1 00:00:43,860 --> 00:00:45,740 I just don't understand it, Bob. 2 00:00:45,780 --> 00:00:48,140 I mean, I've logged a lot of miles, 3 00:00:48,180 --> 00:00:51,020 I've followed the sales textbook by the letter. 4 00:00:51,060 --> 00:00:53,180 I mean, I've applied myself diligently. 5 00:00:53,260 --> 00:00:55,580 I mean, I try and I try 6 00:00:55,660 --> 00:00:57,980 and I just cannot get in the door. 7 00:00:58,060 --> 00:01:01,340 I mean, what am I doin' wrong? -Earl. Sit down. 8 00:01:03,980 --> 00:01:06,300 Sure, you've got a great product, 9 00:01:06,380 --> 00:01:10,500 but you have to remember what you're really selling yourself. 10 00:01:10,580 --> 00:01:14,460 So it's not necessarily what I say as how I say it? 11 00:01:14,540 --> 00:01:17,860 That's right, Earl. A good salesman can sell anything. 12 00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:20,740 And I remember when you were a good salesman 13 00:01:20,780 --> 00:01:22,660 at the beginning. 14 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:24,580 But something seems to have changed. 15 00:01:24,620 --> 00:01:27,820 Now, I don't want to pry, but is everything all right at home? 16 00:01:27,900 --> 00:01:29,780 Everything's all right with Margie, right? 17 00:01:29,860 --> 00:01:32,420 Will there be anything else, gentlemen? -Leave it. 18 00:01:32,460 --> 00:01:35,300 Just leave it. -Yes, sir. Thank you. 19 00:01:35,340 --> 00:01:37,220 Thanks. -I watched you 20 00:01:37,260 --> 00:01:40,420 walking back and forth in front of my desk in an agitated manner, 21 00:01:40,460 --> 00:01:45,060 smoking a cigarette without having asked if you could smoke in my presence-- 22 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:49,180 01.:21, Mark. 23 00:01:49,260 --> 00:01:52,540 Okay, listen up. Fire team discipline in there at all times. 24 00:01:52,580 --> 00:01:56,300 Keep your radios on at all times during the entire penetration. 25 00:01:56,380 --> 00:01:58,820 Check yourselves. False I.D.s? 26 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:01,220 Jim. -No wallets, no keys? 27 00:02:01,260 --> 00:02:05,060 We rendezvous where? The Watergate, room 214. 28 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:07,340 When? At 0300 hours. 29 00:02:07,420 --> 00:02:09,260 Jawohl, mein ''farten fuhrer.'' 30 00:02:09,340 --> 00:02:12,860 I swear to God, Frank, I'm gonna make you a new asshole. 31 00:02:12,940 --> 00:02:17,980 Let's get the fuck out of here. -Years of clean living are over. 32 00:02:18,060 --> 00:02:22,020 If anything goes wrong, just sit tight You'll hear from me or Howard. 33 00:02:22,060 --> 00:02:23,660 Personally, if anything goes wrong 34 00:02:23,740 --> 00:02:26,380 I'll be calling the president of the United States. 35 00:02:26,460 --> 00:02:29,580 I'm not gonna be just a good salesman. 36 00:02:29,660 --> 00:02:33,940 I'm gonna be a great salesman. -That's the spirit. 37 00:02:34,020 --> 00:02:35,860 Thanks. 38 00:02:35,940 --> 00:02:39,460 And remember, Earl: Always look 'em in the eye. 39 00:02:39,540 --> 00:02:41,900 Nothing sells like sincerity. 40 00:02:47,060 --> 00:02:50,860 Five men wearing white surgical gloves, business suits 41 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:53,420 and carrying camera and electronic surveillance equipment 42 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:55,340 were arrested early today in the headquarters 43 00:02:55,420 --> 00:02:57,380 of the Democratic National Committee 44 00:02:57,420 --> 00:02:58,820 in Washington. 45 00:02:58,860 --> 00:03:00,860 They were unarmed. 46 00:03:00,940 --> 00:03:04,060 Nobody knows yet why they were there or what they were looking for. 47 00:03:59,660 --> 00:04:01,500 Good evening, General Haig. 48 00:04:07,220 --> 00:04:09,100 Good evening, sir. 49 00:04:12,380 --> 00:04:15,180 Judge John Sirica today 50 00:04:15,260 --> 00:04:18,540 sentenced the Watergate burglars to terms ranging up to 40 years. 51 00:04:18,620 --> 00:04:21,420 The White House continues to deny any involvement. 52 00:04:23,140 --> 00:04:25,980 Presidential counsel John Dean 53 00:04:26,060 --> 00:04:28,380 testified before the Senate Watergate committee 54 00:04:28,460 --> 00:04:31,780 that the scandal reaches to the highest levels. 55 00:04:33,820 --> 00:04:36,620 Presidential aides Haldeman and Ehrlichman 56 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:38,540 were ordered to resign today. 57 00:04:38,620 --> 00:04:41,420 In a stunning announcement, White House aide Alexander Butterfield 58 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:44,300 revealed the existence of a secret taping system. 59 00:04:46,580 --> 00:04:48,900 Vice President Agnew resigned today 60 00:04:48,980 --> 00:04:52,380 after pleading no contest to a charge of income tax evasion. 61 00:04:52,420 --> 00:04:54,300 The president has fired 62 00:04:54,380 --> 00:04:56,220 the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, 63 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:59,100 provoking the greatest constitutional crisis in American history. 64 00:04:59,180 --> 00:05:01,020 On Capitol Hill today, 65 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:03,900 eight resolutions calling for the impeachment of the president 66 00:05:03,980 --> 00:05:06,780 were referred to the judiciary committee by the House of Representatives. 67 00:05:06,860 --> 00:05:09,180 It was disclosed to Judge Sirica 68 00:05:09,260 --> 00:05:12,060 that there is an 18-and-a-halfminute gap 69 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:13,980 in the June 20, 1972 taped conversation 70 00:05:14,060 --> 00:05:15,900 between the president and Bob Haldeman. 71 00:05:15,980 --> 00:05:18,780 Reactions of shock and anger are coming from all sectors of the nation. 72 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:21,180 Judge John Sirica has ordered the president 73 00:05:21,220 --> 00:05:24,060 to turn over his tapes to special prosecutor Leon Jaworski. 74 00:05:24,140 --> 00:05:27,900 The tapes contain conversations between the president and his aides 75 00:05:27,980 --> 00:05:30,780 and are believed to include discussions of the Watergate scandal. 76 00:05:30,820 --> 00:05:33,660 The White House has not yet responded To Judge Sirica's order, 77 00:05:33,740 --> 00:05:37,020 and it is not yet known whether the president will comply. 78 00:05:44,780 --> 00:05:46,660 Yeah. 79 00:05:55,140 --> 00:05:57,940 These are the tapes you requested, Mr. President. 80 00:06:08,380 --> 00:06:10,220 Okay. 81 00:06:21,260 --> 00:06:23,460 Cocksucker! 82 00:06:25,180 --> 00:06:27,420 Nixon's never been good with these things, Al. 83 00:06:27,460 --> 00:06:29,340 I'll take care of it, sir. 84 00:06:29,380 --> 00:06:31,020 Do you mind, sir? 85 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:32,940 Oh. 86 00:06:33,020 --> 00:06:35,340 Sorry. -Okay. Go on. 87 00:06:42,740 --> 00:06:44,580 You know, Al, 88 00:06:45,740 --> 00:06:48,220 if Hoover were alive, 89 00:06:48,300 --> 00:06:51,220 these tapes would never have gotten out. 90 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:53,820 I want the little shit back. 91 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:57,900 Mr. Hoover was a realist. -Yeah. 92 00:06:57,980 --> 00:06:59,820 Not like the others. 93 00:06:59,900 --> 00:07:03,300 Dean, McCord, the rest. 94 00:07:05,220 --> 00:07:08,500 We never got our side of the story out, Al. 95 00:07:08,580 --> 00:07:10,940 People have forgotten. 96 00:07:11,020 --> 00:07:12,860 Such violence. 97 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:16,220 The tear gassing, the riots, 98 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:18,140 burning the draft cards, 99 00:07:18,220 --> 00:07:20,980 the black panthers. 100 00:07:22,220 --> 00:07:25,180 We fixed it, Al, and they hate me for it. 101 00:07:25,260 --> 00:07:27,100 'Cause it's Nixon. 102 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:29,220 They always hated Nixon. 103 00:07:31,380 --> 00:07:33,540 You're all set, sir. 104 00:07:33,580 --> 00:07:35,460 Okay. -Good night, Mr. President. 105 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:37,220 Good night, Al. 106 00:07:41,020 --> 00:07:42,860 Hey, Al. 107 00:07:44,540 --> 00:07:46,940 Men in your profession 108 00:07:47,020 --> 00:07:49,860 give 'em a pistol and then leave the room. 109 00:07:52,780 --> 00:07:55,020 I don't have a pistol, Al. 110 00:08:07,460 --> 00:08:10,780 Oh. Goddamn it. 111 00:08:22,860 --> 00:08:24,700 They did what? 112 00:08:24,780 --> 00:08:27,100 Evidently to install bugs and photograph documents. 113 00:08:27,140 --> 00:08:29,540 It was a fishing expedition. It was their fourth attempt at the D.N.C. 114 00:08:29,620 --> 00:08:31,500 O'Brien doesn't even use that office. 115 00:08:31,660 --> 00:08:33,540 It's possible they were looking for evidence 116 00:08:33,580 --> 00:08:35,940 of an illegal Howard Hughes donation to the Democrats. 117 00:08:35,980 --> 00:08:38,340 The Democrats could make an issue of your Hughes money. 118 00:08:38,380 --> 00:08:40,260 It was a legal contribution. 119 00:08:40,300 --> 00:08:43,620 It's not clear the burglars even knew what they were looking for. 120 00:08:43,660 --> 00:08:45,980 They were headed for McGovern's office Later that same night. 121 00:08:46,060 --> 00:08:48,580 Did Mitchell know about this? -I don't know. 122 00:08:48,660 --> 00:08:51,980 Mitchell's out of his mind right now. Martha put her head through a window. 123 00:08:52,060 --> 00:08:54,060 Jesus. Through a window? 124 00:08:54,140 --> 00:08:57,700 Yeah, they're taking her to Bellevue. Maybe she'll stay this time. 125 00:08:57,780 --> 00:09:01,740 Martha's an idiot. She'll do anything to get Mitchell's attention. 126 00:09:01,820 --> 00:09:05,220 If Mitchell had been minding the store instead of that nut Martha, 127 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:08,260 we wouldn't have this kid MacGruder running some third-rate burglary. 128 00:09:08,340 --> 00:09:10,820 We feel the bigger concern is Gordon Liddy. 129 00:09:10,860 --> 00:09:13,460 Liddy? That fruitcake? What about him? -That's just it, sir. 130 00:09:13,540 --> 00:09:15,380 He is a nut. 131 00:09:15,460 --> 00:09:18,740 He used to work here with the plumbers, turns up running this Watergate caper. 132 00:09:18,820 --> 00:09:22,060 Remember his plan to firebomb Brookings using Cubans as firemen ? 133 00:09:22,140 --> 00:09:24,620 What's Liddy got? -He was using some campaign cash 134 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:27,300 that was laundered for us through Mexico, the F.B.I.'s onto it. 135 00:09:27,380 --> 00:09:29,540 We could have a problem with that. 136 00:09:29,580 --> 00:09:32,260 But that's just a campaign finance violation. 137 00:09:32,340 --> 00:09:35,260 So, if--Yeah, if Liddy takes the rap for Watergate, 138 00:09:35,340 --> 00:09:37,660 we can take care of him and that lets us off the hook. 139 00:09:37,740 --> 00:09:40,260 I don't have time for all this shit. Just handle it, Bob. 140 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:43,780 Keep it out of the White House. I gotta see Kissinger. 141 00:09:43,860 --> 00:09:47,740 He's throwing a tantrum, threatening to quit. Again. 142 00:09:49,620 --> 00:09:51,780 What else? 143 00:09:52,820 --> 00:09:54,700 Well, sir, uh, 144 00:09:54,740 --> 00:09:58,660 one of the people implicated is still on the White House payroll. 145 00:09:58,700 --> 00:10:00,740 Who? Not another goddamn Cuban. 146 00:10:00,820 --> 00:10:03,460 Uh, no, sir. A guy named Hunt. 147 00:10:03,540 --> 00:10:05,580 Howard Hunt, sir. 148 00:10:05,660 --> 00:10:08,460 Hunt? Howard Hunt? 149 00:10:10,540 --> 00:10:14,020 Dumb bastard left his White House phone number in his hotel room. 150 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:15,980 He works for Colson. 151 00:10:16,020 --> 00:10:18,140 He used him on the Pentagon papers. 152 00:10:18,220 --> 00:10:21,220 This guy dumped his wiretapping stuff into his White House safe. 153 00:10:21,300 --> 00:10:25,860 We're trying to figure out when he stopped being a White House consultant. 154 00:10:25,940 --> 00:10:28,780 Howard Hunt is working For the White House? 155 00:10:28,820 --> 00:10:30,700 Jesus Christ. 156 00:10:30,740 --> 00:10:33,380 This is goddamn Disneyland. Since when? 157 00:10:33,420 --> 00:10:36,620 Since Chappaquiddick. He wanted dirt on Kennedy. 158 00:10:36,660 --> 00:10:39,460 Colson brought him in. -You know Hunt, sir? 159 00:10:39,500 --> 00:10:41,540 Yeah, on the list of horribles. 160 00:10:41,580 --> 00:10:45,380 I know what he is and I know what he tracks back to. 161 00:10:45,420 --> 00:10:48,260 He was involved in the plumbers? -Oh, definitely. 