:41,537 --> 01:15:43,505 Consider the crisis. 1256 01:15:44,973 --> 01:15:46,804 It is the morning after the smashing... 1257 01:15:46,909 --> 01:15:48,477 victory mandate. 1258 01:15:48,477 --> 01:15:50,809 November 8, 1972. 1259 01:15:50,879 --> 01:15:54,815 My client, Richard Nixon, has just received the word... 1260 01:15:54,950 --> 01:15:56,815 from the Committee of 100... 1261 01:15:56,952 --> 01:15:58,920 and that word was... 1262 01:16:00,355 --> 01:16:03,324 'Here is the plan, Richard.' 1263 01:16:05,260 --> 01:16:07,160 All right, ladies and gentlemen of the jury... 1264 01:16:07,296 --> 01:16:09,230 point one of that plan... 1265 01:16:10,699 --> 01:16:13,600 Continue the war in Vietnam... 1266 01:16:13,702 --> 01:16:15,670 until 1976... 1267 01:16:19,975 --> 01:16:21,943 whatever the cost. 1268 01:16:23,245 --> 01:16:25,509 Uh, point two... 1269 01:16:25,614 --> 01:16:28,276 Accept a draft in '76... 1270 01:16:28,350 --> 01:16:30,318 for a third term. 1271 01:16:31,820 --> 01:16:33,788 Or take it. 1272 01:16:36,058 --> 01:16:38,185 Point three... 1273 01:16:38,293 --> 01:16:41,729 Seal the deal with China against the Soviets... 1274 01:16:41,797 --> 01:16:43,697 and then... 1275 01:16:43,832 --> 01:16:46,733 carve up the markets of the rest of the goddamn world. 1276 01:16:46,802 --> 01:16:49,930 That's it. That's the plan, Your Honor. Period. 1277 01:16:50,038 --> 01:16:52,370 Sure, that is the word... 1278 01:16:52,474 --> 01:16:55,136 that my client received from his masters. 1279 01:16:55,243 --> 01:16:57,143 And you know who they are, too. 1280 01:16:57,245 --> 01:17:00,772 All right, Your Honor, what did my client do? 1281 01:17:00,849 --> 01:17:04,478 Well, I'll tell you this... He took the hardest possible way. 1282 01:17:04,620 --> 01:17:07,350 He chose to orchestrate the tapes... 1283 01:17:07,456 --> 01:17:09,754 like a great drama. 1284 01:17:09,858 --> 01:17:12,622 He chose secret honor! 1285 01:17:19,668 --> 01:17:21,727 Yeah, sure. 1286 01:17:21,870 --> 01:17:23,838 Secret honor. 1287 01:17:26,108 --> 01:17:28,076 And public shame. 1288 01:17:33,448 --> 01:17:35,416 You know... 1289 01:17:37,386 --> 01:17:39,411 I really did... 1290 01:17:39,521 --> 01:17:41,921 want to grow up... 1291 01:17:42,024 --> 01:17:43,924 to be Abraham Lincoln. 1292 01:17:44,026 --> 01:17:45,960 No, no, I did. 1293 01:17:47,229 --> 01:17:49,163 But you know what I found out? 1294 01:17:50,499 --> 01:17:51,830 I found out that the world is nothing more... 1295 01:17:51,900 --> 01:17:53,765 than a bunch of... 1296 01:17:53,869 --> 01:17:55,769 second-generation mobsters... 1297 01:17:55,904 --> 01:17:57,804 and their lawyers... 1298 01:17:57,873 --> 01:17:59,773 and the P.R. Guys... 1299 01:17:59,875 --> 01:18:02,776 and the new-money crooks who made theirs in the war... 1300 01:18:02,878 --> 01:18:06,041 and the old-money crooks who made theirs selling slaves... 1301 01:18:06,148 --> 01:18:09,174 and phony merchandise to both sides during the Civil... 1302 01:18:09,284 --> 01:18:12,344 Look, I didn't want this. I sure as hell didn't look for it. 1303 01:18:12,487 --> 01:18:14,352 But that is what I found! 1304 01:18:14,456 --> 01:18:16,856 And I'll tell you something else... That is what public... 1305 01:18:16,925 --> 01:18:18,222 life is all about! 