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I just don't understand it, Bob.
I've logged a lot of miles.
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I've followed
the sales textbook by the letter.
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I've applied myself diligently.
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I mean, I try and I try,
and I just cannot get in the door.
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- I mean... what am I doin' wrong?
- Earl, sit down.
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Sure, you've got a great product,
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but you have to remember
what you're really selling: yourself.
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So it's not necessarily what I say
as how I say it?
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That's right, Earl.
A good salesman can sell anything.
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And I remember when you were
a good salesman at the beginning.
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Something's changed.
I don't want to pry,
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but is everything all right at home,
with Margie?
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- Will there be anything else?
- Leave it.
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- Just leave it.
- Yes, sir.
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- Thank you.
- Thanks.
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I watched you walking in front
of my desk in an agitated manner,
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smoking without having asked
if you could smoke in my presence.
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0121, mark.
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OK, listen up. Fire team
discipline in there at all times.
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Keep your radios on at all times
during the entire penetration.
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Check yourselves. False IDs?
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- Jim.
- No wallets, no keys?
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We rendezvous where?
The Watergate, room 214. When?
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At 0300 hours.
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Jawohl, mein fartin' führer.
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I swear, Frank,
I'm gonna make you a new asshole.
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Let's get the fuck out of here.
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Years of decency
and clean living are over.
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If anything goes wrong, sit tight.
You'll hear from me or Howard.
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Personally, if anything goes wrong,
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I'll be calling the President
of the United States.
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I'm not just gonna be
a good salesman.
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No, doggone it,
I'm gonna be a great salesman.
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- That's the spirit.
- Thanks.
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And remember, Earl,
always look them in the eye.
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Nothing sells like sincerity.
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Five men wearing
white surgical gloves, business suits,
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carrying camera and electronic
surveillance equipment
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were arrested in the headquarters
of the Democratic Committee.
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They were unarmed.
Nobody knows yet why they were there
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or what they were looking for.
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Good evening, General Haig.
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Good evening, sir.
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Judge John Sirica today
sentenced the Watergate burglars
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to terms ranging up to 40 years.
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The White House continues
to deny any involvement.
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Presidential counsel, John Dean,
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testified before
the Senate Watergate committee
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that the scandal reaches
to the highest levels.
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Presidential aides
Haldeman and Ehrlichman
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were ordered to resign today.
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In a stunning announcement, White
House aide Alexander Butterfield
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revealed the existence
of a secret taping system.
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Vice President Agnew resigned
today after pleading no contest
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to a charge of income tax evasion.
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The president has fired
the Watergate special prosecutor,
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Archibald Cox, provoking the greatest
constitutional crisis in history.
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Eight resolutions
calling for the impeachment
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of the president were referred
to the judiciary committee by the House.
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It was disclosed to Judge Sirica
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that there is
an 18-and-a-half-minute gap
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in a June 20th, 1972
taped conversation
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between the president
and Bob Haldeman.
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Shock and anger are coming
from all sectors of the nation.
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Sirica ordered the president
to turn over tapes
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to special prosecutor Leon Jaworski.
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The tapes contain conversations
between the president and his aides
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and are believed to include discussions
of the scandal.
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The White House has not yet
responded to Judge Sirica's order
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and it is not yet known
whether the president will comply.
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Yeah.
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These are the tapes you requested,
Mr. President.
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OK.
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Cocksucker!
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Nixon's never been good
with these things, Al.
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I'll take care of it, sir.
Do you mind, sir?
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- Sorry.
- OK. Go on.
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You know, Al,
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if Hoover were alive,
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these tapes would never have gotten out.
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I want the little shit back.
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- Mr. Hoover was a realist, sir.
- Yeah. Not like the others.
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Dean, McCord, the rest.
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We never got our side
of the story out, Al.
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People have forgotten.
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Such violence.
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The tear gassing, the riots,
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burning the draft cards,
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the Black Panthers.
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We fixed it, Al,
and they hate me for it.
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'Cause it's Nixon.
They always hated Nixon.
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You're all set, sir.
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- OK.
- Good night, Mr. President.
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Good night, Al.
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Hey, Al.
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Men in your profession,
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give 'em a pistol
and then leave the room.
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I don't have a pistol, Al.
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Goddamn it.
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Pause.
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Start.
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- They did what?
- Install bugs, photo documents.
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It was a fishing expedition. It was
their fourth attempt at the DNC.
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O'Brien doesn't use that office.
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Possibly looking for an illegal
Hughes donation to the Democrats,
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so they couldn't make an issue
of your Hughes money.
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It was a legal contribution.
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Not clear the burglars
knew what they were looking for.
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They were headed for
McGovern's office later that same night.
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- Christ, did Mitchell know?
- I don't know.
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Mitchell's out of his mind.
Martha put her head through a window.
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- Jesus. Through a window?
- Yeah, they're taking her to Bellevue.
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- Maybe she'll stay this time.
- Martha's an idiot.
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She'll do anything
to get Mitchell's attention.
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If Mitchell had been minding the store
instead of Martha,
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we wouldn't have Magruder
running some third-rate burglary.
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We feel the bigger concern
is Gordon Liddy.
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- Liddy? That fruitcake? What about him?
- That's just it, sir. He is a nut.
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Used to work with the plumbers,
turns up running this Watergate caper.
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Remember his plan to firebomb Brookings
using Cubans as firemen?
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- What's Liddy got?
- He was using some campaign cash
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that was laundered for us
through Mexico, the FBI's onto it.
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- We could have a problem with that.
- That's a campaign finance violation.
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- So if...
- Liddy takes the rap for Watergate,
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we can take care of him
and that lets us off the hook.
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I don't have time for this.
Just handle it, Bob.
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Keep it out of the White House.
I gotta see Kissinger.
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He's throwing a tantrum,
threatening to quit. Again.
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What else?
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Well, sir, one of the people implicated
is still on the White House payroll.
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Who? Not another goddamn Cuban.
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Uh, no, sir. A guy named Hunt.
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Howard Hunt, sir.
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Hunt? Howard Hunt?
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Left his White House
phone number in his hotel room.
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He works for Colson.
He used him on the Pentagon Papers.
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After arrest, he dumps his wiretapping
stuff into his White House safe.
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We're trying to figure out when he
stopped being a White House consultant.
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Howard Hunt is working
for the White House? Jesus Christ.
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This is goddamn Disneyland.
Since when?
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Since Chappaquiddick.
He wanted dirt on Kennedy.
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- Colson brought him in.
- You know Hunt, sir?
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Yeah, on the list of horribles.
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I know what he is
and I know what he tracks back to.
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- He was involved in the plumbers?
- Definitely.
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Colson had him break into Bremer's
apartment after Bremer shot Wallace
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to plant McGovern's campaign literature.
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I had nothing to do with that.
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- He was in this Ellsberg thing?
- Yes. You approved it.
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- I did?
- Right after the Pentagon Papers broke.
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They went in to get his psychiatric
records. We were working on China.
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Fuck.
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What the fuck?! You're not
supposed to take pictures of me!
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Take pictures of the files!
Give me the fuckin' film!
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Howard Hunt.
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Jesus Christ. You open up that scab,
you'll uncover a lot of pus.
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What do you mean?
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- Where's Hunt now?
- He's in hiding.
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- He sent Liddy in to talk to Dean.
- And?
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- He wants money.
- Pay him.
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Pay him? I told him get out
of the country. It's crazy to start...
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What the hell are you doing,
John, screwing with the CIA?
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I don't care how much he wants.
Pay him.
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- What are we paying him for, sir?
- Silence.
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But you're covered.
It's only this Ellsberg thing,
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and if that comes out,
it's national security.
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Cut ourselves loose from these clowns,
and that's all there is to it.
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No, it's more than that.
I want Hunt paid.
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We've never done that before, sir.
How do we do it?
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We should set up a Cuban defense fund
on this and take care of all of 'em.
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- Should we talk to Trini about paying?
- Keep Trini out.
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And for God's sake, keep Colson out.
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It's time to baptize
our young counsel here, Mr. Dean.
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That means John can never talk about it.
Attorney-client privilege.
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So get to it.
John, you stay close to this, OK?
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- Don't worry, sir.
- Good.
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OK.
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Did I approve the Ellsberg thing?
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Huh?
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I'm glad we tape
all these conversations,
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but I never approved
the break-in at the Ellsbergs'.
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Maybe I approved it after the fact.
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Someday we gotta
start transcribing these tapes.
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You approved that before the fact
because I went over it with you. But...
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- No one's gonna see these tapes.
- Right.
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It's more of a problem for Ehrlichman.
He fixed Hunt up with the phony CIA IDs.
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But... what else does Hunt have on us?
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We gotta turn off the FBI, Bob.
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You go to the CIA and tell Helms
that Hunt is blackmailing the president.
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Tell him Hunt and his Cuban friends
know too damn much,
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and, uh, if he goes public,
if Hunt goes public,
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it will be a fiasco for the CIA.
He'll know what I'm talking about.
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- All right.
- Play it tough.
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That's the way they play it,
that's the way we're gonna play it.
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Don't lie to Helms
and say there's no involvement.
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Just say this is, uh,
a sort of comedy of errors,
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bizarre, without getting into it.
And, uh...
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Say the president believes
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it's gonna open up the whole
Bay of Pigs thing again.
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And tell Helms he should call
the FBI, call Pat Gray,
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and say that we wish,
for the sake of the country,
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don't go any further
into this... hanky-panky, period.
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Bay of Pigs?
That was Kennedy's screw-up.
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- Why would that threaten us?
- Just do what I say, Bob.
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The only problem
with that, sir...
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- ...gets us to obstruction of justice.
- Got nothing to do with justice.
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- It's national security.
- How is this national security?
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The president says it is.
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Now, this isn't a moral issue, Bob.
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My job is to protect this country
from its enemies,
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and its enemies are inside the walls.
We gotta keep our enemies at bay,
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or our whole program
goes down the tubes.
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Vietnam, China, the Soviet Union.
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- Look at the big picture...
- Damn.
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...we end up doing a hell of a lot
of good in this world.
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Let's not screw it up
with a shit-ass, third-rate burglary.
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What should
I tell Ziegler to tell the press?
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Tell 'em what we always
tell 'em. Anything but the truth.
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- Fuck!
- Say the president believes
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it's gonna open up
the whole Bay of Pigs thing again.
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- Put me in this position.
- Bay of Pigs?
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- Expose me like this.
- Why would that threaten us?
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Why don't they fucking shoot me?
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In the election of 1860,
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Lincoln said the question
was whether this nation could exist,
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half-slave or half-free.
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In the election of 1960,
with the world around us,
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the question is whether the world
will exist half-slave or half-free.
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I think, in the final analysis,
it depends upon what we do here
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in the United States. I think
it's time America started moving again.
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- Mr. Nixon?
- When it comes to experience,
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through the years I have sat
on the National Security Council,
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I have been in the cabinet,
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I have met with
the legislative leaders...
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- Be quiet.
- Relax, everybody, relax.
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...discussions with 35 presidents,
nine prime ministers,
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- two emperors and the Shah of Iran.
- Jesus Christ.
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Has he told them
how many push-ups he can do yet?
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- ...hydroelectric power.
- What the hell happened?
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He just got out of the hospital.
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He hasn't taken one hour off.
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When we consider
the line-up of the world,
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we find there are 590 million people
on our side,
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800 million people
on the Communist side...
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- Shoulda slapped makeup on.
- It's not a beauty contest.
246
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- We'd better hope not.
- ...600 million people who are neutral.
247
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What are you doing to him, Murray?
He's not well.
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- He doesn't have to debate Kennedy.
- The odds are 5-3 against us.
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- When it comes to politics...
- He can win without this.
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Senator, one minute for rebuttal.
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Castro is only the beginning of our
difficulties throughout Latin America.
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Oh, shit, he's gonna do it.
Here it comes.
253
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We've seen Cuba go
to the Communists.
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Eight jet minutes
from the coast of Florida.
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We must attempt to strengthen the
democratic anti-Castro forces in exile.
256
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These fighters have had
no support from our government.
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- Son of a bitch!
- What?
258
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Kennedy was briefed last week
by CIA. He's using it against us.
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We can't respond,
he welshed on a deal.
260
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- It's a disgrace.
- ...we might never have had Castro.
261
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- Why didn't we?
- Mr. Nixon?
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- Man, he's treading water.
- All right, come on.
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He violated national security.
Attack the bastard.
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...Constitution of the United States,
so help me God.
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- Mr. Nixon.
- Yeah.
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I think...
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I think that's the sort
of, uh, very dangerous
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- and irresponsible suggestion that...
- It's over. More coffee?
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...helping Cuban exiles
who oppose Castro would
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not only be a violation
of international law,
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it would be an open invitation
for Mr. Khrushchev...
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It's still very close.
273
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Senator Kennedy's lead
is about, uh, 700,000.
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Think Daley stuffed
the ballot boxes himself?
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In Texas,
they had the goddamn cattle voting.
276
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It was he closest race in history,
Dick, and he stole it. Son of a bitch.
277
00:19:11,700 --> 00:19:13,870
He outspent us and he still cheated.
278
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A guy who's got everything.
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I can't believe it.
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We came to Congress together. We were
like brothers, for Christ's sake.
281
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Got all the figures. It's an obvious
fraud. We ask for a recount.
282
00:19:27,130 --> 00:19:30,920
Don't be ridiculous. Nobody has
contested a presidential election.
283
00:19:31,010 --> 00:19:35,800
Who's gonna do the counting?
The Democrats control Texas, Illinois.
284
00:19:35,890 --> 00:19:39,390
- We shift 25,000 votes in two states.
- And how long will that take?
285
00:19:39,470 --> 00:19:42,810
- Six months, a year?
- What happens to the country?
286
00:19:42,890 --> 00:19:45,810
If I'd called his shot on Cuba,
I'd have won.
287
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- That's what I say.
- Made me look soft.
288
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"I feel very sorry for Nixon
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because he does not know who he is."
You believe this?
290
00:19:52,530 --> 00:19:56,370
"At each stop he has to decide which
Nixon he's going to be at the moment,
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00:19:56,450 --> 00:19:59,740
which must be very exhausting."
Jack Kennedy.
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- It's a disgrace.
- "Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar.
293
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If he had to stick to the truth,
he'd have very little to say.
294
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If you vote for Nixon, then you
oughta go to hell." Harry S. Truman.
295
00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,090
That's what killed us, Dick, not Cuba.
296
00:20:13,170 --> 00:20:17,720
It's the personality problem. You gonna
let the Democrats get away with this?
297
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Goes to Harvard. His father hands him
everything on a silver platter.
298
00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:25,900
All my life,
they've been sticking it to me.
299
00:20:27,150 --> 00:20:32,070
Not the right clothes, not
the right schools, not the right family.
300
00:20:32,150 --> 00:20:34,280
And then he steals from me.
301
00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:38,780
Heh, he says I have no class,
and they love him for it.
302
00:20:38,870 --> 00:20:41,450
Dick, you're only 47.
303
00:20:41,540 --> 00:20:44,460
If you contest this election,
you'll be finished.
304
00:20:44,540 --> 00:20:49,250
You gotta swallow this one.
They stole it fair and square.
305
00:20:50,380 --> 00:20:51,920
We'll get 'em next time, Dick.
306
00:20:55,510 --> 00:20:57,640
We'll get 'em next time.
307
00:21:00,050 --> 00:21:03,680
What makes you think there's
gonna be a next time, Murray?
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Because if he's not this Nixon,
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he's nobody.
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- Good morning, sir.
- Hi.
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- Hi.
- Hi.
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We lost.
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00:21:32,170 --> 00:21:33,800
I know.
314
00:21:35,090 --> 00:21:37,220
I hate to lose.
315
00:21:42,260 --> 00:21:44,470
It makes us human.
316
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,480
It's not fair, Buddy.
317
00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,520
I can take the insults,
I can take the name-calling.
318
00:21:51,610 --> 00:21:55,230
But I can't take the losing.
I hate it.
319
00:21:59,820 --> 00:22:03,330
We don't have to put ourselves
through this again, Dick.
320
00:22:04,740 --> 00:22:07,370
We worked for it. We earned it.
321
00:22:07,460 --> 00:22:11,290
- It's ours.
- It is. We know that.
322
00:22:13,630 --> 00:22:15,880
And it's enough that we know.
323
00:22:21,050 --> 00:22:24,260
Just think of the girls.
324
00:22:24,350 --> 00:22:26,220
They're still young.
325
00:22:26,310 --> 00:22:28,640
We never see them.
326
00:22:32,310 --> 00:22:36,110
I lost my parents when I was young.
I don't want them to lose theirs.
327
00:22:47,450 --> 00:22:51,290
Maybe I should get out of the game.
328
00:22:52,250 --> 00:22:54,590
What do you think, Buddy?
329
00:22:54,670 --> 00:22:57,920
And go back to being a lawyer.
330
00:22:58,010 --> 00:23:02,220
End up with something solid,
some money at the end of the line.
331
00:23:03,550 --> 00:23:05,140
You know, I, uh...
332
00:23:07,220 --> 00:23:10,640
I keep thinking of my old man tonight.
333
00:23:10,730 --> 00:23:14,980
- He was a failure too.
- You're not a failure, Dick.
334
00:23:15,060 --> 00:23:18,570
You know how much money he
had in the bank when he died?
335
00:23:19,900 --> 00:23:22,110
Nothing.
336
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,370
He was so damned honest.
337
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,290
But I miss him.
338
00:23:29,370 --> 00:23:31,580
I miss him a hell of a lot.
339
00:23:51,180 --> 00:23:54,480
- Dad! Dad!
- I got the beets for him.
340
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:55,770
- Dad.
- Is she in there?
341
00:23:55,860 --> 00:24:00,030
I don't have time for you right now.
I got work to do.
342
00:24:10,540 --> 00:24:12,660
- How is thy son?
- Very well, thank you.
343
00:24:12,750 --> 00:24:15,670
- What'd he say?
- He said, in life,
344
00:24:15,750 --> 00:24:19,250
- there's no free ride.
- What'd you say?
345
00:24:19,340 --> 00:24:21,960
I told them I didn't need a ride,
I need a suit.
346
00:24:22,050 --> 00:24:27,260
Oh, no. Harold,
he doesn't respond well to humor.
347
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,970
Maybe Mother can help straighten it out.
348
00:24:30,060 --> 00:24:33,180
I'd rather get a whippin'
than listen to another of her talks.
349
00:24:33,270 --> 00:24:36,150
Relax, Dick.
350
00:24:39,230 --> 00:24:42,480
Donald, finish thy sweeping,
then pick out the bad apples.
351
00:24:42,570 --> 00:24:45,030
Yes, Mother.
352
00:24:45,110 --> 00:24:46,570
I'm working.
353
00:24:48,620 --> 00:24:51,620
Richard, come with me, would thee?
354
00:24:52,790 --> 00:24:54,710
Why me?
355
00:25:01,250 --> 00:25:05,930
Because Harold hast thy father's will
is no reason to admire him.
356
00:25:06,010 --> 00:25:11,060
Let Harold's worldliness
be a warning to thee, not an example.
357
00:25:11,140 --> 00:25:12,810
Yes, Mother.
358
00:25:17,140 --> 00:25:20,270
Harold may have lost touch
with his Bible,
359
00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:23,150
but thee must never lapse.
360
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,030
Now, give it to me.
361
00:25:31,990 --> 00:25:33,950
Do not tell a lie, Richard.
362
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,710
The corn silk cigarette Harold
gave thee behind the store this morning.
363
00:25:37,790 --> 00:25:41,420
I don't have them. Mother, I...
364
00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:43,460
I promise I didn't smoke.
365
00:25:45,590 --> 00:25:47,170
I see.
366
00:25:47,260 --> 00:25:52,680
Well, then Richard, we have
nothing more to talk about, do we?
367
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,060
Please!
368
00:25:55,140 --> 00:25:56,180
Please.
369
00:25:57,060 --> 00:25:59,350
Mother, I'm sorry. It was...
370
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,690
It was just one time. I'm sorry.
371
00:26:06,990 --> 00:26:08,700
So am I.
372
00:26:10,110 --> 00:26:13,280
Thy father will have
to know of thy lying.
373
00:26:13,370 --> 00:26:16,700
No, please, don't... don't...
don't tell him.
374
00:26:16,790 --> 00:26:19,040
I'll never do it again,
I promise. Please.
375
00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:23,790
- Richard, I expected more from thee.
- Please, Mama.
376
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,260
I shall never let thee down again.
377
00:26:28,220 --> 00:26:30,760
Then this shall be our little secret.
378
00:26:35,850 --> 00:26:38,680
Remember, I see into thy soul.
379
00:26:39,940 --> 00:26:43,610
Thee may fool the world,
even thy father,
380
00:26:43,690 --> 00:26:47,610
but not me, Richard. Never me.
381
00:26:50,150 --> 00:26:51,820
Mother...
382
00:26:52,820 --> 00:26:55,910
...think of me always
as thy faithful dog.
383
00:27:11,930 --> 00:27:15,390
- Thank you.
- We'll say grace in the next room.
384
00:27:23,270 --> 00:27:26,730
- Richard.
- Is it my turn?
385
00:27:30,740 --> 00:27:33,490
Oh, Heavenly Father,
we humbly thank you...
386
00:27:33,570 --> 00:27:36,700
I'll do it. There's a couple
of things I wanna say.
387
00:27:37,790 --> 00:27:40,450
Could thee at least remove
thy apron, Frank?
388
00:27:40,540 --> 00:27:45,210
This blood pays the bills, Hannah.
I'm not ashamed of how I earn my money.
389
00:27:48,210 --> 00:27:50,210
Heavenly Father,
390
00:27:50,300 --> 00:27:53,550
you told Adam in the garden,
after that business with the snake,
391
00:27:53,630 --> 00:27:58,350
that man would have to earn his way
by the sweat of his face.
392
00:27:58,430 --> 00:28:00,600
Well, as far as I can tell, Father,
393
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,560
what was true in Eden
is true in Whittier, California.
394
00:28:04,650 --> 00:28:08,730
So we ask you now to remind
certain of our young people
395
00:28:08,820 --> 00:28:12,690
the only way to get a new suit to go to
the promenade with Margaret O'Herlihy,
396
00:28:12,780 --> 00:28:15,530
who happens to be a Catholic,
by the way,
397
00:28:15,610 --> 00:28:19,990
is to work for it. Amen.
398
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,080
- Amen.
- Amen.
399
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,920
- Amen.
- Are we gonna pray now, Daddy?
400
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,340
- Don't be silly.
- You think this is funny?
401
00:28:29,420 --> 00:28:32,880
Maybe a trip to the
wood shed'll straighten you out.
402
00:28:32,970 --> 00:28:36,300
Pretty soon you boys are gonna
have to get out there and scratch.
403
00:28:36,390 --> 00:28:39,260
'Cause you're not gonna
get anywhere on your good looks.
404
00:28:39,350 --> 00:28:41,520
Just ask those fellas.
405
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,060
Charity's only gonna get you so far,
406
00:28:44,140 --> 00:28:46,900
even with saints
like your mother around.
407
00:28:46,980 --> 00:28:51,110
Struggle's what gives life meaning.
Not victory, struggle.
408
00:28:51,190 --> 00:28:54,900
When you quit struggling,
they've beaten you.
409
00:28:54,990 --> 00:28:58,160
And then you end up in the street
with your hand out.
410
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:02,910
My mother was a saint,
411
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,370
but my old man struggled his whole life.
412
00:29:06,460 --> 00:29:10,920
They could call him a little man,
a poor man,
413
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,590
but they never beat him.
414
00:29:12,670 --> 00:29:18,090
I always tried to remember that,
when things didn't go my way.
415
00:29:18,180 --> 00:29:20,100
Let's really get fired up now!
416
00:29:20,180 --> 00:29:25,230
-Get on your stand, Nixon!
- Twenty-eight, 44!
417
00:29:36,650 --> 00:29:39,410
- What's Nixon doing here?
- He thinks he can make it.
418
00:29:39,490 --> 00:29:41,990
Four years of being a tackling dummy.
Poor guy.
419
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,080
- All right! Let's go, defense!
- Hike!
420
00:29:49,420 --> 00:29:54,130
Worst athlete I've ever seen.
But he's got guts.
421
00:29:57,170 --> 00:29:59,720
OK, let's go! Let's do it!
422
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:04,010
In California's gubernatorial race,
Nixon returned to the political arena
423
00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:09,310
in a long and acrimonious bid against
popular incumbent Edmund G. Brown.
424
00:30:09,390 --> 00:30:14,150
Brown's campaign has benefited greatly
from the support of President Kennedy,
425
00:30:14,230 --> 00:30:16,610
while Nixon has had trouble
convincing voters
426
00:30:16,690 --> 00:30:18,990
this is not another run
for the presidency.
427
00:30:19,070 --> 00:30:21,240
With only a few precincts
left unreported,
428
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:21,950
all indications are
of another defeat for Nixon,
429
00:30:21,950 --> 00:30:23,870
all indications are
of another defeat for Nixon,
430
00:30:23,950 --> 00:30:28,160
who lost the presidency just two
years ago by a paper-thin margin.
431
00:30:28,250 --> 00:30:30,540
It seems his brief political comeback
432
00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:32,540
- is in ruins.
- Making a statement?
433
00:30:34,210 --> 00:30:36,460
Thank you, Fidel Castro.
434
00:30:36,550 --> 00:30:40,010
- You're not going to blame Castro?
- I sure am!
435
00:30:40,090 --> 00:30:43,180
Goddamn missile crisis united
the country behind Kennedy.
436
00:30:43,260 --> 00:30:45,850
He was supporting Brown.
People were scared.
437
00:30:45,930 --> 00:30:47,980
Castro staged this just to beat you.
438
00:30:48,060 --> 00:30:50,520
Before you join the jubilation
of my being beaten,
439
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,810
remember people vote
not out of love but fear.
440
00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:58,240
They don't teach that at Sunday school
or the Whittier Community Playhouse.
441
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,360
- I should go check in with our people.
- I'm glad they don't, Dick.
442
00:31:02,450 --> 00:31:06,580
I'm glad they don't because life
is tough and it is unfair
443
00:31:06,660 --> 00:31:10,330
and sometimes you forget
that in your self pity.
444
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:16,750
You forget sometimes, Dick, that I had
a life before you, before California.
445
00:31:18,510 --> 00:31:20,510
Cocksucker!
446
00:31:23,970 --> 00:31:27,100
Don't you want to listen
to Governor Brown's victory speech?
447
00:31:27,180 --> 00:31:30,600
Nope. Not going to listen
to any more speeches ever again.
448
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,640
Amen to that.
449
00:31:32,730 --> 00:31:33,850
It's over, Dick.
450
00:31:35,310 --> 00:31:38,280
- I'll concede in the morning.
- Not that.
451
00:31:47,870 --> 00:31:49,160
Buddy?
452
00:32:08,850 --> 00:32:10,640
I have always stood by you.
453
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,310
I campaigned for you
when I was pregnant.
454
00:32:14,390 --> 00:32:18,190
During Checkers, when Ike
wanted you out, I told you to fight.
455
00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:22,650
This is different, Dick.
456
00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:24,200
You've changed.
457
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,160
You've grown more bitter,
like you're at war with the world.
458
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,250
You weren't that way before.
459
00:32:34,410 --> 00:32:37,630
I'm 50 years old now, Dick.
460
00:32:37,710 --> 00:32:40,460
How many millions of miles
have I traveled?
461
00:32:40,550 --> 00:32:44,170
How many millions of peoples' hands
have I shaked I just don't like?
462
00:32:44,260 --> 00:32:47,890
How many thank-you notes have I written?
463
00:32:47,970 --> 00:32:51,140
It's as if I, I don't know,
just went to sleep a long time ago
464
00:32:51,220 --> 00:32:53,430
and missed the years between.
465
00:32:55,940 --> 00:32:57,480
I've had enough.
466
00:33:00,150 --> 00:33:03,320
What are you saying?
What are you talking about?
467
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:06,910
I want a divorce.
468
00:33:08,660 --> 00:33:12,990
My God. Divorce?
What about the girls?
469
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:20,130
The girls'll grow up. They only
know you from television anyway.
470
00:33:20,210 --> 00:33:23,380
- It'll ruin us, our family.
- No, you're ruining us.
471
00:33:23,460 --> 00:33:26,050
If we stay with you,
you'll take us down with you.
472
00:33:26,130 --> 00:33:28,300
This isn't political.
This is our life.
473
00:33:28,390 --> 00:33:29,850
Everything's political.
474
00:33:29,930 --> 00:33:33,520
- I'm political, you're political.
- No, I'm not. I'm finished.
475
00:33:40,310 --> 00:33:42,730
Well, this is just
what they want, Buddy.
476
00:33:44,150 --> 00:33:45,610
Don't you see?
477
00:33:48,910 --> 00:33:52,490
They want to drive us apart, to beat us.
478
00:33:52,580 --> 00:33:55,580
We can't let them do it.
479
00:33:55,660 --> 00:33:57,710
We've been through too much together.
480
00:33:57,790 --> 00:34:00,080
We belong together.
481
00:34:00,170 --> 00:34:03,340
That's what you said
the first time we met.
482
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,170
You didn't even know me.
483
00:34:07,220 --> 00:34:08,970
Oh, yes, I did.
484
00:34:12,010 --> 00:34:14,770
I asked you to marry me, didn't I?
485
00:34:14,850 --> 00:34:17,640
On our first date.
486
00:34:17,730 --> 00:34:21,020
I said it because I knew...
487
00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:23,690
I knew you were the one.
488
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,570
So solid.
489
00:34:27,650 --> 00:34:30,110
So strong.
490
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,410
- So beautiful.
- Hi, I'm Pat Ryan.
491
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,080
- Richard Nixon.
- It's a pleasure to meet you.
492
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:38,960
Pleasure to meet you.
493
00:34:55,220 --> 00:34:57,060
Well, in a way, yes.
494
00:34:57,140 --> 00:34:59,310
Don't tell me you've
been cutting my part.
495
00:34:59,390 --> 00:35:03,150
Of course, honey, you know I
would never deceive you. Don't you?
496
00:35:32,130 --> 00:35:34,890
You were the most beautiful thing
I'd ever seen.
497
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,430
I don't want to lose you.
498
00:35:42,850 --> 00:35:45,810
- Ever.
- Dick, don't.
499
00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:54,610
You really want me to quit?
500
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,290
We can be happy.
501
00:36:02,580 --> 00:36:04,620
We really can.
502
00:36:06,420 --> 00:36:09,130
The girls and I love you, Dick.
503
00:36:12,970 --> 00:36:15,180
And if I stop,
504
00:36:15,260 --> 00:36:19,060
there'll be no more talk of divorce?
505
00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:31,570
I'll do it. No more.
506
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,820
Are you serious?
507
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,700
Yeah. I'm out.
508
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:42,750
Is that the truth?
509
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,840
I'll never run again. I promise.
510
00:36:52,340 --> 00:36:53,760
Yeah.
