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With President Nixon facing an uncertain re -election, candidates for the

Democratic Party are accusing him of failing to end American involvement in

Vietnam.

Members of the committee to re -elect the president were in Jacksonville today

on their campaign trek through Florida. And for a report on that, here's Georgia

Wilson. Wife of the Attorney General, Mrs. Richard Klein.

In Washington, yet another public demonstration by some citizens opposed

Vietnam War.

Reporter Alan Whitten.

It was festive as the crowd chirped to Capitol Hill. In an hour's time, several

thousand people had joined hands to form a complete circle of war protests

around the U .S. Capitol.

Clean and shine to the rescue.

Clean the stable, only the shine remains.

No rubbing, no dripping, no fountain smell. A sharp recession has shaken

economic confidence.

As a result, a large field of democratic challengers has emerged and will feed

Nixon if the election were held today.

Five different flavors.

Five different meals.

Gentlemen, Mr. Dean.

Goddamn Russian Revolution out there.

Why aren't we arresting anybody?

Because that isn't a crime.

Right now, the president needs your advice.

Hoover's run the FBI, what, 40 years? 50. 50 goddamn years.

You know, Johnson and Kennedy wanted to fire him, don't you?

But they didn't have the balls.

If the president were to...

Ask Mr.

Hoover to step aside.

How would you suggest he do it?

We know you to be a friend to this administration, and we'd like to see our

friends get what they deserve.

You're next in line.

There isn't a line, Mr. Mitchell.

The president is asking.

Mr. Hoover would want to keep his bulletproof car.

Well, you're a real politician, Felt.

Then thanks for popping by.

If I may, there is one thing Mr. Hoover knows that's been on all your

minds.

Whenever the FBI hears a piece of gossip or information such as, I saw so -and

-so out with another woman, not his wife,

Or a man, not his wife.

We're supposed to write everything down, and we do. We write it all down in

memos.

These memos come to me, and I decide what information Mr. Hoover needs to

And send that up to Mr. Hoover.

And Mr. Hoover puts it all away in his private files.

To be kept safe.

Out of the hands of people without discretion.

People who could do harm.

should that information be leaked, for instance, and put before the court of

public opinion.

And then sometimes Mr. Hoover will go, for instance, to the president's closest

dates and say, Mr.

Ehrlichman or Mr. Mitchell, I want you to know that we received that report

about you and that other woman, and I want to tell you that there is

no reason for us to take any further action.

There is no violation.

You're safe.

We, the FBI, all your secrets are safe with us.

How long have you been in the FBI, Phil?

30 years.

30 years.

That's a lot of information, a lot of files.

Thank you, Mr. Phil.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Mr. Dean.

So, and you're Manhattan?

How's it? Okay. Here he is.

I give you the chief dragon player and guardian of the American dream.

Oh, come on, Mark. Crack a smile at least.

Okay,

let me go. Eddie, leave her alone. She's the best. Come here, you.

Did you hear that? I need a drink. I am the best. I heard that.

I did.

That's what I did. That's what you're doing. Look at what you're doing.

Keep the hip tilt.

Look at their feet.

Come on.

Attitude. And they're elegant. Pick elegant.

Come on.

Good morning. Good morning.

All right, we're in? Not yet.

Here's that Weather Underground file.

How many bombings now?

Couple dozen.

Precise numbers, Mr. Miller?

29.

Nails and bald bearings. These kids aren't messing around.

They're embarrassing the FBI.

Get the New York office.

He's dead?

Who?

Mr. Hoover's dead.

His housekeeper found him on the floor.

He wasn't breathing.

He looked like a stroke.

Put everything into motion.

No mistakes, gentlemen.

Good morning, Felton. The Assistant Attorney General. Pat Gray.

Complicated morning for all of us. Indeed.

Mr. Miller here will be handling the funeral arrangements.

I have the Attorney General's instructions on seating and protocol.

will be handled by the FBI. The Attorney General will sit beside the Vice

President. Handled by the FBI in its own way, Mr. Gray.

I also have instructions on Mr. Hoover's files.

I am to take possession of them and bring them to the White House.

What files?

Mr. Hoover's secret files, the personal and confidentials.

Official and confidentials. There are no secret files.

For his lifelong trust in thee, his steadfast devotion to the nation, his

elevated patriotism, his commitment to justice and peace in the nation.

We ask that we may be as strong, brave as he was brave, loyal

as he was loyal, serve as he served, love the nation as he

loved it.

Phelps. Jesus.