1306 01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:20,658 And I am not the only one! 1307 01:18:20,796 --> 01:18:22,964 And if you can't stand the burnt, then you get... 1308 01:18:22,964 --> 01:18:24,192 the hell out of the... 1309 01:18:24,266 --> 01:18:26,359 Y-You get... You get out the... 1310 01:18:26,501 --> 01:18:28,403 Shit! Fuck! Piss! You know what the hell I'm trying to say... 1311 01:18:28,403 --> 01:18:29,461 for Christ's sake! 1312 01:18:39,815 --> 01:18:42,249 Well, so, I, um... I, um... 1313 01:18:42,350 --> 01:18:45,615 I had to have a way to leak the tapes. 1314 01:18:45,721 --> 01:18:49,350 L-l-l-I needed a deep background source. 1315 01:18:49,424 --> 01:18:52,325 I needed a Deep Throat, is what I... 1316 01:18:52,461 --> 01:18:54,827 Look, I had to find a way to destroy that... 1317 01:18:54,930 --> 01:18:57,330 huge '72 popular vote mandate... 1318 01:18:57,466 --> 01:19:01,664 Look, I would have been unbeatable in '76. You understand what I... 1319 01:19:01,770 --> 01:19:04,136 I did not want to run in '76! 1320 01:19:04,206 --> 01:19:06,401 L-I could not continue... 1321 01:19:06,541 --> 01:19:08,406 with this fraud. 1322 01:19:08,510 --> 01:19:11,877 I couldn't-I couldn't go on. I was... 1323 01:19:11,947 --> 01:19:14,245 Well, so, um... 1324 01:19:14,349 --> 01:19:16,317 Dean, he... 1325 01:19:18,887 --> 01:19:21,287 No. No, no. It was-It was-It was not Dean. 1326 01:19:21,356 --> 01:19:23,256 It was-It was Haig. 1327 01:19:23,358 --> 01:19:27,727 He-He carried the ball for me on the tapes... 1328 01:19:27,829 --> 01:19:30,229 and he cut Henry off at the pass in Paris... 1329 01:19:30,332 --> 01:19:31,856 Then that Judas son of a bitch turned out to be a... 1330 01:19:31,933 --> 01:19:34,458 Rockefeller traitor all the goddamn time! 1331 01:19:34,569 --> 01:19:37,436 They knew that I had to go because they wanted their man. 1332 01:19:37,572 --> 01:19:40,473 They wanted Ford in there for six more years. 1333 01:19:40,575 --> 01:19:43,476 They would have got him too, except that he had to pardon me... 1334 01:19:43,545 --> 01:19:46,207 and thereby destro y his chances for re-election in '76. 1335 01:19:46,348 --> 01:19:49,249 Poor bastard. 1336 01:19:49,351 --> 01:19:52,377 I... John Dean, John Dean, John Dean, John... 1337 01:19:52,454 --> 01:19:54,547 You know John Dean did me a favor? 1338 01:19:54,689 --> 01:19:58,352 I would have had to invent John Dean! 1339 01:19:58,493 --> 01:20:01,758 What the hell. He was young. He had to watch his ass. 1340 01:20:01,863 --> 01:20:04,331 I have nothing against John Dean. 1341 01:20:04,466 --> 01:20:07,731 As a matter of fact, I like John Dean. 1342 01:20:10,438 --> 01:20:12,338 No... 1343 01:20:12,440 --> 01:20:14,431 I have nothing against any of them... 1344 01:20:14,543 --> 01:20:17,808 because we were all small-fry nothings... 1345 01:20:17,879 --> 01:20:20,848 compared to the big guys up there at Bohemian Grove. 1346 01:20:23,084 --> 01:20:25,052 You know what I did? 1347 01:20:25,153 --> 01:20:28,645 I sold my soul at Bohemian Grove... 1348 01:20:28,757 --> 01:20:30,725 for shit. 1349 01:20:31,893 --> 01:20:34,453 I kissed Rockefeller's ass... 1350 01:20:34,563 --> 01:20:37,862 and he shit all over me. 1351 01:20:37,966 --> 01:20:40,025 Oh, yeah. That's what they do. 1352 01:20:40,168 --> 01:20:42,136 Those Eastern pricks! 