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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,
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?
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No, I don't believe so...
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...and I can't imagine
why anyone would say that.
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I'm really sorry, but I was on my way out.
Goodbye.
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Could we just confirm a couple--? Bye.
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MAN [OVER PHONE]:
Did you say the Washington Post?
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BOB:
Yes, that's right, the Post.
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Your publishing firm
was listed in some papers...
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...in connection with a Howard Hunt.
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Yeah. Yeah, he's one of our authors.
He wrote spy novels, I think.
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What type of spy novels were they?
Were they modern or period--?
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You say "wrote"?
You mean he's no longer with you?
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No, not at this time.
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How long has it been
since you heard from him?
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- Couple of years, I think.
- Tell me the names of novels he's written.
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[MAN 2 SPEAKING IN SPANISH
OVER PHONE]
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BOB:
Hello? Is this Mr. Paul Herrera?
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This is Bob Woodward
of the Washington Post.
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[MAN 2 SPEAKS IN SPANISH]
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Bob Woodward of the Wash--
Do you speak English?
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[MAN 2 & BOB SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
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Hey, do any of you guys speak English--?
Or do any of you guys speak Spanish?
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[MAN 2 & BOB SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
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Never mind. Thank you.
Thank you. Never mind.
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MAN 3: What's the slug on the Mandel story?
MAN 4: What?
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BENNETT: Hello?
- Mr. Bennett?
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- Yes?
- Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.
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I'm sorry to bother you.
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I wonder if you could confirm information
on one of your employees, Howard Hunt?
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What kind of information?
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Just profile information mostly.
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We know that he works
for Mullen and Company...
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...or did work for Mullen and Company
as a writer.
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He's also a novelist.
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We know that he works in the office
of Charles Colson at the White House.
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And the CIA.
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And the CIA.
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Well, if you're conducting
that kind of an investigation...
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...certainly it comes as no surprise to you
that Howard was with the CIA.
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No, no surprise at all.
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BOB:
Hunt worked for the CIA till 1970.
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From '49 to '70.
This is on deep background...
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...but the FBI thinks he's involved
with the break-in.
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What else you got?
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According to White House personnel,
Hunt worked as a consultant for Colson.
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That's Charles Colson,
the president's special counsel.
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- Did you call the White House Press Office?
- I went over there.
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They said Hunt hadn't worked there
for three months.
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Then a PR guy
said this weird thing to me.
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He said,
"I am convinced that neither Mr. Colson...
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...nor anyone else at the White House
had any knowledge of or participation in...
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...this deplorable incident
at the Democratic National Committee."
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HOWARD:
Isn't that what you'd expect them to say?
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Absolutely.
291
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So?
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I never asked about Watergate.
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I simply asked what were Hunt's duties
at the White House.
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They volunteered he was innocent
when nobody asked if he was guilty.
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Be careful how you write it.
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We got a White House consultant
linked to the bugging.
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This isn't a police story anymore.
This is national.
298
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- We need a top political writer on it.
- Well, they don't want it.
299
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They're all over the map
covering the primaries.
300
00:19:18,991 --> 00:19:22,869
- Besides, this guy has busted his ass.
- He's been on this paper for nine months.
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- What's the matter with you?
- He's a humper.
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What's he been writing about,
rat shit in restaurants?
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- He's got no experience.
- He got a few closed.
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Minor incidents.
Small government agencies.
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Have Mr. Moffitt come in here, please.
And see if Mr. Bradlee's free.
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I want Ben to hear this.
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Sure, Moffitt will want the story
now that we've built it into something.
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Even Bernstein's busting his ass.
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I read that cockamamie memorandum
he wrote on the break-in.
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- All right, so some of it was bullshit.
- What is the matter with you?
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You told me yourself
you were gonna fire him last month.
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Look, he wants on the story bad.
They both do.
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He knows a lot of people.
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Howard, they're hungry.
You remember when you were hungry?
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[CHATTERING]
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MAN 1:
Don't worry about it.
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MAN 2:
I'll be home late.
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MAN 3:
Did you get the artwork on that piece?
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CARL: Hold on.
MAN 3: Hey, listen, where's the artwork?
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I gotta have a cigarette.
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[TYPEWRITERS CLACKING]
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[PHONES RINGING]
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WOMAN 1: Yeah, he'll be in in about
half an hour. Can I have him call you?
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Okay.
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Metro Desk.
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No, I'm sorry, he's not.
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Yes, I will. Can you tell me who's calling?
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00:20:54,837 --> 00:20:57,714
All right. Yes, hold on.
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Thank you.
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WOMAN 2:
You want a laugh?
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MAN 4:
Hello.
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WOMAN 3:
Has anyone seen my scarf?
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MAN 5: Hey, look, do we have a lead
for the metro page?
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MAN 6:
Yeah, yeah. Uh....
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MAN 7: Lou. Hey, Lou.
Can you get me Mandel's office, please?
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WOMAN 3: Yeah.
MAN 8: All right.
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Listen, I want his comment
about that appointment.
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WOMAN 3: Okay.
MAN 8: Right away.
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WOMAN 3: All right.
MAN 8: Right away.
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[TYPEWRITERS CLACKING]
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[CHATTERING]
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- How's it going?
- What are you doing?
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- I'm polishing a little.
- You're what?
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- Polishing it.
- What's wrong with it?
345
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- Nothing, nothing. It's good.
- Then what are you doing?
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I'm just helping. It's a little fuzzy.
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00:21:57,692 --> 00:21:58,775
May I have it?
348
00:21:58,943 --> 00:22:02,278
- I don't think you're saying what you mean.
- I know exactly what I mean.
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I can't tell whether Hunt works for Colson
or Colson for Hunt.
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May I have it, please?
351
00:22:06,701 --> 00:22:08,284
- Your conclusions--
- May I have it?
352
00:22:08,452 --> 00:22:10,578
- I'm not looking for a fight.
- I'm not either.
353
00:22:10,746 --> 00:22:14,040
I'm just aware of the fact
that you've only been here nine months.
354
00:22:14,834 --> 00:22:16,543
What's that got to do with anything?
355
00:22:16,711 --> 00:22:19,337
- Been in the business since I'm 16.
- What are you saying?
356
00:22:19,505 --> 00:22:21,423
If you'd read mine and then read yours--
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00:22:21,590 --> 00:22:23,633
- May I read yours?
- Yeah.
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00:22:24,135 --> 00:22:27,887
I gave yours a glance, it didn't look right,
so I figured I'd refine it a little.
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00:22:28,055 --> 00:22:31,474
First paragraph has to have more clarity
if the reader's gonna understand.
360
00:22:31,642 --> 00:22:34,728
You don't mention Colson's name
until the third paragraph.
361
00:22:34,895 --> 00:22:38,898
I think mine's better, but if you think
yours is better, we'll give yours to the desk.
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00:22:39,066 --> 00:22:41,276
I've got Colson's name up front.
363
00:22:42,445 --> 00:22:45,488
- He was a consultant and nobody knows it.
- You're right.
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00:22:46,490 --> 00:22:48,283
Yours is better.
365
00:23:00,212 --> 00:23:03,757
Do it right. Here are my notes.
If you're gonna hype it, hype it with facts.
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00:23:03,924 --> 00:23:07,260
I don't mind what you did.
I mind the way you did it.
367
00:23:08,637 --> 00:23:11,014
Woodward, Bernstein,
you're both on the story.
368
00:23:11,182 --> 00:23:12,932
Now, don't fuck it up.
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00:23:19,356 --> 00:23:22,358
CARL: Steuben, what's the name
of that girl that you bombed out with...
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00:23:22,526 --> 00:23:25,487
- ...who works in Colson's office?
STEUBEN: Sharon Lyons.
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00:23:26,947 --> 00:23:28,990
SHARON:
Why are you looking at me like that?
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00:23:29,158 --> 00:23:31,868
CARL: You're attractive.
- Jesus.
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CARL:
You are very attractive.
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You know, my girlfriend told me
to watch out for you.
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00:23:36,707 --> 00:23:40,251
- Who?
- I'm not giving any names.
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Steuben said you work for Colson.
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[SHARON SIGHS]
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Steuben's crazy.
I never worked for Colson.
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- That's what he said.
- I worked for an assistant.
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00:23:51,138 --> 00:23:54,099
Colson was really big on secrets anyway.
381
00:23:54,266 --> 00:23:58,937
Even if I had worked for him,
I wouldn't know anything.
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00:23:59,522 --> 00:24:02,190
Did you know Howard Hunt?
383
00:24:02,358 --> 00:24:04,776
- Didn't he work in the office?
- Yeah, I knew Howard.
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00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:07,112
- Nice?
- He's a nice person.
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00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:10,573
He's secretive.
He's secretive but a decent man.
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00:24:10,741 --> 00:24:14,702
Do you have any idea what he did?
387
00:24:14,870 --> 00:24:18,039
Well, the White House said
he was doing some investigative work.
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00:24:18,207 --> 00:24:19,249
What do you say?
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00:24:19,416 --> 00:24:21,167
[SHARON CHUCKLES]
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00:24:21,335 --> 00:24:23,628
- He was doing investigative work.
- On what?
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- Different things.
- Like what?
392
00:24:30,302 --> 00:24:31,761
- I'm not gonna--
- She warned me.
393
00:24:31,929 --> 00:24:34,722
I'm not gonna take my book out.
I'm just asking you.
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00:24:35,391 --> 00:24:38,852
Well, the scuttlebutt for a while
was that he was investigating Kennedy.
395
00:24:39,019 --> 00:24:40,395
Why?
396
00:24:40,563 --> 00:24:43,898
The White House was real paranoid
about Teddy Kennedy.
397
00:24:45,192 --> 00:24:48,444
I remember seeing a book
about Chappaquiddick on his desk.
398
00:24:48,612 --> 00:24:50,155
He was always getting material...
399
00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:53,283
...out of the White House library
and the Library of Congress.
400
00:24:53,450 --> 00:24:55,618
Anything he could find.
401
00:24:57,121 --> 00:24:58,580
WOMAN 1:
White House library.
402
00:24:58,747 --> 00:25:01,082
Hi, this is Carl Bernstein,
of the Washington Post.
403
00:25:01,250 --> 00:25:03,585
I was wondering
if you can remember any books...
404
00:25:03,752 --> 00:25:07,255
...that a Howard Hunt checked out
on Senator Kennedy?
405
00:25:07,423 --> 00:25:10,216
- Howard Hunt? Um....
- Yes, ma'am.
406
00:25:10,384 --> 00:25:13,428
- Yes, I think I do remember.
- Uh-huh.
407
00:25:13,596 --> 00:25:15,930
He took out a whole lot of material.
408
00:25:16,098 --> 00:25:20,101
- Why don't you hold on and I'll see?
- I sure will. Thank you very much.
409
00:25:33,073 --> 00:25:35,491
- Mr. Bernstein?
- Yes, ma'am?
410
00:25:35,659 --> 00:25:37,493
- I was wrong.
- I beg your pardon?
411
00:25:37,661 --> 00:25:42,707
The truth is, I don't have a card
that says Mr. Hunt took any material.
412
00:25:42,875 --> 00:25:45,585
- Uh-huh.
- I don't remember getting material for--
413
00:25:45,753 --> 00:25:48,880
I do remember getting material
for somebody, but it wasn't Mr. Hunt.
414
00:25:49,048 --> 00:25:50,381
Right.
415
00:25:50,966 --> 00:25:54,761
The truth is, I didn't have any requests
at all from Mr. Hunt.
416
00:25:56,138 --> 00:25:57,931
- Oh.
- Uh--
417
00:25:58,432 --> 00:26:01,226
The truth is, I don't know any Mr. Hunt.
418
00:26:02,561 --> 00:26:04,437
Uh....
419
00:26:06,065 --> 00:26:08,358
Uh, I was just wondering if any--
If you have any--
420
00:26:08,525 --> 00:26:09,567
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
421
00:26:09,735 --> 00:26:11,402
Hello?
422
00:26:14,490 --> 00:26:17,158
BOB: Yes, we're checking
into that information now.
423
00:26:17,326 --> 00:26:20,078
We'd just like to find out
just what it was that Hunt did...
424
00:26:20,246 --> 00:26:23,623
...when he worked as a White House
consultant on the Pentagon Papers.
425
00:26:23,791 --> 00:26:26,584
Yes, I'd appreciate that, if you could.
Yes, sir.
426
00:26:26,752 --> 00:26:27,794
Thank you.
427
00:26:27,962 --> 00:26:31,631
Just got off the phone with the librarian.
You wanna look at the notes on it?
428
00:26:33,550 --> 00:26:37,178
Oh, this is some stuff
from the Eisenhower campaign in 1952...
429
00:26:37,346 --> 00:26:39,597
...that Hunt was connected with.
430
00:26:41,684 --> 00:26:44,018
Did you call the White House
Communications Office?
431
00:26:44,186 --> 00:26:46,437
No, I just got off the phone
with the librarian.
432
00:26:47,856 --> 00:26:50,483
- 524-743.
- I know the number.
433
00:26:52,027 --> 00:26:54,779
Between the first and second quote,
there's a contradiction.
434
00:26:54,947 --> 00:26:56,656
It's a space of about five seconds.
435
00:26:56,824 --> 00:26:58,199
- My feeling is--
- Was this all--?
436
00:26:58,367 --> 00:26:59,409
WOMAN 2:
Mr. Clawson's office.
437
00:26:59,576 --> 00:27:02,453
This is Bob Woodward of the Post.
Could I talk to Mr. Clawson?
438
00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:04,831
- One moment, please.
- Thank you.
439
00:27:05,499 --> 00:27:07,709
- When she came back on the phone--
CLAWSON: Ken Clawson.
440
00:27:07,876 --> 00:27:09,585
Mr. Clawson,
this is Bob Woodward.
441
00:27:09,753 --> 00:27:12,547
Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post
had a conversation...
442
00:27:12,715 --> 00:27:15,883
...with a White House librarian
on books Mr. Howard Hunt took out...
443
00:27:16,051 --> 00:27:17,593
...on Senator Edward Kennedy.
444
00:27:17,761 --> 00:27:21,097
She first said that Howard Hunt
had taken out books on Senator Kennedy.
445
00:27:21,265 --> 00:27:23,266
Then she denied even knowing
who he was.
446
00:27:23,434 --> 00:27:25,810
I was wondering if you'd like to comment
on this confusion.
447
00:27:25,978 --> 00:27:28,688
Mm. Listen, let me call you back
on this matter.
448
00:27:28,856 --> 00:27:31,566
- I'm gonna check on it for you.
- Fine, thank you. Bye.
449
00:27:32,151 --> 00:27:33,234
- All there?
- This--? Yes.
450
00:27:33,402 --> 00:27:36,487
- This was all one conversation?
- Yeah. She says first of all:
451
00:27:36,655 --> 00:27:38,573
"I think I got a bunch of books on Hunt."
452
00:27:38,741 --> 00:27:41,242
Five seconds later, she says,
"I don't know Mr. Hunt."
453
00:27:41,410 --> 00:27:43,786
- It's obvious someone got to her.
- Not enough proof.
454
00:27:43,954 --> 00:27:47,081
If there was a piece of paper
that said Hunt was taking out books...
455
00:27:47,249 --> 00:27:49,917
...on Kennedy and Chappaquiddick,
like a library slip--
456
00:27:50,085 --> 00:27:52,420
Hunt took out books
from the Library of Congress...
457
00:27:52,588 --> 00:27:55,131
...but what's more important
is somebody got to her in--
458
00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:57,425
- How do you know?
- Because she said--
459
00:27:57,593 --> 00:27:59,302
There was a lot of books
Hunt checked out.
460
00:27:59,470 --> 00:28:00,511
[PHONE RINGS]
461
00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:02,138
- Then doesn't even know him.
- Woodward.
462
00:28:02,306 --> 00:28:05,266
CLAWSON:
Mr. Woodward, Ken Clawson calling back.
463
00:28:05,434 --> 00:28:08,061
- I've just talked with the librarian.
- Yes, sir.
464
00:28:08,228 --> 00:28:12,273
She denies that the conversation
with Mr. Bernstein ever took place.
465
00:28:12,441 --> 00:28:15,151
- She said she referred him to the--
- Excuse me, sir, sorry.
466
00:28:15,319 --> 00:28:18,696
You say she denies even knowing
about the conversation taking place?
467
00:28:18,864 --> 00:28:20,114
- That's right.
- Seven.
468
00:28:20,282 --> 00:28:23,785
She said someone did call her
asking about Mr. Hunt...
469
00:28:23,952 --> 00:28:26,662
...but all she did was refer him
to the Press Office.
470
00:28:26,830 --> 00:28:30,041
- She denies other conversation took place.
- Total bullshit.
471
00:28:30,501 --> 00:28:32,710
Uh, I hope that's been
of some help to you.
472
00:28:32,878 --> 00:28:34,504
- Thank you.
- Uh-huh.
473
00:28:37,424 --> 00:28:41,260
- We've gotta get something on paper.
- Library of Congress.
474
00:28:42,805 --> 00:28:45,098
BOB:
Mona? Excuse me, Mona.
475
00:28:45,265 --> 00:28:47,475
- Could you take any calls for me, please?
MONA: Sure.
476
00:28:47,643 --> 00:28:49,227
BOB:
Here's my note.
477
00:28:49,561 --> 00:28:52,146
If I get any calls....
478
00:28:52,564 --> 00:28:55,566
MONA: Will you be back?
BOB: I don't know when.
479
00:29:09,498 --> 00:29:13,000
You want all the material requested
by the White House?
480
00:29:13,168 --> 00:29:16,587
All White House transactions
are confidential.
481
00:29:17,131 --> 00:29:19,173
Thank you very much, gentlemen.
482
00:29:25,013 --> 00:29:28,599
CARL: We need a sympathetic face.
BOB: We're not gonna find one here.
483
00:29:29,017 --> 00:29:31,686
You want every request since when?
484
00:29:31,854 --> 00:29:33,688
CARL: Uh, when did he start?
BOB: July of '71.
485
00:29:33,856 --> 00:29:36,315
CARL:
I imagine the whole last year.
486
00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:41,404
I'm not sure you want them,
but I got them.
487
00:30:36,251 --> 00:30:39,462
- Maybe they pulled the cards.
- Maybe they changed the names.
488
00:30:39,630 --> 00:30:42,173
BOB: There might have been a card there
and we missed it.
489
00:30:43,217 --> 00:30:45,635
Hey, wait a minute.
490
00:30:45,802 --> 00:30:48,387
I met a White House aide once
at a social occasion.
491
00:30:48,555 --> 00:30:51,849
- So?
- He might confirm.
492
00:30:53,227 --> 00:30:54,936
CARL: Do we need "W.H."
and "White House"--?
493
00:30:55,103 --> 00:30:56,771
BOB:
Not in the second paragraph.
494
00:30:56,939 --> 00:31:00,608
Just "White House" would be enough.
Just use "White House." Forget "W.H."
495
00:31:00,776 --> 00:31:02,777
CARL: I wanna know about Colson.
What was his job?
496
00:31:02,945 --> 00:31:06,489
- Special consultant to the president.
- I gotta say it.
497
00:31:07,658 --> 00:31:10,785
These notes on the White House librarian,
are they accurate?
498
00:31:12,371 --> 00:31:14,622
- The notes, are they accurate?
- Give me a second.
499
00:31:14,790 --> 00:31:15,915
- Yes.
- I want a new page.
500
00:31:16,083 --> 00:31:19,919
MAN: Okay, look, I'll have a reporter
out to talk to you this afternoon.
501
00:31:23,924 --> 00:31:26,676
MAN 2: Let's take it in
and show it to Howie Simons.
502
00:31:27,094 --> 00:31:29,428
MAN 3: We've gotta start moving
on this now. Come on, now.
503
00:31:29,596 --> 00:31:31,305
Hey, Mr. Bradlee.
504
00:31:31,473 --> 00:31:35,142
MAN 4: Get the artwork
on that Grant Porter piece.
505
00:31:37,396 --> 00:31:40,356
BEN: Okay, let's have it. Mm-hm.
- Yeah, here you are, Ben.
506
00:31:40,524 --> 00:31:42,984
It's a good, solid piece
of American journalism...
507
00:31:43,151 --> 00:31:45,820
...that the New York Times doesn't have.
508
00:32:09,886 --> 00:32:13,472
You haven't got it. A librarian and
a secretary saying Hunt looked at a book.
509
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:14,682
Not good enough.
510
00:32:14,850 --> 00:32:17,685
A White House aide told me
Hunt was investigating Kennedy.
511
00:32:17,853 --> 00:32:19,520
BEN:
Who was it?
512
00:32:19,896 --> 00:32:22,148
BOB: Who was it?
You want the name, you mean?
513
00:32:22,316 --> 00:32:26,068
- No, how senior, how high up?
- I don't know titles.
514
00:32:39,666 --> 00:32:41,250
"Showed a special interest in...."
515
00:32:41,418 --> 00:32:43,711
We said the White House
was investigating Kennedy.
516
00:32:43,879 --> 00:32:46,881
- "Showed a special interest in."
- The story's stronger than that.
517
00:32:47,049 --> 00:32:49,925
The White House librarian says
Hunt checked out a lot of books.
518
00:32:50,093 --> 00:32:53,179
- A secretary in Colson's office said Hunt--
- All right, Carl. Carl.
519
00:32:53,347 --> 00:32:56,015
Ben, that's a Page 1 story.
520
00:32:56,850 --> 00:32:58,142
Stick it inside someplace.
521
00:33:00,270 --> 00:33:04,106
This is a goddamn important story. It....
522
00:33:08,403 --> 00:33:10,905
Get some harder information next time.
523
00:33:15,744 --> 00:33:18,663
Asshole. Bradlee's just sticking up
for the Kennedys.
524
00:33:18,830 --> 00:33:20,706
- We didn't have it.
- Bullshit. We had it.
525
00:33:20,874 --> 00:33:22,750
- We didn't.
- Why didn't you say something?
526
00:33:22,918 --> 00:33:26,087
You think bitching about it
is gonna get the story where we want it?
527
00:33:27,673 --> 00:33:29,632
Throw it in the can.
528
00:33:58,370 --> 00:34:00,246
[LINE RINGS]
529
00:34:00,497 --> 00:34:03,082
DEEP THROAT: Yes?
- This is Woodward.
530
00:34:04,918 --> 00:34:06,627
I wanna talk about Watergate.
531
00:34:06,795 --> 00:34:10,423
- I know that the atmos--
- We're not going to talk about that subject.
532
00:34:11,925 --> 00:34:15,636
- Well, we talked about Wallace.
- But this is different.
533
00:34:15,804 --> 00:34:19,348
That was about the shooting
of a man running for president.
534
00:34:20,016 --> 00:34:22,768
- This is different.
