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ANNOUNCER [ON TV]: Now here comes
the president's helicopter...
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...Marine Helicopter Number 1...
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...landing in the plaza on the east side
of the east front of the Capitol.
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The helicopter hovering gently
just off the ground.
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Amazing timing.
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The president flying
all the way across the world...
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...across the Atlantic Ocean,
arriving almost exactly...
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Exactly as scheduled,
at 9:30 in the Capitol plaza...
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...so he can go up the steps
of the House of Representatives...
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...go into the chamber...
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...and address the members of the House
and the Senate, Supreme Court...
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...the diplomatic corps of Washington...
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...all of whom are inside waiting for him
in the chamber.
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Mr. Speaker,
the president of the United States.
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[APPLAUDING AND CHEERING]
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ANNOUNCER: And the president,
accompanied by the Escort Committee...
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...comes down the central aisle,
approaching the podium.
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He greets members of his cabinet...
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...and those who are waiting
to be confirmed as members...
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...as he reaches the rostrum.
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Shakes hands with the Speaker,
Carl Albert.
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A happy president, smiling.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
President Nixon will, in a moment...
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...address the Congress
and the people of the United States.
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Thank you.
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[MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
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DISPATCHER [OVER RADIO]:
Car 727, Car 727.
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Open door at the Watergate office building.
Possible burglary. See the security guard.
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Are you sure you want us?
517 is closer, and they're in uniform.
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They're getting gas. You take it.
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Unit 1 to Unit 2.
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Unit 1 to Unit 2.
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HUNT [OVER RADIO]: What?
- We're home.
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Base 1 to Unit 1.
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Base 1 to Unit 1.
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BALDWIN [OVER RADIO]:
We have some activity here.
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Silence is advised.
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[STATIC CRACKLING]
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[WHISPERS]
Shut it off.
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BALDWIN:
Base 1 to Unit 1.
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Lights on the eighth floor.
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Base 1 to Unit 1.
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Is there anybody there?
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There's people, people on the balcony.
Armed people.
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Base 1 to Unit 1.
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Base 1 to Unit 1.
We may have some problems.
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STURGIS [WHISPERS]:
Someone's here.
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OFFICER:
Hold it, you...
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Police.
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Put your hands up.
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Drop that jacket.
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HARRY:
Walkie-talkie, two 35-mm cameras.
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Got it. That's good. All right, stay there.
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I got something for you. Did you see this?
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Couple sleeping in bed, car hits the house,
goes through their bedroom.
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Good morning. Crash.
Louis is over at Democratic headquarters.
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One of the burglars had $814,
one $230, one $215, and one $234.
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Most of it was in $100 bills,
and in sequence.
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- Woodward?
BOB: Yup.
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Break-in at Democratic headquarters.
There's been an arrest.
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- Local Democratic headquarters.
- Bugging the place.
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Check the time of arraignment
and get over there.
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And, Woodward,
it was National Democratic Headquarters.
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Right.
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- Anything else?
- Anything else?
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Break-in, car crash.
That's not bad for a Saturday.
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HOWARD:
Let me know what happens.
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- Hello, Carl.
CARL: Hi.
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HOWARD:
Got anything on that couple?
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I know somebody on the staff at Watergate.
Want me...?
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Why don't you finish one story
before trying to get on another?
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I finished it.
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- The Virginia Legislature story?
- I finished it.
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All right, give it to me.
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I'm just polishing it.
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- I'll work the phones.
- Polishing it. Yeah, you work the phones.
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MAN 1: Who cares?
MAN 2: What about property damage?
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BOB: Sorry, who are the lawy...?
Excuse me, sorry.
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Who are the lawyers
for the five men arrested at Watergate?
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- Do you know?
MAN 3: Well, these two were assigned to it.
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BOB:
Sorry?
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MAN 3:
These two were appointed to the case.
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Only now it turns out
the burglars have their own counsel.
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- The burglars have their own counsel?
MAN 3: Right.
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- That's kind of unusual, wouldn't you say?
MAN 3: For burglars it's unusual.
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Do you know the name of the counsel?
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MAN 3:
I don't know. Some country-club type.
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JUDGE: You are charged
with soliciting prostitution...
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...at 14th and U Streets Northwest.
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[JUDGE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
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Your Honor,
Mr. Socket has in the past been reliable...
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...for court appearances when ordered.
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I think $300
would subsequently be suggested...
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Excuse me, what is your name?
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I'm Bob Woodward
of the Washington Post.
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- Markham.
- Markham?
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Mr. Markham, are you here in connection
with the Watergate burglary?
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I'm not here.
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Okay.
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Well, clearly, I am here...
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...but only as an individual,
not as the attorney of record.
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Who is?
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Mr. Starkey.
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- Do you have any kind of...?
- Whatever you want...
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...you'll have to get from him.
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I have nothing more to say.
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Uh, Starkey. S-T...
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Mr. Starkey was very helpful.
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Four Cuban-Americans and another man,
James W. McCord.
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Look, I told you inside,
I have nothing more to say.
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I understand that.
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What I don't understand
is how you got here.
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I assure you
there's nothing very mysterious involved.
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Well, I was talking
to a couple of the lawyers...
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...assigned to represent the burglars.
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So?
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They never would've been assigned
to the burglars...
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...had anyone known the burglars
had arranged for their own counsel.
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The burglars couldn't have
arranged their counsel.
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They never even made a phone call.
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So if no one asked you to be here,
why are you here?
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- Don't take this personally, Mr...
- Woodward.
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Woodward.
It would be a mistake to do that.
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I just don't have anything to say.
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[BOTH CHUCKLE]
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ATTORNEY: Your Honor, Mr. Betts
is a young man with no prior record.
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The defense has suggested a release
on personal bond.
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Did one of the other men
involved in the break-in call you?
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What reason do you have to assume
there were other people involved?
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One of your clients was arrested
with a walkie-talkie.
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They're not my clients.
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- I don't wanna talk about this anymore.
- You're a lawyer and you're here.
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Well, uh, one of the
defendants, Mr. Barker,
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and I met at a social
occasion once.
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Where?
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- I have nothing else to say.
- A Miami social occasion?
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Mr. Starkey says the Cubans
were from Miami.
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L-62, James McCord.
L-63, Bernard Barker.
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L-64, Virgilio Gonzalez.
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L-65, Eugenio Martinez.
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L-66, Frank Sturgis.
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Please step forward, Attorney Starkey.
All charged with burglary two.
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- And, Mr. Starkey, you represent all five?
STARKEY: Yes, Your Honor.
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And are all five gentlemen charged
with burglary in the second degree?
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STARKEY:
Yes, Your Honor.
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JUDGE: Your names, please,
and state your professions.
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BARKER:
Bernard Barker, anti-Communist.
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Anti-Communist?
That, sir, is not your average profession.
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McCORD:
James McCord, security consultant.
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JUDGE:
Where?
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McCORD:
Government. Uh, recently retired.
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JUDGE:
Where in the government?
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McCORD:
Central Intelligence Agency.
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Where?
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McCORD:
The CIA.
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STURGIS:
Sturgis, Frank A., salvage operator.
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Holy shit.
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BOB: Eugenio Martinez,
known as Gene Valdez.
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James W. McCord, alias Edward Martin.
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Frank Sturgis, alias Frank Fiorini.
All five of the men had at least one alias.
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Any proof they were trying
to bug the Democratic chairman?
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CARL:
It's obvious they were trying to.
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They wouldn't go to that trouble
to bug secretaries.
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- There's no proof.
- I called a lawyer in Miami I know.
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He said four of the guys that were arrested
were from Miami.
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Gonzalez, Martinez, Sturgis and, uh...
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- Barker.
- Yeah, Barker.
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And all four of them were involved
in CIA activities and...
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BOB: No, only one.
CARL: Yeah, and they...
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No, only one of them was admitted CIA,
and the CIA won't confirm that.
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In fact, they deny even knowing McCord.
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But it's obvious
that with all that money and equipment...
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...they weren't out to, you know,
work by themselves.
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Somebody hired them.
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I'm interested in what you know.
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We don't know why they wanted
to bug Democratic headquarters.
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Whether they were working for themselves,
other individuals, organizations.
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Could be a story or just crazy Cubans.
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Bachinski, when you get there,
take it easy.
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The police are nervous.
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[PHONE RINGING]
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- Yeah? BACHINSKI: Calling
from police headquarters.
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A friend just showed me what they found
in the hotel rooms of the burglars.
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There's something
you might wanna look into.
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Hang on.
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Okay, go ahead.
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There's a strange entry
in two of the burglars' address books.
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- Yeah?
- One says "H.H. at W.H."
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The other says
"Howard Hunt, W. House."
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BOB: You can dial the White House direct,
can't you?
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WOMAN 1: Yeah.
- What's the number?
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WOMAN 1:
456-1414.
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WOMAN 2: White House.
- Howard Hunt, please.
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Mr. Hunt isn't here just now.
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He might be in Mr. Colson's office.
I'll connect you.
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Thank you.
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WOMAN 3: Charles Colson's office.
- Howard Hunt, please.
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Mr. Hunt isn't here just now.
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- Do you know when he'll be back?
- No, I don't.
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Okay, thank you.
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- Have you tried the Mullen firm?
- I beg your pardon?
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He also works as a writer
at Mullen and Company Public Relations.
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- You have a phone on that or an address?
- No, I don't. I'm sorry.
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All right, thank you.
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WOMAN 4: Do you know
in a survey taken, 10.9 percent...?
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Harry.
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Who's Charles Colson?
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Who's Charles Colson?
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Sit down.
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I'm glad you asked me that question.
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The reason I'm glad is because
if you had asked Simons or Bradlee...
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...they would've said:
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"You know, we're gonna have to fire this
schmuck at once because he's so dumb."
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Who is Charles Colson?
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The most powerful man
in the United States is President Nixon.
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You've heard of him?
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Charles Colson is special counsel
to the president.
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There's a cartoon on his wall.
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Caption reads,
"When you've got them by the balls...
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...their hearts and minds will follow."
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WOMAN 5:
Do you have a list of receipts?
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IVY: Hello, Mr. Murray?
This is Ivy Mills of the Washington Post.
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I'd like to know if...
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WOMAN 6:
Mullen and Company.
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- Howard Hunt, please.
- One moment, please.
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HUNT:
Howard Hunt here.
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Hi, I'm Bob Woodward
of the Washington Post.
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Yes. Yes, what is it?
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I was just wondering
why your name and phone number...
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...were in the address books
of two of the men arrested at Watergate.
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Good God.
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- Do you care to comment?
- The matter is under adjudication.
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I have no comment.
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WOMAN 7 [OVER PHONE]: Hello?
BOB: This is Bob Woodward...
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...of the Washington Post.
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I was told that you had worked
with a Mr. Howard Hunt.
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Why would anyone say that?
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You do know Mr. Hunt?
239
00:16:09,886 --> 00:16:11,053
No, I don't believe so...
240
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...and I can't imagine
why anyone would say that.
241
00:16:13,723 --> 00:16:16,350
I'm really sorry, but I was on my way out.
Goodbye.
242
00:16:16,518 --> 00:16:20,396
Could we just confirm a couple...? Bye.
243
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MAN [OVER PHONE]:
Did you say the Washington Post?
244
00:16:25,068 --> 00:16:26,443
BOB:
Yes, that's right, the Post.
245
00:16:26,611 --> 00:16:28,904
Your publishing firm
was listed in some papers...
246
00:16:29,072 --> 00:16:30,739
...in connection with a Howard Hunt.
247
00:16:30,907 --> 00:16:35,411
Yeah. Yeah, he's one of our authors.
He wrote spy novels, I think.
248
00:16:35,579 --> 00:16:38,789
What type of spy novels were they?
Were they modern or period...?
249
00:16:38,957 --> 00:16:41,458
You say "wrote"?
You mean he's no longer with you?
250
00:16:41,626 --> 00:16:42,668
No, not at this time.
251
00:16:42,836 --> 00:16:45,087
How long has it been
since you heard from him?
252
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- Couple of years, I think.
- Tell me the names of novels he's written.
253
00:16:50,510 --> 00:16:51,552
[MAN 2 SPEAKING IN SPANISH
OVER PHONE]
254
00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:55,055
BOB:
Hello? Is this Mr. Paul Herrera?
255
00:16:55,223 --> 00:16:57,266
This is Bob Woodward
of the Washington Post.
256
00:16:57,434 --> 00:16:58,475
[MAN 2 SPEAKS IN SPANISH]
257
00:16:58,643 --> 00:17:01,061
Bob Woodward of the Wash...
Do you speak English?
258
00:17:01,229 --> 00:17:03,981
[MAN 2 & BOB SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
259
00:17:04,149 --> 00:17:09,195
Hey, do any of you guys speak English...?
Or do any of you guys speak Spanish?
260
00:17:09,988 --> 00:17:11,989
[MAN 2 & BOB SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
261
00:17:19,873 --> 00:17:24,001
Never mind. Thank you.
Thank you. Never mind.
262
00:17:26,213 --> 00:17:28,797
MAN 3: What's the slug on the Mandel story?
MAN 4: What?
263
00:17:30,342 --> 00:17:31,884
BENNETT: Hello?
- Mr. Bennett?
264
00:17:32,052 --> 00:17:34,386
- Yes?
- Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.
265
00:17:34,554 --> 00:17:35,721
I'm sorry to bother you.
266
00:17:35,889 --> 00:17:40,142
I wonder if you could confirm information
on one of your employees, Howard Hunt?
267
00:17:40,310 --> 00:17:41,477
What kind of information?
268
00:17:41,645 --> 00:17:43,145
Just profile information mostly.
269
00:17:43,313 --> 00:17:45,564
We know that he works
for Mullen and Company...
270
00:17:45,732 --> 00:17:48,275
...or did work for Mullen and Company
as a writer.
271
00:17:48,443 --> 00:17:49,485
He's also a novelist.
272
00:17:49,653 --> 00:17:52,988
We know that he works in the office
of Charles Colson at the White House.
273
00:17:53,156 --> 00:17:54,990
And the CIA.
274
00:17:55,158 --> 00:17:56,992
And the CIA.
275
00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,079
Well, if you're conducting
that kind of an investigation...
276
00:18:00,247 --> 00:18:04,291
...certainly it comes as no surprise to you
that Howard was with the CIA.
277
00:18:04,459 --> 00:18:06,502
No, no surprise at all.
278
00:18:08,713 --> 00:18:11,006
BOB:
Hunt worked for the CIA till 1970.
279
00:18:11,341 --> 00:18:13,509
From '49 to '70.
This is on deep background...
280
00:18:13,677 --> 00:18:16,178
...but the FBI thinks he's involved
with the break-in.
281
00:18:16,346 --> 00:18:17,346
What else you got?
282
00:18:17,514 --> 00:18:21,100
According to White House personnel,
Hunt worked as a consultant for Colson.
283
00:18:21,268 --> 00:18:24,770
That's Charles Colson,
the president's special counsel.
284
00:18:24,938 --> 00:18:27,856
- Did you call the White House
Press Office? - I went over there.
285
00:18:28,024 --> 00:18:30,484
They said Hunt hadn't worked there
for three months.
286
00:18:30,652 --> 00:18:33,696
Then a PR guy
said this weird thing to me.
287
00:18:35,156 --> 00:18:37,491
He said,
"I am convinced that neither Mr. Colson...
288
00:18:37,659 --> 00:18:41,370
...nor anyone else at the White House
had any knowledge of or participation in...
289
00:18:41,538 --> 00:18:45,666
...this deplorable incident
at the Democratic National Committee."
290
00:18:45,834 --> 00:18:48,252
HOWARD:
Isn't that what you'd expect them to say?
291
00:18:48,420 --> 00:18:49,461
Absolutely.
292
00:18:49,963 --> 00:18:51,046
So?
293
00:18:51,548 --> 00:18:53,716
I never asked about Watergate.
294
00:18:54,301 --> 00:18:57,386
I simply asked what were Hunt's duties
at the White House.
295
00:18:57,804 --> 00:19:01,223
They volunteered he was innocent
when nobody asked if he was guilty.
296
00:19:03,518 --> 00:19:05,686
Be careful how you write it.
297
00:19:07,772 --> 00:19:10,274
We got a White House consultant
linked to the bugging.
298
00:19:10,442 --> 00:19:12,860
This isn't a police story anymore.
This is national.
299
00:19:13,028 --> 00:19:16,405
- We need a top political writer on it.
- Well, they don't want it.
300
00:19:16,573 --> 00:19:18,824
They're all over the map
covering the primaries.
301
00:19:18,992 --> 00:19:22,870
- Besides, this guy has busted his ass.
- He's been on this paper for nine months.
302
00:19:23,038 --> 00:19:25,039
- What's the matter with you?
- He's a humper.
303
00:19:25,206 --> 00:19:27,708
What's he been writing about,
rat shit in restaurants?
304
00:19:27,876 --> 00:19:29,960
- He's got no experience.
- He got a few closed.
305
00:19:30,128 --> 00:19:32,087
Minor incidents.
Small government agencies.
306
00:19:32,255 --> 00:19:35,466
Have Mr. Moffitt come in here, please.
And see if Mr. Bradlee's free.
307
00:19:35,633 --> 00:19:36,759
I want Ben to hear this.
308
00:19:36,926 --> 00:19:40,262
Sure, Moffitt will want the story
now that we've built it into something.
309
00:19:40,430 --> 00:19:41,972
Even Bernstein's busting his ass.
310
00:19:42,140 --> 00:19:45,100
I read that cockamamie memorandum
he wrote on the break-in.
311
00:19:45,268 --> 00:19:49,146
- All right, so some of it was bullshit.
- What is the matter with you?
312
00:19:49,314 --> 00:19:52,441
You told me yourself
you were gonna fire him last month.
313
00:19:52,984 --> 00:19:57,696
Look, he wants on the story bad.
They both do.
314
00:19:57,864 --> 00:20:00,032
He knows a lot of people.
315
00:20:00,784 --> 00:20:04,328
Howard, they're hungry.
You remember when you were hungry?
316
00:20:04,621 --> 00:20:06,580
[CHATTERING]
317
00:20:08,625 --> 00:20:10,834
MAN 1:
Don't worry about it.
318
00:20:14,923 --> 00:20:16,757
MAN 2:
I'll be home late.
319
00:20:22,055 --> 00:20:25,057
MAN 3:
Did you get the artwork on that piece?
320
00:20:25,225 --> 00:20:27,976
CARL: Hold on.
MAN 3: Hey, listen, where's the artwork?
321
00:20:28,144 --> 00:20:29,978
I gotta have a cigarette.
322
00:20:30,146 --> 00:20:32,356
[TYPEWRITERS CLACKING]
323
00:20:32,524 --> 00:20:34,525
[PHONES RINGING]
324
00:20:39,656 --> 00:20:42,741
WOMAN 1: Yeah, he'll be in in about
half an hour. Can I have him call you?
325
00:20:42,909 --> 00:20:43,992
Okay.
326
00:20:48,206 --> 00:20:49,665
Metro Desk.
327
00:20:49,833 --> 00:20:50,916
No, I'm sorry, he's not.
328
00:20:52,210 --> 00:20:54,670
Yes, I will. Can you tell me who's calling?
329
00:20:54,838 --> 00:20:57,714
All right. Yes, hold on.
330
00:20:57,882 --> 00:20:59,466
Thank you.
331
00:20:59,926 --> 00:21:01,301
WOMAN 2:
You want a laugh?
332
00:21:02,429 --> 00:21:03,929
MAN 4:
Hello.
333
00:21:09,018 --> 00:21:10,853
WOMAN 3:
Has anyone seen my scarf?
334
00:21:15,191 --> 00:21:17,901
MAN 5: Hey, look, do we have a lead
for the metro page?
335
00:21:18,069 --> 00:21:19,945
MAN 6:
Yeah, yeah. Uh...
336
00:21:22,866 --> 00:21:26,702
MAN 7: Lou. Hey, Lou.
Can you get me Mandel's office, please?
337
00:21:26,870 --> 00:21:27,995
WOMAN 3: Yeah.
MAN 8: All right.
338
00:21:28,163 --> 00:21:30,539
Listen, I want his comment
about that appointment.
339
00:21:30,707 --> 00:21:31,707
WOMAN 3: Okay.
MAN 8: Right away.
340
00:21:31,875 --> 00:21:33,083
WOMAN 3: All right.
MAN 8: Right away.
341
00:21:33,251 --> 00:21:35,252
[TYPEWRITERS CLACKING]
342
00:21:35,462 --> 00:21:37,421
[CHATTERING]
343
00:21:46,306 --> 00:21:48,056
- How's it going?
- What are you doing?
344
00:21:48,224 --> 00:21:49,933
- I'm polishing a little.
- You're what?
345
00:21:50,101 --> 00:21:51,810
- Polishing it.
- What's wrong with it?
346
00:21:51,978 --> 00:21:54,521
- Nothing, nothing. It's good.
- Then what are you doing?
347
00:21:54,689 --> 00:21:57,065
I'm just helping. It's a little fuzzy.
348
00:21:57,692 --> 00:21:58,775
May I have it?
349
00:21:58,943 --> 00:22:02,279
- I don't think you're saying what
you mean. - I know exactly what I mean.
350
00:22:02,447 --> 00:22:05,324
I can't tell whether Hunt works for Colson
or Colson for Hunt.
351
00:22:05,492 --> 00:22:06,533
May I have it, please?
352
00:22:06,701 --> 00:22:08,285
- Your conclusions...
- May I have it?
353
00:22:08,453 --> 00:22:10,579
- I'm not looking for a fight.
- I'm not either.
354
00:22:10,747 --> 00:22:14,041
I'm just aware of the fact
that you've only been here nine months.
355
00:22:14,834 --> 00:22:16,543
What's that got to do with anything?
356
00:22:16,711 --> 00:22:19,338
- Been in the business since I'm 16.
- What are you saying?
357
00:22:19,506 --> 00:22:21,423
If you'd read mine and then read yours...
358
00:22:21,591 --> 00:22:23,634
- May I read yours?
- Yeah.
359
00:22:24,135 --> 00:22:27,888
I gave yours a glance, it didn't look
right, so I figured I'd refine it a little.
360
00:22:28,056 --> 00:22:31,475
First paragraph has to have more clarity
if the reader's gonna understand.
361
00:22:31,643 --> 00:22:34,728
You don't mention Colson's name
until the third paragraph.
362
00:22:34,896 --> 00:22:36,898
I think mine's better,
but if you think yours
363
00:22:36,899 --> 00:22:38,899
is better, we'll give
yours to the desk.
364
00:22:39,067 --> 00:22:41,276
I've got Colson's name up front.
365
00:22:42,445 --> 00:22:45,489
- He was a consultant and nobody knows it.
- You're right.
366
00:22:46,491 --> 00:22:48,283
Yours is better.
367
00:23:00,213 --> 00:23:03,757
Do it right. Here are my notes. If you're
gonna hype it, hype it with facts.
368
00:23:03,925 --> 00:23:07,261
I don't mind what you did.
I mind the way you did it.
369
00:23:08,638 --> 00:23:11,014
Woodward, Bernstein,
you're both on the story.
370
00:23:11,182 --> 00:23:12,933
Now, don't fuck it up.
371
00:23:19,357 --> 00:23:22,359
CARL: Steuben, what's the name
of that girl that you bombed out with...
372
00:23:22,527 --> 00:23:25,487
- ...who works in Colson's office?
STEUBEN: Sharon Lyons.
373
00:23:26,948 --> 00:23:28,991
SHARON:
Why are you looking at me like that?
374
00:23:29,158 --> 00:23:31,868
CARL: You're attractive.
- Jesus.
375
00:23:32,036 --> 00:23:33,912
CARL:
You are very attractive.
376
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,540
You know, my girlfriend told me
to watch out for you.
377
00:23:36,708 --> 00:23:40,252
- Who?
- I'm not giving any names.
378
00:23:40,420 --> 00:23:43,005
Steuben said you work for Colson.
379
00:23:44,465 --> 00:23:45,507
[SHARON SIGHS]
380
00:23:45,675 --> 00:23:48,010
Steuben's crazy.
I never worked for Colson.
381
00:23:48,177 --> 00:23:50,971
- That's what he said.
- I worked for an assistant.
382
00:23:51,139 --> 00:23:54,099
Colson was really big on secrets anyway.
383
00:23:54,267 --> 00:23:58,937
Even if I had worked for him,
I wouldn't know anything.
384
00:23:59,522 --> 00:24:02,190
Did you know Howard Hunt?
385
00:24:02,358 --> 00:24:04,776
- Didn't he work in the office?
- Yeah, I knew Howard.
386
00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:07,112
- Nice?
- He's a nice person.
387
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,574
He's secretive.
He's secretive but a decent man.
388
00:24:10,742 --> 00:24:14,703
Do you have any idea what he did?
389
00:24:14,871 --> 00:24:18,040
Well, the White House said
he was doing some investigative work.
390
00:24:18,207 --> 00:24:19,249
What do you say?
