1 00:01:40,266 --> 00:01:42,131 Just tell them that. 2 00:01:43,503 --> 00:01:45,562 Tell them my reasons. 3 00:01:48,041 --> 00:01:49,440 Tell them why. 4 00:01:51,244 --> 00:01:52,973 End of tape four... 5 00:01:53,079 --> 00:01:56,207 February 22, 1974. 6 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,810 Testing. 7 00:03:03,917 --> 00:03:05,714 One, two, three. 8 00:03:08,788 --> 00:03:13,191 Mr. Maestro, Leonard Bernstein, tape number one. 9 00:03:18,398 --> 00:03:19,695 Mr. Bernstein... 10 00:03:21,401 --> 00:03:24,393 I have the utmost respect foryou. 11 00:03:25,438 --> 00:03:26,962 Your music... 12 00:03:27,106 --> 00:03:29,973 is both pure and honest. 13 00:03:32,078 --> 00:03:34,876 And that is why I have chosen you... 14 00:03:35,715 --> 00:03:40,243 to present the truth about me to the worId. 15 00:03:42,822 --> 00:03:45,052 My name is Sam Bicke. 16 00:03:45,792 --> 00:03:49,193 And I consider myseIf a grain of sand. 17 00:03:51,231 --> 00:03:54,064 On this beach caIIed America... 18 00:03:55,068 --> 00:03:58,731 there are 211 miIIion grains of sand... 19 00:03:59,205 --> 00:04:02,697 three biIIion on the beach we caII Earth. 20 00:04:03,977 --> 00:04:05,501 If I am Iucky... 21 00:04:09,382 --> 00:04:11,748 the action that I am about to take... 22 00:04:12,919 --> 00:04:14,944 wiII show the powerfuI... 23 00:04:16,823 --> 00:04:18,222 that even... 24 00:04:19,926 --> 00:04:23,418 the Ieast grain of sand... 25 00:04:25,031 --> 00:04:26,931 has in him... 26 00:04:29,402 --> 00:04:31,199 the powerto destroy them. 27 00:04:43,182 --> 00:04:44,672 These come in brown? 28 00:04:45,151 --> 00:04:49,884 We do have that in a brown. And a harvest goId. And an avocado. 29 00:04:50,023 --> 00:04:52,753 Give me three of the brown and an avocado. 30 00:04:58,665 --> 00:05:00,724 Are you interested in that chair? 31 00:05:01,501 --> 00:05:04,698 This is a Naugahyde, very good for avoiding stains. 32 00:05:05,071 --> 00:05:06,868 I Iook Iike that big a sIob? 33 00:05:08,341 --> 00:05:12,334 I can't sit on this pIastic stuff. I get sweaty and stick to it. 34 00:05:13,079 --> 00:05:15,343 This doesn't come in Ieather, huh? 35 00:05:16,249 --> 00:05:17,739 Not this chair-- 36 00:05:18,251 --> 00:05:20,515 -Jack Jones. -BiII WiIson. 37 00:05:20,820 --> 00:05:24,756 BiII, what our new associate's trying to expIain, I think is... 38 00:05:25,091 --> 00:05:28,458 that this is Ieather with a Naugahyde coating. 39 00:05:28,561 --> 00:05:29,550 Coating? 40 00:05:29,662 --> 00:05:34,565 ExactIy. Comfort of Ieather. Just a IittIe easierto cIean. 41 00:05:36,302 --> 00:05:39,430 No extra cost. How does it feeI? 42 00:05:39,972 --> 00:05:41,530 It is comfy. 43 00:05:41,641 --> 00:05:44,075 -You know what you Iook Iike sitting there? -What? 44 00:05:44,177 --> 00:05:48,113 You Iook Iike the boss. Are you the boss? 45 00:05:49,048 --> 00:05:50,572 I got my own pIace. 46 00:05:50,683 --> 00:05:53,777 What did I teII you? Did you write the gentIeman up, Sam? 47 00:05:53,886 --> 00:05:55,217 No, he didn't.... 48 00:05:56,022 --> 00:05:57,887 Write the gentIeman up. 49 00:06:01,194 --> 00:06:04,322 Can we deIiverthis foryou Monday, or is Tuesday better? 50 00:06:04,664 --> 00:06:06,359 Tuesday's probabIy better. 51 00:06:08,301 --> 00:06:09,996 Mr. Bernstein, sir... 52 00:06:10,103 --> 00:06:13,402 there are times that l have felt alone on this planet. 53 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,708 And that's how they want us, isn't it? 54 00:06:17,076 --> 00:06:20,910 Alone. Divided. Weak. 55 00:06:21,180 --> 00:06:23,341 -To our new cIoser. -Hear, hear. 56 00:06:28,121 --> 00:06:31,113 You smeII something? I do. 57 00:06:32,258 --> 00:06:36,092 I smeII success. And you've got the odor. 58 00:06:36,429 --> 00:06:37,726 AII right, Sam. 59 00:06:37,830 --> 00:06:39,730 Why do I say that to you, Sam? 60 00:06:41,567 --> 00:06:43,330 WeII, I certainIy am trying. 61 00:06:43,436 --> 00:06:46,530 Got nothing to do with trying. It's beIieving. 62 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,767 When you beIieve in what you're seIIing, you succeed. 63 00:06:51,944 --> 00:06:55,004 Because then you're not seIIing. You see what I'm saying? 64 00:06:55,114 --> 00:06:59,608 You're taIking from somewhere here. You've got to beIieve. 65 00:07:00,219 --> 00:07:03,848 It's a gift. I've got it. Marty's got it. You may have it. 66 00:07:04,857 --> 00:07:09,021 I can beIieve in anything. Isn't that right, Marty? 67 00:07:09,128 --> 00:07:10,288 It's true. 68 00:07:10,396 --> 00:07:13,331 You want to know who the greatest saIesman in the worId is? 69 00:07:13,433 --> 00:07:15,663 That man, right there. 