- How?
535
00:34:22,936 --> 00:34:25,896
Not about this story. Don't call me again.
536
00:34:27,274 --> 00:34:28,649
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
537
00:34:30,694 --> 00:34:33,571
MAN [ON RADIO]:
The stewardess hostages were released.
538
00:34:33,739 --> 00:34:35,489
The passengers, numbering 113...
539
00:34:35,657 --> 00:34:37,450
...were released in Philadelphia.
540
00:34:37,617 --> 00:34:41,495
Things are warming up in Reykjavik, where
Bobby Fischer forfeited the second game...
541
00:34:41,663 --> 00:34:45,666
...of that $250,000
world-championship chess match...
542
00:34:45,834 --> 00:34:47,793
...with the Russian champion
Boris Spassky.
543
00:34:47,961 --> 00:34:49,003
He didn't show up.
544
00:34:49,171 --> 00:34:51,714
Fischer lost the opening match
to Spassky last night...
545
00:34:51,882 --> 00:34:54,425
...after walking out during the match
for 30 minutes...
546
00:34:54,593 --> 00:34:57,845
...to protest the directions and distractions
of television cameras...
547
00:34:58,013 --> 00:34:59,472
...which were later withdrawn.
548
00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:02,057
On Wall Street,
prices took a pounding yesterday...
549
00:35:02,225 --> 00:35:05,686
...with the Dow Jones closing down
6-and-three-quarter points.
550
00:35:05,854 --> 00:35:08,522
The dollar took a beating
on the European money market...
551
00:35:08,690 --> 00:35:10,149
...dropping to its lower....
552
00:35:47,312 --> 00:35:49,313
[CHATTERING]
553
00:35:51,733 --> 00:35:53,776
MAN:
Taxi. Taxi.
554
00:36:06,414 --> 00:36:08,958
MAN 2:
Taxi. Taxi.
555
00:36:21,096 --> 00:36:22,680
BOB:
Taxi.
556
00:37:39,925 --> 00:37:41,800
[LIGHTER CLICKS]
557
00:37:58,944 --> 00:38:01,612
DEEP THROAT: Where are you?
- Stuck.
558
00:38:01,780 --> 00:38:04,365
The story has stalled on us.
559
00:38:06,785 --> 00:38:09,119
And you thought I'd help?
560
00:38:11,831 --> 00:38:13,874
I'll never quote you.
561
00:38:15,585 --> 00:38:17,920
I wouldn't quote you
even as an anonymous source.
562
00:38:18,088 --> 00:38:21,006
I mean, you'd be on deep background.
563
00:38:24,052 --> 00:38:25,552
You can trust me. You know that.
564
00:38:29,391 --> 00:38:30,849
Go on.
565
00:38:33,395 --> 00:38:37,523
- Can you tell me what you know?
- You tell me what you know.
566
00:38:41,736 --> 00:38:44,613
Hunt worked for Colson
at the White House.
567
00:38:45,448 --> 00:38:48,325
Hunt was investigating Kennedy
at Chappaquiddick.
568
00:38:48,493 --> 00:38:52,746
That should tell you a lot. What else?
569
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--
570
00:38:57,836 --> 00:38:59,586
[WHISTLING IN DISTANCE]
571
00:39:03,466 --> 00:39:05,426
[WHISTLING STOPS]
572
00:39:12,767 --> 00:39:14,727
Gordon Liddy...
573
00:39:14,894 --> 00:39:19,106
...was fired by Mitchell
because he wouldn't talk to the FBI.
574
00:39:19,274 --> 00:39:22,276
- You'll hear more.
- Will he talk?
575
00:39:24,112 --> 00:39:26,113
[DEEP THROAT SIGHS]
576
00:39:27,615 --> 00:39:28,782
I was at a party once...
577
00:39:28,950 --> 00:39:34,079
...and Liddy put his hand over a candle,
and he kept it there.
578
00:39:34,247 --> 00:39:38,500
He kept it right in the flame
until his flesh was burned.
579
00:39:39,794 --> 00:39:43,922
Somebody said, "What's the trick?"
And Liddy said, "The trick is not minding."
580
00:39:48,303 --> 00:39:50,512
The story is dry.
581
00:39:51,765 --> 00:39:53,974
All we've got are pieces.
582
00:39:54,142 --> 00:39:57,978
We can't seem to figure out
what the puzzle is supposed to look like.
583
00:39:58,146 --> 00:40:00,647
John Mitchell resigns
as the head of CREEP...
584
00:40:00,815 --> 00:40:03,358
...and says he wants
to spend more time with his family.
585
00:40:03,526 --> 00:40:06,153
That sounds like bullshit.
We don't exactly believe that.
586
00:40:06,321 --> 00:40:08,906
No, but it's touching.
587
00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:16,163
Forget the myths that the media has created
about the White House.
588
00:40:16,331 --> 00:40:18,916
The truth is,
these are not very bright guys...
589
00:40:19,084 --> 00:40:21,168
...and things got out of hand.
590
00:40:22,629 --> 00:40:25,380
Hunt's come in from the cold.
591
00:40:25,548 --> 00:40:29,968
Supposedly, he's got a lawyer
with $25,000 in a brown paper bag.
592
00:40:30,136 --> 00:40:32,012
Follow the money.
593
00:40:34,224 --> 00:40:35,849
What do you mean?
594
00:40:36,726 --> 00:40:38,852
- Where?
- Oh, I can't tell you that.
595
00:40:39,687 --> 00:40:41,313
But you could tell me, then.
596
00:40:42,357 --> 00:40:44,817
No, I have to do this my way.
597
00:40:44,984 --> 00:40:48,487
You tell me what you know,
and I'll confirm.
598
00:40:48,655 --> 00:40:52,950
I'll keep you in the right direction if I can,
but that's all.
599
00:40:55,912 --> 00:40:58,914
Just follow the money.
600
00:41:08,883 --> 00:41:12,177
CARL: Goddamn New York Times.
BOB: What is it?
601
00:41:13,388 --> 00:41:17,641
CARL: Phone calls from the burglars
in Miami to the Committee to Reelect.
602
00:41:20,770 --> 00:41:22,229
BOB:
Fifteen phone calls.
603
00:41:22,397 --> 00:41:25,107
CARL: At least 15 phone calls,
and those phone calls were made...
604
00:41:25,275 --> 00:41:28,068
...as early as March 15th,
three months before the break-in.
605
00:41:28,236 --> 00:41:31,905
BOB: "Eighty-nine thousand dollars issued in
the name of a prominent Mexican lawyer."
606
00:41:32,073 --> 00:41:34,867
Eighty-nine thousand dollars
in Mexican checks?
607
00:41:35,034 --> 00:41:36,994
Why didn't we get this?
608
00:41:37,912 --> 00:41:38,954
Who are their sources?
609
00:41:39,122 --> 00:41:41,999
I even know someone
who works on the phone company.
610
00:41:43,084 --> 00:41:45,419
Carl, if John Mitchell
wanted your phone records...
611
00:41:45,587 --> 00:41:47,546
...you'd be yelling invasion of privacy.
612
00:41:47,714 --> 00:41:49,590
Was the New York Times article accurate?
613
00:41:49,757 --> 00:41:52,259
- Yeah, but I can't get you a fuller listing.
- Why?
614
00:41:52,427 --> 00:41:54,720
They've subpoenaed
all of Barker's phone records.
615
00:41:54,888 --> 00:41:59,433
I think they're trying to find out if the
Watergate burglars broke any Florida law.
616
00:42:00,518 --> 00:42:02,519
- Who subpoenaed them?
- Miami DA.
617
00:42:02,687 --> 00:42:04,688
- What's his name?
- I don't know his name.
618
00:42:04,856 --> 00:42:07,608
But the guy who's heading the investigation
is named Dardis.
619
00:42:07,775 --> 00:42:10,194
Dardis. What's his first name?
620
00:42:10,361 --> 00:42:14,198
I don't know his first name.
I guess you'll have to find that out.
621
00:42:14,365 --> 00:42:16,366
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
622
00:42:21,122 --> 00:42:22,164
CARL: Hi.
MIRIAM: Hello.
623
00:42:22,332 --> 00:42:24,458
I have a 9:15 appointment
with Mr. Dardis.
624
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.
625
00:42:28,504 --> 00:42:31,006
- His calendar is quite full.
- There must be a mistake.
626
00:42:31,174 --> 00:42:33,133
I made the appointment
with him personally.
627
00:42:33,301 --> 00:42:35,469
The appointment should've been made
through me.
628
00:42:35,637 --> 00:42:37,679
I'll see if I can squeeze you in later.
629
00:42:37,847 --> 00:42:39,890
Oh, thanks very much.
630
00:42:40,934 --> 00:42:45,103
I guess it's difficult
when he makes his own appointments.
631
00:42:45,271 --> 00:42:48,148
Yes, well, we try to handle it.
632
00:42:55,990 --> 00:42:59,493
GUARD: It's 4:00. We'll be back
in 15 minutes. Do you want anything?
633
00:42:59,661 --> 00:43:02,579
- Coffee, black.
GUARD: Coffee, black.
634
00:43:07,210 --> 00:43:08,835
I'm still here.
635
00:43:09,003 --> 00:43:10,545
Ha, ha. I'm so glad.
636
00:43:10,713 --> 00:43:13,423
If you could get me in for five minutes,
I'd appreciate it.
637
00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:16,468
- Mr. Bernstein.
- I have to get back.
638
00:43:16,636 --> 00:43:18,720
We're going to try.
639
00:43:21,182 --> 00:43:23,684
Oh, hi. He's expecting you.
640
00:43:28,856 --> 00:43:30,357
I do have a couple things to do.
641
00:43:30,525 --> 00:43:33,110
I'll be at the Sheraton
if you wanna reach me.
642
00:43:33,278 --> 00:43:36,363
If he has space tomorrow, I'd appreciate it.
Number's on the back.
643
00:43:36,531 --> 00:43:38,365
- Fine.
- I thank you for your patience.
644
00:43:38,533 --> 00:43:42,577
Mm-hm. Thank you, Mr. Bernstein.
Tomorrow it should be better.
645
00:43:42,745 --> 00:43:44,746
I guess so.
646
00:43:48,710 --> 00:43:49,751
WOMAN:
Mr. Dardis' office.
647
00:43:49,919 --> 00:43:53,505
Hi. Please tell Mr. Dardis
that Mr. Bernstein has just left.
648
00:43:53,673 --> 00:43:55,841
He'll be available all day tomorrow.
649
00:43:56,009 --> 00:43:58,802
I think we can probably squeeze him in
around 4:30.
650
00:43:58,970 --> 00:44:00,012
WOMAN: Yes.
- Mm-hm.
651
00:44:00,179 --> 00:44:03,974
And please tell Mr. Dardis he doesn't want
to be late for his 6:30 appointment.
652
00:44:04,142 --> 00:44:06,643
- Yes, I will.
- Mm-hm. Thank you.
653
00:44:09,397 --> 00:44:12,190
[PHONE RINGS]
654
00:44:14,152 --> 00:44:16,862
- Mr. Dardis' office.
CARL: Mr. Martinson at the county clerk's.
655
00:44:17,030 --> 00:44:19,364
- Beg your pardon?
- Martinson at the county clerk's.
656
00:44:19,532 --> 00:44:23,410
There's some records that Dardis wanted.
Could you come get them? We're closing.
657
00:44:23,578 --> 00:44:26,079
Uh, well, yes, I'll be right over.
658
00:44:31,627 --> 00:44:33,253
Excuse me.
659
00:44:50,980 --> 00:44:52,606
DARDIS:
Would be easier too, wouldn't it?
660
00:44:52,774 --> 00:44:55,734
All right. Hold it. What?
661
00:44:55,902 --> 00:44:57,736
CARL: Excuse me.
- Can I help you in some way?
662
00:44:57,904 --> 00:44:59,905
I'm Carl Bernstein. I've been here since 9.
663
00:45:00,073 --> 00:45:02,491
- Wait outside.
- I've been waiting since this morning.
664
00:45:02,658 --> 00:45:04,993
- Finish your call.
- Wait outside, please, will you?
665
00:45:05,161 --> 00:45:07,287
No, no, no.
I'm the reporter from the Post.
666
00:45:07,455 --> 00:45:08,997
We talked on the phone yesterday.
667
00:45:09,165 --> 00:45:12,125
- You told me to come here, and I'm here.
- Okay, yeah, look--
668
00:45:12,293 --> 00:45:14,920
I've got the press here.
I'm gonna have to call you back.
669
00:45:15,088 --> 00:45:18,006
If you didn't wanna see me,
I don't know why you didn't tell me.
670
00:45:18,174 --> 00:45:21,051
I wasted a whole day here,
and my paper's waiting for a story.
671
00:45:21,219 --> 00:45:23,762
You tell me to come,
you said I got a 9:30 appointment.
672
00:45:23,930 --> 00:45:27,224
- I've been waiting the whole day.
- Caught me on the worst day possible.
673
00:45:27,392 --> 00:45:29,810
The man I work for
has started a reelection campaign.
674
00:45:29,977 --> 00:45:32,145
We're gonna have to
see each other tomorrow.
675
00:45:32,313 --> 00:45:34,981
No, I'm facing a deadline.
My paper's saving space for me.
676
00:45:35,149 --> 00:45:37,859
DARDIS: I just don't have a minute now.
CARL: Well, I'm sorry, but--
677
00:45:38,611 --> 00:45:41,405
MIRIAM: Uh, Mr. Dardis, I'm really
very sorry about this. Mr. Bernstein--
678
00:45:41,572 --> 00:45:44,908
I beg your pardon, but this gentleman
made the appointment with me...
679
00:45:45,076 --> 00:45:47,661
...and the Washington Post
deserves the same courtesy...
680
00:45:47,829 --> 00:45:49,413
...as any of the people waiting.
681
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:52,499
I'll buzz you in about five minutes.
682
00:45:54,168 --> 00:45:56,378
The lady takes good care of me.
683
00:45:57,171 --> 00:45:59,881
The fact is we just can't go into it
this evening.
684
00:46:00,049 --> 00:46:01,967
It's gonna have to wait until tomorrow.
685
00:46:02,135 --> 00:46:04,136
I wish you could've told me
before I left...
686
00:46:04,303 --> 00:46:08,181
...because I gotta go back to my paper now
and write that story one way or another.
687
00:46:11,686 --> 00:46:15,689
You wanna see Mr. Barker's phone records
and his money records?
688
00:46:15,857 --> 00:46:18,358
You told me you'd show me
everything you got on Barker.
689
00:46:18,526 --> 00:46:19,609
That's all I want.
690
00:46:19,777 --> 00:46:22,988
- Well, that's what I've got.
- Well, that's fine.
691
00:46:23,156 --> 00:46:25,115
You and I have to have an agreement...
692
00:46:25,283 --> 00:46:28,702
...that you're not gonna reveal the source
of your information.
693
00:46:29,162 --> 00:46:33,373
All these are cashier's checks
on a bank in Mexico City.
694
00:46:33,541 --> 00:46:35,375
CARL: All these checks from Mexico?
DARDIS: You see?
695
00:46:35,543 --> 00:46:37,502
CARL: How come?
Did the money originate there?
696
00:46:37,670 --> 00:46:39,880
DARDIS:
Well, I doubt it started off as pesos.
697
00:46:40,047 --> 00:46:41,590
CARL:
Uh....
698
00:46:41,757 --> 00:46:44,968
- Well, wait a minute, what's this one?
DARDIS: Uh, what's...? Okay, $25,000.
699
00:46:45,136 --> 00:46:47,888
CARL: Who's that? Who is that? Dahl--?
DARDIS: Kenneth H. Dahlberg.
700
00:46:48,055 --> 00:46:50,056
We haven't been able to ascertain
who that is.
701
00:46:50,308 --> 00:46:52,559
Bob, I've got something.
I don't know what it is.
702
00:46:52,727 --> 00:46:54,728
Somewhere,
there is a Kenneth H. Dahlberg.
703
00:46:54,896 --> 00:46:57,272
We gotta get to him
before the New York Times does.
704
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,692
I think they have the same information.
Got a pencil? Write this down.
705
00:47:00,860 --> 00:47:04,779
Kenneth H. Dahlberg.
D-A-H-L-B-E-R-G, Dahlberg.
706
00:47:05,907 --> 00:47:09,159
MAN [ON RADIO]: McGovern, who at first
voiced complete support for Eagleton...
707
00:47:09,327 --> 00:47:12,996
...has more recently expressed doubts
and said Eagleton must make a decision...
708
00:47:13,164 --> 00:47:15,248
...whether to stay or leave the ticket.
709
00:47:15,416 --> 00:47:16,958
More with Jean Westwood....
710
00:47:17,126 --> 00:47:20,045
WOMAN: You're the one that wanted
the articles on Kenneth H. Dahlberg?
711
00:47:20,213 --> 00:47:22,756
- Yeah.
- Couldn't find anything in the clip file at all.
712
00:47:22,924 --> 00:47:24,633
- Oh, wonderful.
- Um....
713
00:47:24,926 --> 00:47:28,637
I did find one picture though,
if it's any help.
714
00:47:30,515 --> 00:47:32,015
- Thanks.
- Mm.
715
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,601
[MAN 1 SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
ON RADIO]
716
00:47:37,396 --> 00:47:39,064
BOB:
Minnesota.
717
00:47:39,232 --> 00:47:41,233
MAN 1 [ON RADIO]:
--supported Senator Eagleman.
718
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,778
He is an able United States senator....
719
00:47:44,946 --> 00:47:46,112
BOB:
Minneapolis, Minneapolis.
720
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:50,325
--will make him a prominent figure
in American politics...
721
00:47:50,493 --> 00:47:52,786
...for many, many years.
722
00:47:53,454 --> 00:47:55,455
[CROWD APPLAUDING ON RADIO]
723
00:48:02,296 --> 00:48:07,884
I base that conclusion
upon my conversations with his doctors...
724
00:48:08,052 --> 00:48:11,513
...and my close personal
and political association with him.
725
00:48:11,681 --> 00:48:13,807
- Outside line, please.
WOMAN 1 [OVER PHONE]: Yes.
726
00:48:13,975 --> 00:48:15,684
- Thank you.
MAN 1 [ON RADIO]: In the joint decision...
727
00:48:15,851 --> 00:48:20,313
...that we have reached tonight,
health was not a factor.
728
00:48:20,481 --> 00:48:26,111
But the public debate over
Senator Eagleman's past medical history...
729
00:48:26,279 --> 00:48:30,532
...continues to divert attention
from the great national issues...
730
00:48:30,700 --> 00:48:33,076
...that need to be discussed.
731
00:48:33,244 --> 00:48:39,666
I have referred to the growing pressures
to ask for Senator Eagleton's withdrawal.
732
00:48:39,834 --> 00:48:42,627
- We have also seen....
DAHLBERG [OVER PHONE]: Hello?
733
00:48:42,795 --> 00:48:44,629
- Could I please--? Mr. Dahlberg?
- Yes?
734
00:48:44,797 --> 00:48:47,382
- Kenneth Dahlberg?
- Yes?
735
00:48:47,550 --> 00:48:50,844
This is Bob Woodward
of the Washington Post.
736
00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:53,847
- Yes?
- About that $25,000 check...
737
00:48:54,015 --> 00:48:57,183
...deposited in the bank account
of one of the Watergate burglars...
738
00:48:57,351 --> 00:48:59,269
...Mr. Bernard Barker.
739
00:49:01,522 --> 00:49:04,649
As you know, sir,
the check has your name on it.
740
00:49:05,359 --> 00:49:06,818
We were doing a story on this...
741
00:49:06,986 --> 00:49:09,988
...and I was wondering if you would care
to comment or explain.
742
00:49:10,156 --> 00:49:13,700
Uh, I turn all my money over
to the committee.
743
00:49:13,868 --> 00:49:16,453
What committee is that, sir?
The Committee to Reelect?
744
00:49:16,621 --> 00:49:19,664
- Yes, yes.
- And why would you do that?
745
00:49:19,832 --> 00:49:22,000
MAN 2: That's it, he's done.
- I raise a lot of money.
746
00:49:22,168 --> 00:49:25,420
I'm Midwest Finance chairman.
747
00:49:25,588 --> 00:49:27,881
For the Committee to Reelect?
748
00:49:28,507 --> 00:49:31,009
- Hello?
- Yes, that's right.
749
00:49:31,177 --> 00:49:35,055
How do you think your check got into
the bank account of the Watergate burglar?
750
00:49:35,222 --> 00:49:40,226
I'm a proper citizen. What I do is proper.
751
00:49:40,394 --> 00:49:44,481
- Oh, I understand.
- I've just been through a terrible ordeal.
752
00:49:44,649 --> 00:49:47,692
- My neighbor's wife has been kidnapped.
- Oh.
753
00:49:47,860 --> 00:49:50,320
Well, how do you think your check
got into Barker's account, though--?
754
00:49:50,488 --> 00:49:51,529
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
755
00:49:51,697 --> 00:49:53,698
[SIGHS]
756
00:50:25,106 --> 00:50:26,815
WOMAN 2:
Committee to Reelect the President.
757
00:50:26,982 --> 00:50:28,400
Could I speak to Clark MacGregor?
758
00:50:28,567 --> 00:50:31,027
- One moment, I'll connect you.
- Thank you. Thank you.
759
00:50:32,780 --> 00:50:33,947
MacGREGOR: Yes?
- Mr. MacGregor?
760
00:50:34,115 --> 00:50:37,617
- Yes.
- Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.
761
00:50:38,244 --> 00:50:39,285
- Hello?
- Yes?
762
00:50:39,453 --> 00:50:41,579
Uh, this is Bob Woodward
of the Washington Post.
763
00:50:41,747 --> 00:50:42,789
Mm-hm.
764
00:50:42,957 --> 00:50:46,376
I just spoke to a Kenneth Dahlberg,
who says he is Midwest Finance chairman.
765
00:50:46,544 --> 00:50:48,670
Yeah, I know Ken Dahlberg.
766
00:50:48,838 --> 00:50:50,839
Well, I can't seem to get an explanation...
767
00:50:51,006 --> 00:50:53,842
...on why a check for $25,000
made out to Mr. Dahlberg...
768
00:50:54,009 --> 00:50:56,136
...that he sent
to the Committee to Reelect...
769
00:50:56,303 --> 00:50:58,805
...would end up in the account
of a Watergate burglar.
770
00:50:58,973 --> 00:51:00,265
I don't know.
771
00:51:00,433 --> 00:51:02,976
- But you're head of the committee.
- I just came aboard.
772
00:51:03,144 --> 00:51:05,645
John Mitchell was head of the committee.
He might know.
773
00:51:05,813 --> 00:51:08,314
- What would the explanation possibly--?
- I don't know.