162 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:51,140 Colson had him break into Bremer's apartment after Bremer shot Wallace 163 00:10:51,180 --> 00:10:52,900 to plant McGovern's campaign literature. 164 00:10:55,380 --> 00:10:57,700 I had nothing to do with that. 165 00:10:57,780 --> 00:11:00,860 He was in this Ellsberg thing too? -Yes. You approved it, sir. 166 00:11:01,980 --> 00:11:04,180 I did? 167 00:11:04,260 --> 00:11:06,620 It was right after the Pentagon papers broke. 168 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:09,980 They went in to get his psychiatric records. We were working on China. 169 00:11:14,380 --> 00:11:16,460 Fuck. 170 00:11:21,780 --> 00:11:23,620 Out! 171 00:11:23,660 --> 00:11:25,540 What the fuck? 172 00:11:25,580 --> 00:11:28,140 You're not supposed to take pictures of me! Take pictures of the files! 173 00:11:28,220 --> 00:11:30,020 Give me that fucking film! 174 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:33,380 Howard Hunt. 175 00:11:33,420 --> 00:11:35,300 Jesus Christ. 176 00:11:35,340 --> 00:11:38,500 You open up that scab, you'll uncover a lot of pus. 177 00:11:38,540 --> 00:11:40,940 What do you mean? 178 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:44,140 Where's Hunt now? -He's in hiding. 179 00:11:44,220 --> 00:11:46,940 He sent Liddy in to talk to Dean. 180 00:11:47,020 --> 00:11:48,860 And? -He wants money. 181 00:11:48,940 --> 00:11:51,420 Then pay him. 182 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:54,780 I told him to get out of the country. It's crazy to start a relationship-- 183 00:11:54,820 --> 00:11:57,660 What the hell are you doing, John, screwing with the C.I.A.? 184 00:11:57,740 --> 00:12:00,220 I don't care how much he wants. Just pay him. 185 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:02,660 What are we paying him for, sir? 186 00:12:02,740 --> 00:12:04,620 Silence. 187 00:12:04,660 --> 00:12:06,820 But, sir, you're covered. 188 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:08,780 It's only this Ellsberg thing, 189 00:12:08,820 --> 00:12:11,660 and if that comes out, it's national security. 190 00:12:19,340 --> 00:12:23,980 I say we cut ourselves loose from these clowns, and that's all there is to it. 191 00:12:24,060 --> 00:12:26,620 No, it's more than that. I want Hunt paid. 192 00:12:26,660 --> 00:12:29,540 We've never done that before, sir. How do we do it? 193 00:12:29,620 --> 00:12:34,500 We should set up a Cuban defence fund on this and take care of all of 'em. 194 00:12:34,540 --> 00:12:37,540 Should we talk to Trini about paying? -No, keep Trini out of this. 195 00:12:37,620 --> 00:12:40,460 And for God's sake, keep Colson out. 196 00:12:40,500 --> 00:12:43,620 It's time to baptize Our young counsel here, Mr. Dean. 197 00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:47,140 That means John can never talk about it. Attorney-client privilege. 198 00:12:47,180 --> 00:12:49,060 So get to it. -Uh-huh. 199 00:12:49,100 --> 00:12:51,780 John, you stay close to this, okay? -Don't worry, sir. 200 00:12:51,820 --> 00:12:53,740 Good. 201 00:12:56,620 --> 00:12:59,300 Okay. 202 00:13:00,780 --> 00:13:04,620 Did I approve the Ellsberg thing? Huh? 203 00:13:05,980 --> 00:13:09,740 You know, I'm glad we tape all these conversations, but 204 00:13:09,820 --> 00:13:13,100 I never approved the break-in At the Ellsbergs'. 205 00:13:13,180 --> 00:13:15,980 Oh, maybe I approved it After the fact. 206 00:13:17,300 --> 00:13:20,460 Someday we gotta start transcribing these tapes. 207 00:13:20,540 --> 00:13:23,820 You approved that before the fact because I went over it with you. But I-- 208 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:27,180 But no one's gonna see these tapes. -That's right. 209 00:13:27,260 --> 00:13:30,060 And it's really more of a problem for Ehrlichman. 210 00:13:30,140 --> 00:13:33,420 He's the one who fixed Hunt up with the phony C.I.A. I.D.s. 211 00:13:33,500 --> 00:13:35,820 But what else does Hunt have on us? 212 00:13:37,260 --> 00:13:40,100 We gotta turn off the F.B.I., Bob. 213 00:13:40,140 --> 00:13:44,900 You go to the C.I.A. and tell Helms that Hunt is blackmailing the president. 214 00:13:44,940 --> 00:13:48,740 Tell him Hunt and his Cuban friends Know too damn much, 215 00:13:48,780 --> 00:13:51,620 and if he goes public-- if Hunt goes public-- 216 00:13:51,660 --> 00:13:54,500 it will be a fiasco for the C.I.A. 217 00:13:54,540 --> 00:13:57,460 He'll know what I'm talking about. -All right. 218 00:13:57,540 --> 00:14:01,780 Play it tough. That's the way they play it, and the way we're gonna play it. 219 00:14:01,860 --> 00:14:04,660 Don't lie to Helms and say there's no involvement. 220 00:14:04,740 --> 00:14:09,500 Just say this is a comedy of errors-- bizarre--without getting into it. 221 00:14:09,580 --> 00:14:11,420 And, uh-- 222 00:14:11,500 --> 00:14:15,940 Say the president believes it's gonna open up the whole Bay of Pigs again. 223 00:14:15,980 --> 00:14:18,820 And tell Helms he should call the F.B.I., call Pat Gray 224 00:14:18,860 --> 00:14:21,700 and say that we wish, for the sake of the country, 225 00:14:21,740 --> 00:14:26,380 that, uh, don't go any further into this hanky-panky, period. 226 00:14:26,460 --> 00:14:28,300 Bay of Pigs? 227 00:14:29,660 --> 00:14:32,740 That was Kennedy's screw-up. Why would that threaten us? 228 00:14:32,780 --> 00:14:34,980 Just do what I say, Bob. 229 00:14:35,020 --> 00:14:37,700 The only problem with that, sir-- 230 00:14:37,740 --> 00:14:40,100 It does get us into obstruction of justice. 231 00:14:40,140 --> 00:14:42,980 It's got nothing to do with justice, Bob. It's national security. 232 00:14:43,020 --> 00:14:44,900 How is this national security? 233 00:14:44,940 --> 00:14:47,300 The president says it is. 234 00:14:47,340 --> 00:14:49,380 Now, this isn't a moral issue, Bob. 235 00:14:49,420 --> 00:14:52,260 My job is to protect this country from its enemies, 236 00:14:52,300 --> 00:14:55,220 and its enemies are inside the walls. 237 00:14:55,300 --> 00:14:57,380 We gotta keep our enemies at bay 238 00:14:57,460 --> 00:15:00,460 or our whole program goes down the tubes. 239 00:15:00,540 --> 00:15:02,860 Uh, Vietnam, China, the Soviet Union. 240 00:15:02,940 --> 00:15:05,380 When you look at the big picture, Bob, 241 00:15:05,420 --> 00:15:08,740 damn. -We end up doing good in this world. 242 00:15:08,780 --> 00:15:12,300 So let's not screw it up with a shit-ass, third-rate burglary. 243 00:15:12,380 --> 00:15:15,460 What should I tell Ziegler to tell the press? 244 00:15:15,540 --> 00:15:18,700 Tell 'em what we always tell 'em. Anything but the goddamn truth. 245 00:15:18,780 --> 00:15:21,340 Fuck! 246 00:15:21,420 --> 00:15:24,540 Say the president believes it's gonna open up the whole Bay of Pigs again. 247 00:15:24,580 --> 00:15:27,660 Put me in this position-- -Bay of Pigs? 248 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:30,780 Expose me like this. -Why would that threaten us? 249 00:15:30,860 --> 00:15:32,700 Why don't they Just fucking shoot me? 250 00:15:32,780 --> 00:15:34,700 In the election of 1860, 251 00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:38,220 Abraham Lincoln said the question was whether this nation could exist 252 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:40,500 half-slave or half-free. 253 00:15:40,580 --> 00:15:44,020 In the election of 1960 and with the world around us, 254 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:47,820 the question is whether the world will exist half-slave or half-free. 255 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:50,340 And I think, in the final analysis, 256 00:15:50,380 --> 00:15:53,500 it depends upon what we do here in the United States. 257 00:15:53,580 --> 00:15:56,380 It's time America started moving again. 258 00:15:56,460 --> 00:15:58,860 Mr. Nixon? 259 00:15:58,940 --> 00:16:01,180 When it comes to experience, 260 00:16:01,260 --> 00:16:04,540 through the years I have sat on the National Security Council; 261 00:16:04,620 --> 00:16:07,620 I have been in the cabinet; I have met with the legislative leaders-- 262 00:16:09,820 --> 00:16:11,660 Relax, everybody, relax. 263 00:16:11,740 --> 00:16:15,700 I've had discussions with 35 presidents, 9 prime ministers, 264 00:16:15,780 --> 00:16:18,140 two emperors and the Shah of Iran. 265 00:16:18,220 --> 00:16:21,900 Jesus Christ. Has he told them How many push-ups he can do yet? 266 00:16:21,940 --> 00:16:24,300 Let's take hydroelectric power. 267 00:16:24,340 --> 00:16:26,820 What the hell happened to him? -He just got out of the hospital. 268 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:29,700 He hasn't taken one hour off during this campaign, thanks to you. 269 00:16:29,740 --> 00:16:32,260 When we consider the line up of the world, 270 00:16:32,340 --> 00:16:36,140 we find there are 590 million people on our side, 271 00:16:36,180 --> 00:16:38,620 800 million people on the Communist side-- 272 00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:41,660 Shoulda slapped makeup on him. -It's not a beauty contest. 273 00:16:41,740 --> 00:16:46,500 We'd better hope not. -And 600 million people are neutral. 274 00:16:46,540 --> 00:16:49,380 What are you doing to him, Murray? Look at him. He's not well. 275 00:16:49,420 --> 00:16:52,860 He doesn't have to debate Kennedy. -The odds are 5-3 against us. 276 00:16:52,940 --> 00:16:55,460 When it comes to politics-- -He can win without doing this. 277 00:16:55,540 --> 00:16:58,500 Senator Kennedy, you have one minute for a rebuttal. 278 00:16:58,580 --> 00:17:01,700 Castro is only the beginning of our difficulties throughout Latin America. 279 00:17:01,740 --> 00:17:04,140 Oh, shit, he's gonna do it. Here it comes. 280 00:17:04,220 --> 00:17:06,060 We have seen Cuba go to the Communists. 281 00:17:06,140 --> 00:17:08,940 Eight jet minutes from the coast of Florida. 282 00:17:09,020 --> 00:17:12,540 We must at tempt to strengthen the democratic anti-Castro forces in exile. 283 00:17:12,620 --> 00:17:15,100 These fighters have had virtually no support from our government. 284 00:17:15,140 --> 00:17:17,100 Son of a bitch! -What? What? 285 00:17:17,180 --> 00:17:19,420 Kennedy was briefed Last week by the C.I.A. 286 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:22,300 He's using it against us. He wellshed on the deal. 287 00:17:22,380 --> 00:17:25,700 If we had provided aid, we might never have had Castro. Why didn't we? 288 00:17:25,780 --> 00:17:27,660 Mr. Nixon? 289 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:30,460 Man, he's treading water. -All right, come on. 290 00:17:30,540 --> 00:17:33,340 He violated national security, Dick. Attack the bastard. 291 00:17:33,380 --> 00:17:36,580 the Constitution of the United States, so help me God. 292 00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:42,180 Mr. Nixon. 293 00:17:42,220 --> 00:17:44,100 Yeah. Uh-- 294 00:17:44,140 --> 00:17:46,460 Uh, I think-- 295 00:17:46,500 --> 00:17:48,860 I think that's the sort of, uh, 296 00:17:48,940 --> 00:17:51,220 very dangerous and irresponsible suggestion-- 297 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:53,820 It's over. More coffee? 298 00:17:53,900 --> 00:17:57,140 Helping the Cuban exiles who oppose Castro would, uh, 299 00:17:57,220 --> 00:18:00,140 not only be a violation of international law, 300 00:18:00,220 --> 00:18:03,700 it would be an open invitation for Mr. Khrushchev-- 301 00:18:03,780 --> 00:18:05,820 It's still very close. 302 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:09,180 Uh, Senator Kennedy's lead 303 00:18:09,260 --> 00:18:11,180 is about, uh, 700, 000. 304 00:18:11,260 --> 00:18:14,340 Think maybe Daley stuffed the ballot boxes himself?. 305 00:18:14,420 --> 00:18:17,660 In Texas, they had the goddamn cattle voting. 306 00:18:17,740 --> 00:18:22,340 The closest race in history, Dick, and he stole it. Son of a bitch. 307 00:18:22,380 --> 00:18:26,860 He outspent us and he still cheated. A guy who's got every thing. 308 00:18:26,940 --> 00:18:28,780 I can't believe it. 309 00:18:28,860 --> 00:18:30,700 We came to Congress together. 310 00:18:30,780 --> 00:18:33,420 We were like brothers, for Christ's sake. 311 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:37,180 It all figures. It's an obvious fraud. -We ask for a recount. 312 00:18:37,260 --> 00:18:39,100 Don't be ridiculous. 313 00:18:39,180 --> 00:18:41,980 Nobody has ever contested a presidential election before. 314 00:18:42,020 --> 00:18:45,500 Who's gonna do the counting? The Democrats control Texas, Illinois. 315 00:18:45,580 --> 00:18:47,460 We shift 25, 000 votes in two states. 