1353 01:20:42,204 --> 01:20:44,773 They fly from New York to Los Angeles... 1354 01:20:44,773 --> 01:20:47,936 shitting every step of the way on all of us! 1355 01:20:48,076 --> 01:20:50,442 And they got a million guys down there too. Oh, yeah. 1356 01:20:50,512 --> 01:20:52,946 They can send down to Central Casting in Hollywood... 1357 01:20:53,081 --> 01:20:55,948 and get some dummy that looks good on the tube... 1358 01:20:59,187 --> 01:21:01,951 Some Arrow-collared killer type who... 1359 01:21:02,023 --> 01:21:03,957 All right. All right. 1360 01:21:04,092 --> 01:21:06,583 Wall Street is asking for Agnew? 1361 01:21:06,695 --> 01:21:08,697 You know what I did? 1362 01:21:08,697 --> 01:21:10,961 I gave 'em Agnew! 1363 01:21:13,034 --> 01:21:15,195 That fucking Agnew! 1364 01:21:15,303 --> 01:21:18,807 I mean, he was taking bribes with both goddamn hands, for Chri... 1365 01:21:18,807 --> 01:21:21,173 You know what Agnew did? You won't even believe this. 1366 01:21:21,309 --> 01:21:23,174 Agnew, one time... Fuckin' Ag... 1367 01:21:23,311 --> 01:21:26,712 One day Agnew, he took a turkey and $200... 1368 01:21:26,815 --> 01:21:28,715 right in the office! 1369 01:21:30,819 --> 01:21:33,720 A live fucking turkey, for Christ's sake! 1370 01:21:33,822 --> 01:21:36,290 Fucking Agnew! 1371 01:21:38,627 --> 01:21:40,993 You see, they wanted more from me. 1372 01:21:41,062 --> 01:21:43,997 They wanted everything from me because I was the hole card. 1373 01:21:44,065 --> 01:21:46,295 See, I was the China card. 1374 01:21:46,434 --> 01:21:48,334 I was in the middle. 1375 01:21:48,403 --> 01:21:50,803 The Rockefeller guys were screwing me from the rear... 1376 01:21:50,906 --> 01:21:53,500 and the China Committee big boys had me by the nuts up front. 1377 01:21:53,575 --> 01:21:55,543 Look, I had to be very cautious... 1378 01:21:55,610 --> 01:21:58,909 because Hunt and Liddy and Krogh and Caulfield... 1379 01:21:59,014 --> 01:22:00,845 You know, th-th-the Watergate... They're all ex-C.I.A.... 1380 01:22:00,916 --> 01:22:02,315 those guys, you know. 1381 01:22:02,417 --> 01:22:04,476 They're ex-this and they're ex-that. 1382 01:22:04,586 --> 01:22:07,487 And those bastards, they know where the bodies are buried, see. 1383 01:22:07,555 --> 01:22:08,817 So I couldn't just go running in there and do any... 1384 01:22:08,890 --> 01:22:11,256 goddamn thing I wa... 1385 01:22:11,426 --> 01:22:13,417 All right, that money... 1386 01:22:13,528 --> 01:22:16,053 is still pouring in from Asia! 1387 01:22:16,197 --> 01:22:20,156 And Patman, he-he's watching all this money... 1388 01:22:20,302 --> 01:22:22,236 I mean, it's coming in there... 1389 01:22:22,304 --> 01:22:26,764 from Flying Tiger, you know, and Air America... 1390 01:22:28,877 --> 01:22:31,209 dropping millions of goddamn dollars! 1391 01:22:31,313 --> 01:22:34,805 And Patman, he-he... It was coming in from the Bank of Seoul too. 1392 01:22:34,916 --> 01:22:37,817 And, of course, always from the Bank of Taiwan. 