774
00:51:08,482 --> 00:51:10,150
You're implying that I should know.
775
00:51:10,317 --> 00:51:13,695
If you print that,
our relationship will be terminated.
776
00:51:14,780 --> 00:51:16,114
We don't have a relationship.
777
00:51:16,282 --> 00:51:19,117
The issues of the campaign
are peace and prosperity...
778
00:51:19,285 --> 00:51:21,286
...not a campaign check.
779
00:51:21,454 --> 00:51:22,787
WOMAN 3: Bob.
- Sir, no one is saying--
780
00:51:22,955 --> 00:51:24,831
WOMAN 3: Bob.
- This happened before I came aboard.
781
00:51:24,999 --> 00:51:28,168
WOMAN 3: Mr. Dahlberg is on Line 2.
- I'm running a campaign.
782
00:51:28,335 --> 00:51:32,380
We've raised $60 million,
and you're asking about a $25,000 check.
783
00:51:32,548 --> 00:51:35,341
Mr. MacGregor, excuse me,
could you hold one second, please?
784
00:51:35,509 --> 00:51:36,843
- All right.
- Thank you. Yes?
785
00:51:37,011 --> 00:51:38,595
DAHLBERG: Hello?
- Mr. Dahlberg?
786
00:51:38,763 --> 00:51:40,847
- Yes.
- Could you please hold one second, sir?
787
00:51:41,015 --> 00:51:42,515
- Yes.
- Thank you. Mr. MacGregor?
788
00:51:42,683 --> 00:51:44,225
MacGREGOR: Yeah?
- Can I call you right back?
789
00:51:44,393 --> 00:51:46,686
- Yeah, okay.
- Thank you. Mr. Dahlberg.
790
00:51:46,854 --> 00:51:50,064
DAHLBERG:
Yes. Uh, I'm sorry I hung up before.
791
00:51:50,232 --> 00:51:53,109
I wasn't sure you were
a Washington Post reporter.
792
00:51:53,277 --> 00:51:56,780
I believe we were talking
about a $25,000 check.
793
00:51:56,947 --> 00:52:00,950
Um.... Obviously, this is difficult for me.
794
00:52:01,118 --> 00:52:04,537
Uh, I'm caught
in the middle of something...
795
00:52:04,705 --> 00:52:06,539
...and I don't know what.
796
00:52:06,707 --> 00:52:09,501
- I don't--
- What do you think it could be?
797
00:52:09,668 --> 00:52:13,713
- Well, I deal with a lot of important people.
- People who work for the committee?
798
00:52:13,881 --> 00:52:15,381
- Hello?
- For the committee.
799
00:52:15,549 --> 00:52:18,259
- The Committee to Reelect the President?
- Yes.
800
00:52:18,427 --> 00:52:20,762
You see, I raised that money in cash...
801
00:52:20,930 --> 00:52:23,556
...and I have a winter home in Florida.
802
00:52:23,724 --> 00:52:26,726
- Is that in Miami?
- Boca Raton.
803
00:52:26,894 --> 00:52:29,729
And I didn't want to carry
all that cash around.
804
00:52:29,897 --> 00:52:32,398
- Now, you can understand that.
- Oh, of course I can.
805
00:52:32,566 --> 00:52:35,235
So I had it exchanged
for the cashier's check.
806
00:52:35,402 --> 00:52:38,655
And how do you think
it got into Barker's account?
807
00:52:38,823 --> 00:52:40,240
Uh....
808
00:52:40,574 --> 00:52:44,244
I know I shouldn't be telling you this.
Uh....
809
00:52:45,955 --> 00:52:49,499
I gave it to Mr. Stans.
810
00:52:52,086 --> 00:52:53,837
I beg your pardon?
811
00:52:54,004 --> 00:52:57,590
- I gave it to Stans.
- Maurice Stans?
812
00:52:57,758 --> 00:53:01,052
- The head of Finance for Nixon?
- Yes, in Washington.
813
00:53:01,220 --> 00:53:05,390
Now, what he did with it,
I really do not know.
814
00:53:05,558 --> 00:53:09,227
I see. Were there any other checks
that you might be aware of, that could've--?
815
00:53:09,395 --> 00:53:12,313
That's all I have to say.
816
00:53:12,481 --> 00:53:18,111
Mr. MacGregor-- Mr. Dahlberg, I'm sorry.
Thank you very much.
817
00:53:28,956 --> 00:53:30,957
[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
818
00:53:32,084 --> 00:53:35,128
WOMAN 3:
Metro Desk. Yeah, he's here, hold on.
819
00:53:35,296 --> 00:53:36,296
- Bob.
- Yeah?
820
00:53:36,463 --> 00:53:38,464
Carl Bernstein on Line 1.
821
00:53:38,632 --> 00:53:40,216
- One?
- Yeah.
822
00:53:40,384 --> 00:53:43,094
BOB: Yeah?
CARL: Woodward? I got a lead on Dahlberg.
823
00:53:43,262 --> 00:53:44,971
- I just-- I got it.
- What?
824
00:53:45,139 --> 00:53:48,266
I just talked to him. I just hung up.
It goes all the way to Stans.
825
00:53:48,434 --> 00:53:50,143
- What?
- It goes all the way to Stans.
826
00:53:50,311 --> 00:53:52,854
He gave the check to Stans
for the Committee to Reelect.
827
00:53:53,022 --> 00:53:55,815
- Did he say that?
- He said it. I've got it in my notes.
828
00:53:55,983 --> 00:53:57,817
- Jesus.
- It's down on record, Bernstein.
829
00:53:57,985 --> 00:54:00,194
That money winds up
in the account of a burglar?
830
00:54:00,362 --> 00:54:02,697
- Yes. Ha-ha-ha.
- Fantastic. I'm coming home.
831
00:54:02,865 --> 00:54:04,324
Okay.
832
00:54:05,409 --> 00:54:08,745
MAN: --catapulted the unknown senator
from Missouri into national prominence...
833
00:54:08,913 --> 00:54:13,791
...by naming Eagleton as his running mate.
The move surprised the old pros...
834
00:54:13,959 --> 00:54:17,420
...but it paid off in support
for the Democratic ticket.
835
00:54:17,671 --> 00:54:20,548
HOWARD: What happened with that
Taiwan thing you were telling us about?
836
00:54:20,716 --> 00:54:24,677
Japan is going to break diplomatic ties
with Taiwan and recognize they're China.
837
00:54:24,845 --> 00:54:28,181
The irony, of course, that's a direct result
of Nixon's visit to China.
838
00:54:28,349 --> 00:54:30,016
What did he say to him?
839
00:54:30,184 --> 00:54:32,060
DUNLAP:
That's a great parallel story...
840
00:54:32,227 --> 00:54:34,687
...if you're going to
do that piece on dГ©tente.
841
00:54:34,897 --> 00:54:39,275
Uh.... "Queen Elizabeth proclaims a state
of emergency to deal with the dock strike."
842
00:54:39,443 --> 00:54:40,902
BEN:
Bringing it off his boat.
843
00:54:41,070 --> 00:54:42,946
[ALL LAUGHING]
844
00:54:43,113 --> 00:54:44,530
DUNLAP:
That could be a human-interest.
845
00:54:44,698 --> 00:54:46,741
Thirty-one days of rain
in the Philippines...
846
00:54:46,909 --> 00:54:49,202
...being blamed on the theft
of a statue of Jesus.
847
00:54:49,370 --> 00:54:51,829
- We had one like that before.
- Front-page article.
848
00:54:51,997 --> 00:54:54,290
- Absolutely not.
MAN 1: I'll put my best writer on that.
849
00:54:54,458 --> 00:54:55,708
MAN 2: What about
the one in India months ago?
850
00:54:55,876 --> 00:54:56,876
Drop that.
851
00:54:57,044 --> 00:54:59,712
Laugh, gentlemen.
It'll be the only story everyone reads.
852
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:01,547
Okay. National?
853
00:55:01,715 --> 00:55:04,175
We have the Bremer diary,
wished to kill Nixon.
854
00:55:04,343 --> 00:55:07,428
He took a car trip to New York,
Ottawa and Washington to kill him.
855
00:55:07,596 --> 00:55:08,721
HOWARD: Jesus Christ.
HARRY: Yeah.
856
00:55:08,889 --> 00:55:11,683
We have the Senate
approving the ABM Treaty.
857
00:55:11,850 --> 00:55:13,059
- Yeah, that's mine.
HOWARD: ABM.
858
00:55:13,227 --> 00:55:17,981
And, of course, we have McGovern
offering the VP spot to everybody.
859
00:55:18,148 --> 00:55:19,440
- Yeah, that's news.
- I have--
860
00:55:19,608 --> 00:55:22,360
Everybody's been offered it.
I'll tell you what'll be news.
861
00:55:22,528 --> 00:55:24,237
When somebody accepts it.
That'll be news.
862
00:55:24,405 --> 00:55:25,446
[ALL CHUCKLING]
863
00:55:25,614 --> 00:55:26,864
MAN 3: Yeah.
- Here is some great art.
864
00:55:27,032 --> 00:55:28,074
HOWARD:
Yeah, big mistake.
865
00:55:28,242 --> 00:55:31,911
McGovern and Humphrey, breakfast,
smiling their asses off.
866
00:55:32,079 --> 00:55:34,080
- Isn’t that great?
- Oh, look at that.
867
00:55:34,248 --> 00:55:36,416
MOFFITT:
Humphrey said, "I am George's friend."
868
00:55:36,583 --> 00:55:38,126
Why is that man smiling?
869
00:55:38,293 --> 00:55:40,211
MOFFITT: "I am his friend."
- Sounds friendly, huh?
870
00:55:40,379 --> 00:55:42,922
MOFFITT: "I'll be helping him in ways
he never dreamed possible."
871
00:55:43,090 --> 00:55:45,883
MAN 4:
Breakfast followed by lunch.
872
00:55:46,051 --> 00:55:48,428
MOFFITT: Got a good picture?
- Okay. Metro?
873
00:55:48,595 --> 00:55:50,930
Well, we got the schoolteachers
on Capitol Hill.
874
00:55:51,098 --> 00:55:55,309
They want a 17% increase in pay,
or this fall they go on strike.
875
00:55:55,477 --> 00:55:58,563
Harry, I think we could mention
that this might be the time...
876
00:55:58,731 --> 00:56:01,524
...to go to the front page
on the District Home Rule.
877
00:56:01,692 --> 00:56:02,984
BEN: Oh, come on.
- Listen to him.
878
00:56:03,152 --> 00:56:06,446
Ben, this time it could go all the way.
879
00:56:06,613 --> 00:56:09,365
The House is gonna vote next week
on a Senate resolution.
880
00:56:09,533 --> 00:56:11,409
When they pass it, we'll run with it.
881
00:56:11,577 --> 00:56:14,120
Okay, fellas, let's go around again now.
Foreign?
882
00:56:14,288 --> 00:56:17,707
- Uh, Taiwan emergency, Philippines.
- Okay, fine. National?
883
00:56:17,875 --> 00:56:21,127
The Eagleton follow-ups, McGovern
not being able to get a replacement.
884
00:56:21,295 --> 00:56:23,546
He's offered it to Humphrey,
Kennedy and Ribicoff.
885
00:56:23,714 --> 00:56:25,715
All turned him down.
That's the Page 1 lead.
886
00:56:25,883 --> 00:56:28,676
You're ignoring the importance
of the Dahlberg repercussions.
887
00:56:28,844 --> 00:56:30,970
Nobody cares
about the Dahlberg repercussions.
888
00:56:31,138 --> 00:56:35,641
Our story got the General Accounting Office
to start an audit with CREEP Finance.
889
00:56:35,809 --> 00:56:39,437
Yeah, we printed that, didn't we?
When the audit's done, we'll print that too.
890
00:56:39,605 --> 00:56:41,314
MOFFITT:
Let me tell you what happened today.
891
00:56:41,482 --> 00:56:43,399
I was having lunch
at the Sans Souci and--
892
00:56:43,567 --> 00:56:46,527
ALL: Aww....
HOWARD: How much this time?
893
00:56:46,695 --> 00:56:49,447
This White House guy, a good one, a pro,
came up and asked:
894
00:56:49,615 --> 00:56:51,866
"What is this Watergate compulsion
with you guys?"
895
00:56:52,034 --> 00:56:53,076
Compulsion?
896
00:56:53,243 --> 00:56:55,578
- I said--
- This is a story. This is not compulsion.
897
00:56:55,746 --> 00:56:58,164
I said, "Well, we think it's important,"
and he said:
898
00:56:58,332 --> 00:56:59,874
"If it's so goddamn important...
899
00:57:00,042 --> 00:57:02,168
...who in the hell are Woodward
and Bernstein?"
900
00:57:02,336 --> 00:57:05,713
What do you expect from the White House?
"You're doing a great job"?
901
00:57:05,881 --> 00:57:08,216
Now, why don't you ask him
what he's really saying?
902
00:57:08,383 --> 00:57:10,676
He wants to take the story away
from Woodstein...
903
00:57:10,844 --> 00:57:12,303
...and give it to National Desk.
904
00:57:12,471 --> 00:57:14,347
I have experienced guys sitting around...
905
00:57:14,515 --> 00:57:16,682
...who know the politicians,
have the contacts.
906
00:57:16,850 --> 00:57:19,185
HOWARD: We're aware of that.
- You said it. Sitting around.
907
00:57:19,353 --> 00:57:23,314
Ben. It's a dangerous story for this paper.
908
00:57:24,066 --> 00:57:27,443
MOFFITT: What if your boys get it wrong?
- Then it's our ass, isn't it?
909
00:57:27,611 --> 00:57:30,363
HOWARD:
We all have to go out and work for a living.
910
00:57:30,823 --> 00:57:34,700
National gets eight columns.
Nine for Foreign.
911
00:57:34,868 --> 00:57:37,537
Metro, 15.
912
00:57:37,704 --> 00:57:40,081
- That's it, fellas.
- Okay.
913
00:57:40,249 --> 00:57:42,041
Could've been worse.
914
00:57:43,544 --> 00:57:46,379
BEN:
Hey, Scott, I need to see you.
915
00:57:48,006 --> 00:57:49,048
How dangerous?
916
00:57:49,216 --> 00:57:51,384
[DOOR CLOSES]
917
00:57:51,552 --> 00:57:53,553
[SIGHS]
918
00:57:54,179 --> 00:57:57,890
Well, it's not just that we're using
unnamed sources that bothers me...
919
00:57:58,058 --> 00:58:00,726
...or that everything we print,
the White House denies...
920
00:58:02,146 --> 00:58:05,439
...or that almost no other papers
are reprinting our stuff.
921
00:58:05,607 --> 00:58:07,066
What, then?
922
00:58:07,234 --> 00:58:09,569
Look, there are over 2000 reporters
in this town...
923
00:58:09,736 --> 00:58:12,446
...and there are five on Watergate?
924
00:58:12,614 --> 00:58:16,492
Where did the Washington Post
suddenly get the monopoly on wisdom?
925
00:58:17,452 --> 00:58:19,203
Why would the Republicans do it?
926
00:58:20,122 --> 00:58:21,581
McGovern is self-destructing...
927
00:58:21,748 --> 00:58:24,584
...just like Humphrey, Muskie,
the bunch of them.
928
00:58:26,587 --> 00:58:28,838
I don't believe the story.
929
00:58:29,548 --> 00:58:31,757
Doesn't make sense.
930
00:58:33,719 --> 00:58:35,595
Yeah, Bernstein.
931
00:58:35,762 --> 00:58:37,597
Now? All right.
932
00:58:37,764 --> 00:58:41,017
Woodward, Bradlee will see us now.
Answer the phone for me.
933
00:58:41,185 --> 00:58:44,437
MAN 1: Are you trying to find
the lowest possible common denominator?
934
00:58:44,605 --> 00:58:47,231
Is that your plan in the convention?
935
00:58:47,399 --> 00:58:49,275
MAN 2:
Gonna give us something to do?
936
00:58:49,443 --> 00:58:53,487
WOMAN 1: Bob, Frances is on the phone.
BOB: Tell her I'll call her back.
937
00:58:54,865 --> 00:58:56,908
MAN 3:
All right, in this....
938
00:58:59,119 --> 00:59:03,956
WOMAN 2: We have reports that Republican
Les Aspin has informed the secretary of....
939
00:59:04,124 --> 00:59:05,416
MICKEY:
Ben, it's the hottest item.
940
00:59:05,584 --> 00:59:07,293
- It's in over 500 papers.
- What is it?
941
00:59:07,461 --> 00:59:10,796
MICKEY: Yesterday's weather report for
people who were drunk and slept all day.
942
00:59:10,964 --> 00:59:13,466
Send it to the San Francisco Chronicle.
They need it.
943
00:59:13,634 --> 00:59:15,301
MICKEY: How about the crossword puzzle?
- No.
944
00:59:15,469 --> 00:59:18,804
MICKEY: Anagrams?
- No space. No space, Mickey.
945
00:59:18,972 --> 00:59:21,891
MICKEY: You guys, last thing you
bought from me was the obituaries.
946
00:59:22,059 --> 00:59:25,519
- Make them buy something, will you?
BEN: All right. Hey, what do you guys want?
947
00:59:25,687 --> 00:59:28,648
The GAO reports are due out
the morning of Nixon's renomination.
948
00:59:28,815 --> 00:59:30,483
Hey, sit down, sit down.
949
00:59:30,651 --> 00:59:33,152
Well, that's two weeks from now.
950
00:59:33,487 --> 00:59:35,571
Since they're only responsible
to Congress...
951
00:59:35,739 --> 00:59:38,324
...no way the White House
can control the investigation.
952
00:59:38,492 --> 00:59:40,451
A source at General Accounting tells us...
953
00:59:40,619 --> 00:59:44,163
...there's a whole rat's nest
of illegal shit going on over at CREEP.
954
00:59:44,331 --> 00:59:46,040
- Like what?
- Like a slush fund.
955
00:59:46,208 --> 00:59:48,834
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
of unaccounted-for cash.
956
00:59:49,002 --> 00:59:50,544
BEN:
Hundreds of thousands of dollars?
957
00:59:50,712 --> 00:59:53,297
HOWARD: Any comment from CREEP?
- Yes, unavailable for comment.
958
00:59:53,465 --> 00:59:54,507
They're not talking.
959
00:59:54,675 --> 00:59:58,094
What else besides the money?
Where's the goddamn story?
960
00:59:59,846 --> 01:00:02,431
- The money's the key to whatever this is.
- Says who?
961
01:00:02,599 --> 01:00:03,683
HOWARD: Deep Throat.
- Who?
962
01:00:03,850 --> 01:00:07,270
Oh, that's Woodward's garage freak,
his source in the executive.
963
01:00:07,437 --> 01:00:08,479
Garage freak?
964
01:00:08,647 --> 01:00:11,607
Jesus, what kind
of a crazy fucking story is this?
965
01:00:11,775 --> 01:00:12,817
Who did you say?
966
01:00:13,694 --> 01:00:15,486
[SIGHS]
967
01:00:15,654 --> 01:00:19,865
He's on deep background.
I call him Deep Throat.
968
01:00:20,409 --> 01:00:24,036
BEN: Look, McGovern's dropped to nothing,
Nixon's guaranteed the renomination...
969
01:00:24,204 --> 01:00:26,372
...the Post is stuck
with a story no one wants.
970
01:00:26,540 --> 01:00:29,458
It'll sink the goddamn paper.
Everyone says, "Get off it, Ben."
971
01:00:29,626 --> 01:00:33,379
And I come on very sage and I say,
"You'll see. You wait till this bottoms out."
972
01:00:33,547 --> 01:00:37,383
But the truth is,
I can't figure out what we've got.
973
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:41,053
What else are you working on?
974
01:00:41,221 --> 01:00:43,222
Well, we're after a list
of CREEP employees.
975
01:00:43,390 --> 01:00:45,599
BEN: Where is it?
- It's classified.
976
01:00:45,767 --> 01:00:48,936
BEN: Well, how you gonna get it?
- We haven't had any luck yet.
977
01:00:49,396 --> 01:00:50,896
Get some.
978
01:00:55,944 --> 01:00:57,236
Anything else?
979
01:00:58,905 --> 01:01:00,906
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
980
01:01:07,372 --> 01:01:09,540
You made a mistake in there.
981
01:01:12,919 --> 01:01:14,295
What?
982
01:01:14,463 --> 01:01:17,673
You said we haven't had any luck yet,
that's the thing he jumps on.
983
01:01:17,841 --> 01:01:19,050
You can't talk about luck.
984
01:01:19,217 --> 01:01:22,094
If you can't talk in specifics,
you shouldn't say anything.
985
01:01:28,101 --> 01:01:30,061
Is there any place you don't smoke?
986
01:01:30,228 --> 01:01:32,229
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
987
01:01:32,981 --> 01:01:34,607
- What?
- Hold it. Hold it.
988
01:01:34,775 --> 01:01:36,901
- What are you doing?
BOB: Kay Eddy.
989
01:01:37,069 --> 01:01:40,196
Doesn't she go with a guy
that works for the Committee to Reelect?
990
01:01:40,364 --> 01:01:41,781
KAY: Meet me at 4.
MAN: All right.
991
01:01:41,948 --> 01:01:43,407
BOB: Eddy? Hey.
- Just a second.
992
01:01:43,575 --> 01:01:46,744
BOB: Kay, can--?
- 757-6521.
993
01:01:46,912 --> 01:01:49,705
Okay, I'll get back to you on this.
Thanks.
994
01:01:49,873 --> 01:01:53,459
BOB: Don't you go with a guy that works
for the Committee to Reelect?
995
01:01:54,336 --> 01:01:56,295
- Not anymore.
CARL: You did go with him, though.
996
01:01:56,463 --> 01:01:59,090
- You were engaged to him, weren't you?
- Yeah.
997
01:01:59,257 --> 01:02:01,133
You got out of it?
998
01:02:01,802 --> 01:02:03,969
- So?
- You're looking better.
999
01:02:04,137 --> 01:02:06,138
[ALL LAUGHING]
1000
01:02:07,057 --> 01:02:09,141
We need a list of the people
that work there.
1001
01:02:09,309 --> 01:02:10,810
Do you think that...?
1002
01:02:10,977 --> 01:02:13,896
- I can't do that.
CARL: Why not?
1003
01:02:14,064 --> 01:02:15,147
That's personal.
1004
01:02:15,315 --> 01:02:17,942
What do you mean? You said it was over.
1005
01:02:20,654 --> 01:02:23,114
You're asking me
to use a guy I care about.
1006
01:02:23,281 --> 01:02:25,950
CARL: No, no, we're not asking you
to use him, just to help us.
1007
01:02:26,118 --> 01:02:28,494
- Well, sure you--
CARL: I mean, we'd do the same for you.