316 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:50,340 And how long will that take? Six months, a year? 317 00:18:50,380 --> 00:18:52,260 Meanwhile, what happens to the country, Herb? 318 00:18:52,300 --> 00:18:55,140 If I'd called his shot, I'd have won. -That's what I say. 319 00:18:55,180 --> 00:18:57,060 Made me look soft. 320 00:18:57,100 --> 00:18:58,980 ''I feel very sorry for Nixon -No. 321 00:18:59,020 --> 00:19:01,500 ''because he does not know who he is. 322 00:19:01,580 --> 00:19:05,260 A teach stop he has to decide which Nixon he's going to be at the moment, 323 00:19:05,340 --> 00:19:08,500 which must be very exhausting. '' Jack Kennedy. 324 00:19:08,580 --> 00:19:11,740 It's a disgrace. -Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. 325 00:19:11,820 --> 00:19:15,460 ''If he had to stick to the truth, he'd have very little to say. 326 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:19,060 If you vote for Nixon, then you oughta go to hell. ''Harry S. Truman. 327 00:19:19,140 --> 00:19:21,300 That's what killed us, Dick. Not Cuba. 328 00:19:21,380 --> 00:19:25,740 It's the personality problem. You gonna let the Democrats get away with this? 329 00:19:25,820 --> 00:19:27,660 Goes to Harvard. 330 00:19:27,740 --> 00:19:31,260 His father hands him everything on a silver platter. 331 00:19:31,340 --> 00:19:34,540 All my life they've been sticking it to me. 332 00:19:34,620 --> 00:19:39,180 Not the right clothes, not the right schools, not the right family. 333 00:19:39,260 --> 00:19:41,620 And then he steals from me. 334 00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:45,940 He says I have no class, and they love him for it. 335 00:19:46,020 --> 00:19:47,860 You're only 47. 336 00:19:47,940 --> 00:19:51,060 If you contest this election, you'll be finished. 337 00:19:51,140 --> 00:19:53,380 You got ta swallow this one. 338 00:19:53,460 --> 00:19:56,260 They stole it fair and square. 339 00:19:56,340 --> 00:19:58,500 We'll get 'em next time, Dick. 340 00:20:00,420 --> 00:20:02,980 We'll get'em Next time. 341 00:20:05,260 --> 00:20:08,340 What makes you think there's gonna be a next time, Murray? 342 00:20:09,420 --> 00:20:12,740 Because if he's not this Nixon, 343 00:20:12,780 --> 00:20:14,660 he's nobody. 344 00:20:18,060 --> 00:20:20,260 Good morning, sir. -Hi. 345 00:20:29,380 --> 00:20:31,220 Hi. 346 00:20:31,300 --> 00:20:33,140 Hi. 347 00:20:34,180 --> 00:20:36,020 We lost. 348 00:20:37,060 --> 00:20:39,380 I know. 349 00:20:39,460 --> 00:20:41,300 I hate to lose. 350 00:20:46,420 --> 00:20:48,300 It makes us human. 351 00:20:48,340 --> 00:20:50,220 It's not fair, Buddy. 352 00:20:51,980 --> 00:20:53,860 I can take the insults. 353 00:20:53,900 --> 00:20:55,780 I can take the name-calling. 354 00:20:55,820 --> 00:20:57,700 But I can't take the losing. 355 00:20:57,740 --> 00:20:59,620 I hate it. 356 00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:06,860 We don't have to put ourselves through this again, Dick. 357 00:21:08,380 --> 00:21:10,660 We worked for it. We earned it. 358 00:21:10,740 --> 00:21:12,580 It's ours. 359 00:21:12,660 --> 00:21:14,620 It is. We know that. 360 00:21:16,620 --> 00:21:18,980 And it's enough That we know. 361 00:21:23,780 --> 00:21:25,620 Just think Of the girls. 362 00:21:26,980 --> 00:21:28,980 They're still young. 363 00:21:29,060 --> 00:21:30,900 We never see them. 364 00:21:34,020 --> 00:21:36,820 I lost my parents when I was young. 365 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:39,700 I don't want them to lose theirs. 366 00:21:49,060 --> 00:21:53,180 Maybe I should Get out of the game. 367 00:21:53,260 --> 00:21:55,580 What do you think, Buddy? 368 00:21:55,620 --> 00:21:58,940 And go back to being a lawyer. 369 00:21:59,020 --> 00:22:02,780 End up with something solid, some money at the end of the line. 370 00:22:04,460 --> 00:22:06,300 You know, I, uh, 371 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:10,940 keep thinking of my old man tonight. 372 00:22:11,020 --> 00:22:12,860 He was a failure too. 373 00:22:12,940 --> 00:22:15,340 You're not a failure, Dick. 374 00:22:15,420 --> 00:22:19,180 You know how much money he had in the bank when he died? 375 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:22,460 Nothing. 376 00:22:22,540 --> 00:22:24,380 He was so damned honest. 377 00:22:26,100 --> 00:22:27,940 But I miss him. 378 00:22:29,380 --> 00:22:32,180 I miss him a hell of a lot. 379 00:22:50,180 --> 00:22:52,500 Dad! Dad! -I got the beets for him. 380 00:22:52,580 --> 00:22:54,420 Dad. -Is she in there? 381 00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:57,500 Come on, give me a chance. -I don't have time for you right now. 382 00:22:57,580 --> 00:22:59,420 I got work to do. 383 00:23:07,980 --> 00:23:10,340 How is thy son? -Very well, thank you. 384 00:23:10,380 --> 00:23:12,260 What'd he say? 385 00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:15,500 He said, In life, there's no free ride. 386 00:23:15,580 --> 00:23:19,980 What'd you say? -I didn't need a ride, I need a suit. 387 00:23:20,060 --> 00:23:22,380 Oh, no. Harold. 388 00:23:22,460 --> 00:23:25,500 He doesn't respond well to humor. 389 00:23:25,540 --> 00:23:27,540 Maybe Mother can help straighten it out. 390 00:23:27,620 --> 00:23:29,500 I'd rather get a whippin' than listen to another of her talks. 391 00:23:29,580 --> 00:23:32,780 Relax, Dick. 392 00:23:35,740 --> 00:23:39,180 Donald, finish thy sweeping then pick out the bad apples. 393 00:23:39,260 --> 00:23:41,100 Yes, Mother. 394 00:23:42,180 --> 00:23:44,020 I'm working. 395 00:23:45,220 --> 00:23:48,180 Richard, come with me, would thee? 396 00:23:49,580 --> 00:23:51,420 Wh-Why me? 397 00:23:53,500 --> 00:23:55,340 Ooh. 398 00:23:57,260 --> 00:24:01,140 Because Harold hast father's will is no reason to admire him. 399 00:24:01,220 --> 00:24:06,420 Let Harold's worldliness be a warning to thee, not an example. 400 00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:08,340 Yes, Mother. 401 00:24:12,540 --> 00:24:15,660 Harold may have lost touch with his bible, 402 00:24:15,740 --> 00:24:17,580 but thee must never lapse. 403 00:24:20,780 --> 00:24:22,660 Now, give it to me. 404 00:24:26,620 --> 00:24:28,780 Do not tell a lie, Richard. 405 00:24:28,860 --> 00:24:32,620 The corn silk cigarette Harold gave thee behind the store this morning. 406 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:35,780 I don't have them. Mother, I-- 407 00:24:35,860 --> 00:24:38,620 I promise I didn't smoke. 408 00:24:39,660 --> 00:24:41,500 I see. 409 00:24:41,580 --> 00:24:45,900 Well, then, Richard, we have nothing more to talk about, do we? 410 00:24:47,020 --> 00:24:50,300 Please! Please. 411 00:24:50,380 --> 00:24:53,340 Mother, I'm sorry. It was-- 412 00:24:53,420 --> 00:24:56,020 It was just one time. 413 00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:57,900 I'm sorry. 414 00:25:00,140 --> 00:25:02,020 So am I. 415 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:06,780 Thy father will have to know of thy lying. 416 00:25:06,860 --> 00:25:09,140 No, please, don't-- don't--don't tell him. 417 00:25:09,220 --> 00:25:12,020 I'll never do it again. I promise. Please. 418 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:13,940 Richard, I expected more from thee. 419 00:25:14,980 --> 00:25:16,820 Please, Mama. 420 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:19,140 I shall never Let thee down again. 421 00:25:20,620 --> 00:25:23,460 Then this shall be our little secret. 422 00:25:27,420 --> 00:25:31,180 Remember, I see into thy soul. 423 00:25:31,260 --> 00:25:33,580 Thee may fool the world, 424 00:25:33,660 --> 00:25:35,500 even thy father, 425 00:25:35,580 --> 00:25:37,700 but not me, Richard. 426 00:25:37,780 --> 00:25:39,660 Never me. 427 00:25:41,780 --> 00:25:44,140 Mother, 428 00:25:44,180 --> 00:25:47,460 think of me always as thy faithful dog. 429 00:26:01,820 --> 00:26:04,620 Thank you. -We'll be in the next room. 430 00:26:13,220 --> 00:26:15,140 Richard. 431 00:26:15,220 --> 00:26:17,100 Is it my turn? 432 00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:23,660 O heavenly Father, we humbly thank you-- 433 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:26,660 I'll do it. There's a couple Of things I wanna say. 434 00:26:26,740 --> 00:26:30,220 Could thee at least remove thy apron, Frank? 435 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:32,140 This blood pays the bills, Hannah. 436 00:26:32,220 --> 00:26:34,900 I'm not ashamed of how I earn my money. 437 00:26:36,860 --> 00:26:39,020 Heavenly Father, 438 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:42,860 you told Adam in the garden, after that business with the snake, 439 00:26:42,940 --> 00:26:47,020 that man would have to earn his way by the sweat of his face. 440 00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:49,900 Well, as far as I can tell, Father, 441 00:26:49,980 --> 00:26:53,060 what was true in Eden is true in Whittier, California. 442 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:56,540 So we ask you now to remind certain Of our young people 443 00:26:56,620 --> 00:27:01,220 the only way to get a new suit to go to the promenade with Margaret O'Herlihy-- 444 00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:03,980 who happens to be a Catholic, by the way-- 445 00:27:04,020 --> 00:27:07,060 is to work for it. 446 00:27:07,140 --> 00:27:09,020 Amen. -Amen. 447 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:10,700 Amen. -Amen. 448 00:27:10,780 --> 00:27:12,620 Are we gonna pray now, Daddy? 449 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:15,220 Don't be silly. 450 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:17,180 You think this is funny? 451 00:27:17,260 --> 00:27:19,660 Maybe a trip to the woods hed'll straighten you out. 452 00:27:19,740 --> 00:27:23,980 Pretty soon you boys are gonna have to get out there and scratch. 453 00:27:24,060 --> 00:27:28,860 'Cause you're not gonna get anywhere on your good looks-just ask those fellas. 454 00:27:28,940 --> 00:27:31,260 Charity's only gonna get you so far, 455 00:27:31,340 --> 00:27:34,020 even with saints like your mother around. 456 00:27:34,100 --> 00:27:37,540 Struggle's what gives life meaning. Not victory, struggle. 457 00:27:37,620 --> 00:27:40,460 When you quit struggling, they've beaten you. 458 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:44,780 And then you end up in the street with your hand out. 459 00:27:47,020 --> 00:27:49,380 My mother was a saint, 460 00:27:49,460 --> 00:27:52,500 but my old man struggled his whole life. 461 00:27:52,580 --> 00:27:56,740 They could call him a little man, a poor man, 462 00:27:56,820 --> 00:27:58,700 but they never beat him. 463 00:27:58,740 --> 00:28:01,100 I always tried to remember that 464 00:28:01,140 --> 00:28:03,940 when things didn't go my way. 465 00:28:04,020 --> 00:28:07,860 Let's really get fired up now! -Get on your stand, Nixon! 466 00:28:07,940 --> 00:28:10,700 28! 44! 467 00:28:18,540 --> 00:28:21,260 Come on, get in there! 468 00:28:21,340 --> 00:28:24,140 What's Nixon doing here? -He thinks he can make it. 469 00:28:24,220 --> 00:28:26,860 Four years of being a tackling dummy. Poor guy. 470 00:28:26,940 --> 00:28:29,180 Let's go, Nixon! 471 00:28:29,220 --> 00:28:31,900 Hike! 472 00:28:31,980 --> 00:28:35,740 Worst athlete I've ever seen. 473 00:28:35,780 --> 00:28:38,540 But he's got guts. 474 00:28:40,980 --> 00:28:43,300 Okay, let's go! Let's do it! 475 00:28:43,380 --> 00:28:45,260 In California's gubernatorial race, 476 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:48,140 Richard Nixon has returned to the political arena 477 00:28:48,180 --> 00:28:51,300 in what is shaping up to be a long and acrimonious bid 478 00:28:51,340 --> 00:28:53,100 against popular incumbent Edmund G. Brown. 479 00:28:53,140 --> 00:28:57,740 Brown's campaign has benefited greatly from the support of President Kennedy, 480 00:28:57,780 --> 00:28:59,660 while Nixon has had trouble convincing voters 481 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:02,020 this is not another run for the presidency. 482 00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:05,100 With only a few precincts left unreported, 483 00:29:05,260 --> 00:29:07,020 all indications are of another defeat for Nixon, 484 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:11,180 who lost the presidency just two years ago by a paper-thin margin. 485 00:29:11,260 --> 00:29:13,500 It seems his brief political comeback-- 486 00:29:13,580 --> 00:29:17,220 You making a statement? 487 00:29:17,260 --> 00:29:19,140 Thank you, Fidel Castro. 488 00:29:19,180 --> 00:29:22,180 You're not going to blame Castro. -I sure am! 489 00:29:22,260 --> 00:29:25,100 Goddamn missile crisis united the whole country behind Kennedy. 