511
00:36:57,090 --> 00:36:58,890
I love you, Buddy.
512
00:37:00,010 --> 00:37:01,140
I love you.
513
00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:04,020
I love you.
514
00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:08,560
Where are they?
515
00:37:08,650 --> 00:37:13,110
- You don't have to make a statement.
- No!
516
00:37:13,190 --> 00:37:18,070
Gentlemen, I can tell you Mr. Nixon
is a man who is graceful in defeat,
517
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,080
and if he was here with us...
518
00:37:25,660 --> 00:37:27,460
Can I have some quiet, please?
519
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,170
Give the... Just a second!
520
00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:34,880
Some quiet, please. Quiet!
521
00:37:36,010 --> 00:37:37,470
Thank you!
522
00:37:38,470 --> 00:37:40,640
- Mr. Nixon!
- Uh... Ahem.
523
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:45,230
I believe Governor Brown has a heart,
524
00:37:45,310 --> 00:37:48,810
even though he believes I do not.
525
00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:51,980
I believe he's a good American,
526
00:37:52,070 --> 00:37:54,650
even though he feels I am not.
527
00:37:54,730 --> 00:37:59,990
I'm proud of the fact that I
defended my opponent's patriotism.
528
00:38:00,820 --> 00:38:05,410
You gentlemen didn't report it,
but I'm proud I did that. And...
529
00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:08,000
And I would appreciate,
for once, gentlemen,
530
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,710
if you would just print what I say.
531
00:38:12,090 --> 00:38:15,340
For 16 years, uh,
ever since the Hiss case,
532
00:38:15,420 --> 00:38:18,840
you've had a lot of fun. A lot of fun.
533
00:38:18,930 --> 00:38:22,350
But recognize you have a responsibility,
534
00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:25,850
if you're against the candidate,
to give him the shaft.
535
00:38:25,930 --> 00:38:29,600
But if you do that, at least put
one lonely reporter on the campaign
536
00:38:29,690 --> 00:38:34,190
who will report
what the candidate says now and then.
537
00:38:34,270 --> 00:38:39,240
I think, all in all,
I've given as good as I've taken.
538
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,070
But as I leave you, I...
539
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:46,040
I want you to know,
just think what you're gonna be missing.
540
00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:49,410
You won't have Nixon
to kick around anymore.
541
00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:51,290
Kick around anymore.
542
00:38:58,970 --> 00:39:00,630
Uh...
543
00:39:01,590 --> 00:39:05,060
Because, gentlemen,
this is my last press conference.
544
00:39:05,140 --> 00:39:08,730
- Thank you and good day.
- Is this the end of politics for you?
545
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:14,860
Will you run again?
546
00:39:18,690 --> 00:39:22,780
In California, we can
officially write the political obituary
547
00:39:22,860 --> 00:39:26,080
of Richard Milhous Nixon.
A small town lawyer like Lincoln,
548
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,910
Nixon became a representative at 33
and a senator at 35,
549
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,370
as part of the postwar Republican sweep
of the congressional elections
550
00:39:33,460 --> 00:39:36,340
that attacked FDR's
big-government New Deal.
551
00:39:36,420 --> 00:39:38,920
Running as
a South Pacific veteran,
552
00:39:39,010 --> 00:39:41,170
victories over
Congressman Jerry Voorhis
553
00:39:41,260 --> 00:39:44,590
and Senator Helen Gahagan Douglas
made it clear that, to Nixon,
554
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,600
politics was war. He didn't
have opponents, he had enemies.
555
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,980
Why, she's pink,
right down to her underwear!
556
00:39:51,060 --> 00:39:53,900
Nixon became one of the
leading lights on the notorious
557
00:39:53,980 --> 00:39:57,610
House Un-American Activities Committee,
questioning labor leaders,
558
00:39:57,690 --> 00:40:00,650
Spanish Civil War veterans,
Hollywood celebrities.
559
00:40:00,740 --> 00:40:04,160
- They'd all be sent back to Russia.
- But it was the Alger Hiss case
560
00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:06,120
that made Nixon a household name.
561
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,240
One of the architects
of the United Nations,
562
00:40:08,330 --> 00:40:10,700
intimate of FDR
and Oliver Wendell Holmes,
563
00:40:10,790 --> 00:40:13,370
Alger Hiss was
a State Department diplomat
564
00:40:13,460 --> 00:40:16,210
accused by freelance journalist
Whittaker Chambers
565
00:40:16,290 --> 00:40:18,880
of passing secret documents
to the Soviet Union.
566
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,420
- Hiss is lying.
- Hiss claimed he was being set up
567
00:40:21,510 --> 00:40:25,010
by Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover
to discredit the New Deal's policies.
568
00:40:25,090 --> 00:40:30,100
I am not, and never have been,
a member of the Communist party.
569
00:40:30,180 --> 00:40:32,930
The case came down
to an Underwood typewriter
570
00:40:33,020 --> 00:40:36,230
and a roll of film hidden
in a pumpkin patch.
571
00:40:37,230 --> 00:40:41,820
I asked Hiss if he'd known Chambers.
When he said no, I knew he was lying.
572
00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:43,150
I knew I had him.
573
00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:47,240
After two trials, Hiss was
convicted not of spying but of perjury.
574
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,990
To some, Nixon was a hero and a patriot.
575
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,080
But to many, he was a self-promoter.
576
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,290
Eleanor Roosevelt
angrily condemned him.
577
00:40:55,370 --> 00:40:59,670
Nixon continued to tear into Truman,
Acheson and the Democratic party
578
00:40:59,750 --> 00:41:02,340
for losing mainland China in 1949,
579
00:41:02,420 --> 00:41:05,840
and blamed the Korean War
on a weak foreign policy.
580
00:41:05,930 --> 00:41:09,600
I promise to expose and to continue
to expose the people that have sold
581
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,140
- this country down the river!
- His speeches, if more subtle
582
00:41:13,220 --> 00:41:17,230
than those of his Republican ally,
Joe McCarthy, were just as aggressive.
583
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,980
The direct result
of Truman's decision
584
00:41:21,070 --> 00:41:23,190
is that China has gone Communist!
585
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,150
Mao is a monster! Why?
586
00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:29,530
Who in the State Department
is watching over American interests?
587
00:41:29,620 --> 00:41:31,830
Who has given the Russians
the atomic bomb?
588
00:41:31,910 --> 00:41:36,920
The Soviet Union is an example of the
slave state in the ultimate development.
589
00:41:37,750 --> 00:41:40,880
Driven by demons that
seemed more personal than political,
590
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:45,970
Nixon became Eisenhower's
vice presidential candidate in 1952.
591
00:41:46,050 --> 00:41:48,050
But then came the Checkers crisis.
592
00:41:48,130 --> 00:41:51,050
Nixon was accused
of hiding a secret slush fund.
593
00:41:51,140 --> 00:41:54,640
About to be kicked off the ticket
by Ike, he went live on television...
594
00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:58,980
- ...in an unprecedented appearance.
- ...give this television audience
595
00:41:59,060 --> 00:42:02,070
a complete financial history.
Everything I've earned...
596
00:42:02,150 --> 00:42:04,690
The list included their house,
their Oldsmobile,
597
00:42:04,780 --> 00:42:08,860
Pat's Republican cloth coat. And lastly,
in what was to become history,
598
00:42:08,950 --> 00:42:12,030
a sentimental gift
from a Texas businessman.
599
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,580
You know what it was? It was a little
cocker spaniel dog in a crate
600
00:42:15,660 --> 00:42:17,870
that he'd sent
all the way from Texas,
601
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,210
black and white, spotted.
And our little girl Tricia,
602
00:42:21,290 --> 00:42:23,290
the six-year-old, named it Checkers.
603
00:42:23,380 --> 00:42:27,260
- Fifty-eight million people saw it.
- Like all kids, they love the dog.
604
00:42:27,340 --> 00:42:30,550
It was shameless. It was manipulative.
605
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,720
Regardless of what they say about him,
we're gonna keep him.
606
00:42:33,810 --> 00:42:35,850
It was a huge success.
607
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:40,100
He stayed on the national scene,
serving two terms as vice president
608
00:42:40,190 --> 00:42:44,360
under Eisenhower, against Khrushchev
at the Kitchen Debate in Moscow
609
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:50,240
and stoned by Latin mobs in Venezuela.
Nixon once again became a national hero.
610
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,410
But it all came to a crashing end
against Kennedy in 1960
611
00:42:53,490 --> 00:42:57,080
and Pat Brown in California in '62.
612
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,670
And thus ends
a great American political story.
613
00:43:00,750 --> 00:43:04,590
The truth is we never knew
who Richard Nixon really was,
614
00:43:04,670 --> 00:43:07,670
and now that he is gone, we never will.
615
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:17,470
Poor little Tricia.
616
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,230
I told her her daddy couldn't get a job
in this city when he got out of Duke.
617
00:43:21,310 --> 00:43:25,020
Every white-shoe lawyer firm turned
me down. Didn't have the right look.
618
00:43:25,110 --> 00:43:27,650
- I couldn't even get into the FBI.
- Hi! How are ya?
619
00:43:27,730 --> 00:43:30,900
Did you catch that picture of you
in the news last week, Dick?
620
00:43:30,990 --> 00:43:33,780
- You were standin' on Fifth Avenue.
- Oh, yeah.
621
00:43:33,870 --> 00:43:37,870
You were lookin' straight ahead and
everyone else was lookin' the other way,
622
00:43:37,950 --> 00:43:41,370
- like you just farted or somethin'.
623
00:43:41,460 --> 00:43:45,340
It said, "Who remembers Dick Nixon?"
624
00:43:45,420 --> 00:43:48,170
Unbelievable. I was screamin'.
625
00:43:48,250 --> 00:43:50,210
Yeah, that was hilarious, Martha.
626
00:43:50,300 --> 00:43:53,970
They were looking the other direction,
waiting for the light to change.
627
00:43:54,050 --> 00:43:56,600
Typical of the press,
they wouldn't correct it.
628
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,350
I think we oughta catch Rocky
before he leaves.
629
00:43:59,430 --> 00:44:02,140
I'm sure it's just a little
run of bad luck, Mr. Nixon.
630
00:44:02,230 --> 00:44:05,150
- He can walk this direction, can't he?
- Oh, I don't know.
631
00:44:05,230 --> 00:44:08,940
- I've read some nice things about you.
- Maybe where you come from.
632
00:44:09,030 --> 00:44:13,780
But where I come from, Dick Nixon is
as misunderstood as a fox in a henhouse.
633
00:44:13,860 --> 00:44:17,030
And do you know why?
Because, my darlin',
634
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,370
they all think that
your smile and your face
635
00:44:19,450 --> 00:44:22,750
are never in the same place
at the same time.
636
00:44:22,830 --> 00:44:25,630
You and me, we're gonna
have to work on that, sweetie.
637
00:44:25,710 --> 00:44:28,380
Someone freshen Martha's drink.
She's down a quart.
638
00:44:28,460 --> 00:44:31,050
Well, zip-a-dee-doo-dah!
639
00:44:31,130 --> 00:44:35,390
- I think he is frightened by my charm.
- I know I am.
640
00:44:35,470 --> 00:44:38,890
- Pat can't stand her.
- It's the thing she does.
641
00:44:38,970 --> 00:44:41,890
- She talks at night.
- Talks all day too.
642
00:44:41,970 --> 00:44:44,060
How the hell can you
put up with her, John?
643
00:44:44,140 --> 00:44:47,980
Well, I'm in love with her.
And she's great in bed.
644
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,650
If a Rockefeller can't
become president of the United States,
645
00:44:52,740 --> 00:44:54,570
then what is the point of democracy?
646
00:44:54,650 --> 00:44:58,530
The point of democracy is that even the
son of a grocer can become president.
647
00:44:58,620 --> 00:45:00,910
And you came damn close, Dick.
How are you?
648
00:45:00,990 --> 00:45:03,580
Hi, John.
New York treating you all right?
649
00:45:03,660 --> 00:45:05,830
I'm sorry I haven't
been able to see you.
650
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,090
- You're looking happy, Rocky.
- Happy. Happy, Dick Nixon.
651
00:45:09,170 --> 00:45:11,250
- You remember him.
- Nice to see you again.
652
00:45:11,340 --> 00:45:16,840
- You're obviously making him happy.
- Oh! Repartee, Dick! That's marvelous!
653
00:45:16,930 --> 00:45:21,260
What you predicting? Your boy
Goldwater gonna split the party?
654
00:45:21,350 --> 00:45:24,020
- Some say you are, Rocky.
- Let me tell you something.
655
00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:28,770
Every time the Republican party is a
home to extremism, we lose the election.
656
00:45:28,860 --> 00:45:31,150
- You oughta know better than anybody.
- Yeah.
657
00:45:31,230 --> 00:45:33,940
This guy Goldwater
is as stupid as McCarthy.
658
00:45:34,030 --> 00:45:38,030
And McCarthy never did you any good
in the long run, now, did he?
659
00:45:38,110 --> 00:45:39,870
That's right.
660
00:45:40,870 --> 00:45:46,580
- I hate these cocktail parties.
- John, I'm in hell.
661
00:45:46,660 --> 00:45:50,790
I'll be mentally dead in two years
and physically dead in four.
662
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:55,970
Make some money, Dick.
Prove yourself to the Wall Street crowd.
663
00:45:56,050 --> 00:45:59,640
Let Goldwater and Rockefeller
take the fall against Kennedy.
664
00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:02,140
I don't know.
I miss making love to the people.
665
00:46:02,220 --> 00:46:04,350
I miss entering a room.
666
00:46:04,430 --> 00:46:08,600
I miss the pure acting of it, John.
667
00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:12,360
I gotta get back in the arena.
668
00:46:15,900 --> 00:46:18,400
Ladies and gentlemen, it's showtime!
669
00:46:18,490 --> 00:46:22,490
Come on up.
Right this way, ladies and gentlemen.
670
00:46:22,580 --> 00:46:26,910
It's for you, it's for me.
It's Studebaker for 1963.
671
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,830
Amen. Bless you for being here.
There's a man that loves Studebakers.
672
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,090
- Can I get your autograph?
- Mr. Nixon, please run again.
673
00:46:35,170 --> 00:46:38,470
The ex-vice president of the United
States, Richard M. Nixon!
674
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,970
- You throw a hell of a party, Jack.
- The party ain't even started yet.
675
00:46:45,060 --> 00:46:48,350
I've asked these gals out to the ranch
for a little private thing.
676
00:46:48,430 --> 00:46:51,150
We're gonna have some fun,
I guarantee ya.
677
00:46:51,230 --> 00:46:53,860
And there's some fellas
I'd really like you to meet.
678
00:46:53,940 --> 00:46:57,940
Trini and I got an early plane. We're
hoping to be back in New York for...
679
00:46:58,030 --> 00:47:03,120
It'll be OK. These guys are interesting.
And quiet. The girls are too.
680
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,370
It's not often us Texans
get an opportunity to entertain
681
00:47:06,450 --> 00:47:08,790
- the future president.
- Here.
682
00:47:08,870 --> 00:47:11,210
Like you said, Jack,
I'm just a New York lawyer.
683
00:47:11,290 --> 00:47:14,420
- We'll see about that.
- Mr. Nixon, are you gonna run again?
684
00:47:14,500 --> 00:47:16,750
- I don't know.
- He will! I guarantee it!
685
00:47:22,300 --> 00:47:24,550
- Name it, baby.
- That little convertible?
686
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,100
I'll buy you a diamond ring.
I'll buy you one.
687
00:47:27,180 --> 00:47:28,770
- Thank you.
- Hello, baby.
688
00:47:28,850 --> 00:47:30,890
Hey, wait, wait, wait.
689
00:47:30,980 --> 00:47:35,400
This is Julie there.
And that's Tricia.
690
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:40,240
- Oh, yeah.
- She reminds me a bit of you, Sandy.
691
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:44,370
She really is wholesome.
But, um, what about you?
692
00:47:44,450 --> 00:47:47,830
- What do you like?
- Well, I like music.
693
00:47:47,910 --> 00:47:51,910
- I like jazz.
- Jazz, yeah. Guy Lombardo.
694
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:53,370
How about rock and roll?
695
00:47:53,460 --> 00:47:55,880
- Elvis Presley?
- Yeah, he's good. Yeah.
696
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,420
- Decent guy.
- Well, I guess,
697
00:47:58,500 --> 00:48:03,050
for me, it also depends on
what I'm doin' to the music, Dick.
698
00:48:04,340 --> 00:48:08,430
- Yeah.
- So, what's it like bein' so famous?
699
00:48:08,510 --> 00:48:10,680
A vice president!
700
00:48:10,770 --> 00:48:14,230
Well, it's, uh, not like that, Sandy.
701
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,730
You see, the reason I got
into politics in the first place was,
702
00:48:18,820 --> 00:48:22,280
well, to do something for the people.
703
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:26,280
So, how are you two doing?
704
00:48:26,370 --> 00:48:30,290
You know, Dick, there's more privacy
in the back of the...
705
00:48:30,370 --> 00:48:35,120
- No, Trini, we're fine here.
- OK.
706
00:48:35,210 --> 00:48:39,630
Hell, Kennedy just pissed Cuba away
to the Russians. Just pissed it away.
707
00:48:39,710 --> 00:48:43,630
And he doesn't know what the hell
he's doin' in Vietnam.
708
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:46,300
These are dangerous times,
especially for business.
709
00:48:46,390 --> 00:48:50,640
- Agreed.
- We know what you tried to do for Cuba.
710
00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:54,560
If you had been elected in '60,
Castro would be dead now.
711
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:03,400
Gentlemen, I tried.
I told Kennedy to go into Cuba.
712
00:49:03,490 --> 00:49:07,280
He heard me and he made his decision.
I appreciate your sentiments.
713
00:49:07,370 --> 00:49:10,080
I've heard them
from many fine Cuban patriots.
714
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,660
But it's nothing
I can do anything about.
715
00:49:13,910 --> 00:49:18,000
It's a long drive to Dallas. Trini and I
have a plane to catch tomorrow. So...
716
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,750
- Dick, these boys want you to run.
- Absolutely.
717
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,090
- That's right.
- Now, they're serious.
718
00:49:24,170 --> 00:49:27,340
They can deliver the South
and put Texas in your column.
719
00:49:27,430 --> 00:49:29,010
They would have done it in '60.
720
00:49:29,100 --> 00:49:32,260
Only if Kennedy dumps Johnson.
That'll never happen.
721
00:49:32,350 --> 00:49:35,980
I don't think you know how much
people hate Kennedy down here.
722
00:49:36,060 --> 00:49:40,360
He's comin' to town tomorrow, and they
will run his ass outta town on a rail!
723
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,690
- Damn right.
- That we will.
724
00:49:42,780 --> 00:49:46,950
We are willing to give you a shit pot
full of money to get rid of him.
725
00:49:47,030 --> 00:49:48,740
More than you ever dreamed of.
726
00:49:51,990 --> 00:49:56,620
Nobody's gonna beat Kennedy in '64
with all the money in the world.
727
00:50:00,290 --> 00:50:04,130
Suppose Kennedy don't run in '64.
728
00:50:05,460 --> 00:50:06,630
Not a chance.
729
00:50:09,140 --> 00:50:10,720
Yeah.
730
00:50:11,930 --> 00:50:16,140
Well, gentlemen, I promised my wife I...
I'm out of politics.
731
00:50:16,230 --> 00:50:20,600
You just came down here for the weather,
is that right, Mr. Nixon?
732
00:50:20,690 --> 00:50:24,900
I came down here
to close a deal for Studebaker.
733
00:50:24,980 --> 00:50:29,070
- What about '68, Dick?
- Five years, Trini.
734
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,700
In politics, that's an eternity.
735
00:50:31,780 --> 00:50:36,580
Dick... your country needs you.
736
00:50:36,660 --> 00:50:39,870
Unfortunately, the country's
not available right now.
737
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:06,360
President Kennedy's due in
from Fort Worth in about an hour.
738
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,990
- Kennedy is due in from Fort Worth.
- Yeah, I know.
739
00:51:10,070 --> 00:51:12,320
OK. Let's go through here.
740
00:51:12,410 --> 00:51:14,780
- Excuse us.
- Excuse me. Coming through.
741
00:51:14,870 --> 00:51:17,240
- Excuse us.
- Thank you.
742
00:51:17,330 --> 00:51:21,250
Step away from the gate there.
Thank you.
743
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,720
Go find the pilot.
Let's get out of here.
744
00:52:13,380 --> 00:52:16,760
Look, Edgar, these, uh...
these guys were really strange.
745
00:52:16,850 --> 00:52:19,970
- You know, extremists.
- What do you mean by "strange"?
746
00:52:20,060 --> 00:52:22,060
- Right-wing stuff.
- Birchers?
747
00:52:22,140 --> 00:52:24,730
- Birchers, yeah.
- This thing's pretty straight.
748
00:52:24,810 --> 00:52:28,860
- In Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald...
- Oswald's got a Cuba connection?
749
00:52:28,940 --> 00:52:32,190
- To Castro?
- ...maximum security facility.
750
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,910
- Mrs. Kennedy...
- He's a real Communist.
751
00:52:34,990 --> 00:52:37,200
Well, that makes sense.
752
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,990
OK, well, thank you, Edgar.
753
00:52:41,540 --> 00:52:46,290
Senator Ted Kennedy, arriving early
this morning with his mother and sister.
754
00:52:46,380 --> 00:52:52,130
Hoover says this Oswald
checks out as a beatnik,
755
00:52:52,210 --> 00:52:55,840
- a real bum.
- Dick, you should call Bobby.
756
00:52:55,930 --> 00:52:58,890
He doesn't want me at the funeral.
757
00:52:58,970 --> 00:53:02,140
- You don't have to go.
- De Gaulle's gonna be there.
758
00:53:02,220 --> 00:53:07,730
- McMillan. Adenauer.
- We go now to the rotunda...
759
00:53:07,810 --> 00:53:10,400
Nixon can't not be there.
760
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:14,490
Then call him.
I'm sure it was an oversight.
761
00:53:14,570 --> 00:53:18,240
- Yeah.
- ...to pay their respects...
762
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:21,620
- Jesus.
- ...to their fallen leader.
763
00:53:21,700 --> 00:53:23,910
It's awful.
764
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,670
- It's an awful thing for this country.
- Dick?
765
00:53:29,500 --> 00:53:31,960
No, it's his way.
766
00:53:32,050 --> 00:53:34,090
He hates me.
767
00:53:34,170 --> 00:53:36,760
He and Teddy.
768
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:38,760
They always hated me.
769
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:43,140
They've lost their brother.
You know what that means, Dick.
770
00:53:44,180 --> 00:53:48,060
These are perhaps the last
images of him alive with his family.
771
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:54,190
Please, make it stop!
772
00:53:55,740 --> 00:53:58,070
Hold him tighter.
Hold him tighter.
773
00:53:59,950 --> 00:54:02,120
Hold him tighter. Hold him tighter.
774
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,410
Daddy, please make it stop!
775
00:54:06,500 --> 00:54:08,170
Hold him tighter.
776
00:54:08,250 --> 00:54:10,460
The infection's spread to his spine.
777
00:54:12,630 --> 00:54:13,960
Come on!
778
00:54:31,980 --> 00:54:33,070
Stop it!
779
00:54:34,530 --> 00:54:36,860
Get off!
780
00:54:56,510 --> 00:54:58,050
You're it!
781
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:10,770
No. No, don't!
782
00:55:19,490 --> 00:55:22,490
If I'd been president,
they never would've killed me.
783
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,540
Vice President Johnson,
shown here being sworn in...
784
00:55:28,620 --> 00:55:31,790
- Dick, are you gonna call? Bobby.
- Hmm?
785
00:55:36,090 --> 00:55:39,300
I'll go through Johnson.
We'll be invited.
786
00:55:45,220 --> 00:55:48,970
This is a sad time
for all people.
787
00:55:49,060 --> 00:55:51,890
I ask for your help.
788
00:55:51,980 --> 00:55:55,360
...and are going
to see Vietnam through
789
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,820
to an honorable peace...
790
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:04,280
...to defend an honored cause,
791
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,410
whatever the price,
whatever the burden...
792
00:56:07,490 --> 00:56:13,420
...whatever the sacrifice
that duty may require.
793
00:56:13,500 --> 00:56:18,710
Accordingly... I shall not seek...
794
00:56:20,210 --> 00:56:22,760
...and I will not accept...
795
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:26,970
...the nomination of my party
for another term as your president.
796
00:56:28,930 --> 00:56:32,810
Good night, and God bless all of you.
797
00:56:34,690 --> 00:56:37,520
Johnson's withdrawal
resurrects Richard Nixon
798
00:56:37,610 --> 00:56:41,110
as a strong Republican candidate
with a secret plan to end the war.
799
00:56:41,190 --> 00:56:44,450
His mother, Hannah Nixon,
just before her death last year,
800
00:56:44,530 --> 00:56:47,200
commented on her son's chances.
801
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:52,790
Mrs. Nixon, do you think your son
will ever return to politics?
802
00:56:52,870 --> 00:56:56,000
I don't think he has a choice.
803
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:58,920
He has always been a leader.
804
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:03,550
Do you think he'd make
a great president, Mrs. Nixon?
805
00:57:03,630 --> 00:57:06,800
If he's on God's side, yes.
806
00:57:07,890 --> 00:57:10,430
You must be very proud of your son.
807
00:57:10,510 --> 00:57:13,730
I have always been proud
of all of my children.
808
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:20,150
Of course,
no one can see into the future.
809
00:57:20,230 --> 00:57:22,480
We didn't know this day would come.
810
00:57:22,570 --> 00:57:25,070
- Where'd he go?
- In the side door.
811
00:57:25,150 --> 00:57:28,070
- Is that Mitchell?
- Shit! Missed him.
812
00:57:29,580 --> 00:57:32,740
I thought that guy was gonna
kiss your hand on the side of it.
813
00:57:32,830 --> 00:57:35,000
- Congratulations, sir.
- Yeah, thanks.
814
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:38,040
Jesus, Dick!
I've never seen anything like it.
815
00:57:38,130 --> 00:57:40,630
Even the goddamn Times
is saying you've got it.
816
00:57:40,710 --> 00:57:43,880
- Vietnam's gonna put you in there.
- We got the press this time.
817
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:48,680
- We got the big mo. We're back.
- So you've decided.
818
00:57:52,180 --> 00:57:54,220
Were you planning to tell me?
819
00:57:55,770 --> 00:57:58,900
We haven't announced
anything yet, but...
820
00:58:00,900 --> 00:58:03,110
Jesus. Uh... Pat?
821
00:58:05,990 --> 00:58:09,030
Uh, wait in the living room,
will you, fellas? What is it, John?
822
00:58:09,110 --> 00:58:12,700
You need her, Dick. In '60,
she was worth five, six million votes.
823
00:58:12,780 --> 00:58:16,370
Yeah. Don't worry.
I'll use the old Nixon charm.
824
00:58:17,750 --> 00:58:19,960
In there. OK.
825
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:22,290
Who could resist that?
826
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:29,300
Buddy?
827
00:58:32,140 --> 00:58:33,560
You should be going.
828
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,520
Primaries are soon,
aren't they? New Hampshire.
829
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,230
I love you, Buddy. I need you.
830
00:58:39,310 --> 00:58:41,770
I don't want them to love me.
831
00:58:41,860 --> 00:58:44,820
But I need you out there.
832
00:58:44,900 --> 00:58:49,910
It won't be like the last time.
The war's crippled the Democrats.
833
00:58:49,990 --> 00:58:52,570
I can win. We deserve it.
834
00:58:52,660 --> 00:58:55,740
It's ours, Buddy, at last.
835
00:58:55,830 --> 00:58:59,080
Nobody knows that better than you.
836
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,170
Frank Nixon's boy.
837
00:59:01,250 --> 00:59:05,420
Do you remember what Mom said?
We're not like other people. We...
838
00:59:05,500 --> 00:59:07,630
We don't choose our way.
839
00:59:08,670 --> 00:59:10,930
We can really change things, Buddy.
840
00:59:11,010 --> 00:59:14,600
We got a chance to get it right.
We can change America.
841
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:18,310
It was our dream, Buddy,
together, always.
842
00:59:20,270 --> 00:59:24,440
- Do you really want this, Dick?
- Yeah. This, above all.
843
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:29,820
- And then you'll be happy?
- Yeah, you know I will. Yes! I will.
844
00:59:30,900 --> 00:59:32,990
Then I'll be there for you.
845
00:59:33,070 --> 00:59:35,950
And we are gonna win this time.
I can feel it.
846
00:59:36,030 --> 00:59:37,540
Yeah!
847
00:59:38,580 --> 00:59:41,460
You're the strongest woman
I ever met, Buddy.
848
00:59:41,540 --> 00:59:44,630
- Can I just ask for one thing?
- Anything.
849
00:59:44,710 --> 00:59:47,130
- Would you kiss me?
- Yeah!
850
00:59:54,510 --> 00:59:56,810
We're gonna win the race.
851
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:02,810
My thanks. It's on to Chicago
and let's win there. Thank you.
852
01:00:02,890 --> 01:00:05,810
I would never question
Senator Kennedy's patriotism.
853
01:00:05,900 --> 01:00:09,650
But going around the country,
promising peace at any price
854
01:00:09,740 --> 01:00:12,570
is, uh, exactly what the
North Vietnamese want to hear.
855
01:00:12,650 --> 01:00:14,110
Cue the crowd.
856
01:00:16,030 --> 01:00:18,540
Go to this bald guy.
Yeah, he's great, isn't he?
857
01:00:19,660 --> 01:00:21,750
I, unlike Senator Kennedy,
858
01:00:21,830 --> 01:00:24,670
have a plan to end the war immediately.
859
01:00:24,750 --> 01:00:29,670
But not for peace at any price,
but peace with honor.
860
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:33,630
What do you think this plan is, Edgar?
A nuclear attack?
861
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:36,510
He's lying, Clyde. Always has.
862
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:39,100
That's why Nixon's always been useful.
863
01:00:42,390 --> 01:00:44,100
Hold still.
864
01:00:44,190 --> 01:00:46,770
- OK, who's next?
- The Negro.
865
01:00:46,860 --> 01:00:49,480
No, we gotta have a Negro.
This guy right here.
866
01:00:49,570 --> 01:00:50,610
Negro, front row.
867
01:00:51,780 --> 01:00:55,030
- Mr. Nixon, sir.
- Yeah.
868
01:00:55,110 --> 01:00:58,030
We all know you have built your career
869
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:01,040
on smearing people as Communists.
870
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:03,870
And now you are building your campaign
871
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,380
on the divisions in this country,
872
01:01:06,460 --> 01:01:09,960
stirring up hatred
and turning people against each other.
873
01:01:10,050 --> 01:01:13,220
- What the fuck's he doing? A speech!
- Cut him off.
874
01:01:13,300 --> 01:01:15,760
- I can't. This isn't Russia.
- Sounds like a Negro.
875
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:19,470
- Saying Negro things. What's he doing?