1393 01:22:37,919 --> 01:22:41,821 But Patman, he was so fuckin' funny. Fuckin'... He... 1394 01:22:41,890 --> 01:22:44,017 Goddamn Patman, he-he said... 1395 01:22:44,125 --> 01:22:47,458 he said... he said... he said... he said... he said... he said... 1396 01:22:47,595 --> 01:22:50,496 'Where the fuck is all this money coming from? ' 1397 01:22:53,568 --> 01:22:56,128 L-I just... 1398 01:22:56,237 --> 01:22:57,932 You understand... 1399 01:22:58,073 --> 01:22:59,874 what it means... 1400 01:22:59,874 --> 01:23:02,638 if they catch me? 1401 01:23:02,744 --> 01:23:04,541 It means the... 1402 01:23:06,214 --> 01:23:09,547 It means the firing squad. 1403 01:23:15,023 --> 01:23:17,150 That's right, Your Honor. 1404 01:23:17,258 --> 01:23:19,226 That's what it means. 1405 01:23:42,884 --> 01:23:43,918 Make no mistake... 1406 01:23:43,918 --> 01:23:45,886 about that. 1407 01:23:48,356 --> 01:23:50,324 If they catch me...! 1408 01:23:53,595 --> 01:23:56,792 I mean, do you think that there would be a pardon... 1409 01:23:56,898 --> 01:24:00,766 for the man who kept the war going in Southeast Asia... 1410 01:24:00,902 --> 01:24:03,538 in exchange for vast sums of money? 1411 01:24:03,538 --> 01:24:05,529 American tax money? 1412 01:24:05,640 --> 01:24:07,909 A fortune in blood to be used to purchase a... 1413 01:24:07,909 --> 01:24:09,069 third term for my client? 1414 01:24:09,144 --> 01:24:12,045 I mean, Your Honor, the country would have boiled over... 1415 01:24:12,147 --> 01:24:13,842 because this blood bribery meant the death of... 1416 01:24:13,915 --> 01:24:15,780 thousands of American boys. 1417 01:24:15,917 --> 01:24:17,782 I didn't want that! I didn't... 1418 01:24:17,919 --> 01:24:20,911 I mean, for Christ's sake, who the hell wants to go down in history... 1419 01:24:21,022 --> 01:24:25,254 as a traitor who took bribes to keep a fucking war going? 1420 01:24:25,360 --> 01:24:27,294 You understand then... 1421 01:24:27,395 --> 01:24:29,863 why I had to lead the press and the Congress to the... 1422 01:24:29,931 --> 01:24:32,593 tip of the wrong iceberg? 1423 01:24:32,700 --> 01:24:34,861 See, I had to leave a little trail of crimes and misdemeanors... 1424 01:24:34,936 --> 01:24:37,302 for them to follow... 1425 01:24:37,372 --> 01:24:38,862 so that they wouldn't find out about the treason... 1426 01:24:38,940 --> 01:24:40,771 and stick me in a cage... 1427 01:24:40,875 --> 01:24:42,843 like a fucking animal! 1428 01:24:46,247 --> 01:24:48,647 I mean, like a... 1429 01:24:48,750 --> 01:24:50,718 common criminal. 1430 01:24:57,425 --> 01:24:59,393 Your Honor... 1431 01:25:00,862 --> 01:25:02,727 the prisoner in the dock... 1432 01:25:02,831 --> 01:25:05,891 is guilty of one crime only... 1433 01:25:06,034 --> 01:25:08,298 and that crime is being... 1434 01:25:08,403 --> 01:25:11,372 Richard Milhous Nixon! 1435 01:25:13,975 --> 01:25:16,170 L-I just wanted power. 1436 01:25:16,244 --> 01:25:18,109 That's all. 1437 01:25:18,246 --> 01:25:22,050 I mean, to be president you have got to have power! 1438 01:25:22,050 --> 01:25:25,611 Without power, you can't do... You can't... Shit! I... 1439 01:25:26,654 --> 01:25:29,214 See, I know that you understand this... 1440 01:25:29,324 --> 01:25:31,224 'cause you had power in World War I... 1441 01:25:31,326 --> 01:25:32,861 See, when you've got it-it's nothing. If you've... 1442 01:25:32,861 --> 01:25:35,022 got it, it's nothing. 