391
00:24:19,417 --> 00:24:21,168
[SHARON CHUCKLES]
392
00:24:21,336 --> 00:24:23,629
- He was doing investigative work.
- On what?
393
00:24:26,549 --> 00:24:29,217
- Different things.
- Like what?
394
00:24:30,303 --> 00:24:31,762
- I'm not gonna...
- She warned me.
395
00:24:31,929 --> 00:24:34,723
I'm not gonna take my book out.
I'm just asking you.
396
00:24:35,391 --> 00:24:38,852
Well, the scuttlebutt for a while
was that he was investigating Kennedy.
397
00:24:39,020 --> 00:24:40,395
Why?
398
00:24:40,563 --> 00:24:43,899
The White House was real paranoid
about Teddy Kennedy.
399
00:24:45,193 --> 00:24:48,445
I remember seeing a book
about Chappaquiddick on his desk.
400
00:24:48,613 --> 00:24:50,155
He was always getting material...
401
00:24:50,323 --> 00:24:53,283
...out of the White House library
and the Library of Congress.
402
00:24:53,451 --> 00:24:55,619
Anything he could find.
403
00:24:57,121 --> 00:24:58,580
WOMAN 1:
White House library.
404
00:24:58,748 --> 00:25:01,083
Hi, this is Carl Bernstein,
of the Washington Post.
405
00:25:01,250 --> 00:25:03,585
I was wondering
if you can remember any books...
406
00:25:03,753 --> 00:25:07,255
...that a Howard Hunt checked out
on Senator Kennedy?
407
00:25:07,423 --> 00:25:10,217
- Howard Hunt? Um...
- Yes, ma'am.
408
00:25:10,385 --> 00:25:13,428
- Yes, I think I do remember.
- Uh-huh.
409
00:25:13,596 --> 00:25:15,931
He took out a whole lot of material.
410
00:25:16,099 --> 00:25:20,102
- Why don't you hold on and I'll see?
- I sure will. Thank you very much.
411
00:25:33,074 --> 00:25:35,492
- Mr. Bernstein?
- Yes, ma'am?
412
00:25:35,660 --> 00:25:37,494
- I was wrong.
- I beg your pardon?
413
00:25:37,662 --> 00:25:42,708
The truth is, I don't have a card
that says Mr. Hunt took any material.
414
00:25:42,875 --> 00:25:45,585
- Uh-huh.
- I don't remember getting material for...
415
00:25:45,753 --> 00:25:48,880
I do remember getting material
for somebody, but it wasn't Mr. Hunt.
416
00:25:49,048 --> 00:25:50,382
Right.
417
00:25:50,967 --> 00:25:54,761
The truth is, I didn't have any requests
at all from Mr. Hunt.
418
00:25:56,139 --> 00:25:57,931
- Oh.
- Uh...
419
00:25:58,433 --> 00:26:01,226
The truth is, I don't know any Mr. Hunt.
420
00:26:02,562 --> 00:26:04,438
Uh...
421
00:26:06,065 --> 00:26:08,358
Uh, I was just wondering if any...
If you have any...
422
00:26:08,526 --> 00:26:09,568
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
423
00:26:09,736 --> 00:26:11,403
Hello?
424
00:26:14,490 --> 00:26:17,159
BOB: Yes, we're checking
into that information now.
425
00:26:17,326 --> 00:26:20,078
We'd just like to find out
just what it was that Hunt did...
426
00:26:20,246 --> 00:26:23,623
...when he worked as a White House
consultant on the Pentagon Papers.
427
00:26:23,791 --> 00:26:26,585
Yes, I'd appreciate that, if you could.
Yes, sir.
428
00:26:26,753 --> 00:26:27,794
Thank you.
429
00:26:27,962 --> 00:26:31,631
Just got off the phone with the librarian.
You wanna look at the notes on it?
430
00:26:33,551 --> 00:26:37,179
Oh, this is some stuff
from the Eisenhower campaign in 1952...
431
00:26:37,346 --> 00:26:39,598
...that Hunt was connected with.
432
00:26:41,684 --> 00:26:44,019
Did you call the White House
Communications Office?
433
00:26:44,187 --> 00:26:46,438
No, I just got off the phone
with the librarian.
434
00:26:47,857 --> 00:26:50,484
- 524-743.
- I know the number.
435
00:26:52,028 --> 00:26:54,780
Between the first and second quote,
there's a contradiction.
436
00:26:54,947 --> 00:26:56,656
It's a space of about five seconds.
437
00:26:56,824 --> 00:26:58,200
- My feeling is...
- Was this all...?
438
00:26:58,367 --> 00:26:59,409
WOMAN 2:
Mr. Clawson's office.
439
00:26:59,577 --> 00:27:02,454
This is Bob Woodward of the Post.
Could I talk to Mr. Clawson?
440
00:27:02,622 --> 00:27:04,831
- One moment, please.
- Thank you.
441
00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:07,709
- When she came back on the phone...
CLAWSON: Ken Clawson.
442
00:27:07,877 --> 00:27:09,586
Mr. Clawson,
this is Bob Woodward.
443
00:27:09,754 --> 00:27:12,547
Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post
had a conversation...
444
00:27:12,715 --> 00:27:15,884
...with a White House librarian
on books Mr. Howard Hunt took out...
445
00:27:16,052 --> 00:27:17,594
...on Senator Edward Kennedy.
446
00:27:17,762 --> 00:27:21,097
She first said that Howard Hunt
had taken out books on Senator Kennedy.
447
00:27:21,265 --> 00:27:23,266
Then she denied even knowing
who he was.
448
00:27:23,434 --> 00:27:25,811
I was wondering if you'd like to comment
on this confusion.
449
00:27:25,978 --> 00:27:28,688
Mm. Listen, let me call you back
on this matter.
450
00:27:28,856 --> 00:27:31,566
- I'm gonna check on it for you.
- Fine, thank you. Bye.
451
00:27:32,151 --> 00:27:33,235
- All there?
- This...? Yes.
452
00:27:33,402 --> 00:27:36,488
- This was all one conversation?
- Yeah. She says first of all:
453
00:27:36,656 --> 00:27:38,573
"I think I got a bunch of books on Hunt."
454
00:27:38,741 --> 00:27:41,243
Five seconds later, she says,
"I don't know Mr. Hunt."
455
00:27:41,410 --> 00:27:43,787
- It's obvious someone got to her.
- Not enough proof.
456
00:27:43,955 --> 00:27:47,082
If there was a piece of paper
that said Hunt was taking out books...
457
00:27:47,250 --> 00:27:49,918
...on Kennedy and Chappaquiddick,
like a library slip...
458
00:27:50,086 --> 00:27:52,420
Hunt took out books
from the Library of Congress...
459
00:27:52,588 --> 00:27:55,131
...but what's more important
is somebody got to her in...
460
00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:57,425
- How do you know?
- Because she said...
461
00:27:57,593 --> 00:27:59,302
There was a lot of books
Hunt checked out.
462
00:27:59,470 --> 00:28:00,512
[PHONE RINGS]
463
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,138
- Then doesn't even know him.
- Woodward.
464
00:28:02,306 --> 00:28:05,267
CLAWSON:
Mr. Woodward, Ken Clawson calling back.
465
00:28:05,434 --> 00:28:08,061
- I've just talked with the librarian.
- Yes, sir.
466
00:28:08,229 --> 00:28:12,274
She denies that the conversation
with Mr. Bernstein ever took place.
467
00:28:12,441 --> 00:28:15,151
- She said she referred him to the...
- Excuse me, sir, sorry.
468
00:28:15,319 --> 00:28:18,697
You say she denies even knowing
about the conversation taking place?
469
00:28:18,865 --> 00:28:20,115
- That's right.
- Seven.
470
00:28:20,283 --> 00:28:23,785
She said someone did call her
asking about Mr. Hunt...
471
00:28:23,953 --> 00:28:26,663
...but all she did was refer him
to the Press Office.
472
00:28:26,831 --> 00:28:30,041
- She denies other conversation took place.
- Total bullshit.
473
00:28:30,501 --> 00:28:32,711
Uh, I hope that's been
of some help to you.
474
00:28:32,879 --> 00:28:34,504
- Thank you.
- Uh-huh.
475
00:28:37,425 --> 00:28:41,261
- We've gotta get something on paper.
- Library of Congress.
476
00:28:42,805 --> 00:28:45,098
BOB:
Mona? Excuse me, Mona.
477
00:28:45,266 --> 00:28:47,475
- Could you take any calls for me, please?
MONA: Sure.
478
00:28:47,643 --> 00:28:49,227
BOB:
Here's my note.
479
00:28:49,562 --> 00:28:52,147
If I get any calls...
480
00:28:52,565 --> 00:28:55,567
MONA: Will you be back?
BOB: I don't know when.
481
00:29:09,498 --> 00:29:13,001
You want all the material requested
by the White House?
482
00:29:13,169 --> 00:29:16,588
All White House transactions
are confidential.
483
00:29:17,131 --> 00:29:19,174
Thank you very much, gentlemen.
484
00:29:25,014 --> 00:29:28,600
CARL: We need a sympathetic face.
BOB: We're not gonna find one here.
485
00:29:29,018 --> 00:29:31,686
You want every request since when?
486
00:29:31,854 --> 00:29:33,688
CARL: Uh, when did he start?
BOB: July of '71.
487
00:29:33,856 --> 00:29:36,316
CARL:
I imagine the whole last year.
488
00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:41,404
I'm not sure you want them,
but I got them.
489
00:30:36,252 --> 00:30:39,462
- Maybe they pulled the cards.
- Maybe they changed the names.
490
00:30:39,630 --> 00:30:42,173
BOB: There might have been a card there
and we missed it.
491
00:30:43,217 --> 00:30:45,635
Hey, wait a minute.
492
00:30:45,803 --> 00:30:48,388
I met a White House aide once
at a social occasion.
493
00:30:48,556 --> 00:30:51,850
- So?
- He might confirm.
494
00:30:53,227 --> 00:30:54,936
CARL: Do we need "W.H."
and "White House"...?
495
00:30:55,104 --> 00:30:56,771
BOB:
Not in the second paragraph.
496
00:30:56,939 --> 00:31:00,608
Just "White House" would be enough.
Just use "White House." Forget "W.H."
497
00:31:00,776 --> 00:31:02,777
CARL: I wanna know about Colson.
What was his job?
498
00:31:02,945 --> 00:31:06,489
- Special consultant to the president.
- I gotta say it.
499
00:31:07,658 --> 00:31:10,785
These notes on the White House librarian,
are they accurate?
500
00:31:12,371 --> 00:31:14,622
- The notes, are they accurate?
- Give me a second.
501
00:31:14,790 --> 00:31:15,915
- Yes.
- I want a new page.
502
00:31:16,083 --> 00:31:19,919
MAN: Okay, look, I'll have a reporter
out to talk to you this afternoon.
503
00:31:23,924 --> 00:31:26,676
MAN 2: Let's take it in
and show it to Howie Simons.
504
00:31:27,094 --> 00:31:29,429
MAN 3: We've gotta start moving
on this now. Come on, now.
505
00:31:29,597 --> 00:31:31,306
Hey, Mr. Bradlee.
506
00:31:31,474 --> 00:31:35,143
MAN 4: Get the artwork
on that Grant Porter piece.
507
00:31:37,396 --> 00:31:40,356
BEN: Okay, let's have it. Mm-hm.
- Yeah, here you are, Ben.
508
00:31:40,524 --> 00:31:42,984
It's a good, solid piece
of American journalism...
509
00:31:43,152 --> 00:31:45,820
...that the New York Times doesn't have.
510
00:32:09,887 --> 00:32:13,473
You haven't got it. A librarian and
a secretary saying Hunt looked at a book.
511
00:32:13,641 --> 00:32:14,682
Not good enough.
512
00:32:14,850 --> 00:32:17,685
A White House aide told me
Hunt was investigating Kennedy.
513
00:32:17,853 --> 00:32:19,521
BEN:
Who was it?
514
00:32:19,897 --> 00:32:22,148
BOB: Who was it?
You want the name, you mean?
515
00:32:22,316 --> 00:32:26,069
- No, how senior, how high up?
- I don't know titles.
516
00:32:39,667 --> 00:32:41,251
"Showed a special interest in..."
517
00:32:41,418 --> 00:32:43,711
We said the White House
was investigating Kennedy.
518
00:32:43,879 --> 00:32:46,881
- "Showed a special interest in."
- The story's stronger than that.
519
00:32:47,049 --> 00:32:49,926
The White House librarian says
Hunt checked out a lot of books.
520
00:32:50,094 --> 00:32:53,179
- A secretary in Colson's office
said Hunt... - All right, Carl. Carl.
521
00:32:53,347 --> 00:32:56,015
Ben, that's a Page 1 story.
522
00:32:56,851 --> 00:32:58,143
Stick it inside someplace.
523
00:33:00,271 --> 00:33:04,107
This is a goddamn important story. It...
524
00:33:08,404 --> 00:33:10,905
Get some harder information next time.
525
00:33:15,744 --> 00:33:18,663
Asshole. Bradlee's just sticking up
for the Kennedys.
526
00:33:18,831 --> 00:33:20,707
- We didn't have it.
- Bullshit. We had it.
527
00:33:20,875 --> 00:33:22,750
- We didn't.
- Why didn't you say something?
528
00:33:22,918 --> 00:33:26,087
You think bitching about it
is gonna get the story where we want it?
529
00:33:27,673 --> 00:33:29,632
Throw it in the can.
530
00:33:58,370 --> 00:34:00,246
[LINE RINGS]
531
00:34:00,497 --> 00:34:03,082
DEEP THROAT: Yes?
- This is Woodward.
532
00:34:04,919 --> 00:34:06,628
I wanna talk about Watergate.
533
00:34:06,795 --> 00:34:10,423
- I know that the atmos... - We're not
going to talk about that subject.
534
00:34:11,926 --> 00:34:15,637
- Well, we talked about Wallace.
- But this is different.
535
00:34:15,804 --> 00:34:19,349
That was about the shooting
of a man running for president.
536
00:34:20,017 --> 00:34:22,769
- This is different.
- How?
537
00:34:22,937 --> 00:34:25,897
Not about this story. Don't call me again.
538
00:34:27,274 --> 00:34:28,650
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
539
00:34:30,694 --> 00:34:33,571
MAN [ON RADIO]:
The stewardess hostages were released.
540
00:34:33,739 --> 00:34:35,490
The passengers, numbering 113...
541
00:34:35,658 --> 00:34:37,450
...were released in Philadelphia.
542
00:34:37,618 --> 00:34:41,496
Things are warming up in Reykjavik, where
Bobby Fischer forfeited the second game...
543
00:34:41,664 --> 00:34:45,667
...of that $250,000
world-championship chess match...
544
00:34:45,834 --> 00:34:47,794
...with the Russian champion
Boris Spassky.
545
00:34:47,962 --> 00:34:49,003
He didn't show up.
546
00:34:49,171 --> 00:34:51,714
Fischer lost the opening match
to Spassky last night...
547
00:34:51,882 --> 00:34:54,425
...after walking out during the match
for 30 minutes...
548
00:34:54,593 --> 00:34:57,845
...to protest the directions and
distractions of television cameras...
549
00:34:58,013 --> 00:34:59,472
...which were later withdrawn.
550
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,058
On Wall Street,
prices took a pounding yesterday...
551
00:35:02,226 --> 00:35:05,687
...with the Dow Jones closing down
6-and-three-quarter points.
552
00:35:05,854 --> 00:35:08,523
The dollar took a beating
on the European money market...
553
00:35:08,691 --> 00:35:10,149
...dropping to its lower...
554
00:35:47,313 --> 00:35:49,314
[CHATTERING]
555
00:35:51,734 --> 00:35:53,776
MAN:
Taxi. Taxi.
556
00:36:06,415 --> 00:36:08,958
MAN 2:
Taxi. Taxi.
557
00:36:21,096 --> 00:36:22,680
BOB:
Taxi.
558
00:37:39,925 --> 00:37:41,801
[LIGHTER CLICKS]
559
00:37:58,944 --> 00:38:01,612
DEEP THROAT: Where are you?
- Stuck.
560
00:38:01,780 --> 00:38:04,365
The story has stalled on us.
561
00:38:06,785 --> 00:38:09,120
And you thought I'd help?
562
00:38:11,832 --> 00:38:13,875
I'll never quote you.
563
00:38:15,586 --> 00:38:17,920
I wouldn't quote you
even as an anonymous source.
564
00:38:18,088 --> 00:38:21,007
I mean, you'd be on deep background.
565
00:38:24,052 --> 00:38:25,553
You can trust me. You know that.
566
00:38:29,391 --> 00:38:30,850
Go on.
567
00:38:33,395 --> 00:38:37,523
- Can you tell me what you know?
- You tell me what you know.
568
00:38:41,737 --> 00:38:44,614
Hunt worked for Colson
at the White House.
569
00:38:45,449 --> 00:38:48,326
Hunt was investigating Kennedy
at Chappaquiddick.
570
00:38:48,494 --> 00:38:52,747
That should tell you a lot. What else?
571
00:38:53,415 --> 00:38:57,668
We're beginning to hear a lot about a
lawyer at CREEP named Gordon Liddy who's...
572
00:38:57,836 --> 00:38:59,587
[WHISTLING IN DISTANCE]
573
00:39:03,467 --> 00:39:05,426
[WHISTLING STOPS]
574
00:39:12,768 --> 00:39:14,727
Gordon Liddy...
575
00:39:14,895 --> 00:39:19,106
...was fired by Mitchell
because he wouldn't talk to the FBI.
576
00:39:19,274 --> 00:39:22,276
- You'll hear more.
- Will he talk?
577
00:39:24,112 --> 00:39:26,113
[DEEP THROAT SIGHS]
578
00:39:27,616 --> 00:39:28,783
I was at a party once...
579
00:39:28,951 --> 00:39:34,080
...and Liddy put his hand over a candle,
and he kept it there.
580
00:39:34,248 --> 00:39:38,501
He kept it right in the flame
until his flesh was burned.
581
00:39:39,795 --> 00:39:43,923
Somebody said, "What's the trick?"
And Liddy said, "The trick is not minding."
582
00:39:48,303 --> 00:39:50,513
The story is dry.
583
00:39:51,765 --> 00:39:53,975
All we've got are pieces.
584
00:39:54,142 --> 00:39:57,979
We can't seem to figure out
what the puzzle is supposed to look like.
585
00:39:58,146 --> 00:40:00,648
John Mitchell resigns
as the head of CREEP...
586
00:40:00,816 --> 00:40:03,359
...and says he wants
to spend more time with his family.
587
00:40:03,527 --> 00:40:06,153
That sounds like bullshit.
We don't exactly believe that.
588
00:40:06,321 --> 00:40:08,906
No, but it's touching.
589
00:40:11,410 --> 00:40:16,163
Forget the myths that the media has created
about the White House.
590
00:40:16,331 --> 00:40:18,916
The truth is,
these are not very bright guys...
591
00:40:19,084 --> 00:40:21,168
...and things got out of hand.
592
00:40:22,629 --> 00:40:25,381
Hunt's come in from the cold.
593
00:40:25,549 --> 00:40:29,969
Supposedly, he's got a lawyer
with $25,000 in a brown paper bag.
594
00:40:30,137 --> 00:40:32,013
Follow the money.
595
00:40:34,224 --> 00:40:35,850
What do you mean?
596
00:40:36,727 --> 00:40:38,853
- Where?
- Oh, I can't tell you that.
597
00:40:39,688 --> 00:40:41,314
But you could tell me, then.
598
00:40:42,357 --> 00:40:44,817
No, I have to do this my way.
599
00:40:44,985 --> 00:40:48,487
You tell me what you know,
and I'll confirm.
600
00:40:48,655 --> 00:40:52,950
I'll keep you in the right direction
if I can, but that's all.
601
00:40:55,912 --> 00:40:58,914
Just follow the money.
602
00:41:08,884 --> 00:41:12,178
CARL: Goddamn New York Times.
BOB: What is it?
603
00:41:13,388 --> 00:41:17,642
CARL: Phone calls from the burglars
in Miami to the Committee to Reelect.
604
00:41:20,771 --> 00:41:22,229
BOB:
Fifteen phone calls.
605
00:41:22,397 --> 00:41:25,107
CARL: At least 15 phone calls,
and those phone calls were made...
606
00:41:25,275 --> 00:41:28,069
...as early as March 15th,
three months before the break-in.
607
00:41:28,236 --> 00:41:31,906
BOB: "Eighty-nine thousand dollars issued
in the name of a prominent Mexican lawyer."
608
00:41:32,074 --> 00:41:34,867
Eighty-nine thousand dollars
in Mexican checks?
609
00:41:35,035 --> 00:41:36,994
Why didn't we get this?
610
00:41:37,913 --> 00:41:38,954
Who are their sources?
611
00:41:39,122 --> 00:41:41,999
I even know someone
who works on the phone company.
612
00:41:43,085 --> 00:41:45,419
Carl, if John Mitchell
wanted your phone records...
613
00:41:45,587 --> 00:41:47,546
...you'd be yelling invasion of privacy.
614
00:41:47,714 --> 00:41:49,590
Was the New York Times article accurate?
615
00:41:49,758 --> 00:41:52,259
- Yeah, but I can't get you
a fuller listing. - Why?
616
00:41:52,427 --> 00:41:54,720
They've subpoenaed
all of Barker's phone records.
617
00:41:54,888 --> 00:41:59,433
I think they're trying to find out if the
Watergate burglars broke any Florida law.
618
00:42:00,519 --> 00:42:02,520
- Who subpoenaed them?
- Miami DA.
619
00:42:02,688 --> 00:42:04,689
- What's his name?
- I don't know his name.
620
00:42:04,856 --> 00:42:07,608
But the guy who's heading the investigation
is named Dardis.
621
00:42:07,776 --> 00:42:10,194
Dardis. What's his first name?
622
00:42:10,362 --> 00:42:14,198
I don't know his first name.
I guess you'll have to find that out.
623
00:42:14,366 --> 00:42:16,367
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
624
00:42:21,123 --> 00:42:22,164
CARL: Hi.
MIRIAM: Hello.
625
00:42:22,332 --> 00:42:24,458
I have a 9:15 appointment
with Mr. Dardis.
626
00:42:24,626 --> 00:42:28,337
Mr. Bernstein, I'm afraid that Mr. Dardis
won't be able to see you this morning.
627
00:42:28,505 --> 00:42:31,006
- His calendar is quite full.
- There must be a mistake.
628
00:42:31,174 --> 00:42:33,134
I made the appointment
with him personally.
629
00:42:33,301 --> 00:42:35,469
The appointment should've been made
through me.
630
00:42:35,637 --> 00:42:37,680
I'll see if I can squeeze you in later.
631
00:42:37,848 --> 00:42:39,890
Oh, thanks very much.
632
00:42:40,934 --> 00:42:45,104
I guess it's difficult
when he makes his own appointments.
633
00:42:45,272 --> 00:42:48,149
Yes, well, we try to handle it.
634
00:42:55,991 --> 00:42:59,493
GUARD: It's 4:00. We'll be back
in 15 minutes. Do you want anything?
635
00:42:59,661 --> 00:43:02,580
- Coffee, black.
GUARD: Coffee, black.
636
00:43:07,210 --> 00:43:08,836
I'm still here.
637
00:43:09,004 --> 00:43:10,546
Ha, ha. I'm so glad.
638
00:43:10,714 --> 00:43:13,424
If you could get me in for five minutes,
I'd appreciate it.
639
00:43:13,592 --> 00:43:16,469
- Mr. Bernstein.
- I have to get back.
640
00:43:16,636 --> 00:43:18,721
We're going to try.
641
00:43:21,183 --> 00:43:23,684
Oh, hi. He's expecting you.
642
00:43:28,857 --> 00:43:30,357
I do have a couple things to do.
643
00:43:30,525 --> 00:43:33,110
I'll be at the Sheraton
if you wanna reach me.
644
00:43:33,278 --> 00:43:36,363
If he has space tomorrow,
I'd appreciate it. Number's on the back.
645
00:43:36,531 --> 00:43:38,365
- Fine.
- I thank you for your patience.
646
00:43:38,533 --> 00:43:42,578
Mm-hm. Thank you, Mr. Bernstein.
Tomorrow it should be better.
647
00:43:42,746 --> 00:43:44,747
I guess so.
648
00:43:48,710 --> 00:43:49,752
WOMAN:
Mr. Dardis' office.
649
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,506
Hi. Please tell Mr. Dardis
that Mr. Bernstein has just left.
650
00:43:53,673 --> 00:43:55,841
He'll be available all day tomorrow.
651
00:43:56,009 --> 00:43:58,803
I think we can probably squeeze him in
around 4:30.
652
00:43:58,970 --> 00:44:00,012
WOMAN: Yes.
- Mm-hm.
653
00:44:00,180 --> 00:44:03,974
And please tell Mr. Dardis he doesn't want
to be late for his 6:30 appointment.