- Sounded white when we screened.
876
01:01:19,550 --> 01:01:21,560
Doesn't sound white now,
sounds like Angela Davis.
877
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:24,520
When are you gonna tell us
what you really stand for?
878
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,060
- Go to commercial!
- There are no commercials.
879
01:01:27,150 --> 01:01:29,190
- You bought the whole half hour.
- Shit!
880
01:01:29,270 --> 01:01:33,570
When are you going to take off that mask
and show us who you really are?
881
01:01:33,650 --> 01:01:34,860
Shut up and sit down!
882
01:01:34,950 --> 01:01:37,450
- OK. OK.
- It's a high hard one, chief.
883
01:01:37,530 --> 01:01:39,990
- Park it.
- There are divisions in this country.
884
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:43,750
- That's because you created them.
- I did not. The Democrats did.
885
01:01:43,830 --> 01:01:46,540
If it's dialogue you want,
you're more likely to get it from me
886
01:01:46,620 --> 01:01:49,250
than from people burning down cities.
Just think about it.
887
01:01:49,330 --> 01:01:51,550
- Dr. King said the same thing.
- Oh, please.
888
01:01:51,630 --> 01:01:54,590
You know, young man,
who a great hero is? Abraham Lincoln.
889
01:01:54,670 --> 01:01:57,220
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Lincoln. Is he beautiful?
890
01:01:57,300 --> 01:02:00,350
He believed in common ground.
He brought this country together.
891
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:03,560
I love that man. I love him.
892
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:07,020
I want the son of a bitch
who got that agitator in here fired!
893
01:02:07,100 --> 01:02:10,440
- I have another question.
- There's a little girl sitting here.
894
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:13,820
- A little girl sitting with a sign.
- Bag the spook. Go to the girl.
895
01:02:13,900 --> 01:02:16,610
- Can you see the girl?
- There are three simple words:
896
01:02:16,700 --> 01:02:18,990
"Bring us together."
That is what I want,
897
01:02:19,070 --> 01:02:22,490
and that is what the great
silent majority of Americans want.
898
01:02:22,580 --> 01:02:27,120
And that is why I want to be president.
To bring us together.
899
01:02:27,210 --> 01:02:30,710
- Give me a break, Mary.
- Now, you all know me. I'm one of you.
900
01:02:30,790 --> 01:02:33,130
I grew up here,
a stone's throw from here,
901
01:02:33,210 --> 01:02:37,800
- on a lemon ranch in Yorba Linda.
- Poorest lemon ranch in California.
902
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,930
Poorest lemon ranch in California,
I can assure you of that.
903
01:02:41,010 --> 01:02:44,930
- My dad sold it before they found oil.
- My dad sold it before they found oil.
904
01:02:45,020 --> 01:02:48,270
- But it was all we had.
- But it was all we had.
905
01:02:48,350 --> 01:02:53,230
- My dad built the house with his hands.
- You're new here. What's your name?
906
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:55,280
Joaquin, Mr. Hoover.
907
01:02:56,230 --> 01:02:57,740
Oh.
908
01:02:58,450 --> 01:03:04,080
My father sacrificed everything he had
so that his sons could go to college.
909
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:08,790
- A gentle Quaker mother quietly wept
- Oh, Christ.
910
01:03:08,870 --> 01:03:11,500
- when he went to war.
- Turn this crap off, Clyde.
911
01:03:11,580 --> 01:03:14,090
- It's giving me a headache.
- A great teacher.
912
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:16,760
You may go, Joaquin.
913
01:03:19,670 --> 01:03:24,850
- I want to see him, Clyde.
- Edgar, he works in the kitchen.
914
01:03:24,930 --> 01:03:28,560
Not the boy, you idiot. Nixon.
915
01:03:29,940 --> 01:03:33,770
Hear what he said in Oregon
about me having too much power?
916
01:03:33,860 --> 01:03:37,360
It's between Nixon and a Kennedy again.
917
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:41,400
- Who do you want?
- Kennedy?
918
01:03:41,490 --> 01:03:43,200
Never.
919
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:46,910
He'll fry in hell for what he did to me.
920
01:03:46,990 --> 01:03:49,200
But Nixon don't know that.
921
01:03:49,290 --> 01:03:52,500
Which is why I'm gonna have
to remind him that he needs us
922
01:03:52,580 --> 01:03:55,460
a hell of a lot more than we need him.
923
01:04:19,820 --> 01:04:21,780
Your boy's on the way up.
924
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:27,410
You know, I met this guy years ago
in Havana. You know that.
925
01:04:29,490 --> 01:04:31,160
Come on!
926
01:04:34,500 --> 01:04:36,130
He's folding, Johnny.
927
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:41,880
No, no, no.
You just wait a second.
928
01:04:42,510 --> 01:04:44,880
Olly's Boy on the inside!
929
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:47,600
Come on! Come on!
930
01:04:53,850 --> 01:04:58,900
And a tragedy! Olly's Boy
has fallen on the sixteenth pole.
931
01:05:01,940 --> 01:05:05,700
Sunday's Chance goes on
to win it in 25,000...
932
01:05:06,990 --> 01:05:08,620
A bit extreme, isn't it?
933
01:05:09,700 --> 01:05:12,910
It's the drama.
Look, the crowd loves this shit.
934
01:05:14,290 --> 01:05:15,620
May I have your autograph?
935
01:05:15,710 --> 01:05:18,460
Hey, there's Randolph Scott over there.
Look at that.
936
01:05:18,540 --> 01:05:20,710
Cash these for me, would you, Johnny?
937
01:05:24,380 --> 01:05:27,180
- Easy! Easy, easy!
- It's a two-dollar bet, Edgar.
938
01:05:27,260 --> 01:05:30,430
You got thousands coming on this.
I mean, what the fuck?
939
01:05:30,510 --> 01:05:34,810
I told you, just cash it, Johnny.
And don't swear around me. Come on.
940
01:05:34,890 --> 01:05:36,230
Uh-huh.
941
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:39,060
Hello.
942
01:05:40,730 --> 01:05:43,740
Edgar. Wonderful to see you.
943
01:05:43,820 --> 01:05:45,150
- Clyde.
- Mr. Nixon.
944
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:47,660
- Hi.
- Thank you for coming, Richard.
945
01:05:47,740 --> 01:05:49,820
OK. Winning?
946
01:05:49,910 --> 01:05:53,870
Actually, I've just had a bit of luck.
Are you gonna win?
947
01:05:53,950 --> 01:05:56,000
You should ask Bobby.
948
01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:59,130
- Little Bobby.
- Yeah, Bobby Kennedy.
949
01:05:59,210 --> 01:06:00,670
Yeah.
950
01:06:00,750 --> 01:06:03,300
Would you, uh, walk with me
down to the paddock?
951
01:06:03,380 --> 01:06:06,340
- I'd like to look at the horses.
- Can we talk here?
952
01:06:06,420 --> 01:06:08,930
I got the police chiefs in San Diego.
953
01:06:09,010 --> 01:06:13,010
Actually, I'm trying
to spare you an embarrassment.
954
01:06:13,100 --> 01:06:17,440
That was Johnny Roselli you just
passed. He's on his way back.
955
01:06:19,100 --> 01:06:21,610
Roselli? Johnny Roselli?
956
01:06:21,690 --> 01:06:27,030
Yes. You know him, Richard? No?
From Cuba?
957
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:36,080
- Hey, Johnny Roselli. How're you doin'?
- Dick Nixon.
958
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:37,500
How are you?
959
01:06:37,580 --> 01:06:40,880
I never met the man. Uh...
960
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:43,800
Well, I know you've...
961
01:06:44,630 --> 01:06:49,010
...been very careful not to.
That's why I'm so concerned.
962
01:06:51,510 --> 01:06:52,550
OK.
963
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:55,850
- They're off and running!
964
01:07:03,020 --> 01:07:05,730
You'll win the nomination.
965
01:07:05,820 --> 01:07:09,900
- It could be 1960 all over again.
- Love you, Dick!
966
01:07:09,990 --> 01:07:14,240
And Bobby's got the magic
like a goddamn rock star.
967
01:07:14,330 --> 01:07:17,910
They climb all over each other
just to touch his clothes.
968
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:22,250
He'll ride his brother's corpse
right into the White House.
969
01:07:22,330 --> 01:07:27,460
If things remain as they are.
He's got the anti-war vote.
970
01:07:27,550 --> 01:07:30,550
Or he'll steal it, like his brother.
971
01:07:30,630 --> 01:07:33,090
Bobby's a mean little son of a bitch.
972
01:07:33,180 --> 01:07:36,970
He had the IRS audit my mother
when she was dying in the nursing home.
973
01:07:37,060 --> 01:07:40,730
- I know.
- We should shoot the son of a bitch.
974
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:49,570
- I wanna fight just as dirty, Edgar.
- His women. Use his women.
975
01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:54,700
Any information you have.
976
01:07:54,780 --> 01:07:57,580
The son of a bitch is not
gonna steal from me again.
977
01:07:57,660 --> 01:08:01,080
Can you back me up on this?
Can I count on your support?
978
01:08:02,210 --> 01:08:07,300
I look at it from the point of view that
the system can only take so much abuse.
979
01:08:07,380 --> 01:08:10,300
- It adjusts itself eventually.
- Yeah.
980
01:08:10,380 --> 01:08:14,510
But there are times...
There are savage outbursts.
981
01:08:14,590 --> 01:08:18,970
The late Dr. King, for example.
Amoral hypocrite.
982
01:08:19,060 --> 01:08:21,810
Screwing women
like a degenerate tomcat,
983
01:08:21,890 --> 01:08:26,900
stirring up the blacks,
preaching against our system.
984
01:08:26,980 --> 01:08:30,690
Sometimes the system
comes very close to cracking.
985
01:08:33,740 --> 01:08:37,080
We've already had one radical
in the White House.
986
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:39,410
I don't believe we
could survive another.
987
01:08:45,250 --> 01:08:48,000
- Well, like I said, Edgar...
- You ask...
988
01:08:48,090 --> 01:08:50,630
...if you can count on my support.
989
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:55,260
As long as I can count on yours.
990
01:08:57,760 --> 01:08:59,310
Yeah.
991
01:09:01,810 --> 01:09:04,190
Yeah, the old queen did it on purpose.
992
01:09:04,270 --> 01:09:06,310
No, he wasn't protecting me.
993
01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:10,230
- He was just putting me on notice.
- That he knew Roselli?
994
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:13,530
- No.
- Hoover knew a lot of gangsters.
995
01:09:13,610 --> 01:09:16,280
Johnny Roselli wasn't just any gangster.
996
01:09:16,360 --> 01:09:20,950
Johnny Roselli was one of the
gangsters who set up Track Two in Cuba.
997
01:09:22,870 --> 01:09:25,330
Oh, well, I know all about that.
998
01:09:25,420 --> 01:09:28,210
I don't understand it.
Track Two is Chile.
999
01:09:28,290 --> 01:09:32,880
Yeah, Chile, Congo,
Guadalajara, Iran, Cuba.
1000
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:37,930
Wherever there was need for, uh,
an executive action capability,
1001
01:09:38,010 --> 01:09:40,140
there's Track Two.
1002
01:09:40,220 --> 01:09:45,310
In Cuba, Track One
was, uh, the Bay of Pigs invasion.
1003
01:09:45,390 --> 01:09:47,900
Track Two was our idea.
1004
01:09:47,980 --> 01:09:51,770
We thought that the invasion wouldn't
work unless we got rid of Castro.
1005
01:09:51,860 --> 01:09:57,570
So we asked ourselves, uh,
"Who else wants Castro dead?"
1006
01:09:57,660 --> 01:10:00,660
The Mafia or money people?
1007
01:10:00,740 --> 01:10:03,620
So we put together Track Two.
1008
01:10:17,220 --> 01:10:20,680
First assassination attempt was in '60.
1009
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:24,430
- Just before the election.
- Before? Eisenhower approved that?
1010
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:28,350
Yeah. Well, he didn't veto it.
1011
01:10:28,440 --> 01:10:31,440
I ran the White House side,
1012
01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:35,110
and the Mob contact was Johnny Roselli.
1013
01:10:35,190 --> 01:10:40,410
One of the CIA guys was this jackass,
Howard Hunt.
1014
01:10:40,490 --> 01:10:43,280
- Jesus.
- Yeah.
1015
01:10:43,370 --> 01:10:45,910
Not just Howard Hunt,
but Frank Sturgis
1016
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:50,080
and all those other Cubans.
1017
01:10:50,170 --> 01:10:52,090
All of them in the Watergate.
1018
01:10:54,460 --> 01:10:57,670
They're all involved in Cuba.
1019
01:11:02,550 --> 01:11:06,430
Yeah, Hunt reported to my military aide.
1020
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:10,350
I don't know how much Hunt knows
or the Cubans, but...
1021
01:11:11,770 --> 01:11:13,690
...you never know.
1022
01:11:13,770 --> 01:11:17,740
So you wanted Castro dead.
Everybody wanted Castro dead.
1023
01:11:18,650 --> 01:11:22,370
You know, if Hunt
and the others are CIA...
1024
01:11:22,450 --> 01:11:26,080
...why don't we just dump this
back in the CIA's lap,
1025
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:30,670
- let Dick Helms take the fall?
- Because...
1026
01:11:30,750 --> 01:11:34,420
Because Helms knows too much.
1027
01:11:35,590 --> 01:11:38,720
If there's anyone in this country
who knows more than me,
1028
01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:42,430
it's Hoover and Helms, and you
don't fuck with Dick Helms, period.
1029
01:11:42,510 --> 01:11:46,810
All right. But why,
if Kennedy was so clean in all this,
1030
01:11:46,890 --> 01:11:50,770
- didn't he cancel Track Two?
- 'Cause he didn't even know about it.
1031
01:11:52,690 --> 01:11:56,610
The CIA, uh, never told him.
They just kept it going.
1032
01:11:57,440 --> 01:12:00,240
It had a life of its own
like it was some...
1033
01:12:01,530 --> 01:12:04,530
...kind of a thing, you know?
1034
01:12:04,620 --> 01:12:06,580
It doesn't even know it exists.
1035
01:12:06,660 --> 01:12:10,540
It just eats people
when it doesn't need 'em anymore.
1036
01:12:10,620 --> 01:12:14,170
Two days after the Bay of Pigs,
1037
01:12:14,250 --> 01:12:18,550
Kennedy called me
and he reamed me out.
1038
01:12:18,630 --> 01:12:22,550
- He just found out about Track Two.
- You never told him?
1039
01:12:22,630 --> 01:12:25,470
I didn't want him to get the credit.
1040
01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:28,430
He said I'd stabbed him in the back
1041
01:12:28,510 --> 01:12:31,680
and called me a two-bit
grocery clerk from Whittier.
1042
01:12:40,900 --> 01:12:43,280
That's the last time I ever saw him.
1043
01:12:47,660 --> 01:12:52,870
See, when I saw Bobby
lying there on the floor,
1044
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:56,710
arms stretched out like that,
his eyes staring...
1045
01:12:59,500 --> 01:13:02,090
...I knew then I'd be president.
1046
01:13:03,260 --> 01:13:06,760
His death paved the way, didn't it?
1047
01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:09,930
Yeah. Vietnam, the Kennedys
1048
01:13:10,010 --> 01:13:13,310
cleared a path
through the wilderness just for me.
1049
01:13:15,390 --> 01:13:17,360
Over the bodies.
1050
01:13:19,980 --> 01:13:21,690
Four bodies.
1051
01:13:28,870 --> 01:13:30,410
You mean two.
1052
01:13:31,740 --> 01:13:33,750
Two bodies.
1053
01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:38,170
Four.
1054
01:13:50,140 --> 01:13:52,970
How many did you have?
1055
01:13:53,060 --> 01:13:55,230
Hundreds of thousands?
1056
01:13:59,440 --> 01:14:02,400
Where would we be without death, huh?
1057
01:14:04,570 --> 01:14:06,150
Abe?
1058
01:14:11,910 --> 01:14:13,830
Who's helping us?
1059
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:18,250
Is it God, or is it...
1060
01:14:19,830 --> 01:14:21,460
...death?
1061
01:15:15,010 --> 01:15:16,430
Harold.
1062
01:15:17,810 --> 01:15:19,810
Harold, why don't you sit down, huh?
1063
01:15:22,690 --> 01:15:24,070
Here.
1064
01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:29,990
That was a whopper.
1065
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:38,200
You'll be able to do it now.
1066
01:15:39,580 --> 01:15:42,420
- What?
- Go to law school.
1067
01:15:42,500 --> 01:15:45,670
- Mom and Dad'll be able to afford it.
- Harold.
1068
01:15:46,750 --> 01:15:49,170
Mama expects great things from you.
1069
01:15:50,300 --> 01:15:53,180
Can I... Can I get you anything?
1070
01:15:56,310 --> 01:15:57,890
Relax, Dick.
1071
01:15:59,100 --> 01:16:01,230
It's just me, all right?
1072
01:16:07,150 --> 01:16:09,530
The desert's so beautiful, isn't it?
1073
01:16:15,990 --> 01:16:17,870
I want to go home, Dick.
1074
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:20,960
Time to go home.
1075
01:16:22,370 --> 01:16:26,880
You... You're not gonna quit
on me now, are you, Harold?
1076
01:17:13,720 --> 01:17:15,380
Richard.
1077
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:21,060
- I can't.
- You must.
1078
01:17:22,270 --> 01:17:26,900
This law school,
it's a gift from thy brother.
1079
01:17:26,980 --> 01:17:30,230
He had to die for me to get it?
1080
01:17:34,110 --> 01:17:36,860
Something has to come of this.
1081
01:17:38,410 --> 01:17:41,490
It's meant to make us stronger.
1082
01:17:41,580 --> 01:17:45,370
Thee art stronger than Harold,
stronger than Arthur.
1083
01:17:45,460 --> 01:17:51,300
- God has chosen thee to survive.
- What about happiness, Mother?
1084
01:17:53,590 --> 01:17:57,550
Thee will find thy peace
at the center, Richard.
1085
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:02,430
Strength in this life,
happiness in the next.
1086
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:52,980
Now tell me you didn't want this, Buddy.
1087
01:19:01,700 --> 01:19:03,080
Hey!
1088
01:19:22,510 --> 01:19:25,970
When the strongest nation
in the world can be tied down
1089
01:19:26,060 --> 01:19:30,350
for four years in a war in Vietnam
with no end in sight,
1090
01:19:30,440 --> 01:19:34,770
when the richest nation in the world
can't manage its own economy,
1091
01:19:34,860 --> 01:19:38,320
when the nation with the greatest
tradition of the rule of law
1092
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:41,660
is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness,
1093
01:19:41,740 --> 01:19:45,870
when a nation that has been known for
a century for equality of opportunity
1094
01:19:45,950 --> 01:19:49,460
is torn by unprecedented
racial violence,
1095
01:19:49,540 --> 01:19:53,080
when the president of the United States
cannot travel abroad
1096
01:19:53,170 --> 01:19:57,630
or to any major city at home without
fear of a hostile demonstration,
1097
01:19:57,710 --> 01:20:02,800
then it is time for new leadership
for the United States of America.
1098
01:20:05,600 --> 01:20:09,680
As we look at America, we see cities
enveloped in smoke and flame,
1099
01:20:09,770 --> 01:20:12,310
millions of Americans
crying out in anguish,
1100
01:20:12,390 --> 01:20:17,820
"Did we come all the way for this?
Did American boys die in Normandy
1101
01:20:17,900 --> 01:20:20,610
and Valley Forge for this?"
1102
01:20:20,690 --> 01:20:24,160
I pledge to you
that the current wave of violence
1103
01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:26,330
will not be the wave of the future.
1104
01:20:28,950 --> 01:20:32,750
Now let us begin
by committing ourselves to the truth,
1105
01:20:32,830 --> 01:20:36,880
to find the truth, to speak the truth
and to live the truth.
1106
01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:40,420
A new voice is being heard
across America today.
1107
01:20:40,510 --> 01:20:43,380
It is not the voice
of the protesters or the shouters.
1108
01:20:43,470 --> 01:20:47,640
It is the quiet voice of the majority
of Americans who've been forgotten,
1109
01:20:47,720 --> 01:20:51,060
the non-shouters,
the, uh, non-demonstrators.
1110
01:20:51,140 --> 01:20:56,110
They're the good people. They work hard
and they save and they pay their taxes.
1111
01:20:56,190 --> 01:20:58,610
Now, who are they?
Let me tell you who they are.
1112
01:20:58,690 --> 01:21:00,900
They're in this audience
by the thousands.
1113
01:21:00,990 --> 01:21:03,530
They're the white Americans
and black Americans,
1114
01:21:03,610 --> 01:21:06,240
Mexican Americans
and Italian Americans.
1115
01:21:06,320 --> 01:21:08,620
They're the great silent majority,
1116
01:21:08,700 --> 01:21:12,120
and they have become angry, finally.
Angry, not with hate,
1117
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:14,870
but angry, my friends,
because they love America
1118
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:19,170
and they don't like what's happened
to America these last four years.
1119
01:21:19,250 --> 01:21:24,550
Let us understand North Vietnam cannot
defeat or humiliate the United States.
1120
01:21:24,630 --> 01:21:26,720
Only Americans can do that!
1121
01:21:30,100 --> 01:21:31,930
I say to you tonight...
1122
01:21:32,020 --> 01:21:36,020
I say to you tonight we must have
a new feeling of responsibility,
1123
01:21:36,100 --> 01:21:40,400
of self-discipline. We must look
to renew state and local government.
1124
01:21:40,480 --> 01:21:45,530
We must have a complete reform
of a big, bloated federal government.
1125
01:21:45,610 --> 01:21:47,740
Those of us in public service know
1126
01:21:47,820 --> 01:21:50,740
we can have full prosperity
in peacetime.
1127
01:21:50,830 --> 01:21:52,950
Yes, we can cut the defense budget.
1128
01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:55,960
We can reduce, uh,
conventional forces in Europe.
1129
01:21:56,040 --> 01:21:58,130
We can restore the natural environment.
1130
01:21:58,210 --> 01:22:01,380
We can improve health care,
make it more available to all people.
1131
01:22:01,460 --> 01:22:04,970
And yes, we can have a complete reform
of this government.
1132
01:22:05,050 --> 01:22:08,390
We can have a new American revolution!
1133
01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:24,940
The whole world is watching!
The whole world is watching!
1134
01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:36,000
It'd be a disaster.
1135
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:39,290
There's a lot of sympathy
out there for Cambodia.
1136
01:22:39,380 --> 01:22:42,460
Tiny, little, neutral Buddhist country.
1137
01:22:42,540 --> 01:22:45,760
They'll be rioting in the streets,
on your front lawn!
1138
01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:50,340
Building the Cambodian army up? That
would be harder than a Vietnamese Army.
1139
01:22:50,430 --> 01:22:55,430
They have no tradition. Mr. President,
the government there will collapse.
1140
01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:58,770
- So you're saying do nothing.
- No, sir, continue the bombing.
1141
01:22:58,850 --> 01:23:01,690
The same old horseshit.
Well, that's not good enough.
1142
01:23:01,770 --> 01:23:04,320
I'm sick of being pushed around
by the Vietnamese
1143
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:08,360
like we're some, uh,
you know, pitiful giant.
1144
01:23:08,450 --> 01:23:11,320
They're using our POWs
to humiliate us.
1145
01:23:11,410 --> 01:23:14,240
What we need now
is a bold move into Cambodia
1146
01:23:14,330 --> 01:23:17,660
and go right after their
VC base camps
1147
01:23:17,750 --> 01:23:21,830
and, uh... make 'em scream,
hit 'em in the ass.
1148
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:25,210
- What do you think, Henry?
- Well, as you know,
1149
01:23:25,300 --> 01:23:28,720
most of my staff have weighed in
against this incursion.
1150
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:33,720
They believe it will fail to achieve
anything fundamental militarily
1151
01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:37,140
and will result
in crushing criticism domestically.
1152
01:23:37,220 --> 01:23:41,060
I didn't ask what your staff thinks.
What do you think, Henry?
1153
01:23:41,150 --> 01:23:43,810
What I think is they're cowards.
1154
01:23:43,900 --> 01:23:47,440
Their opposition
represents the cowardice
1155
01:23:47,530 --> 01:23:51,950
of the eastern establishment.
They don't realize, as you do, sir,
1156
01:23:52,030 --> 01:23:54,580
that the Communists
only respect strength
1157
01:23:54,660 --> 01:23:57,040
and they will only negotiate
in good faith
1158
01:23:57,120 --> 01:23:59,910
if they fear the mad man, Richard Nixon.
1159
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:03,710
Exactly!
Unpredictability is our best asset.
1160
01:24:03,790 --> 01:24:07,500
We gotta take the war to 'em, hit 'em
where it hurts, right in the nuts.
1161
01:24:07,590 --> 01:24:11,880
- More assassinations. Right, Al?
- That's what they're doing.
1162
01:24:11,970 --> 01:24:15,680
See, your people in the State
Department, Bill, they don't understand.
1163
01:24:15,760 --> 01:24:18,600
- Mr. President...
- Electrify people with bold moves.
1164
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:23,190
Bold moves make history.
Like, uh... Teddy Roosevelt, TR,
1165
01:24:23,270 --> 01:24:27,230
rushing up San Juan Hill.
Small event, but dramatic.
1166
01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:30,360
- People took notice.
- They'll take notice, all right.
1167
01:24:30,440 --> 01:24:35,450
If we sneak out of this war,
another will start a mile down the road.
1168
01:24:35,530 --> 01:24:39,290
We bite the bullet here in Cambodia.
There.
1169
01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:42,160
We bomb the hell out of these people.
1170
01:24:46,670 --> 01:24:49,550
Tonight, American
and South Vietnamese units
1171
01:24:49,630 --> 01:24:51,380
will attack the headquarters
1172
01:24:51,470 --> 01:24:55,550
for the entire Communist military
operation in South Vietnam.
1173
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:58,810
This is not an invasion of Cambodia.
1174
01:24:58,890 --> 01:25:03,980
We take this action not for the purpose
of expanding the war into Cambodia,
1175
01:25:04,060 --> 01:25:07,400
but for the purpose
of ending the war in Vietnam.
1176
01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:13,860
All across the nation,
1177
01:25:13,950 --> 01:25:16,660
major student protests
against the U.S. invasion
1178
01:25:16,740 --> 01:25:19,490
of Cambodia rocked college campuses.
1179
01:25:19,580 --> 01:25:23,250
At Jackson State, two Negro students
were killed and ten were wounded.
1180
01:25:23,330 --> 01:25:26,790
- ...unanimously and united behind...
- In the streets of New York,
1181
01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:29,420
protesters were attacked
by construction workers
1182
01:25:29,500 --> 01:25:32,710
supporting President Nixon's policies.
1183
01:25:33,970 --> 01:25:37,340
In Washington, protesters
have barricaded the White House
1184
01:25:37,430 --> 01:25:39,470
and are camping out
at the Lincoln Memorial.
1185
01:25:51,070 --> 01:25:55,110
See, when I think of those kids
out there in Vietnam doing their duty,
1186
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:58,280
uh, I bet they were scared.
I was when I was there.
1187
01:25:58,740 --> 01:26:00,240
But when it comes down to it,
1188
01:26:00,330 --> 01:26:04,450
you really have to look up to these men
because they're the greatest.
1189
01:26:09,460 --> 01:26:11,300
I mean, you see these bums, you know,
1190
01:26:11,380 --> 01:26:14,880
blowing up the campuses,
burning books and so forth.
1191
01:26:14,970 --> 01:26:18,050
And they call themselves
"flower children."
1192
01:26:18,140 --> 01:26:21,890
I call them spoiled rotten.
And I tell you what would cure them.
1193
01:26:21,970 --> 01:26:26,350
A good, old-fashioned trip to my Ohio
father's woodshed. Right, Julie?
1194
01:26:26,440 --> 01:26:29,190
- Right, Dad.
- That's what these bums need.
1195
01:26:29,270 --> 01:26:32,400
- Well, thanks and congratulations.
- Thank you, sir.
1196
01:26:32,480 --> 01:26:35,490
Yeah. OK. Thanks, everybody. Bye.
1197
01:26:36,570 --> 01:26:38,780
The whole world is watching.
1198
01:26:56,720 --> 01:26:57,090
Less than 24 hours after
President Nixon called them bums,
1199
01:26:57,090 --> 01:27:00,760
Less than 24 hours after
President Nixon called them bums,
1200
01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:04,770
four students were shot dead
at Kent State University in Ohio.
1201
01:27:04,850 --> 01:27:07,770
Enraged student groups are calling
1202
01:27:07,850 --> 01:27:10,270
for a general strike
tomorrow to shut down...
1203
01:27:10,350 --> 01:27:14,570
I tell you, the soldiers were provoked.
Now, stop this pussyfooting around.
1204
01:27:14,650 --> 01:27:16,190
Jesus Christ, dead kids.
1205
01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:19,280
How the hell did we give the Democrats
a weapon like this?
1206
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:22,530
Well, one way or the other,
Kent State is not good.
1207
01:27:22,620 --> 01:27:25,740
- We have to get out in front of this.
- Follow the money.
1208
01:27:25,830 --> 01:27:29,290
- Sir?
- These kids are manipulated
1209
01:27:29,370 --> 01:27:32,330
by the Communists,
like Chambers and Hiss.
1210
01:27:32,420 --> 01:27:33,920
What's the matter with you?
1211
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:38,130
- This isn't '48. They'll never buy it.
- How do you know that, John?
1212
01:27:38,220 --> 01:27:40,130
What's Hoover found,
for God's sake?
1213
01:27:40,220 --> 01:27:44,510
He called the other day, sir.
He asked for President Harding.
1214
01:27:45,220 --> 01:27:48,810
- We can have a national prayer day.
- Never complain, never explain.
1215
01:27:48,890 --> 01:27:52,850
Come on, these
are not fraternity pranks, John.
1216
01:27:52,940 --> 01:27:55,110
No, this is anarchy.
It's a revolution.
1217
01:27:55,190 --> 01:27:58,190
- I wouldn't go that far, sir.
- Why not?
1218
01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:03,700
Well, is it worth it, sir? I mean,
is the war worth a one-term presidency?
1219
01:28:03,780 --> 01:28:06,160
Right now I think
that's what we're looking at.
1220
01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:09,450
I will not go down as the first
American president to lose a war.
1221
01:28:09,540 --> 01:28:12,500
Going to Cambodia, bombing Hanoi,
bombing Laos buys us time
1222
01:28:12,580 --> 01:28:15,420
so we can get out and give
the South Vietnamese a chance.
1223
01:28:15,500 --> 01:28:19,340
- Exactly, sir.
- If we keep our heads, we'll win this.
1224
01:28:19,420 --> 01:28:21,930
- What, win Vietnam, sir?
- No, no.
1225
01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:27,180
No, but we can drive a stake through
the heart of the Communist alliance.