1008
01:02:28,662 --> 01:02:30,830
My only chance of getting that
is if I see him.
1009
01:02:30,997 --> 01:02:33,791
- I don't wanna see him again.
- Well, do you have to see him?
1010
01:02:33,959 --> 01:02:36,293
- Sure, I have to.
- Do you have to see him that way?
1011
01:02:36,461 --> 01:02:37,795
Can't you just call him up...
1012
01:02:37,963 --> 01:02:40,840
...and say you wanna have a drink with him,
just feel him out?
1013
01:02:41,007 --> 01:02:44,593
You say the relationship is over.
I mean, what the hell do you have to lose?
1014
01:02:45,554 --> 01:02:47,179
Forget it.
1015
01:02:47,639 --> 01:02:49,682
Don't do anything
that would embarrass you...
1016
01:02:49,850 --> 01:02:52,268
...or that you don't feel right about.
1017
01:02:53,103 --> 01:02:54,728
Forget it.
1018
01:02:55,689 --> 01:02:57,189
Let's go.
1019
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:06,198
CARL: Don't let her get off like that.
She was gonna say something.
1020
01:03:06,366 --> 01:03:07,533
You're overdramatizing.
1021
01:03:07,701 --> 01:03:10,077
- She was gonna give us what we wanted.
- It was over.
1022
01:03:10,245 --> 01:03:11,954
CARL: What?
BOB: It was over.
1023
01:03:17,043 --> 01:03:19,837
This looks like your story.
Why don't you take a look at it?
1024
01:03:20,005 --> 01:03:22,047
I'm gonna check this out.
1025
01:03:25,886 --> 01:03:28,888
WOMAN: You're gonna get fat
eating all those doughnuts.
1026
01:03:56,583 --> 01:03:59,084
CARL: Is this the whole list?
BOB: Look what it says.
1027
01:03:59,252 --> 01:04:02,588
"Personnel,
Committee to Reelect the President."
1028
01:04:03,632 --> 01:04:04,673
CARL:
This is alphabetical.
1029
01:04:04,841 --> 01:04:07,718
- You can't tell who works for who.
BOB: Find the department heads:
1030
01:04:07,886 --> 01:04:09,512
Mitchell, Magruder, Stans.
1031
01:04:09,679 --> 01:04:10,930
CARL:
Here. John Mitchell.
1032
01:04:11,097 --> 01:04:12,264
BOB: What's the number?
CARL: 301.
1033
01:04:12,432 --> 01:04:15,434
BOB: All right, find somebody
who has a number close to it.
1034
01:04:15,602 --> 01:04:18,103
- They probably work for him. Okay.
CARL: Here's a 303.
1035
01:04:20,857 --> 01:04:24,151
CARL: Okay, we have to find out how
the money got from Stans to the burglars.
1036
01:04:24,319 --> 01:04:26,737
BOB:
Somebody who worked in Finance.
1037
01:04:27,113 --> 01:04:29,949
CARL: All right, here's the head of Finance.
Maurice Stans, 269.
1038
01:04:30,116 --> 01:04:33,702
BOB: If we can just get somebody
who works under Stans.
1039
01:04:34,079 --> 01:04:35,955
CARL: Uh, Sloan? You need him?
BOB: He's the treasurer.
1040
01:04:36,122 --> 01:04:38,040
- What's the number?
CARL: It's Hugh Sloan, 287.
1041
01:04:38,208 --> 01:04:39,875
BOB:
Is there a secretary?
1042
01:04:41,253 --> 01:04:44,463
- Wait a minute. Manley, Manley, Manley.
CARL: Here it is. Irene Manley?
1043
01:04:44,631 --> 01:04:47,967
BOB: Yeah.
CARL: 1406 Lee Jackson Memorial Highway.
1044
01:04:48,343 --> 01:04:50,302
BOB: Hi, I'm Bob Woodward.
CARL: I'm Carl Bernstein.
1045
01:04:50,470 --> 01:04:53,430
BOB: We're from the Washington Post.
We'd like to speak to you.
1046
01:04:53,598 --> 01:04:56,475
We understand your daughter works
for the Committee to Reelect.
1047
01:04:56,643 --> 01:04:59,603
CARL: Wouldn't be anything embarrassing.
BOB: Would you object to just--?
1048
01:04:59,771 --> 01:05:01,063
MAN:
Forget it.
1049
01:05:02,065 --> 01:05:03,107
- Yes? Hi.
CARL: Hi.
1050
01:05:03,275 --> 01:05:04,650
BOB: Miss Milland? Betty Milland?
- Mm-hm.
1051
01:05:04,818 --> 01:05:06,610
BOB: I'm Bob Woodward.
CARL: Carl Bernstein.
1052
01:05:06,778 --> 01:05:08,237
We're from the Washington Post.
1053
01:05:08,405 --> 01:05:10,990
I know you're trying to do your job.
I mean....
1054
01:05:11,700 --> 01:05:13,826
You don't understand
the pressure we're under.
1055
01:05:13,994 --> 01:05:16,996
- If we could come in for a couple seconds--
- No, I really don't--
1056
01:05:17,163 --> 01:05:18,205
We don't wanna come in.
1057
01:05:18,373 --> 01:05:22,376
We understand there was some documents
that were shredded at the committee.
1058
01:05:22,544 --> 01:05:24,128
Well, there, uh....
1059
01:05:24,296 --> 01:05:26,589
There's often shredding.
I mean, we do that a lot.
1060
01:05:26,756 --> 01:05:28,465
Were you there during the shredding?
1061
01:05:28,633 --> 01:05:29,883
- Yes, I was.
- I see.
1062
01:05:30,051 --> 01:05:33,554
Were there any department heads
from the committee who were also present?
1063
01:05:33,722 --> 01:05:36,599
Uh, yes. Mr. Mitchell came in one night.
1064
01:05:36,766 --> 01:05:37,808
BOB: John Mitchell?
- Yes.
1065
01:05:37,976 --> 01:05:39,184
- The attorney general?
- Uh-huh.
1066
01:05:39,352 --> 01:05:42,021
He was carrying a raincoat over his head.
1067
01:05:42,188 --> 01:05:44,023
You know, because he was--
I thought he was gonna go:
1068
01:05:44,190 --> 01:05:45,482
Woo-hoo. Woo-hoo.
1069
01:05:45,650 --> 01:05:48,110
- But, uh, I--
- Did he supervise the shredding?
1070
01:05:48,278 --> 01:05:50,362
Uh, I just--
Can I not answer any more questions?
1071
01:05:50,530 --> 01:05:53,449
I'd just as soon not....
Okay? Maybe I could call you.
1072
01:05:53,617 --> 01:05:56,368
CARL: It's--
- Are you being told not to talk?
1073
01:05:57,120 --> 01:06:00,623
CARL: Will you call us?
- I don't know.
1074
01:06:00,790 --> 01:06:01,957
I'll try.
1075
01:06:02,125 --> 01:06:04,460
What about that shredding
right after the break-in?
1076
01:06:04,628 --> 01:06:06,629
We need to know the papers
in the shredding.
1077
01:06:06,796 --> 01:06:10,382
You have some idea what's in the papers
when the attorney general comes in...
1078
01:06:10,550 --> 01:06:13,510
...it's at the committee,
and he's got a raincoat over his head.
1079
01:06:13,678 --> 01:06:16,347
It could be raining.
Let me go through the story again.
1080
01:06:16,514 --> 01:06:18,766
You got a woman who's frightened.
Works for CREEP.
1081
01:06:18,933 --> 01:06:21,894
She said there's shredding.
We don't know what's in the papers.
1082
01:06:22,062 --> 01:06:25,564
We know the former attorney general
comes in with an overcoat over his head.
1083
01:06:25,732 --> 01:06:29,318
Could be raining. There's a lawyer present.
We don't know what he asked them.
1084
01:06:29,486 --> 01:06:31,320
Will you tell me where there's a story?
1085
01:06:31,488 --> 01:06:34,490
In the fact that the interview
did not take place in her home...
1086
01:06:34,658 --> 01:06:36,408
...but in the office of the committee.
1087
01:06:36,576 --> 01:06:40,245
- How is there a story in that?
- Because there's a lawyer in the office.
1088
01:06:40,413 --> 01:06:42,706
- You're more resistant than she is.
- That's right.
1089
01:06:42,874 --> 01:06:45,376
- Why?
- Because there's not enough fact.
1090
01:06:45,543 --> 01:06:48,754
CARL: Well, then let's just turn around
and go back and question her again.
1091
01:06:50,715 --> 01:06:53,592
- This won't take long at all. We just--
- Please go away, okay?
1092
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:56,512
Will you please leave
before they see you?
1093
01:06:56,680 --> 01:06:59,640
- Who did you mean by--?
- What do you mean, "they"?
1094
01:06:59,808 --> 01:07:01,392
Could you give us their names?
1095
01:07:01,559 --> 01:07:05,562
CARL: We haven't revealed the sources
of the people that have talked to us.
1096
01:07:05,980 --> 01:07:10,442
- I really can't talk about this because--
- Would they be members of the committee?
1097
01:07:13,279 --> 01:07:15,114
CARL:
Someone got to that woman.
1098
01:07:15,281 --> 01:07:16,907
It's the key to the whole cover-up.
1099
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.
1100
01:07:20,286 --> 01:07:24,581
Then I don't know what the hell you need.
So you tell me what you need.
1101
01:07:25,166 --> 01:07:28,293
BOB: I need more fact for a story,
and I think you should need the same.
1102
01:07:28,461 --> 01:07:30,963
CARL: If you get in a car and there's music--
- I'm in a car.
1103
01:07:31,131 --> 01:07:33,424
There's music playing in the car--
Hypothetically.
1104
01:07:33,591 --> 01:07:36,468
There's music playing for 10 minutes
and there's no commercial.
1105
01:07:36,636 --> 01:07:38,053
What can you deduce from that?
1106
01:07:38,221 --> 01:07:39,388
- Is it AM or FM?
- Come on.
1107
01:07:39,556 --> 01:07:40,639
Is it AM or FM?
1108
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.
1109
01:07:45,019 --> 01:07:47,813
Now, is the man interrogating me,
or is he lost?
1110
01:07:47,981 --> 01:07:49,481
What kind of a story do I write?
1111
01:07:49,649 --> 01:07:51,692
What kind of a deduction
do I make from that?
1112
01:07:51,860 --> 01:07:54,862
CARL: You don't have a gut feeling
that the woman is trying to help us?
1113
01:07:55,029 --> 01:07:57,656
BOB: I don't have enough gut feeling.
I wish I did.
1114
01:07:58,658 --> 01:08:01,160
BOB:
We're from the Washington Post.
1115
01:08:02,412 --> 01:08:04,163
Ammons, Irene Ammons. Did we see her?
1116
01:08:05,331 --> 01:08:09,501
Abbott, Addison, Augusto, Alberts.
1117
01:08:16,885 --> 01:08:19,386
Is there something that strikes you
as odd about this?
1118
01:08:19,554 --> 01:08:21,305
CARL: What?
BOB: It's like there's a pattern...
1119
01:08:21,473 --> 01:08:24,600
...to the way they're not talking,
the way they say no all the time.
1120
01:08:24,768 --> 01:08:25,976
I think it's odd.
1121
01:08:26,352 --> 01:08:27,895
- Mrs. Hambling?
- Yes.
1122
01:08:28,062 --> 01:08:32,649
- Hi, we're from the Washington Post.
- I'm Carl Bernstein, this is Bob Woodward.
1123
01:08:32,817 --> 01:08:35,694
BOB: A friend of the committee
said that we could contact you.
1124
01:08:35,862 --> 01:08:37,905
- Who was it?
- We can't reveal that.
1125
01:08:38,072 --> 01:08:40,365
You can talk to us.
We don't reveal our sources.
1126
01:08:40,533 --> 01:08:42,576
You people.
1127
01:08:43,036 --> 01:08:46,830
You think you can come into my home,
ask a few questions...
1128
01:08:46,998 --> 01:08:52,336
...have me destroy the reputations
of men that I work for and respect?
1129
01:08:53,171 --> 01:08:55,380
Do you understand loyalty?
1130
01:08:55,548 --> 01:08:58,050
Have you ever heard of loyalty?
1131
01:08:58,676 --> 01:09:00,302
BOB & CARL: Hi.
- Yes?
1132
01:09:00,470 --> 01:09:02,054
BOB: I'm Bob Woodward.
CARL: Carl Bernstein.
1133
01:09:02,222 --> 01:09:04,640
- We're from the Washington Post.
- Yes.
1134
01:09:04,808 --> 01:09:08,101
I've read what you've written.
I wanna thank you.
1135
01:09:08,561 --> 01:09:11,897
I've been a Republican all my life,
but this goes beyond party politics.
1136
01:09:12,065 --> 01:09:14,525
Would you mind
if we asked you a few questions?
1137
01:09:14,692 --> 01:09:16,860
No, no. Come in. Would you like coffee?
1138
01:09:18,196 --> 01:09:19,613
Sure.
1139
01:09:19,781 --> 01:09:22,533
What they've done
is a threat to the Constitution.
1140
01:09:22,700 --> 01:09:24,827
It goes against everything we stand for.
1141
01:09:24,994 --> 01:09:27,830
Could you be a little bit more specific
than that?
1142
01:09:28,164 --> 01:09:30,791
I'm afraid your articles
have just scratched the surface.
1143
01:09:30,959 --> 01:09:33,585
You don't mind
if I just take a few notes, do you?
1144
01:09:33,753 --> 01:09:35,212
No.
1145
01:09:35,922 --> 01:09:38,465
How long have you worked
at the committee?
1146
01:09:38,633 --> 01:09:39,675
Committee?
1147
01:09:39,843 --> 01:09:43,554
Yes, the Committee
to Reelect the President.
1148
01:09:44,305 --> 01:09:48,100
Oh. Oh, no, I don't work
at the Committee to Reelect the President.
1149
01:09:48,268 --> 01:09:52,896
I work at Garfinckel's,
in the Accounting Department.
1150
01:09:55,900 --> 01:09:58,777
- Miss Abbott?
- Yes.
1151
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:01,113
Judith Abbott?
1152
01:10:03,199 --> 01:10:05,617
Carolyn Abbott.
1153
01:10:07,745 --> 01:10:10,038
We're just doing something wrong.
1154
01:10:12,792 --> 01:10:15,335
- It's never been there.
- No.
1155
01:10:15,712 --> 01:10:17,838
We're doing something wrong.
1156
01:10:18,464 --> 01:10:20,549
It's just not good enough.
1157
01:10:20,967 --> 01:10:24,303
How can you keep going at something
past the point when you'd believe it?
1158
01:10:24,470 --> 01:10:26,471
Just have to start all over again.
1159
01:10:32,312 --> 01:10:35,105
CARL:
Nasemith, Narrow, Ness...
1160
01:10:35,273 --> 01:10:37,441
...Nickels, Nixon--
1161
01:10:37,609 --> 01:10:39,484
BOB:
Ed Nixon.
1162
01:10:39,652 --> 01:10:42,571
Jolson, Jones...
1163
01:10:42,739 --> 01:10:44,740
...Jordan, Jost.
1164
01:10:44,908 --> 01:10:48,160
If we could only get somebody
that worked for Finance to talk.
1165
01:10:48,328 --> 01:10:50,078
- What about the bookkeeper?
CARL: Which?
1166
01:10:50,246 --> 01:10:52,372
BOB: The bookkeeper that worked
for both Slans and--
1167
01:10:52,540 --> 01:10:54,374
CARL: Oh, you're all right.
BOB: Sloan and Stans.
1168
01:10:54,542 --> 01:10:57,336
CARL: I've been there. I've called her twice.
There's no answer.
1169
01:10:57,503 --> 01:10:59,713
BOB:
I say we should start again.
1170
01:11:00,214 --> 01:11:04,343
Abbott, Addison, Augusto, Alberts...
1171
01:11:04,510 --> 01:11:07,262
...Aldus, Alessandro....
1172
01:11:07,430 --> 01:11:10,849
CARL:
Eulosky, Clan, Constell....
1173
01:11:11,017 --> 01:11:15,145
BOB:
Boyle, Brenner, Bromley, Jost....
1174
01:11:15,313 --> 01:11:19,441
CARL:
Nasemith, Narrow, Ness, Nickels....
1175
01:11:19,609 --> 01:11:22,527
BOB:
Teeny, Sandstrom....
1176
01:11:23,947 --> 01:11:26,990
Skroes, Skully--
1177
01:11:27,158 --> 01:11:29,660
CARL:
Skully. We've been there twice.
1178
01:11:30,745 --> 01:11:34,498
All right, Wilcox, Winthrow,
Windsor, Worts....
1179
01:11:35,041 --> 01:11:38,043
Two weeks work, half the names
crossed off and what have you got?
1180
01:11:38,211 --> 01:11:39,795
BOB:
People aren't talking, Harry.
1181
01:11:39,963 --> 01:11:42,631
And it's the way they're not talking
that's unnatural.
1182
01:11:42,799 --> 01:11:46,051
We've been up all night.
We went over all the quotes of the people--
1183
01:11:46,219 --> 01:11:48,553
BOB: It's like they're getting instructions.
It's pat.
1184
01:11:48,721 --> 01:11:51,014
You wanna hear some real news?
1185
01:11:51,182 --> 01:11:53,433
That GAO report
in which you placed so much faith?
1186
01:11:53,601 --> 01:11:56,103
It's been postponed
till after tonight's renomination.
1187
01:11:56,270 --> 01:11:58,730
- What do you mean?
- Hughes got a call from Stans.
1188
01:11:58,898 --> 01:12:01,566
Says he has new information,
not to republish without it.
1189
01:12:01,734 --> 01:12:04,403
They're gonna bury the report
till after the renomination.
1190
01:12:04,570 --> 01:12:06,071
The indictment will be out soon.
1191
01:12:06,239 --> 01:12:10,492
Every indication says the indictment will
stop at the five burglars, Hunt and Liddy.
1192
01:12:10,660 --> 01:12:13,120
And that's the end of your story.
1193
01:12:17,583 --> 01:12:21,670
FORD [ON TV]: The vote of all the delegates
has been recorded.
1194
01:12:23,214 --> 01:12:27,050
The vote for Richard Nixon...
1195
01:12:28,344 --> 01:12:31,722
...is 1347.
1196
01:12:32,974 --> 01:12:37,436
The vote for Paul McCloskey is 1.
1197
01:12:39,564 --> 01:12:45,027
And therefore I declare the nominee
of the Republican Party...
1198
01:12:45,194 --> 01:12:48,405
...for president of the United States...
1199
01:12:48,573 --> 01:12:51,033
...President Richard Nixon.
1200
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:53,910
[CROWD CHEERING ON TV]
1201
01:12:56,289 --> 01:13:02,544
CROWD [CHANTING]: Four more years!
Four more years! Four more years!
1202
01:13:17,977 --> 01:13:23,982
ANNOUNCER: The president and the future
president of the United States of America.
1203
01:13:24,650 --> 01:13:26,818
NIXON:
Wonderful young faces I see out here.
1204
01:13:26,986 --> 01:13:31,364
Your enthusiasm, your idealism,
your hard work.
1205
01:13:31,532 --> 01:13:33,992
This is your first vote...
1206
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:37,704
...and years from now,
I just hope you can all look back...
1207
01:13:37,872 --> 01:13:40,749
...and say it was one of your best votes.
Thank you.
1208
01:13:40,917 --> 01:13:42,918
[CROWD CHEERING ON TV]
1209
01:13:43,211 --> 01:13:48,006
CROWD [CHANTING]: Four more years!
Four more years! Four more years!
1210
01:14:05,858 --> 01:14:08,026
Hi, I'm Carl Bernstein
of the Washington Post.
1211
01:14:08,194 --> 01:14:10,570
I just wanna ask you
a couple of questions.
1212
01:14:10,738 --> 01:14:13,156
WOMAN 1: Well, you don't want me,
you want my sister.
1213
01:14:13,324 --> 01:14:15,534
It's for you. It's Carl Bernstein.
1214
01:14:15,701 --> 01:14:17,661
WOMAN 2 [WHISPERS]:
He's the guy from the Post. Get rid of him.
1215
01:14:17,829 --> 01:14:20,080
Could I just borrow
one of your cigarettes there?
1216
01:14:20,248 --> 01:14:21,665
Sure.
1217
01:14:22,708 --> 01:14:27,003
- You've really gotta go.
CARL: Sure. Could I just get a match?
1218
01:14:27,421 --> 01:14:28,880
I understand your being afraid.
1219
01:14:29,048 --> 01:14:30,715
There's a lot of people like you...
1220
01:14:30,883 --> 01:14:34,219
...who wanted to tell the truth,
but some people wouldn't listen.
1221
01:14:34,887 --> 01:14:38,223
Certain people have gone back
to the prosecutors and the FBI...
1222
01:14:38,391 --> 01:14:40,892
...to give information
which they were never asked.
1223
01:14:42,854 --> 01:14:46,565
You were Hugh Sloan's bookkeeper when
he worked for Maurice Stans up at Finance.
1224
01:14:46,732 --> 01:14:50,360
We were just wondering
if you were promoted...
1225
01:14:50,528 --> 01:14:53,280
...to work for Mr. Stans
immediately after Mr. Sloan quit...
1226
01:14:53,447 --> 01:14:56,783
...or whether there was some time lapse.
1227
01:14:59,829 --> 01:15:03,415
I never worked for Sloan or Stans.
1228
01:15:04,834 --> 01:15:08,170
Uh, can I get you some coffee
or something?
1229
01:15:08,337 --> 01:15:10,255
CARL:
Yeah, thanks very much.
1230
01:15:12,592 --> 01:15:14,217
[DOOR BELLS JINGLE]
1231
01:15:14,385 --> 01:15:16,094
Door sticks.
1232
01:15:18,431 --> 01:15:22,893
Uh, could I just sit down for a second?
1233
01:15:24,979 --> 01:15:28,273
Sure, you can sit down,
but I'm not going to tell you anything.
1234
01:15:29,942 --> 01:15:31,359
Okay.
1235
01:15:52,632 --> 01:15:55,592
I was just curious why you lied just then.
1236
01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:57,886
Have you been threatened
if you tell the truth?
1237
01:15:59,847 --> 01:16:01,348
No.
1238
01:16:02,141 --> 01:16:03,433
Never in so many words.
1239
01:16:04,477 --> 01:16:06,311
WOMAN 1: How do you like it?
- Just milk, thanks.
1240
01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:08,063
WOMAN 1:
Okay, I'll just get the milk.
1241
01:16:08,231 --> 01:16:12,067
Um, I saw in the wires
that Mrs. Stans was in the hospital.
1242
01:16:12,235 --> 01:16:13,318
Is she feeling better?