654
00:44:04,142 --> 00:44:06,644
- Yes, I will.
- Mm-hm. Thank you.
655
00:44:09,397 --> 00:44:12,191
[PHONE RINGS]
656
00:44:14,152 --> 00:44:16,862
- Mr. Dardis' office.
CARL: Mr. Martinson at the county clerk's.
657
00:44:17,030 --> 00:44:19,365
- Beg your pardon?
- Martinson at the county clerk's.
658
00:44:19,533 --> 00:44:23,410
There's some records that Dardis wanted.
Could you come get them? We're closing.
659
00:44:23,578 --> 00:44:26,080
Uh, well, yes, I'll be right over.
660
00:44:31,628 --> 00:44:33,254
Excuse me.
661
00:44:50,981 --> 00:44:52,606
DARDIS:
Would be easier too, wouldn't it?
662
00:44:52,774 --> 00:44:55,734
All right. Hold it. What?
663
00:44:55,902 --> 00:44:57,736
CARL: Excuse me.
- Can I help you in some way?
664
00:44:57,904 --> 00:44:59,905
I'm Carl Bernstein. I've been here since 9.
665
00:45:00,073 --> 00:45:02,491
- Wait outside.
- I've been waiting since this morning.
666
00:45:02,659 --> 00:45:04,994
- Finish your call.
- Wait outside, please, will you?
667
00:45:05,161 --> 00:45:07,288
No, no, no.
I'm the reporter from the Post.
668
00:45:07,455 --> 00:45:08,998
We talked on the phone yesterday.
669
00:45:09,165 --> 00:45:12,126
- You told me to come here, and I'm here.
- Okay, yeah, look...
670
00:45:12,294 --> 00:45:14,920
I've got the press here.
I'm gonna have to call you back.
671
00:45:15,088 --> 00:45:18,007
If you didn't wanna see me,
I don't know why you didn't tell me.
672
00:45:18,174 --> 00:45:21,051
I wasted a whole day here,
and my paper's waiting for a story.
673
00:45:21,219 --> 00:45:23,762
You tell me to come,
you said I got a 9:30 appointment.
674
00:45:23,930 --> 00:45:27,224
- I've been waiting the whole day.
- Caught me on the worst day possible.
675
00:45:27,392 --> 00:45:29,810
The man I work for
has started a reelection campaign.
676
00:45:29,978 --> 00:45:32,146
We're gonna have to
see each other tomorrow.
677
00:45:32,314 --> 00:45:34,982
No, I'm facing a deadline.
My paper's saving space for me.
678
00:45:35,150 --> 00:45:37,860
DARDIS: I just don't have a minute now.
CARL: Well, I'm sorry, but...
679
00:45:38,612 --> 00:45:41,405
MIRIAM: Uh, Mr. Dardis, I'm really
very sorry about this. Mr. Bernstein...
680
00:45:41,573 --> 00:45:44,909
I beg your pardon, but this gentleman
made the appointment with me...
681
00:45:45,076 --> 00:45:47,661
...and the Washington Post
deserves the same courtesy...
682
00:45:47,829 --> 00:45:49,413
...as any of the people waiting.
683
00:45:49,581 --> 00:45:52,499
I'll buzz you in about five minutes.
684
00:45:54,169 --> 00:45:56,378
The lady takes good care of me.
685
00:45:57,172 --> 00:45:59,882
The fact is we just can't go into it
this evening.
686
00:46:00,050 --> 00:46:01,967
It's gonna have to wait until tomorrow.
687
00:46:02,135 --> 00:46:04,136
I wish you could've told me
before I left...
688
00:46:04,304 --> 00:46:08,182
...because I gotta go back to my paper now
and write that story one way or another.
689
00:46:11,686 --> 00:46:15,689
You wanna see Mr. Barker's phone records
and his money records?
690
00:46:15,857 --> 00:46:18,359
You told me you'd show me
everything you got on Barker.
691
00:46:18,526 --> 00:46:19,610
That's all I want.
692
00:46:19,778 --> 00:46:22,988
- Well, that's what I've got.
- Well, that's fine.
693
00:46:23,156 --> 00:46:25,115
You and I have to have an agreement...
694
00:46:25,283 --> 00:46:28,702
...that you're not gonna reveal the source
of your information.
695
00:46:29,162 --> 00:46:33,374
All these are cashier's checks
on a bank in Mexico City.
696
00:46:33,541 --> 00:46:35,376
CARL: All these checks from Mexico?
DARDIS: You see?
697
00:46:35,543 --> 00:46:37,503
CARL: How come?
Did the money originate there?
698
00:46:37,671 --> 00:46:39,880
DARDIS:
Well, I doubt it started off as pesos.
699
00:46:40,048 --> 00:46:41,590
CARL:
Uh...
700
00:46:41,758 --> 00:46:44,969
- Well, wait a minute, what's this one?
DARDIS: Uh, what's...? Okay, $25,000.
701
00:46:45,136 --> 00:46:47,888
CARL: Who's that? Who is that? Dahl...?
DARDIS: Kenneth H. Dahlberg.
702
00:46:48,056 --> 00:46:50,057
We haven't been able to ascertain
who that is.
703
00:46:50,308 --> 00:46:52,559
Bob, I've got something.
I don't know what it is.
704
00:46:52,727 --> 00:46:54,728
Somewhere,
there is a Kenneth H. Dahlberg.
705
00:46:54,896 --> 00:46:57,272
We gotta get to him
before the New York Times does.
706
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,693
I think they have the same information.
Got a pencil? Write this down.
707
00:47:00,860 --> 00:47:04,780
Kenneth H. Dahlberg.
D-A-H-L-B-E-R-G, Dahlberg.
708
00:47:05,907 --> 00:47:09,159
MAN [ON RADIO]: McGovern, who at first
voiced complete support for Eagleton...
709
00:47:09,327 --> 00:47:12,997
...has more recently expressed doubts
and said Eagleton must make a decision...
710
00:47:13,164 --> 00:47:15,249
...whether to stay or leave the ticket.
711
00:47:15,417 --> 00:47:16,959
More with Jean Westwood...
712
00:47:17,127 --> 00:47:20,045
WOMAN: You're the one that wanted
the articles on Kenneth H. Dahlberg?
713
00:47:20,213 --> 00:47:22,756
- Yeah. - Couldn't find anything
in the clip file at all.
714
00:47:22,924 --> 00:47:24,633
- Oh, wonderful.
- Um...
715
00:47:24,926 --> 00:47:28,637
I did find one picture though,
if it's any help.
716
00:47:30,515 --> 00:47:32,016
- Thanks.
- Mm.
717
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,601
[MAN 1 SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
ON RADIO]
718
00:47:37,397 --> 00:47:39,064
BOB:
Minnesota.
719
00:47:39,232 --> 00:47:41,233
MAN 1 [ON RADIO]:
...supported Senator Eagleman.
720
00:47:41,401 --> 00:47:44,778
He is an able United States senator...
721
00:47:44,946 --> 00:47:46,113
BOB:
Minneapolis, Minneapolis.
722
00:47:46,281 --> 00:47:50,325
...will make him a prominent figure
in American politics...
723
00:47:50,493 --> 00:47:52,786
...for many, many years.
724
00:47:53,455 --> 00:47:55,456
[CROWD APPLAUDING ON RADIO]
725
00:48:02,297 --> 00:48:07,885
I base that conclusion
upon my conversations with his doctors...
726
00:48:08,053 --> 00:48:11,513
...and my close personal
and political association with him.
727
00:48:11,681 --> 00:48:13,807
- Outside line, please.
WOMAN 1 [OVER PHONE]: Yes.
728
00:48:13,975 --> 00:48:15,684
- Thank you.
MAN 1 [ON RADIO]: In the joint decision...
729
00:48:15,852 --> 00:48:20,314
...that we have reached tonight,
health was not a factor.
730
00:48:20,482 --> 00:48:26,111
But the public debate over
Senator Eagleman's past medical history...
731
00:48:26,279 --> 00:48:30,532
...continues to divert attention
from the great national issues...
732
00:48:30,700 --> 00:48:33,077
...that need to be discussed.
733
00:48:33,244 --> 00:48:39,666
I have referred to the growing pressures
to ask for Senator Eagleton's withdrawal.
734
00:48:39,834 --> 00:48:42,628
- We have also seen...
DAHLBERG [OVER PHONE]: Hello?
735
00:48:42,796 --> 00:48:44,630
- Could I please...? Mr. Dahlberg?
- Yes?
736
00:48:44,798 --> 00:48:47,382
- Kenneth Dahlberg?
- Yes?
737
00:48:47,550 --> 00:48:50,844
This is Bob Woodward
of the Washington Post.
738
00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:53,847
- Yes?
- About that $25,000 check...
739
00:48:54,015 --> 00:48:57,184
...deposited in the bank account
of one of the Watergate burglars...
740
00:48:57,352 --> 00:48:59,269
...Mr. Bernard Barker.
741
00:49:01,523 --> 00:49:04,650
As you know, sir,
the check has your name on it.
742
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:06,819
We were doing a story on this...
743
00:49:06,986 --> 00:49:09,988
...and I was wondering if you would care
to comment or explain.
744
00:49:10,156 --> 00:49:13,700
Uh, I turn all my money over
to the committee.
745
00:49:13,868 --> 00:49:16,453
What committee is that, sir?
The Committee to Reelect?
746
00:49:16,621 --> 00:49:19,665
- Yes, yes.
- And why would you do that?
747
00:49:19,833 --> 00:49:22,000
MAN 2: That's it, he's done.
- I raise a lot of money.
748
00:49:22,168 --> 00:49:25,420
I'm Midwest Finance chairman.
749
00:49:25,588 --> 00:49:27,881
For the Committee to Reelect?
750
00:49:28,508 --> 00:49:31,009
- Hello?
- Yes, that's right.
751
00:49:31,177 --> 00:49:35,055
How do you think your check got into
the bank account of the Watergate burglar?
752
00:49:35,223 --> 00:49:40,227
I'm a proper citizen. What I do is proper.
753
00:49:40,395 --> 00:49:44,481
- Oh, I understand.
- I've just been through a terrible ordeal.
754
00:49:44,649 --> 00:49:47,693
- My neighbor's wife has been kidnapped.
- Oh.
755
00:49:47,861 --> 00:49:50,320
Well, how do you think your check
got into Barker's account, though...?
756
00:49:50,488 --> 00:49:51,530
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
757
00:49:51,698 --> 00:49:53,699
[SIGHS]
758
00:50:25,106 --> 00:50:26,815
WOMAN 2:
Committee to Reelect the President.
759
00:50:26,983 --> 00:50:28,400
Could I speak to Clark MacGregor?
760
00:50:28,568 --> 00:50:31,028
- One moment, I'll connect you.
- Thank you. Thank you.
761
00:50:32,780 --> 00:50:33,947
MacGREGOR: Yes?
- Mr. MacGregor?
762
00:50:34,115 --> 00:50:37,618
- Yes.
- Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.
763
00:50:38,244 --> 00:50:39,286
- Hello?
- Yes?
764
00:50:39,454 --> 00:50:41,580
Uh, this is Bob Woodward
of the Washington Post.
765
00:50:41,748 --> 00:50:42,789
Mm-hm.
766
00:50:42,957 --> 00:50:46,376
I just spoke to a Kenneth Dahlberg,
who says he is Midwest Finance chairman.
767
00:50:46,544 --> 00:50:48,670
Yeah, I know Ken Dahlberg.
768
00:50:48,838 --> 00:50:50,839
Well, I can't seem to get an explanation...
769
00:50:51,007 --> 00:50:53,842
...on why a check for $25,000
made out to Mr. Dahlberg...
770
00:50:54,010 --> 00:50:56,136
...that he sent
to the Committee to Reelect...
771
00:50:56,304 --> 00:50:58,805
...would end up in the account
of a Watergate burglar.
772
00:50:58,973 --> 00:51:00,265
I don't know.
773
00:51:00,433 --> 00:51:02,976
- But you're head of the committee.
- I just came aboard.
774
00:51:03,144 --> 00:51:05,646
John Mitchell was head of the committee.
He might know.
775
00:51:05,813 --> 00:51:08,315
- What would the explanation possibly...?
- I don't know.
776
00:51:08,483 --> 00:51:10,150
You're implying that I should know.
777
00:51:10,318 --> 00:51:13,695
If you print that,
our relationship will be terminated.
778
00:51:14,781 --> 00:51:16,114
We don't have a relationship.
779
00:51:16,282 --> 00:51:19,117
The issues of the campaign
are peace and prosperity...
780
00:51:19,285 --> 00:51:21,286
...not a campaign check.
781
00:51:21,454 --> 00:51:22,788
WOMAN 3: Bob.
- Sir, no one is saying...
782
00:51:22,956 --> 00:51:24,831
WOMAN 3: Bob.
- This happened before I came aboard.
783
00:51:24,999 --> 00:51:28,168
WOMAN 3: Mr. Dahlberg is on Line 2.
- I'm running a campaign.
784
00:51:28,336 --> 00:51:32,381
We've raised $60 million,
and you're asking about a $25,000 check.
785
00:51:32,548 --> 00:51:35,342
Mr. MacGregor, excuse me,
could you hold one second, please?
786
00:51:35,510 --> 00:51:36,843
- All right.
- Thank you. Yes?
787
00:51:37,011 --> 00:51:38,595
DAHLBERG: Hello?
- Mr. Dahlberg?
788
00:51:38,763 --> 00:51:40,847
- Yes.
- Could you please hold one second, sir?
789
00:51:41,015 --> 00:51:42,516
- Yes.
- Thank you. Mr. MacGregor?
790
00:51:42,684 --> 00:51:44,226
MacGREGOR: Yeah?
- Can I call you right back?
791
00:51:44,394 --> 00:51:46,687
- Yeah, okay.
- Thank you. Mr. Dahlberg.
792
00:51:46,854 --> 00:51:50,065
DAHLBERG:
Yes. Uh, I'm sorry I hung up before.
793
00:51:50,233 --> 00:51:53,110
I wasn't sure you were
a Washington Post reporter.
794
00:51:53,278 --> 00:51:56,780
I believe we were talking
about a $25,000 check.
795
00:51:56,948 --> 00:52:00,951
Um... Obviously, this is difficult for me.
796
00:52:01,119 --> 00:52:04,538
Uh, I'm caught
in the middle of something...
797
00:52:04,706 --> 00:52:06,540
...and I don't know what.
798
00:52:06,708 --> 00:52:09,501
- I don't...
- What do you think it could be?
799
00:52:09,669 --> 00:52:11,692
Well, I deal with a lot
of important people.
800
00:52:11,693 --> 00:52:13,714
People who work
for the committee?
801
00:52:13,881 --> 00:52:15,382
- Hello?
- For the committee.
802
00:52:15,550 --> 00:52:18,260
- The Committee to Reelect the President?
- Yes.
803
00:52:18,428 --> 00:52:20,762
You see, I raised that money in cash...
804
00:52:20,930 --> 00:52:23,557
...and I have a winter home in Florida.
805
00:52:23,725 --> 00:52:26,727
- Is that in Miami?
- Boca Raton.
806
00:52:26,894 --> 00:52:29,730
And I didn't want to carry
all that cash around.
807
00:52:29,897 --> 00:52:32,399
- Now, you can understand that.
- Oh, of course I can.
808
00:52:32,567 --> 00:52:35,235
So I had it exchanged
for the cashier's check.
809
00:52:35,403 --> 00:52:38,655
And how do you think
it got into Barker's account?
810
00:52:38,823 --> 00:52:40,240
Uh...
811
00:52:40,575 --> 00:52:44,244
I know I shouldn't be telling you this.
Uh...
812
00:52:45,955 --> 00:52:49,499
I gave it to Mr. Stans.
813
00:52:52,086 --> 00:52:53,837
I beg your pardon?
814
00:52:54,005 --> 00:52:57,591
- I gave it to Stans.
- Maurice Stans?
815
00:52:57,759 --> 00:53:01,053
- The head of Finance for Nixon?
- Yes, in Washington.
816
00:53:01,220 --> 00:53:05,390
Now, what he did with it,
I really do not know.
817
00:53:05,558 --> 00:53:09,227
I see. Were there any other checks that
you might be aware of, that could've...?
818
00:53:09,395 --> 00:53:12,314
That's all I have to say.
819
00:53:12,482 --> 00:53:18,111
Mr. MacGregor... Mr. Dahlberg, I'm sorry.
Thank you very much.
820
00:53:28,956 --> 00:53:30,957
[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
821
00:53:32,085 --> 00:53:35,128
WOMAN 3:
Metro Desk. Yeah, he's here, hold on.
822
00:53:35,296 --> 00:53:36,296
- Bob.
- Yeah?
823
00:53:36,464 --> 00:53:38,465
Carl Bernstein on Line 1.
824
00:53:38,633 --> 00:53:40,217
- One?
- Yeah.
825
00:53:40,385 --> 00:53:43,095
BOB: Yeah?
CARL: Woodward? I got a lead on Dahlberg.
826
00:53:43,262 --> 00:53:44,971
- I just... I got it.
- What?
827
00:53:45,139 --> 00:53:48,266
I just talked to him. I just hung up.
It goes all the way to Stans.
828
00:53:48,434 --> 00:53:50,143
- What?
- It goes all the way to Stans.
829
00:53:50,311 --> 00:53:52,854
He gave the check to Stans
for the Committee to Reelect.
830
00:53:53,022 --> 00:53:55,816
- Did he say that?
- He said it. I've got it in my notes.
831
00:53:55,983 --> 00:53:57,818
- Jesus.
- It's down on record, Bernstein.
832
00:53:57,985 --> 00:54:00,195
That money winds up
in the account of a burglar?
833
00:54:00,363 --> 00:54:02,697
- Yes. Ha-ha-ha.
- Fantastic. I'm coming home.
834
00:54:02,865 --> 00:54:04,324
Okay.
835
00:54:05,410 --> 00:54:08,745
MAN:... catapulted the unknown senator
from Missouri into national prominence...
836
00:54:08,913 --> 00:54:13,792
...by naming Eagleton as his running mate.
The move surprised the old pros...
837
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,421
...but it paid off in support
for the Democratic ticket.
838
00:54:17,672 --> 00:54:20,549
HOWARD: What happened with that
Taiwan thing you were telling us about?
839
00:54:20,716 --> 00:54:24,678
Japan is going to break diplomatic ties
with Taiwan and recognize they're China.
840
00:54:24,846 --> 00:54:28,181
The irony, of course, that's a direct
result of Nixon's visit to China.
841
00:54:28,349 --> 00:54:30,016
What did he say to him?
842
00:54:30,184 --> 00:54:32,060
DUNLAP:
That's a great parallel story...
843
00:54:32,228 --> 00:54:34,688
...if you're going to
do that piece on d�tente.
844
00:54:34,897 --> 00:54:39,276
Uh... "Queen Elizabeth proclaims a state
of emergency to deal with the dock strike."
845
00:54:39,444 --> 00:54:40,902
BEN:
Bringing it off his boat.
846
00:54:41,070 --> 00:54:42,946
[ALL LAUGHING]
847
00:54:43,114 --> 00:54:44,531
DUNLAP:
That could be a human-interest.
848
00:54:44,699 --> 00:54:46,741
Thirty-one days of rain
in the Philippines...
849
00:54:46,909 --> 00:54:49,202
...being blamed on the theft
of a statue of Jesus.
850
00:54:49,370 --> 00:54:51,830
- We had one like that before.
- Front-page article.
851
00:54:51,998 --> 00:54:54,291
- Absolutely not.
MAN 1: I'll put my best writer on that.
852
00:54:54,459 --> 00:54:55,709
MAN 2: What about
the one in India months ago?
853
00:54:55,877 --> 00:54:56,877
Drop that.
854
00:54:57,044 --> 00:54:59,713
Laugh, gentlemen.
It'll be the only story everyone reads.
855
00:54:59,881 --> 00:55:01,548
Okay. National?
856
00:55:01,716 --> 00:55:04,176
We have the Bremer diary,
wished to kill Nixon.
857
00:55:04,343 --> 00:55:07,429
He took a car trip to New York,
Ottawa and Washington to kill him.
858
00:55:07,597 --> 00:55:08,722
HOWARD: Jesus Christ.
HARRY: Yeah.
859
00:55:08,890 --> 00:55:11,683
We have the Senate
approving the ABM Treaty.
860
00:55:11,851 --> 00:55:13,059
- Yeah, that's mine.
HOWARD: ABM.
861
00:55:13,227 --> 00:55:17,981
And, of course, we have McGovern
offering the VP spot to everybody.
862
00:55:18,149 --> 00:55:19,441
- Yeah, that's news.
- I have...
863
00:55:19,609 --> 00:55:22,360
Everybody's been offered it.
I'll tell you what'll be news.
864
00:55:22,528 --> 00:55:24,237
When somebody accepts it.
That'll be news.
865
00:55:24,405 --> 00:55:25,447
[ALL CHUCKLING]
866
00:55:25,615 --> 00:55:26,865
MAN 3: Yeah.
- Here is some great art.
867
00:55:27,033 --> 00:55:28,074
HOWARD:
Yeah, big mistake.
868
00:55:28,242 --> 00:55:31,912
McGovern and Humphrey, breakfast,
smiling their asses off.
869
00:55:32,079 --> 00:55:34,080
- Isn't that great?
- Oh, look at that.
870
00:55:34,248 --> 00:55:36,416
MOFFITT:
Humphrey said, "I am George's friend."
871
00:55:36,584 --> 00:55:38,126
Why is that man smiling?
872
00:55:38,294 --> 00:55:40,212
MOFFITT: "I am his friend."
- Sounds friendly, huh?
873
00:55:40,379 --> 00:55:42,923
MOFFITT: "I'll be helping him in ways
he never dreamed possible."
874
00:55:43,090 --> 00:55:45,884
MAN 4:
Breakfast followed by lunch.
875
00:55:46,052 --> 00:55:48,428
MOFFITT: Got a good picture?
- Okay. Metro?
876
00:55:48,596 --> 00:55:50,931
Well, we got the schoolteachers
on Capitol Hill.
877
00:55:51,098 --> 00:55:55,310
They want a 17% increase in pay,
or this fall they go on strike.
878
00:55:55,478 --> 00:55:58,563
Harry, I think we could mention
that this might be the time...
879
00:55:58,731 --> 00:56:01,525
...to go to the front page
on the District Home Rule.
880
00:56:01,692 --> 00:56:02,984
BEN: Oh, come on.
- Listen to him.
881
00:56:03,152 --> 00:56:06,446
Ben, this time it could go all the way.
882
00:56:06,614 --> 00:56:09,366
The House is gonna vote next week
on a Senate resolution.
883
00:56:09,534 --> 00:56:11,409
When they pass it, we'll run with it.
884
00:56:11,577 --> 00:56:14,120
Okay, fellas, let's go around again now.
Foreign?
885
00:56:14,288 --> 00:56:17,707
- Uh, Taiwan emergency, Philippines.
- Okay, fine. National?
886
00:56:17,875 --> 00:56:21,127
The Eagleton follow-ups, McGovern
not being able to get a replacement.
887
00:56:21,295 --> 00:56:23,547
He's offered it to Humphrey,
Kennedy and Ribicoff.
888
00:56:23,714 --> 00:56:25,715
All turned him down.
That's the Page 1 lead.
889
00:56:25,883 --> 00:56:28,677
You're ignoring the importance
of the Dahlberg repercussions.
890
00:56:28,844 --> 00:56:30,971
Nobody cares
about the Dahlberg repercussions.
891
00:56:31,138 --> 00:56:35,642
Our story got the General Accounting Office
to start an audit with CREEP Finance.
892
00:56:35,810 --> 00:56:39,437
Yeah, we printed that, didn't we? When
the audit's done, we'll print that too.
893
00:56:39,605 --> 00:56:41,314
MOFFITT:
Let me tell you what happened today.
894
00:56:41,482 --> 00:56:43,400
I was having lunch
at the Sans Souci and...
895
00:56:43,568 --> 00:56:46,528
ALL: Aww...
HOWARD: How much this time?
896
00:56:46,696 --> 00:56:49,447
This White House guy, a good one, a pro,
came up and asked:
897
00:56:49,615 --> 00:56:51,866
"What is this Watergate compulsion
with you guys?"
898
00:56:52,034 --> 00:56:53,076
Compulsion?
899
00:56:53,244 --> 00:56:55,579
- I said...
- This is a story. This is not compulsion.
900
00:56:55,746 --> 00:56:58,164
I said, "Well, we think it's important,"
and he said:
901
00:56:58,332 --> 00:56:59,874
"If it's so goddamn important...
902
00:57:00,042 --> 00:57:02,168
...who in the hell are Woodward
and Bernstein?"
903
00:57:02,336 --> 00:57:05,714
What do you expect from the White House?
"You're doing a great job"?
904
00:57:05,881 --> 00:57:08,216
Now, why don't you ask him
what he's really saying?