1226
01:28:27,260 --> 01:28:30,480
Henry's getting strong signals
from the Chinese.
1227
01:28:30,560 --> 01:28:33,150
They fear the Vietnamese
more than the Russians
1228
01:28:33,230 --> 01:28:36,150
and they're worried
about a united Vietnam.
1229
01:28:36,230 --> 01:28:39,400
Now, if we stick it out,
we'll end up negotiating separately
1230
01:28:39,480 --> 01:28:42,200
with both the Chinese and the Soviets.
1231
01:28:42,280 --> 01:28:45,530
And we'll get better deals
than we ever dreamed of from both.
1232
01:28:45,620 --> 01:28:51,120
- That is triangular diplomacy.
- Exactly, Mr. President.
1233
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:54,210
That's what geopolitics is about.
1234
01:28:54,290 --> 01:28:57,880
The linking of the whole world
for self-interest.
1235
01:28:57,960 --> 01:29:00,800
You tell me, Ron,
how the hell I can explain that on TV
1236
01:29:00,880 --> 01:29:04,130
to a bunch of simpleminded reporters
and, uh, weeping mothers.
1237
01:29:04,220 --> 01:29:06,010
But what am I telling the press
1238
01:29:06,090 --> 01:29:08,640
- about Kent State?
- Tell 'em what the hell you like.
1239
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:11,850
- They don't understand anyway.
- Excuse me, sir.
1240
01:29:13,140 --> 01:29:16,060
Are you saying you're
gonna recognize Red China?
1241
01:29:16,150 --> 01:29:18,860
That would cost us
our strongest support.
1242
01:29:18,940 --> 01:29:21,740
No, I can do this because
I spent my whole career
1243
01:29:21,820 --> 01:29:25,570
- building anti-Communist credentials.
- If Kennedy or Johnson tried it,
1244
01:29:25,660 --> 01:29:28,120
they'd have crucified them,
and rightfully so.
1245
01:29:28,200 --> 01:29:32,290
Damned risky, Mr. President.
Why don't we wait until the second term?
1246
01:29:32,370 --> 01:29:35,580
- This will get us a second term.
- This will get me a second term.
1247
01:29:35,670 --> 01:29:39,460
Damn it, without risk, there's
no heroism, there's no history.
1248
01:29:39,540 --> 01:29:42,260
Nixon was born to do this.
Give history a nudge.
1249
01:29:42,340 --> 01:29:43,880
- Come on!
- Hear, hear.
1250
01:29:43,970 --> 01:29:48,180
If Cambodia doesn't work,
we'll bomb Hanoi if we have to.
1251
01:29:48,260 --> 01:29:51,810
That's right.
And if necessary, I'll drop the big one.
1252
01:29:55,560 --> 01:29:58,230
We have to entertain the possibility.
1253
01:30:03,690 --> 01:30:06,400
Goddamn it! Who cooked this damn steak?
1254
01:30:06,490 --> 01:30:09,320
Manolo, there's blood all over my plate.
Take it away.
1255
01:30:09,410 --> 01:30:11,030
I'm sorry, sir.
1256
01:30:23,920 --> 01:30:25,590
You all right?
1257
01:30:26,720 --> 01:30:28,220
Yeah.
1258
01:30:29,590 --> 01:30:33,600
My brother, Harold,
was the same age as those kids, John.
1259
01:30:33,680 --> 01:30:38,150
- Tuberculosis got him.
- It wasn't your fault.
1260
01:30:38,230 --> 01:30:42,150
The soldiers were kids too.
They just panicked.
1261
01:30:42,230 --> 01:30:43,400
Yeah.
1262
01:30:44,820 --> 01:30:48,160
They were throwing rocks,
John, just rocks.
1263
01:30:51,070 --> 01:30:53,080
They don't think I feel,
1264
01:30:53,160 --> 01:30:56,160
but I feel too much sometimes.
1265
01:30:57,160 --> 01:31:01,210
I just can't let a whole policy
be dominated by our sentimentality.
1266
01:31:01,290 --> 01:31:05,170
You're doing the right thing.
Don't let 'em shake you.
1267
01:31:07,260 --> 01:31:10,430
You know, it broke my heart
when Harold died.
1268
01:31:10,510 --> 01:31:13,310
That was a long time ago.
1269
01:31:14,600 --> 01:31:16,310
Yeah.
1270
01:31:16,390 --> 01:31:19,520
I think that's when it starts,
when you're a kid.
1271
01:31:19,600 --> 01:31:23,440
The laughs and snubs
and slights you get
1272
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:26,860
because you're poor or Irish
1273
01:31:26,940 --> 01:31:30,530
or Jewish or just ugly.
1274
01:31:31,740 --> 01:31:35,120
Get off that. That leads nowhere.
1275
01:31:36,080 --> 01:31:40,330
But you should offer condolences
to the families of those kids.
1276
01:31:40,420 --> 01:31:41,790
Sure.
1277
01:31:43,080 --> 01:31:46,880
I'd like to.
I'd like to offer my condolences.
1278
01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:51,760
But Nixon can't.
1279
01:32:06,480 --> 01:32:09,240
Enraged student groups
across the country
1280
01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:11,400
are calling for
a general strike tomorrow
1281
01:32:11,490 --> 01:32:15,870
to shut down the entire university
system until the Vietnam War is ended.
1282
01:32:15,950 --> 01:32:18,540
Oh, this is nothing
compared to Venezuela.
1283
01:32:18,620 --> 01:32:22,500
When I was vice president, Ike sent me
down there like a blocking tackle.
1284
01:32:22,580 --> 01:32:25,500
They threw rocks, broke out windows.
1285
01:32:25,590 --> 01:32:28,670
Almost overturned the car.
Read Six Crises, Bob.
1286
01:32:28,760 --> 01:32:31,130
- I did, sir.
- Pat was brave.
1287
01:32:35,640 --> 01:32:39,430
Jesus, they're serious.
Why are we stopping? Come on, move it!
1288
01:32:44,810 --> 01:32:47,940
- Jesus!
- Get that little punk!
1289
01:32:48,020 --> 01:32:49,900
Tackle! Go on, get him!
1290
01:32:49,990 --> 01:32:51,110
Yeah!
1291
01:32:53,740 --> 01:32:56,870
Yeah. Reminds me
of my days at Whittier.
1292
01:32:56,950 --> 01:32:59,620
- These kids are useless.
- Probably flunking.
1293
01:32:59,700 --> 01:33:02,410
Nothing to do except come here
and chase girls.
1294
01:33:03,210 --> 01:33:06,960
Their parents' fault.
They're poisoning the upper class, Bob.
1295
01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:10,630
- Too soft, too many cars, color TVs.
- Don't forget the South, the West.
1296
01:33:10,710 --> 01:33:13,430
Good football colleges.
More with than against you.
1297
01:33:13,510 --> 01:33:17,050
Let's not forget they're just kids.
They don't vote.
1298
01:33:17,140 --> 01:33:19,850
This is the fall of the Roman Empire.
Are you blind?
1299
01:33:19,930 --> 01:33:22,310
We're putting the fig leaves
on the statues.
1300
01:33:33,190 --> 01:33:35,070
Mr. President.
1301
01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:37,700
- Bob.
- I don't know what to say, sir.
1302
01:33:37,780 --> 01:33:41,080
Soon as we learned from the Secret
Service that you were en route,
1303
01:33:41,160 --> 01:33:43,580
the director was notified.
He should be here.
1304
01:33:43,660 --> 01:33:47,960
- So where the hell is he?
- Rushing back from his tennis game.
1305
01:33:49,090 --> 01:33:50,920
- So let's go.
- Told me to take you
1306
01:33:51,000 --> 01:33:53,210
- to his conference room.
- No, his office.
1307
01:33:53,300 --> 01:33:56,590
I want a private conversation with him.
I don't wanna be bugged.
1308
01:33:56,680 --> 01:33:58,470
- Then his office will be fine.
- OK.
1309
01:34:07,350 --> 01:34:08,690
All right.
1310
01:34:10,610 --> 01:34:14,280
- How's the job going, Bob?
- Frankly, it stinks, sir.
1311
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:16,280
I have no access.
1312
01:34:17,570 --> 01:34:21,240
- We'll see to that.
- He's nervous, sir.
1313
01:34:21,330 --> 01:34:24,160
He's heard you're looking
for a new director.
1314
01:34:24,250 --> 01:34:27,710
- Certainly isn't acting like it.
- That's Helms.
1315
01:34:27,790 --> 01:34:32,710
He's the epitome of sang-froid.
A world-class poker player.
1316
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:35,510
Yeah? Well, I own the fucking casino.
1317
01:34:42,260 --> 01:34:46,430
I'm honored, Dick,
that you've come all the way out here
1318
01:34:46,520 --> 01:34:49,150
to Virginia to visit us at last.
1319
01:34:51,440 --> 01:34:54,530
- My friends call me Mr. President.
- Then so shall I.
1320
01:34:54,610 --> 01:34:57,990
- Mr. Helms.
- Arrange for some coffee,
1321
01:34:58,070 --> 01:34:59,910
will you, General Cushman?
1322
01:35:02,330 --> 01:35:03,870
Gentleman, please.
1323
01:35:10,500 --> 01:35:14,840
Bob Cushman is a lieutenant general
in the Marine Corps,
1324
01:35:14,920 --> 01:35:18,590
deputy director of the CIA.
1325
01:35:18,680 --> 01:35:23,220
- This is what you use him for?
- I didn't choose him as my deputy.
1326
01:35:23,300 --> 01:35:28,020
- You did.
- You live pretty well out here.
1327
01:35:28,100 --> 01:35:31,600
I understand why you keep
your budgets classified.
1328
01:35:32,900 --> 01:35:35,780
I suppose you're unhappy...
1329
01:35:37,240 --> 01:35:41,700
...because I haven't implemented
your domestic intelligence plan.
1330
01:35:41,780 --> 01:35:43,370
Yeah, you're correct.
1331
01:35:43,450 --> 01:35:46,950
I'm concerned these students
are being funded by foreign interests
1332
01:35:47,040 --> 01:35:50,960
whether they know it or not.
The FBI's useless in this area.
1333
01:35:51,040 --> 01:35:53,460
I want your full attention
on this matter.
1334
01:35:53,540 --> 01:35:56,250
We've tried, but so far
we've come up with nothing.
1335
01:35:56,340 --> 01:35:59,420
Then find something!
I want these leaks stopped.
1336
01:35:59,510 --> 01:36:03,300
Jack Anderson, The New York Times,
the State Department.
1337
01:36:03,390 --> 01:36:06,390
- I wanna know who's talking.
- I'm sure you realize
1338
01:36:06,470 --> 01:36:08,730
that this is a tricky area,
1339
01:36:08,810 --> 01:36:12,440
given our charter and
the Congressional oversight committee.
1340
01:36:12,520 --> 01:36:16,320
Screw congressional oversight.
I know damn well, going back to the '50s
1341
01:36:16,400 --> 01:36:20,200
this agency reports what it wants
and buries what it wants.
1342
01:36:20,280 --> 01:36:25,280
- Pay close attention to this.
- Is something else bothering you?
1343
01:36:25,370 --> 01:36:26,950
Yes.
1344
01:36:27,040 --> 01:36:29,660
It involves some old
and forgotten papers...
1345
01:36:30,870 --> 01:36:33,080
...things I signed as vice president.
1346
01:36:33,170 --> 01:36:38,300
I want the original in my office
and I don't want copies anywhere else.
1347
01:36:39,510 --> 01:36:42,180
You're referring, I believe,
1348
01:36:42,260 --> 01:36:45,600
to chairing
the special operations group
1349
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:48,520
- as vice president.
- Yeah.
1350
01:36:49,850 --> 01:36:52,640
As you know, that was unique.
1351
01:36:54,400 --> 01:36:59,150
Not an operation so much
as an organic phenomenon.
1352
01:36:59,230 --> 01:37:03,570
It grew, it changed shape,
1353
01:37:03,660 --> 01:37:07,370
it developed appetites.
1354
01:37:08,660 --> 01:37:13,670
It's not unusual in such cases
that things aren't committed to paper.
1355
01:37:14,670 --> 01:37:16,580
That could be very embarrassing.
1356
01:37:17,790 --> 01:37:22,340
I, for one, saw to it that my name was
never connected with these operations.
1357
01:37:23,300 --> 01:37:24,380
Diem.
1358
01:37:28,430 --> 01:37:30,010
Trujillo.
1359
01:37:30,100 --> 01:37:31,390
Lumumba.
1360
01:37:31,470 --> 01:37:32,680
Guatemala.
1361
01:37:35,060 --> 01:37:37,190
Iran.
1362
01:37:37,730 --> 01:37:38,860
Cuba.
1363
01:37:47,200 --> 01:37:51,450
It's a shame you didn't
take similar precautions, Dick.
1364
01:37:57,000 --> 01:38:00,960
I'm interested in those documents
that put your people together
1365
01:38:01,050 --> 01:38:03,510
with the gangster elements.
1366
01:38:04,840 --> 01:38:07,890
- All the documents.
- President Kennedy threatened
1367
01:38:07,970 --> 01:38:11,220
to smash the CIA into 1,000 pieces.
1368
01:38:11,310 --> 01:38:13,350
You could do the same.
1369
01:38:15,480 --> 01:38:17,600
I'm not Jack Kennedy. Uh...
1370
01:38:17,690 --> 01:38:22,480
- Your agency is secure.
- Not if I give you all the cards.
1371
01:38:28,360 --> 01:38:32,700
I promised the American people
peace with honor in Southeast Asia.
1372
01:38:34,160 --> 01:38:38,290
That may take time.
Two, maybe three years.
1373
01:38:38,370 --> 01:38:42,000
But, in the meantime,
your agency will continue
1374
01:38:42,090 --> 01:38:44,550
at current levels of funding.
1375
01:38:46,050 --> 01:38:49,140
Current levels may not be sufficient.
1376
01:38:49,220 --> 01:38:54,140
Well, the president will support
a reasonable request for an increase.
1377
01:38:54,220 --> 01:38:55,930
And me?
1378
01:38:57,440 --> 01:39:00,860
Of course,
you will continue as DCI, Dick.
1379
01:39:01,900 --> 01:39:03,860
You're doing a magnificent job.
1380
01:39:06,190 --> 01:39:08,780
Of course, I accept. I'm flattered.
1381
01:39:10,110 --> 01:39:15,240
And I want you to know that
I serve only one president at a time.
1382
01:39:15,330 --> 01:39:20,420
Yes. And you'll give
General Cushman full access.
1383
01:39:24,250 --> 01:39:26,920
It could take a little time.
1384
01:39:27,010 --> 01:39:29,720
But I'll order a search
for your papers.
1385
01:39:29,800 --> 01:39:32,640
- Good.
- It does raise...
1386
01:39:32,720 --> 01:39:35,930
- ...a troubling issue.
- What?
1387
01:39:36,020 --> 01:39:38,350
Castro.
1388
01:39:39,600 --> 01:39:43,400
- Yes?
- We have recent intelligence
1389
01:39:43,480 --> 01:39:46,480
that a Soviet nuclear submarine
1390
01:39:46,570 --> 01:39:51,990
- has docked at Cienfuegos.
- We'll launch a formal protest.
1391
01:39:52,070 --> 01:39:56,290
I don't think we can treat this
as a formality.
1392
01:39:57,830 --> 01:40:02,880
Mr. Kennedy gave the Russians a verbal
promise that he would not invade Cuba.
1393
01:40:02,960 --> 01:40:07,000
But you authorized Dr. Kissinger
to put this in writing?
1394
01:40:10,050 --> 01:40:14,220
- Are you tapping Kissinger?
- My job, unpleasant at times,
1395
01:40:14,300 --> 01:40:16,640
is to know what others
don't want me to know.
1396
01:40:16,720 --> 01:40:20,180
Not if you have spies
in the White House.
1397
01:40:20,270 --> 01:40:23,400
It is not my practice
to spy on the president.
1398
01:40:23,480 --> 01:40:27,190
Dr. Kissinger manages to convey his
innermost secrets to the world
1399
01:40:27,280 --> 01:40:29,110
without my help.
1400
01:40:30,400 --> 01:40:32,240
Dick...
1401
01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:36,030
We've lived with communism in Cuba
for ten years.
1402
01:40:36,120 --> 01:40:39,750
But it's never been the policy
of this government to accept that.
1403
01:40:39,830 --> 01:40:44,080
- And it's certainly not CIA policy.
- CIA policy?
1404
01:40:44,170 --> 01:40:48,380
The CIA has no policy
except what I dictate to you.
1405
01:40:50,970 --> 01:40:55,550
I tried to, uh, adjust to the world
as it is today,
1406
01:40:55,640 --> 01:40:59,220
not as you or I wanted it
to be ten years ago.
1407
01:40:59,310 --> 01:41:03,020
Is that why you and Kissinger
are negotiating with the Chinese?
1408
01:41:04,350 --> 01:41:08,480
This is a very dangerous direction,
Mr. President.
1409
01:41:08,570 --> 01:41:12,740
Terrible consequences can result
from such enormous errors of judgment.
1410
01:41:14,740 --> 01:41:18,620
If we were able to separate
China from Russia once and for all,
1411
01:41:18,700 --> 01:41:21,250
we can, we could create
a balance of power
1412
01:41:21,330 --> 01:41:23,960
that would secure peace
into the next century.
1413
01:41:24,040 --> 01:41:27,460
And offer Cuba to the Russians
as a consolation prize?
1414
01:41:29,590 --> 01:41:35,300
- Cuba would be a small price to pay.
- So President Kennedy thought.
1415
01:41:39,720 --> 01:41:44,230
I never thought Kennedy
was ready for the presidency.
1416
01:41:48,690 --> 01:41:50,650
Well, now...
1417
01:41:50,730 --> 01:41:53,400
...I would never, uh...
1418
01:41:53,490 --> 01:41:56,200
...never consider...
1419
01:41:57,740 --> 01:41:59,830
His death was awful.
1420
01:42:00,950 --> 01:42:03,410
It was an awful thing
for this country.
1421
01:42:05,710 --> 01:42:07,080
Yeah.
1422
01:42:09,710 --> 01:42:12,340
Do you ever think of death, Dick?
1423
01:42:13,760 --> 01:42:17,640
Flowers are a continual reminder
of our mortality.
1424
01:42:18,640 --> 01:42:21,760
- Do you appreciate flowers?
- No.
1425
01:42:23,390 --> 01:42:26,640
No, they make me sick
and they smell like death.
1426
01:42:28,770 --> 01:42:31,110
I had two brothers die young.
1427
01:42:32,940 --> 01:42:34,900
Let me tell you,
1428
01:42:34,990 --> 01:42:37,530
there are worse things than death.
1429
01:42:37,610 --> 01:42:39,070
Yes.
1430
01:42:42,080 --> 01:42:44,830
There's such a thing as evil.
1431
01:42:47,290 --> 01:42:51,710
You must be familiar
with my favorite poem by Yeats,
1432
01:42:51,790 --> 01:42:53,800
The Second Coming.
1433
01:42:56,470 --> 01:42:58,890
Black Irish, very moving.
1434
01:43:01,470 --> 01:43:06,230
Turning and turning
in the widening gyre
1435
01:43:06,310 --> 01:43:10,400
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
1436
01:43:10,480 --> 01:43:13,480
Things fall apart
1437
01:43:13,570 --> 01:43:17,360
The center cannot hold
1438
01:43:17,450 --> 01:43:21,820
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
1439
01:43:21,910 --> 01:43:26,950
And everywhere, the ceremony
of innocence is lost
1440
01:43:27,040 --> 01:43:31,290
The best lack all conviction
1441
01:43:31,380 --> 01:43:37,340
And the worst are full
of passionate intensity
1442
01:43:39,840 --> 01:43:42,680
But it ends so beautifully ominous.
1443
01:43:44,390 --> 01:43:47,270
What rough beast
1444
01:43:47,350 --> 01:43:51,310
Its hour come round at last
1445
01:43:51,400 --> 01:43:56,400
Slouches toward Bethlehem
to be born?
1446
01:43:58,740 --> 01:44:00,280
Yes.
1447
01:44:01,530 --> 01:44:05,160
This country stands at such a juncture.
1448
01:44:10,620 --> 01:44:12,210
Manolo?
1449
01:44:16,210 --> 01:44:17,630
Mano?
1450
01:44:17,710 --> 01:44:20,420
- Mr. President.
- Yeah.
1451
01:44:20,510 --> 01:44:23,970
I'm sorry. I was asleep.
1452
01:44:25,220 --> 01:44:26,970
What can I get you?
1453
01:44:28,390 --> 01:44:31,060
- Well, you know.
- Of course.
1454
01:44:45,450 --> 01:44:48,330
Do you miss Cuba, Manolo?
1455
01:44:49,450 --> 01:44:51,410
Yes, Mr. President.
1456
01:44:56,590 --> 01:45:01,010
We let you down, didn't we?
Your people.
1457
01:45:01,090 --> 01:45:04,140
That was Mr. Kennedy, sir.
1458
01:45:10,430 --> 01:45:13,350
You don't think he was a hero, do you?
1459
01:45:15,440 --> 01:45:18,270
He was a politician.
1460
01:45:28,030 --> 01:45:30,240
Did you cry when he died?
1461
01:45:34,500 --> 01:45:36,000
Yes, sir.
1462
01:45:37,590 --> 01:45:38,960
Why?
1463
01:45:40,380 --> 01:45:42,720
I don't know.
1464
01:45:44,050 --> 01:45:47,640
He made me...
1465
01:45:47,720 --> 01:45:50,310
...see the stars.
1466
01:45:57,190 --> 01:45:59,480
How did he do that?
1467
01:46:01,820 --> 01:46:03,530
Those kids.
1468
01:46:05,530 --> 01:46:09,080
Why do they hate me so much?
1469
01:47:47,510 --> 01:47:50,510
Hi, I'm Dick Nixon.
1470
01:47:50,590 --> 01:47:52,300
Hi, there.
1471
01:47:54,050 --> 01:47:56,020
- Where you from?
- Syracuse.
1472
01:47:56,100 --> 01:47:59,480
Oh, yeah, the, uh, Orangemen.
1473
01:47:59,560 --> 01:48:02,150
Now, there's a football program.
1474
01:48:02,230 --> 01:48:06,440
Jim Brown and that other tailback,
1475
01:48:06,530 --> 01:48:09,650
- the one with the blood disease.
- Ernie Davis.
1476
01:48:09,740 --> 01:48:11,740
Yeah, right, right, right.
1477
01:48:11,990 --> 01:48:15,700
I used to play a little ball myself
at Whittier.
1478
01:48:15,780 --> 01:48:20,870
Of course, they used
to use me as a tackling dummy.
1479
01:48:20,960 --> 01:48:23,420
We didn't come here
to talk about football.
1480
01:48:25,880 --> 01:48:27,670
Yeah, I understand that.
1481
01:48:29,010 --> 01:48:32,640
- How old are you, young lady?
- Nineteen.
1482
01:48:33,340 --> 01:48:34,640
Yeah.
1483
01:48:35,550 --> 01:48:40,230
Well, probably most of you think
I'm a real SOB. I know that.
1484
01:48:40,310 --> 01:48:42,900
I understand how you feel.
But, you know,
1485
01:48:42,980 --> 01:48:45,690
I want peace too.
But peace with honor.
1486
01:48:45,770 --> 01:48:48,070
- What does that mean?
- Bullshit.
1487
01:48:48,150 --> 01:48:51,740
Well, you can't have peace
without a price.
1488
01:48:51,820 --> 01:48:55,490
Sometimes you have to be
willing to fight for peace,
1489
01:48:55,570 --> 01:48:57,580
and sometimes to die.
1490
01:48:57,660 --> 01:49:01,410
Yeah? Tell that to the GIs who are
gonna die tomorrow in Vietnam.
1491
01:49:01,500 --> 01:49:05,080
- What lets you kill women and children?
- What you have to understand
1492
01:49:05,170 --> 01:49:08,090
is we're willing to die
for what we believe in.
1493
01:49:08,170 --> 01:49:10,170
- That's the truth.
- Yeah.
1494
01:49:10,260 --> 01:49:11,670
Yeah.
1495
01:49:13,800 --> 01:49:17,600
Look, that man up there,
he lived in similar times.
1496
01:49:17,680 --> 01:49:22,020
Oh, he had chaos, civil war,
hatred between the races.
1497
01:49:22,100 --> 01:49:26,440
- This is all bullshit.
- Sometimes I go to the Lincoln Room
1498
01:49:26,520 --> 01:49:29,980
at the White House and just pray.
But, you know,
1499
01:49:30,070 --> 01:49:34,280
liberals act like idealism
belongs to them.
1500
01:49:34,360 --> 01:49:36,780
That's not true.
1501
01:49:36,870 --> 01:49:42,710
My family went Republican
because Lincoln freed the slaves.
1502
01:49:42,790 --> 01:49:45,000
My grandmother was an abolitionist.
1503
01:49:45,080 --> 01:49:49,210
It was Quakers who founded Whittier,
my hometown...
1504
01:49:49,300 --> 01:49:52,130
- Address the issues.
- ...to abolish slavery.
1505
01:49:52,210 --> 01:49:55,300
They were, you know,
conservative Bible folk,
1506
01:49:55,380 --> 01:49:59,350
but they had a powerful sense
of right and wrong.
1507
01:49:59,430 --> 01:50:02,810
Forty years ago,
I was like you.
1508
01:50:02,890 --> 01:50:07,480
- Looking for answers. See?
- Come on.
1509
01:50:07,560 --> 01:50:09,480
Tricky Dick himself.
1510
01:50:10,570 --> 01:50:15,780
My mother used to feed hobos
stopping over at our house.
1511
01:50:15,860 --> 01:50:17,320
We got him.
1512
01:50:17,410 --> 01:50:19,120
- Don't push, pig.
- Move away.
1513
01:50:19,200 --> 01:50:22,450
It's OK, Bob, we're just rapping,
my friends and I.
1514
01:50:22,540 --> 01:50:25,250
In fact, we agree on a lot of things,
don't we?
1515
01:50:25,330 --> 01:50:28,670
No, we don't.
You say you want to end the war,
1516
01:50:28,750 --> 01:50:34,380
- so why don't you?
- Change always comes slowly.
1517
01:50:35,420 --> 01:50:37,510
I pulled out more than half the troops.
1518
01:50:37,590 --> 01:50:41,140
I'm trying to cut the military budget
for the first time in 30 years.
1519
01:50:41,220 --> 01:50:43,180
I want a volunteer army.
1520
01:50:43,270 --> 01:50:46,140
But it's also a question
of American credibility.
1521
01:50:46,230 --> 01:50:48,980
- Our position in the world.
- Come on, Mr. Nixon.
1522
01:50:49,060 --> 01:50:53,730
- It's a civil war between Vietnamese.
- You don't want the war.
1523
01:50:53,820 --> 01:50:57,360
We don't want the war.
The Vietnamese don't want the war.
1524
01:50:57,450 --> 01:50:59,450
So why does it go on?
1525
01:51:04,950 --> 01:51:07,250
- You should be going, Mr. President.
- OK.
1526
01:51:07,920 --> 01:51:09,250
Please.
1527
01:51:12,290 --> 01:51:14,550
You can't stop it, can you?
1528
01:51:15,510 --> 01:51:17,170
Even if you wanted to.
1529
01:51:17,260 --> 01:51:21,010
'Cause it's not you, it's the system.
1530
01:51:21,100 --> 01:51:24,100
The system won't let you stop it.
1531
01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:30,560
There's... There's more at stake here
1532
01:51:30,650 --> 01:51:33,230
than what you want or what I want.
1533
01:51:33,320 --> 01:51:34,730
Then what's the point?
1534
01:51:34,820 --> 01:51:38,400
What's the point of being president?
You're powerless!
1535
01:51:38,490 --> 01:51:41,820
No! No, I'm not powerless.
1536
01:51:41,910 --> 01:51:44,740
Because I understand the system,
I believe I can...
1537
01:51:44,830 --> 01:51:48,210
I can control it,
maybe not control it totally,
1538
01:51:48,290 --> 01:51:51,040
but tame it enough
to make it do some good.
1539
01:51:52,420 --> 01:51:55,090
Sounds like you're talking
about a wild animal.
1540
01:51:58,420 --> 01:52:00,550
Yeah, maybe I am.
1541
01:52:00,630 --> 01:52:03,220
We really must go,
Mr. President. Please.
1542
01:52:03,300 --> 01:52:07,350
- Hey, what about the war, man?
- When you gonna get us out?
1543
01:52:07,430 --> 01:52:10,440
- The old man's moving.
- Move it. Get away.
1544
01:52:10,520 --> 01:52:13,190
She got it, Bob.
Nineteen-year-old college kid.
1545
01:52:13,270 --> 01:52:15,610
- What? Who?
- She understood something
1546
01:52:15,690 --> 01:52:18,610
that's taken me 25 years
in politics to understand.
1547
01:52:18,690 --> 01:52:22,360
The CIA, the Mafia,
those Wall Street bastards.
1548
01:52:22,450 --> 01:52:24,620
- Sir?
- The beast.
1549
01:52:24,700 --> 01:52:28,120
Nineteen-year-old kid.
She called it a wild animal.
1550
01:52:28,200 --> 01:52:29,710
Yes, sir.
1551
01:52:53,600 --> 01:52:57,480
In Washington, the size
of the crowds have swelled to over
1552
01:52:57,570 --> 01:53:01,650
a quarter of a million demonstrators
protesting the ongoing war in Vietnam.
1553
01:53:01,740 --> 01:53:04,490
There must be
a quarter million out there.
1554
01:53:04,570 --> 01:53:08,410
They've been at it for a whole year.
Young kids just like Tricia.
1555
01:53:10,160 --> 01:53:13,290
You think they got a point, Edgar?
1556
01:53:13,370 --> 01:53:19,090
- This whole damn system of government.
- Remember what Lenin said in 1917.
1557
01:53:19,170 --> 01:53:21,550
The power was lying in the street.
1558
01:53:21,630 --> 01:53:24,300
Just waiting for someone to pick it up.
1559
01:53:24,380 --> 01:53:26,680
Communists have never
been closer than now.
1560
01:53:26,760 --> 01:53:30,020
Now is the time to get back
to the old themes.
1561
01:53:30,100 --> 01:53:32,850
The ones that made you president.
1562
01:53:32,940 --> 01:53:35,350
Let the communists
know you're on to them.
1563
01:53:35,440 --> 01:53:38,650
Little bastards think they can
ruin Tricia's wedding
1564
01:53:38,730 --> 01:53:41,190
by dancing naked in the reflection pool.
1565
01:53:41,280 --> 01:53:44,200
Don't listen to 'em.
And don't quit.
1566
01:53:45,110 --> 01:53:48,450
Remember, Kennedy and King
were against the war.
1567
01:53:48,530 --> 01:53:50,330
Where are they now?
1568
01:53:52,410 --> 01:53:55,920
How the hell The Times got a hold of
this Ellsberg stuff is a disgrace.