1443 01:25:38,433 --> 01:25:40,799 They broke your heart too, didn't they? 1444 01:25:40,869 --> 01:25:42,837 With the League of Nations. 1445 01:25:44,172 --> 01:25:46,037 You know what they wrote about me? 1446 01:25:46,174 --> 01:25:48,039 They said at the end... 1447 01:25:48,176 --> 01:25:50,644 that I was running around the White House... 1448 01:25:50,778 --> 01:25:54,612 crazy drunk, talking to the pictures on the walls. 1449 01:25:57,385 --> 01:26:00,047 Yes, I was. 1450 01:26:00,155 --> 01:26:02,123 I was Ionely. 1451 01:26:03,358 --> 01:26:06,816 I needed somebody to talk to besides a machine. 1452 01:26:08,363 --> 01:26:10,263 Mother? 1453 01:26:13,001 --> 01:26:14,935 Mother? 1454 01:26:16,804 --> 01:26:19,068 Mother, l-l-I just... 1455 01:26:19,174 --> 01:26:22,871 I just wanted to be a-a man. 1456 01:26:22,977 --> 01:26:26,378 Not a nothing, not your dog... 1457 01:26:26,514 --> 01:26:28,744 but a real man! 1458 01:26:29,817 --> 01:26:31,785 Mother? 1459 01:26:34,022 --> 01:26:37,048 Mother! 1460 01:26:37,125 --> 01:26:40,583 Yes, Mother, I know what I've done! 1461 01:26:40,728 --> 01:26:42,696 Mother. Mother. 1462 01:26:42,830 --> 01:26:45,060 Just... 1463 01:26:45,133 --> 01:26:47,101 tell me who I am. 1464 01:26:48,403 --> 01:26:50,371 Tell me what to do... Mama. 1465 01:27:19,434 --> 01:27:22,870 What? No, Mother! 1466 01:27:22,870 --> 01:27:25,206 I did not elect myself. 1467 01:27:25,206 --> 01:27:27,575 They elected me! Not once, not twice, but all... 1468 01:27:27,575 --> 01:27:28,876 my goddamn life! 1469 01:27:28,876 --> 01:27:31,813 And they would do it again, too, if they had the chance. 1470 01:27:31,813 --> 01:27:34,482 Oh, sure, they said they didn't trust me. 1471 01:27:34,482 --> 01:27:38,052 They said, "Let Dick Nixon do it," and I did it! 1472 01:27:38,052 --> 01:27:40,989 They said they wouldn't buy a used car from me... 1473 01:27:40,989 --> 01:27:44,425 but they gave me the biggest vote in American history. 1474 01:27:44,425 --> 01:27:47,395 And then they flushed me down the toilet. 1475 01:27:47,395 --> 01:27:49,831 And they wanted me to stay down. 1476 01:27:49,831 --> 01:27:52,767 They wanted me to kill myself. 1477 01:27:52,767 --> 01:27:54,702 Well, I won't do it. 1478 01:27:54,702 --> 01:27:56,638 If they want me dead... 1479 01:27:56,638 --> 01:27:58,606 they'll have to do it. 1480 01:27:59,941 --> 01:28:02,810 Fuck 'em! Fuck 'em! 1481 01:28:02,810 --> 01:28:05,013 Fuck 'em! Fuck 'em! 1482 01:28:05,013 --> 01:28:07,048 Fuck 'em! 1483 01:28:07,048 --> 01:28:08,983 - Fuck 'em! - Four more years! 1484 01:28:08,983 --> 01:28:10,652 Fuck 'em! 1485 01:28:10,652 --> 01:28:12,453 Fuck 'em! 1486 01:28:12,453 --> 01:28:14,422 Fuck 'em! 1487 01:28:14,422 --> 01:28:17,925 Fuck 'em! Fuck 'em! Fuck 'em! 1488 01:28:17,925 --> 01:28:21,262 - Four more years! Fuck 'em! 1489 01:28:21,262 --> 01:28:25,400 Fuck 'em! 1490 01:28:25,400 --> 01:28:29,037 Four more years! Four more years! 1491 01:28:29,037 --> 01:28:32,807 Four more years! Four more years! 1492 01:28:32,807 --> 01:28:36,544 Four more years! Four more years! 1493 01:28:36,544 --> 01:28:40,248 Four more years! Four more years! 1494 01:28:40,248 --> 01:28:43,985 Four more years! Four more years! 1495 01:28:43,985 --> 01:28:47,887 Four more years! Four more years! 112821