905
00:57:08,384 --> 00:57:10,677
He wants to take the story away
from Woodstein...
906
00:57:10,845 --> 00:57:12,304
...and give it to National Desk.
907
00:57:12,471 --> 00:57:14,347
I have experienced guys sitting around...
908
00:57:14,515 --> 00:57:16,683
...who know the politicians,
have the contacts.
909
00:57:16,851 --> 00:57:19,185
HOWARD: We're aware of that.
- You said it. Sitting around.
910
00:57:19,353 --> 00:57:23,315
Ben. It's a dangerous story for this paper.
911
00:57:24,066 --> 00:57:27,444
MOFFITT: What if your boys get it wrong?
- Then it's our ass, isn't it?
912
00:57:27,612 --> 00:57:30,363
HOWARD: We all have to go
out and work for a living.
913
00:57:30,823 --> 00:57:34,701
National gets eight columns.
Nine for Foreign.
914
00:57:34,869 --> 00:57:37,537
Metro, 15.
915
00:57:37,705 --> 00:57:40,081
- That's it, fellas.
- Okay.
916
00:57:40,249 --> 00:57:42,042
Could've been worse.
917
00:57:43,544 --> 00:57:46,379
BEN:
Hey, Scott, I need to see you.
918
00:57:48,007 --> 00:57:49,049
How dangerous?
919
00:57:49,216 --> 00:57:51,384
[DOOR CLOSES]
920
00:57:51,552 --> 00:57:53,553
[SIGHS]
921
00:57:54,180 --> 00:57:57,891
Well, it's not just that we're using
unnamed sources that bothers me...
922
00:57:58,059 --> 00:58:00,727
...or that everything we print,
the White House denies...
923
00:58:02,146 --> 00:58:05,440
...or that almost no other papers
are reprinting our stuff.
924
00:58:05,608 --> 00:58:07,067
What, then?
925
00:58:07,234 --> 00:58:09,569
Look, there are over 2000 reporters
in this town...
926
00:58:09,737 --> 00:58:12,447
...and there are five on Watergate?
927
00:58:12,615 --> 00:58:16,493
Where did the Washington Post
suddenly get the monopoly on wisdom?
928
00:58:17,453 --> 00:58:19,204
Why would the Republicans do it?
929
00:58:20,122 --> 00:58:21,581
McGovern is self-destructing...
930
00:58:21,749 --> 00:58:24,584
...just like Humphrey, Muskie,
the bunch of them.
931
00:58:26,587 --> 00:58:28,838
I don't believe the story.
932
00:58:29,548 --> 00:58:31,758
Doesn't make sense.
933
00:58:33,719 --> 00:58:35,595
Yeah, Bernstein.
934
00:58:35,763 --> 00:58:37,597
Now? All right.
935
00:58:37,765 --> 00:58:41,017
Woodward, Bradlee will see us now.
Answer the phone for me.
936
00:58:41,185 --> 00:58:44,437
MAN 1: Are you trying to find
the lowest possible common denominator?
937
00:58:44,605 --> 00:58:47,232
Is that your plan in the convention?
938
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:49,275
MAN 2:
Gonna give us something to do?
939
00:58:49,443 --> 00:58:53,488
WOMAN 1: Bob, Frances is on the phone.
BOB: Tell her I'll call her back.
940
00:58:54,865 --> 00:58:56,908
MAN 3:
All right, in this...
941
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:03,957
WOMAN 2: We have reports that Republican
Les Aspin has informed the secretary of...
942
00:59:04,125 --> 00:59:05,417
MICKEY:
Ben, it's the hottest item.
943
00:59:05,584 --> 00:59:07,293
- It's in over 500 papers.
- What is it?
944
00:59:07,461 --> 00:59:10,797
MICKEY: Yesterday's weather report for
people who were drunk and slept all day.
945
00:59:10,965 --> 00:59:13,466
Send it to the San Francisco Chronicle.
They need it.
946
00:59:13,634 --> 00:59:15,301
MICKEY: How about the crossword puzzle?
- No.
947
00:59:15,469 --> 00:59:18,805
MICKEY: Anagrams?
- No space. No space, Mickey.
948
00:59:18,973 --> 00:59:21,891
MICKEY: You guys, last thing you
bought from me was the obituaries.
949
00:59:22,059 --> 00:59:25,520
- Make them buy something, will you?
BEN: All right. Hey, what do you guys want?
950
00:59:25,688 --> 00:59:28,648
The GAO reports are due out
the morning of Nixon's renomination.
951
00:59:28,816 --> 00:59:30,483
Hey, sit down, sit down.
952
00:59:30,651 --> 00:59:33,153
Well, that's two weeks from now.
953
00:59:33,487 --> 00:59:35,572
Since they're only responsible
to Congress...
954
00:59:35,740 --> 00:59:38,324
...no way the White House
can control the investigation.
955
00:59:38,492 --> 00:59:40,452
A source at General Accounting tells us...
956
00:59:40,619 --> 00:59:44,164
...there's a whole rat's nest
of illegal shit going on over at CREEP.
957
00:59:44,331 --> 00:59:46,040
- Like what?
- Like a slush fund.
958
00:59:46,208 --> 00:59:48,835
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
of unaccounted-for cash.
959
00:59:49,003 --> 00:59:50,545
BEN:
Hundreds of thousands of dollars?
960
00:59:50,713 --> 00:59:53,298
HOWARD: Any comment from CREEP?
- Yes, unavailable for comment.
961
00:59:53,466 --> 00:59:54,507
They're not talking.
962
00:59:54,675 --> 00:59:58,094
What else besides the money?
Where's the goddamn story?
963
00:59:59,847 --> 01:00:02,432
- The money's the key to whatever this is.
- Says who?
964
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:03,683
HOWARD: Deep Throat.
- Who?
965
01:00:03,851 --> 01:00:07,270
Oh, that's Woodward's garage freak,
his source in the executive.
966
01:00:07,438 --> 01:00:08,480
Garage freak?
967
01:00:08,647 --> 01:00:11,608
Jesus, what kind
of a crazy fucking story is this?
968
01:00:11,776 --> 01:00:12,817
Who did you say?
969
01:00:13,694 --> 01:00:15,487
[SIGHS]
970
01:00:15,654 --> 01:00:19,866
He's on deep background.
I call him Deep Throat.
971
01:00:20,409 --> 01:00:24,037
BEN: Look, McGovern's dropped to nothing,
Nixon's guaranteed the renomination...
972
01:00:24,205 --> 01:00:26,372
...the Post is stuck
with a story no one wants.
973
01:00:26,540 --> 01:00:29,459
It'll sink the goddamn paper.
Everyone says, "Get off it, Ben."
974
01:00:29,627 --> 01:00:31,403
And I come on very sage
and I say,
975
01:00:31,404 --> 01:00:33,379
"You'll see.
You wait till this bottoms out."
976
01:00:33,547 --> 01:00:37,383
But the truth is,
I can't figure out what we've got.
977
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:41,054
What else are you working on?
978
01:00:41,222 --> 01:00:43,223
Well, we're after a list
of CREEP employees.
979
01:00:43,390 --> 01:00:45,600
BEN: Where is it?
- It's classified.
980
01:00:45,768 --> 01:00:48,937
BEN: Well, how you gonna get it?
- We haven't had any luck yet.
981
01:00:49,396 --> 01:00:50,897
Get some.
982
01:00:55,945 --> 01:00:57,237
Anything else?
983
01:00:58,906 --> 01:01:00,907
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
984
01:01:07,373 --> 01:01:09,541
You made a mistake in there.
985
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:14,295
What?
986
01:01:14,463 --> 01:01:17,674
You said we haven't had any luck yet,
that's the thing he jumps on.
987
01:01:17,842 --> 01:01:19,050
You can't talk about luck.
988
01:01:19,218 --> 01:01:22,095
If you can't talk in specifics,
you shouldn't say anything.
989
01:01:28,102 --> 01:01:30,061
Is there any place you don't smoke?
990
01:01:30,229 --> 01:01:32,230
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
991
01:01:32,982 --> 01:01:34,607
- What?
- Hold it. Hold it.
992
01:01:34,775 --> 01:01:36,901
- What are you doing?
BOB: Kay Eddy.
993
01:01:37,069 --> 01:01:40,196
Doesn't she go with a guy
that works for the Committee to Reelect?
994
01:01:40,364 --> 01:01:41,781
KAY: Meet me at 4.
MAN: All right.
995
01:01:41,949 --> 01:01:43,408
BOB: Eddy? Hey.
- Just a second.
996
01:01:43,576 --> 01:01:46,744
BOB: Kay, can...?
- 757-6521.
997
01:01:46,912 --> 01:01:49,706
Okay, I'll get back to you on this.
Thanks.
998
01:01:49,874 --> 01:01:53,459
BOB: Don't you go with a guy that works
for the Committee to Reelect?
999
01:01:54,336 --> 01:01:56,296
- Not anymore.
CARL: You did go with him, though.
1000
01:01:56,463 --> 01:01:59,090
- You were engaged to him, weren't you?
- Yeah.
1001
01:01:59,258 --> 01:02:01,134
You got out of it?
1002
01:02:01,802 --> 01:02:03,970
- So?
- You're looking better.
1003
01:02:04,138 --> 01:02:06,139
[ALL LAUGHING]
1004
01:02:07,057 --> 01:02:09,142
We need a list of the people
that work there.
1005
01:02:09,310 --> 01:02:10,810
Do you think that...?
1006
01:02:10,978 --> 01:02:13,897
- I can't do that.
CARL: Why not?
1007
01:02:14,064 --> 01:02:15,148
That's personal.
1008
01:02:15,316 --> 01:02:17,942
What do you mean? You said it was over.
1009
01:02:20,654 --> 01:02:23,114
You're asking me
to use a guy I care about.
1010
01:02:23,282 --> 01:02:25,950
CARL: No, no, we're not asking you
to use him, just to help us.
1011
01:02:26,118 --> 01:02:28,494
- Well, sure you...
CARL: I mean, we'd do the same for you.
1012
01:02:28,662 --> 01:02:30,830
My only chance of getting that
is if I see him.
1013
01:02:30,998 --> 01:02:33,791
- I don't wanna see him again.
- Well, do you have to see him?
1014
01:02:33,959 --> 01:02:36,294
- Sure, I have to.
- Do you have to see him that way?
1015
01:02:36,462 --> 01:02:37,795
Can't you just call him up...
1016
01:02:37,963 --> 01:02:40,840
...and say you wanna have a drink with him,
just feel him out?
1017
01:02:41,008 --> 01:02:44,594
You say the relationship is over.
I mean, what the hell do you have to lose?
1018
01:02:45,554 --> 01:02:47,180
Forget it.
1019
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:49,682
Don't do anything
that would embarrass you...
1020
01:02:49,850 --> 01:02:52,268
...or that you don't feel right about.
1021
01:02:53,103 --> 01:02:54,729
Forget it.
1022
01:02:55,689 --> 01:02:57,190
Let's go.
1023
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:06,199
CARL: Don't let her get off like that.
She was gonna say something.
1024
01:03:06,367 --> 01:03:07,533
You're overdramatizing.
1025
01:03:07,701 --> 01:03:10,078
- She was gonna give us what we wanted.
- It was over.
1026
01:03:10,245 --> 01:03:11,955
CARL: What?
BOB: It was over.
1027
01:03:17,044 --> 01:03:19,837
This looks like your story.
Why don't you take a look at it?
1028
01:03:20,005 --> 01:03:22,048
I'm gonna check this out.
1029
01:03:25,886 --> 01:03:28,888
WOMAN: You're gonna get fat
eating all those doughnuts.
1030
01:03:56,583 --> 01:03:59,085
CARL: Is this the whole list?
BOB: Look what it says.
1031
01:03:59,253 --> 01:04:02,588
"Personnel,
Committee to Reelect the President."
1032
01:04:03,632 --> 01:04:04,674
CARL:
This is alphabetical.
1033
01:04:04,842 --> 01:04:07,719
- You can't tell who works for who.
BOB: Find the department heads:
1034
01:04:07,886 --> 01:04:09,512
Mitchell, Magruder, Stans.
1035
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:10,930
CARL:
Here. John Mitchell.
1036
01:04:11,098 --> 01:04:12,265
BOB: What's the number?
CARL: 301.
1037
01:04:12,433 --> 01:04:15,435
BOB: All right, find somebody
who has a number close to it.
1038
01:04:15,602 --> 01:04:18,104
- They probably work for him. Okay.
CARL: Here's a 303.
1039
01:04:20,858 --> 01:04:24,152
CARL: Okay, we have to find out how
the money got from Stans to the burglars.
1040
01:04:24,319 --> 01:04:26,738
BOB:
Somebody who worked in Finance.
1041
01:04:27,114 --> 01:04:29,949
CARL: All right, here's the head
of Finance. Maurice Stans, 269.
1042
01:04:30,117 --> 01:04:33,703
BOB: If we can just get somebody
who works under Stans.
1043
01:04:34,079 --> 01:04:35,955
CARL: Uh, Sloan? You need him?
BOB: He's the treasurer.
1044
01:04:36,123 --> 01:04:38,041
- What's the number?
CARL: It's Hugh Sloan, 287.
1045
01:04:38,208 --> 01:04:39,876
BOB:
Is there a secretary?
1046
01:04:41,253 --> 01:04:44,464
- Wait a minute. Manley, Manley, Manley.
CARL: Here it is. Irene Manley?
1047
01:04:44,631 --> 01:04:47,967
BOB: Yeah.
CARL: 1406 Lee Jackson Memorial Highway.
1048
01:04:48,343 --> 01:04:50,303
BOB: Hi, I'm Bob Woodward.
CARL: I'm Carl Bernstein.
1049
01:04:50,471 --> 01:04:53,431
BOB: We're from the Washington Post.
We'd like to speak to you.
1050
01:04:53,599 --> 01:04:56,476
We understand your daughter works
for the Committee to Reelect.
1051
01:04:56,643 --> 01:04:59,604
CARL: Wouldn't be anything embarrassing.
BOB: Would you object to just...?
1052
01:04:59,772 --> 01:05:01,064
MAN:
Forget it.
1053
01:05:02,066 --> 01:05:03,107
- Yes? Hi.
CARL: Hi.
1054
01:05:03,275 --> 01:05:04,650
BOB: Miss Milland? Betty Milland?
- Mm-hm.
1055
01:05:04,818 --> 01:05:06,611
BOB: I'm Bob Woodward.
CARL: Carl Bernstein.
1056
01:05:06,779 --> 01:05:08,237
We're from the Washington Post.
1057
01:05:08,405 --> 01:05:10,990
I know you're trying to do your job.
I mean...
1058
01:05:11,700 --> 01:05:13,826
You don't understand
the pressure we're under.
1059
01:05:13,994 --> 01:05:16,996
- If we could come in for a couple
seconds... - No, I really don't...
1060
01:05:17,164 --> 01:05:18,206
We don't wanna come in.
1061
01:05:18,373 --> 01:05:22,376
We understand there was some documents
that were shredded at the committee.
1062
01:05:22,544 --> 01:05:24,128
Well, there, uh...
1063
01:05:24,296 --> 01:05:26,589
There's often shredding.
I mean, we do that a lot.
1064
01:05:26,757 --> 01:05:28,466
Were you there during the shredding?
1065
01:05:28,634 --> 01:05:29,884
- Yes, I was.
- I see.
1066
01:05:30,052 --> 01:05:33,554
Were there any department heads
from the committee who were also present?
1067
01:05:33,722 --> 01:05:36,599
Uh, yes. Mr. Mitchell came in one night.
1068
01:05:36,767 --> 01:05:37,809
BOB: John Mitchell?
- Yes.
1069
01:05:37,976 --> 01:05:39,185
- The attorney general?
- Uh-huh.
1070
01:05:39,353 --> 01:05:42,021
He was carrying a raincoat over his head.
1071
01:05:42,189 --> 01:05:44,023
You know, because he was...
I thought he was gonna go:
1072
01:05:44,191 --> 01:05:45,483
Woo-hoo. Woo-hoo.
1073
01:05:45,651 --> 01:05:48,111
- But, uh, I...
- Did he supervise the shredding?
1074
01:05:48,278 --> 01:05:50,363
Uh, I just...
Can I not answer any more questions?
1075
01:05:50,531 --> 01:05:53,449
I'd just as soon not...
Okay? Maybe I could call you.
1076
01:05:53,617 --> 01:05:56,369
CARL: It's...
- Are you being told not to talk?
1077
01:05:57,121 --> 01:06:00,623
CARL: Will you call us?
- I don't know.
1078
01:06:00,791 --> 01:06:01,958
I'll try.
1079
01:06:02,126 --> 01:06:04,460
What about that shredding
right after the break-in?
1080
01:06:04,628 --> 01:06:06,629
We need to know the papers
in the shredding.
1081
01:06:06,797 --> 01:06:10,383
You have some idea what's in the papers
when the attorney general comes in...
1082
01:06:10,551 --> 01:06:13,511
...it's at the committee,
and he's got a raincoat over his head.
1083
01:06:13,679 --> 01:06:16,347
It could be raining.
Let me go through the story again.
1084
01:06:16,515 --> 01:06:18,766
You got a woman who's frightened.
Works for CREEP.
1085
01:06:18,934 --> 01:06:21,894
She said there's shredding.
We don't know what's in the papers.
1086
01:06:22,062 --> 01:06:25,565
We know the former attorney general
comes in with an overcoat over his head.
1087
01:06:25,732 --> 01:06:29,318
Could be raining. There's a lawyer present.
We don't know what he asked them.
1088
01:06:29,486 --> 01:06:31,320
Will you tell me where there's a story?
1089
01:06:31,488 --> 01:06:34,490
In the fact that the interview
did not take place in her home...
1090
01:06:34,658 --> 01:06:36,409
...but in the office of the committee.
1091
01:06:36,577 --> 01:06:40,246
- How is there a story in that?
- Because there's a lawyer in the office.
1092
01:06:40,414 --> 01:06:42,707
- You're more resistant than she is.
- That's right.
1093
01:06:42,875 --> 01:06:45,376
- Why?
- Because there's not enough fact.
1094
01:06:45,544 --> 01:06:48,754
CARL: Well, then let's just turn around
and go back and question her again.
1095
01:06:50,716 --> 01:06:53,593
- This won't take long at all. We just...
- Please go away, okay?
1096
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:56,512
Will you please leave
before they see you?
1097
01:06:56,680 --> 01:06:59,640
- Who did you mean by...?
- What do you mean, "they"?
1098
01:06:59,808 --> 01:07:01,392
Could you give us their names?
1099
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:05,563
CARL: We haven't revealed the sources
of the people that have talked to us.
1100
01:07:05,981 --> 01:07:10,443
- I really can't talk about this because...
- Would they be members of the committee?
1101
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:15,114
CARL:
Someone got to that woman.
1102
01:07:15,282 --> 01:07:16,908
It's the key to the whole cover-up.
1103
01:07:17,075 --> 01:07:20,119
BOB: How can you write there's a cover-up?
We don't know that there is.
1104
01:07:20,287 --> 01:07:24,582
Then I don't know what the hell you need.
So you tell me what you need.
1105
01:07:25,167 --> 01:07:28,294
BOB: I need more fact for a story,
and I think you should need the same.
1106
01:07:28,462 --> 01:07:30,963
CARL: if you get in a car and
there's music... - I'm in a car.
1107
01:07:31,131 --> 01:07:33,424
There's music playing in the car...
Hypothetically.
1108
01:07:33,592 --> 01:07:36,469
There's music playing for 10 minutes
and there's no commercial.
1109
01:07:36,637 --> 01:07:38,054
What can you deduce from that?
1110
01:07:38,222 --> 01:07:39,388
- Is it AM or FM?
- Come on.
1111
01:07:39,556 --> 01:07:40,640
Is it AM or FM?
1112
01:07:40,807 --> 01:07:44,852
A guy can come up to me on the street,
and he can ask me an address.
1113
01:07:45,020 --> 01:07:47,813
Now, is the man interrogating me,
or is he lost?
1114
01:07:47,981 --> 01:07:49,482
What kind of a story do I write?
1115
01:07:49,650 --> 01:07:51,692
What kind of a deduction
do I make from that?
1116
01:07:51,860 --> 01:07:54,862
CARL: You don't have a gut feeling
that the woman is trying to help us?
1117
01:07:55,030 --> 01:07:57,657
BOB: I don't have enough gut feeling.
I wish I did.
1118
01:07:58,659 --> 01:08:01,160
BOB:
We're from the Washington Post.
1119
01:08:02,412 --> 01:08:04,163
Ammons, Irene Ammons. Did we see her?
1120
01:08:05,332 --> 01:08:09,502
Abbott, Addison, Augusto, Alberte.
1121
01:08:16,885 --> 01:08:19,387
Is there something that strikes you
as odd about this?
1122
01:08:19,554 --> 01:08:21,305
CARL: What?
BOB: It's like there's a pattern...
1123
01:08:21,473 --> 01:08:24,600
...to the way they're not talking,
the way they say no all the time.
1124
01:08:24,768 --> 01:08:25,977
I think it's odd.
1125
01:08:26,353 --> 01:08:27,895
- Mrs. Hambling?
- Yes.
1126
01:08:28,063 --> 01:08:32,650
- Hi, we're from the Washington Post.
- I'm Carl Bernstein, this is Bob Woodward.
1127
01:08:32,818 --> 01:08:35,695
BOB: A friend of the committee
said that we could contact you.
1128
01:08:35,862 --> 01:08:37,905
- Who was it?
- We can't reveal that.
1129
01:08:38,073 --> 01:08:40,366
You can talk to us.
We don't reveal our sources.
1130
01:08:40,534 --> 01:08:42,576
You people.
1131
01:08:43,036 --> 01:08:46,831
You think you can come into my home,
ask a few questions...
1132
01:08:46,999 --> 01:08:52,336
...have me destroy the reputations
of men that I work for and respect?
1133
01:08:53,171 --> 01:08:55,381
Do you understand loyalty?
1134
01:08:55,549 --> 01:08:58,050
Have you ever heard of loyalty?
1135
01:08:58,677 --> 01:09:00,303
BOB & CARL: Hi.
- Yes?
1136
01:09:00,470 --> 01:09:02,054
BOB: I'm Bob Woodward.
CARL: Carl Bernstein.
1137
01:09:02,222 --> 01:09:04,640
- We're from the Washington Post.
- Yes.
1138
01:09:04,808 --> 01:09:08,102
I've read what you've written.
I wanna thank you.
1139
01:09:08,562 --> 01:09:11,897
I've been a Republican all my life,
but this goes beyond party politics.
1140
01:09:12,065 --> 01:09:14,525
Would you mind
if we asked you a few questions?
1141
01:09:14,693 --> 01:09:16,861
No, no. Come in. Would you like coffee?
1142
01:09:18,196 --> 01:09:19,613
Sure.
1143
01:09:19,781 --> 01:09:22,533
What they've done
is a threat to the Constitution.
1144
01:09:22,701 --> 01:09:24,827
It goes against everything we stand for.
1145
01:09:24,995 --> 01:09:27,830
Could you be a little bit more specific
than that?
1146
01:09:28,165 --> 01:09:30,791
I'm afraid your articles
have just scratched the surface.
1147
01:09:30,959 --> 01:09:33,586
You don't mind
if I just take a few notes, do you?
1148
01:09:33,754 --> 01:09:35,212
No.
1149
01:09:35,922 --> 01:09:38,466
How long have you worked
at the committee?
1150
01:09:38,633 --> 01:09:39,675
Committee?
1151
01:09:39,843 --> 01:09:43,554
Yes, the Committee
to Reelect the President.
1152
01:09:44,306 --> 01:09:48,100
Oh. Oh, no, I don't work
at the Committee to Reelect the President.
1153
01:09:48,268 --> 01:09:52,897
I work at Garfinckel's,
in the Accounting Department.
1154
01:09:55,901 --> 01:09:58,778
- Miss Abbott?
- Yes.
1155
01:09:59,321 --> 01:10:01,113
Judith Abbott?
1156
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:05,618
Carolyn Abbott.
1157
01:10:07,746 --> 01:10:10,039
We're just doing something wrong.
1158
01:10:12,793 --> 01:10:15,336
- It's never been there.
- No.
1159
01:10:15,712 --> 01:10:17,838
We're doing something wrong.
1160
01:10:18,465 --> 01:10:20,549
It's just not good enough.
1161
01:10:20,967 --> 01:10:24,303
How can you keep going at something
past the point when you'd believe it?
1162
01:10:24,471 --> 01:10:26,472
Just have to start all over again.
1163
01:10:32,312 --> 01:10:35,106
CARL:
Nasemith, Narrow, Ness...
1164
01:10:35,273 --> 01:10:37,441
...Nickels, Nixon...
1165
01:10:37,609 --> 01:10:39,485
BOB:
Ed Nixon.
1166
01:10:39,653 --> 01:10:42,571
Jolson, Jones...