Bill Sullivan.

I'd like a move with you.

Bill Sullivan, Mark Phelps.

Together again.

Who would have thought it?

I think I was the one who recommended you to the old man for your first big

promotion. You know you were.

That's right. Mark Phelps never forgets.

That's why everyone likes you.

Hell, I even like you.

I don't like anybody.

What do you want?

I had 30 years in the Bureau.

Same as you. You were the director's bag man.

Oh, yeah? You taped Martin Luther King with other women and sent the pictures

his wife.

Do you need me to actually say it?

Those days were gone.

You had to go.

You could be you, Mark.

Only because.

You're the president's new best friend.

Mark Felt.

Integrity.

Bravery. Fidelity.

Ladies and gentlemen, the G -Man's G -Man. You want to know what everybody

really thinks of you?

Do you?

Competent.

Reliable.

Loyal. What's wrong with that?

Nothing.

If you're a golden retriever, Hoover's gone.

You're alone now.

Holding the end of your own.

Leash.

Attorney General, line one.

Dick.

Yes.

Well,

I have enjoyed every day of it.

The FBI has been home to me and my family for 30 years.

Yes.

A new day.

Yes.

A fresh start.

It's what I would do.

Who do you have in mind?

I'm sorry, can you repeat that?

Who?

Welcome to the FBI.

A friendly face.

Gentlemen.

Now, Mr. Gray. I know the Bureau has its closets and skeletons.

You can count on me to keep those doors shut.

I'll be candid with you.

I was a submarine commander in the Navy. I was father, confessor, and friend to

18 -year -olds.

Did you know that?

I'm not a suspicious man by nature.

That probably makes me a strange choice to run the FBI. In fact, when the

president called, my wife begged me to turn him down.

But the president wasn't asking, if you know what I mean.

Now, let me be candid with you, Mr.

Gray.

The FBI is the most respected institution in the world. It is one of

cockpits that fly America.

And it is what it is because no one from the outside ever got inside.

Mr. Hoover has been old a long time. I know it's been you running the FBI,

Your reputation is... Let me finish.

You have no law enforcement experience. You're an outsider.

That is your battle to fight.

But I'm going to help you. I appreciate that. Don't.

It's not an act of generosity.

This is about this building and what goes on in here and what it means to the

country.

That is all I care about.

As long as you keep the FBI first, you'll be able to count on me.

This is your office.

I thought the job was yours.

What did I miss?

You and Mr. Hoover.

Don't you remember why he said he liked you so much?

He always said you and he had the same enemies.

That's why.

30 years.

13 transfers.

13 homes to leave.

13 homes to make.

I left behind every friend I ever made.

And I kept my mouth shut.

Like the perfect little FBI wife.

Until one day you wake up and you're so different than you used to be, you can't

even remember what the point was in the first place.

Until there's just one thing left in my head.

The one idea left in my head is at least Mark's going to get that job.

And that will make up for everything.

I don't deserve...

The Bureau's in better hands.

Then I'll go.

What is it?

white gloves and carrying cameras were caught early today in the headquarters

the Democratic National Committee in Washington.

They apparently were unarmed and nobody knows yet why they were even there.

Mr. Kunko, straight into the Democrat offices in the Watergate.

Who's our spy?

Baldwin, Alfred C., checked in six weeks ago.

Says he was more than just the lookout. Says he was supposed to listen for girly

stuff. Guess the Dems are having a lot of trouble with their wives.

You say where he got his instructions?

Baldwin is one of ours.

Ex -FBI.

You work under Bill Sullivan.

When he was in the Bureau, was he in Mr. Sullivan's group?

We think so.

What about CIA connections?

No idea. Why?

Because 30 minutes ago, four of those burglars told a judge they are ex -CIA.

What the hell is that?

One of the most fascinating and exotic stories ever to come out of Washington,

.C., is the talk of the Capitol today.

Robert Endicott covered the story.

Democratic officials today held a series of meetings to talk about tighter

security at their national headquarters here in Washington. The White House has

so far offered no official comment, but a close advisor to the president seen

here visiting China last month has said the president is most concerned about

the break -in and will be keeping a very close eye on the investigation.

Now turning to other news.

Mr. Lano is running straight on this.

Uh, 2 -15, Sunday morning, Metro finds our purpose inside the Democratic

National Committee office.

We ID'd the lead.

He's a pro.

Five years in the FBI, 19 in the CIA.

Then he left the CIA to run security for the Attorney General.