490 00:29:25,140 --> 00:29:28,100 And he was supporting Brown. People were scared, that's why. 491 00:29:28,180 --> 00:29:30,140 I suppose Castro staged the whole thing just to beat you. 492 00:29:30,220 --> 00:29:32,900 Buddy, before you join the jubilation of my being beaten again, remember: 493 00:29:32,940 --> 00:29:34,820 people vote not out of love but fear. 494 00:29:34,860 --> 00:29:38,300 They don't teach that at Sunday school Or the Whittier Community Playhouse. 495 00:29:38,380 --> 00:29:41,900 I'll go check with our people. 496 00:29:41,980 --> 00:29:43,940 I'm glad they don't, Dick, 497 00:29:44,020 --> 00:29:47,980 because life is tough and it is unfair, 498 00:29:48,060 --> 00:29:50,900 and sometimes you forget that in your self-pity. 499 00:29:50,980 --> 00:29:54,020 Happy days are here again -You forget sometimes, Dick, 500 00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:57,020 that I had a life before you, before California-- 501 00:29:57,060 --> 00:29:59,340 Let us sing a song Of cheer again-- 502 00:29:59,420 --> 00:30:01,500 Cocksucker! 503 00:30:04,060 --> 00:30:07,660 Don't you want to listen to Gov. Brown's victory speech? 504 00:30:07,740 --> 00:30:10,220 Nope. Not going to listen to any more speeches ever again. 505 00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:12,940 Amen to that. 506 00:30:13,020 --> 00:30:16,580 It's over, Dick. -I'll concede in the morning. 507 00:30:16,660 --> 00:30:18,540 Not that. 508 00:30:26,980 --> 00:30:28,860 Buddy? 509 00:30:47,140 --> 00:30:49,460 I have always stood by you. 510 00:30:49,540 --> 00:30:52,820 I campaigned for you when I was pregnant. 511 00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:56,660 During Checkers, when Ike wanted you out, I told you to fight. 512 00:30:58,220 --> 00:31:00,580 This is different, Dick. 513 00:31:00,620 --> 00:31:02,500 You've changed. 514 00:31:03,980 --> 00:31:07,780 You've grown more bitter, like you're at war with the world. 515 00:31:07,820 --> 00:31:10,380 You weren't that way before. 516 00:31:12,860 --> 00:31:15,300 I'm 50 years old now, Dick. 517 00:31:15,380 --> 00:31:18,220 How many millions of miles have I traveled? 518 00:31:18,260 --> 00:31:22,020 How many millions of peoples' hands have I shaked that I just don't like? 519 00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:24,420 How many thank-you notes have I written? 520 00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:28,300 It's as if I, I don't know, Just went to sleep a long time ago 521 00:31:28,340 --> 00:31:30,180 and missed the years between. 522 00:31:32,660 --> 00:31:35,060 I've had enough. 523 00:31:36,740 --> 00:31:40,300 What are you saying? What are you talking about? 524 00:31:41,660 --> 00:31:44,260 I want a divorce. 525 00:31:44,340 --> 00:31:46,860 My God. Divorce? 526 00:31:47,980 --> 00:31:50,180 What about the girls? 527 00:31:51,220 --> 00:31:53,100 The girls'll grow up. 528 00:31:53,140 --> 00:31:55,940 They only know you from television anyway. 529 00:31:56,020 --> 00:31:57,860 It'll ruin us, Our family. 530 00:31:57,940 --> 00:32:01,020 You're ruining us. If we stay with you, you'll take us down with you. 531 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:03,900 This isn't political, Dick. This is our life. 532 00:32:03,940 --> 00:32:06,780 Everything's political, I'm political, you're political. 533 00:32:06,860 --> 00:32:08,700 No, I'm not. I'm finished. 534 00:32:14,820 --> 00:32:17,620 Well, this is just What they want, Buddy. 535 00:32:18,660 --> 00:32:20,500 Don't you see? 536 00:32:23,420 --> 00:32:26,220 They want to drive us apart, to beat us. 537 00:32:27,380 --> 00:32:29,700 We can't let them do it. 538 00:32:29,780 --> 00:32:32,100 We've been through too much together, Buddy. 539 00:32:32,180 --> 00:32:34,540 We belong together. 540 00:32:34,580 --> 00:32:37,940 That's what you said the first time we met. 541 00:32:38,020 --> 00:32:40,540 You didn't even know me. 542 00:32:40,620 --> 00:32:42,460 Oh, yes, I did. 543 00:32:45,460 --> 00:32:48,300 I asked you to marry me, didn't I? 544 00:32:48,340 --> 00:32:50,220 On our first date. 545 00:32:51,220 --> 00:32:53,060 I said it because I knew-- 546 00:32:54,380 --> 00:32:56,740 I knew you were the one. 547 00:32:58,460 --> 00:33:00,540 So solid. 548 00:33:00,580 --> 00:33:03,180 So strong. 549 00:33:03,260 --> 00:33:05,340 So beautiful. -I'm Pat Ryan. 550 00:33:05,420 --> 00:33:07,260 Uh, 551 00:33:07,340 --> 00:33:09,860 Richard Nixon. -Pleasure to meet you. 552 00:33:09,940 --> 00:33:12,660 Pleasure to meet you. 553 00:33:24,740 --> 00:33:29,020 Are you happy I called? -In a way, yes. 554 00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:31,180 Don't tell me you've been cutting my part. 555 00:33:31,260 --> 00:33:34,540 Of course, honey, you know I would never deceive you. Don't you? 556 00:34:02,460 --> 00:34:05,740 You were the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. 557 00:34:07,740 --> 00:34:10,140 I don't want to lose you. 558 00:34:12,340 --> 00:34:14,180 Ever. 559 00:34:14,260 --> 00:34:16,140 Dick, don't. 560 00:34:22,180 --> 00:34:24,980 You really want me to quit? 561 00:34:28,420 --> 00:34:30,260 We can be happy. 562 00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:33,660 We really can. 563 00:34:35,420 --> 00:34:38,220 The girls and I love you, Dick. 564 00:34:41,740 --> 00:34:43,580 And if I stop 565 00:34:43,620 --> 00:34:47,100 there'll be no more talk of divorce? 566 00:34:56,340 --> 00:34:58,180 I'll do it. 567 00:34:58,260 --> 00:35:00,660 No more. 568 00:35:02,180 --> 00:35:04,340 Are you serious ? 569 00:35:04,420 --> 00:35:07,500 Yeah. I'm out. 570 00:35:08,660 --> 00:35:11,220 Is that the truth? 571 00:35:13,340 --> 00:35:15,660 I'll never run again. 572 00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:17,540 I promise. 573 00:35:19,460 --> 00:35:21,340 Yeah. 574 00:35:23,860 --> 00:35:26,180 I love you, Buddy. 575 00:35:26,220 --> 00:35:28,020 I love you. 576 00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:29,940 I love you. 577 00:35:32,940 --> 00:35:34,740 Where are they? 578 00:35:34,820 --> 00:35:37,620 Dick, you don't have to make a statement. Herb covered 'em for you. 579 00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:39,540 No! 580 00:35:39,620 --> 00:35:44,100 Gentlemen, Mr. Nixon is a man who is graceful in defeat, 581 00:35:44,180 --> 00:35:46,180 and if he was here with us-- 582 00:35:50,740 --> 00:35:52,780 Can I have some quiet, please? 583 00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:57,460 Give the-- just a second! 584 00:35:57,540 --> 00:36:01,380 Can I have some quiet, please? Quiet! 585 00:36:01,460 --> 00:36:03,420 Thank you! 586 00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:05,940 Mr. Nixon! 587 00:36:06,020 --> 00:36:09,900 I believe Governor Brown has a heart, 588 00:36:09,980 --> 00:36:12,780 even though he believes I do not. 589 00:36:12,860 --> 00:36:16,620 Uh, I believe he's a good American, 590 00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:19,340 even though he feels I am not. 591 00:36:19,420 --> 00:36:24,540 I'm proud of the fact that I defended my opponent's patriotism. 592 00:36:24,580 --> 00:36:28,180 Uh, you gentlemen didn't report it, but I'm proud that I did that. 593 00:36:30,460 --> 00:36:34,700 And I would appreciate it, for once, if you would just print what I say. 594 00:36:34,780 --> 00:36:36,860 Uh, for 16 years, 595 00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:40,660 uh, ever since the Hiss case, you've had a lot of fun. 596 00:36:40,740 --> 00:36:42,580 A lot of fun. 597 00:36:42,660 --> 00:36:45,420 But recognize you have a responsibility, 598 00:36:45,500 --> 00:36:49,260 if you're against the candidate, to give him the shaft. 599 00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:52,140 But if you do that, at least put one lonely reporter on the campaign 600 00:36:52,220 --> 00:36:55,020 who will report what the candidate says now and then. 601 00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:58,700 Uh, I think, 602 00:36:58,780 --> 00:37:01,900 all in all, I've given as good as I've taken. 603 00:37:01,980 --> 00:37:05,380 But as I leave you, I w-- I want you to know-- 604 00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:08,460 Just think what you're gonna be missing. 605 00:37:08,540 --> 00:37:11,820 Uh, you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore. 606 00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:13,700 Kick around anymore. 607 00:37:23,540 --> 00:37:26,220 Because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. 608 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:28,620 Thank you and good day. -Mr. Nixon! 609 00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:31,380 Is this the end of politics for you? 610 00:37:39,620 --> 00:37:41,460 Here in California 611 00:37:41,540 --> 00:37:45,500 we can officially write the political obituary of Richard Milhouse Nixon. 612 00:37:45,540 --> 00:37:48,660 As mall town lawyer like Lincoln, Nixon became a representative at 33 613 00:37:48,740 --> 00:37:50,660 and a senator at 35 614 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:54,020 as part of the post war Republican sweep of the congressional elections 615 00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:56,900 that attacked F.D.R.'s big-government new deal. 616 00:37:56,940 --> 00:37:59,420 Running as a South Pacific veteran, 617 00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:03,740 victories over Congressman Jerry Voorhis and Senator Helen Gahagan Douglas 618 00:38:03,780 --> 00:38:06,180 made it clear that, to Nixon, politics was war. 619 00:38:06,260 --> 00:38:08,620 He didn't have opponents, he had enemies. 620 00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:11,500 Why, she's pink, right down to her underwear! 621 00:38:11,580 --> 00:38:14,020 Nixon became one of the leading lights 622 00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:16,060 on the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee, 623 00:38:16,140 --> 00:38:19,260 questioning labor leaders, Spanish Civil War veterans, Hollywood celebrities. 624 00:38:19,300 --> 00:38:21,980 If I had my way, they'd all be sent back to Russia. 625 00:38:22,060 --> 00:38:25,420 But it was the Alger Hiss case that made Nixon a household name. 626 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:27,500 One of the architects Of the United Nations, 627 00:38:27,580 --> 00:38:29,860 intimate of F.D.R. and Oliver Wendell Holmes, 628 00:38:29,900 --> 00:38:32,580 Alger Hiss was a State Department diplomat 629 00:38:32,620 --> 00:38:34,860 accused by freelance journalist Whittaker Chambers 630 00:38:34,940 --> 00:38:36,780 of passing secret documents to the Soviet Union. 631 00:38:36,860 --> 00:38:40,900 Hiss is lying. -Hiss claimed he was being set up 632 00:38:40,980 --> 00:38:44,020 by Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover to discredit the new deal's policies. 633 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:48,420 I am not, and never have been, a member of the Communist party. 634 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:51,300 The case came down to an Underwood typewriter 635 00:38:51,340 --> 00:38:54,340 and a roll of film hidden in a pumpkin patch. 636 00:38:54,380 --> 00:38:57,700 I asked Hiss if he'd known Chambers. 637 00:38:57,740 --> 00:39:00,980 When he said no, I knew he was lying; I knew I had him. 638 00:39:01,060 --> 00:39:04,620 After two trials, Hiss was convicted not of spying but of per jury. 639 00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:07,580 To some, Nixon was a hero and a patriot. 640 00:39:07,660 --> 00:39:10,500 But to many, he was a shameless self-promoter. 641 00:39:10,540 --> 00:39:12,580 Eleanor Roosevelt angrily condemned him. 642 00:39:12,660 --> 00:39:16,580 Nixon continued to tear into Truman, Acheson and the Democratic party 643 00:39:16,620 --> 00:39:19,340 for losing mainland China in 1949 644 00:39:19,420 --> 00:39:22,020 and blamed the Korean War on a weak foreign policy. 645 00:39:22,100 --> 00:39:25,060 I promise to expose and to continue to expose 646 00:39:25,140 --> 00:39:27,460 the people that have sold this country down the river! 647 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:32,580 His speeches, if more subtle than those Of his Republican all Joe McCarthy, 648 00:39:32,660 --> 00:39:34,660 were just as aggressive. 649 00:39:34,740 --> 00:39:39,340 The direct result of Truman's decision is that China has gone Communist! 650 00:39:39,420 --> 00:39:42,180 Mao is a monster! Why? 651 00:39:42,260 --> 00:39:45,500 Who in the State Department is watching over American interests? 652 00:39:45,580 --> 00:39:47,900 Who has given the Russians the atomic bomb? 653 00:39:47,980 --> 00:39:51,620 The Soviet Union is an example of a slave state in the ultimate development. 