1569
01:53:57,750 --> 01:54:00,460
Yeah. We can't keep a damn secret
in this government.
1570
01:54:00,550 --> 01:54:03,380
They're stealing papers
right out of this office.
1571
01:54:03,470 --> 01:54:05,590
Johnson had the same damn problem
1572
01:54:05,680 --> 01:54:08,720
- until he bugged his own office.
- We took that system out.
1573
01:54:08,800 --> 01:54:11,270
That was a mistake.
1574
01:54:11,350 --> 01:54:14,480
The White House was full
of Kennedy people then.
1575
01:54:14,560 --> 01:54:17,520
- It still is.
- Who's behind this?
1576
01:54:17,600 --> 01:54:21,940
Well, you have CIA people
all over this place.
1577
01:54:22,030 --> 01:54:26,410
Helms has seen to that.
Then there's Kissinger's staff.
1578
01:54:26,490 --> 01:54:30,580
Kissinger himself, I believe,
may be the leaker.
1579
01:54:30,660 --> 01:54:32,240
- Kissinger?
- Hmm.
1580
01:54:32,330 --> 01:54:35,080
He's obsessed with his own image.
1581
01:54:35,160 --> 01:54:38,420
He wants his Nobel Peace Prize
a little too much.
1582
01:54:38,500 --> 01:54:41,250
And as the late Dr. King proved,
1583
01:54:41,340 --> 01:54:44,630
even an ape can win a prize
with good press.
1584
01:54:44,720 --> 01:54:47,760
Jesus, I'd like to book him
into a psychiatrist's office.
1585
01:54:47,840 --> 01:54:51,600
He comes in here ranting and raving,
dumping his crap all over the place.
1586
01:54:53,470 --> 01:54:56,940
- Could you prove it, Edgar?
- Mr. President,
1587
01:54:57,020 --> 01:54:59,020
I always get my man.
1588
01:55:00,400 --> 01:55:01,940
Yeah, you do.
1589
01:55:02,020 --> 01:55:05,320
This damn tie. Could you help me?
1590
01:55:05,400 --> 01:55:06,820
Yeah.
1591
01:55:10,530 --> 01:55:13,700
- See, I'd be bugging myself.
- Look.
1592
01:55:15,370 --> 01:55:19,630
- Who'd get the tapes?
- No one. Your property.
1593
01:55:20,710 --> 01:55:22,790
And it would prove your case.
1594
01:55:22,880 --> 01:55:26,670
Why do you think Kissinger
is taping all your calls?
1595
01:55:27,840 --> 01:55:29,680
For history.
1596
01:55:30,970 --> 01:55:32,800
His word against yours.
1597
01:55:32,890 --> 01:55:36,310
And right now, he's got the records.
1598
01:55:40,560 --> 01:55:43,070
I'll get Manolo to do this.
1599
01:55:43,650 --> 01:55:45,780
Thanks.
1600
01:55:45,860 --> 01:55:47,990
You know, Churchill once said to me,
1601
01:55:48,070 --> 01:55:50,490
"If you want your own
history written properly,
1602
01:55:50,570 --> 01:55:52,570
you better write it yourself."
1603
01:55:52,660 --> 01:55:54,790
The only thing is, Edgar,
1604
01:55:54,870 --> 01:55:57,250
I don't want this to come back
and haunt me.
1605
01:55:57,330 --> 01:56:00,210
It won't, as long as I'm here.
1606
01:56:00,870 --> 01:56:02,380
Good.
1607
01:56:09,090 --> 01:56:10,680
This way.
1608
01:56:16,100 --> 01:56:17,810
What's wrong?
1609
01:56:18,810 --> 01:56:21,270
We're just not going
to buckle to these people.
1610
01:56:21,350 --> 01:56:23,440
No more war!
1611
01:56:30,280 --> 01:56:32,450
- It's beautiful.
- OK.
1612
01:56:37,290 --> 01:56:38,540
Yes, thank you.
1613
01:56:48,130 --> 01:56:50,970
Princess, may I?
1614
01:56:52,300 --> 01:56:53,800
Thank you.
1615
01:57:06,820 --> 01:57:10,400
I'm very proud of you today,
Princess. Very.
1616
01:57:10,490 --> 01:57:11,820
Thank you, Daddy.
1617
01:57:27,960 --> 01:57:29,340
Yeah?
1618
01:57:29,420 --> 01:57:33,430
Some very secret essays on Vietnam have
been leaked to The New York Times.
1619
01:57:33,510 --> 01:57:35,760
I know, I know. Not now, Chuck.
1620
01:57:42,020 --> 01:57:44,440
- The New York Times.
- Get Ron over here.
1621
01:57:48,860 --> 01:57:51,530
It's the happiest day of my life.
1622
01:57:57,370 --> 01:58:01,160
The New York Times began
publishing the first in a series
1623
01:58:01,240 --> 01:58:06,790
of 47 volumes of top-secret Pentagon
tapes relating to the war in Vietnam.
1624
01:58:06,880 --> 01:58:10,250
The papers, leaked by defense analyst
Daniel Ellsberg,
1625
01:58:10,340 --> 01:58:15,130
reveal a pattern of government lies
and American involvement in the war.
1626
01:58:15,220 --> 01:58:18,300
Mr. President,
we are in a revolutionary situation.
1627
01:58:18,390 --> 01:58:22,060
We are under siege.
The Black Panthers, the Weathermen.
1628
01:58:22,140 --> 01:58:25,270
The State Department under Rogers
is leaking like a sieve.
1629
01:58:25,350 --> 01:58:28,810
And now this little,
insignificant little shit, Ellsberg,
1630
01:58:28,900 --> 01:58:31,730
publishing all the diplomatic secrets
of this country
1631
01:58:31,820 --> 01:58:34,780
is destroying our ability
to conduct foreign policy.
1632
01:58:34,860 --> 01:58:37,610
I wonder if people here wouldn't
think ten years in prison
1633
01:58:37,700 --> 01:58:40,240
was cheap if they could contribute
to ending this war.
1634
01:58:40,330 --> 01:58:45,870
The man has become a drug fiend. He
shot people from helicopters in Vietnam.
1635
01:58:45,960 --> 01:58:49,750
He's had sexual relations with his wife
in front of their children.
1636
01:58:49,840 --> 01:58:53,260
He sees a shrink in LA.
The man's all fucked up.
1637
01:58:53,340 --> 01:58:56,090
And now he's trying
to look good for the liberals.
1638
01:58:56,170 --> 01:58:59,180
And if he gets away with it,
everybody will follow his lead.
1639
01:58:59,260 --> 01:59:03,100
- This man must be stopped at all costs.
- I'm as frustrated as you are, Henry,
1640
01:59:03,180 --> 01:59:06,770
but don't you think this is a Democrat
problem? They started the war.
1641
01:59:06,850 --> 01:59:10,900
- It makes them look bad.
- But, Mr. President, the Russians,
1642
01:59:10,980 --> 01:59:13,900
the Vietnamese...
it makes you look like a weakling!
1643
01:59:13,980 --> 01:59:17,360
Goddamn it. How long have we had
this jackass dog? Two years?
1644
01:59:17,450 --> 01:59:20,700
Still doesn't come. We need a dog
that looks happy when the press is here.
1645
01:59:20,780 --> 01:59:23,370
- He's photogenic. Try new biscuits.
- Ah, fuck it.
1646
01:59:23,450 --> 01:59:26,000
He doesn't like me, John.
It's your fault, Henry.
1647
01:59:26,080 --> 01:59:29,790
- I beg your pardon?
- It's your people talking to the press.
1648
01:59:29,880 --> 01:59:33,250
This Ellsberg, wasn't he
a student of yours at Harvard?
1649
01:59:33,340 --> 01:59:36,550
I mean, he's your idea, Henry.
So why are you running for cover?
1650
01:59:36,630 --> 01:59:38,720
Yes, we taught
a class together at Harvard,
1651
01:59:38,800 --> 01:59:42,010
but you know these back-stabbing
Ivy League intellectuals.
1652
01:59:42,100 --> 01:59:45,930
- No, I don't, Henry.
- Prosecute The New York Times.
1653
01:59:46,020 --> 01:59:49,140
- Go for injunction.
- Yeah, but it's not, bottom line,
1654
01:59:49,230 --> 01:59:51,150
gonna change a goddamn thing, John.
1655
01:59:51,230 --> 01:59:54,940
The... question is how do we
screw Ellsberg so bad,
1656
01:59:55,030 --> 01:59:57,400
it puts the fear of God
into all leakers?
1657
01:59:57,490 --> 02:00:00,820
The other issue is how the hell
we stop these leaks once and for all?
1658
02:00:00,910 --> 02:00:04,700
Now, someone is talking to the press.
We gotta stop these leaks at any cost.
1659
02:00:04,780 --> 02:00:07,250
You hear me?
Then we can go for the big pick:
1660
02:00:07,330 --> 02:00:09,330
- China, Russia.
- Sir, if I might?
1661
02:00:09,410 --> 02:00:12,920
- Go, Chuck.
- We can do this ourselves.
1662
02:00:13,000 --> 02:00:15,500
The CIA and the FBI
aren't doing the job.
1663
02:00:15,590 --> 02:00:20,130
Now, we can create our own intelligence
unit right here inside the White House.
1664
02:00:23,140 --> 02:00:27,640
- Well, why not?
- Our own intelligence plugs the leaks?
1665
02:00:27,720 --> 02:00:31,270
- Yeah. Like plumbers.
- Plumbers.
1666
02:00:34,860 --> 02:00:37,190
I like it. I like the idea.
1667
02:00:38,190 --> 02:00:41,490
Yeah, but is it legal?
Has it ever been done before?
1668
02:00:42,610 --> 02:00:44,200
Oh, sure.
1669
02:00:44,280 --> 02:00:47,830
Lyndon, JFK, FDR.
1670
02:00:49,080 --> 02:00:53,540
I mean, Truman cut the shit out of my
investigation of the Hiss case in '48.
1671
02:00:53,630 --> 02:00:56,460
- What he did was illegal.
- With this kind of thing,
1672
02:00:56,540 --> 02:01:00,340
you got to be brutal. A leak happens,
the whole damn place should be fired.
1673
02:01:00,420 --> 02:01:03,800
Really, I mean, you do it
like the Germans in World War II.
1674
02:01:03,890 --> 02:01:06,810
They went through these towns,
and a sniper hit one of 'em,
1675
02:01:06,890 --> 02:01:09,220
they'd line the whole
goddamn town up and say,
1676
02:01:09,310 --> 02:01:11,480
"Until you talk,
you're all getting shot."
1677
02:01:11,560 --> 02:01:14,020
Really, I think that's
what has to be done.
1678
02:01:14,100 --> 02:01:16,980
I don't think you
can be Mr. Nice Guy anymore.
1679
02:01:17,070 --> 02:01:20,360
You just whisper the word to me,
and I'll shoot Ellsberg myself.
1680
02:01:20,440 --> 02:01:24,990
- We're not Germans.
- Yeah. Ellsberg's not the issue.
1681
02:01:25,070 --> 02:01:28,330
The Pentagon Papers aren't the issue.
1682
02:01:28,410 --> 02:01:31,370
It's the lie.
1683
02:01:31,450 --> 02:01:34,670
- Mr. Hiss is lying.
- Yeah.
1684
02:01:35,790 --> 02:01:37,590
Remember, John, back in '48?
1685
02:01:37,670 --> 02:01:40,510
Nobody believed Alger Hiss
was a communist except me.
1686
02:01:40,590 --> 02:01:43,760
They loved Hiss like they
love this Ellsberg character.
1687
02:01:43,840 --> 02:01:46,590
He was their kind:
Ivy League establishment.
1688
02:01:46,680 --> 02:01:50,430
- l am not, and never have been...
- Mr. Hiss is lying.
1689
02:01:50,520 --> 02:01:53,690
- Mr. Hiss?
- I was dirt to them, nothing.
1690
02:01:53,770 --> 02:01:57,610
- And Dick kicked the shit out of 'em.
- I wouldn't have if Hiss hadn't lied
1691
02:01:57,690 --> 02:02:01,150
about knowing Chambers. The
documents were old and out of date,
1692
02:02:01,230 --> 02:02:03,780
just like these Pentagon Papers.
1693
02:02:03,860 --> 02:02:07,030
The key thing we proved
was that Hiss was a liar.
1694
02:02:07,120 --> 02:02:09,870
Then people bought that he was a spy.
1695
02:02:09,950 --> 02:02:11,750
It's the lie that gets you.
1696
02:02:13,290 --> 02:02:15,870
All right, Henry,
we're gonna go your way.
1697
02:02:15,960 --> 02:02:18,210
Crush this Ellsberg
same way we did Hiss.
1698
02:02:18,290 --> 02:02:20,130
There is no other choice,
Mr. President.
1699
02:02:20,210 --> 02:02:23,760
We'll hit him so hard, he'll look
like everything that's sick and evil
1700
02:02:23,840 --> 02:02:26,760
about the eastern establishment.
You and your plumbers,
1701
02:02:26,840 --> 02:02:28,430
you get all the dirt
on this guy.
1702
02:02:28,510 --> 02:02:31,220
See him going to the bathroom
in front of the public.
1703
02:02:31,310 --> 02:02:33,810
And when we finish with him,
they'll crucify him.
1704
02:02:33,890 --> 02:02:35,810
Then we'll get our second term.
1705
02:02:51,240 --> 02:02:53,330
The claws are out, Frank.
1706
02:02:54,870 --> 02:02:57,750
- You seen the guys?
- They're around.
1707
02:02:57,830 --> 02:02:59,830
Why? You got a customer?
1708
02:03:02,300 --> 02:03:06,010
- The White House.
- You're fuckin' me.
1709
02:03:06,090 --> 02:03:09,300
We're gonna be plumbers, Frank.
We're gonna plug leaks.
1710
02:03:10,300 --> 02:03:13,470
- Who are we workin' for?
- A guy named Gordon Liddy.
1711
02:03:13,560 --> 02:03:16,770
He thinks he's Martin Bormann.
He wants to meet you.
1712
02:03:18,520 --> 02:03:22,980
- Gordon Liddy, Frank Sturgis.
- Hey, Frank.
1713
02:03:28,490 --> 02:03:32,240
Did you see the look on
Hoover's face? He's redder than a beet.
1714
02:03:32,330 --> 02:03:34,490
That little closet fairy's
got no choice.
1715
02:03:34,580 --> 02:03:37,620
He hates McGovern and Kennedy
so much, he's gotta love me.
1716
02:03:37,710 --> 02:03:41,290
- And Lyndon?
- He looked old, didn't he?
1717
02:03:41,380 --> 02:03:44,800
- Have you talked to Lyndon?
- I asked, "Lyndon, what would you do
1718
02:03:44,880 --> 02:03:48,970
on a scale of one to ten?" He said,
"Bomb the shit out of Hanoi, boy.
1719
02:03:49,050 --> 02:03:51,140
Bomb them where they live."
1720
02:03:51,220 --> 02:03:56,180
Yeah. Bob, tell Trini I'll be
in Key Biscayne at 4:00.
1721
02:03:56,270 --> 02:03:58,730
- With Pat?
- No, alone.
1722
02:03:58,810 --> 02:04:01,310
Pat's staying here with Mrs. Eisenhower.
1723
02:04:01,400 --> 02:04:03,570
- Yes, sir.
- Good.
1724
02:04:05,730 --> 02:04:08,820
Hi, Buddy. What are you doing here?
1725
02:04:08,900 --> 02:04:10,360
I missed you.
1726
02:04:11,990 --> 02:04:14,660
Why don't we go down
to Key Biscayne together?
1727
02:04:14,740 --> 02:04:17,950
Because I have to relax.
1728
02:04:21,710 --> 02:04:26,500
You know, I was just thinking tonight.
1729
02:04:26,590 --> 02:04:31,550
Remember when you used to drive me
on dates with other boys?
1730
02:04:31,630 --> 02:04:35,310
- Yeah.
- Didn't let me out of your sight.
1731
02:04:36,260 --> 02:04:38,850
Yeah. Sure.
1732
02:04:40,600 --> 02:04:42,600
It was a long time ago.
1733
02:04:44,400 --> 02:04:47,610
Yes, it's been a long time.
1734
02:04:52,990 --> 02:04:54,780
Now, look, Buddy.
1735
02:04:57,080 --> 02:04:59,080
I don't need that.
1736
02:05:05,000 --> 02:05:07,340
I'm not Jack Kennedy.
1737
02:05:11,010 --> 02:05:13,890
No, you're not.
1738
02:05:13,970 --> 02:05:18,970
So stop comparing yourself to him.
You have no reason to.
1739
02:05:20,480 --> 02:05:25,810
You have everything you ever wanted.
You earned it.
1740
02:05:25,900 --> 02:05:31,150
- Why can't you just enjoy it?
- I do.
1741
02:05:31,240 --> 02:05:36,950
- I do in my own way.
- Then what are you scared of, honey?
1742
02:05:37,030 --> 02:05:42,330
I'm not scared, Buddy.
You don't understand.
1743
02:05:45,500 --> 02:05:48,500
They're playing for keeps, Buddy.
1744
02:05:48,590 --> 02:05:51,970
You know, the press, the kids,
the liberals out there.
1745
02:05:52,050 --> 02:05:55,010
They're out there trying
to figure out how to tear me down.
1746
02:05:55,090 --> 02:05:58,430
- They're all your enemies?
- Yes.
1747
02:05:58,510 --> 02:06:03,640
- You, personally?
- Yes!
1748
02:06:04,770 --> 02:06:10,190
Listen, this is about me.
Why can't you understand that?
1749
02:06:10,280 --> 02:06:12,360
I mean, you of all people.
1750
02:06:13,530 --> 02:06:16,740
It's not the war. It's Nixon!
1751
02:06:18,200 --> 02:06:21,330
It's not Vietnam, it's Nixon.
They want to destroy Nixon.
1752
02:06:21,410 --> 02:06:25,960
If I expose myself just the slightest
bit, they'll tear my insides out.
1753
02:06:26,040 --> 02:06:29,790
You want that? You know?
You want to see that, Buddy?
1754
02:06:29,880 --> 02:06:31,420
It's not pretty!
1755
02:06:32,960 --> 02:06:35,590
Sometimes I think that's
what you want, Dick.
1756
02:06:35,680 --> 02:06:37,890
What the hell are you saying?
1757
02:06:39,510 --> 02:06:41,140
Are you drunk?
1758
02:06:42,640 --> 02:06:45,100
Jesus, you sound just like them now.
1759
02:06:47,230 --> 02:06:49,690
I gotta keep fighting, Buddy,
for the country.
1760
02:06:49,770 --> 02:06:53,150
These people running things, the elite!
1761
02:06:53,230 --> 02:06:56,240
They're just soft, chicken-shit faggots.
1762
02:06:57,740 --> 02:07:00,120
They don't have
the long-term vision anymore.
1763
02:07:00,200 --> 02:07:04,040
They just want to cover their ass and
meet girls and tear each other down.
1764
02:07:04,120 --> 02:07:07,920
Oh, God, this country's in deep,
deep, deep trouble, Buddy.
1765
02:07:08,000 --> 02:07:10,500
I have to see this through, you know.
1766
02:07:10,590 --> 02:07:13,340
Mother would have expected
no less of me.
1767
02:07:16,220 --> 02:07:18,130
I'm sorry, Buddy.
1768
02:07:20,890 --> 02:07:24,020
I just wish you knew
how much I love you, that's all.
1769
02:07:24,100 --> 02:07:29,270
It took me a long time to fall
in love with you, Dick, but I did.
1770
02:07:30,150 --> 02:07:32,860
And it doesn't make you happy.
1771
02:07:32,940 --> 02:07:35,610
- You want them to love you.
- No, I don't.
1772
02:07:35,690 --> 02:07:38,530
- I'm not Jack Kennedy.
- They never will, Dick.
1773
02:07:38,610 --> 02:07:43,370
No matter how many elections you win,
they never will.
1774
02:08:08,600 --> 02:08:10,560
Gentlemen, the president.
1775
02:08:20,860 --> 02:08:24,580
Gentlemen, this is our last damn leak.
1776
02:08:24,660 --> 02:08:27,250
It's no way to run
a goddamn government.
1777
02:08:28,750 --> 02:08:32,080
We're gonna prosecute Ellsberg
and anyone else who wants to leak
1778
02:08:32,170 --> 02:08:36,340
and that means anyone here
who crosses the line, I'm going after.
1779
02:08:36,420 --> 02:08:40,220
OK? The permissiveness
of this year is over.
1780
02:08:40,300 --> 02:08:43,760
The belts are coming off and people
are gonna go to the woodshed.
1781
02:08:43,850 --> 02:08:48,140
'Cause the government cannot survive
with a counter-government inside it.
1782
02:08:48,220 --> 02:08:51,600
I know how traitors operate.
I've dealt with them all my life.
1783
02:08:51,690 --> 02:08:53,600
I've worked with these cases.
1784
02:08:53,690 --> 02:08:56,570
It's never little people.
The little people do not leak.
1785
02:08:56,650 --> 02:09:00,110
It's always some smooth son of a bitch
like Ellsberg.
1786
02:09:00,190 --> 02:09:05,120
The Harvard Hebrew boys who leak.
1787
02:09:05,200 --> 02:09:09,830
I hear people say, "But Ellsberg
did it for the good of the country.
1788
02:09:09,910 --> 02:09:12,370
People's right to know."
1789
02:09:13,370 --> 02:09:17,880
Well, that's in every case.
Alger Hiss said the same thing.
1790
02:09:17,960 --> 02:09:20,590
So did the Rosenbergs.
Look what happened to them.
1791
02:09:20,670 --> 02:09:23,220
Old Sparky got 'em.
1792
02:09:23,300 --> 02:09:25,600
They always
underestimated old Nixon, see.
1793
02:09:25,680 --> 02:09:29,180
We're gonna fight just as dirty.
This is sudden death, gentlemen.
1794
02:09:29,270 --> 02:09:31,180
We're gonna get 'em on the ground,
1795
02:09:31,270 --> 02:09:34,520
stick in our spikes and twist
and show them no mercy.
1796
02:09:34,600 --> 02:09:39,280
So, uh, starting today,
no one in this room talks to the press
1797
02:09:39,360 --> 02:09:43,610
without checking with Mr. Haldeman here.
1798
02:09:43,700 --> 02:09:47,990
That means we're on complete freeze
on The New York Times, CBS,
1799
02:09:48,080 --> 02:09:51,910
PBS, Jack Anderson
and The Washington Post.
1800
02:09:52,000 --> 02:09:55,750
Mr. Haldeman is the chief high
executioner from now on.
1801
02:09:55,830 --> 02:10:00,170
Don't come whining to me when he tells
you to do something. That's me talking.
1802
02:10:00,250 --> 02:10:03,630
If you do come to me,
I'm tougher than he is.
1803
02:10:03,720 --> 02:10:07,430
Anyone who screws with us,
his fucking head comes off.
1804
02:10:07,510 --> 02:10:08,850
You got that?
1805
02:10:12,850 --> 02:10:15,310
Well, thank you very much, gentlemen.
1806
02:10:15,390 --> 02:10:17,400
Good day to you.
1807
02:10:23,950 --> 02:10:28,700
History will never be the same.
1808
02:10:28,780 --> 02:10:31,700
We've taken a step into the future.
1809
02:10:31,790 --> 02:10:33,660
We have changed the world.
1810
02:10:33,750 --> 02:10:36,920
- Five, ten.
- What else you got?
1811
02:11:02,480 --> 02:11:05,740
I must say, you look very good,
Mr. Chairman.
1812
02:11:08,280 --> 02:11:10,910
Looks can be deceiving.
1813
02:11:10,990 --> 02:11:14,830
We know what risks you've taken
in inviting us here.
1814
02:11:14,910 --> 02:11:16,750
I took no risk.
1815
02:11:16,830 --> 02:11:20,790
I am too old to be afraid
of what anyone thinks.
1816
02:11:28,590 --> 02:11:31,930
Don't ever trust them.
They never tell the truth
1817
02:11:32,010 --> 02:11:34,640
or honor their commitments.
1818
02:11:34,720 --> 02:11:38,100
Vietnamese are like Russians.
1819
02:11:38,190 --> 02:11:39,850
Both are dogs.
1820
02:11:39,940 --> 02:11:42,980
Mr. Chairman,
there's an old saying in my country:
1821
02:11:43,070 --> 02:11:46,570
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
1822
02:11:48,200 --> 02:11:51,620
That has
the added virtue of being true.
1823
02:11:51,700 --> 02:11:54,790
Your writings have
changed the world, Mr. Chairman.
1824
02:11:58,620 --> 02:12:03,880
Bullshit.
My writings mean absolutely nothing.
1825
02:12:06,630 --> 02:12:11,340
- I want to know your secret.
- My secret, Mr. Chairman?
1826
02:12:17,980 --> 02:12:20,690
How a fat man gets so many girls.
1827
02:12:24,520 --> 02:12:29,320
Power, Mr. Chairman,
is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
1828
02:12:35,240 --> 02:12:39,660
You know,
I voted for you in your last election.
1829
02:12:39,750 --> 02:12:41,920
I was the, uh, lesser of two evils.
1830
02:12:43,540 --> 02:12:46,250
You are too modest,
Mr. Nixon.
1831
02:12:47,760 --> 02:12:50,550
You are as evil as I am.
1832
02:12:51,430 --> 02:12:54,010
We are the new emperors.
1833
02:12:55,350 --> 02:13:00,770
We are both from poor families
and others pay to feed the hunger in us.
1834
02:13:01,690 --> 02:13:04,690
In my case, millions of reactionaries.
1835
02:13:04,770 --> 02:13:08,610
In your case, millions of Vietnamese.
1836
02:13:08,690 --> 02:13:11,530
Civil war is always
the cruelest kind of war,
1837
02:13:11,610 --> 02:13:14,370
but our two nations
were forged by revolution.
1838
02:13:14,450 --> 02:13:16,280
The United States, China.
1839
02:13:16,370 --> 02:13:20,750
Peace? Is peace
all you're interested in?
1840
02:13:20,830 --> 02:13:23,420
The real war is in us.
1841
02:13:28,380 --> 02:13:32,130
History is a symptom of our disease.
1842
02:13:37,140 --> 02:13:39,890
In a surprise Christmas
bombing of Hanoi,
1843
02:13:39,970 --> 02:13:42,310
President Nixon delivered more tonnage
1844
02:13:42,390 --> 02:13:45,400
than was used at Dresden
in World War II.
1845
02:13:45,480 --> 02:13:49,690
It is without doubt the most brutal
bombing in American history.
1846
02:13:49,780 --> 02:13:53,240
Newspapers are calling it
a Stone Age tactic
1847
02:13:53,320 --> 02:13:56,990
and Nixon a maddened tyrant.
Nixon's response:
1848
02:13:57,070 --> 02:14:01,950
"When the Vietnamese take the Paris
peace talks seriously, I'll stop."
1849
02:14:16,890 --> 02:14:18,890
A penny for your thoughts.
1850
02:14:21,850 --> 02:14:24,020
Just think of the...
1851
02:14:24,100 --> 02:14:25,850
Think of the life Mao's led.
1852
02:14:27,270 --> 02:14:30,650
In '52, I... I called him a monster.
1853
02:14:31,690 --> 02:14:35,490
Now he could be our most important ally.
1854
02:14:35,570 --> 02:14:38,910
Only Nixon could've done that.
1855
02:14:38,990 --> 02:14:41,160
You're a long way from Whittier.
1856
02:14:42,120 --> 02:14:45,790
Yep. Yes, I am.
1857
02:14:47,920 --> 02:14:49,960
Congratulations, Dick.
1858
02:14:50,040 --> 02:14:52,050
- Mr. Ziegler.
- Mr. President,
1859
02:14:52,130 --> 02:14:54,630
the press guys asked
if you could come back.
1860
02:14:54,720 --> 02:14:57,640
- The hell with them.
- I'll go back, Mr. President.
1861
02:14:57,720 --> 02:15:00,930
No, they want you, Mr. President.
I, uh...
1862
02:15:01,010 --> 02:15:03,220
I think it would be a good move.
1863
02:15:07,810 --> 02:15:09,310
- Who's back there?
- Everybody.
1864
02:15:09,400 --> 02:15:11,270
OK.
1865
02:15:13,280 --> 02:15:16,150
Gentlemen, I go now
to discover the exact length,
1866
02:15:16,240 --> 02:15:17,950
width and depth of the shaft.
1867
02:15:26,580 --> 02:15:29,040
Ladies and gentlemen, the president.
1868
02:15:29,120 --> 02:15:31,250
- Hi.
- Hi.
1869
02:15:31,340 --> 02:15:33,670
- Mr. President...
- Congratulations, sir.
1870
02:15:33,750 --> 02:15:36,170
- Well done!
- Thank you, sir!
1871
02:15:57,400 --> 02:16:00,660
Well, it looks to me
1872
02:16:00,740 --> 02:16:04,990
like we're gonna lose a war
for the first goddamn time.
1873
02:16:05,080 --> 02:16:08,460
- Yep.
- You're goin' right along with it,
1874
02:16:08,540 --> 02:16:11,330
buyin' into this Kissinger bullshit,
1875
02:16:11,420 --> 02:16:15,750
this... detente with Communists.
1876
02:16:15,840 --> 02:16:18,970
Detente. Sounds like
a couple of fags dancin'.
1877
02:16:23,890 --> 02:16:27,600
Jack, we're not living in the same
country you and I knew in '46.
1878
02:16:27,680 --> 02:16:31,150
Our people are just not gonna sacrifice
in major numbers for war.
1879
02:16:31,230 --> 02:16:34,360
Can't even get 'em to accept cuts
in their gas tax.
1880
02:16:34,440 --> 02:16:38,280
Now, the Arabs and the Japanese
are draining the gold reserves...
1881
02:16:38,360 --> 02:16:39,400
Whose fault is that?
1882
02:16:39,490 --> 02:16:42,910
If we'd won in Vietnam,
we wouldn't be having this conversation.
1883
02:16:42,990 --> 02:16:46,490
Nobody's fault, Jack. It's, uh, change.
It's a fact of history.
1884
02:16:46,580 --> 02:16:49,710
Even that old cocksucker
J. Edgar Hoover's dead.
1885
02:16:49,790 --> 02:16:52,040
Now who'd have thought that possible?
1886
02:16:53,830 --> 02:16:56,500
How's the food over there in China,
Mr. Nixon?
1887
02:16:56,590 --> 02:16:59,010
It's delicious, if you're president.
1888
02:17:01,050 --> 02:17:04,600
So, what are you gonna do
about that Allende fella
1889
02:17:04,680 --> 02:17:09,180
nationalizing our businesses in Chile?
You gonna send Kissinger down there?
1890
02:17:09,270 --> 02:17:13,650
We're gonna get rid of him, Allende,
I mean, just as fast as we can.
1891
02:17:13,730 --> 02:17:17,270
- He's at the top of the list.