And he ran security for the White House, for the committee to re -elect the

president. The lead burglar ran security for the committee to re -elect the

president? Is that what you said?

That's what he said.

Keep going.

Yeah, it gets weirder.

The lookout in here?

Three years FBI.

Then the Attorney General recruits him to be his wife's personal bodyguard.

Just keep going.

The lookout makes a Howard Hunt the ringleader.

Hunt's also ex -TIA. But get this.

A year ago, we were asked to do a background check on Hunt for a

Did we clear him?

Yeah. For a job at the White House as a consultant on highly sensitive

confidential matters.

That's a job title?

White House?

Justice and the CIA are going to want to know everything we know.

But we aren't going to tell them anything.

The Attorney General already called.

Nobody talks to the Attorney General.

We answer to the Attorney General. You answer to me.

What about the Director?

I'll take care of the Director.

for the Attorney General said yesterday, the FBI is already investigating.

Their report will be turned over to the Criminal Division for appropriate

action.

John Dean, the president's counsel, just went into the director's office.

Let me know when he comes out. Yes, Mr. Feltz.

What's John Dean doing here in this building?

This is a remarkable amount of information about the break -in. We're

gathering string. This is just the beginning.

Okay.

First of all, no more interviews with White House or CIA people without

permission. What? Who's permission?

Give us a minute.

Get out.

The FBI is an independent body.

I'm aware of that. Are you also aware that means we don't need permission to

anything from anybody?

You get that up just one time, you don't ever get it back.

Ever. Let's not get dramatic. We don't even know what this is. That's right. We

don't. But we're going to find out, and that's what we do.

You don't work for them.

You're the director of the FBI now.

48 hours.

We put the investigation to bed and get on with the rest of our lives in two

days.

You've got 48 hours.

Thank you.

Nice to see you.

What brings you back?

Two words.

Revenge.

You look like hell.

Have some food.

Just coffee. Thanks.

So.

What does this look like to you, Sandy, and your pals at Time Magazine?

The water, you think?

Honestly, I... No one at Time Magazine or any newspaper I know can figure it

out.

Ex -boots get caught planting bugs.

Does have a particular...

Sullivan wants back in.

The president wants him back in to run the FBI their way.

Nixon and Sullivan.

House who were made for each other.

Here you go.

Could we have some pie, please?

What kind?

We have apple, blueberry.

You pick.

given 48 hours.

To do what?

Wrap up the Watergate investigation.

By who?

Gray?

Pat Gray, the director of the FBI, ordered the FBI to stop its own

investigation?

There are calls we are not allowed to make on phone and bank records we can't

near In

all

the years I've known you you've never

real secret?

Nothing but the company line.

Is there unfurled waters for you?

One more time, what are we doing?

You looking for a little help?

Payback?

I want the FBI left alone to do its job.

That's all I want.

And you want me to light a fire around the edges?

What a story.

Well, I can see why they didn't give you the job.

I miss you.

I know I'm not supposed to say that.

It's okay to say that.

No.

It's too touchy -feely.

I need you too much.

Where were you tonight?

The switchboard said they didn't know where you were.

Because I didn't tell them. But what about Mrs. Chudy?

She didn't know either.

But you.

Taught her to always say that, didn't you?

Have you been making the calls about Joan?

I called all her friends.

They haven't heard from her in nearly a year.

Are you looking for her?

Is the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world looking for her?

I can't do that.

Oh.

It's against the rules.

Where the hell did they get that?

Mr. Bates, this Washington Post story says we know who the Watergate

is.

Then, this morning, our Time magazine pal, Sandy Smith, called the acting

director to say that he is prepping a story that the FBI is plotting a

whitewash. He said the director has put a 48 -hour cap on the investigation.

What's your point?

That's true.

Someone in this office is talking to the press. The point.

Mr. Lano, is that leaks kill investigations?

Whoa, whoa. Okay. Take it down, Andrew. Okay. You want to conduct a leak

investigation, be my guest.

But you got 200 field agents from here to L .A. all chasing down leads, so

you're going to have to ask them all, too.

Tone in front of Mr.

Phil. I can guarantee it wasn't me or any of the guys in this room.

Donald H.

Segretti. He pulled that name from Howard Hunt's phone records.

He called Hunt a few dozen times, yeah.

It said Segretti used to be a lawyer in the Treasury Department, paid out of the

account that funded the Watergate, an account belonging to the committee to re

-elect the president.

Who's the head of the committee? John Mitchell. Former Attorney General John

Mitchell.