654 00:39:53,300 --> 00:39:56,380 Driven by demons that seemed more personal than political, 655 00:39:56,420 --> 00:40:01,180 Nixon became Eisenhower's vice presidential candidate in 1952. 656 00:40:01,260 --> 00:40:06,140 Then came the Checkers crisis. Nixon was accused of hiding a secret slush fund. 657 00:40:06,220 --> 00:40:09,500 About to be kicked off the ticket, he went live on national television 658 00:40:09,540 --> 00:40:11,300 in an unprecedented appearance. 659 00:40:11,340 --> 00:40:15,140 I'm going to give to this television audience a complete financial history. 660 00:40:15,180 --> 00:40:18,020 Everything I've earned, spent, -The list included their house, 661 00:40:18,060 --> 00:40:20,900 their Oldsmobile, Pat's cloth coat. -everything I own. 662 00:40:20,940 --> 00:40:23,740 And lastly, in what was to become history, 663 00:40:23,820 --> 00:40:25,660 a sentimental gift from a Texas businessman. 664 00:40:25,700 --> 00:40:28,700 You know what it was? It was a little cocker spaniel dog 665 00:40:28,740 --> 00:40:32,540 in a crate that he'd sent all the way from Texas--black and white, spotted. 666 00:40:32,620 --> 00:40:36,700 And our little girl Tricia, the six-year-old, named it Checkers. 667 00:40:36,740 --> 00:40:40,700 58 million people saw it. -And like all kids, they love the dog. 668 00:40:40,780 --> 00:40:44,060 It was shameless it was manipulative -I just wanna say right now, 669 00:40:44,140 --> 00:40:46,940 regardless of what they say about him, we're gonna keep him. 670 00:40:46,980 --> 00:40:48,980 It was a huge success. 671 00:40:49,060 --> 00:40:51,900 He stayed on the national scene, 672 00:40:51,940 --> 00:40:54,780 serving two terms as vice president under Eisenhower. 673 00:40:54,860 --> 00:40:57,180 Against Khrushchev at the Kitchen Debate in Moscow 674 00:40:57,260 --> 00:40:59,340 and stoned by Latin mobs in Venezuela, 675 00:40:59,420 --> 00:41:02,820 Nixon once again became a national hero. 676 00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:05,860 But it all came to a crashing end against Kennedy in 1960 677 00:41:05,940 --> 00:41:09,380 and Pat Brown in California in '62. 678 00:41:09,460 --> 00:41:12,500 And thus ends a great American political story. 679 00:41:12,580 --> 00:41:15,660 The truth is, we never knew who Richard Nixon really was, 680 00:41:15,740 --> 00:41:19,020 and now that he is gone we never will. 681 00:41:25,820 --> 00:41:30,620 Poor little Tricia. -Her daddy couldn't get a job 682 00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:33,020 in this city when he got out of Duke. 683 00:41:33,100 --> 00:41:35,900 Every white-shoe lawyer firm turned me down. Didn't have the right look. 684 00:41:35,940 --> 00:41:38,620 I couldn't even get into the F.B.I. -Hi! How are ya? 685 00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:41,980 Did you catch that picture of you in the news last week, Dick? 686 00:41:42,020 --> 00:41:44,860 You were standin' on Fifth Avenue. -Oh, yeah. 687 00:41:44,940 --> 00:41:46,780 You were lookin' Straight ahead 688 00:41:46,860 --> 00:41:49,820 and everyone else was lookin' the other way, like you just farted or somethin'. 689 00:41:49,900 --> 00:41:52,580 It said-It said, 690 00:41:52,660 --> 00:41:55,500 Who remembers Dick Nixon? 691 00:41:55,540 --> 00:41:58,380 Unbelievable. I was screamin'. 692 00:41:58,420 --> 00:42:00,260 Yeah, that was hilarious, Martha. 693 00:42:00,340 --> 00:42:03,900 They were were waiting For the light to change. 694 00:42:03,980 --> 00:42:06,420 Typical of the press, They wouldn't correct it-- 695 00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:09,060 We oughta catch Rocky before he leaves. 696 00:42:09,100 --> 00:42:11,740 I'm sure it's just a run of bad luck, Mr. Nixon. 697 00:42:11,780 --> 00:42:14,620 He can walk this direction, can't he? -I don't know. 698 00:42:14,700 --> 00:42:18,460 I've read some nice things about you. -Maybe where you come from. 699 00:42:18,540 --> 00:42:22,860 But where I come from, Dick Nixon is as misunderstood as a fox in a henhouse. 700 00:42:22,940 --> 00:42:24,780 And do you know why? 701 00:42:24,860 --> 00:42:28,260 Because, my darlin', they all think that your smile and your face 702 00:42:28,340 --> 00:42:32,220 are never in the same place at the same time. 703 00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:35,140 You and me, we're gonna have to work on that, sweetie. 704 00:42:35,180 --> 00:42:37,380 Someone freshen Martha's drink. She's down a quart. 705 00:42:37,420 --> 00:42:39,300 Well, zip-a-dee-doo-dah! 706 00:42:39,340 --> 00:42:43,620 I think he is frightened by my charm. -I know I am. 707 00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:46,500 Pat can't stand her. -It's a thing she does. 708 00:42:46,580 --> 00:42:48,460 She talks at night. 709 00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:52,260 Talks all day too. How the hell can you put up with her, John? 710 00:42:52,340 --> 00:42:55,140 Well, I'm in love with her. And she's great in bed. 711 00:42:56,780 --> 00:43:00,100 If a Rockefeller can't become president of the United States, 712 00:43:00,140 --> 00:43:02,020 then what is the point of democracy? 713 00:43:02,060 --> 00:43:03,940 The point Of democracy is 714 00:43:03,980 --> 00:43:06,820 that even the son of a grocer can become president. 715 00:43:06,860 --> 00:43:09,620 And you came damn close, Dick. How are you? Hi, John. 716 00:43:09,700 --> 00:43:13,460 New York treating you all right? I'm sorry I haven't been able to see you. 717 00:43:13,540 --> 00:43:15,940 You're looking happy, Rocky. -Happy. Happy, Dick Nixon. 718 00:43:16,020 --> 00:43:18,020 You remember him. -Nice to see you again. 719 00:43:18,060 --> 00:43:21,740 You're obviously making him happy. -Repartee, Dick! Marvelous! 720 00:43:21,780 --> 00:43:24,700 What you predicting? 721 00:43:24,780 --> 00:43:27,340 Your boy Goldwater gonna split the party? 722 00:43:27,420 --> 00:43:30,220 Some say you are, Rocky. -Let me tell you something. 723 00:43:30,300 --> 00:43:34,820 Every time the Republican party is a home to extremism, we lose the election. 724 00:43:34,860 --> 00:43:37,500 You oughta know better than anybody. -Yeah. 725 00:43:37,580 --> 00:43:40,380 This guy Goldwater is as stupid as McCarthy. 726 00:43:40,460 --> 00:43:43,660 And McCarthy never did you any good in the long run, now, did he? 727 00:43:43,740 --> 00:43:46,340 That's right. 728 00:43:46,380 --> 00:43:49,060 I hate these cocktail parties. 729 00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:51,660 John, I'm in hell. 730 00:43:51,740 --> 00:43:55,940 I'll be mentally dead in two years and physically dead in four. 731 00:43:55,980 --> 00:43:57,860 Make some money, Dick. 732 00:43:57,900 --> 00:44:00,740 Prove yourself to the Wall Street crowd. 733 00:44:00,780 --> 00:44:04,020 Let Goldwater and Rockefeller take the fall against Kennedy. 734 00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:06,820 I don't know. I miss making love to the people. 735 00:44:06,900 --> 00:44:08,780 I miss entering a room. 736 00:44:08,820 --> 00:44:12,780 I miss the pure acting of it, John. 737 00:44:14,300 --> 00:44:17,100 I gotta get back in the arena. 738 00:44:20,460 --> 00:44:22,300 Ladies and gentlemen, it's show time! 739 00:44:22,380 --> 00:44:26,140 Right this way, ladies and gentlemen. 740 00:44:26,180 --> 00:44:30,620 It's for you, it's for me. It's Studebaker for 1963. 741 00:44:30,700 --> 00:44:32,700 Amen. Bless you for being here. 742 00:44:32,740 --> 00:44:35,580 There's a man that loves Studebakers. -Can I get your autograph? 743 00:44:35,660 --> 00:44:39,140 The ex-vice president -Mr. Nixon, please run again! 744 00:44:39,220 --> 00:44:41,700 Of the United States, Richard M. Nixon! 745 00:44:43,700 --> 00:44:46,020 You throw a hell of a party, Jack. 746 00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:48,220 The party ain't even started yet. 747 00:44:48,300 --> 00:44:51,180 I've asked these gals out to the ranch for a little private thing. 748 00:44:51,260 --> 00:44:54,060 We're gonna have some fun, I guarantee ya. 749 00:44:54,140 --> 00:44:56,940 And there's some fellas I'd really like you to meet. 750 00:44:57,020 --> 00:45:00,780 Trini and I got an early plane. We're hoping to be back in New York for-- 751 00:45:00,860 --> 00:45:05,380 These guys are real interesting. And quiet too. The girls are too. 752 00:45:05,420 --> 00:45:07,340 It's not often us Texans Get an opportunity 753 00:45:07,380 --> 00:45:10,820 to entertain the future president of the United States. 754 00:45:10,860 --> 00:45:13,180 Like you said, Jack, I'm just a New York lawyer. 755 00:45:13,220 --> 00:45:16,060 We'll see about that. -Mr. Nixon, are you gonna run again? 756 00:45:16,140 --> 00:45:19,420 I don't know about that. -He will! I guarantee it! 757 00:45:23,780 --> 00:45:25,660 Buy me a convertible? 758 00:45:25,740 --> 00:45:28,540 I'll buy you a diamond ring. 759 00:45:28,620 --> 00:45:32,020 Hello, baby. -Hey, wait, wait, wait. 760 00:45:32,100 --> 00:45:34,940 This is Julie there. 761 00:45:34,980 --> 00:45:36,860 And that's Tricia. -Oh, yeah. 762 00:45:36,900 --> 00:45:42,140 She reminds me a bit of you, Sandy. -She really is wholesome. 763 00:45:43,260 --> 00:45:46,460 But, um, what about you? What do you like? 764 00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:49,260 Well, I like music. -I like jazz. 765 00:45:49,340 --> 00:45:52,140 Jazz, yeah. Guy Lombardo. 766 00:45:52,220 --> 00:45:55,020 How about rock'n'roll? Elvis Presley? -Yeah, he's good. 767 00:45:55,100 --> 00:45:56,940 Yeah. Decent guy. 768 00:45:57,020 --> 00:46:00,300 Well, I guess for me It also, um, depends on 769 00:46:00,380 --> 00:46:02,820 what I'm doin' to the music, Dick. 770 00:46:02,860 --> 00:46:04,580 Yeah. 771 00:46:04,620 --> 00:46:08,060 So, uh, what's it like bein' so famous and all? 772 00:46:08,140 --> 00:46:10,140 A vice president! 773 00:46:10,220 --> 00:46:13,540 Well, it's, uh, not like that, Sandy. 774 00:46:13,620 --> 00:46:17,500 You see, the reason I got into politics in the first place was, 775 00:46:17,580 --> 00:46:21,340 well, uh, to do something for the people. 776 00:46:21,380 --> 00:46:23,460 So, how are you two doing? 777 00:46:25,180 --> 00:46:28,940 You know, Dick, there's more privacy in the back of the-- 778 00:46:29,020 --> 00:46:31,420 No, Trini, we're fine here. 779 00:46:31,460 --> 00:46:33,620 Okay. 780 00:46:33,700 --> 00:46:37,900 Hell, Kennedy just pissed Cuba away to the Russians. Just pissed it away! 781 00:46:37,980 --> 00:46:40,780 And he doesn't know what the hell he's doin'in Vietnam. 782 00:46:40,860 --> 00:46:44,380 These are dangerous times, Dick, especially for business. 783 00:46:44,460 --> 00:46:47,420 Agreed. -We know what you tried to do for Cuba. 784 00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:52,220 If you had been elected in '60, Castro would be dead now. 785 00:46:57,580 --> 00:47:00,740 Gentlemen, I tried. I told Kennedy to go into Cuba. 786 00:47:00,780 --> 00:47:03,340 He heard me and he made his decision. 787 00:47:03,420 --> 00:47:07,140 I appreciate your sentiments. I've heard them from many fine Cuban patriots. 788 00:47:07,180 --> 00:47:10,500 But it's nothing I can do anything about. 789 00:47:10,540 --> 00:47:13,860 It's a long drive to Dallas, and Trini and I have a plane to catch tomorrow. 790 00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:16,460 So-- -Dick, these boys want you to run. 791 00:47:16,540 --> 00:47:18,820 Absolutely. -That's right. 792 00:47:18,900 --> 00:47:23,740 Now, they're serious. They can deliver the South and put Texas in your column. 793 00:47:23,820 --> 00:47:27,260 Only if Kennedy dumps Johnson. That'll never happen. 794 00:47:27,340 --> 00:47:31,100 I don't think you know how much people hate Kennedy down here. 795 00:47:31,140 --> 00:47:35,420 He's comin'to town tomorrow, and they will run his ass outta town on a rail! 796 00:47:35,500 --> 00:47:37,380 Damn right. -That we will. 797 00:47:37,420 --> 00:47:42,220 We are willing to give you a shit pot full of money to get rid of him. 798 00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:44,140 More than you ever dreamed of. 799 00:47:47,180 --> 00:47:51,740 Nobody's gonna beat Kennedy in '64 with all the money in the world. 800 00:47:55,020 --> 00:47:58,780 Suppose Kennedy don't run in '64. 801 00:47:58,820 --> 00:48:01,340 Not a chance. 802 00:48:03,220 --> 00:48:05,060 Yeah. 803 00:48:06,580 --> 00:48:10,460 Well, gentlemen, I promised my wife I, uh--I'm out of politics. 804 00:48:10,540 --> 00:48:14,660 You just came down here for the weather. Is that right, Mr. Nixon? 805 00:48:14,740 --> 00:48:17,620 I came down here to close a deal for Studebaker. 