1167
01:10:42,739 --> 01:10:44,740
...Jordan, Jost.
1168
01:10:44,908 --> 01:10:48,160
If we could only get somebody
that worked for Finance to talk.
1169
01:10:48,328 --> 01:10:50,079
- What about the bookkeeper?
CARL: Which?
1170
01:10:50,247 --> 01:10:52,373
BOB: The bookkeeper that worked
for both Slans and...
1171
01:10:52,541 --> 01:10:54,375
CARL: Oh, you're all right.
BOB: Sloan and Stans.
1172
01:10:54,543 --> 01:10:57,336
CARL: I've been there. I've called her
twice. There's no answer.
1173
01:10:57,504 --> 01:10:59,713
BOB:
I say we should start again.
1174
01:11:00,215 --> 01:11:04,343
Abbott, Addison, Augusto, Alberte...
1175
01:11:04,511 --> 01:11:07,263
...Aldus, Alessandro...
1176
01:11:07,431 --> 01:11:10,850
CARL:
Eulosky, Clan, Constell...
1177
01:11:11,017 --> 01:11:15,146
BOB:
Boyle, Brenner, Bromley, Jost...
1178
01:11:15,313 --> 01:11:19,442
CARL:
Nasemith, Narrow, Ness, Nickels...
1179
01:11:19,609 --> 01:11:22,528
BOB:
Teeny, Sandstrom...
1180
01:11:23,947 --> 01:11:26,991
Skroes, Skully...
1181
01:11:27,159 --> 01:11:29,660
CARL:
Skully. We've been there twice.
1182
01:11:30,745 --> 01:11:34,498
All right, Wilcox, Winthrow,
Windsor, Worts...
1183
01:11:35,041 --> 01:11:38,043
Two weeks work, half the names
crossed off and what have you got?
1184
01:11:38,211 --> 01:11:39,795
BOB:
People aren't talking, Harry.
1185
01:11:39,963 --> 01:11:42,631
And it's the way they're not talking
that's unnatural.
1186
01:11:42,799 --> 01:11:46,051
We've been up all night. We went
over all the quotes of the people...
1187
01:11:46,219 --> 01:11:48,554
BOB: It's like they're getting
instructions. It's pat.
1188
01:11:48,722 --> 01:11:51,015
You wanna hear some real news?
1189
01:11:51,183 --> 01:11:53,434
That GAO report
in which you placed so much faith?
1190
01:11:53,602 --> 01:11:56,103
It's been postponed
till after tonight's renomination.
1191
01:11:56,271 --> 01:11:58,731
- What do you mean?
- Hughes got a call from Stans.
1192
01:11:58,899 --> 01:12:01,567
Says he has new information,
not to republish without it.
1193
01:12:01,735 --> 01:12:04,403
They're gonna bury the report
till after the renomination.
1194
01:12:04,571 --> 01:12:06,071
The indictment will be out soon.
1195
01:12:06,239 --> 01:12:10,493
Every indication says the indictment will
stop at the five burglars, Hunt and Liddy.
1196
01:12:10,660 --> 01:12:13,120
And that's the end of your story.
1197
01:12:17,584 --> 01:12:21,670
FORD [ON TV]: The vote of all the delegates
has been recorded.
1198
01:12:23,215 --> 01:12:27,051
The vote for Richard Nixon...
1199
01:12:28,345 --> 01:12:31,722
...is 1347.
1200
01:12:32,974 --> 01:12:37,436
The vote for Paul McCloskey is 1.
1201
01:12:39,564 --> 01:12:45,027
And therefore I declare the nominee
of the Republican Party...
1202
01:12:45,195 --> 01:12:48,405
...for president of the United States...
1203
01:12:48,573 --> 01:12:51,033
...President Richard Nixon.
1204
01:12:51,201 --> 01:12:53,911
[CROWD CHEERING ON TV]
1205
01:12:56,289 --> 01:13:02,545
CROWD [CHANTING]: Four more years!
Four more years! Four more years!
1206
01:13:17,978 --> 01:13:23,983
ANNOUNCER: The president and the future
president of the United States of America.
1207
01:13:24,651 --> 01:13:26,819
NIXON:
Wonderful young faces I see out here.
1208
01:13:26,987 --> 01:13:31,365
Your enthusiasm, your idealism,
your hard work.
1209
01:13:31,533 --> 01:13:33,993
This is your first vote...
1210
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:37,705
...and years from now,
I just hope you can all look back...
1211
01:13:37,872 --> 01:13:40,749
...and say it was one of your best votes.
Thank you.
1212
01:13:40,917 --> 01:13:42,918
[CROWD CHEERING ON TV]
1213
01:13:43,211 --> 01:13:48,007
CROWD [CHANTING]: Four more years!
Four more years! Four more years!
1214
01:14:05,859 --> 01:14:08,027
Hi, I'm Carl Bernstein
of the Washington Post.
1215
01:14:08,194 --> 01:14:10,571
I just wanna ask you
a couple of questions.
1216
01:14:10,739 --> 01:14:13,157
WOMAN 1: Well, you don't want me,
you want my sister.
1217
01:14:13,325 --> 01:14:15,534
It's for you. It's Carl Bernstein.
1218
01:14:15,702 --> 01:14:17,661
WOMAN 2 [WHISPERS]:
He's the guy from the Post. Get rid of him.
1219
01:14:17,829 --> 01:14:20,080
Could I just borrow
one of your cigarettes there?
1220
01:14:20,248 --> 01:14:21,665
Sure.
1221
01:14:22,709 --> 01:14:27,004
- You've really gotta go.
CARL: Sure. Could I just get a match?
1222
01:14:27,422 --> 01:14:28,881
I understand your being afraid.
1223
01:14:29,049 --> 01:14:30,716
There's a lot of people like you...
1224
01:14:30,884 --> 01:14:34,219
...who wanted to tell the truth,
but some people wouldn't listen.
1225
01:14:34,888 --> 01:14:38,223
Certain people have gone back
to the prosecutors and the FBI...
1226
01:14:38,391 --> 01:14:40,893
...to give information
which they were never asked.
1227
01:14:42,854 --> 01:14:46,565
You were Hugh Sloan's bookkeeper when
he worked for Maurice Stans up at Finance.
1228
01:14:46,733 --> 01:14:50,361
We were just wondering
if you were promoted...
1229
01:14:50,528 --> 01:14:53,280
...to work for Mr. Stans
immediately after Mr. Sloan quit...
1230
01:14:53,448 --> 01:14:56,784
...or whether there was some time lapse.
1231
01:14:59,829 --> 01:15:03,415
I never worked for Sloan or Stans.
1232
01:15:04,834 --> 01:15:08,170
Uh, can I get you some coffee
or something?
1233
01:15:08,338 --> 01:15:10,255
CARL:
Yeah, thanks very much.
1234
01:15:12,592 --> 01:15:14,218
[DOOR BELLS JINGLE]
1235
01:15:14,386 --> 01:15:16,095
Door sticks.
1236
01:15:18,431 --> 01:15:22,893
Uh, could I just sit down for a second?
1237
01:15:24,979 --> 01:15:28,273
Sure, you can sit down,
but I'm not going to tell you anything.
1238
01:15:29,943 --> 01:15:31,360
Okay.
1239
01:15:52,632 --> 01:15:55,592
I was just curious why you lied just then.
1240
01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:57,886
Have you been threatened
if you tell the truth?
1241
01:15:59,848 --> 01:16:01,348
No.
1242
01:16:02,142 --> 01:16:03,434
Never in so many words.
1243
01:16:04,477 --> 01:16:06,311
WOMAN 1: How do you like it?
- Just milk, thanks.
1244
01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:08,063
WOMAN 1:
Okay, I'll just get the milk.
1245
01:16:08,231 --> 01:16:12,067
Um, I saw in the wires
that Mrs. Stans was in the hospital.
1246
01:16:12,235 --> 01:16:13,318
Is she feeling better?
1247
01:16:19,242 --> 01:16:21,827
The GAO,
the General Accounting report...
1248
01:16:21,995 --> 01:16:24,663
...said that there was $350,000...
1249
01:16:24,831 --> 01:16:28,834
...in the safe
of the Committee to Reelect the President.
1250
01:16:29,002 --> 01:16:32,337
Were you aware that it was that kind
of funds from the very beginning?
1251
01:16:37,260 --> 01:16:40,721
A lot of people are watching me.
They know I know a lot.
1252
01:16:40,889 --> 01:16:45,142
- Was it all in $100 bills?
- A lot of it was.
1253
01:16:45,977 --> 01:16:48,520
I thought it was
an all-purpose political fund...
1254
01:16:48,688 --> 01:16:51,732
...you know, for taking fat cats to dinner,
things like that.
1255
01:16:51,900 --> 01:16:54,193
Three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
for dinners?
1256
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:56,361
[CHUCKLES]
1257
01:16:56,529 --> 01:16:58,822
How was it paid out?
1258
01:17:02,827 --> 01:17:05,245
Not in one big chunk.
1259
01:17:06,372 --> 01:17:08,290
There was a list of 15 names...
1260
01:17:08,458 --> 01:17:12,002
...and the amount of money
given to each person next to the name.
1261
01:17:12,170 --> 01:17:14,463
What happened to the list?
1262
01:17:16,049 --> 01:17:17,674
It was destroyed.
1263
01:17:17,842 --> 01:17:19,718
It was the only record.
1264
01:17:20,595 --> 01:17:24,181
This... Don't pay any attention to this.
This is just for my memory.
1265
01:17:24,349 --> 01:17:25,933
Hate the...
1266
01:17:26,559 --> 01:17:29,228
I have a very bad memory.
1267
01:17:30,063 --> 01:17:31,605
You won't be quoted by name.
1268
01:17:31,773 --> 01:17:34,983
In fact, we get confirmations
before we print anything.
1269
01:17:35,151 --> 01:17:39,863
I can't be positive that that money
was used for the break-in, you understand?
1270
01:17:40,031 --> 01:17:41,573
Yes, I do.
1271
01:17:41,741 --> 01:17:45,619
- But people sure are worried.
- Which people?
1272
01:17:51,501 --> 01:17:55,379
Think you could help me
with the disbursement of money...
1273
01:17:55,547 --> 01:17:58,173
...in terms of the number of people
that were involved?
1274
01:17:58,341 --> 01:17:59,883
How many?
1275
01:18:02,011 --> 01:18:04,513
A group of them. About five.
I don't know their names.
1276
01:18:04,681 --> 01:18:08,392
Would Mr. Sloan know?
1277
01:18:10,937 --> 01:18:12,104
WOMAN 1:
Here you are.
1278
01:18:12,272 --> 01:18:16,316
- Would he have any...?
- I don't wanna say anymore, okay?
1279
01:18:23,032 --> 01:18:26,994
Um, I won't be much longer.
1280
01:18:28,830 --> 01:18:33,709
I wonder if you could just help me
a little bit about the money.
1281
01:18:33,877 --> 01:18:36,628
We hear all kinds of figures.
1282
01:18:39,799 --> 01:18:43,343
- There was so much of it.
- How much is "so much"?
1283
01:18:43,511 --> 01:18:47,306
In one two-day period,
6 million dollars came in.
1284
01:18:48,057 --> 01:18:50,559
- Six.
- Six million, cash.
1285
01:18:50,727 --> 01:18:52,185
CARL:
Mm-hm.
1286
01:18:52,854 --> 01:18:55,480
- We didn't know where to put it all.
- Heh.
1287
01:18:56,274 --> 01:18:57,524
I thought it was all legal.
1288
01:18:57,692 --> 01:19:00,485
I mean, I guess I did
until after the break-in...
1289
01:19:00,653 --> 01:19:02,779
...when I remembered
Gordon got so much of it.
1290
01:19:02,947 --> 01:19:06,491
- This is Mr. Liddy?
- It's all so rotten.
1291
01:19:07,327 --> 01:19:09,328
It's getting worse.
1292
01:19:09,996 --> 01:19:12,915
And the only one I care about
is Hugh Sloan.
1293
01:19:13,082 --> 01:19:17,169
His wife was going to leave him if he
didn't stand up and do what was right.
1294
01:19:17,670 --> 01:19:18,837
So he quit.
1295
01:19:20,548 --> 01:19:22,174
I was wondering...
1296
01:19:23,968 --> 01:19:29,681
...if Hugh Sloan was being set up now
as a fall guy for John Mitchell.
1297
01:19:30,099 --> 01:19:31,516
What do you think?
1298
01:19:34,812 --> 01:19:37,606
[SIGHS]
1299
01:19:39,400 --> 01:19:43,362
If you guys could get John Mitchell,
that would be beautiful.
1300
01:19:51,329 --> 01:19:52,454
Coffee's cold.
1301
01:19:54,749 --> 01:19:56,750
Is there any evidence...
1302
01:19:57,710 --> 01:20:01,129
...that any of Mr. Mitchell's assistants...
1303
01:20:02,256 --> 01:20:03,465
...were part of this?
1304
01:20:04,175 --> 01:20:08,220
I had all the evidence. It was destroyed.
I don't know who destroyed it.
1305
01:20:08,388 --> 01:20:11,431
- I think Gordon did a lot of shredding.
- Hard evidence?
1306
01:20:11,599 --> 01:20:15,686
Well, I can't say that it would positively
prove that they planned the break-in...
1307
01:20:15,853 --> 01:20:17,896
...but it would come pretty close.
1308
01:20:18,064 --> 01:20:22,025
Can you tell me anything, anything,
about who got the money?
1309
01:20:23,152 --> 01:20:28,740
We have had some help on this
from a couple sources...
1310
01:20:28,908 --> 01:20:31,576
...and this is a way of confirming it.
1311
01:20:35,039 --> 01:20:39,209
I don't want you to feel you're in a
position where you have to disclose names.
1312
01:20:39,377 --> 01:20:42,170
You know, I can just ask you initials...
1313
01:20:42,338 --> 01:20:46,216
...and then that way
you're not divulging any information.
1314
01:20:46,384 --> 01:20:49,386
We have some idea.
Would that be all right?
1315
01:20:49,887 --> 01:20:51,888
[SIGHS]
1316
01:20:54,142 --> 01:20:56,101
Was there an M?
1317
01:20:58,938 --> 01:21:00,605
Can you just nod either way?
1318
01:21:02,358 --> 01:21:04,401
Did it go that high up?
1319
01:21:08,239 --> 01:21:09,740
L? Hm.
1320
01:21:11,534 --> 01:21:13,076
I don't wanna say any more, okay?
1321
01:21:13,244 --> 01:21:16,246
I'm sorry, you said L or...?
1322
01:21:16,414 --> 01:21:20,333
I get confused.
Could we just go back for a second?
1323
01:21:20,877 --> 01:21:23,003
CARL: In one six-day period,
over $6 million came in.
1324
01:21:23,171 --> 01:21:25,464
Wouldn't believe what was going on
in that woman.
1325
01:21:25,631 --> 01:21:29,134
Stuff was ready to pour out of her.
I'm pouring down coffee to get it out...
1326
01:21:29,302 --> 01:21:30,594
...before she throws me out.
1327
01:21:30,762 --> 01:21:32,846
- Give me your notes so...
- These are the notes.
1328
01:21:33,014 --> 01:21:35,015
- These?
- I got stuff on napkins, matchbooks.
1329
01:21:35,183 --> 01:21:37,726
I'm writing in the bathroom
while she's getting coffee.
1330
01:21:37,894 --> 01:21:39,061
You're crazy. How am I...?
1331
01:21:39,228 --> 01:21:42,230
You'd be crazy too if you were operating
on 20 cups of coffee.
1332
01:21:42,398 --> 01:21:46,234
- Give me something I can get down.
- I got it. I got it all. Okay. Write.
1333
01:21:46,402 --> 01:21:49,196
- Mitchell was in control.
- Wait a minute.
1334
01:21:49,655 --> 01:21:51,948
- There were men working under Mitchell.
- How many?
1335
01:21:52,116 --> 01:21:55,827
I don't know, but the men under Mitchell
received the money from the slush fund.
1336
01:21:55,995 --> 01:21:59,164
- Do we know how much money?
- Yeah, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
1337
01:21:59,332 --> 01:22:02,084
And these men are the key
to what that money was used for.
1338
01:22:02,251 --> 01:22:03,585
Boy, that woman was paranoid.
1339
01:22:03,753 --> 01:22:06,671
At one point, I suddenly wondered
how high up this thing goes...
1340
01:22:06,839 --> 01:22:08,632
...and her paranoia finally got to me.
1341
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:12,260
I thought what we had was so hot
that CBS or NBC were gonna take the story.
1342
01:22:12,428 --> 01:22:13,470
You're both paranoid.
1343
01:22:13,638 --> 01:22:16,348
She's afraid of Mitchell,
you're afraid of Walter Cronkite.
1344
01:22:16,516 --> 01:22:18,683
- Can we go back to what she said?
- Yeah.
1345
01:22:20,103 --> 01:22:22,896
Here. L, P and M.
1346
01:22:23,815 --> 01:22:25,190
- What do you mean?
- L, P and M.
1347
01:22:25,358 --> 01:22:27,192
- She'd only give me initials.
- Initials?
1348
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:30,695
Yeah, the initials of the men
that worked under Mitchell: L, P and M.
1349
01:22:30,863 --> 01:22:32,864
You couldn't get the names?
1350
01:22:33,032 --> 01:22:34,241
[CARL SIGHS]
1351
01:22:34,408 --> 01:22:37,369
If I could've, I would've.
I'm trying to get anything I can.
1352
01:22:37,537 --> 01:22:39,746
She said L, P and M...
That's all she'd give me.
1353
01:22:39,914 --> 01:22:41,873
...are the people
who worked under Mitchell.
1354
01:22:42,041 --> 01:22:44,584
She said something about Mitchell.
She hates him.
1355
01:22:44,752 --> 01:22:46,294
- She said that?
- Here. She said:
1356
01:22:46,462 --> 01:22:49,381
"If you guys could get John Mitchell,
that would be beautiful."
1357
01:22:49,549 --> 01:22:51,049
What are you writing about Sloan?
1358
01:22:51,217 --> 01:22:53,635
- "Sloan was the treasurer."
- His wife did what?
1359
01:22:53,803 --> 01:22:57,556
"His wife is pregnant and made Sloan quit.
He no longer wanted to be part of it."
1360
01:22:57,723 --> 01:22:58,890
We've gotta go see Sloan.
1361
01:22:59,058 --> 01:23:00,767
- Okay, make a note of it.
- All right.
1362
01:23:00,935 --> 01:23:03,270
So, what have we got?
Where's that matchbook? Here.
1363
01:23:03,437 --> 01:23:05,522
- L, P and M.
- Okay, L, P and M.
1364
01:23:05,690 --> 01:23:08,400
- L could be LaRue. It could be Liddy.
- L is Liddy.
1365
01:23:08,568 --> 01:23:10,569
- How do we know that?
- Because she said it.
1366
01:23:10,736 --> 01:23:13,155
Right here, she said,
"At the time of the break-in...
1367
01:23:13,322 --> 01:23:16,199
...there was so much money
that I know Gordon got part of it."
1368
01:23:16,367 --> 01:23:19,161
I said, "You mean Gordon Liddy?"
She said yes. So L is Liddy.
1369
01:23:19,328 --> 01:23:20,912
- Right.
- Okay, that leaves P and M.
1370
01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:23,582
P could be Parkinson.
1371
01:23:23,749 --> 01:23:26,251
It could be Porter. It could be...
1372
01:23:26,419 --> 01:23:29,713
Wait a minute. There was a guy.
There was a guy we talked to last week.
1373
01:23:29,881 --> 01:23:33,216
Didn't he say there was a Bart Porter
who was a member of the committee?
1374
01:23:33,384 --> 01:23:36,970
- Porter was called before the grand jury.
- So P is definitely Porter.
1375
01:23:37,138 --> 01:23:38,430
P could be Porter.
1376
01:23:38,598 --> 01:23:41,933
P is Porter, L is Liddy. That leaves...
All that leaves is M.
1377
01:23:42,101 --> 01:23:44,728
M could be McCord. That's out.
1378
01:23:44,896 --> 01:23:47,689
It could be Mardian.
1379
01:23:47,857 --> 01:23:49,691
It could be...
1380
01:23:49,859 --> 01:23:51,568
- ...Magruder.
- I think it's Magruder.
1381
01:23:51,736 --> 01:23:54,404
- I think it's Magruder too.
- Why do you think it is?
1382
01:23:54,572 --> 01:23:56,948
He was second in command under Mitchell.
Why do you?
1383
01:23:57,116 --> 01:24:01,077
Because at one time, he was the temporary
head of the committee, before Mitchell.
1384
01:24:01,245 --> 01:24:05,081
I don't want a cookie. We've gotta get
that bookkeeper to say it was Magruder.
1385
01:24:05,249 --> 01:24:09,085
- Never get her to say anything but "M."
- We gotta go back and get her to say it.
1386
01:24:09,253 --> 01:24:12,339
If we can make names of the initials...
1387
01:24:12,506 --> 01:24:14,925
...we'll know the people
who paid off the burglars.
1388
01:24:15,092 --> 01:24:17,469
We'll at least know who got the money.
1389
01:24:19,138 --> 01:24:22,098
The indictments that came down
from the grand jury today...
1390
01:24:22,266 --> 01:24:26,311
...stop with the five burglars,
Hunt and Liddy.
1391
01:24:26,979 --> 01:24:30,899
Carl, we have got to go back there and get
that bookkeeper to say who the names are.
1392
01:24:31,067 --> 01:24:32,525
She ain't gonna give it to you.
1393
01:24:32,693 --> 01:24:35,153
- I was with the woman for six hours.
- We gotta try.
1394
01:24:35,321 --> 01:24:37,322
Then you have to trick her, threaten her.
1395
01:24:37,490 --> 01:24:40,200
- Wait, you know what we could do?
- What?
1396
01:24:43,329 --> 01:24:46,039
- Listen, we go back there...
- Yeah.
1397
01:24:46,207 --> 01:24:47,832
...and you ask her who P is.
1398
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:49,084
- Yeah.
- And then I say:
1399
01:24:49,252 --> 01:24:51,628
"No, no, no, we know P is Porter."
I just bury it.
1400
01:24:51,796 --> 01:24:54,214
- Wait a minute. I say to her, "Who is P?"
- Right.
1401
01:24:54,382 --> 01:24:57,175
- Then you say to me...
- I say, "No, we know P is Porter."
1402
01:24:57,343 --> 01:24:59,010
- You try to fake her out?
- Right.
1403
01:24:59,178 --> 01:25:00,845
And what if she denies it?
1404
01:25:01,013 --> 01:25:02,180
- We're screwed.
- So?
1405
01:25:02,348 --> 01:25:06,518
- But if she doesn't, we know P is Porter.
- Try it.
1406
01:25:15,736 --> 01:25:18,613
- Hi.
- They'll see you.
1407
01:25:19,198 --> 01:25:21,533
Not if you let us in, they won't.
1408
01:25:21,701 --> 01:25:24,369
BOB: I'm Bob Woodward.
- They'll see your car.
1409
01:25:24,537 --> 01:25:27,163
CARL:
We parked around the corner.
1410
01:25:27,540 --> 01:25:30,250
You have answers for everything,
don't you?
1411
01:25:30,418 --> 01:25:32,961
BOB:
If we did, we wouldn't be here.
1412
01:25:35,047 --> 01:25:36,256
You wrote what I told you.
1413
01:25:36,424 --> 01:25:38,383
No, not your name.
No one knows it was you.
1414
01:25:38,551 --> 01:25:43,096
Could you tell us who got the money?
And how much?
1415
01:25:43,723 --> 01:25:47,142
You mean like,
"What did you do with the 25 grand, lady?"
1416
01:25:47,310 --> 01:25:48,727
What?
1417
01:25:49,312 --> 01:25:53,023
Little jokes they're making
down at Finance these days.
1418
01:25:53,399 --> 01:25:56,443
If people are to be convinced
that Stans and Sloan are innocent...
1419
01:25:56,610 --> 01:25:59,487
...then our reporting must be precise,
and you can help us.
1420
01:25:59,655 --> 01:26:01,573
- Who is P?
- P, we know, is Porter.
1421
01:26:01,741 --> 01:26:06,453
You said 25 grand.
Is that how much Porter got?
1422
01:26:10,249 --> 01:26:11,374
Was it more?
1423
01:26:16,589 --> 01:26:19,132
Was it more than $50,000?
1424
01:26:22,345 --> 01:26:24,846
Was Magruder the only M
to receive money?
1425
01:26:32,563 --> 01:26:34,230
Who told you about Porter?
1426
01:26:35,608 --> 01:26:36,649
[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
1427
01:26:36,817 --> 01:26:41,279
WOMAN [ON TV]: I'd like to move on to the
subject of the break-in at the Watergate...
1428
01:26:41,447 --> 01:26:43,656
...and the controversies
coming up out of that.
1429
01:26:43,824 --> 01:26:47,160
It has recently, very recently,
been reported now...