The best we can make out of Segretti is some kind of prankster. You know, like

he's spying on the Dems, sending their wives dirty pictures. It's all bottom

-feeder crap with stuff. Indictable under election law. Forget the plot of

story, Mr. Kunkel. What's the theme? What's it saying?

What does it mean? Like Angie, like Mr. Lano said, we're still vetting the lead.

All the ugly politics, all the dirty money, all the sleaze. It means the

punks are running the country.

Keep going.

You might want to talk to the White House about those leaks.

Because whenever I'm lucky enough to get someone over there to actually talk to

me, they know what I'm going to ask before I ask it.

It's like they already know what I want to know.

Mr. Felt, I have the White House on the phone. Mr. John Dean.

Mr. Dean.

The White House is concerned about these press leaks.

Of course.

We think the source must be someone in the FBI.

Why FBI?

That's where the information is.

Those stories could have come from someone in the White House.

We want you to do something about it, Mr. Phil.

Okay.

Now.

Fine. But I don't understand.

Which part? The part about you calling me.

The White House has no authority over the FBI.

We can... At all, Mr. Dean.

But we can suggest... I'm afraid the White House has nothing to suggest to

FBI.

Thank you, Mr. Phil.

Thank you, Mr. Dean.

I want you to disappear our investigation on these two names.

Get them off the interview list.

I don't get it. They're nobody.

Just do it.

Then make sure you say you did it in Monty's memo for the director.

Your daily Watergate briefing?

Thanks, Charlie.

May I call you Charlie?

How much of what we're getting on Watergate am I actually seeing?

Mr. Felt gives me the headlines, I type them up, I give Mr. Felt the original

and bring you a copy.

Mr. Felt doesn't want to waste your time with details.

Okay, Mr. Gray.

Mr. Coco!

Director Gray wanted you to know that he understands you and your boys are doing

a hell of a job.

Thank Mr. Gray, and not to worry, we'll gather the whole ball of yarn.

Mr. Gray also wanted you to know that there was going to be a small change in

procedure.

In the information flow?

How, and more precisely, where it flows?

Not just the headline, but the story itself.

The details, as it were.

Is Mr. Feld now?

Of course.

Angelano called me last night.

He told me that he called the White House to set up a round of interviews.

Half hour later, the White House called back to tell me that we can't talk to

two of the guys because their names were taken off the list.

The two names you told me.

How would the White House know?

I guess somebody told them.

The only people who knew were me and you.

And Mr. Gray.

And Mr.

Gray.

We need to find out what Gray had.

And how he's getting it.

Did I do something wrong?

Mr. Bates tells me you've been giving Mr. Gray everything we're collecting on

Watergate.

All our interviews, all our files.

Did Mr. Gray tell you to bypass me?

He didn't say it was a secret or anything.

But he said that you knew.

How often did you give him our files? Every day.

Why?

We know why.

Did you give the Attorney General any information about our investigation?

I don't talk to the Attorney General.

Mr. Bates?

Mr. Miller?

The Attorney General called me this morning about something he could only

heard from the FBI.

He's putting a box around Watergate.

We can't touch anything before the break -in.

We have to stay away from all the White House corruption.

In other words, the crimes that matter don't matter.

For the first time in its history, the FBI has been quarantined.

Crimes that it knows about will go uninvestigated.

Mr. Fell. Thank you, Mr. Conkle.

So, with everything we have right now, if we could get indictments,

in your opinion, who would we get?

How high?

Maybe Attorney General.

What about the President?

If the president's lying, is the president lying?

They're all lying.

Then yes.

Maybe the president.

As the investigations went forward, I repeatedly asked those conducting the

investigation whether there was any reason to believe that members of my

administration... were in any way involved.

I received repeated assurances that there were not.

I discounted the stories in the press.

Who do you think gave the orders to bug the Watergate?

Well, the persons who the grand jury indicted in Washington, D .C. last week

gave the orders to do it. You don't think they were following orders then?

don't know. There's nobody higher than me. There has been no evidence

anybody that did that. I think the opposition is.

It's disappointing that after such a thorough, intensive investigation, that

seven persons were indicted.

Watergate break -in took a dramatic turn when one of the defendants, former

White House consultant E. Howard Hunt, changed his plea to guilty. Judge

accepted the guilty pleas of the poor Miami man on the condition of answering

his questions on who else was involved in Watergate.

With the crucial questions of who and what were behind it all, still

Still unanswered.