1243
01:16:19,242 --> 01:16:21,826
The GAO,
the General Accounting report...
1244
01:16:21,994 --> 01:16:24,663
...said that there was $350,000...
1245
01:16:24,830 --> 01:16:28,833
...in the safe
of the Committee to Reelect the President.
1246
01:16:29,001 --> 01:16:32,337
Were you aware that it was that kind
of funds from the very beginning?
1247
01:16:37,260 --> 01:16:40,720
A lot of people are watching me.
They know I know a lot.
1248
01:16:40,888 --> 01:16:45,141
- Was it all in $100 bills?
- A lot of it was.
1249
01:16:45,977 --> 01:16:48,520
I thought it was
an all-purpose political fund...
1250
01:16:48,688 --> 01:16:51,731
...you know, for taking fat cats to dinner,
things like that.
1251
01:16:51,899 --> 01:16:54,192
Three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
for dinners?
1252
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:56,361
[CHUCKLES]
1253
01:16:56,529 --> 01:16:58,822
How was it paid out?
1254
01:17:02,827 --> 01:17:05,245
Not in one big chunk.
1255
01:17:06,372 --> 01:17:08,290
There was a list of 15 names...
1256
01:17:08,457 --> 01:17:12,002
...and the amount of money
given to each person next to the name.
1257
01:17:12,169 --> 01:17:14,462
What happened to the list?
1258
01:17:16,048 --> 01:17:17,674
It was destroyed.
1259
01:17:17,842 --> 01:17:19,718
It was the only record.
1260
01:17:20,594 --> 01:17:24,180
This-- Don't pay any attention to this.
This is just for my memory.
1261
01:17:24,348 --> 01:17:25,932
Hate the....
1262
01:17:26,559 --> 01:17:29,227
I have a very bad memory.
1263
01:17:30,062 --> 01:17:31,604
You won't be quoted by name.
1264
01:17:31,772 --> 01:17:34,983
In fact, we get confirmations
before we print anything.
1265
01:17:35,151 --> 01:17:39,863
I can't be positive that that money
was used for the break-in, you understand?
1266
01:17:40,031 --> 01:17:41,573
Yes, I do.
1267
01:17:41,741 --> 01:17:45,618
- But people sure are worried.
- Which people?
1268
01:17:51,500 --> 01:17:55,378
Think you could help me
with the disbursement of money...
1269
01:17:55,546 --> 01:17:58,173
...in terms of the number of people
that were involved?
1270
01:17:58,341 --> 01:17:59,883
How many?
1271
01:18:02,011 --> 01:18:04,512
A group of them. About five.
I don't know their names.
1272
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:08,391
Would Mr. Sloan know?
1273
01:18:10,936 --> 01:18:12,103
WOMAN 1:
Here you are.
1274
01:18:12,271 --> 01:18:16,316
- Would he have any--?
- I don't wanna say anymore, okay?
1275
01:18:23,032 --> 01:18:26,993
Um, I won't be much longer.
1276
01:18:28,829 --> 01:18:33,708
I wonder if you could just help me
a little bit about the money.
1277
01:18:33,876 --> 01:18:36,628
We hear all kinds of figures.
1278
01:18:39,799 --> 01:18:43,343
- There was so much of it.
- How much is "so much"?
1279
01:18:43,511 --> 01:18:47,305
In one two-day period,
6 million dollars came in.
1280
01:18:48,057 --> 01:18:50,558
- Six.
- Six million, cash.
1281
01:18:50,726 --> 01:18:52,185
CARL:
Mm-hm.
1282
01:18:52,853 --> 01:18:55,480
- We didn't know where to put it all.
- Heh.
1283
01:18:56,273 --> 01:18:57,524
I thought it was all legal.
1284
01:18:57,691 --> 01:19:00,485
I mean, I guess I did
until after the break-in...
1285
01:19:00,653 --> 01:19:02,779
...when I remembered
Gordon got so much of it.
1286
01:19:02,947 --> 01:19:06,491
- This is Mr. Liddy?
- It's all so rotten.
1287
01:19:07,326 --> 01:19:09,327
It's getting worse.
1288
01:19:09,995 --> 01:19:12,914
And the only one I care about
is Hugh Sloan.
1289
01:19:13,082 --> 01:19:17,168
His wife was going to leave him
if he didn't stand up and do what was right.
1290
01:19:17,670 --> 01:19:18,837
So he quit.
1291
01:19:20,548 --> 01:19:22,173
I was wondering...
1292
01:19:23,968 --> 01:19:29,681
...if Hugh Sloan was being set up now
as a fall guy for John Mitchell.
1293
01:19:30,099 --> 01:19:31,516
What do you think?
1294
01:19:34,812 --> 01:19:37,605
[SIGHS]
1295
01:19:39,400 --> 01:19:43,361
If you guys could get John Mitchell,
that would be beautiful.
1296
01:19:51,328 --> 01:19:52,454
Coffee's cold.
1297
01:19:54,748 --> 01:19:56,749
Is there any evidence...
1298
01:19:57,710 --> 01:20:01,129
...that any of Mr. Mitchell's assistants...
1299
01:20:02,256 --> 01:20:03,465
...were part of this?
1300
01:20:04,175 --> 01:20:08,219
I had all the evidence. It was destroyed.
I don't know who destroyed it.
1301
01:20:08,387 --> 01:20:11,431
- I think Gordon did a lot of shredding.
- Hard evidence?
1302
01:20:11,599 --> 01:20:15,685
Well, I can't say that it would positively
prove that they planned the break-in...
1303
01:20:15,853 --> 01:20:17,896
...but it would come pretty close.
1304
01:20:18,063 --> 01:20:22,025
Can you tell me anything, anything,
about who got the money?
1305
01:20:23,152 --> 01:20:28,740
We have had some help on this
from a couple sources...
1306
01:20:28,908 --> 01:20:31,576
...and this is a way of confirming it.
1307
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.
1308
01:20:39,376 --> 01:20:42,170
You know, I can just ask you initials...
1309
01:20:42,338 --> 01:20:46,216
...and then that way
you're not divulging any information.
1310
01:20:46,383 --> 01:20:49,385
We have some idea.
Would that be all right?
1311
01:20:49,887 --> 01:20:51,888
[SIGHS]
1312
01:20:54,141 --> 01:20:56,100
Was there an M?
1313
01:20:58,938 --> 01:21:00,605
Can you just nod either way?
1314
01:21:02,358 --> 01:21:04,400
Did it go that high up?
1315
01:21:08,239 --> 01:21:09,739
L? Hm.
1316
01:21:11,534 --> 01:21:13,076
I don't wanna say any more, okay?
1317
01:21:13,244 --> 01:21:16,246
I'm sorry, you said L or...?
1318
01:21:16,413 --> 01:21:20,333
I get confused.
Could we just go back for a second?
1319
01:21:20,876 --> 01:21:23,002
CARL: In one six-day period,
over $6 million came in.
1320
01:21:23,170 --> 01:21:25,463
Wouldn't believe what was going on
in that woman.
1321
01:21:25,631 --> 01:21:29,133
Stuff was ready to pour out of her.
I'm pouring down coffee to get it out...
1322
01:21:29,301 --> 01:21:30,593
...before she throws me out.
1323
01:21:30,761 --> 01:21:32,845
- Give me your notes so--
- These are the notes.
1324
01:21:33,013 --> 01:21:35,014
- These?
- I got stuff on napkins, matchbooks.
1325
01:21:35,182 --> 01:21:37,725
I'm writing in the bathroom
while she's getting coffee.
1326
01:21:37,893 --> 01:21:39,060
You're crazy. How am I--?
1327
01:21:39,228 --> 01:21:42,230
You'd be crazy too if you were operating
on 20 cups of coffee.
1328
01:21:42,398 --> 01:21:46,234
- Give me something I can get down.
- I got it. I got it all. Okay. Write.
1329
01:21:46,402 --> 01:21:49,195
- Mitchell was in control.
- Wait a minute.
1330
01:21:49,655 --> 01:21:51,948
- There were men working under Mitchell.
- How many?
1331
01:21:52,116 --> 01:21:55,827
I don't know, but the men under Mitchell
received the money from the slush fund.
1332
01:21:55,995 --> 01:21:59,163
- Do we know how much money?
- Yeah, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
1333
01:21:59,331 --> 01:22:02,083
And these men are the key
to what that money was used for.
1334
01:22:02,251 --> 01:22:03,585
Boy, that woman was paranoid.
1335
01:22:03,752 --> 01:22:06,671
At one point, I suddenly wondered
how high up this thing goes...
1336
01:22:06,839 --> 01:22:08,631
...and her paranoia finally got to me.
1337
01:22:08,799 --> 01:22:12,260
I thought what we had was so hot
that CBS or NBC were gonna take the story.
1338
01:22:12,428 --> 01:22:13,469
You're both paranoid.
1339
01:22:13,637 --> 01:22:16,347
She's afraid of Mitchell,
you're afraid of Walter Cronkite.
1340
01:22:16,515 --> 01:22:18,683
- Can we go back to what she said?
- Yeah.
1341
01:22:20,102 --> 01:22:22,895
Here. L, P and M.
1342
01:22:23,814 --> 01:22:25,189
- What do you mean?
- L, P and M.
1343
01:22:25,357 --> 01:22:27,191
- She'd only give me initials.
- Initials?
1344
01:22:27,359 --> 01:22:30,695
Yeah, the initials of the men
that worked under Mitchell: L, P and M.
1345
01:22:30,863 --> 01:22:32,864
You couldn't get the names?
1346
01:22:33,032 --> 01:22:34,240
[CARL SIGHS]
1347
01:22:34,408 --> 01:22:37,368
If I could've, I would've.
I'm trying to get anything I can.
1348
01:22:37,536 --> 01:22:39,746
She said L, P and M--
That's all she'd give me.
1349
01:22:39,913 --> 01:22:41,873
--are the people
who worked under Mitchell.
1350
01:22:42,041 --> 01:22:44,584
She said something about Mitchell.
She hates him.
1351
01:22:44,752 --> 01:22:46,294
- She said that?
- Here. She said:
1352
01:22:46,462 --> 01:22:49,380
"If you guys could get John Mitchell,
that would be beautiful."
1353
01:22:49,548 --> 01:22:51,049
What are you writing about Sloan?
1354
01:22:51,216 --> 01:22:53,635
- "Sloan was the treasurer."
- His wife did what?
1355
01:22:53,802 --> 01:22:57,555
"His wife is pregnant and made Sloan quit.
He no longer wanted to be part of it."
1356
01:22:57,723 --> 01:22:58,890
We've gotta go see Sloan.
1357
01:22:59,058 --> 01:23:00,767
- Okay, make a note of it.
- All right.
1358
01:23:00,934 --> 01:23:03,269
So, what have we got?
Where's that matchbook? Here.
1359
01:23:03,437 --> 01:23:05,521
- L, P and M.
- Okay, L, P and M.
1360
01:23:05,689 --> 01:23:08,399
- L could be LaRue. It could be Liddy.
- L is Liddy.
1361
01:23:08,567 --> 01:23:10,568
- How do we know that?
- Because she said it.
1362
01:23:10,736 --> 01:23:13,154
Right here, she said,
"At the time of the break-in...
1363
01:23:13,322 --> 01:23:16,199
...there was so much money
that I know Gordon got part of it."
1364
01:23:16,367 --> 01:23:19,160
I said, "You mean Gordon Liddy?"
She said yes. So L is Liddy.
1365
01:23:19,328 --> 01:23:20,912
- Right.
- Okay, that leaves P and M.
1366
01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:23,581
P could be Parkinson.
1367
01:23:23,749 --> 01:23:26,250
It could be Porter. It could be--
1368
01:23:26,418 --> 01:23:29,712
Wait a minute. There was a guy.
There was a guy we talked to last week.
1369
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:33,216
Didn't he say there was a Bart Porter
who was a member of the committee?
1370
01:23:33,384 --> 01:23:36,969
- Porter was called before the grand jury.
- So P is definitely Porter.
1371
01:23:37,137 --> 01:23:38,429
P could be Porter.
1372
01:23:38,597 --> 01:23:41,933
P is Porter, L is Liddy. That leaves....
All that leaves is M.
1373
01:23:42,101 --> 01:23:44,727
M could be McCord. That's out.
1374
01:23:44,895 --> 01:23:47,689
It could be Mardian.
1375
01:23:47,856 --> 01:23:49,691
It could be...
1376
01:23:49,858 --> 01:23:51,567
- ...Magruder.
- I think it's Magruder.
1377
01:23:51,735 --> 01:23:54,404
- I think it's Magruder too.
- Why do you think it is?
1378
01:23:54,571 --> 01:23:56,948
He was second in command under Mitchell.
Why do you?
1379
01:23:57,116 --> 01:24:01,077
Because at one time, he was the temporary
head of the committee, before Mitchell.
1380
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.
1381
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.
1382
01:24:09,253 --> 01:24:12,338
If we can make names of the initials...
1383
01:24:12,506 --> 01:24:14,924
...we'll know the people
who paid off the burglars.
1384
01:24:15,092 --> 01:24:17,468
We'll at least know who got the money.
1385
01:24:19,138 --> 01:24:22,098
The indictments that came down
from the grand jury today...
1386
01:24:22,266 --> 01:24:26,310
...stop with the five burglars,
Hunt and Liddy.
1387
01:24:26,979 --> 01:24:30,898
Carl, we have got to go back there and get
that bookkeeper to say who the names are.
1388
01:24:31,066 --> 01:24:32,525
She ain't gonna give it to you.
1389
01:24:32,693 --> 01:24:35,153
- I was with the woman for six hours.
- We gotta try.
1390
01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:37,321
Then you have to trick her, threaten her.
1391
01:24:37,489 --> 01:24:40,199
- Wait, you know what we could do?
- What?
1392
01:24:43,328 --> 01:24:46,038
- Listen, we go back there...
- Yeah.
1393
01:24:46,206 --> 01:24:47,832
...and you ask her who P is.
1394
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:49,083
- Yeah.
- And then I say:
1395
01:24:49,251 --> 01:24:51,627
"No, no, no, we know P is Porter."
I just bury it.
1396
01:24:51,795 --> 01:24:54,213
- Wait a minute. I say to her, "Who is P?"
- Right.
1397
01:24:54,381 --> 01:24:57,175
- Then you say to me--
- I say, "No, we know P is Porter."
1398
01:24:57,342 --> 01:24:59,010
- You try to fake her out?
- Right.
1399
01:24:59,178 --> 01:25:00,845
And what if she denies it?
1400
01:25:01,013 --> 01:25:02,180
- We're screwed.
- So?
1401
01:25:02,347 --> 01:25:06,517
- But if she doesn't, we know P is Porter.
- Try it.
1402
01:25:15,736 --> 01:25:18,613
- Hi.
- They'll see you.
1403
01:25:19,198 --> 01:25:21,532
Not if you let us in, they won't.
1404
01:25:21,700 --> 01:25:24,368
BOB: I'm Bob Woodward.
- They'll see your car.
1405
01:25:24,536 --> 01:25:27,163
CARL:
We parked around the corner.
1406
01:25:27,539 --> 01:25:30,249
You have answers for everything,
don't you?
1407
01:25:30,417 --> 01:25:32,960
BOB:
If we did, we wouldn't be here.
1408
01:25:35,047 --> 01:25:36,255
You wrote what I told you.
1409
01:25:36,423 --> 01:25:38,382
No, not your name.
No one knows it was you.
1410
01:25:38,550 --> 01:25:43,095
Could you tell us who got the money?
And how much?
1411
01:25:43,722 --> 01:25:47,141
You mean like,
"What did you do with the 25 grand, lady?"
1412
01:25:47,309 --> 01:25:48,726
What?
1413
01:25:49,311 --> 01:25:53,022
Little jokes they're making
down at Finance these days.
1414
01:25:53,398 --> 01:25:56,442
If people are to be convinced
that Stans and Sloan are innocent...
1415
01:25:56,610 --> 01:25:59,487
...then our reporting must be precise,
and you can help us.
1416
01:25:59,655 --> 01:26:01,572
- Who is P?
- P, we know, is Porter.
1417
01:26:01,740 --> 01:26:06,452
You said 25 grand.
Is that how much Porter got?
1418
01:26:10,249 --> 01:26:11,374
Was it more?
1419
01:26:16,588 --> 01:26:19,131
Was it more than $50,000?
1420
01:26:22,344 --> 01:26:24,846
Was Magruder the only M
to receive money?
1421
01:26:32,563 --> 01:26:34,230
Who told you about Porter?
1422
01:26:35,607 --> 01:26:36,649
[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
1423
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...
1424
01:26:41,446 --> 01:26:43,656
...and the controversies
coming up out of that.
1425
01:26:43,824 --> 01:26:47,159
It has recently, very recently,
been reported now...
1426
01:26:47,327 --> 01:26:51,664
...that some documents were torn up
at the Committee to Reelect the President.
1427
01:26:51,832 --> 01:26:54,625
Uh, are you investigating the tearing up
of those documents--?
1428
01:26:54,793 --> 01:26:57,461
KLEINDIENST: I think that came out
in the story in the Washington Post.
1429
01:26:57,629 --> 01:26:59,463
WOMAN: Yes.
KLEINDIENST: I think the investigation...
1430
01:26:59,631 --> 01:27:03,634
...that has just concluded itself has
probably been one of the most intensive...
1431
01:27:03,802 --> 01:27:07,638
...that the Department of Justice
and the FBI has ever been involved in.
1432
01:27:07,806 --> 01:27:09,891
Some 1500 persons were interviewed...
1433
01:27:10,058 --> 01:27:14,061
...1800 leads were followed,
333 agents were involved...
1434
01:27:14,229 --> 01:27:16,439
...14,000 man-hours.
1435
01:27:16,607 --> 01:27:21,485
Fifty-one of the 59 FBI field officers
were involved. Uh....
1436
01:27:21,653 --> 01:27:23,446
And that, I think...
1437
01:27:23,614 --> 01:27:27,491
...is a great credit
to justice in this country.
1438
01:27:27,659 --> 01:27:29,869
Did you know that documents
had been destroyed?
1439
01:27:30,037 --> 01:27:31,120
No, I did not.
1440
01:27:33,749 --> 01:27:37,668
CARL: All these neat little houses
on all these nice little streets.
1441
01:27:37,836 --> 01:27:40,546
It's hard to believe
that something's wrong...
1442
01:27:40,714 --> 01:27:42,590
...in some of those little houses.
1443
01:27:42,758 --> 01:27:44,425
BOB:
No, it isn't.
1444
01:27:45,802 --> 01:27:48,220
- Hello. I'm Bob Woodward.
- Hello. I'm Carl Bernstein.
1445
01:27:48,388 --> 01:27:51,098
We'd just like to talk to Mr. Sloan
for a couple minutes.
1446
01:27:51,266 --> 01:27:53,434
MRS. SLOAN: He's resting right now.
- Are you Mrs. Sloan?
1447
01:27:55,604 --> 01:27:58,522
- You're the two from the Post, aren't you?
BOB: Yes.
1448
01:27:59,441 --> 01:28:04,028
- This is an honest house.
- That's why we'd like to see your husband.
1449
01:28:04,446 --> 01:28:08,699
In the face of charges that might be brought
against people that are innocent, we feel--
1450
01:28:08,867 --> 01:28:10,159
It's really for his benefit.
1451
01:28:10,744 --> 01:28:12,703
No, it's not.
1452
01:28:15,457 --> 01:28:16,874
No.
1453
01:28:17,376 --> 01:28:19,627
- It's not.
SLOAN: Deborah?
1454
01:28:20,045 --> 01:28:22,380
- Tell them to come in.
CARL: Thanks.
1455
01:28:22,547 --> 01:28:24,757
- Hi. Carl Bernstein.
- How do you do? Hugh Sloan.
1456
01:28:24,925 --> 01:28:25,967
BOB:
Bob Woodward.
1457
01:28:26,134 --> 01:28:29,178
- How you doing? Hugh Sloan.
BOB: I appreciate you giving us the time.
1458
01:28:36,186 --> 01:28:40,314
You know, the reason we're here, basically,
is that we talked to certain people...
1459
01:28:40,482 --> 01:28:42,441
...who indicated you left the committee...
1460
01:28:42,609 --> 01:28:44,902
...because you no longer wanted
to be part of it.
1461
01:28:45,070 --> 01:28:46,946
Maybe there's a legitimate explanation...
1462
01:28:47,114 --> 01:28:50,408
...for why the money was handed
to Liddy and Mitchell's aides.
1463
01:28:53,662 --> 01:28:55,746
Try and understand this.
1464
01:28:56,915 --> 01:28:59,542
- I'm a Republican.
- I am too.
1465
01:28:59,710 --> 01:29:01,377
Well, I believe in Richard Nixon.
1466
01:29:01,545 --> 01:29:04,547
I worked in the White House for four years,
and so did my wife.
1467
01:29:04,715 --> 01:29:06,757
What happened on June 17th...
1468
01:29:06,925 --> 01:29:09,260
...I don't think the president
knew anything about.
1469
01:29:09,428 --> 01:29:11,762
CARL: Is it possible some of his people
might have known?
1470
01:29:11,930 --> 01:29:12,972
I'm not sure.
1471
01:29:13,140 --> 01:29:14,849
CARL:
Think the truth will come out at the trial?
1472
01:29:15,017 --> 01:29:17,143
- That's another thing I'm not sure about.
- Why?
1473
01:29:17,310 --> 01:29:19,854
Obviously because certain people
lie to the prosecutor.
1474
01:29:20,022 --> 01:29:22,106
No, we were never told flat-out,
"Don't talk."
1475
01:29:22,274 --> 01:29:24,108
But the message was clear, though.
1476
01:29:24,276 --> 01:29:27,028
In other words, by their very silence,
there was a cover-up.
1477
01:29:27,195 --> 01:29:29,780
They didn't urge us to come forward
and tell the truth.
1478
01:29:29,948 --> 01:29:32,116
"They" meaning the White House?
1479
01:29:32,284 --> 01:29:34,326
The committee's not
an independent operation.
1480
01:29:34,494 --> 01:29:36,412
Everything's cleared
with the White House.
1481
01:29:36,580 --> 01:29:39,707
And I don't think that the FBI
or the prosecutors understand that.
1482
01:29:39,875 --> 01:29:42,126
BOB:
That report on the cash...
1483
01:29:42,836 --> 01:29:46,297
...in the CREEP safe, that--
What was it? --$350,000, is that a--?
1484
01:29:46,465 --> 01:29:49,216
- No, more.
- Was that a correct figure?
1485
01:29:49,384 --> 01:29:51,927
No, it was closer to 1 million.
1486
01:29:53,055 --> 01:29:55,264
And as treasurer,
you could release those funds?