806 00:48:18,940 --> 00:48:20,620 What about '68, Dick? 807 00:48:20,700 --> 00:48:22,540 Five years, Trini. 808 00:48:22,620 --> 00:48:24,780 In politics, that's an eternity. 809 00:48:24,860 --> 00:48:26,700 Dick. 810 00:48:26,780 --> 00:48:28,620 Your country needs you. 811 00:48:30,180 --> 00:48:33,180 Unfortunately the country's Not available right now. 812 00:48:53,860 --> 00:48:57,700 President Kennedy's due in from Fort Worth in about an hour. 813 00:48:57,780 --> 00:49:01,060 Kennedy is due in. -Yeah, I know. 814 00:49:01,140 --> 00:49:02,980 Come on! 815 00:49:03,060 --> 00:49:06,380 Let's go through here. Excuse us. -Excuse me. Coming through. 816 00:49:06,460 --> 00:49:08,300 Excuse us. -Thank you. 817 00:49:08,380 --> 00:49:11,660 Please step away from the gate there. -Sorry. 818 00:49:17,860 --> 00:49:20,660 Go find the pilot. Let's get out of here. 819 00:50:02,260 --> 00:50:05,580 Look, Edgar, these, uh-- these guys were really strange. 820 00:50:05,620 --> 00:50:07,500 I mean, you know, extremists. 821 00:50:07,540 --> 00:50:10,700 Strange? -Right-wing stuff. 822 00:50:10,780 --> 00:50:12,620 Birchers? -Birchers, yeah. 823 00:50:12,700 --> 00:50:14,980 This thing's pretty straight, Dick. -In Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald-- 824 00:50:15,020 --> 00:50:17,820 Oswald's got a Cuba connection? 825 00:50:17,860 --> 00:50:20,940 To Castro? -maximum security facility. 826 00:50:21,020 --> 00:50:25,820 He's a Communist. That makes sense. 827 00:50:25,860 --> 00:50:28,620 Okay, well, thank you, Edgar. 828 00:50:29,900 --> 00:50:32,260 Senator Ted Kennedy, arriving early this morning 829 00:50:32,300 --> 00:50:34,500 with his mother and sister, Eunice. 830 00:50:34,540 --> 00:50:38,340 Hoover says this Oswald checks out as a-- 831 00:50:38,380 --> 00:50:41,020 a beatnik, a real bum. 832 00:50:41,060 --> 00:50:43,620 Dick, you should call Bobby. 833 00:50:43,700 --> 00:50:46,620 Ah, he doesn't want me At the funeral. 834 00:50:46,660 --> 00:50:49,660 You don't have to go. -DeGaulle's gonna be there. 835 00:50:49,740 --> 00:50:52,620 McMillan. Adenauer. 836 00:50:52,700 --> 00:50:55,100 We go now to the rotunda-- 837 00:50:55,180 --> 00:50:57,500 Nixon can't not be there. 838 00:50:57,580 --> 00:51:00,380 Then call him. I'm sure it was an oversight. 839 00:51:00,420 --> 00:51:03,260 Thousands, of mourners -Yeah. 840 00:51:03,300 --> 00:51:06,140 will pay their respects -Jesus. 841 00:51:06,220 --> 00:51:08,060 to their fallen leader. 842 00:51:08,140 --> 00:51:12,260 It's awful. It's an awful thing For this country. 843 00:51:12,340 --> 00:51:14,220 Dick. 844 00:51:14,260 --> 00:51:18,020 Huh? No, it's his way, uh-- 845 00:51:18,100 --> 00:51:19,940 He hates me. 846 00:51:20,020 --> 00:51:21,900 He and Teddy. 847 00:51:22,900 --> 00:51:24,820 They always hated me. 848 00:51:24,900 --> 00:51:28,620 They lost their brother. You know what that means, Dick. 849 00:51:28,700 --> 00:51:30,900 relaxed with his family in Hyannis Port. 850 00:51:30,980 --> 00:51:33,740 These are perhaps the last images of him alive with his family. 851 00:51:37,100 --> 00:51:39,580 Please make it stop! 852 00:51:39,620 --> 00:51:41,900 Hold him tighter. 853 00:51:41,980 --> 00:51:45,060 Hold him tighter. 854 00:51:45,100 --> 00:51:47,140 Hold him tighter. 855 00:51:48,260 --> 00:51:51,300 Daddy, please! Make it stop! 856 00:51:51,380 --> 00:51:53,220 Hold him tighter. 857 00:51:53,300 --> 00:51:55,180 The infection's spread to his spine. 858 00:51:57,260 --> 00:51:59,140 Come on! 859 00:52:15,340 --> 00:52:16,860 Stop it! 860 00:52:18,260 --> 00:52:20,100 Get off! 861 00:52:39,340 --> 00:52:41,820 You're it! 862 00:52:50,660 --> 00:52:52,980 No. No, don't! 863 00:53:00,940 --> 00:53:04,260 If I'd been president, they never would've killed me. 864 00:53:07,020 --> 00:53:08,940 Vice President Johnson, shown here being sworn in-- 865 00:53:09,020 --> 00:53:12,700 Dick, are you gonna call? Bobby. -Hmm? 866 00:53:12,740 --> 00:53:16,540 has taken the reins of power in a smooth transition. 867 00:53:16,620 --> 00:53:18,460 I'll go through Johnson. 868 00:53:18,540 --> 00:53:20,380 We'll be invited. 869 00:53:25,660 --> 00:53:29,700 This is a sad time for all people. 870 00:53:29,740 --> 00:53:32,140 I ask for your help. 871 00:53:32,220 --> 00:53:35,780 and are going to see Vietnam through 872 00:53:35,860 --> 00:53:38,180 to an honorable peace 873 00:53:41,460 --> 00:53:44,380 to defend an honored cause, 874 00:53:44,420 --> 00:53:47,340 whatever the price, whatever the burden, 875 00:53:47,420 --> 00:53:49,500 whatever the sacrifice 876 00:53:49,540 --> 00:53:52,860 that duty may require. 877 00:53:53,820 --> 00:53:56,260 Accordingly, 878 00:53:56,340 --> 00:53:58,220 I shall not seek 879 00:53:59,660 --> 00:54:02,060 and I will not accept 880 00:54:02,140 --> 00:54:06,060 the nomination of my party for another term as your president. 881 00:54:07,940 --> 00:54:10,780 Good night, and God bless all of you. 882 00:54:13,380 --> 00:54:15,820 Johnson's withdrawal resurrects Richard Nixon 883 00:54:15,900 --> 00:54:18,980 as a strong Republican candidate with a secret plan to end the war. 884 00:54:19,020 --> 00:54:22,700 His mother, Hannah Nixon, just before her death last year, 885 00:54:22,780 --> 00:54:25,300 commented on her son's chances. 886 00:54:25,380 --> 00:54:30,740 Mrs. Nixon, do you think your son will ever return to politics? 887 00:54:30,820 --> 00:54:33,740 I-I don't think he has a choice. 888 00:54:33,820 --> 00:54:36,900 He has always been a leader. 889 00:54:36,980 --> 00:54:41,180 Do you think he'd make a great president, Mrs. Nixon? 890 00:54:41,220 --> 00:54:44,900 If he's on God's side, yes. 891 00:54:44,940 --> 00:54:47,820 You must be very proud Of your son. 892 00:54:47,900 --> 00:54:50,700 I have always been proud of all of my children. 893 00:54:53,500 --> 00:54:57,100 Of course, no one can see into the future. 894 00:54:57,180 --> 00:54:59,260 We didn't know this day would come. 895 00:54:59,340 --> 00:55:01,820 Where'd he go? -In the side door. 896 00:55:01,860 --> 00:55:04,740 Is that Mitchell? -Shit! 897 00:55:06,700 --> 00:55:09,540 I thought that guy was gonna kiss your hand. 898 00:55:09,580 --> 00:55:11,460 Congratulations, sir. -Yeah, thanks. 899 00:55:11,500 --> 00:55:14,340 Jesus, Dick! I've never seen anything like it. 900 00:55:14,380 --> 00:55:16,740 Even the goddamn Times is saying you've got it. 901 00:55:16,780 --> 00:55:18,660 Vietnam's gonna put you in there, Chief. 902 00:55:18,700 --> 00:55:21,820 We got the press this time. -We got the big mo. We're back. 903 00:55:21,900 --> 00:55:25,060 So you've decided. 904 00:55:27,780 --> 00:55:29,780 Were you planning to tell me? 905 00:55:31,220 --> 00:55:33,220 We haven't announced anything yet, but-- 906 00:55:35,460 --> 00:55:37,820 Jesus, uh-- Pat. 907 00:55:41,060 --> 00:55:43,660 Uh, wait in the living room, Will you, fellas? What is it, John? 908 00:55:43,740 --> 00:55:47,500 You need her, Dick. In '60, she was worth five, six million votes. 909 00:55:47,580 --> 00:55:50,980 Yeah. Don't worry. I'll use the old Nixon charm. 910 00:55:52,340 --> 00:55:54,420 In there. Okay? 911 00:55:54,500 --> 00:55:56,660 Who could resist that? 912 00:56:01,820 --> 00:56:03,660 Buddy? 913 00:56:06,060 --> 00:56:08,540 You should be going. Primaries are soon, aren't they? 914 00:56:08,620 --> 00:56:12,740 New Hampshire. -I love you, Buddy. I need you. 915 00:56:12,780 --> 00:56:15,300 I don't want them to love me. 916 00:56:15,340 --> 00:56:18,180 But I need you Out there. 917 00:56:18,220 --> 00:56:20,500 It won't be like the last time. 918 00:56:20,580 --> 00:56:22,940 The war's crippled the Democrats. 919 00:56:23,020 --> 00:56:25,620 I can win. We deserve it. 920 00:56:25,700 --> 00:56:28,660 It's ours, Buddy, at last. 921 00:56:28,740 --> 00:56:31,580 Nobody knows that Better than you. 922 00:56:31,660 --> 00:56:33,780 Frank Nixon's boy. 923 00:56:33,860 --> 00:56:36,300 Do you remember what Mom said? 924 00:56:36,380 --> 00:56:40,180 We're not like other people. We--We don't choose our way. 925 00:56:41,300 --> 00:56:43,180 We can really change things, Buddy. 926 00:56:43,260 --> 00:56:46,740 We got a chance to get it right. We can change America. 927 00:56:46,820 --> 00:56:49,940 It was our dream, Buddy, together, always. 928 00:56:52,340 --> 00:56:56,340 Do you really want this, Dick? -Yeah. This, above all. 929 00:56:56,420 --> 00:56:58,940 And then you'll be happy? -Yeah, you know I will. 930 00:56:58,980 --> 00:57:01,380 Yes! I will. Yeah. 931 00:57:02,460 --> 00:57:04,580 Then I'll be there For you. 932 00:57:04,660 --> 00:57:07,380 And we are gonna win this time. I can feel it. 933 00:57:07,460 --> 00:57:09,620 Yeah! 934 00:57:09,700 --> 00:57:12,020 You're the strongest woman I ever met, Buddy. 935 00:57:12,100 --> 00:57:15,380 Can I just ask for one thing? -Anything. 936 00:57:15,460 --> 00:57:17,780 Would you kiss me? -Yeah! 937 00:57:25,180 --> 00:57:27,380 I'm a new person. Hey! 938 00:57:29,020 --> 00:57:31,180 My thanks to all of you. And now it's on to Chicago, and let's win there. 939 00:57:31,260 --> 00:57:33,100 Thank you very much. 940 00:57:33,180 --> 00:57:35,980 I would never question, uh, Senator Kennedy's patriotism. 941 00:57:36,060 --> 00:57:39,660 But promising peace at any price -Right there. 942 00:57:39,740 --> 00:57:42,460 is, uh, exactly what the North Vietnamese want to hear. 943 00:57:42,500 --> 00:57:44,180 Cue the crowd. 944 00:57:44,260 --> 00:57:48,180 Go to this bald guy. Yeah, he's great, isn't he? 945 00:57:48,260 --> 00:57:51,180 I, unlike Senator Kennedy, 946 00:57:51,260 --> 00:57:53,860 have a plan to end the war immediately. 947 00:57:53,900 --> 00:57:56,660 But not for peace at any price, 948 00:57:56,740 --> 00:57:59,380 but peace with honor. 949 00:57:59,460 --> 00:58:02,500 What do you think this plan is, Edgar? A nuclear attack? 950 00:58:02,540 --> 00:58:05,380 He's lying, Clyde. Always has. 951 00:58:05,460 --> 00:58:07,580 That's why Nixon's always been useful. 952 00:58:07,660 --> 00:58:10,660 Gracias, amigo. -De nada, senor. 953 00:58:10,740 --> 00:58:12,700 Hold still. 954 00:58:12,740 --> 00:58:15,260 Okay, who's next? -The Negro. 955 00:58:15,300 --> 00:58:17,820 No, we gotta have a Negro. This guy right here. 956 00:58:17,900 --> 00:58:19,860 Negro, front row. 957 00:58:19,940 --> 00:58:23,220 Mr. Nixon, sir. -Yeah. 958 00:58:23,300 --> 00:58:25,860 We-We all know that you have built your career 959 00:58:25,940 --> 00:58:28,940 on smearing people as Communists. 960 00:58:29,020 --> 00:58:33,260 And now you are building your campaign on the divisions in this country, 961 00:58:33,300 --> 00:58:36,300 stirring up hatred and turning people against each other. 962 00:58:36,380 --> 00:58:38,460 What the fuck's he doing? He's making a speech! 963 00:58:38,500 --> 00:58:41,460 Cut him off. -I can't. This isn't Russia. 964 00:58:41,540 --> 00:58:44,540 He sounds like a negro. He's saying all these negro things! 965 00:58:44,580 --> 00:58:46,620 What's he doing? -He sounded white when we screened him. 966 00:58:46,660 --> 00:58:48,660 He doesn't sound white now. He sounds like Angela Davis. 967 00:58:48,740 --> 00:58:50,580 When are you going to tell us What you really stand for? 968 00:58:50,660 --> 00:58:52,460 Put on a commercial. -There are no commercials. 969 00:58:52,500 --> 00:58:54,540 Go to commercial! -You bought the whole half hour, baby. 970 00:58:54,620 --> 00:58:57,140 Are you going to take off that mask -Shit! 971 00:58:57,220 --> 00:59:00,100 and show us who you really are? 972 00:59:00,180 --> 00:59:02,340 Shut up and sit down! -Okay. Okay. 973 00:59:02,420 --> 00:59:04,380 It's a high hard one, Chief. -Okay, okay. 974 00:59:04,420 --> 00:59:06,300 Park it. -There are divisions in this country-- 975 00:59:06,340 --> 00:59:08,500 That's because you created them. -I did not create them. 976 00:59:08,580 --> 00:59:10,700 The Democrats did. If it's dialogue you want, 977 00:59:10,780 --> 00:59:14,260 you're more likely to get it from me than from people burning down cities. 978 00:59:14,340 --> 00:59:17,380 Dr. King said the same thing. -Oh, please. 979 00:59:17,460 --> 00:59:20,300 Do you know, young man, who a great hero is? Abraham Lincoln. 980 00:59:20,380 --> 00:59:22,820 Abraham Lincoln. -Lincoln. Is he beautiful, huh? 981 00:59:22,900 --> 00:59:25,820 He believed in common ground. He brought this country together. 982 00:59:25,900 --> 00:59:28,900 I love that man. I love him. 983 00:59:28,980 --> 00:59:32,260 I want the son of a bitch who Got that agitator to be fired! 984 00:59:32,300 --> 00:59:35,540 I have another question. -There's a little girl sitting here. 985 00:59:35,620 --> 00:59:37,540 A little girl sitting with a sign. -Bag the spook. 