You got a call from across the river.

Which river is that?

Potomac.

The CIA.

The CIA is telling us we need to taper off.

Taper off.

You're getting too close.

Too close to what? I can't tell you.

You can't or you won't.

It's a matter of national security.

We are doing everything that we can to investigate this incident.

No one on the White House staff. No one.

in this administration was involved in this very bizarre incident.

A

bomb

exploded early this

morning in the Pentagon and left -wing terrorists telephoned newspapers to say

they were responsible.

What about the White House?

It's at the top of their list. I told you that three months ago.

But can they really hit it? They just hit the Pentagon.

I want us to open files on every member of every counterculture organization in

the country.

Hunt them to exhaustion.

No holds barred.

The president is fighting for the White House.

That's not my job.

The president needs order. I promised the president he'd have order.

Which brings me to my next point. I spoke to the attorney general.

The attorney general is going to officially announce we have found

connecting the president on work. What?

But that's not real.

I know. And the president knows you are still.

I hear you and your wife are registered Democrats, Mark.

I hope you're not going to let that get in the way.

The weather underground, they're combining, they're multiplying.

We'll never get warrants, not now.

Warrants? We're not talking about the kids sleeping out there in the parks.

We're talking about people who would burn your children alive in their beds.

People die because we stick to the letter of the law. We lose everything,

including the law.

We're taking off the gloves, entries, tabs, nothing on paper, no warrants.

Mr. Miller's people report to Mr. Miller. Mr. Miller reports to me. Just

the bad old days.

Where's Bill Sullivan when you need him? He's over at the White House,

protecting the nation by spying on senators and their mistresses, while

here just trying to keep all this goddamn mess together.

We're on your side here.

All I'm saying is all that was behind us. Even Hoover knew the dirty stuff was

over. That's why Bill's gone.

All I'm saying is everyone is watching.

How many more kids do we have to lose?

How many more do we let just vanish into eternity?

I am not Bill Sullivan.

This is still the goddamn FBI.

Don't intrude.

Then don't.

You heard from her?

Don't?

You think she's involved with all this?

The underground?

How could she?

She's just like me. Exactly like me. She worships you.

She's okay.

I can feel it, Luke.

There's a price to pay for what we do, Mr. Miller.

There's a price to pay for what we become.

We all pay it one way or another.

Watergate was the most intensive, objective, and thorough investigation in

history of the U .S. Attorney's Office.

And the FBI.

The Justice Department has now completed its criminal investigation without

implicating any present official of either the White House or the committee

re -elect the president.

Completed? Any questions?

What the hell, man?

Give me Feld on the phone.

As to the White House? Hold on, hold on, wait a second.

I understand the FBI's Watergate investigation is in a state of repose

unlikely to be reopened. Anybody tell us this was over yet?

Get me Felt on the phone, or Bates.

God damn it, get me Felt! She can't. Why the hell not?

Because he's right there. And now, let's return to the press conference of the U

.S. Attorney General.

Maybe she's dead.

Maybe she just gave up.

Didn't think anybody cared.

Maybe she's right out there watching us.

To see what a man like you does when your daughter just vanishes one night

no good reason.

Joan had a reason for everything.

You hated her.

Mothers don't hate their daughters.

It's not always easy being one.

You dressed her up like a doll until she got old enough to look just like you.

Mark. You kept telling her to get out until one day she listened to you.

to me.

I had no mother.

But she did.

Yes.

She did.

My father just left.

So, yes.

She gave me up to foster homes, then the orphanage.

You know all about that, don't you?

And then I made my own way.

Until you, my white knight.

are the only homes I've ever known.

You were both mine.

How's home, Mark?

Why are you asking?

That daughter of yours, Jill?

Joan.

My here she's terrific Fulbright scholar first girl in the country

I Want

you to be the first to hear my statement press

No pressure has been

put on me

or any of my special agents in the FBI's investigation, and that it's strange. I

thought I would just nib this in the bud. It's strange credulity that

Nixon could have done a con job on the whole American people.

What do you think?

It's just fine.

The Democrats have issued a statement this morning.

The FBI's Watergate investigation is a whitewash.

What is involved here is not only the political life of this nation, but the

very morality of our leaders at a time when the United States desperately

needs to revitalize its moral standards.

The FBI's...

Watergate investigation is a whitewash.

That's it.

Well, gentlemen, here's what we know.

We know what we've heard out of the Department of Justice the past two days

bullshit.

We know the men who broke into the Watergate are not the end of this thing,

the beginning.