1487
01:29:55,766 --> 01:29:57,767
When so ordered.
1488
01:29:57,934 --> 01:29:59,977
BOB:
We don't know who could order you.
1489
01:30:00,145 --> 01:30:02,313
- We just know there were four.
- There were five.
1490
01:30:02,481 --> 01:30:05,316
- Five?
- Mitchell, Stans, Magruder, they're obvious.
1491
01:30:05,484 --> 01:30:07,777
Well, there had to be
a White House overseer.
1492
01:30:07,944 --> 01:30:09,612
- Yeah, Colson.
- What?
1493
01:30:09,780 --> 01:30:13,741
No, Colson's too smart to get involved
directly with anything like that.
1494
01:30:14,785 --> 01:30:16,368
It's Haldeman.
1495
01:30:18,789 --> 01:30:20,289
Right?
1496
01:30:21,333 --> 01:30:23,042
I won't talk about the other two.
1497
01:30:23,210 --> 01:30:25,544
BOB: They both worked at the White House?
- One did.
1498
01:30:25,712 --> 01:30:28,631
The other one's not in Washington,
but that's all I'll say.
1499
01:30:28,799 --> 01:30:30,424
- Kalmbach.
- Nixon's personal lawyer.
1500
01:30:30,592 --> 01:30:31,675
- Yeah.
- Right?
1501
01:30:31,843 --> 01:30:34,845
BOB: Nixon's personal lawyer?
- I can't say anything. I'm sorry.
1502
01:30:37,307 --> 01:30:39,308
- Well....
- When's the baby due?
1503
01:30:41,353 --> 01:30:44,230
Um, soon. Next month.
1504
01:30:44,397 --> 01:30:45,731
Are you gonna stay here?
1505
01:30:45,899 --> 01:30:49,026
- No, I don't think so.
- You decided where you're gonna go?
1506
01:30:49,194 --> 01:30:52,988
I've been looking for a job
in the private sector, but it's....
1507
01:30:53,156 --> 01:30:55,866
It's very hard.
My name's been in the papers too much.
1508
01:30:57,661 --> 01:31:01,038
- You know one thing I'm not clear about?
- What?
1509
01:31:01,206 --> 01:31:02,623
I don't know how-- How did--?
1510
01:31:02,791 --> 01:31:05,709
When you handed out the money,
how did that work exactly?
1511
01:31:05,877 --> 01:31:07,795
Badly.
1512
01:31:10,423 --> 01:31:11,465
[CHUCKLES]
1513
01:31:11,633 --> 01:31:14,802
I think what Bob means is,
ordinarily, what was the procedure?
1514
01:31:15,220 --> 01:31:18,514
Routine. I'd call John Mitchell
over at the Justice Department.
1515
01:31:18,682 --> 01:31:22,268
- He'd say, "Go ahead, give out the money."
CARL: This was all done verbally?
1516
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:24,895
Yes.
1517
01:31:25,313 --> 01:31:27,982
We know there were five men
who controlled the slush fund.
1518
01:31:28,150 --> 01:31:30,651
- Mitchell, Stans and Magruder.
- Those three we've got.
1519
01:31:30,819 --> 01:31:34,196
- All three have been named by two sources.
- What about the other two?
1520
01:31:34,364 --> 01:31:36,407
CARL: Kalmbach.
BOB: We're pretty sure of Kalmbach.
1521
01:31:36,575 --> 01:31:39,577
Maybe you'd better wait
till we get all five, huh?
1522
01:31:39,744 --> 01:31:40,786
Certain on Mitchell?
1523
01:31:40,954 --> 01:31:44,123
We know he approved payments to Liddy
while he was attorney general.
1524
01:31:44,291 --> 01:31:45,916
- You got more than one source?
CARL & BOB: Yes.
1525
01:31:46,084 --> 01:31:47,126
HOWARD: Who are they?
BOB: Sloan.
1526
01:31:47,294 --> 01:31:48,335
Sloan and who else?
1527
01:31:48,503 --> 01:31:52,173
Another guy at Justice who won't confirm
the other two who controlled the fund.
1528
01:31:52,340 --> 01:31:54,758
- What about Deep Throat?
BOB: He's not a source on this.
1529
01:31:54,926 --> 01:31:56,427
HOWARD: Do any of them have an ax?
- Nope.
1530
01:31:56,595 --> 01:31:59,346
Personal, political, sexual?
Anything at all on Mitchell?
1531
01:31:59,514 --> 01:32:00,806
- No.
- Can we use their names?
1532
01:32:00,974 --> 01:32:02,266
- No.
- Goddamn it.
1533
01:32:02,434 --> 01:32:04,977
When is somebody gonna go on the record
in this story?
1534
01:32:08,315 --> 01:32:11,609
You are about to write a story
that says the former attorney general...
1535
01:32:11,776 --> 01:32:15,654
...the highest-ranking law-enforcement
officer in this country, is a crook.
1536
01:32:18,617 --> 01:32:20,951
Just be sure you're right.
1537
01:32:22,329 --> 01:32:23,621
[LINE RINGING]
1538
01:32:23,788 --> 01:32:26,916
WOMAN: Essex House, may I help you?
- John Mitchell.
1539
01:32:27,083 --> 01:32:29,084
[LINE RINGING]
1540
01:32:34,799 --> 01:32:36,342
MITCHELL:
Yes?
1541
01:32:36,509 --> 01:32:38,969
Sir, this is Carl Bernstein
of the Washington Post...
1542
01:32:39,137 --> 01:32:41,597
...and I'm sorry to disturb you
at this hour.
1543
01:32:41,765 --> 01:32:45,184
Tomorrow we're running a story
in the paper...
1544
01:32:45,352 --> 01:32:49,605
...and we just think that you should
have a chance to comment on it.
1545
01:32:50,774 --> 01:32:52,483
What does it say?
1546
01:32:52,651 --> 01:32:58,113
"John N. Mitchell, while serving
as United States attorney general...
1547
01:32:58,281 --> 01:33:00,866
...personally controlled
a secret cash fund...
1548
01:33:01,034 --> 01:33:03,452
...used to gather information
about the Democrats...
1549
01:33:03,620 --> 01:33:06,997
...according to sources involved
in the Watergate investigation."
1550
01:33:07,165 --> 01:33:09,875
- Jesus.
- "Beginning in the spring of 1971...
1551
01:33:10,043 --> 01:33:12,336
...a year before
he left the Justice Department...
1552
01:33:12,504 --> 01:33:14,755
...to become President Nixon's
campaign manager.
1553
01:33:14,923 --> 01:33:19,134
On March 1, Mitchell personally approved
withdrawals from the fund."
1554
01:33:19,302 --> 01:33:21,720
All that crap,
you're putting it in the paper?
1555
01:33:21,888 --> 01:33:24,598
- Well--
- Look, it's all been denied.
1556
01:33:24,766 --> 01:33:26,684
Tell your publisher, tell Katie Graham...
1557
01:33:26,851 --> 01:33:30,062
...she's gonna get her tit caught
in a big ringer if that's published.
1558
01:33:30,230 --> 01:33:32,690
Christ, that's the most sickening thing
I ever heard.
1559
01:33:32,857 --> 01:33:35,943
- I wonder if I could ask you some questions.
- What time is it?
1560
01:33:36,111 --> 01:33:38,112
It's 11:30, sir.
1561
01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:40,239
Eleven-thirty?
1562
01:33:40,407 --> 01:33:43,575
- Is it morning or night?
- It's 11:30 at night, sir.
1563
01:33:43,743 --> 01:33:46,578
- Oh.
- Sir, the Committee to Reelect...
1564
01:33:46,746 --> 01:33:50,541
...has issued a statement to our story,
but there are a couple questions--
1565
01:33:50,709 --> 01:33:53,752
Did the committee tell you
to go ahead and publish the story?
1566
01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:56,505
You fellas have a great ball game going.
1567
01:33:56,673 --> 01:34:00,217
As soon as you're done,
we're gonna do a story on all of you.
1568
01:34:00,385 --> 01:34:05,055
- Sir, there's just a couple of questions--
- Call my law office in the morning.
1569
01:34:07,017 --> 01:34:09,560
There's no question
you properly identified yourself?
1570
01:34:09,728 --> 01:34:11,770
Said it right off the top.
1571
01:34:13,023 --> 01:34:17,192
- Mitchell know he was talking to a reporter?
- Yeah, but I think I woke him up.
1572
01:34:17,777 --> 01:34:20,696
- You have good notes?
- Verbatim.
1573
01:34:21,573 --> 01:34:24,575
He really said that about Mrs. Graham?
1574
01:34:25,869 --> 01:34:27,870
Well, cut the words "her tit" and print it.
1575
01:34:28,038 --> 01:34:30,748
- Why?
- This is a family newspaper.
1576
01:34:31,499 --> 01:34:33,500
[SIGHS]
1577
01:34:34,544 --> 01:34:35,836
Once when I was reporting...
1578
01:34:36,004 --> 01:34:38,922
...Lyndon Johnson's top guy
gave me the word...
1579
01:34:39,090 --> 01:34:42,176
...they were looking for a successor
for J. Edgar Hoover.
1580
01:34:42,344 --> 01:34:46,055
I wrote it, and the day it appeared,
Johnson held a press conference...
1581
01:34:46,222 --> 01:34:49,558
...and appointed Hoover
head of the FBI for life.
1582
01:34:49,726 --> 01:34:52,269
When he was done,
he turned to his top guy...
1583
01:34:52,437 --> 01:34:55,230
...and the president said,
"Call Ben Bradlee and tell him, 'Fuck you."'
1584
01:34:55,398 --> 01:34:56,648
[CHUCKLES]
1585
01:34:56,816 --> 01:34:59,318
Then everybody said,
"You did it, Ben. You screwed up.
1586
01:34:59,486 --> 01:35:02,529
You stuck us with Hoover forever."
1587
01:35:02,697 --> 01:35:04,323
I screwed up...
1588
01:35:04,491 --> 01:35:07,076
...but I wasn't wrong. Hm.
1589
01:35:09,287 --> 01:35:12,122
How much can you tell me
about Deep Throat?
1590
01:35:13,249 --> 01:35:15,250
How much do you need to know?
1591
01:35:15,418 --> 01:35:17,211
Do you trust him?
1592
01:35:18,838 --> 01:35:20,297
Yeah.
1593
01:35:22,133 --> 01:35:27,304
I can't do the reporting for my reporters,
which means I have to trust them.
1594
01:35:28,390 --> 01:35:31,183
And I hate trusting anybody.
1595
01:35:38,900 --> 01:35:40,984
Run that baby.
1596
01:36:20,150 --> 01:36:24,194
MAN [ON TV]: The Washington Post reported
that while still in office as attorney general...
1597
01:36:24,362 --> 01:36:28,532
...John Mitchell had personally controlled
a secret Republican fund.
1598
01:36:28,700 --> 01:36:32,661
Mitchell denied any such involvement
and called the story "ludicrous."
1599
01:36:32,829 --> 01:36:36,165
The new charge also brought a response
from Vice President Agnew...
1600
01:36:36,332 --> 01:36:37,708
...at his stop in Tampa.
1601
01:36:37,876 --> 01:36:41,295
I have full confidence in Mr. Mitchell...
1602
01:36:41,463 --> 01:36:44,423
...and in the people
in the Republican organization...
1603
01:36:44,591 --> 01:36:48,385
...and I think that
that kind of unattributed report...
1604
01:36:48,553 --> 01:36:51,555
...at a time like this is counterproductive.
1605
01:36:51,723 --> 01:36:56,226
We must bear in mind
that those who published it...
1606
01:36:56,394 --> 01:36:59,062
...have already shown their sympathy
for the other ticket.
1607
01:36:59,689 --> 01:37:02,608
MAN: A band and some young cheerleaders--
- All non-denial denials.
1608
01:37:02,775 --> 01:37:05,986
They doubt our ancestry,
but they don't say the story isn't accurate.
1609
01:37:06,154 --> 01:37:08,113
Did you understand
one thing he was saying?
1610
01:37:08,281 --> 01:37:11,074
CARL: What I can't figure out is,
what is a real denial?
1611
01:37:11,242 --> 01:37:15,287
Well, if they start calling us goddamn liars,
we better start circling the wagons.
1612
01:37:15,455 --> 01:37:18,248
- When you think they'll start doing that?
- When they get out of Tampa.
1613
01:37:18,416 --> 01:37:19,583
[ALL LAUGH]
1614
01:37:20,251 --> 01:37:22,753
CARL: Joe, come on,
what's going on with you guys at the FBI?
1615
01:37:22,921 --> 01:37:26,089
I've been trying to get you for weeks.
Secretary says you're not in.
1616
01:37:26,257 --> 01:37:28,091
Last night, you said you couldn't talk.
1617
01:37:28,259 --> 01:37:30,928
This morning,
soon as our Mitchell story hits the stands...
1618
01:37:31,095 --> 01:37:33,555
...you call and say you gotta see me
right away. Why?
1619
01:37:33,723 --> 01:37:36,141
You guys have been causing big trouble
at the bureau.
1620
01:37:36,309 --> 01:37:37,518
Why?
1621
01:37:37,685 --> 01:37:41,063
Our reports are showing up
in your paper almost verbatim.
1622
01:37:41,231 --> 01:37:44,900
I mean, you've really been on the mark,
except for Mitchell.
1623
01:37:45,068 --> 01:37:47,277
Now, we didn't have that...
1624
01:37:47,445 --> 01:37:48,946
...that he controlled the funds.
1625
01:37:49,113 --> 01:37:50,447
Right.
1626
01:37:50,615 --> 01:37:52,241
Our agents have been busting ass...
1627
01:37:52,408 --> 01:37:55,035
...but we're gonna go back
and see if we missed anything.
1628
01:37:55,203 --> 01:37:58,705
What I don't understand is all the people
who know details of the bugging...
1629
01:37:58,873 --> 01:38:00,415
...the FBI hasn't even talked to.
1630
01:38:00,583 --> 01:38:04,127
Why have you conducted interviews of
CREEP personnel at CREEP headquarters...
1631
01:38:04,295 --> 01:38:07,381
...instead of at their homes,
where they might feel freer to talk?
1632
01:38:07,549 --> 01:38:08,632
Joe, wait a minute.
1633
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:11,468
Why have the interviews at CREEP
always been conducted...
1634
01:38:11,636 --> 01:38:14,304
...within the presence of the lawyer
who works for CREEP?
1635
01:38:14,472 --> 01:38:17,140
Look, you know,
I can't answer for the whole bureau.
1636
01:38:17,308 --> 01:38:20,477
- Oh, come on, I'm just--
- I do what I'm told.
1637
01:38:21,646 --> 01:38:24,064
I followed my orders, period.
1638
01:38:30,029 --> 01:38:31,822
What orders?
1639
01:38:35,285 --> 01:38:38,662
CARL:
Woodward! Woodward!
1640
01:38:40,164 --> 01:38:41,623
Wait!
1641
01:38:42,584 --> 01:38:44,042
Bob!
1642
01:38:46,588 --> 01:38:49,715
Out of the blue. Out of the blue.
1643
01:38:51,092 --> 01:38:54,303
This morning I get a tip
to call a guy by the name of Alex Shipley...
1644
01:38:54,470 --> 01:38:57,139
...who is now the assistant attorney general
of Tennessee.
1645
01:38:57,307 --> 01:38:59,558
Now, the guy told me that called me--
That said--
1646
01:38:59,726 --> 01:39:02,269
He said that Shipley was asked
in the summer of 1971...
1647
01:39:02,437 --> 01:39:04,813
...by an old Army buddy,
a Donald Segretti...
1648
01:39:04,981 --> 01:39:06,773
...to join a group of other lawyers...
1649
01:39:06,941 --> 01:39:09,818
...for Nixon's campaign
to sabotage the Democratic candidates.
1650
01:39:09,986 --> 01:39:13,113
- Make a left. We'll go to my place.
- Sabotage Democratic candidates?
1651
01:39:13,281 --> 01:39:17,159
CARL: I was able to make a couple calls,
and I got Segretti's records for the year--
1652
01:39:17,327 --> 01:39:20,746
His travel records for the year 1971-'72.
1653
01:39:20,913 --> 01:39:21,955
Does the FBI know--?
1654
01:39:22,123 --> 01:39:24,124
- Did you say left or right?
- Left, my place.
1655
01:39:24,292 --> 01:39:27,419
- We gotta go through the records.
- Does the FBI know about Segretti?
1656
01:39:27,587 --> 01:39:30,714
FBI interrogated Segretti,
found he wasn't involved in the break-in.
1657
01:39:30,882 --> 01:39:32,716
They dropped it, didn't follow through.
1658
01:39:32,884 --> 01:39:34,426
BOB: Where is he?
CARL: He's in California.
1659
01:39:35,053 --> 01:39:36,553
BOB: Jesus, look at this.
CARL: What?
1660
01:39:36,721 --> 01:39:39,389
BOB: Segretti crisscrossed the country
at least a dozen times.
1661
01:39:42,226 --> 01:39:45,020
Only stayed in cities
where there were Democratic primaries.
1662
01:39:45,188 --> 01:39:47,064
CARL:
If the break-in was just one incident...
1663
01:39:47,231 --> 01:39:49,858
...in a campaign of sabotage
that began a year before....
1664
01:39:50,026 --> 01:39:52,069
BOB: For the first time,
the break-in makes sense.
1665
01:39:52,236 --> 01:39:53,278
CARL:
This isn't so crazy.
1666
01:39:53,446 --> 01:39:55,572
This whole thing didn't start
with the bugging.
1667
01:39:55,740 --> 01:39:58,033
Segretti was doing this
a year before the bugging.
1668
01:39:58,201 --> 01:40:00,744
And a year before,
Nixon was running behind Muskie...
1669
01:40:00,912 --> 01:40:03,205
...before Muskie self-destructed.
1670
01:40:03,998 --> 01:40:05,916
If he self-destructed.
1671
01:40:06,793 --> 01:40:09,461
CARL: Hi. Uh, Donald Segretti?
- That's right.
1672
01:40:09,629 --> 01:40:12,923
I'm Carl Bernstein
from the Washington Post.
1673
01:40:13,091 --> 01:40:14,675
Hi.
1674
01:40:15,426 --> 01:40:16,677
What can I do for you?
1675
01:40:16,844 --> 01:40:21,598
Well, my paper just sent me out here
to try to persuade you to go on the record.
1676
01:40:21,766 --> 01:40:22,766
Why me?
1677
01:40:22,934 --> 01:40:24,810
Because you were the head coordinator...
1678
01:40:24,977 --> 01:40:28,855
...of Nixon's sabotage campaign
against the Democrats.
1679
01:40:29,691 --> 01:40:33,276
- Carl, you want some coffee?
- You read my mind.
1680
01:40:38,616 --> 01:40:41,618
Carl, tell me something. What...?
1681
01:40:41,786 --> 01:40:44,121
What do you imagine
the head coordinator does?
1682
01:40:44,288 --> 01:40:48,083
I guess basically you were involved
in recruiting other people like yourself...
1683
01:40:48,251 --> 01:40:49,292
...other lawyers.
1684
01:40:49,460 --> 01:40:52,838
- Lawyers?
- Like Alex Shipley.
1685
01:40:53,005 --> 01:40:57,259
I made it clear that I would not do anything
violent or illegal.
1686
01:40:57,802 --> 01:40:59,803
What do you mean by illegal?
1687
01:40:59,971 --> 01:41:03,432
Watergate. I mean, that's--
The whole bugging, that's horrendous.
1688
01:41:04,058 --> 01:41:06,309
And what kind of stuff
do you guys do, then?
1689
01:41:06,477 --> 01:41:08,687
Nickel-and-dime stuff.
1690
01:41:09,439 --> 01:41:10,647
Stuff.
1691
01:41:10,815 --> 01:41:12,733
Stuff with a little wit attached to it.
1692
01:41:12,900 --> 01:41:15,318
You mean when you sent out
on Muskie's stationery...
1693
01:41:15,486 --> 01:41:18,488
...that Senator Hubert Humphrey
was going out with call girls?
1694
01:41:18,948 --> 01:41:21,783
Listen, if anything,
it helped the man's image.
1695
01:41:21,951 --> 01:41:24,494
What was the one
on Muskie's stationery you sent out...
1696
01:41:24,954 --> 01:41:28,707
...that said that Scoop Jackson
was having a bastard child?
1697
01:41:28,875 --> 01:41:31,835
So sometimes it got up to a quarter,
off the record.
1698
01:41:32,837 --> 01:41:36,965
I think one of the most interesting ones
was the "Canuck" letter.
1699
01:41:37,842 --> 01:41:38,842
What about it?
1700
01:41:40,011 --> 01:41:43,346
Come on. Where you claimed
that Muskie slurred the Canadians.
1701
01:41:43,514 --> 01:41:45,849
No, I didn't write that.
1702
01:41:46,017 --> 01:41:47,017
Do you know who did?
1703
01:41:47,185 --> 01:41:50,312
Carl, when you guys print it in the papers,
then I'll know.
1704
01:41:50,480 --> 01:41:52,981
Smart guy, Donald.
1705
01:41:53,149 --> 01:41:54,191
You're no dummy.
1706
01:41:55,610 --> 01:41:57,694
I'm a lawyer, Carl.
1707
01:41:57,862 --> 01:41:59,154
I'm a lawyer.
1708
01:41:59,322 --> 01:42:00,864
I'm a good lawyer...
1709
01:42:01,032 --> 01:42:04,701
...and I'll probably wind up going to jail
and being disbarred.
1710
01:42:06,913 --> 01:42:10,665
And I don't know what I did
that was so goddamn awful.
1711
01:42:15,546 --> 01:42:18,507
I'll tell you something.
None of this was my idea.
1712
01:42:18,674 --> 01:42:22,636
- I didn't go looking for the job.
- Well, that's important.
1713
01:42:23,638 --> 01:42:25,680
Chapin came to you.
1714
01:42:32,104 --> 01:42:33,146
You know what?
1715
01:42:33,314 --> 01:42:37,400
It's funny, but I keep forgetting
that you guys knew each other in college.
1716
01:42:37,568 --> 01:42:41,488
You were friends at SC, you and Chapin.
Who else was there?
1717
01:42:41,906 --> 01:42:43,740
There was me...
1718
01:42:43,908 --> 01:42:45,534
...Dwight...
1719
01:42:45,701 --> 01:42:46,952
...Ziegler.
1720
01:42:47,119 --> 01:42:48,578
The whole USC mafia.
1721
01:42:48,746 --> 01:42:51,540
And that's when you got involved
in the student elections...
1722
01:42:51,707 --> 01:42:55,752
...and started to try to get your man in,
so you stuffed ballot boxes and....