- How about Kissinger along with him?
1892
02:17:18,400 --> 02:17:20,240
Now, Kissinger's misunderstood.
1893
02:17:20,320 --> 02:17:23,030
He acts like a liberal
for his establishment friends,
1894
02:17:23,110 --> 02:17:26,620
- but he's even tougher than I am.
- So Kissinger stays.
1895
02:17:26,700 --> 02:17:29,290
Just like Castro, Mr. Nixon.
1896
02:17:30,870 --> 02:17:33,500
Yeah. He stays.
1897
02:17:34,960 --> 02:17:37,800
And you are comfortable
with that decision?
1898
02:17:40,920 --> 02:17:42,380
Desi's got a point.
1899
02:17:42,470 --> 02:17:47,640
What the hell are we gonna do about
the Communists in our own backyard?
1900
02:17:47,720 --> 02:17:49,890
What do you really mean, Jack?
1901
02:17:49,970 --> 02:17:53,310
I mean, I got
federal price controls on my oil.
1902
02:17:53,390 --> 02:17:57,310
And the rag heads
are beatin' the shit out of me, Dick.
1903
02:17:57,400 --> 02:18:01,240
And your EPA environmental agency
has got its thumb so far up my ass,
1904
02:18:01,320 --> 02:18:04,360
- it's scratchin' my ear!
- I think it's time for us to be...
1905
02:18:04,450 --> 02:18:07,450
- Let him finish, Bob.
- I got a federal judge orderin' me
1906
02:18:07,530 --> 02:18:12,250
to bus my grandkids halfway across this
town to go to school with nigger kids.
1907
02:18:13,580 --> 02:18:17,380
Now, Dick, Mr. President,
1908
02:18:17,460 --> 02:18:20,300
aren't you forgetting
who put you where you are?
1909
02:18:21,550 --> 02:18:25,470
The American people
put me where I am, Jack.
1910
02:18:25,550 --> 02:18:27,590
Really?
1911
02:18:27,680 --> 02:18:31,810
- Well, that can be changed.
- In a heartbeat.
1912
02:18:41,030 --> 02:18:44,820
Jack, I've learned politics
is the art of compromise.
1913
02:18:44,900 --> 02:18:48,530
I learned it the hard way.
I don't know if you have.
1914
02:18:48,620 --> 02:18:50,490
Well, let me tell you this, Jack.
1915
02:18:50,580 --> 02:18:53,290
If you don't like it,
there's an election in November
1916
02:18:53,370 --> 02:18:56,960
and you can take your money out
in the open and give it to Wallace.
1917
02:18:57,040 --> 02:19:00,920
How about it, Jack? Willing to do that?
1918
02:19:01,000 --> 02:19:06,260
Hand this country over to some pansy
poet socialist like George McGovern?
1919
02:19:08,140 --> 02:19:11,640
'Cause if you're not happy
with the EPA up your ass,
1920
02:19:11,720 --> 02:19:14,270
try the IRS.
1921
02:19:15,600 --> 02:19:17,900
Goddamn, Dick.
1922
02:19:17,980 --> 02:19:23,400
- You're not threatening me, are ya?
- Presidents don't threaten, Jack.
1923
02:19:23,480 --> 02:19:25,530
They don't have to.
1924
02:19:28,320 --> 02:19:30,490
Good day to you, gentlemen. Thank you.
1925
02:19:55,600 --> 02:19:58,890
With third party candidate
George Wallace out of the race,
1926
02:19:58,980 --> 02:20:00,850
paralyzed by an assassin's bullet,
1927
02:20:00,940 --> 02:20:03,570
Richard Nixon
has crushed George McGovern
1928
02:20:03,650 --> 02:20:06,690
in the 1972 presidential election.
1929
02:20:06,780 --> 02:20:11,570
It is the second-biggest landslide
in American history.
1930
02:20:11,660 --> 02:20:13,280
As the new term begins,
1931
02:20:13,370 --> 02:20:16,790
it does not seem the Watergate
investigations have damaged Nixon
1932
02:20:16,870 --> 02:20:20,170
politically in any significant way.
1933
02:20:21,670 --> 02:20:24,710
Probably our biggest achievement
as an administration,
1934
02:20:24,800 --> 02:20:27,970
when it's all said and done,
isn't China or Russia.
1935
02:20:28,050 --> 02:20:31,720
It's pulling out of Vietnam
without a right-wing revolt.
1936
02:20:31,800 --> 02:20:36,270
- I believe you're right.
- The presidency isn't enough anymore.
1937
02:20:37,890 --> 02:20:42,190
- Sir?
- The presidency by itself
1938
02:20:42,270 --> 02:20:46,730
won't protect us, Bob.
We're beyond politics now.
1939
02:20:50,950 --> 02:20:54,490
- Mr. Ehrlichman.
- Yeah.
1940
02:20:55,530 --> 02:20:59,750
Sir, just in from Paris. The Vietnamese
have accepted Henry's peace proposal.
1941
02:20:59,830 --> 02:21:02,170
- Good.
- The bombing worked. They're caving.
1942
02:21:02,250 --> 02:21:04,000
Congratulations!
1943
02:21:04,080 --> 02:21:08,210
That mad bomber theory
wasn't so crazy after all.
1944
02:21:08,300 --> 02:21:10,010
Henry is coming back to join us.
1945
02:21:10,090 --> 02:21:13,180
He wants to be included
in the photographs, of course.
1946
02:21:13,260 --> 02:21:15,890
- There's a surprise.
- This could be it.
1947
02:21:15,970 --> 02:21:18,850
This could be it. Four long years. Jeez.
1948
02:21:18,930 --> 02:21:22,810
Incidentally, I don't know if this is
the right time, but you should know.
1949
02:21:22,900 --> 02:21:27,070
Bill Sullivan at the FBI got back
to us with his report on Kissinger.
1950
02:21:28,780 --> 02:21:31,740
- I didn't wanna bring it up because...
- Go on.
1951
02:21:32,740 --> 02:21:37,620
Well, Sullivan, uh, thinks he's the one.
Henry's the leaker.
1952
02:21:46,750 --> 02:21:48,340
Yeah, I knew it.
1953
02:21:48,420 --> 02:21:51,010
I knew it from '69 on
and I said it all along.
1954
02:21:51,090 --> 02:21:53,630
- I remember.
- I didn't, Bob.
1955
02:21:54,970 --> 02:21:58,310
Looks like he talked to Joe Kraft
and The Times.
1956
02:21:59,310 --> 02:22:01,810
Claims that he was dead
set against the bombing,
1957
02:22:01,890 --> 02:22:05,900
that you were unstable and that, uh,
he has to handle you with kid gloves.
1958
02:22:05,980 --> 02:22:08,230
That explains
his press notices.
1959
02:22:08,320 --> 02:22:10,690
Working both sides of the fence.
Jew-boy Henry.
1960
02:22:12,490 --> 02:22:14,280
My God.
1961
02:22:14,360 --> 02:22:17,030
- He talked to The New York Times?
- Yes, he did.
1962
02:22:17,120 --> 02:22:20,160
We ought a fire his whining
ass right now, when he's on top.
1963
02:22:20,240 --> 02:22:23,910
You know what? It'd set the right
example for the this administration.
1964
02:22:24,000 --> 02:22:27,330
I would personally
volunteer for that assignment right now.
1965
02:22:34,340 --> 02:22:37,010
No. No.
1966
02:22:37,090 --> 02:22:40,850
He's our only star right now.
He'd go crying to the press.
1967
02:22:40,930 --> 02:22:43,850
He'd crucify us.
1968
02:22:43,930 --> 02:22:46,060
Son of a bitch.
1969
02:22:46,140 --> 02:22:47,980
Get someone on our staff on his ass.
1970
02:22:48,060 --> 02:22:50,610
Tap his phones.
I wanna know everyone he talks to.
1971
02:22:50,690 --> 02:22:53,650
Let's see how long
the Kissinger mystique lasts.
1972
02:22:53,740 --> 02:22:56,950
So, John, what about
these Watergate clowns?
1973
02:22:57,030 --> 02:23:00,780
This, uh, Sirica's crazy.
Thirty-five year sentence.
1974
02:23:00,870 --> 02:23:04,580
No weapons, right? No injuries.
1975
02:23:04,660 --> 02:23:06,960
There's no success.
It's just ridiculous.
1976
02:23:07,040 --> 02:23:10,630
Sirica's just trying to force someone
to testify, but they're solid.
1977
02:23:10,710 --> 02:23:14,970
What about this Washington Post crap?
Woodwind and Fernstein.
1978
02:23:15,050 --> 02:23:17,880
- Bernstein, sir.
- Who the fuck are they, anyway?
1979
02:23:17,970 --> 02:23:20,890
Bob, you working on revoking
their television license?
1980
02:23:20,970 --> 02:23:22,350
- Yes, sir, I am.
- Good.
1981
02:23:22,430 --> 02:23:25,810
Well, they're trying to connect
Bob and John with the secret fund.
1982
02:23:25,890 --> 02:23:28,900
- But they don't have much.
- They don't have anything.
1983
02:23:30,520 --> 02:23:32,690
The F.B.I.'s feeding me their reports.
1984
02:23:32,770 --> 02:23:35,900
I didn't think you should lose any
more sleep over it, sir.
1985
02:23:35,990 --> 02:23:38,570
Good man, John, good man.
1986
02:23:50,750 --> 02:23:56,010
I can therefore announce that our long
and tragic involvement in Vietnam...
1987
02:23:56,090 --> 02:24:00,090
...is at an end.
Our mission is accomplished.
1988
02:24:01,800 --> 02:24:04,810
We have a cease-fire...
1989
02:24:04,890 --> 02:24:08,520
...and our prisoners of war
are coming back home.
1990
02:24:08,600 --> 02:24:13,940
South Vietnam has the right
to determine its own future.
1991
02:24:14,020 --> 02:24:17,150
So, we have peace with honor.
1992
02:24:22,780 --> 02:24:25,370
The president will take
some of your questions now.
1993
02:24:25,450 --> 02:24:27,450
- Mr. President!
- Dan.
1994
02:24:27,540 --> 02:24:29,500
Isn't it true little has been achieved
1995
02:24:29,580 --> 02:24:32,380
that the Communists
have not been offering since 1969,
1996
02:24:32,460 --> 02:24:35,960
that in fact your administration
has needlessly prolonged the war
1997
02:24:36,050 --> 02:24:38,300
and escalated it
to new levels of violence?
1998
02:24:38,380 --> 02:24:43,720
I will, uh... try to answer
that question in some detail.
1999
02:24:43,800 --> 02:24:45,310
Mr. President!
2000
02:24:45,390 --> 02:24:47,970
What is your reaction
to James McCord's statement
2001
02:24:48,060 --> 02:24:50,140
that high-level White House officials
2002
02:24:50,230 --> 02:24:52,400
were involved
in the Watergate break-in?
2003
02:24:52,480 --> 02:24:55,650
That's the dumbest thing
I've ever heard.
2004
02:24:55,730 --> 02:24:59,150
The Washington Post is reporting
that Mr. Haldeman and Ehrlichman
2005
02:24:59,240 --> 02:25:01,990
secretly dispersed
up to $900,000 in campaign funds.
2006
02:25:02,070 --> 02:25:03,570
Is there any truth to that?
2007
02:25:03,660 --> 02:25:05,830
Now, let me make this perfectly clear.
2008
02:25:05,910 --> 02:25:09,330
I will not respond to the charges
of The Washington Post.
2009
02:25:09,410 --> 02:25:13,420
Nor will I comment on a matter
that is currently before the courts.
2010
02:25:13,500 --> 02:25:16,210
- Mr. President!
- Sir!
2011
02:25:16,290 --> 02:25:19,590
Sir, do you intend to cooperate
with Senator Ervin's committee?
2012
02:25:19,670 --> 02:25:22,760
Will you agree to the appointment
of a special prosecutor?
2013
02:25:22,840 --> 02:25:25,550
- Mr. President, sir!
- Mr. President!
2014
02:25:28,680 --> 02:25:30,890
- Thank you.
- Mr. President!
2015
02:25:36,440 --> 02:25:38,230
Mr. President, sir...
2016
02:25:38,320 --> 02:25:40,530
Ron, get in there and do something!
2017
02:25:45,530 --> 02:25:47,620
I end the longest war
in American history
2018
02:25:47,700 --> 02:25:51,790
and they keep harping on this
chicken-shit! God!
2019
02:25:51,870 --> 02:25:53,460
God!
2020
02:25:56,250 --> 02:25:59,050
You know who's behind this, don't you?
Teddy Kennedy.
2021
02:25:59,130 --> 02:26:03,300
Yeah, he drowns a broad in his car,
and he can't run for president.
2022
02:26:03,380 --> 02:26:06,180
He did get pretty
burned at Chappaquiddick.
2023
02:26:06,260 --> 02:26:09,970
My point exactly! Somebody had to die
before he got his shit in the papers!
2024
02:26:10,060 --> 02:26:13,730
Fucking Kennedys get away
with everything! Goddamn them!
2025
02:26:13,810 --> 02:26:16,190
You see me screwin'
everything that moves?
2026
02:26:17,230 --> 02:26:20,480
For Christ's sake, I did what
The New York Times editorial page
2027
02:26:20,570 --> 02:26:24,070
said for me to do!
I ended the war!
2028
02:26:24,150 --> 02:26:28,200
I got S.A.L.T. One with the Russians,
I opened China.
2029
02:26:28,280 --> 02:26:31,200
So why are these assholes
turning on me?
2030
02:26:31,290 --> 02:26:34,410
'Cause they don't like the way I look,
where I went to school!
2031
02:26:34,500 --> 02:26:37,630
- Because they're not Americans.
- They don't trust America.
2032
02:26:37,710 --> 02:26:39,340
Why would they?
2033
02:26:39,420 --> 02:26:42,300
They just come here to stick
their snouts in the trough.
2034
02:26:42,380 --> 02:26:44,340
Who are these people? Sulzberger.
2035
02:26:44,420 --> 02:26:47,140
Their parents are gold traders
from eastern Europe,
2036
02:26:47,220 --> 02:26:49,010
with due respect.
They buy things.
2037
02:26:49,100 --> 02:26:52,930
They come to "Jew" York city and buy up
things. And one of the things they buy,
2038
02:26:53,020 --> 02:26:57,020
Mr. President, is The New York Times.
You know what? You should be proud,
2039
02:26:57,100 --> 02:26:59,310
because they'll never trust you, sir.
2040
02:26:59,400 --> 02:27:02,110
Because we speak
for the average American.
2041
02:27:02,190 --> 02:27:04,780
You know why they're turning on me?
2042
02:27:04,860 --> 02:27:08,450
It's because they're not serious
about power, that's why.
2043
02:27:08,530 --> 02:27:10,700
They're playing with power.
2044
02:27:10,780 --> 02:27:13,330
They're forgetting
the national interest.
2045
02:27:13,410 --> 02:27:17,250
In the old days people knew
how to hold power, how to set limits.
2046
02:27:17,330 --> 02:27:21,040
They wouldn't have torn this country
apart over a third-rate burglary.
2047
02:27:21,130 --> 02:27:24,710
For Christ's sake, now all they
care about are their egos,
2048
02:27:24,800 --> 02:27:26,720
looking good at cocktail parties.
2049
02:27:26,800 --> 02:27:29,050
Beating out other papers
and chasing girls.
2050
02:27:29,140 --> 02:27:32,220
Wondering whether someone
said something nice about them.
2051
02:27:32,310 --> 02:27:34,140
Short-term, frivolous bullshit.
2052
02:27:34,220 --> 02:27:37,640
Ben Bradlee worrying
about Teddy Kennedy liking him.
2053
02:27:38,350 --> 02:27:40,940
- Get Mr. Dean in here, Will you?
- Mr. President,
2054
02:27:41,020 --> 02:27:45,690
I fear we are drifting toward oblivion.
We are playing a totally reactive game.
2055
02:27:45,780 --> 02:27:51,160
We have to get ahead of the ball.
Now, we all know that you are clean.
2056
02:27:51,240 --> 02:27:53,240
Right?
2057
02:27:53,330 --> 02:27:57,750
Then let's take off the gloves.
Let's do a housecleaning.
2058
02:27:57,830 --> 02:28:00,040
Housecleaning?
2059
02:28:07,510 --> 02:28:09,930
No, it could be ugly, Henry,
really ugly.
2060
02:28:10,010 --> 02:28:12,600
It must be done, sir.
Your government is paralyzed.
2061
02:28:12,680 --> 02:28:15,390
All kinds of shit could come out.
The Ellsberg thing.
2062
02:28:15,470 --> 02:28:17,480
You knew about that, didn't you, Henry?
2063
02:28:17,560 --> 02:28:19,940
Well, I heard something.
It sounded idiotic.
2064
02:28:20,020 --> 02:28:21,650
Idiotic.
Yeah, I suppose it was.
2065
02:28:21,730 --> 02:28:24,860
I thought it was your idea
to expose Ellsberg as a sex fiend.
2066
02:28:24,940 --> 02:28:27,280
I guess somebody just
took you too literally.
2067
02:28:27,360 --> 02:28:31,570
I never suggested a bunch of imbeciles
break into a psychiatrist's office.
2068
02:28:31,660 --> 02:28:35,450
It doesn't matter. The point is you
might lose your media darling halo
2069
02:28:35,540 --> 02:28:38,460
if the media start sniffing
around our dirty laundry.
2070
02:28:38,540 --> 02:28:42,330
Sir, I never had anything to do with
that and I resent the implication...
2071
02:28:42,420 --> 02:28:46,880
Resent it all you want, Henry,
but you're in with the rest of us.
2072
02:28:46,960 --> 02:28:51,340
Cambodia. Ellsberg.
The wiretaps you put in.
2073
02:28:51,430 --> 02:28:54,640
The president wants you to know
you can't just click your heels
2074
02:28:54,720 --> 02:28:58,020
and head back to Harvard Yard.
It's your ass too, Henry,
2075
02:28:58,100 --> 02:29:01,560
and it's in the wind
twisting with everyone else's.
2076
02:29:11,530 --> 02:29:14,320
- Sir.
- Yeah?
2077
02:29:14,410 --> 02:29:19,580
There are times when
even the president can go too far.
2078
02:29:23,460 --> 02:29:26,670
You played it perfectly, sir.
That cocksucker'll think twice
2079
02:29:26,750 --> 02:29:29,130
- before he leaks again.
- Yeah.
2080
02:29:29,210 --> 02:29:32,840
He'll be looking in his toilet bowl
every time he pulls the chain.
2081
02:29:34,800 --> 02:29:36,260
Hunt wants more money.
2082
02:29:36,350 --> 02:29:38,720
- Another 122,000.
- Fuck.
2083
02:29:38,810 --> 02:29:42,350
If he doesn't get it right away,
he's going to blow us out of the water.
2084
02:29:42,440 --> 02:29:45,360
He means it. Since his wife died
in the plane crash, he's over the edge.
2085
02:29:45,440 --> 02:29:47,020
Pay him. Pay him what he wants.
2086
02:29:47,110 --> 02:29:51,490
We gotta turn the faucet off on Hunt and
these Cubans. They're out of control.
2087
02:29:51,570 --> 02:29:53,780
John, you might want to...
2088
02:29:53,860 --> 02:29:55,950
It's gotta be Helms. He's behind this.
2089
02:29:56,030 --> 02:29:58,490
- I think we can leverage Helms.
- How?
2090
02:29:58,580 --> 02:30:02,870
When I met with him,
he kind of tipped his hand.
2091
02:30:02,960 --> 02:30:05,210
This affair,
the president wants you to know,
2092
02:30:05,290 --> 02:30:07,960
is related to the Bay of Pigs.
And if it comes out...
2093
02:30:08,040 --> 02:30:10,380
This has nothing to do
with the Bay of Pigs!
2094
02:30:11,800 --> 02:30:14,050
I have no concern
about the Bay of Pigs!
2095
02:30:14,130 --> 02:30:16,390
I couldn't believe it.
2096
02:30:16,470 --> 02:30:19,850
This is what the president
told me to relay to you, Dick.
2097
02:30:19,930 --> 02:30:22,390
I had to remind him
who he was talking to.
2098
02:30:22,480 --> 02:30:26,190
So I was wondering? What's such
dynamite in this Bay of Pigs thing?
2099
02:30:26,270 --> 02:30:27,980
Sir.
2100
02:30:31,400 --> 02:30:35,410
Though it was clearly effective, because
all of a sudden it was no problem
2101
02:30:35,490 --> 02:30:38,660
for Helms to go to the FBI
and try to put a lid on Watergate.
2102
02:30:39,530 --> 02:30:43,120
- What about the documents promised?
- He'll give us the documents.
2103
02:30:43,200 --> 02:30:46,750
But I think if we offer him
an ambassadorship,
2104
02:30:46,830 --> 02:30:50,040
the ambassadorship to Iran,
we can get rid of him. He'll go...
2105
02:30:50,130 --> 02:30:54,760
- No, I promised Iran to Townsend.
- Townsend in Belgium. It's available.
2106
02:30:54,840 --> 02:30:59,430
He gave us 300 grand. Belgium's
not worth more than 100, 150.
2107
02:30:59,510 --> 02:31:01,180
What about England?
2108
02:31:01,260 --> 02:31:04,100
Forget it.
Annenberg's paid three times that much.
2109
02:31:04,180 --> 02:31:07,350
Helms wants Iran,
or there might be a problem.
2110
02:31:07,440 --> 02:31:10,230
All his old buddies are over there
making a fortune...
2111
02:31:10,320 --> 02:31:11,780
When does this end, Bob?
2112
02:31:11,860 --> 02:31:13,360
- Executive clemency.
- What?
2113
02:31:13,440 --> 02:31:17,570
Hunt and the Cubans have nothing to lose
now. Pardon them all.
2114
02:31:17,660 --> 02:31:20,780
Nobody investigates a crime
for which criminals have been pardoned.
2115
02:31:20,870 --> 02:31:22,910
- Yeah, I like that.
- But it'll never do.
2116
02:31:22,990 --> 02:31:26,370
Pardoning them means we're guilty.
Press, the people'll go nuts.
2117
02:31:26,460 --> 02:31:29,290
Am I supposed to sit here
and watch them coming closer,
2118
02:31:29,380 --> 02:31:31,040
eating their way to the center?
2119
02:31:31,130 --> 02:31:33,250
Lyndon bugged, so did Kennedy.
2120
02:31:33,340 --> 02:31:37,970
F.D.R. cut a deal with Lucky Luciano.
Christ, even Eisenhower had a mistress.
2121
02:31:38,050 --> 02:31:41,470
What's so special about me? Huh?
2122
02:31:41,550 --> 02:31:46,020
What about Lyndon? He could make
a couple calls to the... Hell, and...
2123
02:31:46,100 --> 02:31:48,600
...shut this whole damn thing down.
2124
02:31:48,690 --> 02:31:50,310
- Anyone talk to him?
- I have.
2125
02:31:50,400 --> 02:31:52,650
- What'd he say?
- No dice, he hit the roof.
2126
02:31:52,730 --> 02:31:54,110
Why?
2127
02:31:54,190 --> 02:31:57,650
He said if you go out with a story
about how he bugged your plane,
2128
02:31:57,740 --> 02:31:59,610
he's gonna reveal...
2129
02:32:08,040 --> 02:32:09,620
He's gonna reveal...
2130
02:32:10,580 --> 02:32:12,840
- ...Vietnamese peace talks...
- All right.
2131
02:32:12,920 --> 02:32:14,840
All right! Stop!
2132
02:32:14,920 --> 02:32:16,590
What's the matter with you?
2133
02:32:18,050 --> 02:32:22,680
I know. I just know
we've made too many enemies.
2134
02:32:23,430 --> 02:32:27,350
There's another thing. Bob and I have to
testify before the urban committee.
2135
02:32:27,430 --> 02:32:30,650
No, you're not.
You're gonna claim executive privilege.
2136
02:32:30,730 --> 02:32:33,020
You're gonna stonewall it
all the way.
2137
02:32:33,110 --> 02:32:35,440
Plead the 5th Amendment.
I don't give a shit.
2138
02:32:35,530 --> 02:32:38,190
They can't force
the president's people to testify.
2139
02:32:38,280 --> 02:32:40,820
Executive privilege
looks like we're covering.
2140
02:32:40,910 --> 02:32:43,320
We are covering up
for God's sake.
2141
02:32:43,410 --> 02:32:45,450
Some petty, stupid shit.
2142
02:32:46,540 --> 02:32:50,460
There are things I can say what
other people said, and they'd be lies.
2143
02:32:50,540 --> 02:32:53,790
When I say them,
nobody believes me anyway.
2144
02:32:55,550 --> 02:32:58,300
Then, we're going to
have to give them Mitchell.
2145
02:33:00,220 --> 02:33:02,510
Mitchell's family.
2146
02:33:02,590 --> 02:33:05,680
Either it goes to Mitchell,
or it comes here.
2147
02:33:07,020 --> 02:33:08,810
John's right, boss.
2148
02:33:09,980 --> 02:33:13,730
It's not personal.
It's just the way the game is played.
2149
02:33:13,810 --> 02:33:16,150
Sometimes you gotta punt.
2150
02:33:21,820 --> 02:33:23,410
Jesus.
2151
02:33:23,490 --> 02:33:26,580
I'm so goddamn worn-out with this.
2152
02:33:35,710 --> 02:33:37,300
Who's gonna tell Mitchell?
2153
02:33:37,380 --> 02:33:39,050
- You do it.
- Why me?
2154
02:33:39,710 --> 02:33:43,300
'Cause he hates you. It's worse
when you get it from someone you trust.
2155
02:33:43,380 --> 02:33:45,510
Hey. He's wrong, you know.
2156
02:33:47,060 --> 02:33:49,640
About Kennedy and L.B.J. and Truman.
2157
02:33:49,720 --> 02:33:50,770
How so?
2158
02:33:50,850 --> 02:33:54,310
Well, I mean, sure, they did stuff, Bob,
but nothing like this.
2159
02:33:54,400 --> 02:33:59,610
I mean, forget about the break-in,
the, the enemies list, the... You know?
2160
02:33:59,690 --> 02:34:03,200
You got the attempted firebombing
of the Brookings Institution.
2161
02:34:03,280 --> 02:34:06,620
Planting McGovern stuff
on the guy that shot Wallace?
2162
02:34:06,700 --> 02:34:08,740
Trying to slip L.S.D. to Jack Anderson?
2163
02:34:08,830 --> 02:34:11,330
Old man plays politics
harder than anybody else.
2164
02:34:11,410 --> 02:34:13,620
You think this is about politics?
2165
02:34:13,710 --> 02:34:17,420
Do you think L.B.J. would have
ever asked Hunt to forge a cable
2166
02:34:17,500 --> 02:34:21,300
implicating Kennedy in the assassination
of the president of Vietnam?
2167
02:34:21,380 --> 02:34:23,590
How long have you known Bob,
20 years?
2168
02:34:23,680 --> 02:34:27,140
This is the Roosevelt Room,
named after our 26th president
2169
02:34:27,220 --> 02:34:29,430
20 years, you ever shake hands with him?
2170
02:34:29,510 --> 02:34:31,850
Ever have a real conversation with him?
2171
02:34:34,310 --> 02:34:37,650
No, this...
This is about Richard Nixon.
2172
02:34:37,730 --> 02:34:40,980
You got people dying because
he didn't make varsity football.
2173
02:34:41,070 --> 02:34:43,650
You got the Constitution hanging by
a thread
2174
02:34:43,740 --> 02:34:47,070
because he went to Whittier,
not to Yale.
2175
02:34:47,740 --> 02:34:49,990
And what is this Bay of Pigs thing?
2176
02:34:50,080 --> 02:34:52,250
Goes white every time you mention it.
2177
02:34:54,120 --> 02:34:57,790
- It's a code or something.
- Well, shit, even I figured that out.
2178
02:34:59,210 --> 02:35:01,090
I think he means...
2179
02:35:03,010 --> 02:35:05,720
- The Kennedy assassination...
- Yeah?
2180
02:35:05,800 --> 02:35:10,180
They went after Castro and in some
crazy way it got turned back on Kennedy.
2181
02:35:10,260 --> 02:35:14,390
I don't think the old man knows what
happened. But he's afraid to find out.
2182
02:35:14,480 --> 02:35:17,690
He's shitting peach pits every time
he thinks about it.
2183
02:35:17,770 --> 02:35:20,480
Created a Frankenstein
with those damn Cubans.
2184
02:35:20,570 --> 02:35:23,400
Eight words back in '72:
2185
02:35:23,480 --> 02:35:29,160
"I covered up." "I was wrong."
"I'm sorry."
2186
02:35:29,240 --> 02:35:31,950
And the American public
would've forgiven him.
2187
02:35:32,040 --> 02:35:35,160
But we never opened our mouths, John.
2188
02:35:36,120 --> 02:35:38,040
We failed him.
2189
02:35:38,120 --> 02:35:42,210
Dick Nixon saying "I'm sorry"?
That'll be the day.
2190
02:35:42,300 --> 02:35:44,880
His whole suit of armor would fall off.
2191
02:35:44,960 --> 02:35:49,180
- So, you tell Mitchell.
- Yeah.
2192
02:35:49,260 --> 02:35:53,260
And John, you do know
that we're next, don't you?
2193
02:36:08,490 --> 02:36:10,620
You're early, John.
2194
02:36:12,950 --> 02:36:16,660
If you'd been that stealthy at the
Watergate, we wouldn't be in this mess.
2195
02:36:18,660 --> 02:36:22,210
- I was sorry to hear about your wife.
- Yes.
2196
02:36:23,880 --> 02:36:25,550
Take out the money.
2197
02:36:25,630 --> 02:36:28,760
The president would like to know
if that was the last payment.
2198
02:36:28,840 --> 02:36:31,510
- I'll bet he would.
- Is it?
2199
02:36:32,970 --> 02:36:35,930
In Richard Nixon's long history
of underhanded dealings
2200
02:36:36,020 --> 02:36:39,810
he's never had better value for his
money. If I were to open my mouth,
2201
02:36:39,890 --> 02:36:42,440
all the dominoes would fall.
2202
02:36:43,860 --> 02:36:45,940
Can I ask you a question?
2203
02:36:46,030 --> 02:36:47,940
How the hell do you have the temerity
2204
02:36:48,030 --> 02:36:50,910
to blackmail the president
of the United States?
2205
02:36:50,990 --> 02:36:55,200
That's not the question, John.
The question is, why is he paying?
2206
02:36:55,280 --> 02:36:59,120
- To protect his people.
- I'm one of his people.
2207
02:36:59,210 --> 02:37:02,580
The Cubans are his people.
And we're going to jail for him.
2208
02:37:02,670 --> 02:37:06,550
Howard, you will serve no more
than two years, then he'll pardon you.
2209
02:37:06,630 --> 02:37:09,760
Maybe. Maybe not.
2210
02:37:10,880 --> 02:37:13,850
But you don't leave your men
on the beach, John.