We know this is the latest link in a chain of illegal, covert intelligence

operations by the president's re -election campaign.

We know we are facing obstruction from multiple fronts, from the White House,

from the CIA, from the Attorney General.

Of the United States. Who is our boss?

By the way, it is not our job to speculate on the involvement of the

It is our job to follow the breadcrumbs.

But those breadcrumbs appear to be taking us on a tour of the West Wing of

White House.

And in the general direction of the Oval Office.

We also know we've been ordered to shut down our pursuit of all this as of

today.

And we know that except for the 30 men in this room, no one in the entire

country knows any of this and may never know any of this.

No one can stop the driving force of an FBI investigation.

Not even the FBI.

Socrates.

I'm going to give you the name of a man who was asked to work for the Nixon

administration in an unusual way.

What are you talking about?

There's only one way to understand what Watergate really means, and this is it.

The name is Alex Shipley.

Shipley.

He lives in Nashville.

The man who approached him...

With a lawyer out of L .A. named Donald Segretti.

Segretti.

Shipley can tell you everything you need to know.

Will Shipley talk?

I guess you're going to have to find that out.

One more thing.

This comes from classified FBI files.

The Department of Justice has it. The White House has it.

And now you have it.

election and stop this nonsense about there having been a political espionage

campaign against the Democrats.

Here's what's making the news at the top of the hour.

North Vietnamese military attempts to break through South Vietnamese lines

been met with an intense bombing attack by U .S. aircraft.

General Creighton Abrams, the United States commander in Vietnam, ordered

available B -52 into the northern sector of South Vietnam. Even though the

baseball season's over, the Philadelphia Bills went to the Ozarks for a new

manager today.

Los Angeles coach Danny Ozark was a surprise choice of Phil's general

Paul Owens.

Ozark has had no big league manager.

Mr. Woodward.

The story isn't moving.

Everyone, stop listening to you.

It isn't the same as before.

We're lost in detail.

That's their plan.

They want everyone confused.

Confusion is control.

The truth could ruin the administration.

How high?

How high does it go?

You still don't understand what I'm giving you.

This is dangerous stuff you're playing with.

if it's known before November 7th.

It's election day.

You put out the right story, the public will scream.

The Attorney General will have to let me keep going.

My editors know that I'm talking to somebody, but not who.

They don't ask.

No one understands how one person knows so much. No one can possibly know how

much I know.

With all this mystery, there's a nickname for you at the paper.

Deep Throat.

What? They didn't know what else to call you.

That's just... They shouldn't have to call me anything.

Take out your notebook.

There's more.

FBI agents have established Watergate bugging incident, massive campaign of

political spying and sabotage.

There is some very powerful information, said one federal official.

The White House is vigorously denouncing a story in the Washington Post this

morning, accusing the administration of engaging in a secret political war.

White House press secretary Ron Ziegler is calling the story a pack of

scurrilous lies and innuendo. Based on faceless, cowardly sources inside the

Department of Justice.

He's here, Mark.

He has to be. There's a spy in the FBI.

FBI agents have established one federal investigative official said, according

to FBI reports, that's us, goddammit.

There is information in here that the Bureau only got 72 hours ago. Are you

goddamn joking?

Mr. Felt, you had something you wanted to say.

The last few days, I've heard various people accuse Mr. Lano of leaking to the

press. You've got to be kidding me!

And that he and certain newspaper reporters have been seen together.

You're going to be sick. I wanted to say to you, Mr. Lano, in front of everyone

here, that I know these are vicious lies by jealous agents.

You're doing a fine job, and no matter what, the director and I will support

you.

Mr. Gray.

I may not be an FBI lifer like some of you.

I'm certainly no Mark Felt.

Since I arrived here, I have put up with paranoia, insubordination, second

-guessing gentlemen. It's come to Jesus' time.

Whoever the leaker is, whoever is the Judas among you, betraying me, the other

good men in this room, his family, God!

Not to mention the bureau and the legacy of J. Edgar Hoover. Step forward.

Right here.

Right now.

Just one big game, Charlie.

Or all just chess pieces. You gotta remember that.

What's the body count?

Eight so far.

You, me, a few guys on my team.

Where are they thinning you?

St. Louis.

But I don't know how much more I have left in me.

You?

Well, at least it's Frisco.

Yeah.

Great.

How many years you put in here, Charlie?

The whole run.

My kids were born here.

People don't seem to understand, nor can, as Nixon has won in a landslide.