1430
01:26:47,328 --> 01:26:51,664
...that some documents were torn up
at the Committee to Reelect the President.
1431
01:26:51,832 --> 01:26:54,626
Uh, are you investigating the tearing up
of those documents...?
1432
01:26:54,794 --> 01:26:57,462
KLEINDIENST: I think that came out
in the story in the Washington Post.
1433
01:26:57,630 --> 01:26:59,464
WOMAN: Yes.
KLEINDIENST: I think the investigation...
1434
01:26:59,632 --> 01:27:03,635
...that has just concluded itself has
probably been one of the most intensive...
1435
01:27:03,803 --> 01:27:07,639
...that the Department of Justice
and the FBI has ever been involved in.
1436
01:27:07,807 --> 01:27:09,891
Some 1500 persons were interviewed...
1437
01:27:10,059 --> 01:27:14,062
...1800 leads were followed,
333 agents were involved...
1438
01:27:14,230 --> 01:27:16,439
...14,000 man-hours.
1439
01:27:16,607 --> 01:27:21,486
Fifty-one of the 59 FBI field officers
were involved. Uh...
1440
01:27:21,654 --> 01:27:23,446
And that, I think...
1441
01:27:23,614 --> 01:27:27,492
...is a great credit
to justice in this country.
1442
01:27:27,660 --> 01:27:29,869
Did you know that documents
had been destroyed?
1443
01:27:30,037 --> 01:27:31,121
No, I did not.
1444
01:27:33,749 --> 01:27:37,669
CARL: All these neat little houses
on all these nice little streets.
1445
01:27:37,837 --> 01:27:40,547
It's hard to believe
that something's wrong...
1446
01:27:40,714 --> 01:27:42,590
...in some of those little houses.
1447
01:27:42,758 --> 01:27:44,426
BOB:
No, it isn't.
1448
01:27:45,803 --> 01:27:48,221
- Hello. I'm Bob Woodward.
- Hello. I'm Carl Bernstein.
1449
01:27:48,389 --> 01:27:51,099
We'd just like to talk to Mr. Sloan
for a couple minutes.
1450
01:27:51,267 --> 01:27:53,435
MRS. SLOAN: He's resting right now.
- Are you Mrs. Sloan?
1451
01:27:55,604 --> 01:27:58,523
- You're the two from the Post, aren't you?
BOB: Yes.
1452
01:27:59,442 --> 01:28:04,028
- This is an honest house.
- That's why we'd like to see your husband.
1453
01:28:04,447 --> 01:28:06,574
In the face of charges
that might be brought
1454
01:28:06,575 --> 01:28:08,700
against people that are
innocent, we feel...
1455
01:28:08,868 --> 01:28:10,160
It's really for his benefit.
1456
01:28:10,744 --> 01:28:12,704
No, it's not.
1457
01:28:15,458 --> 01:28:16,875
No.
1458
01:28:17,376 --> 01:28:19,627
- It's not.
SLOAN: Deborah?
1459
01:28:20,045 --> 01:28:22,380
- Tell them to come in.
CARL: Thanks.
1460
01:28:22,548 --> 01:28:24,757
- Hi. Carl Bernstein.
- How do you do? Hugh Sloan.
1461
01:28:24,925 --> 01:28:25,967
BOB:
Bob Woodward.
1462
01:28:26,135 --> 01:28:29,179
- How you doing? Hugh Sloan.
BOB: I appreciate you giving us the time.
1463
01:28:36,187 --> 01:28:40,315
You know, the reason we're here, basically,
is that we talked to certain people...
1464
01:28:40,483 --> 01:28:42,442
...who indicated you left the committee...
1465
01:28:42,610 --> 01:28:44,903
...because you no longer wanted
to be part of it.
1466
01:28:45,070 --> 01:28:46,946
Maybe there's a legitimate explanation...
1467
01:28:47,114 --> 01:28:50,408
...for why the money was handed
to Liddy and Mitchell's aides.
1468
01:28:53,662 --> 01:28:55,747
Try and understand this.
1469
01:28:56,916 --> 01:28:59,542
- I'm a Republican.
- I am too.
1470
01:28:59,710 --> 01:29:01,377
Well, I believe in Richard Nixon.
1471
01:29:01,545 --> 01:29:04,547
I worked in the White House for four years,
and so did my wife.
1472
01:29:04,715 --> 01:29:06,758
What happened on June 17th...
1473
01:29:06,926 --> 01:29:09,260
...I don't think the president
knew anything about.
1474
01:29:09,428 --> 01:29:11,763
CARL: Is it possible some of his people
might have known?
1475
01:29:11,931 --> 01:29:12,972
I'm not sure.
1476
01:29:13,140 --> 01:29:14,849
CARL:
Think the truth will come out at the trial?
1477
01:29:15,017 --> 01:29:17,143
- That's another thing I'm not sure about.
- Why?
1478
01:29:17,311 --> 01:29:19,854
Obviously because certain people
lie to the prosecutor.
1479
01:29:20,022 --> 01:29:22,106
No, we were never told flat-out,
"Don't talk."
1480
01:29:22,274 --> 01:29:24,108
But the message was clear, though.
1481
01:29:24,276 --> 01:29:27,028
In other words, by their very silence,
there was a cover-up.
1482
01:29:27,196 --> 01:29:29,781
They didn't urge us to come forward
and tell the truth.
1483
01:29:29,949 --> 01:29:32,116
"They" meaning the White House?
1484
01:29:32,284 --> 01:29:34,327
The committee's not
an independent operation.
1485
01:29:34,495 --> 01:29:36,412
Everything's cleared
with the White House.
1486
01:29:36,580 --> 01:29:39,707
And I don't think that the FBI
or the prosecutors understand that.
1487
01:29:39,875 --> 01:29:42,126
BOB:
That report on the cash...
1488
01:29:42,836 --> 01:29:46,297
...in the CREEP safe, that...
What was it?... $350,000, is that a...?
1489
01:29:46,465 --> 01:29:49,217
- No, more.
- Was that a correct figure?
1490
01:29:49,385 --> 01:29:51,928
No, it was closer to 1 million.
1491
01:29:53,055 --> 01:29:55,265
And as treasurer,
you could release those funds?
1492
01:29:55,766 --> 01:29:57,767
When so ordered.
1493
01:29:57,935 --> 01:29:59,978
BOB:
We don't know who could order you.
1494
01:30:00,145 --> 01:30:02,313
- We just know there were four.
- There were five.
1495
01:30:02,481 --> 01:30:05,316
- Five? - Mitchell, Stans, Magruder,
they're obvious.
1496
01:30:05,484 --> 01:30:07,777
Well, there had to be
a White House overseer.
1497
01:30:07,945 --> 01:30:09,612
- Yeah, Colson.
- What?
1498
01:30:09,780 --> 01:30:13,741
No, Colson's too smart to get involved
directly with anything like that.
1499
01:30:14,785 --> 01:30:16,369
It's Haldeman.
1500
01:30:18,789 --> 01:30:20,290
Right?
1501
01:30:21,333 --> 01:30:23,042
I won't talk about the other two.
1502
01:30:23,210 --> 01:30:25,545
BOB: They both worked at the White House?
- One did.
1503
01:30:25,713 --> 01:30:28,631
The other one's not in Washington,
but that's all I'll say.
1504
01:30:28,799 --> 01:30:30,425
- Kalmbach.
- Nixon's personal lawyer.
1505
01:30:30,593 --> 01:30:31,676
- Yeah.
- Right?
1506
01:30:31,844 --> 01:30:34,846
BOB: Nixon's personal lawyer?
- I can't say anything. I'm sorry.
1507
01:30:37,308 --> 01:30:39,309
- Well...
- When's the baby due?
1508
01:30:41,353 --> 01:30:44,230
Um, soon. Next month.
1509
01:30:44,398 --> 01:30:45,732
Are you gonna stay here?
1510
01:30:45,899 --> 01:30:49,027
- No, I don't think so.
- You decided where you're gonna go?
1511
01:30:49,194 --> 01:30:52,989
I've been looking for a job
in the private sector, but it's...
1512
01:30:53,157 --> 01:30:55,867
It's very hard.
My name's been in the papers too much.
1513
01:30:57,661 --> 01:31:01,039
- You know one thing I'm not clear about?
- What?
1514
01:31:01,206 --> 01:31:02,624
I don't know how... How did...?
1515
01:31:02,791 --> 01:31:05,710
When you handed out the money,
how did that work exactly?
1516
01:31:05,878 --> 01:31:07,795
Badly.
1517
01:31:10,424 --> 01:31:11,466
[CHUCKLES]
1518
01:31:11,634 --> 01:31:14,802
I think what Bob means is,
ordinarily, what was the procedure?
1519
01:31:15,220 --> 01:31:18,514
Routine. I'd call John Mitchell
over at the Justice Department.
1520
01:31:18,682 --> 01:31:22,268
- He'd say, "Go ahead, give out the money."
CARL: This was all done verbally?
1521
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:24,896
Yes.
1522
01:31:25,314 --> 01:31:27,982
We know there were five men
who controlled the slush fund.
1523
01:31:28,150 --> 01:31:30,652
- Mitchell, Stans and Magruder.
- Those three we've got.
1524
01:31:30,819 --> 01:31:34,197
- All three have been named by two sources.
- What about the other two?
1525
01:31:34,365 --> 01:31:36,407
CARL: Kalmbach.
BOB: We're pretty sure of Kalmbach.
1526
01:31:36,575 --> 01:31:39,577
Maybe you'd better wait
till we get all five, huh?
1527
01:31:39,745 --> 01:31:40,787
Certain on Mitchell?
1528
01:31:40,954 --> 01:31:44,123
We know he approved payments to Liddy
while he was attorney general.
1529
01:31:44,291 --> 01:31:45,917
- You got more than one source?
CARL & BOB: Yes.
1530
01:31:46,085 --> 01:31:47,126
HOWARD: Who are they?
BOB: Sloan.
1531
01:31:47,294 --> 01:31:48,336
Sloan and who else?
1532
01:31:48,504 --> 01:31:52,173
Another guy at Justice who won't confirm
the other two who controlled the fund.
1533
01:31:52,341 --> 01:31:54,759
- What about Deep Throat?
BOB: He's not a source on this.
1534
01:31:54,927 --> 01:31:56,427
HOWARD: Do any of them have an ax?
- Nope.
1535
01:31:56,595 --> 01:31:59,347
Personal, political, sexual?
Anything at all on Mitchell?
1536
01:31:59,515 --> 01:32:00,807
- No.
- Can we use their names?
1537
01:32:00,974 --> 01:32:02,266
- No.
- Goddamn it.
1538
01:32:02,434 --> 01:32:04,977
When is somebody gonna go on the record
in this story?
1539
01:32:08,315 --> 01:32:11,609
You are about to write a story
that says the former attorney general...
1540
01:32:11,777 --> 01:32:15,655
...the highest-ranking law-enforcement
officer in this country, is a crook.
1541
01:32:18,617 --> 01:32:20,952
Just be sure you're right.
1542
01:32:22,329 --> 01:32:23,621
[LINE RINGING]
1543
01:32:23,789 --> 01:32:26,916
WOMAN: Essex House, may I help you?
- John Mitchell.
1544
01:32:27,084 --> 01:32:29,085
[LINE RINGING]
1545
01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:36,342
MITCHELL:
Yes?
1546
01:32:36,510 --> 01:32:38,970
Sir, this is Carl Bernstein
of the Washington Post...
1547
01:32:39,138 --> 01:32:41,597
...and I'm sorry to disturb you
at this hour.
1548
01:32:41,765 --> 01:32:45,184
Tomorrow we're running a story
in the paper...
1549
01:32:45,352 --> 01:32:49,605
...and we just think that you should
have a chance to comment on it.
1550
01:32:50,774 --> 01:32:52,483
What does it say?
1551
01:32:52,651 --> 01:32:58,114
"John N. Mitchell, while serving
as United States attorney general...
1552
01:32:58,282 --> 01:33:00,867
...personally controlled
a secret cash fund...
1553
01:33:01,034 --> 01:33:03,453
...used to gather information
about the Democrats...
1554
01:33:03,620 --> 01:33:06,998
...according to sources involved
in the Watergate investigation."
1555
01:33:07,166 --> 01:33:09,876
- Jesus.
- "Beginning in the spring of 1971...
1556
01:33:10,043 --> 01:33:12,336
...a year before
he left the Justice Department...
1557
01:33:12,504 --> 01:33:14,756
...to become President Nixon's
campaign manager.
1558
01:33:14,923 --> 01:33:19,135
On March 1, Mitchell personally approved
withdrawals from the fund."
1559
01:33:19,303 --> 01:33:21,721
All that crap,
you're putting it in the paper?
1560
01:33:21,889 --> 01:33:24,599
- Well...
- Look, it's all been denied.
1561
01:33:24,767 --> 01:33:26,684
Tell your publisher, tell Katie Graham...
1562
01:33:26,852 --> 01:33:30,062
...she's gonna get her tit caught
in a big ringer if that's published.
1563
01:33:30,230 --> 01:33:32,690
Christ, that's the most sickening thing
I ever heard.
1564
01:33:32,858 --> 01:33:35,943
- I wonder if I could ask you
some questions. - What time is it?
1565
01:33:36,111 --> 01:33:38,112
It's 11:30, sir.
1566
01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:40,239
Eleven-thirty?
1567
01:33:40,407 --> 01:33:43,576
- Is it morning or night?
- It's 11:30 at night, sir.
1568
01:33:43,744 --> 01:33:46,579
- Oh.
- Sir, the Committee to Reelect...
1569
01:33:46,747 --> 01:33:50,541
...has issued a statement to our story,
but there are a couple questions...
1570
01:33:50,709 --> 01:33:53,753
Did the committee tell you
to go ahead and publish the story?
1571
01:33:53,921 --> 01:33:56,506
You fellas have a great ball game going.
1572
01:33:56,673 --> 01:34:00,218
As soon as you're done,
we're gonna do a story on all of you.
1573
01:34:00,385 --> 01:34:02,721
Sir, there's just a couple of questions...
1574
01:34:02,722 --> 01:34:05,056
Call my law office in the morning.
1575
01:34:07,017 --> 01:34:09,560
There's no question
you properly identified yourself?
1576
01:34:09,728 --> 01:34:11,771
Said it right off the top.
1577
01:34:13,023 --> 01:34:15,108
Mitchell know he was
talking to a reporter?
1578
01:34:15,109 --> 01:34:17,193
Yeah, but I think
I woke him up.
1579
01:34:17,778 --> 01:34:20,696
- You have good notes?
- Verbatim.
1580
01:34:21,573 --> 01:34:24,575
He really said that about Mrs. Graham?
1581
01:34:25,869 --> 01:34:27,870
Well, cut the words "her tit" and print it.
1582
01:34:28,038 --> 01:34:30,748
- Why?
- This is a family newspaper.
1583
01:34:31,500 --> 01:34:33,501
[SIGHS]
1584
01:34:34,545 --> 01:34:35,837
Once when I was reporting...
1585
01:34:36,004 --> 01:34:38,923
...Lyndon Johnson's top guy
gave me the word...
1586
01:34:39,091 --> 01:34:42,176
...they were looking for a successor
for J. Edgar Hoover.
1587
01:34:42,344 --> 01:34:46,055
I wrote it, and the day it appeared,
Johnson held a press conference...
1588
01:34:46,223 --> 01:34:49,559
...and appointed Hoover
head of the FBI for life.
1589
01:34:49,726 --> 01:34:52,270
When he was done,
he turned to his top guy...
1590
01:34:52,437 --> 01:34:55,231
...and the president said, "Call Ben
Bradlee and tell him, 'Fuck you."'
1591
01:34:55,399 --> 01:34:56,649
[CHUCKLES]
1592
01:34:56,817 --> 01:34:59,318
Then everybody said,
"You did it, Ben. You screwed up.
1593
01:34:59,486 --> 01:35:02,530
You stuck us with Hoover forever."
1594
01:35:02,698 --> 01:35:04,323
I screwed up...
1595
01:35:04,491 --> 01:35:07,076
...but I wasn't wrong. Hm.
1596
01:35:09,288 --> 01:35:12,123
How much can you tell me
about Deep Throat?
1597
01:35:13,250 --> 01:35:15,251
How much do you need to know?
1598
01:35:15,419 --> 01:35:17,211
Do you trust him?
1599
01:35:18,839 --> 01:35:20,298
Yeah.
1600
01:35:22,134 --> 01:35:27,305
I can't do the reporting for my reporters,
which means I have to trust them.
1601
01:35:28,390 --> 01:35:31,183
And I hate trusting anybody.
1602
01:35:38,901 --> 01:35:40,985
Run that baby.
1603
01:36:20,150 --> 01:36:22,173
MAN [ON TV]: The Washington
Post reported that
1604
01:36:22,174 --> 01:36:24,195
while still in office
as attorney general...
1605
01:36:24,363 --> 01:36:28,532
...John Mitchell had personally controlled
a secret Republican fund.
1606
01:36:28,700 --> 01:36:32,662
Mitchell denied any such involvement
and called the story "ludicrous."
1607
01:36:32,829 --> 01:36:36,165
The new charge also brought a response
from Vice President Agnew...
1608
01:36:36,333 --> 01:36:37,708
...at his stop in Tampa.
1609
01:36:37,876 --> 01:36:41,295
I have full confidence in Mr. Mitchell...
1610
01:36:41,463 --> 01:36:44,423
...and in the people
in the Republican organization...
1611
01:36:44,591 --> 01:36:48,386
...and I think that
that kind of unattributed report...
1612
01:36:48,553 --> 01:36:51,555
...at a time like this
is counterproductive.
1613
01:36:51,723 --> 01:36:56,227
We must bear in mind
that those who published it...
1614
01:36:56,395 --> 01:36:59,063
...have already shown their sympathy
for the other ticket.
1615
01:36:59,690 --> 01:37:02,608
MAN: A band and some young cheerleaders...
- All non-denial denials.
1616
01:37:02,776 --> 01:37:05,987
They doubt our ancestry, but they
don't say the story isn't accurate.
1617
01:37:06,154 --> 01:37:08,114
Did you understand
one thing he was saying?
1618
01:37:08,281 --> 01:37:11,075
CARL: What I can't figure out is,
what is a real denial?
1619
01:37:11,243 --> 01:37:15,287
Well, if they start calling us goddamn
liars, we better start circling the wagons.
1620
01:37:15,455 --> 01:37:18,249
- When you think they'll start doing that?
- When they get out of Tampa.
1621
01:37:18,417 --> 01:37:19,583
[ALL LAUGH]
1622
01:37:20,252 --> 01:37:22,753
CARL: Joe, come on,
what's going on with you guys at the FBI?
1623
01:37:22,921 --> 01:37:26,090
I've been trying to get you for weeks.
Secretary says you're not in.
1624
01:37:26,258 --> 01:37:28,092
Last night, you said you couldn't talk.
1625
01:37:28,260 --> 01:37:30,928
This morning, soon as our
Mitchell story hits the stands...
1626
01:37:31,096 --> 01:37:33,556
...you call and say you gotta see me
right away. Why?
1627
01:37:33,724 --> 01:37:36,142
You guys have been causing big trouble
at the bureau.
1628
01:37:36,309 --> 01:37:37,518
Why?
1629
01:37:37,686 --> 01:37:41,063
Our reports are showing up
in your paper almost verbatim.
1630
01:37:41,231 --> 01:37:44,900
I mean, you've really been on the mark,
except for Mitchell.
1631
01:37:45,068 --> 01:37:47,278
Now, we didn't have that...
1632
01:37:47,446 --> 01:37:48,946
...that he controlled the funds.
1633
01:37:49,114 --> 01:37:50,448
Right.
1634
01:37:50,615 --> 01:37:52,241
Our agents have been busting ass...
1635
01:37:52,409 --> 01:37:55,036
...but we're gonna go back
and see if we missed anything.
1636
01:37:55,203 --> 01:37:58,706
What I don't understand is all the people
who know details of the bugging...
1637
01:37:58,874 --> 01:38:00,416
...the FBI hasn't even talked to.
1638
01:38:00,584 --> 01:38:04,128
Why have you conducted interviews of
CREEP personnel at CREEP headquarters...
1639
01:38:04,296 --> 01:38:07,381
...instead of at their homes,
where they might feel freer to talk?
1640
01:38:07,549 --> 01:38:08,632
Joe, wait a minute.
1641
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:11,469
Why have the interviews at CREEP
always been conducted...
1642
01:38:11,636 --> 01:38:14,305
...within the presence of the lawyer
who works for CREEP?
1643
01:38:14,473 --> 01:38:17,141
Look, you know,
I can't answer for the whole bureau.
1644
01:38:17,309 --> 01:38:20,478
- Oh, come on, I'm just...
- I do what I'm told.
1645
01:38:21,646 --> 01:38:24,065
I followed my orders, period.
1646
01:38:30,030 --> 01:38:31,822
What orders?
1647
01:38:35,285 --> 01:38:38,662
CARL:
Woodward! Woodward!
1648
01:38:40,165 --> 01:38:41,624
Wait!
1649
01:38:42,584 --> 01:38:44,043
Bob!
1650
01:38:46,588 --> 01:38:49,715
Out of the blue. Out of the blue.
1651
01:38:51,093 --> 01:38:54,303
This morning I get a tip to call a
guy by the name of Alex Shipley...
1652
01:38:54,471 --> 01:38:57,139
...who is now the assistant
attorney general of Tennessee.
1653
01:38:57,307 --> 01:38:59,558
Now, the guy told me that called me...
That said...
1654
01:38:59,726 --> 01:39:02,269
He said that Shipley was asked
in the summer of 1971...
1655
01:39:02,437 --> 01:39:04,814
...by an old Army buddy,
a Donald Segretti...
1656
01:39:04,981 --> 01:39:06,774
...to join a group of other lawyers...
1657
01:39:06,942 --> 01:39:09,819
...for Nixon's campaign
to sabotage the Democratic candidates.
1658
01:39:09,986 --> 01:39:13,114
- Make a left. We'll go to my place.
- Sabotage Democratic candidates?
1659
01:39:13,281 --> 01:39:15,220
CARL: I was able to make
a couple calls, and
1660
01:39:15,221 --> 01:39:17,159
I got Segretti's records
for the year...
1661
01:39:17,327 --> 01:39:20,746
His travel records for the year 1971-'72.
1662
01:39:20,914 --> 01:39:21,956
Does the FBI know...?
1663
01:39:22,124 --> 01:39:24,125
- Did you say left or right?
- Left, my place.
1664
01:39:24,292 --> 01:39:27,419
- We gotta go through the records.
- Does the FBI know about Segretti?
1665
01:39:27,587 --> 01:39:30,714
FBI interrogated Segretti,
found he wasn't involved in the break-in.
1666
01:39:30,882 --> 01:39:32,716
They dropped it, didn't follow through.
1667
01:39:32,884 --> 01:39:34,426
BOB: Where is he?
CARL: He's in California.
1668
01:39:35,053 --> 01:39:36,554
BOB: Jesus, look at this.
CARL: What?
1669
01:39:36,721 --> 01:39:39,390
BOB: Segretti crisscrossed the country
at least a dozen times.
1670
01:39:42,227 --> 01:39:45,020
Only stayed in cities
where there were Democratic primaries.
1671
01:39:45,188 --> 01:39:47,064
CARL:
If the break-in was just one incident...
1672
01:39:47,232 --> 01:39:49,859
...in a campaign of sabotage
that began a year before...
1673
01:39:50,026 --> 01:39:52,069
BOB: For the first time,
the break-in makes sense.
1674
01:39:52,237 --> 01:39:53,279
CARL:
This isn't so crazy.
1675
01:39:53,446 --> 01:39:55,573
This whole thing didn't start
with the bugging.
1676
01:39:55,740 --> 01:39:58,033
Segretti was doing this
a year before the bugging.
1677
01:39:58,201 --> 01:40:00,744
And a year before,
Nixon was running behind Muskie...
1678
01:40:00,912 --> 01:40:03,205
...before Muskie self-destructed.
1679
01:40:03,999 --> 01:40:05,916
If he self-destructed.
1680
01:40:06,793 --> 01:40:09,461
CARL: Hi. Uh, Donald Segretti?
- That's right.
1681
01:40:09,629 --> 01:40:12,923
I'm Carl Bernstein
from the Washington Post.
1682
01:40:13,091 --> 01:40:14,675
Hi.
1683
01:40:15,427 --> 01:40:16,677
What can I do for you?
1684
01:40:16,845 --> 01:40:21,599
Well, my paper just sent me out here
to try to persuade you to go on the record.
1685
01:40:21,766 --> 01:40:22,766
Why me?
1686
01:40:22,934 --> 01:40:24,810
Because you were the head coordinator...
1687
01:40:24,978 --> 01:40:28,856
...of Nixon's sabotage campaign
against the Democrats.
1688
01:40:29,691 --> 01:40:33,277
- Carl, you want some coffee?
- You read my mind.