2211
02:37:13,930 --> 02:37:16,640
You don't make them beg for their money
like thieves.
2212
02:37:16,720 --> 02:37:20,060
You don't dump men with families
who've served their country.
2213
02:37:20,140 --> 02:37:23,150
He didn't know.
This thing has gotten out of hand.
2214
02:37:23,230 --> 02:37:27,070
You think a man as controlled as Richard
Nixon would've allowed a break-in
2215
02:37:27,150 --> 02:37:30,570
at the Democratic National Headquarters
without knowing it?
2216
02:37:30,650 --> 02:37:35,280
You think Mitchell or Haldeman wouldn't
have run it by him at least once?
2217
02:37:35,370 --> 02:37:37,950
The president's men did nothing,
2218
02:37:38,040 --> 02:37:41,750
nothing without
Richard Nixon's permission.
2219
02:37:45,380 --> 02:37:47,550
John, sooner or later...
2220
02:37:47,630 --> 02:37:52,180
Sooner, I think, you're going to learn
the lesson that's been learned
2221
02:37:52,260 --> 02:37:55,760
by everyone who's ever
gotten close to Richard Nixon.
2222
02:37:55,850 --> 02:38:00,930
That he's the darkness
reaching out for the darkness.
2223
02:38:02,520 --> 02:38:06,310
And eventually it's either you or him.
2224
02:38:08,860 --> 02:38:11,570
Your grave's already been dug, John.
2225
02:38:25,080 --> 02:38:28,380
F.B.I. director-designate
L. Patrick Gray
2226
02:38:28,460 --> 02:38:31,170
shocked the Senate
by revealing that John Dean
2227
02:38:31,260 --> 02:38:34,680
has been secretly receiving
F.B.I. reports on Watergate.
2228
02:38:34,760 --> 02:38:37,010
Crown, this is Echo Six.
How are you, sir?
2229
02:38:37,090 --> 02:38:40,060
Gray also said that Dean lied
when he claimed Howard Hunt
2230
02:38:40,140 --> 02:38:42,390
did not
have an office in the White House.
2231
02:38:42,480 --> 02:38:44,690
- How is he?
- He's in a bad mood.
2232
02:38:44,770 --> 02:38:47,020
He's running late. Have a seat.
2233
02:38:51,030 --> 02:38:53,530
This is the sort of thing
Mafia people can do.
2234
02:38:53,610 --> 02:38:56,990
Washing money, things like that.
We don't know about these things
2235
02:38:57,070 --> 02:38:59,990
- because we're not criminals.
- How much you need?
2236
02:39:01,160 --> 02:39:06,370
I would say these people will cost a
million dollars over the next two years.
2237
02:39:06,460 --> 02:39:09,250
We could get that.
2238
02:39:09,340 --> 02:39:13,510
Get a million dollars in cash.
I know where it could be gotten.
2239
02:39:16,380 --> 02:39:19,100
I'm still not confident
we can ride through this.
2240
02:39:19,180 --> 02:39:22,810
Some people are gonna have to go
to jail. Hunt's not the only problem.
2241
02:39:22,890 --> 02:39:27,600
Haldeman let me use the $350,000 cash
fund in his safe to make the payments.
2242
02:39:27,690 --> 02:39:31,440
Ehrlichman had a role, a big role,
in the Ellsberg break-in.
2243
02:39:31,520 --> 02:39:33,570
Oh, I don't know about that.
2244
02:39:33,650 --> 02:39:37,820
And... And I'm...
2245
02:39:37,910 --> 02:39:41,660
I think it's time we begin to think
in terms of cutting our losses.
2246
02:39:45,370 --> 02:39:49,460
Are you... You're saying
cut our losses, John, and all the rest.
2247
02:39:49,540 --> 02:39:53,670
And, you know, suppose the thing blows
and they indict Bob and the others?
2248
02:39:53,750 --> 02:39:56,970
Jesus, you'd never recover
from that, John. I mean...
2249
02:39:57,050 --> 02:40:01,220
No, it's better to fight it out instead
and not let people testify.
2250
02:40:01,300 --> 02:40:05,890
Sir, I, I still don't think
we can contain this anymore.
2251
02:40:06,810 --> 02:40:10,560
There's a cancer on the presidency,
and it's growing with every day...
2252
02:40:10,650 --> 02:40:12,360
Jesus, you know, every...
2253
02:40:12,440 --> 02:40:16,360
Everything's a crisis among the upper
intellectual types, the softheads.
2254
02:40:16,440 --> 02:40:19,490
The average people don't think
it's much of a crisis.
2255
02:40:19,570 --> 02:40:22,950
For Christ's sake, this is not Vietnam.
No one's dying here.
2256
02:40:23,030 --> 02:40:25,160
I mean, isn't it ridiculous?
2257
02:40:25,240 --> 02:40:28,250
- I agree. It's ridiculous but...
- It's goddamn crazy!
2258
02:40:28,330 --> 02:40:30,120
Goldwater was right when he said
2259
02:40:30,210 --> 02:40:34,210
"For Christ's sakes, everybody bugs
everybody else." We know that.
2260
02:40:35,340 --> 02:40:39,720
It's the cover-up, John,
not the deed, that's really bad here.
2261
02:40:41,590 --> 02:40:46,020
If only Mitchell could step up
and take the brunt of it, you know.
2262
02:40:46,100 --> 02:40:50,270
Give 'em the hors d'oeuvre. Maybe they
won't come back for the main course.
2263
02:40:52,100 --> 02:40:54,860
You know, that's the tragedy
in all this. Uh...
2264
02:40:54,940 --> 02:40:58,780
Mitchell's gonna get it anyway,
so it's time he assumed responsibility.
2265
02:40:58,860 --> 02:41:00,780
You're not paying attention.
2266
02:41:00,860 --> 02:41:04,280
He won't. He's told Ehrlichman he won't.
2267
02:41:04,370 --> 02:41:07,870
You tell my good friend Dick
I got suckered into this thing
2268
02:41:07,950 --> 02:41:11,790
by not paying attention
to what these bastards were doing.
2269
02:41:11,870 --> 02:41:15,210
I don't have a guilty conscience,
and he shouldn't either.
2270
02:41:16,800 --> 02:41:18,050
Yeah.
2271
02:41:22,470 --> 02:41:23,760
Well, he's right.
2272
02:41:24,720 --> 02:41:28,310
Maybe it is time to, uh,
go the hang-out route, John.
2273
02:41:28,390 --> 02:41:31,730
A full and thorough investigation.
2274
02:41:31,810 --> 02:41:36,190
We've cooperated with the F.B.I.
We'll cooperate with the Senate.
2275
02:41:36,270 --> 02:41:39,240
- What have we got to hide?
- No, we've nothing to hide.
2276
02:41:39,320 --> 02:41:41,740
No. Nothing to hide.
2277
02:41:41,820 --> 02:41:42,910
You know, the only...
2278
02:41:42,990 --> 02:41:46,490
The only fault in the plan is
they're not gonna believe the truth.
2279
02:41:46,580 --> 02:41:50,200
- That's the incredible thing.
- I agree. It's... it's tricky.
2280
02:41:51,210 --> 02:41:53,710
Everything seems to lead back here.
2281
02:41:53,790 --> 02:41:56,540
- People would never understand.
- No.
2282
02:41:56,630 --> 02:42:00,010
John, I want you to get away
from this madhouse.
2283
02:42:00,090 --> 02:42:01,880
I want these reporters.
2284
02:42:01,970 --> 02:42:06,760
I want you to go up to Camp David
for the weekend and write up a report.
2285
02:42:06,850 --> 02:42:10,140
Put everything you know
about Watergate in there and say,
2286
02:42:10,220 --> 02:42:13,020
"Mr. President, here it all is." OK?
2287
02:42:13,100 --> 02:42:15,980
You want me to put it all in writing
over my signature?
2288
02:42:17,190 --> 02:42:21,820
Well, uh... nobody knows more
about this thing than you do, John.
2289
02:42:21,900 --> 02:42:24,990
You know, the details.
That stuff I don't know. But.
2290
02:42:29,290 --> 02:42:33,910
Sir, I'm not going to
be the scapegoat for this.
2291
02:42:34,000 --> 02:42:36,830
Haldeman and Ehrlichman
are in it just as deep as I am.
2292
02:42:36,920 --> 02:42:41,710
No, now, John, you don't wanna
start down that road. I remember, uh...
2293
02:42:41,800 --> 02:42:45,300
...Whittaker Chambers
telling me back in '48.
2294
02:42:45,380 --> 02:42:47,470
He was a man who suffered greatly.
2295
02:42:47,550 --> 02:42:52,140
And he said, "On the road of the
informer, it is always night."
2296
02:42:52,220 --> 02:42:58,060
Now, it's beyond you, or even me, John.
It's the country. It's the presidency.
2297
02:42:58,150 --> 02:43:01,480
- I understand that, sir.
- You know how I feel about loyalty.
2298
02:43:01,570 --> 02:43:05,280
I'm not gonna let any of my people
go to jail, that I promise you.
2299
02:43:05,360 --> 02:43:10,490
The important thing is to keep this
away from Haldeman and Ehrlichman.
2300
02:43:10,580 --> 02:43:14,410
I'm trusting you to do this, John, and
I have complete confidence in you. OK?
2301
02:43:14,500 --> 02:43:16,290
- I'll work on it.
- OK.
2302
02:43:16,370 --> 02:43:18,920
Say hi to that wife of yours,
will you? Good.
2303
02:43:20,250 --> 02:43:22,880
- Shit.
- It happens.
2304
02:43:22,960 --> 02:43:25,170
The place is a shambles.
2305
02:43:25,260 --> 02:43:26,380
Hey!
2306
02:43:29,640 --> 02:43:33,100
I was determined that we should
get to the bottom of Watergate
2307
02:43:33,180 --> 02:43:37,520
and the truth should be fully brought
out, no matter who was involved.
2308
02:43:38,600 --> 02:43:43,360
Today, in one of the most difficult
decisions of my presidency
2309
02:43:43,440 --> 02:43:47,860
I accepted the resignations of two of my
closest associates in the White House,
2310
02:43:47,950 --> 02:43:50,370
Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman,
2311
02:43:50,450 --> 02:43:54,200
two of the finest public servants
it has been my privilege to know.
2312
02:43:59,000 --> 02:44:00,670
More light, Chief?
2313
02:44:01,670 --> 02:44:03,300
No, Bob.
2314
02:44:10,430 --> 02:44:11,720
Six bodies.
2315
02:44:11,800 --> 02:44:15,810
The counsel to the president,
John Dean, has also resigned.
2316
02:44:15,890 --> 02:44:18,600
I will not place the
blame on subordinates,
2317
02:44:18,690 --> 02:44:21,810
on people whose zeal
exceeded their judgment,
2318
02:44:21,900 --> 02:44:26,990
and who may have done wrong in a cause
they deeply believed to be right.
2319
02:44:28,650 --> 02:44:33,620
In any organization, the man at the top
must bear the responsibility.
2320
02:44:33,700 --> 02:44:38,910
That responsibility, therefore, belongs
here in this office and I accept that.
2321
02:44:39,000 --> 02:44:41,830
There can be no whitewash
at the White House.
2322
02:44:41,920 --> 02:44:44,750
Two wrongs do not make a right.
2323
02:44:44,840 --> 02:44:47,050
Now, l love America.
2324
02:44:47,130 --> 02:44:51,640
God bless America, and God bless each
and every one of you.
2325
02:44:53,600 --> 02:44:55,600
And we're clear.
2326
02:44:59,140 --> 02:45:00,600
Out.
2327
02:45:20,410 --> 02:45:21,750
Thank you.
2328
02:45:28,300 --> 02:45:30,720
Are you going to Key Biscayne?
2329
02:45:31,760 --> 02:45:33,550
- Yeah.
- Excuse me, sir.
2330
02:45:33,640 --> 02:45:35,260
When?
2331
02:45:36,970 --> 02:45:38,520
Tomorrow.
2332
02:45:45,440 --> 02:45:49,780
Ron told me that, um...
Bob Haldeman has been calling,
2333
02:45:49,860 --> 02:45:51,990
but you won't talk to him.
2334
02:45:53,450 --> 02:45:55,950
If he's convicted,
will you pardon him?
2335
02:45:59,910 --> 02:46:01,210
No.
2336
02:46:08,000 --> 02:46:11,470
Why are you cutting yourself off
from the rest of us?
2337
02:46:13,470 --> 02:46:15,680
Can't we discuss this?
2338
02:46:15,760 --> 02:46:20,680
- What exactly do you want to discuss?
- You. What you're doing.
2339
02:46:21,930 --> 02:46:25,440
- What am I doing?
- I wish I knew. You're hiding.
2340
02:46:28,820 --> 02:46:32,860
- Hiding what?
- Whatever it is you've been hiding.
2341
02:46:32,950 --> 02:46:35,780
You're letting it destroy you, Dick.
2342
02:46:37,450 --> 02:46:39,580
You won't even ask for help...
2343
02:46:44,620 --> 02:46:47,080
Manolo, uh...
2344
02:46:47,170 --> 02:46:49,460
Mrs. Nixon's finished.
2345
02:46:53,050 --> 02:46:55,550
I am the only one left, Dick.
2346
02:46:56,510 --> 02:46:59,050
If you don't even talk to me...
2347
02:47:07,860 --> 02:47:10,770
Brezhnev's coming in three days.
2348
02:47:10,860 --> 02:47:14,860
I don't wanna deal with them
and him and you.
2349
02:47:17,490 --> 02:47:20,740
How much more?
How much more is it going to cost?
2350
02:47:20,830 --> 02:47:24,330
When do the rest of us
stop paying off your debts?
2351
02:47:28,540 --> 02:47:32,340
I'd like to finish my dinner in peace
2352
02:47:32,420 --> 02:47:35,340
if it's not too much to ask.
2353
02:47:39,430 --> 02:47:41,430
No, it isn't.
2354
02:47:45,350 --> 02:47:48,850
I won't interfere with you anymore.
I'm finished trying.
2355
02:47:50,900 --> 02:47:52,940
Thank you.
2356
02:47:53,030 --> 02:47:54,780
"Thank you"?
2357
02:47:55,900 --> 02:47:58,990
Dick, sometimes I understand
why they hate you.
2358
02:48:06,870 --> 02:48:11,960
The committee will come to order.
Counsel will call the first witness.
2359
02:48:12,040 --> 02:48:14,050
Mr. John W. Dean, III.
2360
02:48:14,130 --> 02:48:16,470
After I departed the president's office
2361
02:48:16,550 --> 02:48:20,640
I went to a meeting with Haldeman
and Ehrlichman to discuss the matter.
2362
02:48:20,720 --> 02:48:24,470
The sum and substance
of that discussion was,
2363
02:48:24,560 --> 02:48:27,810
the way to handle this now
was for Mitchell to step forward.
2364
02:48:27,890 --> 02:48:31,860
It was a disappointment to me because
it was quite clear that the cover-up,
2365
02:48:31,940 --> 02:48:35,820
as far as the White House was...
was concerned, was going to continue.
2366
02:48:35,900 --> 02:48:38,740
Why is he doing this?
He's our goddamn lawyer.
2367
02:48:38,820 --> 02:48:41,410
If he had a problem,
why didn't he come talk with us?
2368
02:48:41,490 --> 02:48:44,200
Remember, the weasel's got no proof.
2369
02:48:45,580 --> 02:48:48,660
It's still an informer's word
against the president's.
2370
02:48:48,750 --> 02:48:51,500
...were all indictable
for obstruction of justice.
2371
02:48:51,580 --> 02:48:55,500
That was the reason I was disagreeing
with all that was being discussed.
2372
02:48:55,590 --> 02:48:57,090
Give 'em hell, general.
2373
02:49:03,930 --> 02:49:07,310
Mao taught me in 1963...
2374
02:49:09,890 --> 02:49:12,310
...if I have nuclear weapons...
2375
02:49:14,610 --> 02:49:17,610
...let 400 million Chinese die...
2376
02:49:18,780 --> 02:49:21,150
...300 million will be left.
2377
02:49:22,280 --> 02:49:25,240
- Mao!
- Yeah.
2378
02:49:25,870 --> 02:49:29,290
I can tell you what happened.
You want names? I can give you names.
2379
02:49:29,370 --> 02:49:31,620
Haldeman.
I'm talking about the president.
2380
02:49:31,710 --> 02:49:34,000
- Mao!
- We all know in our country...
2381
02:49:34,080 --> 02:49:36,000
I can give you the president.
2382
02:49:36,300 --> 02:49:38,630
This man in his dog heart.
2383
02:49:40,970 --> 02:49:43,300
You want him
to be your ally?
2384
02:49:44,680 --> 02:49:47,890
Well, he was your ally
for 20 years, Leonid.
2385
02:49:47,970 --> 02:49:49,560
Yes, yes, Dick.
2386
02:49:55,110 --> 02:49:57,110
Mr. Nixon...
2387
02:49:58,320 --> 02:50:01,860
Life is the best teacher,
and therefore it must not interfere
2388
02:50:01,950 --> 02:50:05,820
with the building of the S.A.L.T. Two
treaty between our great countries.
2389
02:50:09,160 --> 02:50:12,540
Peace in our era is possible.
2390
02:50:14,250 --> 02:50:18,340
- Excuse me, uh, Leonid.
- It's OK, Dick. It's OK.
2391
02:50:32,180 --> 02:50:35,190
He's spilling his guts to the
Ervin committee. Unfortunately...
2392
02:50:53,410 --> 02:50:54,750
Did you?
2393
02:50:55,540 --> 02:50:58,090
- Daddy?
- What?
2394
02:50:58,170 --> 02:50:59,880
Did you cover it up?
2395
02:51:06,510 --> 02:51:09,220
You think I'd do
something like that, honey?
2396
02:51:12,220 --> 02:51:15,980
Well, then you can't give up.
You just can't.
2397
02:51:16,060 --> 02:51:19,230
You're one of the best presidents
this country has ever had.
2398
02:51:19,310 --> 02:51:23,820
You've done what Lincoln did, brought
this country back from civil war.
2399
02:51:23,900 --> 02:51:26,910
You can't let your enemies
tear you down.
2400
02:51:26,990 --> 02:51:29,450
You've gotta stay and fight.
2401
02:51:29,530 --> 02:51:32,830
I'll go out there and make speeches.
Nobody knows the real you,
2402
02:51:32,910 --> 02:51:36,710
how sweet you are,
how nice you are to people.
2403
02:51:36,790 --> 02:51:39,000
I'll tell them.
2404
02:51:40,750 --> 02:51:43,590
You're the most
decent person I know.
2405
02:51:46,430 --> 02:51:49,050
I just hope I haven't
let you down, Kitten.
2406
02:51:51,010 --> 02:51:53,600
They just don't know
the real you.
2407
02:51:55,230 --> 02:51:57,770
They just don't know.
2408
02:51:57,850 --> 02:52:01,900
Tricky Dick always knew
what was goin' on.
2409
02:52:02,690 --> 02:52:05,820
Every last goddamn detail.
2410
02:52:05,900 --> 02:52:09,780
And my husband is not going
to take the rap this time.
2411
02:52:09,870 --> 02:52:13,950
They know they can't shut me up.
Probably end up killin' me.
2412
02:52:14,040 --> 02:52:17,330
She doesn't know what she's
talking about. Stop bothering her!
2413
02:52:17,410 --> 02:52:19,920
Hell, she's nuts.
You bastards have seen to that.
2414
02:52:20,000 --> 02:52:21,460
Will you get together again?
2415
02:52:21,540 --> 02:52:24,960
Our marriage is finished, thank you.
Stick that up your keister!
2416
02:52:31,760 --> 02:52:35,470
Now, were the visitors that
went into the White House warned
2417
02:52:35,560 --> 02:52:39,350
that their conversations with
the president would be taped?
2418
02:52:39,440 --> 02:52:41,810
Again, I am not aware
of the technical details.
2419
02:52:41,900 --> 02:52:45,400
On Friday, we have the high
school students from Ohio.
2420
02:52:45,480 --> 02:52:49,650
Saturday is the National
Women's Republican Club.
2421
02:52:49,740 --> 02:52:52,280
...Watergate wide open,
former White House aide
2422
02:52:52,370 --> 02:52:56,080
Alexander Butterfield testified
before the Senate Select committee.
2423
02:52:56,160 --> 02:52:59,920
He revealed a taping system
that may have recorded conversations
2424
02:53:00,000 --> 02:53:02,790
in the White House,
the executive office building
2425
02:53:02,880 --> 02:53:05,170
and even members of his own family.
2426
02:53:05,250 --> 02:53:08,420
All calls to the White House
2427
02:53:08,510 --> 02:53:11,340
of whatever nature and character,
would be taped?
2428
02:53:11,430 --> 02:53:14,640
- The tape would not discriminate.
- None of them had knowledge
2429
02:53:14,720 --> 02:53:17,140
that their conversations
were being taped?
2430
02:53:17,220 --> 02:53:18,850
This is a stunning revelation.
2431
02:53:18,930 --> 02:53:21,770
If such tapes exist,
they could tell us, once and for all
2432
02:53:21,850 --> 02:53:25,610
what did the president know,
and when did he know it.
2433
02:53:25,690 --> 02:53:25,770
I want Hunt paid.
2434
02:53:25,770 --> 02:53:27,030
I want Hunt paid.
2435
02:53:27,110 --> 02:53:29,320
It's time to go the hang-out route.
2436
02:53:31,030 --> 02:53:34,740
- If they fear the madman...
- It's a legal contribution.
2437
02:53:34,830 --> 02:53:36,790
Who the hell authorized this?
2438
02:53:36,870 --> 02:53:39,700
- I still don't...
- ...the CIA...
2439
02:53:41,210 --> 02:53:44,840
There's a cancer on the presidency,
and it's growing with every day...
2440
02:53:44,920 --> 02:53:46,340
...too damn much...
2441
02:53:47,130 --> 02:53:51,130
If Hunt goes public,
it'll be a fiasco for the C.I.A.
2442
02:53:51,220 --> 02:53:52,800
They're like love letters.
2443
02:53:54,720 --> 02:53:57,810
You should burn 'em.
2444
02:53:57,890 --> 02:54:00,520
Why didn't you?
2445
02:54:01,560 --> 02:54:05,060
They're evidence.
You can't legally destroy evidence.
2446
02:54:05,150 --> 02:54:09,190
You don't expect me to believe that
for one minute, do ya?
2447
02:54:11,280 --> 02:54:16,280
Does it matter what's on 'em?
Really? Murder, Dick?
2448
02:54:16,370 --> 02:54:19,740
Sex? Your secrets, your fantasies?
2449
02:54:19,830 --> 02:54:23,500
- Or is just me and you and...
- Don't be ridiculous.
2450
02:54:23,580 --> 02:54:26,500
I remember Alger Hiss.
2451
02:54:26,590 --> 02:54:29,420
I know how ugly you can be.
2452
02:54:29,500 --> 02:54:31,720
You're capable of anything.
2453
02:54:39,430 --> 02:54:42,850
See, it doesn't really matter
at the end of the day what's on them
2454
02:54:42,930 --> 02:54:47,980
because you have absolutely no remorse.
No concept of remorse.
2455
02:54:48,060 --> 02:54:52,440
You want the tapes to get out.
You want them to see you at your worst.
2456
02:54:52,530 --> 02:54:54,030
- You're drunk.
- Oh, yeah!
2457
02:54:54,110 --> 02:54:56,780
No one'll ever see those tapes,
including you.
2458
02:54:56,870 --> 02:55:00,040
And what would I find out
that I haven't known for years?
2459
02:55:02,450 --> 02:55:07,580
What makes it so damn sad is that
you couldn't confide in any of us.
2460
02:55:07,670 --> 02:55:10,710
You had to make a record
for the whole world.
2461
02:55:12,460 --> 02:55:17,930
- They were for me. They're mine.
- They're not "yours". They are you.
2462
02:55:25,140 --> 02:55:27,480
You should burn them.
2463
02:55:46,750 --> 02:55:50,170
- What has changed in you, Richard?
- Go away!
2464
02:56:00,180 --> 02:56:04,180
These guys went after Castro
seven times, ten times.
2465
02:56:04,270 --> 02:56:09,270
What, do you think people like that,
just gave up? They just don't walk away.
2466
02:56:14,360 --> 02:56:16,360
- What, do you think?
- I never said this.
2467
02:56:16,440 --> 02:56:18,320
- Seven times, ten times.
- Ten times.
2468
02:56:18,410 --> 02:56:21,950
- You think people like that gave up?
- Never.
2469
02:56:22,030 --> 02:56:25,500
Castro. These guys went after Castro.
2470
02:56:30,880 --> 02:56:33,800
If this got out,
they'd blame me for everything.
2471
02:56:33,880 --> 02:56:36,840
Forget Kennedy or Johnson. It's Nixon!
2472
02:56:55,400 --> 02:57:00,160
Whoever killed Kennedy came from
this thing we created, this beast.
2473
02:57:05,870 --> 02:57:09,040
In the latest bombshell,
the president's lawyers revealed
2474
02:57:09,120 --> 02:57:11,370
that there is
an 18-and-a-half-minute gap
2475
02:57:11,460 --> 02:57:13,460
in a critical Watergate tape.
2476
02:57:13,540 --> 02:57:17,920
Reactions of disbelief and anger are
being heard across the country.
2477
02:57:21,550 --> 02:57:23,350
My God.
2478
02:57:23,430 --> 02:57:25,010
Pat!
2479
02:57:26,890 --> 02:57:27,930
Pat!
2480
02:57:28,020 --> 02:57:30,810
- Has he had chest pains?
- He woke up coughing blood!
2481
02:57:30,890 --> 02:57:31,940
I'm in charge here!
2482
02:57:32,020 --> 02:57:33,440
Has he been short of breath?
2483
02:57:33,520 --> 02:57:36,400
- No, and he's sure that he has T.B.!
- Why T.B.?
2484
02:57:36,480 --> 02:57:39,400
Because his family had it.
His brother had it.
2485
02:57:42,070 --> 02:57:44,410
- I think it's flooded.
- Richard.
2486
02:57:47,450 --> 02:57:49,750
Get those I.V.s started.
2487
02:57:52,420 --> 02:57:53,710
Please lie down, Dick.
2488
02:57:53,790 --> 02:57:56,210
- They need you to lie down!
- Sedate him!
2489
02:57:56,290 --> 02:57:57,710
Dick. Dick.
2490
02:58:01,760 --> 02:58:03,760
Richard?
2491
02:58:05,050 --> 02:58:08,220
- Mother.
- Pretty soon, you boys'll have to...
2492
02:58:08,310 --> 02:58:10,180
Maybe a trip to the woodshed'll...
2493
02:58:11,390 --> 02:58:12,980
Daddy?
2494
02:58:53,350 --> 02:58:57,060
Vice President Agnew
has resigned today pleading no contest
2495
02:58:57,150 --> 02:58:59,480
to charges of income tax evasion.
2496
02:58:59,570 --> 02:59:02,820
This follows Watergate Special
Prosecutor Archibald Cox's
2497
02:59:02,900 --> 02:59:06,610
continuing investigation
into President Nixon's finances.
2498
02:59:06,700 --> 02:59:08,990
The president paid no income tax
2499
02:59:09,080 --> 02:59:12,040
- in 1971 and '72
- They need you to lie down, Dick.
2500
02:59:12,120 --> 02:59:15,920
...and may have used funds to improve
his residence in San Clemente...
2501
02:59:16,000 --> 02:59:18,880
Where's the blood coming from?
What's wrong with him?
2502
02:59:18,960 --> 02:59:22,260
He's got an acute viral pneumonia
and a very serious phlebitis.
2503
02:59:22,340 --> 02:59:25,510
If a clot were to break loose,
it could go into his lungs.
2504
02:59:25,590 --> 02:59:26,800
Oh, no.
2505
02:59:26,890 --> 02:59:29,510
The president has returned
to the White House.
2506
02:59:29,600 --> 02:59:31,180
But Archibald Cox has declared war
by issuing a subpoena
2507
02:59:31,180 --> 02:59:32,600
But Archibald Cox has declared war
by issuing a subpoena
2508
02:59:32,680 --> 02:59:35,850
- for nine of the president's tapes.
- Never! Over my dead body.
2509
02:59:35,940 --> 02:59:38,150
It's the president's personal property.
2510
02:59:38,230 --> 02:59:42,980
I'll never give up my tapes to a bunch
of Kennedy-loving, Democrat cocksuckers.
2511
02:59:43,070 --> 02:59:46,910
This could trigger the impeachment.
They'll go to the Supreme Court.
2512
02:59:46,990 --> 02:59:50,530
I appointed three of those bastards.
I'll never give them my tapes.
2513
02:59:50,620 --> 02:59:53,160
Can the president afford
to ignore a subpoena?
2514
02:59:53,240 --> 02:59:57,170
Who the hell does Cox think he is? I've
never made a dime from public office.
2515
02:59:57,250 --> 03:00:00,340
I'm honest. My dad died broke. Jesus.
2516
03:00:00,420 --> 03:00:04,760
That son of a bitch Cox, he went
to the same law school as Jack Kennedy.
2517
03:00:04,840 --> 03:00:07,510
The last gasp of the establishment.
2518
03:00:07,590 --> 03:00:10,550
Yeah, they got the hell
kicked out of 'em in the election
2519
03:00:10,640 --> 03:00:12,970
so now they gotta squeal
about Watergate
2520
03:00:13,060 --> 03:00:15,980
'cause we were the first
real threat to them in years.
2521
03:00:16,060 --> 03:00:21,560
My God, we would've changed it so they
couldn't have changed it back in years.
2522
03:00:21,650 --> 03:00:22,860
Yeah.
2523
03:00:24,940 --> 03:00:27,650
- If only the, uh...
- Mr. President.
2524
03:00:27,740 --> 03:00:30,450
- Sir, Congress is...
- No, over here, sir.
2525
03:00:30,530 --> 03:00:33,700
Sir, Congress is considering
four articles of impeachment.
2526
03:00:33,790 --> 03:00:37,250
- Yeah. For what?
- They're very serious charges, sir.
2527
03:00:37,330 --> 03:00:39,000
- First, abuse of power.
- Yep.
2528
03:00:39,080 --> 03:00:41,460
- Second, obstruction of justice.
- What else?
2529
03:00:41,540 --> 03:00:44,460
Third, the failure
to cooperate with Congress.
2530
03:00:44,550 --> 03:00:48,220
- And last, bombing Cambodia, sir.
- Can't impeach me for Cambodia.
2531
03:00:48,300 --> 03:00:50,390
The president can bomb anybody he likes.
2532
03:00:50,470 --> 03:00:53,350
- That's true.
- We'll win that, but the other three...
2533
03:00:53,430 --> 03:00:55,600
- Fred, they sell tickets.
- It's Ron, sir.
2534
03:00:55,680 --> 03:00:58,560
They sell tickets to an impeachment
like a damn circus.
2535
03:00:58,640 --> 03:01:01,480
OK, so they impeach me.