986 00:59:37,620 --> 00:59:39,780 Can you see the little girl? -Okay. 987 00:59:39,860 --> 00:59:42,420 There are three simple words.: ''Bring us together. '' 988 00:59:42,500 --> 00:59:46,340 That is what I want, and that is what the great majority of Americans want. 989 00:59:46,420 --> 00:59:48,700 And that is why I want to be president. 990 00:59:48,740 --> 00:59:51,540 To bring us together. 991 00:59:51,620 --> 00:59:54,940 Give me a break, Mary. -Now, you all know me. I'm one of you. 992 00:59:54,980 --> 00:59:57,700 I grew up here, a stone's throw from here, 993 00:59:57,780 --> 00:59:59,660 on a little lemon ranch in Yorba Linda. 994 00:59:59,700 --> 01:00:01,700 It was the poorest lemon ranch in California, I can tell you that. 995 01:00:01,780 --> 01:00:05,180 The poorest lemon ranch in California, I can assure you of that. 996 01:00:05,260 --> 01:00:06,900 My dad sold it before they found oil on it. 997 01:00:06,980 --> 01:00:08,540 My dad sold it before they found oil on it. 998 01:00:08,620 --> 01:00:11,620 But it was all we had. -But it was all we had. 999 01:00:11,700 --> 01:00:14,500 My dad built the farm. -Huh. You're new here. 1000 01:00:14,580 --> 01:00:18,460 What's your name? -Joaquin, Mr. Hoover. 1001 01:00:18,540 --> 01:00:21,380 Oh. 1002 01:00:21,420 --> 01:00:24,940 My father sacrificed everything he had 1003 01:00:25,020 --> 01:00:26,900 so that his sons could go to college. 1004 01:00:26,980 --> 01:00:31,460 A gentle Quaker mother quietly wept -Oh, Christ. 1005 01:00:31,540 --> 01:00:33,900 When he went to war. -Turn this crap off, Clyde. 1006 01:00:33,980 --> 01:00:35,820 It's giving me a headache. 1007 01:00:37,180 --> 01:00:39,020 You may go, Joaquin. 1008 01:00:41,260 --> 01:00:43,460 I want to see him, Clyde. 1009 01:00:43,540 --> 01:00:46,660 Edgar, he works in the kitchen. 1010 01:00:46,700 --> 01:00:50,380 Not the boy, you idiot. Nixon. 1011 01:00:50,460 --> 01:00:52,820 You hear what he said in Oregon 1012 01:00:52,900 --> 01:00:55,380 about me having too much power? 1013 01:00:55,460 --> 01:00:59,540 It's between Nixon and a Kennedy again. Who do you want? 1014 01:00:59,620 --> 01:01:02,460 Kennedy? 1015 01:01:02,540 --> 01:01:04,420 Never. 1016 01:01:04,460 --> 01:01:07,420 He'll fry in hell For what he did to me. 1017 01:01:07,500 --> 01:01:09,340 But Nixon don't know that. 1018 01:01:09,420 --> 01:01:13,300 Which is why I'm gonna have to remind him that he needs us 1019 01:01:13,380 --> 01:01:16,700 a hell of a lot more than we need him. 1020 01:01:22,980 --> 01:01:25,540 And they're off!! 1021 01:01:38,980 --> 01:01:41,820 Your boy's on the way up. 1022 01:01:43,660 --> 01:01:46,820 You know, I met this guy years ago in Havana. You know that. 1023 01:01:48,380 --> 01:01:50,220 Come on! 1024 01:01:53,620 --> 01:01:55,140 He's folding, Johnny. 1025 01:01:58,780 --> 01:02:00,740 Now, now, now. You just wait a second now. 1026 01:02:00,820 --> 01:02:02,580 Olly's boy on the inside! 1027 01:02:11,140 --> 01:02:13,500 And a tragedy! 1028 01:02:23,620 --> 01:02:27,380 A bit extreme, isn't it? 1029 01:02:27,460 --> 01:02:30,460 It's the drama. Look, the crowd loves this shit. 1030 01:02:33,180 --> 01:02:35,220 Hey, there's Randolph Scott Over there. Look at that. 1031 01:02:35,300 --> 01:02:37,940 Cash these for me, would you, Johnny? 1032 01:02:39,980 --> 01:02:42,820 Easy! Easy, easy! 1033 01:02:42,900 --> 01:02:45,300 It's a two-dollar bet, Edgar. You got thousands coming on this. 1034 01:02:45,380 --> 01:02:48,580 I mean, what the fuck? -I told you, just cash it, Johnny. 1035 01:02:48,660 --> 01:02:51,260 And don't swear around me. Come on. 1036 01:02:51,300 --> 01:02:54,540 Uh-huh. Hello. 1037 01:02:56,820 --> 01:02:58,660 Edgar. 1038 01:02:58,740 --> 01:03:01,180 Wonderful to see you. Clyde. -Mr. Nixon. 1039 01:03:01,260 --> 01:03:03,860 Hi. -Thank you for coming, Richard. 1040 01:03:03,940 --> 01:03:05,900 Okay. Oh. Winning? 1041 01:03:05,980 --> 01:03:09,540 Actually, I've just had a bit of luck. Are you gonna win? 1042 01:03:09,620 --> 01:03:11,860 You should ask Bobby. 1043 01:03:11,940 --> 01:03:14,380 Little Bobby. -Yeah, Bobby Kennedy. 1044 01:03:14,460 --> 01:03:16,300 Yeah. 1045 01:03:16,380 --> 01:03:20,180 Walk with me down to the paddock. I'd like to look at the horses. 1046 01:03:20,260 --> 01:03:24,020 Uh, can we talk here? I got the police chiefs in San Diego. 1047 01:03:24,100 --> 01:03:27,540 Actually, I'm trying to spare you an embarrassment. 1048 01:03:27,620 --> 01:03:30,260 That was Johnny Roselli, you just passed. 1049 01:03:30,340 --> 01:03:32,380 He's on his way back. 1050 01:03:33,860 --> 01:03:36,380 Roselli? Johnny Roselli? 1051 01:03:36,460 --> 01:03:39,700 Yes. You know him, Richard? No? 1052 01:03:39,780 --> 01:03:42,140 From Cuba? 1053 01:03:47,260 --> 01:03:49,300 Hey, Johnny Roselli. How're you doin'? 1054 01:03:49,380 --> 01:03:51,620 Dick. -How are you? 1055 01:03:51,700 --> 01:03:54,900 I never met the man. Uh-- 1056 01:03:54,980 --> 01:03:58,260 Well, I know you've, uh, 1057 01:03:58,340 --> 01:04:00,780 been very careful not to. 1058 01:04:00,860 --> 01:04:02,900 That's why I'm so concerned. 1059 01:04:02,980 --> 01:04:06,100 Okay. 1060 01:04:06,180 --> 01:04:09,180 And they're off!! 1061 01:04:15,780 --> 01:04:18,460 You'll win the nomination. 1062 01:04:18,540 --> 01:04:21,180 Yeah, it could be 1960 all over again, Edgar. 1063 01:04:21,260 --> 01:04:23,140 Love you, Dick! 1064 01:04:23,180 --> 01:04:26,620 And Bobby's got the magic like a goddamn rock star. 1065 01:04:26,660 --> 01:04:30,140 They climb all over each other Just to touch his clothes. 1066 01:04:30,180 --> 01:04:32,820 He'll ride his brother's corpse right into the White House. 1067 01:04:32,900 --> 01:04:34,580 Hmm. 1068 01:04:34,660 --> 01:04:36,820 If things remain as they are. 1069 01:04:36,900 --> 01:04:39,140 He's got the anti-war vote. 1070 01:04:39,180 --> 01:04:41,060 Or he'll steal it, like his brother. 1071 01:04:42,340 --> 01:04:44,860 Bobby's a mean little son of a bitch, Edgar. 1072 01:04:44,900 --> 01:04:48,740 He had the I.R.S. audit my mother when she was dying in the nursing home. 1073 01:04:48,820 --> 01:04:51,260 I know. -We should shoot the son of a bitch. 1074 01:04:55,820 --> 01:04:57,900 I wanna fight Just as dirty, Edgar. 1075 01:04:57,980 --> 01:05:00,740 His women. Use his women. 1076 01:05:02,860 --> 01:05:04,740 Any information you have. 1077 01:05:04,780 --> 01:05:07,580 The son of a bitch is not going to steal from me again. 1078 01:05:07,620 --> 01:05:09,820 Can you back me up on this? 1079 01:05:09,900 --> 01:05:12,780 Can I count on your support? 1080 01:05:12,860 --> 01:05:17,660 I look at it from the point of view that the system can only take so much abuse. 1081 01:05:17,700 --> 01:05:20,580 It adjusts itself eventually. -Yeah. 1082 01:05:20,660 --> 01:05:23,660 But there are times there are savage outbursts. 1083 01:05:23,740 --> 01:05:26,780 The late Dr. King, For example. 1084 01:05:26,860 --> 01:05:28,940 Amoral hypocrite. 1085 01:05:29,020 --> 01:05:32,220 Screwing women like a degenerate tomcat, 1086 01:05:32,300 --> 01:05:36,540 stirring up the blacks, preaching against our system. 1087 01:05:36,580 --> 01:05:40,100 Sometimes the system comes very close to cracking. 1088 01:05:43,060 --> 01:05:46,060 We've already had one radical in the White House. 1089 01:05:46,140 --> 01:05:48,260 I don't believe it would survive another. 1090 01:05:53,380 --> 01:05:55,220 Well, like I said, uh, Edgar-- 1091 01:05:55,300 --> 01:05:59,300 You ask if you can count on my support. 1092 01:06:01,500 --> 01:06:04,100 As long as I can count on yours. 1093 01:06:09,900 --> 01:06:12,300 Yeah, the old queen did it on purpose. 1094 01:06:12,380 --> 01:06:16,420 No, he wasn't protecting me. He was just putting me on notice. 1095 01:06:16,500 --> 01:06:18,660 That he knew Roselli? -No. 1096 01:06:18,700 --> 01:06:21,220 Hoover knew a lot of gangsters. 1097 01:06:21,300 --> 01:06:23,740 Johnny Roselli wasn't Just any gangster. 1098 01:06:23,820 --> 01:06:26,100 Johnny Roselli was one Of the gangsters 1099 01:06:26,180 --> 01:06:28,380 who set up Track 2 in Cuba. 1100 01:06:28,420 --> 01:06:30,460 No, I know his name. It was Bob Engel. 1101 01:06:30,540 --> 01:06:32,540 Oh, well, I know all about that. 1102 01:06:32,620 --> 01:06:35,340 I don't understand that. Track 2 is Chile. 1103 01:06:35,420 --> 01:06:39,860 Yeah, Chile, the Congo, Guadalajara, Iran, Cuba. 1104 01:06:39,940 --> 01:06:43,660 Wherever there was need for an executive action capability, 1105 01:06:43,740 --> 01:06:45,580 there's Track 2. 1106 01:06:46,820 --> 01:06:50,500 In Cuba, Track 1 was, uh, the Bay of Pigs invasion. 1107 01:06:50,540 --> 01:06:53,940 Track 2 was our idea. 1108 01:06:54,020 --> 01:06:55,900 We thought that the invasion wouldn't work 1109 01:06:55,980 --> 01:06:57,860 unless we got rid of Castro. 1110 01:06:57,900 --> 01:07:00,620 So we asked ourselves, uh, 1111 01:07:00,700 --> 01:07:03,580 who else wants Castro dead? 1112 01:07:03,660 --> 01:07:06,340 Was it the Mafia Or money people? 1113 01:07:06,380 --> 01:07:09,260 So we put together Track 2. 1114 01:07:22,340 --> 01:07:25,660 First assassination attempt was, uh, in '60. 1115 01:07:25,700 --> 01:07:27,460 Uh, just before the election. -Before? 1116 01:07:27,540 --> 01:07:31,220 Eisenhower approved that? -Yeah. 1117 01:07:31,300 --> 01:07:33,220 Well, he didn't veto it. 1118 01:07:33,300 --> 01:07:36,340 I ran the White House side 1119 01:07:36,420 --> 01:07:39,220 and, uh, the mob contact was Johnny Roselli. 1120 01:07:39,300 --> 01:07:42,380 One of the C.I.A. guys was this jackass 1121 01:07:42,460 --> 01:07:44,300 Howard Hunt. 1122 01:07:44,380 --> 01:07:46,020 Jesus. 1123 01:07:46,100 --> 01:07:49,940 Yeah. Not just Howard Hunt, but Frank Sturgis 1124 01:07:50,020 --> 01:07:52,180 and all those other Cubans. 1125 01:07:53,780 --> 01:07:56,620 All of them in Watergate-- 1126 01:07:56,700 --> 01:08:01,180 Uh, they're all involved in Cuba. 1127 01:08:05,700 --> 01:08:08,060 Yeah, Hunt reported to my military aide. 1128 01:08:09,540 --> 01:08:12,340 I don't know how much Hunt knows, or, or the Cubans, 1129 01:08:12,420 --> 01:08:15,900 but you never know. 1130 01:08:15,980 --> 01:08:17,820 So you wanted Castro dead. 1131 01:08:17,900 --> 01:08:20,340 Every body wanted Castro dead. 1132 01:08:20,420 --> 01:08:23,300 You know, if Hunt and the others are C.I.A., 1133 01:08:24,940 --> 01:08:28,100 why don't we just dump this back in the C.I.A.'s lap, 1134 01:08:28,140 --> 01:08:30,020 let Dick Helms take the fall? 1135 01:08:30,060 --> 01:08:33,180 Because. 1136 01:08:33,220 --> 01:08:35,940 Because Helms knows, knows too much. 1137 01:08:37,540 --> 01:08:40,100 If there's anyone in this country who knows more than me, 1138 01:08:40,180 --> 01:08:43,300 it's Hoover and Helms, and you don't fuck with Dick Helms, period. 1139 01:08:43,380 --> 01:08:45,740 All right. 1140 01:08:45,780 --> 01:08:49,020 But why, if Kennedy was so clean in all this, 1141 01:08:49,060 --> 01:08:52,860 didn't he cancel Track 2? -Because he didn't even know about it. 1142 01:08:53,900 --> 01:08:55,740 The C.I.A., uh, never told him. 1143 01:08:55,820 --> 01:08:57,660 They just kept it going. 1144 01:08:57,700 --> 01:09:02,100 It had a life of its own like it was some, uh, 1145 01:09:02,180 --> 01:09:05,220 kind of a thing, you know? 1146 01:09:05,300 --> 01:09:09,060 It doesn't even know it exists. It eats people when it doesn't need 'em anymore. 1147 01:09:11,140 --> 01:09:14,340 Two days after the Bay of Pigs, 1148 01:09:14,420 --> 01:09:18,740 Kennedy called me and reamed me out. 1149 01:09:18,820 --> 01:09:21,060 He just found out About Track 2. 1150 01:09:21,140 --> 01:09:26,140 You never told him? -I didn't want him to get the credit. 1151 01:09:26,220 --> 01:09:28,060 He said I'd stabbed him in the back 1152 01:09:28,140 --> 01:09:31,300 and called me a two-bit grocery clerk from Whittier. 1153 01:09:31,380 --> 01:09:36,060 Fever if I kissed you fever if I held you tight 1154 01:09:36,100 --> 01:09:38,780 Huh. -Fever in the morning 1155 01:09:38,860 --> 01:09:41,220 Fever all through the night -That's the last time I ever saw him. 1156 01:09:41,300 --> 01:09:45,220 Play it on the runway in Paris 1157 01:09:45,300 --> 01:09:49,500 See, when I saw Bobby lying there on the floor, 1158 01:09:51,700 --> 01:09:55,300 Arms stretched out like that, his eyes staring, 1159 01:09:57,940 --> 01:10:00,260 I knew then I'd be president. 1160 01:10:01,540 --> 01:10:03,740 His death paved the way, didn't it? 1161 01:10:03,780 --> 01:10:05,660 Yeah. 1162 01:10:05,700 --> 01:10:07,820 Vietnam, the Kennedy's 1163 01:10:07,900 --> 01:10:10,700 cleared a path through the wilderness just for me. 1164 01:10:13,100 --> 01:10:15,660 Over the bodies. 