I appreciate

you taking the

time, Mr. Bell.

I always take care of my people, Mr. Banks.

In fact, my father always said to me, Mark...

Whatever we do, we have to make our lives vectors, lines with force.

You have to

destroy anything that is sick beyond repair to rescue it from its

agony. And the agony it causes everyone

else. Mr. Bain.

Mr. Bain.

What are you doing, Charlotte?

Genesis Commune, Ben Lomond, California

These leaks are driving the White House crazy.

The White House thinks it knows who it is.

Your name came up.

You have any idea what that would mean?

Treason, for one.

Betrayal of everything the FBI stands for, for another. Everything you stand

for.

So why would I do it?

I don't know.

I can't imagine their thinking.

Why don't they fire me, then?

You know everything.

To them, the only thing worse than keeping you is firing you.

Dean did say something strange.

Apparently, they know everything going on inside our shop.

They have a source.

Inside the FBI, he sent me here.

Everything.

We just went... Your office for bugs, Mr. Do it again.

The knives are out.

More than you know.

Am I safe?

No one is.

The White House is going to sanitize the entire town. The director of central

intelligence will be gone by morning.

Why? Well, apparently he couldn't smoke you out fast enough.

The source of all those stories.

Where does the CIA stand?

The CIA is building a wall.

We'll stay out of your way, but if we're forced to protect ourselves, we will.

The FBI will never reach the CIA on this.

And the White House?

Presidents come and go.

But the CIA stays.

The FBI stays.

We are the constants.

Oh, I almost forgot.

Time magazine's person of the year is going to be Richard Nixon.

i thought you'd like to know happy holidays

and told me the unthinkable has happened.

He actually misses Hoover.

Hoover would have gotten the dogs off him, he said.

He'd have everyone scared to death.

The White House is going to

make me director permanently.

Congratulations.

Bill Sullivan will be my number two.

You know what the president said to me today? He said the Germans had the right

idea during World War II.

If they went through a town and one of their soldiers got hit by a sniper,

they'd line up the whole goddamn town and kill everyone.

He said, it's time to clean out the FBI.

You know what that will mean for me.

Remember, they're afraid of you.

Mark, if you did know something, you could come to me.

You'd be able to work it out together. We could do something about it.

I can't protect you anymore.

Just give them what they want.

The traitor's head on a platter.

So the president asked me what he should do. And I tell him, get rid of everyone

in the interest of the nation.

I didn't mean me, of course.

You don't have many friends left, you know.

How about your FBI pals?

Told me to cut your nuts off.

Think I'll let you keep it bad?

You got a lot of people worried, Marston.

I think you're going to unwrap everything.

Everything from all the years.

Everything we, you and I, know.

Is that what you want to know, Bill?

This your last little errand?

Bill, the president will sleep at night.

I'm just saying, you open those scabs, there's a lot of things underneath.

Just remember, no one likes informers.

They only remember you as a rat.

Even if you were their... Even if you were their rat.

Mr. Felt, Mr. Miller's on the phone. He needs to speak with you.

This is Special Agent Clark. I don't want to know his name.

Tell him what you told Mr. Bates and me.

I don't think I have anything to worry about, Mr. Fell.

You don't think?

Specific.

The commune where the subject, Joan Fell... Do not say her name.

Where the target is.

Definitely some people of interest in there.

Maybe some with an underground target.

If you ask me, it's just someone's kid looking for a way home.

Do you know your physics, Sandy?

If you tap repeatedly on the post of the building and the tapping is relentless,

it creates a rhythm.

If you do that long enough and steadily enough, it will feed back.

The frequencies will align, the molecules will scramble, and the whole

the whole building will come apart from the inside.

and collapse in on itself and all come tumbling down.

The molecules are beginning to scramble. The FBI is coming apart.

Do you know what that takes us?

Do you want a country this big, this angry, this confused without a police

department?

Get out your notebook.

May 1969 and February 1971. Mark.

You sure about this?

Between those states, White House employees were wiretapped, many of them

to the Secretary of State, and five reporters, including the New York Times.

You're kidding.

This is hard for you.

What part?

All this truth.

The truth is hard for you.

illegally, unconstitutionally, unreprehensibly bugged and taped and

photographed and memorialized every move those people made.

Them and their wives and their mistresses and homosexual lovers.

Who did the wiretaps? Bill Sullivan. He became a rogue FBI operation.

Sullivan drove Sullivan and the White House by the mills.

How about you?

What did you know?