1723
01:42:55,920 --> 01:42:58,880
What was that term you guys used
for screwing up the opposition?
1724
01:42:59,590 --> 01:43:02,300
- Rat-fucking.
- That's right.
1725
01:43:02,468 --> 01:43:03,927
You were doing the same stuff...
1726
01:43:04,095 --> 01:43:06,763
...when you were out campaigning
for President Nixon.
1727
01:43:06,931 --> 01:43:09,850
Let me tell you something,
we did a lot of worse things in college.
1728
01:43:10,017 --> 01:43:11,101
[CHUCKLES]
1729
01:43:11,644 --> 01:43:14,396
Look, let me ask you something, Carl.
1730
01:43:14,564 --> 01:43:17,315
What would you have done
if you were just out of the Army...
1731
01:43:17,483 --> 01:43:19,150
...been away for four years...
1732
01:43:19,318 --> 01:43:22,612
...didn't know what kind of law
you wanted to practice...
1733
01:43:22,780 --> 01:43:25,282
...and one day you get a call
from an old friend...
1734
01:43:25,449 --> 01:43:28,994
...asking if you wanna go to work
for the president of the United States?
1735
01:43:29,161 --> 01:43:33,582
Jeez. Chapin was the appointment secretary
for Nixon when he called.
1736
01:43:33,749 --> 01:43:34,791
Yeah.
1737
01:43:34,959 --> 01:43:38,628
If those sinister things really happened,
I don't think Dwight knew about them.
1738
01:43:38,796 --> 01:43:42,299
- He just did what he was told.
- Told by who?
1739
01:43:53,144 --> 01:43:55,145
DEEP THROAT:
What's the topic for tonight?
1740
01:44:00,651 --> 01:44:02,152
Rat-fucking.
1741
01:44:04,113 --> 01:44:07,908
In my day, it was simply known
as a double-cross.
1742
01:44:08,075 --> 01:44:10,952
In our present context...
1743
01:44:11,913 --> 01:44:15,582
...it means infiltration of the Democrats.
1744
01:44:16,626 --> 01:44:19,044
Segretti won't go on the record...
1745
01:44:19,211 --> 01:44:21,713
...but if he would,
we know he would implicate Chapin.
1746
01:44:24,050 --> 01:44:26,676
And that would put you
inside the White House.
1747
01:44:28,012 --> 01:44:29,429
Who?
1748
01:44:31,307 --> 01:44:33,308
Can you be specific?
1749
01:44:33,851 --> 01:44:35,352
How high up?
1750
01:44:38,522 --> 01:44:41,566
You'll have to find that out for yourself.
1751
01:44:42,777 --> 01:44:45,612
I don't like newspapers.
1752
01:44:46,822 --> 01:44:52,035
I don't care for inexactitude
and shallowness.
1753
01:44:53,704 --> 01:44:55,455
The CREEP slush fund...
1754
01:44:55,623 --> 01:44:59,000
...that financed the rat-fucking,
we've just about got that nailed down.
1755
01:44:59,168 --> 01:45:00,543
Did you change cabs?
1756
01:45:08,302 --> 01:45:09,803
BOB:
Yeah.
1757
01:45:09,971 --> 01:45:13,098
Does the FBI know what we know?
1758
01:45:16,394 --> 01:45:18,395
Does Justice?
1759
01:45:22,233 --> 01:45:24,734
Why haven't they done anything?
1760
01:45:25,319 --> 01:45:30,240
If it didn't deal directly with the break-in,
they didn't pursue.
1761
01:45:30,783 --> 01:45:32,450
Who told them not to?
1762
01:45:32,910 --> 01:45:35,912
Don't you understand what you're on to?
1763
01:45:39,250 --> 01:45:42,127
- Mitchell knew?
- Of course Mitchell knew.
1764
01:45:43,129 --> 01:45:45,880
Do you think something this size
just happens?
1765
01:45:46,048 --> 01:45:47,924
Haldeman had to know too.
1766
01:45:48,092 --> 01:45:51,219
You'll get nothing from me
about Haldeman.
1767
01:45:54,890 --> 01:45:56,224
Segretti said that--
1768
01:45:56,392 --> 01:46:00,729
Don't concentrate on Segretti.
You'll miss the overall.
1769
01:46:01,981 --> 01:46:05,525
The letter that destroyed
the Muskie candidacy...
1770
01:46:05,693 --> 01:46:07,777
...did that come
from inside the White House?
1771
01:46:07,945 --> 01:46:11,031
- You're missing the overall.
- But what overall?
1772
01:46:11,198 --> 01:46:14,284
They were frightened of Muskie,
and look who got destroyed.
1773
01:46:14,744 --> 01:46:18,455
They wanted to run against McGovern.
Look who they're running against.
1774
01:46:18,622 --> 01:46:21,875
They bugged, they followed people.
1775
01:46:22,043 --> 01:46:24,711
False press leaks, fake letters.
1776
01:46:25,254 --> 01:46:27,464
They canceled
Democratic campaign rallies.
1777
01:46:27,631 --> 01:46:30,592
They investigated
Democratic private lives.
1778
01:46:31,510 --> 01:46:34,179
They planted spies, stole documents,
and on and on.
1779
01:46:34,346 --> 01:46:37,098
Now, don't tell me
you think this is all the work...
1780
01:46:37,266 --> 01:46:39,809
...of little Don Segretti.
1781
01:46:41,228 --> 01:46:43,313
The FBI and Justice know this?
1782
01:46:47,151 --> 01:46:48,860
[CAR ENGINE STARTS]
1783
01:46:50,696 --> 01:46:52,697
[TIRES SCREECH]
1784
01:49:00,242 --> 01:49:02,243
[CHATTERING]
1785
01:49:07,208 --> 01:49:10,668
MAN 1: Send me the clips
on the Food and Drug story.
1786
01:49:12,129 --> 01:49:14,505
MAN 2:
Yes, sir, and I want-- My question is--
1787
01:49:14,673 --> 01:49:15,715
- Carl.
- Yeah?
1788
01:49:15,883 --> 01:49:17,592
Why don't you pick up your messages?
1789
01:49:17,760 --> 01:49:19,719
- Right. You got a cigarette?
- Yeah.
1790
01:49:19,887 --> 01:49:20,929
Who's Pete Teller?
1791
01:49:21,096 --> 01:49:24,265
Haven't the slightest idea.
I have this whole place to take care of.
1792
01:49:24,433 --> 01:49:26,976
- Carl?
- Yeah, one second.
1793
01:49:28,145 --> 01:49:30,438
- Tell him to leave his number next time.
- Will do.
1794
01:49:30,606 --> 01:49:32,732
- Hi.
- You guys know about the "Canuck" letter?
1795
01:49:32,900 --> 01:49:34,067
Yep. I'm sorry, I'm late.
1796
01:49:34,235 --> 01:49:37,111
I just wanna make sure
you know who wrote it, though.
1797
01:49:38,155 --> 01:49:39,572
CARL:
What?
1798
01:49:39,907 --> 01:49:40,990
What?
1799
01:49:41,158 --> 01:49:44,786
You mean the letter that sabotaged
the Muskie candidacy? All right, come here.
1800
01:49:44,954 --> 01:49:47,914
- When did he tell you this?
- I already told you....
1801
01:49:49,959 --> 01:49:51,709
I gotta tell Bob.
1802
01:49:55,381 --> 01:49:57,465
- Woodward.
BOB: What?
1803
01:49:57,925 --> 01:50:00,802
CARL: One second.
Come here, come here, come here.
1804
01:50:01,262 --> 01:50:04,514
Come here. Tell him what you told me.
1805
01:50:04,932 --> 01:50:06,724
Come here, sit down.
1806
01:50:08,269 --> 01:50:11,479
Just exactly the way you said it to me,
just say it to him.
1807
01:50:12,356 --> 01:50:14,607
Ken Clawson told me
he wrote the "Canuck" letter.
1808
01:50:14,775 --> 01:50:17,318
CARL: The letter that said Muskie
was slurring the Canadians.
1809
01:50:17,486 --> 01:50:20,697
The deputy director of Communications
wrote the "Canuck" letter.
1810
01:50:20,864 --> 01:50:22,949
- When did he tell you?
- We were having drinks.
1811
01:50:23,117 --> 01:50:24,701
CARL: Where were you?
- My apartment.
1812
01:50:25,160 --> 01:50:26,494
CARL:
When did you say he told you?
1813
01:50:26,662 --> 01:50:28,538
SALLY: Two weeks ago.
CARL: What else did he say?
1814
01:50:28,706 --> 01:50:30,873
He didn't say anything?
Come on, you're hedging.
1815
01:50:31,041 --> 01:50:33,710
Do you think he said it
to get you to go to bed with him?
1816
01:50:33,877 --> 01:50:35,586
CARL: Jesus.
BOB: No, I wanna hear her say it.
1817
01:50:35,754 --> 01:50:39,382
You think he said that to impress you
to try to get you to go to bed with him?
1818
01:50:39,550 --> 01:50:42,468
CARL: Why did it take you two weeks
to tell us this, Sally?
1819
01:50:44,013 --> 01:50:47,682
I guess I don't have the taste for the jugular
you guys have.
1820
01:50:48,934 --> 01:50:51,060
MAN:
There's no specific cause, no....
1821
01:50:51,228 --> 01:50:52,770
BOB:
You're claiming it was a misunderstanding?
1822
01:50:52,938 --> 01:50:55,023
CLAWSON [OVER PHONE]:
Absolutely. Sally's got it all wrong.
1823
01:50:55,190 --> 01:50:57,066
I never told her I wrote that letter.
1824
01:50:57,234 --> 01:50:59,360
We were shooting the breeze
about the election.
1825
01:50:59,528 --> 01:51:00,987
She's an awfully good reporter.
1826
01:51:01,155 --> 01:51:03,698
I don't remember her
getting much wrong before, do you?
1827
01:51:03,866 --> 01:51:05,366
That's a real bullshit question.
1828
01:51:05,534 --> 01:51:08,244
That is a question
straight out of Wichita, Kansas.
1829
01:51:08,412 --> 01:51:09,787
Listen, one last thing.
1830
01:51:09,955 --> 01:51:12,915
Do you remember
where this shooting the breeze took place?
1831
01:51:13,083 --> 01:51:15,043
What do you mean, where?
1832
01:51:15,210 --> 01:51:17,962
Well, I mean, was it a restaurant
or her apartment or a bar?
1833
01:51:18,130 --> 01:51:21,591
Look, I've forgotten the entire incident,
but it wasn't in her apartment.
1834
01:51:21,759 --> 01:51:22,800
Do you remember when--?
1835
01:51:22,968 --> 01:51:26,220
I don't have time for this.
I'm a busy man.
1836
01:51:26,388 --> 01:51:28,931
- You get that?
- What did he say about meeting in a bar?
1837
01:51:29,099 --> 01:51:31,100
- He forgot the incident.
- He didn't deny it.
1838
01:51:31,268 --> 01:51:33,102
That's a non-denial denial.
1839
01:51:33,270 --> 01:51:36,564
- Wichita, Kansas?
- Yeah, he said, "That's a bullshit question."
1840
01:51:36,732 --> 01:51:39,150
I know what he said,
but I'm from Wheaton, Illinois.
1841
01:51:39,318 --> 01:51:40,943
Hey, Bob, Carl, he's on the phone.
1842
01:51:41,111 --> 01:51:42,779
BOB: Who?
- Clawson.
1843
01:51:45,824 --> 01:51:48,534
- What line?
- Get on Line 4 and transcribe this, will you?
1844
01:51:48,702 --> 01:51:50,620
- Four.
- Wait.
1845
01:51:50,788 --> 01:51:53,373
- Four?
- Okay? Yeah.
1846
01:51:54,291 --> 01:51:55,333
Yes, Ken?
1847
01:51:55,501 --> 01:51:58,461
CLAWSON: Sally, for chrissakes,
don't tell them I came to your place.
1848
01:51:58,629 --> 01:52:01,047
Why not?
What's wrong with coming over for a drink?
1849
01:52:01,215 --> 01:52:04,342
You and me, in your apartment?
1850
01:52:04,510 --> 01:52:06,010
Well?
1851
01:52:06,470 --> 01:52:08,846
Jesus Christ, you just shot me down.
1852
01:52:09,014 --> 01:52:13,267
If that appears in the papers,
that I'm over at your house having a....
1853
01:52:13,435 --> 01:52:16,145
- Well, do you know what that does?
- Well, I don't see why.
1854
01:52:16,313 --> 01:52:19,399
You don't? You don't?
1855
01:52:19,566 --> 01:52:23,027
- But there's nothing bad about it.
- Well, there sure is.
1856
01:52:23,195 --> 01:52:27,698
Jesus Christ. This is just incredible.
1857
01:52:27,866 --> 01:52:29,325
Well, I have a clear conscience.
1858
01:52:29,493 --> 01:52:33,371
Sally, I have a wife and a family
and a dog and a cat.
1859
01:52:34,289 --> 01:52:36,290
BOB: She said he was in her house
having a drink.
1860
01:52:36,458 --> 01:52:38,835
I don't care where it happened.
What happened is what counts.
1861
01:52:39,002 --> 01:52:40,128
CARL:
When we asked him about it...
1862
01:52:40,295 --> 01:52:41,337
[PHONE BEEPS]
1863
01:52:41,505 --> 01:52:42,964
...he said he forgot the entire incident.
1864
01:52:43,132 --> 01:52:44,674
BEN: Yeah?
WOMAN: Ken Clawson on the line.
1865
01:52:45,259 --> 01:52:48,594
- Ken Clawson on the line.
BOB: Jesus.
1866
01:52:50,806 --> 01:52:52,390
Ken. What's up, kid?
1867
01:52:52,558 --> 01:52:55,435
CLAWSON: Ben, now, look, this whole thing
that's going on over there...
1868
01:52:55,602 --> 01:52:58,938
...I want you to know I never
claimed authorship of the "Canuck" letter.
1869
01:52:59,106 --> 01:53:01,983
- Says he never wrote the letter.
CLAWSON: It's some misunderstanding--
1870
01:53:02,151 --> 01:53:05,111
Ken, Ken. Slow, slow, slow down, Ken.
You sound frazzled.
1871
01:53:05,279 --> 01:53:07,238
No, Ben, please listen.
1872
01:53:07,406 --> 01:53:10,241
Now, if you're going to refer
to that alleged conversation...
1873
01:53:10,409 --> 01:53:13,786
...with Sally Aiken, you can't print
that it took place in her apartment.
1874
01:53:13,954 --> 01:53:16,581
I have a wife and a family
and a dog and a cat.
1875
01:53:16,748 --> 01:53:21,335
A wife and a family and a dog and a cat.
Right, Ken, right. Yeah.
1876
01:53:21,503 --> 01:53:24,505
Ken, I don't wanna print
that you were in Sally's apartment.
1877
01:53:24,673 --> 01:53:25,715
Oh, thank God.
1878
01:53:25,883 --> 01:53:30,178
I just wanna know what you said
in Sally's apartment.
1879
01:53:30,554 --> 01:53:32,555
[PHONE RINGING]
1880
01:53:42,149 --> 01:53:43,191
Hello?
1881
01:53:43,358 --> 01:53:47,069
BOB: I just got a tip from our FBI source.
The secret cash fund financed Segretti.
1882
01:53:47,237 --> 01:53:48,905
- Jesus.
- All right, now, listen.
1883
01:53:49,072 --> 01:53:52,450
Chapin hired Segretti, we know that.
And we know Haldeman hired Chapin.
1884
01:53:52,618 --> 01:53:55,286
Haldeman has to be the fifth name
to control the fund.
1885
01:53:56,205 --> 01:53:58,122
Sloan knows.
1886
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:02,585
We've only got four of the five
who controlled the fund.
1887
01:54:02,753 --> 01:54:05,838
- It has to be Haldeman.
- I don't think we've got it.
1888
01:54:06,590 --> 01:54:08,799
We know the fifth
is a top White House official.
1889
01:54:08,967 --> 01:54:11,135
- No one has said it.
- No one's denied it.
1890
01:54:11,303 --> 01:54:14,388
That still doesn't prove it was Haldeman.
1891
01:54:16,808 --> 01:54:20,186
If you go to bed and there's no snow,
and you wake up and there's snow...
1892
01:54:20,354 --> 01:54:22,772
...you can say it snowed,
although you didn't see it.
1893
01:54:22,940 --> 01:54:25,608
If we can't prove the fifth is Haldeman,
we're wiped out.
1894
01:54:25,776 --> 01:54:28,277
Everything in that campaign
is done with his approval.
1895
01:54:28,445 --> 01:54:31,614
Everybody who works under Haldeman
does so with his knowledge.
1896
01:54:31,782 --> 01:54:34,033
Everybody is under Haldeman
except the president.
1897
01:54:34,201 --> 01:54:36,118
Common sense says it's Haldeman.
1898
01:54:38,622 --> 01:54:41,958
If we go and see Sloan,
and we tell him that we know...
1899
01:54:42,125 --> 01:54:46,003
...that he named Haldeman
to the grand jury....
1900
01:54:46,922 --> 01:54:49,298
Then all we would need to do
is have him confirm it.
1901
01:54:49,466 --> 01:54:50,883
Right.
1902
01:54:51,051 --> 01:54:53,970
- Wanna do it that way?
- Yes.
1903
01:54:54,388 --> 01:54:56,639
Let's go back and see Sloan.
1904
01:55:00,060 --> 01:55:02,103
We can't go now,
because he's not home yet.
1905
01:55:02,813 --> 01:55:05,815
He might not be answering,
but he might be there.
1906
01:55:15,075 --> 01:55:16,450
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
1907
01:55:20,497 --> 01:55:21,497
- Hi.
SLOAN: Please.
1908
01:55:21,665 --> 01:55:24,500
We've already written the story.
We just need you to define--
1909
01:55:24,668 --> 01:55:26,711
SLOAN: Debbie's in the hospital
and my in-laws are--
1910
01:55:26,878 --> 01:55:28,296
BOB: Two questions?
CARL: We understand.
1911
01:55:28,463 --> 01:55:30,089
BOB:
Two questions?
1912
01:55:33,218 --> 01:55:35,720
The cash that financed
the Watergate break-in.
1913
01:55:35,887 --> 01:55:37,513
Five men had control of the fund.
1914
01:55:37,681 --> 01:55:41,058
Mitchell, Stans, Magruder, Kalmbach.
We have confirmations on those four.
1915
01:55:41,226 --> 01:55:43,853
- We found out Haldeman's the fifth.
- I'm not your source.
1916
01:55:44,021 --> 01:55:47,523
- All we're asking you to do is confirm.
- I'm not your source on Haldeman.
1917
01:55:47,691 --> 01:55:49,859
When you were questioned
by the grand jury--
1918
01:55:50,027 --> 01:55:51,027
You had to name names.
1919
01:55:51,194 --> 01:55:53,571
- Of course, everything they asked.
- All right.
1920
01:55:54,489 --> 01:55:56,157
Well, uh....
1921
01:55:57,492 --> 01:55:58,534
What do you think?
1922
01:55:58,702 --> 01:56:02,163
Say we wrote a story that said Haldeman
was the fifth to control the fund.
1923
01:56:02,331 --> 01:56:04,915
- Would we be in any trouble?
- Would we be wrong?
1924
01:56:08,754 --> 01:56:10,713
Let me put it this way.
1925
01:56:10,881 --> 01:56:14,091
I would have no problems
if you wrote a story like that.
1926
01:56:14,259 --> 01:56:16,886
- You wouldn't?
- No.
1927
01:56:17,638 --> 01:56:20,222
- That's okay. Yeah.
- Okay.
1928
01:56:20,390 --> 01:56:22,642
- Oh, you had a baby.
- Yeah. My wife did.
1929
01:56:22,809 --> 01:56:24,560
- Is it a boy or a girl?
- It's a girl.
1930
01:56:24,728 --> 01:56:26,020
- Congratulations.
- Oh, great.
1931
01:56:26,188 --> 01:56:27,229
Thank you.
1932
01:56:27,397 --> 01:56:28,981
BOB: Sorry to have bothered you.
- Yeah.
1933
01:56:29,149 --> 01:56:31,400
CARL: Will you give our best to her?
- I will.
1934
01:56:34,863 --> 01:56:36,656
Well, I think that Woodward's just--
1935
01:56:36,823 --> 01:56:40,201
And I am curious of the fact
that the FBI, in its entire inquiry...
1936
01:56:40,369 --> 01:56:44,413
...never talked to or did inquiries into the
second most powerful man to the president.
1937
01:56:44,581 --> 01:56:46,165
JOE [OVER PHONE]:
You don't seem to understand.
1938
01:56:46,333 --> 01:56:49,085
No, you get nothing
about Haldeman out of me.
1939
01:56:49,252 --> 01:56:51,087
CARL: But we don't need
to know anything, Joe.
1940
01:56:51,254 --> 01:56:53,339
Tomorrow we're going with a story
on the FBI.
1941
01:56:53,507 --> 01:56:56,425
- What does that mean?
- We're going to establish in that story...
1942
01:56:56,593 --> 01:56:59,261
...that you guys just about
blew the whole investigation.
1943
01:56:59,429 --> 01:57:00,888
Oh, no, we didn't miss so much.
1944
01:57:01,056 --> 01:57:03,307
You didn't know Haldeman
had control of the fund.
1945
01:57:03,475 --> 01:57:04,684
It's all in our files.
1946
01:57:04,851 --> 01:57:07,269
- Not about Haldeman.
- Yeah, Haldeman. John Haldeman.
1947
01:57:07,437 --> 01:57:10,690
Look. Now, look, I'm very busy. I gotta go.
I gotta go put the kids to bed.
1948
01:57:10,857 --> 01:57:12,191
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
1949
01:57:12,984 --> 01:57:15,986
That's the confirmation right there.
1950
01:57:16,571 --> 01:57:19,281
Wait a minute, wait a second.
Did he say John?
1951
01:57:19,616 --> 01:57:21,492
- He said Haldeman.
- He said John Haldeman.
1952
01:57:21,660 --> 01:57:24,286
What difference does it make
if he said Isaiah or David?
1953
01:57:24,454 --> 01:57:25,705
There's only one Haldeman.
1954
01:57:25,872 --> 01:57:29,125
BOB: Well, Isaiah or David aren't assistant
to the president.
1955
01:57:29,459 --> 01:57:31,085
I don't know, it still feels thin.
1956
01:57:31,253 --> 01:57:34,130
- Christ, I wish I knew if we could print this.
HARRY: Wait a minute.
1957
01:57:34,297 --> 01:57:37,550
We didn't make them do these things.
Once they did, they're fair game.
1958
01:57:37,718 --> 01:57:39,427
HOWARD:
Let's go over your sources again.