1165 01:10:17,660 --> 01:10:19,500 Four bodies. 1166 01:10:25,980 --> 01:10:27,820 You mean two. 1167 01:10:28,860 --> 01:10:30,700 Two bodies. 1168 01:10:32,100 --> 01:10:35,500 Four. 1169 01:10:45,860 --> 01:10:47,980 How many did you have? 1170 01:10:49,180 --> 01:10:51,020 Hundreds of thousands? 1171 01:10:55,260 --> 01:10:58,780 Where would we be without death, huh? 1172 01:11:00,380 --> 01:11:02,500 Abe? 1173 01:11:07,300 --> 01:11:09,180 Who's helping us? 1174 01:11:10,340 --> 01:11:13,180 Is it God, or is it 1175 01:11:14,980 --> 01:11:16,820 death? 1176 01:12:07,300 --> 01:12:10,100 Harold. 1177 01:12:10,180 --> 01:12:12,060 Why don't you sit down, huh? 1178 01:12:15,180 --> 01:12:17,060 Here. 1179 01:12:20,740 --> 01:12:23,260 That was a whopper. 1180 01:12:27,300 --> 01:12:30,940 You'll be able to do it now. 1181 01:12:31,020 --> 01:12:33,220 What? -Go to law school. 1182 01:12:34,500 --> 01:12:38,180 Mom and Dad'll be able to afford it. -Harold. 1183 01:12:38,220 --> 01:12:40,340 Mama expects great things from you. 1184 01:12:41,740 --> 01:12:44,180 Can I-- Can I get you anything? 1185 01:12:47,220 --> 01:12:49,060 Relax, Dick. 1186 01:12:49,140 --> 01:12:52,220 It's just me, huh? 1187 01:12:57,900 --> 01:13:00,020 The desert's so beautiful, isn't it? 1188 01:13:05,140 --> 01:13:09,140 I want to go home, Dick. 1189 01:13:09,220 --> 01:13:11,060 Time to go home. 1190 01:13:12,340 --> 01:13:14,420 You-- 1191 01:13:14,500 --> 01:13:17,780 You're not gonna quit on me now, are you, Harold? 1192 01:13:45,020 --> 01:13:49,460 Down came the rain and washed the spider out 1193 01:14:00,540 --> 01:14:02,300 Richard. 1194 01:14:05,580 --> 01:14:07,540 I can't. 1195 01:14:07,620 --> 01:14:09,900 You must. 1196 01:14:09,980 --> 01:14:14,260 This law school, it's a gift from thy brother. 1197 01:14:14,340 --> 01:14:17,580 He had to die For me to get it? 1198 01:14:21,260 --> 01:14:23,580 Something has to come Of this. 1199 01:14:25,500 --> 01:14:28,300 It's meant to make us stronger. 1200 01:14:28,380 --> 01:14:31,940 Thee art stronger than Harold, Stronger than Arthur. 1201 01:14:32,020 --> 01:14:35,780 God has chosen thee to survive. 1202 01:14:35,820 --> 01:14:37,780 What about happiness, Mother? 1203 01:14:39,300 --> 01:14:42,660 Thee will find thy peace At the center, Richard. 1204 01:14:43,780 --> 01:14:46,580 Strength in this life, 1205 01:14:46,660 --> 01:14:49,300 happiness in the next. 1206 01:15:31,420 --> 01:15:33,820 Hey! Hey! 1207 01:15:33,900 --> 01:15:36,140 Now tell me you didn't Want this, Buddy. 1208 01:15:45,300 --> 01:15:47,940 Hey! 1209 01:16:05,260 --> 01:16:08,420 When the strongest nation in the world can be tied down 1210 01:16:08,500 --> 01:16:10,820 for four years in a war in Vietnam 1211 01:16:10,860 --> 01:16:12,860 with no end in sight; 1212 01:16:12,940 --> 01:16:16,940 when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy; 1213 01:16:17,020 --> 01:16:20,340 when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law 1214 01:16:20,420 --> 01:16:23,660 is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness; 1215 01:16:23,740 --> 01:16:27,340 when a nation that has been known for a century for equality of opportunity 1216 01:16:27,420 --> 01:16:30,980 is torn by unprecedented racial violence 1217 01:16:31,020 --> 01:16:34,340 when the president of the United States cannot travel abroad 1218 01:16:34,380 --> 01:16:36,300 or to any major city at home 1219 01:16:36,380 --> 01:16:38,980 without fear of a hostile demonstration, 1220 01:16:39,060 --> 01:16:42,940 then it is time for new leadership for the United States of America. 1221 01:16:46,620 --> 01:16:50,540 As we look at America, we see cities enveloped in smoke and flame, 1222 01:16:50,620 --> 01:16:53,060 millions of Americans crying out in anguish, 1223 01:16:53,140 --> 01:16:55,260 ''Did we come all the way for this? 1224 01:16:55,340 --> 01:16:59,500 Did American boys die in Normandy and Valley Forge for this?'' 1225 01:17:01,260 --> 01:17:04,180 I pledge to you That the current wave of violence 1226 01:17:04,260 --> 01:17:06,500 will not be the wave of the future. 1227 01:17:09,060 --> 01:17:11,660 Let us begin by committing ourselves 1228 01:17:11,740 --> 01:17:14,700 to the truth--to find the truth, to speak the truth 1229 01:17:14,780 --> 01:17:16,620 and to live the truth. 1230 01:17:16,700 --> 01:17:19,820 A new voice is being heard across America today. 1231 01:17:19,900 --> 01:17:22,780 It is not the voice Of the protesters or the shouters. 1232 01:17:22,860 --> 01:17:26,500 It is the quiet voice of the majority Of Americans who've been forgotten-- 1233 01:17:26,540 --> 01:17:30,620 the non-shouters, the, uh, non-demonstrators. 1234 01:17:30,700 --> 01:17:35,100 They're the good people. They work hard and they save and they pay their taxes. 1235 01:17:35,180 --> 01:17:37,660 Now, who are they? Let me tell you who they are. 1236 01:17:37,740 --> 01:17:40,380 They're in this audience by the thousands. 1237 01:17:40,420 --> 01:17:42,180 They're the white Americans and black Americans, 1238 01:17:42,260 --> 01:17:44,780 Mexican and Italian Americans. 1239 01:17:44,860 --> 01:17:47,100 They're the great silent majority, 1240 01:17:47,140 --> 01:17:49,220 and they have become angry, finally. 1241 01:17:49,300 --> 01:17:51,260 Angry, not with hate, But angry, my friends, 1242 01:17:51,300 --> 01:17:53,180 because they love America 1243 01:17:53,220 --> 01:17:56,300 and they don't like what's happened to America these last four years. 1244 01:17:56,380 --> 01:17:58,500 Let us understand. 1245 01:17:58,580 --> 01:18:02,340 North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. 1246 01:18:02,420 --> 01:18:04,380 Only Americans can do that! 1247 01:18:07,620 --> 01:18:09,540 I say to you tonight-- 1248 01:18:09,620 --> 01:18:13,820 I say to you tonight we must have a new feeling of responsibility, 1249 01:18:13,860 --> 01:18:15,380 of self-discipline. 1250 01:18:15,460 --> 01:18:17,540 We must look to renew state and local government. 1251 01:18:17,620 --> 01:18:21,540 We must have a complete reform of a big, bloated federal government. 1252 01:18:21,580 --> 01:18:24,460 Those of us in public service know 1253 01:18:24,540 --> 01:18:26,940 we can have full prosperity in peacetime. 1254 01:18:27,020 --> 01:18:29,580 Yes, we can cut the defence budget. 1255 01:18:29,660 --> 01:18:32,460 We can reduce, uh, conventional forces in Europe. 1256 01:18:32,540 --> 01:18:34,580 We can restore the natural environment. 1257 01:18:34,660 --> 01:18:37,660 We can improve health care and make it more available to all people. 1258 01:18:37,740 --> 01:18:41,100 And yes, we can have a complete reform of this government. 1259 01:18:41,180 --> 01:18:44,420 We can have a new American revolution! 1260 01:18:56,740 --> 01:19:00,260 The whole world is watching! 1261 01:19:00,540 --> 01:19:02,820 The whole world is watching! 1262 01:19:08,820 --> 01:19:10,860 It'd be a disaster. 1263 01:19:10,940 --> 01:19:14,020 There's a lot of sympathy out there for Cambodia. 1264 01:19:14,100 --> 01:19:16,940 Tiny, little, neutral Buddhist country. 1265 01:19:17,020 --> 01:19:20,060 They'll be rioting in the streets, on your front lawn! 1266 01:19:20,100 --> 01:19:21,980 Building the Cambodian army up? 1267 01:19:22,020 --> 01:19:24,620 My God, that would be harder than a Vietnamese Army. 1268 01:19:24,700 --> 01:19:27,340 They have no tradition. 1269 01:19:27,420 --> 01:19:30,060 Mr. President, the government there will collapse. 1270 01:19:30,140 --> 01:19:32,700 So you're saying, do nothing. -No, sir, continue the bombing. 1271 01:19:32,780 --> 01:19:35,180 The same old horseshit. Well, that's not good enough. 1272 01:19:35,260 --> 01:19:37,620 I'm sick of being pushed around by the, uh, Vietnamese 1273 01:19:37,700 --> 01:19:41,900 like we're some, uh, you know, pitiful giant. 1274 01:19:41,980 --> 01:19:45,660 They're using our P.O.W.s to humiliate us. 1275 01:19:45,700 --> 01:19:47,740 What we need now is a bold move into Cambodia, 1276 01:19:47,820 --> 01:19:50,700 and go right after their, uh, V.C. base camps, 1277 01:19:50,780 --> 01:19:54,540 and, uh, uh, make 'em scream, hit 'em in the ass. 1278 01:19:54,620 --> 01:19:57,860 What do you think, Henry? -Well, as you know, 1279 01:19:57,940 --> 01:20:01,340 most of my staff have weighed in against this incursion. 1280 01:20:01,420 --> 01:20:06,220 They believe it will fail to achieve anything fundamental militarily 1281 01:20:06,300 --> 01:20:10,220 and will result in crushing criticism domestically. 1282 01:20:10,300 --> 01:20:12,380 I didn't ask what your staff thinks. What do you think, Henry? 1283 01:20:12,460 --> 01:20:15,860 What I think is, they're cowards. 1284 01:20:15,940 --> 01:20:20,700 Their opposition represents the cowardice of the eastern establishment. 1285 01:20:20,740 --> 01:20:23,660 They don't realize, as you do, sir, 1286 01:20:23,740 --> 01:20:26,220 that the Communists only respect strength, 1287 01:20:26,300 --> 01:20:28,660 and they will only negotiate in good faith 1288 01:20:28,740 --> 01:20:32,020 if they fear the mad man, Nixon. -Exactly! 1289 01:20:32,100 --> 01:20:34,940 Unpredictability is our best asset. 1290 01:20:34,980 --> 01:20:37,420 We gotta take the war to 'em, hit'em where it hurts, right in the nuts. 1291 01:20:37,500 --> 01:20:39,740 More assassinations. Right, Al? 1292 01:20:39,780 --> 01:20:42,780 That's what they're doing, Mr. President. 1293 01:20:42,860 --> 01:20:46,060 See, your people in the State Department, Bill, they don't understand. 1294 01:20:46,140 --> 01:20:48,060 You gotta-- -Mr. President. 1295 01:20:48,100 --> 01:20:50,500 You gotta electrify people with bold moves. I mean, bold moves make history. 1296 01:20:50,540 --> 01:20:53,660 Like, uh, Teddy Roosevelt, T.R., 1297 01:20:53,700 --> 01:20:55,940 rushing up San Juan Hill. 1298 01:20:55,980 --> 01:20:58,140 Small event, but dramatic. People took notice. 1299 01:20:58,180 --> 01:21:00,500 Yes, well, they'll take notice, all right. 1300 01:21:00,580 --> 01:21:02,820 If we sneak out of this war, 1301 01:21:02,860 --> 01:21:05,260 another will start a mile down the road. 1302 01:21:05,340 --> 01:21:09,060 We bite the bullet here in Cambodia. There. 1303 01:21:09,100 --> 01:21:12,220 We bomb the hell out of these people. 1304 01:21:16,540 --> 01:21:18,900 Tonight American and South Vietnamese units 1305 01:21:18,980 --> 01:21:23,140 will attack the headquarters of the entire Communist military operation 1306 01:21:23,180 --> 01:21:24,660 in South Vietnam. 1307 01:21:24,740 --> 01:21:28,540 This is not an invasion of Cambodia. 1308 01:21:28,580 --> 01:21:33,460 We take this action not for the purpose of expanding the war into Cambodia, 1309 01:21:33,540 --> 01:21:36,140 but for the purpose of ending the war in Vietnam. 1310 01:21:39,380 --> 01:21:42,700 All across the nation, 1311 01:21:42,780 --> 01:21:45,500 major student protests against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia 1312 01:21:45,540 --> 01:21:47,660 rocked college campuses. 1313 01:21:47,740 --> 01:21:51,260 At Jackson State, two Negro students were killed and ten were wounded. 1314 01:21:51,300 --> 01:21:54,620 Unanimously united behind-- -In the streets of New York City, 1315 01:21:54,700 --> 01:21:57,180 student protesters were attacked by construction workers 1316 01:21:57,220 --> 01:21:59,140 supporting President Nixon's policies. 1317 01:22:01,540 --> 01:22:04,780 In Washington, protesters have barricaded the White House 1318 01:22:04,860 --> 01:22:07,780 and are camping out at the Lincoln Memorial. 1319 01:22:10,020 --> 01:22:12,740 We don't want your fucking war! 1320 01:22:17,340 --> 01:22:20,700 See, when I think of those kids out there in Vietnam, doing their duty, 1321 01:22:20,780 --> 01:22:22,900 uh, I bet they were scared. 1322 01:22:22,980 --> 01:22:25,220 I-I was when I was there. 1323 01:22:25,260 --> 01:22:27,500 But when it comes down to it, you really have to look up to these men 1324 01:22:27,580 --> 01:22:29,660 because they're the greatest. 1325 01:22:32,940 --> 01:22:35,500 No more war! No more war! 1326 01:22:35,580 --> 01:22:38,420 I mean, you see these bums, you know, blowing up the campuses, 1327 01:22:38,500 --> 01:22:40,700 burning books and so forth. 1328 01:22:40,780 --> 01:22:43,460 And they call themselves, uh, flower children. 1329 01:22:43,540 --> 01:22:45,380 I call them spoiled rotten. 1330 01:22:45,460 --> 01:22:47,500 And I tell you what would cure them. 1331 01:22:47,580 --> 01:22:50,980 A good, old-fashioned trip to my Ohio father's woodshed. 1332 01:22:51,060 --> 01:22:52,940 Right, Julie? -Right, Dad. 1333 01:22:53,020 --> 01:22:56,500 That's what these bums need. Well, Kurt, thanks and congratulations. 1334 01:22:56,580 --> 01:23:00,500 Thank you, sir. -Yeah. Okay. Thanks, everybody. Bye.