1689
01:40:38,617 --> 01:40:41,619
Carl, tell me something. What...?
1690
01:40:41,786 --> 01:40:44,121
What do you imagine
the head coordinator does?
1691
01:40:44,289 --> 01:40:48,083
I guess basically you were involved
in recruiting other people like yourself...
1692
01:40:48,251 --> 01:40:49,293
...other lawyers.
1693
01:40:49,461 --> 01:40:52,838
- Lawyers?
- Like Alex Shipley.
1694
01:40:53,006 --> 01:40:57,259
I made it clear that I would not
do anything violent or illegal.
1695
01:40:57,802 --> 01:40:59,803
What do you mean by illegal?
1696
01:40:59,971 --> 01:41:03,432
Watergate. I mean, that's...
The whole bugging, that's horrendous.
1697
01:41:04,059 --> 01:41:06,310
And what kind of stuff
do you guys do, then?
1698
01:41:06,478 --> 01:41:08,687
Nickel-and-dime stuff.
1699
01:41:09,439 --> 01:41:10,648
Stuff.
1700
01:41:10,815 --> 01:41:12,733
Stuff with a little wit attached to it.
1701
01:41:12,901 --> 01:41:15,319
You mean when you sent out
on Muskie's stationery...
1702
01:41:15,487 --> 01:41:18,489
...that Senator Hubert Humphrey
was going out with call girls?
1703
01:41:18,949 --> 01:41:21,784
Listen, if anything,
it helped the man's image.
1704
01:41:21,952 --> 01:41:24,495
What was the one
on Muskie's stationery you sent out...
1705
01:41:24,955 --> 01:41:28,707
...that said that Scoop Jackson
was having a bastard child?
1706
01:41:28,875 --> 01:41:31,835
So sometimes it got up to a quarter,
off the record.
1707
01:41:32,837 --> 01:41:36,966
I think one of the most interesting ones
was the "Canuck" letter.
1708
01:41:37,842 --> 01:41:38,842
What about it?
1709
01:41:40,011 --> 01:41:43,347
Come on. Where you claimed
that Muskie slurred the Canadians.
1710
01:41:43,515 --> 01:41:45,849
No, I didn't write that.
1711
01:41:46,017 --> 01:41:47,017
Do you know who did?
1712
01:41:47,185 --> 01:41:50,312
Carl, when you guys print it in the papers,
then I'll know.
1713
01:41:50,480 --> 01:41:52,982
Smart guy, Donald.
1714
01:41:53,149 --> 01:41:54,191
You're no dummy.
1715
01:41:55,610 --> 01:41:57,695
I'm a lawyer, Carl.
1716
01:41:57,862 --> 01:41:59,154
I'm a lawyer.
1717
01:41:59,322 --> 01:42:00,864
I'm a good lawyer...
1718
01:42:01,032 --> 01:42:04,702
...and I'll probably wind up going to jail
and being disbarred.
1719
01:42:06,913 --> 01:42:10,666
And I don't know what I did
that was so goddamn awful.
1720
01:42:15,547 --> 01:42:18,507
I'll tell you something.
None of this was my idea.
1721
01:42:18,675 --> 01:42:22,636
- I didn't go looking for the job.
- Well, that's important.
1722
01:42:23,638 --> 01:42:25,681
Chapin came to you.
1723
01:42:32,105 --> 01:42:33,147
You know what?
1724
01:42:33,315 --> 01:42:37,401
It's funny, but I keep forgetting
that you guys knew each other in college.
1725
01:42:37,569 --> 01:42:41,488
You were friends at SC, you and Chapin.
Who else was there?
1726
01:42:41,906 --> 01:42:43,741
There was me...
1727
01:42:43,908 --> 01:42:45,534
...Dwight...
1728
01:42:45,702 --> 01:42:46,952
...Ziegler.
1729
01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:48,579
The whole USC mafia.
1730
01:42:48,747 --> 01:42:51,540
And that's when you got involved
in the student elections...
1731
01:42:51,708 --> 01:42:55,753
...and started to try to get your man in,
so you stuffed ballot boxes and...
1732
01:42:55,920 --> 01:42:58,881
What was that term you guys used
for screwing up the opposition?
1733
01:42:59,591 --> 01:43:02,301
- Rat-fucking.
- That's right.
1734
01:43:02,469 --> 01:43:03,927
You were doing the same stuff...
1735
01:43:04,095 --> 01:43:06,764
...when you were out campaigning
for President Nixon.
1736
01:43:06,931 --> 01:43:09,850
Let me tell you something,
we did a lot of worse things in college.
1737
01:43:10,018 --> 01:43:11,101
[CHUCKLES]
1738
01:43:11,644 --> 01:43:14,396
Look, let me ask you something, Carl.
1739
01:43:14,564 --> 01:43:17,316
What would you have done
if you were just out of the Army...
1740
01:43:17,484 --> 01:43:19,151
...been away for four years...
1741
01:43:19,319 --> 01:43:22,613
...didn't know what kind of law
you wanted to practice...
1742
01:43:22,781 --> 01:43:25,282
...and one day you get a call
from an old friend...
1743
01:43:25,450 --> 01:43:28,994
...asking if you wanna go to work
for the president of the United States?
1744
01:43:29,162 --> 01:43:33,582
Jeez. Chapin was the appointment secretary
for Nixon when he called.
1745
01:43:33,750 --> 01:43:34,792
Yeah.
1746
01:43:34,959 --> 01:43:38,629
If those sinister things really happened,
I don't think Dwight knew about them.
1747
01:43:38,797 --> 01:43:42,299
- He just did what he was told.
- Told by who?
1748
01:43:53,144 --> 01:43:55,145
DEEP THROAT:
What's the topic for tonight?
1749
01:44:00,652 --> 01:44:02,152
Rat-fucking.
1750
01:44:04,114 --> 01:44:07,908
In my day, it was simply known
as a double-cross.
1751
01:44:08,076 --> 01:44:10,953
In our present context...
1752
01:44:11,913 --> 01:44:15,582
...it means infiltration of the Democrats.
1753
01:44:16,626 --> 01:44:19,044
Segretti won't go on the record...
1754
01:44:19,212 --> 01:44:21,713
...but if he would,
we know he would implicate Chapin.
1755
01:44:24,050 --> 01:44:26,677
And that would put you
inside the White House.
1756
01:44:28,012 --> 01:44:29,430
Who?
1757
01:44:31,307 --> 01:44:33,308
Can you be specific?
1758
01:44:33,852 --> 01:44:35,352
How high up?
1759
01:44:38,523 --> 01:44:41,567
You'll have to find that out for yourself.
1760
01:44:42,777 --> 01:44:45,612
I don't like newspapers.
1761
01:44:46,823 --> 01:44:52,035
I don't care for inexactitude
and shallowness.
1762
01:44:53,705 --> 01:44:55,456
The CREEP slush fund...
1763
01:44:55,623 --> 01:44:59,001
...that financed the rat-fucking,
we've just about got that nailed down.
1764
01:44:59,169 --> 01:45:00,544
Did you change cabs?
1765
01:45:08,303 --> 01:45:09,803
BOB:
Yeah.
1766
01:45:09,971 --> 01:45:13,098
Does the FBI know what we know?
1767
01:45:16,394 --> 01:45:18,395
Does Justice?
1768
01:45:22,233 --> 01:45:24,735
Why haven't they done anything?
1769
01:45:25,320 --> 01:45:30,240
If it didn't deal directly with
the break-in, they didn't pursue.
1770
01:45:30,783 --> 01:45:32,451
Who told them not to?
1771
01:45:32,911 --> 01:45:35,913
Don't you understand what you're on to?
1772
01:45:39,250 --> 01:45:42,127
- Mitchell knew?
- Of course Mitchell knew.
1773
01:45:43,129 --> 01:45:45,881
Do you think something this size
just happens?
1774
01:45:46,049 --> 01:45:47,925
Haldeman had to know too.
1775
01:45:48,092 --> 01:45:51,220
You'll get nothing from me
about Haldeman.
1776
01:45:54,891 --> 01:45:56,225
Segretti said that...
1777
01:45:56,392 --> 01:46:00,729
Don't concentrate on Segretti.
You'll miss the overall.
1778
01:46:01,981 --> 01:46:05,526
The letter that destroyed
the Muskie candidacy...
1779
01:46:05,693 --> 01:46:07,778
...did that come
from inside the White House?
1780
01:46:07,946 --> 01:46:11,031
- You're missing the overall.
- But what overall?
1781
01:46:11,199 --> 01:46:14,284
They were frightened of Muskie,
and look who got destroyed.
1782
01:46:14,744 --> 01:46:18,455
They wanted to run against McGovern.
Look who they're running against.
1783
01:46:18,623 --> 01:46:21,875
They bugged, they followed people.
1784
01:46:22,043 --> 01:46:24,711
False press leaks, fake letters.
1785
01:46:25,255 --> 01:46:27,464
They canceled
Democratic campaign rallies.
1786
01:46:27,632 --> 01:46:30,592
They investigated
Democratic private lives.
1787
01:46:31,511 --> 01:46:34,179
They planted spies, stole documents,
and on and on.
1788
01:46:34,347 --> 01:46:37,099
Now, don't tell me
you think this is all the work...
1789
01:46:37,267 --> 01:46:39,810
...of little Don Segretti.
1790
01:46:41,229 --> 01:46:43,313
The FBI and Justice know this?
1791
01:46:47,151 --> 01:46:48,860
[CAR ENGINE STARTS]
1792
01:46:50,697 --> 01:46:52,698
[TIRES SCREECH]
1793
01:49:00,243 --> 01:49:02,244
[CHATTERING]
1794
01:49:07,208 --> 01:49:10,669
MAN 1: Send me the clips
on the Food and Drug story.
1795
01:49:12,130 --> 01:49:14,506
MAN 2:
Yes, sir, and I want... My question is...
1796
01:49:14,674 --> 01:49:15,716
- Carl.
- Yeah?
1797
01:49:15,883 --> 01:49:17,592
Why don't you pick up your messages?
1798
01:49:17,760 --> 01:49:19,720
- Right. You got a cigarette?
- Yeah.
1799
01:49:19,887 --> 01:49:20,929
Who's Pete Teller?
1800
01:49:21,097 --> 01:49:24,266
Haven't the slightest idea.
I have this whole place to take care of.
1801
01:49:24,434 --> 01:49:26,977
- Carl?
- Yeah, one second.
1802
01:49:28,146 --> 01:49:30,439
- Tell him to leave his number next time.
- Will do.
1803
01:49:30,606 --> 01:49:32,733
- Hi.
- You guys know about the "Canuck" letter?
1804
01:49:32,900 --> 01:49:34,067
Yep. I'm sorry, I'm late.
1805
01:49:34,235 --> 01:49:37,112
I just wanna make sure
you know who wrote it, though.
1806
01:49:38,156 --> 01:49:39,573
CARL:
What?
1807
01:49:39,907 --> 01:49:40,991
What?
1808
01:49:41,159 --> 01:49:44,786
You mean the letter that sabotaged
the Muskie candidacy? All right, come here.
1809
01:49:44,954 --> 01:49:47,914
- When did he tell you this?
- I already told you...
1810
01:49:49,959 --> 01:49:51,710
I gotta tell Bob.
1811
01:49:55,381 --> 01:49:57,466
- Woodward.
BOB: What?
1812
01:49:57,925 --> 01:50:00,802
CARL: One second.
Come here, come here, come here.
1813
01:50:01,262 --> 01:50:04,514
Come here. Tell him what you told me.
1814
01:50:04,932 --> 01:50:06,725
Come here, sit down.
1815
01:50:08,269 --> 01:50:11,480
Just exactly the way you said it to me,
just say it to him.
1816
01:50:12,356 --> 01:50:14,608
Ken Clawson told me
he wrote the "Canuck" letter.
1817
01:50:14,776 --> 01:50:17,319
CARL: The letter that said Muskie
was slurring the Canadians.
1818
01:50:17,487 --> 01:50:20,697
The deputy director of Communications
wrote the "Canuck" letter.
1819
01:50:20,865 --> 01:50:22,949
- When did he tell you?
- We were having drinks.
1820
01:50:23,117 --> 01:50:24,701
CARL: Where were you?
- My apartment.
1821
01:50:25,161 --> 01:50:26,495
CARL:
When did you say he told you?
1822
01:50:26,662 --> 01:50:28,538
SALLY: Two weeks ago.
CARL: What else did he say?
1823
01:50:28,706 --> 01:50:30,874
He didn't say anything?
Come on, you're hedging.
1824
01:50:31,042 --> 01:50:33,710
Do you think he said it
to get you to go to bed with him?
1825
01:50:33,878 --> 01:50:35,587
CARL: Jesus.
BOB: No, I wanna hear her say it.
1826
01:50:35,755 --> 01:50:39,382
You think he said that to impress you
to try to get you to go to bed with him?
1827
01:50:39,550 --> 01:50:42,469
CARL: Why did it take you two weeks
to tell us this, Sally?
1828
01:50:44,013 --> 01:50:47,682
I guess I don't have the taste
for the jugular you guys have.
1829
01:50:48,935 --> 01:50:51,061
MAN:
There's no specific cause, no...
1830
01:50:51,229 --> 01:50:52,771
BOB:
You're claiming it was a misunderstanding?
1831
01:50:52,939 --> 01:50:55,023
CLAWSON [OVER PHONE]:
Absolutely. Sally's got it all wrong.
1832
01:50:55,191 --> 01:50:57,067
I never told her I wrote that letter.
1833
01:50:57,235 --> 01:50:59,361
We were shooting the breeze
about the election.
1834
01:50:59,529 --> 01:51:00,987
She's an awfully good reporter.
1835
01:51:01,155 --> 01:51:03,698
I don't remember her
getting much wrong before, do you?
1836
01:51:03,866 --> 01:51:05,367
That's a real bullshit question.
1837
01:51:05,535 --> 01:51:08,245
That is a question
straight out of Wichita, Kansas.
1838
01:51:08,412 --> 01:51:09,788
Listen, one last thing.
1839
01:51:09,956 --> 01:51:12,916
Do you remember
where this shooting the breeze took place?
1840
01:51:13,084 --> 01:51:15,043
What do you mean, where?
1841
01:51:15,211 --> 01:51:17,963
Well, I mean, was it a restaurant
or her apartment or a bar?
1842
01:51:18,130 --> 01:51:21,591
Look, I've forgotten the entire incident,
but it wasn't in her apartment.
1843
01:51:21,759 --> 01:51:22,801
Do you remember when...?
1844
01:51:22,969 --> 01:51:26,221
I don't have time for this.
I'm a busy man.
1845
01:51:26,389 --> 01:51:28,932
- You get that?
- What did he say about meeting in a bar?
1846
01:51:29,100 --> 01:51:31,101
- He forgot the incident.
- He didn't deny it.
1847
01:51:31,269 --> 01:51:33,103
That's a non-denial denial.
1848
01:51:33,271 --> 01:51:36,565
- Wichita, Kansas? - Yeah, he said,
"That's a bullshit question."
1849
01:51:36,732 --> 01:51:39,150
I know what he said,
but I'm from Wheaton, Illinois.
1850
01:51:39,318 --> 01:51:40,944
Hey, Bob, Carl, he's on the phone.
1851
01:51:41,112 --> 01:51:42,779
BOB: Who?
- Clawson.
1852
01:51:45,825 --> 01:51:48,535
- What line? - Get on Line 4
and transcribe this, will you?
1853
01:51:48,703 --> 01:51:50,620
- Four.
- Wait.
1854
01:51:50,788 --> 01:51:53,373
- Four?
- Okay? Yeah.
1855
01:51:54,292 --> 01:51:55,333
Yes, Ken?
1856
01:51:55,501 --> 01:51:58,461
CLAWSON: Sally, for chrissakes,
don't tell them I came to your place.
1857
01:51:58,629 --> 01:52:01,047
Why not?
What's wrong with coming over for a drink?
1858
01:52:01,215 --> 01:52:04,342
You and me, in your apartment?
1859
01:52:04,510 --> 01:52:06,011
Well?
1860
01:52:06,470 --> 01:52:08,847
Jesus Christ, you just shot me down.
1861
01:52:09,015 --> 01:52:13,268
If that appears in the papers,
that I'm over at your house having a...
1862
01:52:13,436 --> 01:52:16,146
- Well, do you know what that does?
- Well, I don't see why.
1863
01:52:16,314 --> 01:52:19,399
You don't? You don't?
1864
01:52:19,567 --> 01:52:23,028
- But there's nothing bad about it.
- Well, there sure is.
1865
01:52:23,195 --> 01:52:27,699
Jesus Christ. This is just incredible.
1866
01:52:27,867 --> 01:52:29,326
Well, I have a clear conscience.
1867
01:52:29,493 --> 01:52:33,371
Sally, I have a wife and a family
and a dog and a cat.
1868
01:52:34,290 --> 01:52:36,291
BOB: She said he was in her house
having a drink.
1869
01:52:36,459 --> 01:52:38,835
I don't care where it happened.
What happened is what counts.
1870
01:52:39,003 --> 01:52:40,128
CARL:
When we asked him about it...
1871
01:52:40,296 --> 01:52:41,338
[PHONE BEEPS]
1872
01:52:41,505 --> 01:52:42,964
...he said he forgot the entire incident.
1873
01:52:43,132 --> 01:52:44,674
BEN: Yeah?
WOMAN: Ken Clawson on the line.
1874
01:52:45,259 --> 01:52:48,595
- Ken Clawson on the line.
BOB: Jesus.
1875
01:52:50,806 --> 01:52:52,390
Ken. What's up, kid?
1876
01:52:52,558 --> 01:52:55,435
CLAWSON: Ben, now, look, this whole thing
that's going on over there...
1877
01:52:55,603 --> 01:52:58,939
...I want you to know I never
claimed authorship of the "Canuck" letter.
1878
01:52:59,106 --> 01:53:01,983
- Says he never wrote the letter.
CLAWSON: It's some misunderstanding...
1879
01:53:02,151 --> 01:53:05,111
Ken, Ken. Slow, slow, slow down, Ken.
You sound frazzled.
1880
01:53:05,279 --> 01:53:07,238
No, Ben, please listen.
1881
01:53:07,406 --> 01:53:10,241
Now, if you're going to refer
to that alleged conversation...
1882
01:53:10,409 --> 01:53:13,787
...with Sally Aiken, you can't print
that it took place in her apartment.
1883
01:53:13,955 --> 01:53:16,581
I have a wife and a family
and a dog and a cat.
1884
01:53:16,749 --> 01:53:21,336
A wife and a family and a dog and a cat.
Right, Ken, right. Yeah.
1885
01:53:21,504 --> 01:53:24,506
Ken, I don't wanna print
that you were in Sally's apartment.
1886
01:53:24,674 --> 01:53:25,715
Oh, thank God.
1887
01:53:25,883 --> 01:53:30,178
I just wanna know what you said
in Sally's apartment.
1888
01:53:30,554 --> 01:53:32,555
[PHONE RINGING]
1889
01:53:42,149 --> 01:53:43,191
Hello?
1890
01:53:43,359 --> 01:53:47,070
BOB: I just got a tip from our FBI source.
The secret cash fund financed Segretti.
1891
01:53:47,238 --> 01:53:48,905
- Jesus.
- All right, now, listen.
1892
01:53:49,073 --> 01:53:52,450
Chapin hired Segretti, we know that.
And we know Haldeman hired Chapin.
1893
01:53:52,618 --> 01:53:55,286
Haldeman has to be the fifth name
to control the fund.
1894
01:53:56,205 --> 01:53:58,123
Sloan knows.
1895
01:54:00,001 --> 01:54:02,585
We've only got four of the five
who controlled the fund.
1896
01:54:02,753 --> 01:54:05,839
- It has to be Haldeman.
- I don't think we've got it.
1897
01:54:06,590 --> 01:54:08,800
We know the fifth
is a top White House official.
1898
01:54:08,968 --> 01:54:11,136
- No one has said it.
- No one's denied it.
1899
01:54:11,303 --> 01:54:14,389
That still doesn't prove it was Haldeman.
1900
01:54:16,809 --> 01:54:20,186
If you go to bed and there's no snow,
and you wake up and there's snow...
1901
01:54:20,354 --> 01:54:22,772
...you can say it snowed,
although you didn't see it.
1902
01:54:22,940 --> 01:54:25,608
If we can't prove the fifth is Haldeman,
we're wiped out.
1903
01:54:25,776 --> 01:54:28,278
Everything in that campaign
is done with his approval.
1904
01:54:28,446 --> 01:54:31,614
Everybody who works under Haldeman
does so with his knowledge.
1905
01:54:31,782 --> 01:54:34,034
Everybody is under Haldeman
except the president.
1906
01:54:34,201 --> 01:54:36,119
Common sense says it's Haldeman.
1907
01:54:38,622 --> 01:54:41,958
If we go and see Sloan,
and we tell him that we know...
1908
01:54:42,126 --> 01:54:46,004
...that he named Haldeman
to the grand jury...
1909
01:54:46,922 --> 01:54:49,299
Then all we would need to do
is have him confirm it.
1910
01:54:49,467 --> 01:54:50,884
Right.
1911
01:54:51,052 --> 01:54:53,970
- Wanna do it that way?
- Yes.
1912
01:54:54,388 --> 01:54:56,639
Let's go back and see Sloan.
1913
01:55:00,061 --> 01:55:02,103
We can't go now,
because he's not home yet.
1914
01:55:02,813 --> 01:55:05,815
He might not be answering,
but he might be there.
1915
01:55:15,076 --> 01:55:16,451
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
1916
01:55:20,498 --> 01:55:21,498
- Hi.
SLOAN: Please.
1917
01:55:21,665 --> 01:55:24,501
We've already written the story.
We just need you to define...
1918
01:55:24,668 --> 01:55:26,711
SLOAN: Debbie's in the hospital
and my in-laws are...
1919
01:55:26,879 --> 01:55:28,296
BOB: Two questions?
CARL: We understand.
1920
01:55:28,464 --> 01:55:30,090
BOB:
Two questions?
1921
01:55:33,219 --> 01:55:35,720
The cash that financed
the Watergate break-in.
1922
01:55:35,888 --> 01:55:37,514
Five men had control of the fund.
1923
01:55:37,681 --> 01:55:41,059
Mitchell, Stans, Magruder, Kalmbach.
We have confirmations on those four.
1924
01:55:41,227 --> 01:55:43,853
- We found out Haldeman's the fifth.
- I'm not your source.
1925
01:55:44,021 --> 01:55:47,524
- All we're asking you to do is confirm.
- I'm not your source on Haldeman.
1926
01:55:47,691 --> 01:55:49,859
When you were questioned
by the grand jury...
1927
01:55:50,027 --> 01:55:51,027
You had to name names.
1928
01:55:51,195 --> 01:55:53,571
- Of course, everything they asked.
- All right.
1929
01:55:54,490 --> 01:55:56,157
Well, uh...
1930
01:55:57,493 --> 01:55:58,535
What do you think?
1931
01:55:58,702 --> 01:56:02,163
Say we wrote a story that said Haldeman
was the fifth to control the fund.
1932
01:56:02,331 --> 01:56:04,916
- Would we be in any trouble?
- Would we be wrong?
1933
01:56:08,754 --> 01:56:10,713
Let me put it this way.
1934
01:56:10,881 --> 01:56:14,092
I would have no problems
if you wrote a story like that.
1935
01:56:14,260 --> 01:56:16,886
- You wouldn't?
- No.
1936
01:56:17,638 --> 01:56:20,223
- That's okay. Yeah.
- Okay.
1937
01:56:20,391 --> 01:56:22,642
- Oh, you had a baby.
- Yeah. My wife did.
1938
01:56:22,810 --> 01:56:24,561
- Is it a boy or a girl?
- It's a girl.
1939
01:56:24,728 --> 01:56:26,020
- Congratulations.
- Oh, great.
1940
01:56:26,188 --> 01:56:27,230
Thank you.
1941
01:56:27,398 --> 01:56:28,982
BOB: Sorry to have bothered you.
- Yeah.
1942
01:56:29,150 --> 01:56:31,401
CARL: Will you give our best to her?
- I will.
1943
01:56:34,864 --> 01:56:36,656
Well, I think that Woodward's just...
1944
01:56:36,824 --> 01:56:40,201
And I am curious of the fact
that the FBI, in its entire inquiry...
1945
01:56:40,369 --> 01:56:42,392
...never talked to or
did inquiries into the
1946
01:56:42,393 --> 01:56:44,414
second most powerful
man to the president.
1947
01:56:44,582 --> 01:56:46,166
JOE [OVER PHONE]:
You don't seem to understand.
1948
01:56:46,333 --> 01:56:49,085
No, you get nothing
about Haldeman out of me.
1949
01:56:49,253 --> 01:56:51,087
CARL: But we don't need
to know anything, Joe.
1950
01:56:51,255 --> 01:56:53,339
Tomorrow we're going with a story
on the FBI.