1959
01:57:39,594 --> 01:57:42,805
BOB: Sloan told the grand jury.
He answered everything they asked him.
1960
01:57:42,973 --> 01:57:45,099
That means there's gotta be
a record somewhere.
1961
01:57:45,267 --> 01:57:48,227
CARL: He told the grand jury,
the FBI confirms. What more do you need?
1962
01:57:48,395 --> 01:57:49,812
I happen to love this country.
1963
01:57:49,980 --> 01:57:53,566
- We're not zanies out to bring it down.
HOWARD: Weren't you arguing the opposite?
1964
01:57:53,734 --> 01:57:55,526
HARRY: No, no, not at all.
- I can't believe it.
1965
01:57:55,694 --> 01:57:56,777
Now, hold it. Hold it.
1966
01:57:56,945 --> 01:57:58,654
HARRY:
One has nothing to do with the other.
1967
01:57:58,822 --> 01:58:00,364
We're about to accuse Haldeman...
1968
01:58:00,532 --> 01:58:02,867
...the second most important man
in this country...
1969
01:58:03,034 --> 01:58:05,745
...of conducting a conspiracy
from inside the White House.
1970
01:58:05,912 --> 01:58:07,496
It would be nice if we were right.
1971
01:58:07,664 --> 01:58:09,874
HOWARD: You double-checked your sources?
- Jesus.
1972
01:58:10,041 --> 01:58:12,626
BEN: Bernstein, are you sure on this story?
- Absolutely.
1973
01:58:12,794 --> 01:58:14,920
BEN: Woodward?
- I'm sure.
1974
01:58:15,088 --> 01:58:17,715
I'm not. Still seems thin.
1975
01:58:17,883 --> 01:58:18,966
Get another source.
1976
01:58:19,134 --> 01:58:22,094
CARL: How many fucking sources
do they think we've got?
1977
01:58:25,891 --> 01:58:29,226
- Are you sure Deep Throat won't confirm?
BOB: He won't confirm, I told you.
1978
01:58:29,394 --> 01:58:31,270
- The guy in Justice?
- Can't call him.
1979
01:58:31,438 --> 01:58:33,689
- He's next to the grand jury.
BOB: We have no choice.
1980
01:58:33,857 --> 01:58:35,149
Twenty minutes to deadline.
1981
01:58:35,317 --> 01:58:37,735
I don't even know
if I can get him on the phone.
1982
01:58:49,080 --> 01:58:51,081
[LINE RINGING]
1983
01:58:53,502 --> 01:58:56,462
WOMAN: Dr. Kissinger's office.
- Deputy general's office, please.
1984
01:58:58,256 --> 01:59:00,049
[LINE RINGING]
1985
01:59:00,592 --> 01:59:04,094
- Do you know when you expect him back?
WOMAN: I believe he's left for the evening.
1986
01:59:04,262 --> 01:59:07,556
If you'd like to leave a message,
could you hold, please?
1987
01:59:07,724 --> 01:59:10,142
Hi, this is Carl.
I'm sorry to disturb you now.
1988
01:59:10,310 --> 01:59:13,896
We're going with the story that Haldeman
was the fifth in control of the fund.
1989
01:59:14,064 --> 01:59:17,441
We got three confirmations.
If you could just help us, I'd appreciate it.
1990
01:59:17,609 --> 01:59:19,401
MAN:
I won't say anything about Haldeman.
1991
01:59:19,569 --> 01:59:22,655
I understand. We know it's against the law
for you to say anything.
1992
01:59:22,823 --> 01:59:25,699
If you could warn us to hold on the story,
we'd appreciate it.
1993
01:59:25,867 --> 01:59:28,244
I'd really like to help you, but I can't.
1994
01:59:28,411 --> 01:59:31,121
Look, I'm gonna count to 10, all right?
1995
01:59:31,289 --> 01:59:34,917
If there's any reason we should hold
on the story, hang up before I get to 10.
1996
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?
1997
01:59:38,839 --> 01:59:40,422
- Hang up, right?
- That's right.
1998
01:59:40,590 --> 01:59:41,632
- You got it?
- Yeah.
1999
01:59:41,800 --> 01:59:44,927
We're straight? All right.
I'm gonna start counting. Okay?
2000
01:59:45,095 --> 01:59:46,178
- We all right?
- Yeah.
2001
01:59:46,346 --> 01:59:47,388
Okay, I'm counting.
2002
01:59:47,556 --> 01:59:51,183
One, two, three...
2003
01:59:51,351 --> 01:59:55,396
...four, five, six...
2004
01:59:55,564 --> 02:00:00,568
...seven, eight, nine...
2005
02:00:00,735 --> 02:00:02,278
...10.
2006
02:00:03,238 --> 02:00:04,822
You got it straight now?
2007
02:00:04,990 --> 02:00:08,701
- Everything okay?
- Everything's fine.
2008
02:00:12,080 --> 02:00:13,789
Woodward!
2009
02:00:18,253 --> 02:00:19,962
We got it.
2010
02:00:21,840 --> 02:00:23,173
- He confirmed.
- What happened?
2011
02:00:23,341 --> 02:00:26,051
I said, "If I get to 10
and you don't hang up, it's solid."
2012
02:00:26,219 --> 02:00:27,303
- He confirm?
- Absolutely.
2013
02:00:27,470 --> 02:00:29,179
We gotta tell Bradlee.
2014
02:00:30,056 --> 02:00:33,183
MAN: The New York Times
had three columns on it.
2015
02:00:38,023 --> 02:00:41,525
BOB: Bernstein got another source.
The guy at Justice confirmed.
2016
02:00:41,985 --> 02:00:45,654
- If there's doubt, we can run it tomorrow.
- The story's solid. We're sure of it.
2017
02:00:45,822 --> 02:00:48,240
I just got off the phone with him.
It's gold.
2018
02:00:50,076 --> 02:00:52,161
Okay, we go with it.
2019
02:01:05,091 --> 02:01:07,092
Woodstein!
2020
02:01:21,775 --> 02:01:24,026
- You know what it's about?
- No.
2021
02:01:25,028 --> 02:01:27,029
ANNOUNCER [ON TV]:
Sloan, who resigned as campaign treasurer...
2022
02:01:27,197 --> 02:01:28,572
...after the Watergate break-in...
2023
02:01:28,740 --> 02:01:33,619
...showed up for a deposition in the suit
on disclosure of campaign contributions...
2024
02:01:33,787 --> 02:01:35,537
...and denied naming Haldeman.
2025
02:01:35,747 --> 02:01:38,415
REPORTER 1: Would you comment
on your testimony before the grand jury?
2026
02:01:38,583 --> 02:01:42,252
- I'd like my attorney to answer that.
- The answer is an unequivocal no.
2027
02:01:42,420 --> 02:01:45,547
Mr. Sloan did not implicate Mr. Haldeman
in that testimony at all.
2028
02:01:45,715 --> 02:01:48,509
REPORTER 2: Did Mr. Sloan acknowledge
that it was an espionage fund?
2029
02:01:48,677 --> 02:01:49,718
ATTORNEY:
No, not at all.
2030
02:01:49,886 --> 02:01:52,221
REPORTER 2: Did he mention use of funds
for espionage activity?
2031
02:01:52,389 --> 02:01:54,181
ATTORNEY:
None whatsoever. Thank you, gentlemen.
2032
02:01:54,349 --> 02:01:57,393
ANNOUNCER: Sloan expanded his denial
to include his statements to the FBI...
2033
02:01:57,560 --> 02:01:59,144
...and to all federal authorities.
2034
02:01:59,312 --> 02:02:00,646
Later, at the White House...
2035
02:02:00,814 --> 02:02:03,607
...News Secretary Ronald Ziegler
delivered a strong attack...
2036
02:02:03,775 --> 02:02:05,192
...on the Washington Post.
2037
02:02:05,360 --> 02:02:07,569
ZIEGLER:
Why is the Post trying to do it?
2038
02:02:07,737 --> 02:02:09,405
You have a man...
2039
02:02:09,572 --> 02:02:12,908
...who's the editor of the Washington Post
by the name of Ben Bradlee.
2040
02:02:13,410 --> 02:02:18,455
I think anyone who were to honestly assess
what his political persuasions are...
2041
02:02:18,623 --> 02:02:22,418
...would, I think,
come to the conclusion quite quickly...
2042
02:02:22,585 --> 02:02:25,129
...that he is not a supporter
of President Nixon.
2043
02:02:25,588 --> 02:02:27,214
I respect the free press.
2044
02:02:27,382 --> 02:02:30,634
I don't respect the type of journalism--
2045
02:02:30,802 --> 02:02:33,178
The shabby journalism
that is being practiced...
2046
02:02:33,346 --> 02:02:34,555
...by the Washington Post.
2047
02:02:34,723 --> 02:02:39,560
All I know is that the story
that ran this morning is incorrect...
2048
02:02:39,728 --> 02:02:44,440
...and has been so stated
as being incorrect...
2049
02:02:44,607 --> 02:02:48,527
...by not only me, but by the individual
whose grand-jury--
2050
02:02:48,695 --> 02:02:52,281
Secret grand-jury testimony
they based their story on.
2051
02:02:52,449 --> 02:02:56,493
And that individual has denied
that he ever so testified.
2052
02:02:56,828 --> 02:02:58,370
ANNOUNCER:
No sooner had Ziegler finished...
2053
02:02:58,538 --> 02:03:02,124
...than the president's campaign manager,
Clark MacGregor, met with reporters.
2054
02:03:02,292 --> 02:03:05,461
MacGREGOR:
Using innuendo, third-person hearsay...
2055
02:03:05,628 --> 02:03:09,089
...unsubstantiated charges,
anonymous sources...
2056
02:03:09,257 --> 02:03:11,258
...and huge scare headlines...
2057
02:03:11,426 --> 02:03:14,386
...the Post has maliciously sought
to give the appearance...
2058
02:03:14,554 --> 02:03:17,806
...of a direct connection between
the White House and the Watergate...
2059
02:03:17,974 --> 02:03:19,767
...a charge which the Post knows...
2060
02:03:19,934 --> 02:03:23,812
...and half a dozen investigations
have found, to be false.
2061
02:03:23,980 --> 02:03:27,691
The hallmark of the Post's campaign
is hypocrisy...
2062
02:03:27,859 --> 02:03:32,321
...and its celebrated double standard
is today visible for all to see.
2063
02:03:32,489 --> 02:03:34,823
BOB: What do you mean?
-I'm not talking about Haldeman.
2064
02:03:34,991 --> 02:03:36,200
CARL: What went wrong?
- Nothing.
2065
02:03:36,367 --> 02:03:37,493
Tell us what went wrong.
2066
02:03:37,660 --> 02:03:40,579
BOB: Didn't you say the FBI had information
on Haldeman in the files?
2067
02:03:40,747 --> 02:03:43,874
We have it in the notes from
the conversation with you on the phone.
2068
02:03:44,042 --> 02:03:46,502
We have to go talk to your boss
if you don't talk.
2069
02:03:46,669 --> 02:03:49,338
JOE: What the hell are you talking about?
I'll deny everything.
2070
02:03:49,506 --> 02:03:52,674
We're just trying to find out
if we made some errors.
2071
02:03:52,842 --> 02:03:54,968
If we made a mistake,
we'll come off the story.
2072
02:03:55,136 --> 02:03:56,470
CARL:
Just tell us if we're wrong.
2073
02:03:56,638 --> 02:03:59,306
Tell us if we screwed up.
Tell us if it's wrong. Tell us--
2074
02:03:59,474 --> 02:04:00,849
I'm not talking about it.
2075
02:04:01,017 --> 02:04:04,144
I am not talking to you about Haldeman
or anybody else.
2076
02:04:04,312 --> 02:04:06,772
I can't even be seen talking
to either one of you bastards.
2077
02:04:06,940 --> 02:04:08,690
CARL: What are you afraid of?
Who got to you?
2078
02:04:08,858 --> 02:04:10,609
BOB:
Are we being set up?
2079
02:04:11,402 --> 02:04:13,278
CARL: Are we? Tell us.
BOB: Are we being set up?
2080
02:04:13,446 --> 02:04:17,991
CARL: Just tell us, we won't say anything.
- Fuck you. And fuck you.
2081
02:04:24,249 --> 02:04:26,083
BOB:
Honest to God, I just don't understand.
2082
02:04:26,251 --> 02:04:28,210
CARL:
It's in the notes.
2083
02:04:28,378 --> 02:04:32,005
"Yeah, we had another call all along.
I've got another call. I've gotta go."
2084
02:04:32,173 --> 02:04:34,842
"Did you mean Bob Haldeman?"
"Yeah, Bob Haldeman."
2085
02:04:37,387 --> 02:04:39,054
CARL:
Jesus, what was our mistake?
2086
02:04:40,056 --> 02:04:42,057
BOB:
Maybe there was no mistake.
2087
02:04:42,225 --> 02:04:46,395
CARL: Then they're just setting us up.
Then the whole thing was a setup.
2088
02:04:47,939 --> 02:04:49,815
And they just hung us.
2089
02:04:50,400 --> 02:04:53,402
HOWARD: More denunciations.
Gonna have to make a statement, Ben.
2090
02:04:53,570 --> 02:04:57,406
One senator just gave a speech
slurring us 57 times in 20 minutes.
2091
02:04:57,574 --> 02:05:00,868
I knew we had enemies,
but I didn't know we were this popular.
2092
02:05:01,536 --> 02:05:03,829
Wow, look at this.
2093
02:05:05,582 --> 02:05:08,041
My non-denial denial.
2094
02:05:16,426 --> 02:05:18,260
Fuck it, let's stand by the boys.
2095
02:05:19,429 --> 02:05:21,972
HOWARD:
Okay. Foreign?
2096
02:05:22,390 --> 02:05:24,308
All right, here's our headline.
2097
02:05:24,475 --> 02:05:27,644
Radio Hanoi reports the
United States-North Vietnam agreement...
2098
02:05:27,812 --> 02:05:30,105
...for a settlement of the Vietnam War.
2099
02:05:30,398 --> 02:05:31,440
[PHONE RINGING]
2100
02:05:31,608 --> 02:05:34,067
MAN [ON RADIO]: Artie was just saying,
in the few seconds we have left...
2101
02:05:34,235 --> 02:05:37,029
...just saying that vibrato sound
that she had then, she still has now.
2102
02:05:37,197 --> 02:05:38,238
[MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
2103
02:05:38,406 --> 02:05:40,824
CARL: Woodward, what did you find out?
What did he say?
2104
02:05:40,992 --> 02:05:43,035
- What time is it?
- You fell asleep?
2105
02:05:43,203 --> 02:05:45,287
BOB:
Oh, goddamn it.
2106
02:06:08,394 --> 02:06:09,811
[BOB SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
2107
02:07:09,038 --> 02:07:10,706
DEEP THROAT:
Over here.
2108
02:07:33,896 --> 02:07:36,732
- You let Haldeman slip away.
- Yes.
2109
02:07:36,899 --> 02:07:38,984
You've done worse
than let Haldeman slip away.
2110
02:07:39,152 --> 02:07:43,030
You got people feeling sorry for him.
I didn't think that was possible.
2111
02:07:43,197 --> 02:07:44,906
In a conspiracy like this...
2112
02:07:45,074 --> 02:07:48,535
...you build from the outer edges
and you go step by step.
2113
02:07:48,703 --> 02:07:51,830
If you shoot too high and miss,
everybody feels more secure.
2114
02:07:52,707 --> 02:07:56,626
- You put the investigation back months.
- Yes, we know that.
2115
02:07:56,794 --> 02:07:59,421
And if we're wrong, we're resigning.
2116
02:08:00,673 --> 02:08:02,090
Were we wrong?
2117
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.
2118
02:08:10,767 --> 02:08:12,768
I don't want hints.
2119
02:08:12,935 --> 02:08:14,770
I need to know what you know.
2120
02:08:31,120 --> 02:08:33,955
It was a Haldeman operation.
2121
02:08:34,665 --> 02:08:38,710
The whole business was run by Haldeman,
the money, everything.
2122
02:08:38,878 --> 02:08:41,213
It won't be easy getting at him.
He was insulated.
2123
02:08:41,381 --> 02:08:43,131
You'll have to find out how.
2124
02:08:47,095 --> 02:08:50,138
Mitchell started doing covert stuff
before anyone else.
2125
02:08:50,306 --> 02:08:53,725
The list is longer
than anyone can imagine.
2126
02:08:55,561 --> 02:09:00,607
It involves the entire
U.S. intelligence community.
2127
02:09:01,025 --> 02:09:02,150
FBI...
2128
02:09:03,361 --> 02:09:05,487
...CIA, Justice.
2129
02:09:05,655 --> 02:09:07,322
It's incredible.
2130
02:09:09,575 --> 02:09:11,660
The cover-up had little to do
with Watergate.
2131
02:09:11,828 --> 02:09:16,289
It was mainly
to protect the covert operations.
2132
02:09:17,125 --> 02:09:19,000
It leads everywhere.
2133
02:09:22,130 --> 02:09:25,215
Get out your notebook. There's more.
2134
02:09:30,805 --> 02:09:33,557
Your lives are in danger.
2135
02:09:34,392 --> 02:09:37,269
CARL:
Hi. I finally got Sloan on the phone.
2136
02:09:49,157 --> 02:09:51,158
[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKERS]
2137
02:10:57,058 --> 02:10:58,934
BEN:
Why couldn't you tell me over the phone?
2138
02:10:59,101 --> 02:11:00,936
- Phones aren't safe.
- Can't trust them.
2139
02:11:01,103 --> 02:11:02,812
- Come on in.
BOB: We can't come in, sir.
2140
02:11:02,980 --> 02:11:05,357
CARL: Woodward says
there's electronic surveillance.
2141
02:11:22,625 --> 02:11:24,834
- Surveillance? Who's doing it?
- It's being done.
2142
02:11:25,002 --> 02:11:26,711
- People's lives are in danger.
BEN: Wait.
2143
02:11:26,879 --> 02:11:29,464
- Maybe even ours.
BEN: What happened to that Justice source?
2144
02:11:29,632 --> 02:11:31,508
I made the instructions too complicated.
2145
02:11:31,676 --> 02:11:33,802
He thought I said "hang up,"
I said "hang on."
2146
02:11:33,970 --> 02:11:35,804
- Jesus Christ.
BOB: The story is right.
2147
02:11:35,972 --> 02:11:38,139
Haldeman was the fifth man
to control that fund.
2148
02:11:38,307 --> 02:11:40,809
- Sloan would've told the grand jury.
- Sloan wanted to.
2149
02:11:40,977 --> 02:11:42,978
BEN: Why didn't he?
- Because nobody asked.
2150
02:11:43,896 --> 02:11:46,106
The cover-up had little to do
with the break-in.
2151
02:11:46,274 --> 02:11:48,233
It was to protect covert operations...
2152
02:11:48,401 --> 02:11:50,819
...involving the entire
U.S. intelligence community.
2153
02:11:50,987 --> 02:11:53,488
Did Deep Throat say
that people's lives are in danger?
2154
02:11:53,656 --> 02:11:56,658
- Yes.
- What else did he say?
2155
02:11:57,118 --> 02:11:59,536
He said everyone is involved.
2156
02:12:06,586 --> 02:12:09,170
You know the results
of the latest Gallup poll?
2157
02:12:09,338 --> 02:12:12,007
Half the country never even heard
of the word "Watergate."
2158
02:12:12,174 --> 02:12:14,175
Nobody gives a shit.
2159
02:12:16,470 --> 02:12:18,680
You guys are probably pretty tired, right?
2160
02:12:19,473 --> 02:12:22,225
Well, you should be. Go on home.
2161
02:12:22,393 --> 02:12:25,520
Get a nice hot bath, rest up 15 minutes...
2162
02:12:25,688 --> 02:12:28,356
...then get your asses back in gear.
2163
02:12:28,524 --> 02:12:31,860
We're under a lot of pressure, you know,
and you put us there.
2164
02:12:33,696 --> 02:12:34,946
Nothing's riding on this...
2165
02:12:35,114 --> 02:12:38,116
...except the First Amendment
of the Constitution...
2166
02:12:38,284 --> 02:12:42,245
...freedom of the press,
and maybe the future of the country.
2167
02:12:44,040 --> 02:12:46,207
Not that any of that matters...
2168
02:12:46,375 --> 02:12:50,003
...but if you guys fuck up again,
I'm gonna get mad.
2169
02:12:51,797 --> 02:12:53,381
Good night.
2170
02:13:10,441 --> 02:13:12,442
[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
2171
02:13:21,077 --> 02:13:22,243
ANNOUNCER [ON TV]:
Now, fellow Americans...
2172
02:13:22,411 --> 02:13:27,874
...the honorable chief justice
will administer the oath of office...
2173
02:13:28,042 --> 02:13:31,086
...to the president
of the United States of America.
2174
02:13:31,253 --> 02:13:33,421
Mr. Chief Justice.
2175
02:13:33,589 --> 02:13:35,590
[MARCHING BAND PLAYING ON TV]
2176
02:13:54,944 --> 02:13:59,030
CHIEF JUSTICE: Mr. President, are you ready
to take the constitutional oath?
2177
02:13:59,198 --> 02:14:03,451
If you will place your left hand
on the Bible and raise your right hand...
2178
02:14:03,619 --> 02:14:05,203
...and please repeat after me:
2179
02:14:05,371 --> 02:14:08,498
I, Richard Nixon, do solemnly swear...
2180
02:14:08,666 --> 02:14:10,875
NIXON:
I, Richard Nixon, do solemnly swear...
2181
02:14:11,043 --> 02:14:15,797
CHIEF JUSTICE: --that I will faithfully execute
the office of president of the United States...
2182
02:14:15,965 --> 02:14:19,634
NIXON: --that I will faithfully execute the
office of president of the United States...
2183
02:14:19,802 --> 02:14:22,595
CHIEF JUSTICE:
--and will, to the best of my ability...
2184
02:14:22,763 --> 02:14:24,639
--and will, to the best of my ability...
2185
02:14:24,807 --> 02:14:26,641
CHIEF JUSTICE:
--preserve, protect and defend...
2186
02:14:26,809 --> 02:14:29,144
...the Constitution of the United States...
2187
02:14:29,311 --> 02:14:33,314
--preserve and protect and defend
the Constitution of the United States...
2188
02:14:33,482 --> 02:14:34,816
CHIEF JUSTICE
--so help me God.
2189
02:14:34,984 --> 02:14:37,193
--so help me God.
2190
02:14:37,737 --> 02:14:39,738
[MARCHING BAND PLAYING
"HAIL TO THE CHIEF" ON TV]
2191
02:14:41,782 --> 02:14:43,116
[GUNSHOTS ON TV]
2192
02:14:54,044 --> 02:14:55,587
[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE ON TV]
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