About everything else, I knew every sordid little detail.

But not this.

They knew they couldn't tell me about this.

Yeah, they couldn't count on you.

The White House is packing all its crimes in separate little boxes.

Watergate, it's buying the ugliness, the rot.

Each thing in a different box so that no one can put it together. So that no one

sees it's all connected.

And no one will care.

But it's all the same big thing.

And Watergate, just the gateway.

Can you get the story out before Gray's confirmation hearing?

What you're doing will bring down the whole House of Cards.

where it leads.

Any last minute invite?

We've gone over everything.

I'll go easy.

You're the president's man.

Mr. Gray, what about this?

I don't know what my position should be.

It was before your time.

Tell the truth.

No one can argue with the truth.

Mr. Gray, this Time Magazine article by Sandy Smith contains information on

alleged wiretaps requested by the White House installed by the FBI.

How do you respond to these charges?

It was before my time, Senator.

What about the assertion in this article that a White House aide slipped Donald

Segretti, a target of the Bureau's Watergate investigation, copies of what

FBI had?

We didn't look into that.

Why on earth not?

I'll have to look into that.

Did you know that the White House had your confidential file?

I did, yes, Senator.

Let me tell you how that might have happened.

Please do.

White House counsel John Dean told me the White House wanted everything the

had on Watergate to help with its own investigation.

So Mr. Dean took all those FBI files. How many bureau reports are we talking

about? How many reports did you give Mr. Dean?

I believe it was 82.

As the acting director of the FBI.

Why on earth would you do that? Because I was told to. By who?

Who would have ordered that?

President?

One of the most difficult decisions of my presidency, I accepted the

resignations of two of my closest associates in the White House, Bob

John Ehrlichman.

The counsel to the president, John Dean, has also resigned.

The nation tonight is in the midst of what may be the most critical

constitutional crisis in its history. As a result of the president's action, the

attorney general has resigned.

L. Patrick Gray, head of the FBI for nearly a year, will now never take the

chair occupied by J. Edgar Hoover.

John Dean told me during a conversation that the White House masterminded a

cover -up. I began by telling the president that there was a cancer

the presidency, that it was important that this cancer be removed immediately

because it was growing more deadly every day.

I found that one.

Let's go get it.

Oh, my God.

It's my parents.

This is your grandson.

Come here, sweetheart.

There you go.

I had this feeling when I was little.

That I couldn't see into his eyes.

that he didn't approve of me.

He was... holding me up to some impossible standard.

That was me.

When you were sick and you were little, it was your father who climbed into bed

with you.

In his shoes.

His holster, his suit.

He'd sit with you for hours and rock you till you fell back asleep.

Oh, look at that big boy.

Mr.

Director, we're ready.

Mr. Powell.

Mark. It's a record.

Mr. Felt, thank you for 31 years of service to the Federal Bureau of

Investigation. Thank you.

I have never been a quitter.

To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct

body.

But as president, I must put the interests of America first.

Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Vice President Ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office.

Counter -espionage expert.

Nazi hunter.

You, Mr. Felder, are the G -man's G -man.

A hero and a patriot.

And we are a grateful nation.

Ladies and gentlemen, for the past few weeks, you've heard through testimony

sounds of the bombs, of the PLO and the weather underground ringing in your

ears. People died.

We were a nation at war at home and abroad.

We don't dispute that.

Now we ask you to listen for the sound of the Constitution.

You hear that?

Doesn't make quite as much noise as a bomb, does it?

Just sits there, silent like our conscience, just as it's done for the

years.

Mr. Felt, on September 8, 1972, did you order 143 FBI

agents across the country to break into the homes of relatives of alleged

members of the Weather Underground to wiretap their phones and bug their

Yes. Who else?

Who else what? Who else participated in giving those orders?

Assistant Director Edward Miller.

I gave the order. Acting Director L. Patrick Gray III.

I gave the order.

Charles Bates.

You're really going to sit there and do that?

You're really going to take that on for everybody?

I gave the order.

Mr. Felt, you stated that you frequently briefed the Nixon White House on the

case. Maybe you could just give us a quick snapshot on how that all worked.

I was in constant contact with the White House on many matters.

In fact, I was in the Oval Office so often, people used to say I had to be

-throated.

What did you just say?

I said I was with the White House, Dean, and so forth.

So often, people thought I was the Washington Post source for Watergate.

The person they call Deep Throat.

Before the witness is excused, are there any questions from the jury?

Well, were you?

Say what?

Were you deep throat?