Well, fuck 'em!
2536
03:01:02,900 --> 03:01:05,690
Yeah, well,
it's just a matter of mathematics.
2537
03:01:05,780 --> 03:01:08,150
How many votes we have in the Senate?
2538
03:01:08,240 --> 03:01:10,490
- About a dozen.
- A dozen?
2539
03:01:10,570 --> 03:01:13,240
Jeez, I got half of 'em elected.
2540
03:01:13,320 --> 03:01:18,250
OK, so I got the South
and Goldwater and his boys.
2541
03:01:19,580 --> 03:01:21,540
I'll take my chances in the Senate.
2542
03:01:21,620 --> 03:01:23,380
- Yes, we should.
- This damn leg.
2543
03:01:23,460 --> 03:01:25,960
Well, then, sir, we'll, uh...
2544
03:01:26,050 --> 03:01:29,380
...have to deal with the possibility
of removal from office,
2545
03:01:29,470 --> 03:01:33,260
loss of pension and possibly...
possibly even prison.
2546
03:01:33,340 --> 03:01:37,020
Yeah, well, plenty of people
did their best writing in prison.
2547
03:01:37,100 --> 03:01:39,930
- Gandhi, Lenin.
- That's right.
2548
03:01:40,020 --> 03:01:42,980
What I know about this country,
I could rip it apart.
2549
03:01:43,060 --> 03:01:46,860
If they want a public humiliation,
that's what they'll get.
2550
03:01:46,940 --> 03:01:50,740
- Yes, they will.
- I'll never resign this office. Never.
2551
03:01:50,820 --> 03:01:54,530
- Where the fuck am I? What's in there?
- The P.O.W.s and their families.
2552
03:01:54,620 --> 03:01:57,540
- I'm supposed to be...
- Compassionate, grateful...
2553
03:01:57,620 --> 03:01:58,750
- Proud.
- Sir?
2554
03:01:58,830 --> 03:02:01,120
- Proud. Of them.
- Oh, yes, of course.
2555
03:02:01,210 --> 03:02:03,630
- Fire him.
- Who?
2556
03:02:03,710 --> 03:02:08,460
- Cox. Archibald Cox. Fire him!
- He works for the attorney general.
2557
03:02:08,550 --> 03:02:11,550
- Only Richardson can fire him.
- May I echo my concern, sir?
2558
03:02:11,630 --> 03:02:16,140
- Then tell Richardson to fire him!
- Well, Richardson won't do that, sir.
2559
03:02:16,220 --> 03:02:18,890
- He'll resign.
- The hell he will. Then fire him too.
2560
03:02:18,970 --> 03:02:22,140
If you have to go down to the janitor
at the justice department
2561
03:02:22,230 --> 03:02:23,810
fire that son of a bitch.
2562
03:02:23,900 --> 03:02:27,440
Mr. President, may I
just say something, sir?
2563
03:02:29,070 --> 03:02:31,570
I think that you should
welcome this subpoena.
2564
03:02:31,650 --> 03:02:33,570
- Why?
- Well, sir,
2565
03:02:33,660 --> 03:02:37,080
the tapes can only prove
that Dean was a liar. Right?
2566
03:02:37,160 --> 03:02:39,580
That's right, sir.
2567
03:02:42,660 --> 03:02:45,000
Well, there's more.
2568
03:02:45,080 --> 03:02:47,170
There's more than just me.
2569
03:02:47,250 --> 03:02:49,840
You can't break, my boy.
2570
03:02:49,920 --> 03:02:52,260
Even though it's ended.
2571
03:02:52,340 --> 03:02:55,800
You can't admit,
even to yourself, when it's gone.
2572
03:02:57,010 --> 03:02:59,930
Do you think those P.O.W.s
in there did?
2573
03:03:00,770 --> 03:03:03,350
Now, there's some people,
and we both know them, Al
2574
03:03:03,430 --> 03:03:06,020
think you can go stand
in the middle of a bull ring
2575
03:03:06,100 --> 03:03:07,980
and cry "mea culpa, mea culpa,"
2576
03:03:08,060 --> 03:03:12,280
while the crowd is hissing
and booing and spitting on you.
2577
03:03:13,110 --> 03:03:16,950
Well, a man doesn't cry. I don't cry.
2578
03:03:17,700 --> 03:03:20,950
You don't cry. You fight.
2579
03:03:24,790 --> 03:03:26,040
OK.
2580
03:03:26,120 --> 03:03:30,380
Ladies and gentlemen,
the president of the United States!
2581
03:03:35,380 --> 03:03:39,470
Good evening. We interrupt this program
for a special report from NBC news.
2582
03:03:39,550 --> 03:03:41,220
The country is in the midst
2583
03:03:41,310 --> 03:03:45,230
of what may be the most serious
constitutional crisis in its history.
2584
03:03:45,310 --> 03:03:49,150
President Nixon has fired special
prosecutor Archibald Cox.
2585
03:03:49,230 --> 03:03:51,650
Attorney General Elliot Richardson
has quit
2586
03:03:51,730 --> 03:03:55,530
and his deputy William Ruckelshaus
was fired when he refused to fire Cox.
2587
03:03:55,610 --> 03:03:58,530
Attorney General Robert Bork
executed Nixon's orders,
2588
03:03:58,610 --> 03:04:01,870
- fired the prosecutor.
- ...to head off impeachment proceedings
2589
03:04:01,950 --> 03:04:05,870
the president has agreed to release
transcripts of 46 taped conversations.
2590
03:04:05,960 --> 03:04:09,250
In a simple ceremony, Gerald
Ford was sworn in as vice president.
2591
03:04:09,330 --> 03:04:13,920
Citing wrongdoing, a judge has dismissed
all charges against Daniel Ellsberg.
2592
03:04:14,010 --> 03:04:17,680
A grand jury has indicted former
Nixon aides Haldeman, Ehrlichman...
2593
03:04:17,760 --> 03:04:21,260
You're a lawyer, for God's sake.
How can you let this shit go through?
2594
03:04:21,350 --> 03:04:24,470
- Look. This. Nixon can't say that.
- Well, you did say it, sir.
2595
03:04:24,560 --> 03:04:26,770
Never! I never
said that about Jews.
2596
03:04:26,850 --> 03:04:30,270
- Makes me sound like an anti-Semite.
- We can check the tapes again.
2597
03:04:30,350 --> 03:04:34,940
No need. I know what I said.
Have you lost your mind? Look, Al!
2598
03:04:35,030 --> 03:04:38,820
Nixon can't say this!
"Niggers. Niggers." It can't say that!
2599
03:04:38,910 --> 03:04:41,450
- We could delete it.
- We're doing the best we can.
2600
03:04:41,530 --> 03:04:44,580
- It's not good enough!
- Would you have us black it out, sir?
2601
03:04:44,660 --> 03:04:48,790
- We could write "expletive deleted."
- Cut all these "goddamns"
2602
03:04:48,870 --> 03:04:51,960
and "Jesus Christs" out. Jesus.
2603
03:04:52,040 --> 03:04:56,340
Mr. President. Don't you see that all
these deletion marks in the transcripts
2604
03:04:56,420 --> 03:04:59,880
make it look as though you...
you do nothing but swear?
2605
03:05:04,010 --> 03:05:06,270
It soils my mother's memory.
2606
03:05:06,350 --> 03:05:10,310
You think I want the whole goddamn
world to see my mother like this?
2607
03:05:10,390 --> 03:05:12,730
Raising a dirty-mouth?
2608
03:05:12,810 --> 03:05:17,150
We could start again, sir, but we
don't really have the staff to do that.
2609
03:05:17,240 --> 03:05:20,490
Then start over! Just start over!
2610
03:05:20,570 --> 03:05:23,660
The world will see only what I show 'em!
2611
03:05:23,740 --> 03:05:26,450
From page one, Al. Page one, Ron!
2612
03:05:26,540 --> 03:05:28,960
Ron, get in there and do something.
2613
03:05:29,040 --> 03:05:31,210
All this stuff.
2614
03:05:37,590 --> 03:05:40,300
Five seconds, Mr. President.
2615
03:05:40,380 --> 03:05:44,760
And four, three, two...
2616
03:05:49,850 --> 03:05:52,900
Good evening, my fellow Americans.
2617
03:05:52,980 --> 03:05:54,940
Tonight I'm taking an action
2618
03:05:55,020 --> 03:05:57,860
unprecedented in the history
of this office.
2619
03:05:57,940 --> 03:06:01,530
I had no knowledge of the cover-up
till John Dean told me about it
2620
03:06:01,610 --> 03:06:04,490
- on March 21st, a year ago.
- I think I'm going to throw up.
2621
03:06:04,570 --> 03:06:06,830
...no payment to Hunt
or anyone else be made.
2622
03:06:06,910 --> 03:06:11,370
- He's lost touch with reality.
- I've made my mistakes,
2623
03:06:11,460 --> 03:06:14,830
but in all my years of public life,
I have never profited.
2624
03:06:14,920 --> 03:06:18,250
Can you imagine
what this man would have been
2625
03:06:18,340 --> 03:06:21,220
- had he ever been loved?
- I've earned every penny.
2626
03:06:21,300 --> 03:06:25,010
In all of my years of public life
I have never obstructed justice.
2627
03:06:25,090 --> 03:06:28,560
It's a tragedy
because he had greatness in his grasp.
2628
03:06:28,640 --> 03:06:32,230
- I welcome this examination.
- But had the defects of his qualities.
2629
03:06:32,310 --> 03:06:35,060
- I made $250,000...
- They'll crucify him.
2630
03:06:35,150 --> 03:06:37,270
Does anybody
really care anymore?
2631
03:06:37,360 --> 03:06:40,030
...which many of you
were good enough to purchase.
2632
03:06:41,570 --> 03:06:44,910
And what happens after?
2633
03:06:44,990 --> 03:06:46,740
...every year.
2634
03:06:48,160 --> 03:06:51,870
When l, in 1968 decided to become
a candidate for the president,
2635
03:06:51,950 --> 03:06:56,580
I decided to clean the decks
and to put everything in real estate.
2636
03:06:56,670 --> 03:07:00,420
So, that's where the money came from.
That's all I own.
2637
03:07:00,500 --> 03:07:03,510
That's what we have,
and that's what we owe.
2638
03:07:03,590 --> 03:07:06,840
Because people have got to know
whether or not their president...
2639
03:07:06,930 --> 03:07:08,930
...their president is a crook.
2640
03:07:09,010 --> 03:07:12,850
Well, l am not a crook.
I've earned everything I have
2641
03:07:12,930 --> 03:07:14,560
...doesn't have a mink coat.
2642
03:07:14,640 --> 03:07:17,520
She does have a respectable
Republican cloth coat.
2643
03:07:17,610 --> 03:07:20,940
And I always tell her
she'd look good in anything.
2644
03:07:21,030 --> 03:07:26,860
There has never been any feathering
of nests. Not in this administration.
2645
03:07:27,620 --> 03:07:29,330
Now, let me just say this.
2646
03:07:29,410 --> 03:07:32,450
And I want to say this
to the television audience...
2647
03:07:32,540 --> 03:07:35,790
Supreme Court ruled today
eight to nothing that Nixon's claims
2648
03:07:35,870 --> 03:07:38,710
of executive privilege
cannot be used in criminal cases
2649
03:07:38,790 --> 03:07:42,300
- and must turn over subpoenaed tapes.
- The House Judiciary Committee
2650
03:07:42,380 --> 03:07:44,300
has voted 27 to 11
2651
03:07:44,380 --> 03:07:47,050
to recommend impeachment
to the House.
2652
03:07:47,130 --> 03:07:49,800
The deliberations
now go to the House floor.
2653
03:07:49,890 --> 03:07:53,640
In its report, the committee offers
evidence Nixon obstructed justice
2654
03:07:53,720 --> 03:07:57,770
on at least 36 occasions, that he
encouraged his aides to commit perjury
2655
03:07:57,850 --> 03:08:00,980
and that Nixon abused
the powers of his office.
2656
03:08:01,070 --> 03:08:03,650
In a separate report,
the Senate Select committee
2657
03:08:03,730 --> 03:08:07,570
details the misuse of the l.R.S.,
the F.B.l., the C.l.A.
2658
03:08:07,660 --> 03:08:09,660
and the justice department.
2659
03:08:09,740 --> 03:08:12,490
It denounces the plumbers
and it raises the question
2660
03:08:12,580 --> 03:08:17,370
of whether the United States
had a valid election in 1972.
2661
03:08:31,010 --> 03:08:32,430
Come in.
2662
03:08:44,440 --> 03:08:49,740
Victory at Sea, Al. Henry.
The Pacific Theatre.
2663
03:08:49,820 --> 03:08:53,910
Christ, you can almost hear the waves
breaking over the decks.
2664
03:08:59,500 --> 03:09:02,330
I'm afraid we have another problem,
Mr. President.
2665
03:09:03,170 --> 03:09:04,960
Excuse me, gentlemen.
2666
03:09:09,590 --> 03:09:12,140
June 23rd, '72, sir.
2667
03:09:14,810 --> 03:09:19,270
Your instructions to Haldeman
regarding the C.I.A. and the F.B.I.
2668
03:09:20,520 --> 03:09:22,060
So?
2669
03:09:22,150 --> 03:09:26,900
Your lawyers feel that
it's the smoking gun.
2670
03:09:26,980 --> 03:09:30,240
Totally out of context.
I was protecting the national security.
2671
03:09:30,320 --> 03:09:32,910
Sir, the deadline is today.
2672
03:09:36,080 --> 03:09:38,040
Can we get around this, Al?
2673
03:09:39,370 --> 03:09:43,920
It's the Supreme Court, sir.
You don't get around it.
2674
03:09:47,760 --> 03:09:49,880
If, uh...
2675
03:09:49,970 --> 03:09:54,260
If you resign, you can keep your tapes
as a private citizen.
2676
03:09:54,350 --> 03:09:56,970
You could fight them for years.
2677
03:09:59,850 --> 03:10:01,770
What if I stay?
2678
03:10:04,690 --> 03:10:07,270
You have the army.
2679
03:10:07,360 --> 03:10:08,940
The army?
2680
03:10:10,900 --> 03:10:12,360
Lincoln used it.
2681
03:10:19,200 --> 03:10:20,700
That was civil war.
2682
03:10:22,000 --> 03:10:23,370
How do you see this?
2683
03:10:27,130 --> 03:10:28,460
Oh, God.
2684
03:10:28,550 --> 03:10:31,590
We can't survive this, sir.
2685
03:10:34,550 --> 03:10:39,220
They also have you instructing Dean
to make the pay off to Hunt.
2686
03:10:39,310 --> 03:10:43,390
There's nothing in that statement
the president can't explain.
2687
03:10:43,480 --> 03:10:48,980
Sir, you talked about opening up
the whole Bay of Pigs thing again.
2688
03:10:49,070 --> 03:10:52,150
- That's right.
- Three days before, the June 20th tape.
2689
03:10:52,240 --> 03:10:55,950
- The one with the 18-minute gap.
- I don't know anything about that.
2690
03:10:56,030 --> 03:10:59,160
You mentioned
the Bay of Pigs several times.
2691
03:10:59,240 --> 03:11:03,290
Sooner or later, they're going to
want to know what that means.
2692
03:11:03,370 --> 03:11:06,290
They're going to want to
know what's on that gap.
2693
03:11:06,380 --> 03:11:09,630
It's gone. No one will
ever find out what's on it.
2694
03:11:12,380 --> 03:11:16,510
They might if there was
another recording.
2695
03:11:18,850 --> 03:11:20,760
We both know it's possible.
2696
03:11:25,520 --> 03:11:29,190
I know for a fact
that it's possible.
2697
03:11:32,280 --> 03:11:33,740
I've spoken to Ford.
2698
03:11:33,820 --> 03:11:38,660
There's a very strong chance
that he'll pardon you.
2699
03:11:38,740 --> 03:11:42,580
I don't need a goddamned deal,
for God's sake. I...
2700
03:11:42,660 --> 03:11:47,670
This is something that
you will have to do, Mr. President.
2701
03:11:49,710 --> 03:11:54,130
I thought you'd rather do it now.
2702
03:11:58,640 --> 03:12:00,640
I'll wait outside.
2703
03:12:05,890 --> 03:12:07,650
Sir.
2704
03:12:08,810 --> 03:12:12,230
May I say, sir, that if you stay now,
2705
03:12:12,320 --> 03:12:16,570
it will paralyze the nation
and its foreign policy.
2706
03:12:20,160 --> 03:12:23,490
You always had a great
sense of timing, Henry.
2707
03:12:23,580 --> 03:12:27,370
When to give and when to take.
2708
03:12:30,460 --> 03:12:34,210
How do you think Mao
and Brezhnev will react?
2709
03:12:34,300 --> 03:12:37,590
Do you think they'll
remember us, Henry,
2710
03:12:37,680 --> 03:12:40,390
after all the great things
you and I did together,
2711
03:12:40,470 --> 03:12:45,310
as some kind of...
of crooks?
2712
03:12:45,390 --> 03:12:50,100
They will understand.
To be undone by a third-rate burglary
2713
03:12:50,190 --> 03:12:53,190
is a fate of biblical proportions.
2714
03:12:55,400 --> 03:12:59,280
History will treat you far more
kindly than your contemporaries.
2715
03:12:59,360 --> 03:13:01,120
Yeah.
2716
03:13:01,200 --> 03:13:04,990
Depends who writes the history books.
2717
03:13:05,080 --> 03:13:08,540
I'm not a quitter, never have been.
2718
03:13:08,620 --> 03:13:11,540
But I'm not stupid either.
2719
03:13:11,630 --> 03:13:15,130
A trial would kill me.
That's what they want.
2720
03:13:15,210 --> 03:13:19,220
They won't get it. Fuck 'em.
2721
03:13:41,530 --> 03:13:45,620
If they harass you, I too will resign,
and I will tell the world why.
2722
03:13:45,700 --> 03:13:49,540
Don't be stupid.
The world needs you, Henry.
2723
03:13:51,080 --> 03:13:53,540
You always saw the big picture.
2724
03:13:57,090 --> 03:14:00,010
You were my equal in many ways.
2725
03:14:09,350 --> 03:14:12,310
You're the only friend I got, Henry.
2726
03:14:14,940 --> 03:14:17,270
Do you ever pray?
2727
03:14:18,440 --> 03:14:23,780
You know, believe in a supreme being?
2728
03:14:25,490 --> 03:14:29,700
Not really.
You mean on my knees?
2729
03:14:33,710 --> 03:14:37,290
My mother used to pray a lot.
2730
03:14:37,380 --> 03:14:42,300
It's been a long time
since I really prayed.
2731
03:14:48,060 --> 03:14:50,890
Let's pray, Henry.
2732
03:14:50,970 --> 03:14:55,480
Let's pray a little.
Just you and me.
2733
03:15:03,610 --> 03:15:06,410
I hope this doesn't embarrass you,
Henry.
2734
03:15:06,490 --> 03:15:09,330
No. Not at all, no.
2735
03:15:09,410 --> 03:15:13,500
This is not going to leak, is it?
2736
03:15:15,960 --> 03:15:19,000
Don't be too proud, Henry.
2737
03:15:19,090 --> 03:15:23,760
Never be too proud
to go on your knees before God.
2738
03:15:35,690 --> 03:15:38,690
God.
2739
03:15:44,650 --> 03:15:46,610
How can a...
2740
03:15:46,700 --> 03:15:50,280
How can a country come apart like this?
2741
03:15:50,370 --> 03:15:53,370
What have I done wrong?
2742
03:15:55,000 --> 03:15:59,540
I opened China.
I made peace with Russia.
2743
03:16:00,790 --> 03:16:03,880
I ended the war.
2744
03:16:05,550 --> 03:16:08,340
I did what I thought was right.
2745
03:16:13,560 --> 03:16:16,270
God, why do they hate me so?
2746
03:16:16,350 --> 03:16:20,480
It's unbelievable. It... It's insane.
2747
03:16:21,900 --> 03:16:27,320
Oh, Mom, I'm sorry. God, please
forgive me, God. I didn't mean it.
2748
03:16:27,400 --> 03:16:31,070
I never wanted to do...
I don't want this to... Is it me?
2749
03:16:31,160 --> 03:16:34,910
Is this happening?
I can't believe...
2750
03:16:40,750 --> 03:16:42,590
Al.
2751
03:16:58,060 --> 03:17:03,520
They smelled the blood on me
this time, Al. I got soft, you know?
2752
03:17:04,400 --> 03:17:07,860
A rusty, metallic smell.
2753
03:17:07,950 --> 03:17:12,570
- I know it well, sir.
- It came over from Vietnam, you know?
2754
03:17:12,660 --> 03:17:15,200
- Sir?
- That smell.
2755
03:17:16,330 --> 03:17:19,250
I mean, everyone suffered so much.
2756
03:17:19,330 --> 03:17:22,460
Their boys killed.
2757
03:17:22,540 --> 03:17:26,260
They need to sacrifice something.
2758
03:17:26,340 --> 03:17:29,260
You know, appease the gods of war.
2759
03:17:30,130 --> 03:17:33,260
Mars, Jupiter.
2760
03:17:36,350 --> 03:17:39,430
I am that blood, General.
2761
03:17:41,440 --> 03:17:44,230
I am that sacrifice.
2762
03:17:45,020 --> 03:17:47,780
In the highest place of all.
2763
03:17:51,240 --> 03:17:55,410
Yeah. All leaders
must finally be sacrificed.
2764
03:17:56,660 --> 03:17:59,580
Things won't be the same after this.
2765
03:17:59,660 --> 03:18:05,380
No, I played by the rules. Rules changed
right in the middle of the game.
2766
03:18:05,460 --> 03:18:09,170
There's no respect for American
institutions anymore.
2767
03:18:10,920 --> 03:18:13,930
No, people are cynical.
2768
03:18:14,010 --> 03:18:17,680
The press, ah,
the press is out of control.
2769
03:18:19,140 --> 03:18:22,440
People spit on soldiers.
2770
03:18:22,520 --> 03:18:25,060
Government secrets mean nothing.
2771
03:18:26,520 --> 03:18:29,690
I pity the next guy who sits here.
2772
03:18:32,530 --> 03:18:34,700
Good night, gentlemen.
2773
03:18:40,620 --> 03:18:43,170
Mr. President.
2774
03:19:19,660 --> 03:19:24,580
When they look at you,
they see what they want to be.
2775
03:19:27,330 --> 03:19:32,340
When they look at me,
they see what they are.
2776
03:19:37,680 --> 03:19:40,810
Dick, please don't.
2777
03:19:47,350 --> 03:19:49,480
I can't.
2778
03:19:49,560 --> 03:19:52,570
I don't have the strength anymore.
2779
03:19:54,030 --> 03:19:56,200
It'll be over soon.
2780
03:19:56,280 --> 03:19:59,450
No, it's going to start now.
2781
03:20:00,450 --> 03:20:05,500
Oh, Buddy.
If I could just sleep.
2782
03:20:05,580 --> 03:20:08,960
- If I could just sleep.
- There'll be time for that.
2783
03:20:09,040 --> 03:20:10,880
Yeah.
2784
03:20:15,380 --> 03:20:20,220
You know, once when I was sick as a boy,
2785
03:20:20,300 --> 03:20:25,310
my mother gave me this stuff
and she made me swallow it.
2786
03:20:26,730 --> 03:20:29,940
It made me throw up all over her.
2787
03:20:32,070 --> 03:20:35,610
I wish I could do that now.
2788
03:20:41,530 --> 03:20:44,290
I'm so afraid.
2789
03:20:44,950 --> 03:20:47,750
There's darkness out there.
2790
03:20:49,540 --> 03:20:54,840
I could always see where I was going.
But it's dark out there.
2791
03:20:57,170 --> 03:21:01,430
God, I've always
been afraid of the dark.
2792
03:21:03,010 --> 03:21:05,020
Buddy.
2793
03:21:32,040 --> 03:21:32,120
There are many fine careers.
This country needs good farmers,
2794
03:21:32,130 --> 03:21:37,590
There are many fine careers.
This country needs good farmers,
2795
03:21:37,670 --> 03:21:42,640
good businessmen, good plumbers
2796
03:21:42,720 --> 03:21:45,810
good carpenters.
2797
03:21:45,890 --> 03:21:49,390
I remember my old man.
2798
03:21:49,480 --> 03:21:53,060
I think that they would
have called him sort of a,
2799
03:21:53,150 --> 03:21:56,110
sort of a little man, a common man.
2800
03:21:56,190 --> 03:22:01,950
Well, he didn't consider
himself that way.
2801
03:22:02,030 --> 03:22:06,620
You know what he was?
He was a streetcar motorman first.
2802
03:22:06,700 --> 03:22:10,290
Then he was a farmer.
2803
03:22:10,370 --> 03:22:12,330
Then he had a lemon ranch.
2804
03:22:12,420 --> 03:22:16,170
It was the poorest lemon ranch
in California, I can assure you.
2805
03:22:16,250 --> 03:22:19,300
He sold it before they found oil on it.
2806
03:22:22,380 --> 03:22:25,010
Then he was a grocer.
2807
03:22:25,100 --> 03:22:27,600
But he was a great man
2808
03:22:27,680 --> 03:22:30,980
because he did his job.
2809
03:22:31,060 --> 03:22:34,230
And every job counts up to the hilt
2810
03:22:34,310 --> 03:22:36,900
regardless of what happens.
2811
03:22:38,280 --> 03:22:41,780
Nobody will ever write a book,
probably, about my mother.
2812
03:22:41,860 --> 03:22:47,870
Well, I guess all of you would
say this about your mother.
2813
03:22:49,540 --> 03:22:52,910
My mother was a saint.
2814
03:22:53,000 --> 03:22:58,550
And I think of her
two boys dying of tuberculosis
2815
03:22:58,630 --> 03:23:03,430
and seeing each of them die.
And when they died...
2816
03:23:07,890 --> 03:23:13,480
Yes, she will have no books
written about her.
2817
03:23:14,810 --> 03:23:18,400
But she was a saint.
2818
03:23:19,440 --> 03:23:23,400
Now, however, we look to the future.
2819
03:23:23,490 --> 03:23:27,700
I remember something, uh,
Theodore Roosevelt wrote
2820
03:23:27,780 --> 03:23:31,950
when his first wife died
in his twenties.
2821
03:23:32,040 --> 03:23:35,750
He thought the light had gone
from his life forever.
2822
03:23:35,830 --> 03:23:39,420
But he went on, and he not
only became president
2823
03:23:39,500 --> 03:23:42,300
but as an ex-president,
he served his country
2824
03:23:42,380 --> 03:23:46,430
always in the arena,
tempestuous, strong,
2825
03:23:46,510 --> 03:23:49,050
sometimes right, sometimes wrong.
2826
03:23:49,140 --> 03:23:52,310
But he was a man.
2827
03:23:52,390 --> 03:23:58,020
And as I leave that's an example
I think all of us should remember.
2828
03:23:58,100 --> 03:24:03,740
See, we think sometimes when, things
happen that don't go the right way;
2829
03:24:03,820 --> 03:24:07,610
we think that when someone
dear to us dies,
2830
03:24:07,700 --> 03:24:10,530
when we lose an election,
2831
03:24:10,620 --> 03:24:14,290
or when we suffer defeat
that all is ended.
2832
03:24:14,370 --> 03:24:19,330
Not true.
It's only a beginning, always,
2833
03:24:19,420 --> 03:24:23,630
because the greatness comes,
not when things go always good for you,
2834
03:24:23,710 --> 03:24:27,680
but the greatness comes
when you're really tested,
2835
03:24:27,760 --> 03:24:31,470
when you take some knocks,
some disappointments
2836
03:24:31,550 --> 03:24:33,640
when sadness comes.
2837
03:24:33,720 --> 03:24:37,810
Because only if you've been
in the deepest valley
2838
03:24:37,890 --> 03:24:43,480
can you ever know
how magnificent it is
2839
03:24:43,570 --> 03:24:45,820
to be on the highest mountain.
2840
03:24:49,410 --> 03:24:52,700
So, I say to you on this occasion,
2841
03:24:52,780 --> 03:24:57,160
we leave, proud of the people
who have stood by us and worked for us
2842
03:24:57,250 --> 03:25:00,710
and served this government
and this country.
2843
03:25:00,790 --> 03:25:03,590
They want you to continue
to serve in government
2844
03:25:03,670 --> 03:25:05,800
if that is what you wish.
2845
03:25:05,880 --> 03:25:09,380
Remember, always give your best.
2846
03:25:09,470 --> 03:25:13,720
Never get discouraged.
Never be petty.
2847
03:25:13,810 --> 03:25:17,390
Always remember, others may hate you.
2848
03:25:17,480 --> 03:25:21,730
But those who hate you don't win
unless you hate them.
2849
03:25:21,810 --> 03:25:26,480
And then, you destroy yourself.
2850
03:25:26,570 --> 03:25:32,280
And so we leave with high hopes
and good spirits and with deep humility.
2851
03:25:32,370 --> 03:25:34,490
And I say to each
and every one of you,
2852
03:25:34,580 --> 03:25:36,950
not only will we always remember you
2853
03:25:37,040 --> 03:25:42,290
but always, you will be
in our hearts.
2854
03:25:42,380 --> 03:25:46,960
And you'll be in our prayers.
2855
03:25:47,050 --> 03:25:53,050
And only then will you find what
we Quakers call "peace at the center".
2856
03:26:07,820 --> 03:26:13,780
He gave of himself with intelligence
and energy and devotion to duty.
2857
03:26:13,870 --> 03:26:19,700
Richard Nixon was buried and honored
by five presidents on April 26, 1994.
2858
03:26:19,790 --> 03:26:24,580
Less than a year after his beloved wife,
Pat, had died.
2859
03:26:24,670 --> 03:26:28,460
Nixon always maintained that
if he had not been driven from office
2860
03:26:28,550 --> 03:26:33,800
the North Vietnamese would not have
overwhelmed the South in 1975.
2861
03:26:33,890 --> 03:26:38,560
In a sideshow, Cambodian society was
destroyed and mass genocide resulted.
2862
03:26:38,640 --> 03:26:43,270
The second half of the 20th century
will be known as the age of Nixon.
2863
03:26:43,350 --> 03:26:46,860
ln his absence, Russia and the
United States returned to a decade
2864
03:26:46,940 --> 03:26:49,610
of high-budget military expansion
and near war.
2865
03:26:50,530 --> 03:26:53,570
Nixon, who was pardoned
by President Ford,
2866
03:26:53,660 --> 03:26:59,240
lived to write six books and travel
the world as an elder statesman.
2867
03:26:59,330 --> 03:27:04,370
For the remainder of his life, he fought
successfully to protect his tapes.
2868
03:27:04,460 --> 03:27:09,250
The National Archives spent
14 years indexing and cataloging them.
2869
03:27:09,340 --> 03:27:13,800
Out of 4,000 hours,
60 hours have been made public.
2870
03:30:15,800 --> 03:30:15,800
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