1951
01:56:53,507 --> 01:56:56,426
- What does that mean?
- We're going to establish in that story...
1952
01:56:56,594 --> 01:56:59,262
...that you guys just about
blew the whole investigation.
1953
01:56:59,430 --> 01:57:00,889
Oh, no, we didn't miss so much.
1954
01:57:01,056 --> 01:57:03,308
You didn't know Haldeman
had control of the fund.
1955
01:57:03,475 --> 01:57:04,684
It's all in our files.
1956
01:57:04,852 --> 01:57:07,270
- Not about Haldeman.
- Yeah, Haldeman. John Haldeman.
1957
01:57:07,438 --> 01:57:10,690
Look. Now, look, I'm very busy. I gotta go.
I gotta go put the kids to bed.
1958
01:57:10,858 --> 01:57:12,192
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
1959
01:57:12,985 --> 01:57:15,987
That's the confirmation right there.
1960
01:57:16,572 --> 01:57:19,282
Wait a minute, wait a second.
Did he say John?
1961
01:57:19,617 --> 01:57:21,492
- He said Haldeman.
- He said John Haldeman.
1962
01:57:21,660 --> 01:57:24,287
What difference does it make
if he said Isaiah or David?
1963
01:57:24,455 --> 01:57:25,705
There's only one Haldeman.
1964
01:57:25,873 --> 01:57:29,125
BOB: Well, Isaiah or David aren't assistant
to the president.
1965
01:57:29,460 --> 01:57:31,085
I don't know, it still feels thin.
1966
01:57:31,253 --> 01:57:34,130
- Christ, I wish I knew if we could
print this. HARRY: Wait a minute.
1967
01:57:34,298 --> 01:57:37,550
We didn't make them do these things.
Once they did, they're fair game.
1968
01:57:37,718 --> 01:57:39,427
HOWARD:
Let's go over your sources again.
1969
01:57:39,595 --> 01:57:42,805
BOB: Sloan told the grand jury.
He answered everything they asked him.
1970
01:57:42,973 --> 01:57:45,099
That means there's gotta be
a record somewhere.
1971
01:57:45,267 --> 01:57:48,228
CARL: He told the grand jury,
the FBI confirms. What more do you need?
1972
01:57:48,395 --> 01:57:49,812
I happen to love this country.
1973
01:57:49,980 --> 01:57:53,566
- We're not zanies out to bring it down.
HOWARD: Weren't you arguing the opposite?
1974
01:57:53,734 --> 01:57:55,526
HARRY: No, no, not at all.
- I can't believe it.
1975
01:57:55,694 --> 01:57:56,778
Now, hold it. Hold it.
1976
01:57:56,946 --> 01:57:58,655
HARRY:
One has nothing to do with the other.
1977
01:57:58,822 --> 01:58:00,365
We're about to accuse Haldeman...
1978
01:58:00,532 --> 01:58:02,867
...the second most important man
in this country...
1979
01:58:03,035 --> 01:58:05,745
...of conducting a conspiracy
from inside the White House.
1980
01:58:05,913 --> 01:58:07,497
It would be nice if we were right.
1981
01:58:07,665 --> 01:58:09,874
HOWARD: You double-checked your sources?
- Jesus.
1982
01:58:10,042 --> 01:58:12,627
BEN: Bernstein, are you sure on this story?
- Absolutely.
1983
01:58:12,795 --> 01:58:14,921
BEN: Woodward?
- I'm sure.
1984
01:58:15,089 --> 01:58:17,715
I'm not. Still seems thin.
1985
01:58:17,883 --> 01:58:18,967
Get another source.
1986
01:58:19,134 --> 01:58:22,095
CARL: How many fucking sources
do they think we've got?
1987
01:58:25,891 --> 01:58:29,227
- Are you sure Deep Throat won't confirm?
BOB: He won't confirm, I told you.
1988
01:58:29,395 --> 01:58:31,271
- The guy in Justice?
- Can't call him.
1989
01:58:31,438 --> 01:58:33,690
- He's next to the grand jury.
BOB: We have no choice.
1990
01:58:33,857 --> 01:58:35,149
Twenty minutes to deadline.
1991
01:58:35,317 --> 01:58:37,735
I don't even know
if I can get him on the phone.
1992
01:58:49,081 --> 01:58:51,082
[LINE RINGING]
1993
01:58:53,502 --> 01:58:56,462
WOMAN: Dr. Kissinger's office.
- Deputy general's office, please.
1994
01:58:58,257 --> 01:59:00,049
[LINE RINGING]
1995
01:59:00,592 --> 01:59:04,095
- Do you know when you expect him back?
WOMAN: I believe he's left for the evening.
1996
01:59:04,263 --> 01:59:07,557
If you'd like to leave a message,
could you hold, please?
1997
01:59:07,725 --> 01:59:10,143
Hi, this is Carl.
I'm sorry to disturb you now.
1998
01:59:10,311 --> 01:59:13,896
We're going with the story that Haldeman
was the fifth in control of the fund.
1999
01:59:14,064 --> 01:59:17,442
We got three confirmations. If you
could just help us, I'd appreciate it.
2000
01:59:17,609 --> 01:59:19,402
MAN:
I won't say anything about Haldeman.
2001
01:59:19,570 --> 01:59:22,655
I understand. We know it's against the law
for you to say anything.
2002
01:59:22,823 --> 01:59:25,700
If you could warn us to hold on the story,
we'd appreciate it.
2003
01:59:25,868 --> 01:59:28,244
I'd really like to help you, but I can't.
2004
01:59:28,412 --> 01:59:31,122
Look, I'm gonna count to 10, all right?
2005
01:59:31,290 --> 01:59:34,917
If there's any reason we should hold
on the story, hang up before I get to 10.
2006
01:59:35,085 --> 01:59:38,671
If the story's all right, you'll be on
the phone after I get to 10, all right?
2007
01:59:38,839 --> 01:59:40,423
- Hang up, right?
- That's right.
2008
01:59:40,591 --> 01:59:41,632
- You got it?
- Yeah.
2009
01:59:41,800 --> 01:59:44,927
We're straight? All right.
I'm gonna start counting. Okay?
2010
01:59:45,095 --> 01:59:46,179
- We all right?
- Yeah.
2011
01:59:46,347 --> 01:59:47,388
Okay, I'm counting.
2012
01:59:47,556 --> 01:59:51,184
One, two, three...
2013
01:59:51,352 --> 01:59:55,396
...four, five, six...
2014
01:59:55,564 --> 02:00:00,568
...seven, eight, nine...
2015
02:00:00,736 --> 02:00:02,278
...10.
2016
02:00:03,238 --> 02:00:04,822
You got it straight now?
2017
02:00:04,990 --> 02:00:08,701
- Everything okay?
- Everything's fine.
2018
02:00:12,081 --> 02:00:13,790
Woodward!
2019
02:00:18,253 --> 02:00:19,962
We got it.
2020
02:00:21,840 --> 02:00:23,174
- He confirmed.
- What happened?
2021
02:00:23,342 --> 02:00:26,052
I said, "If I get to 10
and you don't hang up, it's solid."
2022
02:00:26,220 --> 02:00:27,303
- He confirm?
- Absolutely.
2023
02:00:27,471 --> 02:00:29,180
We gotta tell Bradlee.
2024
02:00:30,057 --> 02:00:33,184
MAN: The New York Times
had three columns on it.
2025
02:00:38,023 --> 02:00:41,526
BOB: Bernstein got another source.
The guy at Justice confirmed.
2026
02:00:41,985 --> 02:00:45,655
- If there's doubt, we can run it tomorrow.
- The story's solid. We're sure of it.
2027
02:00:45,823 --> 02:00:48,241
I just got off the phone with him.
It's gold.
2028
02:00:50,077 --> 02:00:52,161
Okay, we go with it.
2029
02:01:05,092 --> 02:01:07,093
Woodstein!
2030
02:01:21,775 --> 02:01:24,026
- You know what it's about?
- No.
2031
02:01:25,028 --> 02:01:27,029
ANNOUNCER [ON TV]: Sloan, who
resigned as campaign treasurer...
2032
02:01:27,197 --> 02:01:28,573
...after the Watergate break-in...
2033
02:01:28,740 --> 02:01:33,619
...showed up for a deposition in the suit
on disclosure of campaign contributions...
2034
02:01:33,787 --> 02:01:35,538
...and denied naming Haldeman.
2035
02:01:35,747 --> 02:01:38,416
REPORTER 1: Would you comment
on your testimony before the grand jury?
2036
02:01:38,584 --> 02:01:42,253
- I'd like my attorney to answer that.
- The answer is an unequivocal no.
2037
02:01:42,421 --> 02:01:45,548
Mr. Sloan did not implicate Mr. Haldeman
in that testimony at all.
2038
02:01:45,716 --> 02:01:48,509
REPORTER 2: Did Mr. Sloan acknowledge
that it was an espionage fund?
2039
02:01:48,677 --> 02:01:49,719
ATTORNEY:
No, not at all.
2040
02:01:49,887 --> 02:01:52,221
REPORTER 2: Did he mention use of funds
for espionage activity?
2041
02:01:52,389 --> 02:01:54,182
ATTORNEY:
None whatsoever. Thank you, gentlemen.
2042
02:01:54,349 --> 02:01:57,393
ANNOUNCER: Sloan expanded his denial
to include his statements to the FBI...
2043
02:01:57,561 --> 02:01:59,145
...and to all federal authorities.
2044
02:01:59,313 --> 02:02:00,646
Later, at the White House...
2045
02:02:00,814 --> 02:02:03,608
...News Secretary Ronald Ziegler
delivered a strong attack...
2046
02:02:03,775 --> 02:02:05,193
...on the Washington Post.
2047
02:02:05,360 --> 02:02:07,570
ZIEGLER:
Why is the Post trying to do it?
2048
02:02:07,738 --> 02:02:09,405
You have a man...
2049
02:02:09,573 --> 02:02:12,909
...who's the editor of the Washington Post
by the name of Ben Bradlee.
2050
02:02:13,410 --> 02:02:18,456
I think anyone who were to honestly assess
what his political persuasions are...
2051
02:02:18,624 --> 02:02:22,418
...would, I think,
come to the conclusion quite quickly...
2052
02:02:22,586 --> 02:02:25,129
...that he is not a supporter
of President Nixon.
2053
02:02:25,589 --> 02:02:27,215
I respect the free press.
2054
02:02:27,382 --> 02:02:30,635
I don't respect the type of journalism...
2055
02:02:30,802 --> 02:02:33,179
The shabby journalism
that is being practiced...
2056
02:02:33,347 --> 02:02:34,555
...by the Washington Post.
2057
02:02:34,723 --> 02:02:39,560
All I know is that the story
that ran this morning is incorrect...
2058
02:02:39,728 --> 02:02:44,440
...and has been so stated
as being incorrect...
2059
02:02:44,608 --> 02:02:48,528
...by not only me, but by the individual
whose grand-jury...
2060
02:02:48,695 --> 02:02:52,281
Secret grand-jury testimony
they based their story on.
2061
02:02:52,449 --> 02:02:56,494
And that individual has denied
that he ever so testified.
2062
02:02:56,828 --> 02:02:58,371
ANNOUNCER:
No sooner had Ziegler finished...
2063
02:02:58,539 --> 02:03:02,124
...than the president's campaign manager,
Clark MacGregor, met with reporters.
2064
02:03:02,292 --> 02:03:05,461
MacGREGOR:
Using innuendo, third-person hearsay...
2065
02:03:05,629 --> 02:03:09,090
...unsubstantiated charges,
anonymous sources...
2066
02:03:09,258 --> 02:03:11,259
...and huge scare headlines...
2067
02:03:11,426 --> 02:03:14,387
...the Post has maliciously sought
to give the appearance...
2068
02:03:14,555 --> 02:03:17,807
...of a direct connection between
the White House and the Watergate...
2069
02:03:17,975 --> 02:03:19,767
...a charge which the Post knows...
2070
02:03:19,935 --> 02:03:23,813
...and half a dozen investigations
have found, to be false.
2071
02:03:23,981 --> 02:03:27,692
The hallmark of the Post's campaign
is hypocrisy...
2072
02:03:27,859 --> 02:03:32,321
...and its celebrated double standard
is today visible for all to see.
2073
02:03:32,489 --> 02:03:34,824
BOB: What do you mean?
- I'm not talking about Haldeman.
2074
02:03:34,992 --> 02:03:36,200
CARL: What went wrong?
- Nothing.
2075
02:03:36,368 --> 02:03:37,493
Tell us what went wrong.
2076
02:03:37,661 --> 02:03:40,580
BOB: Didn't you say the FBI had information
on Haldeman in the files?
2077
02:03:40,747 --> 02:03:43,874
We have it in the notes from
the conversation with you on the phone.
2078
02:03:44,042 --> 02:03:46,502
We have to go talk to your boss
if you don't talk.
2079
02:03:46,670 --> 02:03:49,338
JOE: What the hell are you talking about?
I'll deny everything.
2080
02:03:49,506 --> 02:03:52,675
We're just trying to find out
if we made some errors.
2081
02:03:52,843 --> 02:03:54,969
If we made a mistake,
we'll come off the story.
2082
02:03:55,137 --> 02:03:56,470
CARL:
Just tell us if we're wrong.
2083
02:03:56,638 --> 02:03:59,307
Tell us if we screwed up.
Tell us if it's wrong. Tell us...
2084
02:03:59,474 --> 02:04:00,850
I'm not talking about it.
2085
02:04:01,018 --> 02:04:04,145
I am not talking to you about Haldeman
or anybody else.
2086
02:04:04,313 --> 02:04:06,772
I can't even be seen talking
to either one of you bastards.
2087
02:04:06,940 --> 02:04:08,691
CARL: What are you afraid of?
Who got to you?
2088
02:04:08,859 --> 02:04:10,610
BOB:
Are we being set up?
2089
02:04:11,403 --> 02:04:13,279
CARL: Are we? Tell us.
BOB: Are we being set up?
2090
02:04:13,447 --> 02:04:17,992
CARL: Just tell us, we won't say anything.
- Fuck you. And fuck you.
2091
02:04:24,249 --> 02:04:26,083
BOB:
Honest to God, I just don't understand.
2092
02:04:26,251 --> 02:04:28,210
CARL:
It's in the notes.
2093
02:04:28,378 --> 02:04:32,006
"Yeah, we had another call all along.
I've got another call. I've gotta go."
2094
02:04:32,174 --> 02:04:34,842
"Did you mean Bob Haldeman?"
"Yeah, Bob Haldeman."
2095
02:04:37,387 --> 02:04:39,055
CARL:
Jesus, what was our mistake?
2096
02:04:40,057 --> 02:04:42,058
BOB:
Maybe there was no mistake.
2097
02:04:42,225 --> 02:04:46,395
CARL: Then they're just setting us up.
Then the whole thing was a setup.
2098
02:04:47,939 --> 02:04:49,815
And they just hung us.
2099
02:04:50,400 --> 02:04:53,402
HOWARD: More denunciations.
Gonna have to make a statement, Ben.
2100
02:04:53,570 --> 02:04:57,406
One senator just gave a speech
slurring us 57 times in 20 minutes.
2101
02:04:57,574 --> 02:05:00,868
I knew we had enemies,
but I didn't know we were this popular.
2102
02:05:01,536 --> 02:05:03,829
Wow, look at this.
2103
02:05:05,582 --> 02:05:08,042
My non-denial denial.
2104
02:05:16,426 --> 02:05:18,260
Fuck it, let's stand by the boys.
2105
02:05:19,429 --> 02:05:21,972
HOWARD:
Okay. Foreign?
2106
02:05:22,391 --> 02:05:24,308
All right, here's our headline.
2107
02:05:24,476 --> 02:05:27,645
Radio Hanoi reports the
United States-North Vietnam agreement...
2108
02:05:27,813 --> 02:05:30,106
...for a settlement of the Vietnam War.
2109
02:05:30,399 --> 02:05:31,440
[PHONE RINGING]
2110
02:05:31,608 --> 02:05:34,068
MAN [ON RADIO]: Artie was just saying,
in the few seconds we have left...
2111
02:05:34,236 --> 02:05:37,029
...just saying that vibrato sound
that she had then, she still has now.
2112
02:05:37,197 --> 02:05:38,239
[MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
2113
02:05:38,407 --> 02:05:40,825
CARL: Woodward, what did you find out?
What did he say?
2114
02:05:40,992 --> 02:05:43,035
- What time is it?
- You fell asleep?
2115
02:05:43,203 --> 02:05:45,287
BOB:
Oh, goddamn it.
2116
02:06:08,395 --> 02:06:09,812
[BOB SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
2117
02:07:09,039 --> 02:07:10,706
DEEP THROAT:
Over here.
2118
02:07:33,897 --> 02:07:36,732
- You let Haldeman slip away.
- Yes.
2119
02:07:36,900 --> 02:07:38,984
You've done worse
than let Haldeman slip away.
2120
02:07:39,152 --> 02:07:43,030
You got people feeling sorry for him.
I didn't think that was possible.
2121
02:07:43,198 --> 02:07:44,907
In a conspiracy like this...
2122
02:07:45,075 --> 02:07:48,536
...you build from the outer edges
and you go step by step.
2123
02:07:48,703 --> 02:07:51,831
If you shoot too high and miss,
everybody feels more secure.
2124
02:07:52,707 --> 02:07:56,627
- You put the investigation back months.
- Yes, we know that.
2125
02:07:56,795 --> 02:07:59,421
And if we're wrong, we're resigning.
2126
02:08:00,674 --> 02:08:02,091
Were we wrong?
2127
02:08:04,594 --> 02:08:09,473
- You'll have to find that out, won't you?
- I'm tired of your chicken-shit games.
2128
02:08:10,767 --> 02:08:12,768
I don't want hints.
2129
02:08:12,936 --> 02:08:14,770
I need to know what you know.
2130
02:08:31,121 --> 02:08:33,956
It was a Haldeman operation.
2131
02:08:34,666 --> 02:08:38,711
The whole business was run by Haldeman,
the money, everything.
2132
02:08:38,879 --> 02:08:41,213
It won't be easy getting at him.
He was insulated.
2133
02:08:41,381 --> 02:08:43,132
You'll have to find out how.
2134
02:08:47,095 --> 02:08:50,139
Mitchell started doing covert stuff
before anyone else.
2135
02:08:50,307 --> 02:08:53,726
The list is longer
than anyone can imagine.
2136
02:08:55,562 --> 02:09:00,608
It involves the entire
U.S. intelligence community.
2137
02:09:01,026 --> 02:09:02,151
FBI...
2138
02:09:03,361 --> 02:09:05,487
...CIA, Justice.
2139
02:09:05,655 --> 02:09:07,323
It's incredible.
2140
02:09:09,576 --> 02:09:11,660
The cover-up had little to do
with Watergate.
2141
02:09:11,828 --> 02:09:16,290
It was mainly
to protect the covert operations.
2142
02:09:17,125 --> 02:09:19,001
It leads everywhere.
2143
02:09:22,130 --> 02:09:25,215
Get out your notebook. There's more.
2144
02:09:30,805 --> 02:09:33,557
Your lives are in danger.
2145
02:09:34,392 --> 02:09:37,269
CARL:
Hi. I finally got Sloan on the phone.
2146
02:09:49,157 --> 02:09:51,158
[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKERS]
2147
02:10:57,058 --> 02:10:58,934
BEN:
Why couldn't you tell me over the phone?
2148
02:10:59,102 --> 02:11:00,936
- Phones aren't safe.
- Can't trust them.
2149
02:11:01,104 --> 02:11:02,813
- Come on in.
BOB: We can't come in, sir.
2150
02:11:02,981 --> 02:11:05,357
CARL: Woodward says
there's electronic surveillance.
2151
02:11:22,625 --> 02:11:24,835
- Surveillance? Who's doing it?
- It's being done.
2152
02:11:25,003 --> 02:11:26,712
- People's lives are in danger.
BEN: Wait.
2153
02:11:26,880 --> 02:11:29,465
- Maybe even ours.
BEN: What happened to that Justice source?
2154
02:11:29,632 --> 02:11:31,508
I made the instructions too complicated.
2155
02:11:31,676 --> 02:11:33,802
He thought I said "hang up,"
I said "hang on."
2156
02:11:33,970 --> 02:11:35,804
- Jesus Christ.
BOB: The story is right.
2157
02:11:35,972 --> 02:11:38,140
Haldeman was the fifth man
to control that fund.
2158
02:11:38,308 --> 02:11:40,809
- Sloan would've told the grand jury.
- Sloan wanted to.
2159
02:11:40,977 --> 02:11:42,978
BEN: Why didn't he?
- Because nobody asked.
2160
02:11:43,897 --> 02:11:46,106
The cover-up had little to do
with the break-in.
2161
02:11:46,274 --> 02:11:48,233
It was to protect covert operations...
2162
02:11:48,401 --> 02:11:50,819
...involving the entire
U.S. intelligence community.
2163
02:11:50,987 --> 02:11:53,489
Did Deep Throat say
that people's lives are in danger?
2164
02:11:53,656 --> 02:11:56,658
- Yes.
- What else did he say?
2165
02:11:57,118 --> 02:11:59,536
He said everyone is involved.
2166
02:12:06,586 --> 02:12:09,171
You know the results
of the latest Gallup poll?
2167
02:12:09,339 --> 02:12:12,007
Half the country never even heard
of the word "Watergate."
2168
02:12:12,175 --> 02:12:14,176
Nobody gives a shit.
2169
02:12:16,471 --> 02:12:18,680
You guys are probably pretty tired, right?
2170
02:12:19,474 --> 02:12:22,226
Well, you should be. Go on home.
2171
02:12:22,393 --> 02:12:25,521
Get a nice hot bath, rest up 15 minutes...
2172
02:12:25,688 --> 02:12:28,357
...then get your asses back in gear.
2173
02:12:28,525 --> 02:12:31,860
We're under a lot of pressure, you know,
and you put us there.
2174
02:12:33,696 --> 02:12:34,947
Nothing's riding on this...
2175
02:12:35,115 --> 02:12:38,117
...except the First Amendment
of the Constitution...
2176
02:12:38,284 --> 02:12:42,246
...freedom of the press,
and maybe the future of the country.
2177
02:12:44,040 --> 02:12:46,208
Not that any of that matters...
2178
02:12:46,376 --> 02:12:50,003
...but if you guys fuck up again,
I'm gonna get mad.
2179
02:12:51,798 --> 02:12:53,382
Good night.
2180
02:13:10,441 --> 02:13:12,442
[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
2181
02:13:21,077 --> 02:13:22,244
ANNOUNCER [ON TV]:
Now, fellow Americans...
2182
02:13:22,412 --> 02:13:27,875
...the honorable chief justice
will administer the oath of office...
2183
02:13:28,042 --> 02:13:31,086
...to the president
of the United States of America.
2184
02:13:31,254 --> 02:13:33,422
Mr. Chief Justice.
2185
02:13:33,590 --> 02:13:35,591
[MARCHING BAND PLAYING ON TV]
2186
02:13:54,944 --> 02:13:59,031
CHIEF JUSTICE: Mr. President, are you ready
to take the constitutional oath?
2187
02:13:59,199 --> 02:14:03,452
If you will place your left hand
on the Bible and raise your right hand...
2188
02:14:03,620 --> 02:14:05,204
...and please repeat after me:
2189
02:14:05,371 --> 02:14:08,498
I, Richard Nixon, do solemnly swear...
2190
02:14:08,666 --> 02:14:10,876
NIXON:
I, Richard Nixon, do solemnly swear...
2191
02:14:11,044 --> 02:14:13,421
CHIEF JUSTICE:... that I
will faithfully execute
2192
02:14:13,422 --> 02:14:15,797
the office of president
of the United States...
2193
02:14:15,965 --> 02:14:17,800
NIXON:... that I will
faithfully execute the
2194
02:14:17,801 --> 02:14:19,635
office of president of
the United States...
2195
02:14:19,802 --> 02:14:22,596
CHIEF JUSTICE:
...and will, to the best of my ability...
2196
02:14:22,764 --> 02:14:24,640
...and will, to the best of my ability...
2197
02:14:24,807 --> 02:14:26,642
CHIEF JUSTICE:
...preserve, protect and defend...
2198
02:14:26,809 --> 02:14:29,144
...the Constitution of the United States...
2199
02:14:29,312 --> 02:14:33,315
...preserve and protect and defend
the Constitution of the United States...
2200
02:14:33,483 --> 02:14:34,816
CHIEF JUSTICE
...so help me God.
2201
02:14:34,984 --> 02:14:37,194
...so help me God.
2202
02:14:37,737 --> 02:14:39,738
[MARCHING BAND PLAYING
"HAIL TO THE CHIEF" ON TV]
2203
02:14:41,783 --> 02:14:43,116
[GUNSHOTS ON TV]
2204
02:14:54,045 --> 02:14:55,587
[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE ON TV]
2205
02:18:11,659 --> 02:18:13,660
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