70 00:07:17,403 --> 00:07:21,430 He soId the whoIe country, 200 miIIion peopIe... 71 00:07:22,208 --> 00:07:24,267 on himseIf. Twice. 72 00:07:24,877 --> 00:07:27,072 And what was Nixon's saIes pitch in '68? 73 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:28,977 In '68, it was.... 74 00:07:29,148 --> 00:07:31,514 He said he wouId end the war. 75 00:07:32,385 --> 00:07:35,912 He wouId get us out of Vietnam. And what did he do? 76 00:07:37,423 --> 00:07:39,448 He sent another 100,000 troops... 77 00:07:39,559 --> 00:07:42,027 and then he bombed the Iiving shit out of them. 78 00:07:42,128 --> 00:07:46,497 That's what he did. Now, what did Nixon run on Iast year? 79 00:07:48,801 --> 00:07:53,738 Ending the war in Vietnam. And he won. By a IandsIide. 80 00:07:55,174 --> 00:07:59,804 That is a saIesman. He made a promise. He didn't deIiver. 81 00:08:00,379 --> 00:08:04,543 And then he soId us on the same exact promise. 82 00:08:05,184 --> 00:08:08,676 AII over again. That's beIieving in yourseIf. 83 00:08:18,097 --> 00:08:20,258 These are foryou. Read them. 84 00:08:21,934 --> 00:08:22,992 These, you Iisten to. 85 00:08:24,904 --> 00:08:27,805 WhiIe you're driving. WhiIe you're shaving. 86 00:08:28,374 --> 00:08:30,842 WhiIe you're taking a shit in the morning. 87 00:08:31,244 --> 00:08:32,541 You gotta beIieve, Sam. 88 00:08:32,645 --> 00:08:35,808 This book right here wiII reaIIy teach you to beIieve in yourseIf. 89 00:08:35,915 --> 00:08:39,282 This book right here wiII reaIIy teach you techniques. 90 00:08:39,418 --> 00:08:41,682 These wiII make you a saIesman. 91 00:08:42,989 --> 00:08:44,479 I guarantee it. 92 00:08:45,758 --> 00:08:49,694 The salesman who believes is the salesman who receives. 93 00:08:49,795 --> 00:08:53,424 Remember, power is a state of mind. 94 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,696 You have as much as you think you have. 95 00:08:56,969 --> 00:08:59,961 lf you don't think you have any, you don't. 96 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,770 Talk about yourself as you see yourself. 97 00:09:03,876 --> 00:09:05,810 And someday that will be yourself. 98 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:10,740 The salesman must see himself as a winner. 99 00:09:11,350 --> 00:09:15,480 The salesman who believes is the salesman who receives. 100 00:09:19,959 --> 00:09:22,484 -For crying out Ioud. -Hi, MeI. 101 00:09:23,195 --> 00:09:24,753 Did you see your brother? 102 00:09:24,864 --> 00:09:27,025 -No. -He just waIked out, just now. 103 00:09:30,570 --> 00:09:32,800 So, how's it going? What're you up to? 104 00:09:35,241 --> 00:09:39,439 Ijust came by to give this. This is what I owe him... 105 00:09:40,513 --> 00:09:44,415 and if you couId just get that to him for me, I'd appreciate it. 106 00:09:45,785 --> 00:09:49,118 Come on, Sam. JuIius feIt bad how things turned out. 107 00:09:49,221 --> 00:09:51,781 Why don't you stick around tiII he gets back? 108 00:09:51,891 --> 00:09:53,085 He didn't go home? 109 00:09:53,192 --> 00:09:56,628 No. He just ran out to the bank. He'II be right back. Sit down. 110 00:10:00,333 --> 00:10:02,528 -I reaIIy got to go. -Sit down. 111 00:10:03,102 --> 00:10:06,401 I can't sit down, MeI, but it's very good to see you. 112 00:10:07,907 --> 00:10:09,499 Don't be a stranger. 113 00:10:28,227 --> 00:10:29,819 Look at you, man. 114 00:10:29,996 --> 00:10:31,190 Look at that. 115 00:10:31,731 --> 00:10:33,562 ''Sam Bicke, SaIesman.'' Damn. 116 00:10:34,433 --> 00:10:37,334 You can keep that. They made a thousand of them. 117 00:10:37,436 --> 00:10:39,370 -Athousand? -One thousand. 118 00:10:39,605 --> 00:10:43,701 Man, they got big pIans foryou. You Iook good, Sam. 119 00:10:43,809 --> 00:10:47,210 I feeI good. I beIieve. 120 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:50,046 Amen, brother. You've got to beIieve. 121 00:10:51,050 --> 00:10:52,984 Sam Bicke, saIesman. 122 00:10:54,687 --> 00:10:57,622 I was just thinking that I wouId go see Marie. 123 00:10:58,391 --> 00:11:02,953 That I wouId surprise her because I have a IittIe extra for herthis month. 124 00:11:05,297 --> 00:11:06,628 AII right, then. 125 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:10,227 You don't think it's a good idea. 126 00:11:11,637 --> 00:11:14,128 You've got to know what's right, Sam. 127 00:11:14,407 --> 00:11:17,035 Nobody thinks that Sam Bicke is going to make it. 128 00:11:17,143 --> 00:11:18,474 I didn't say that. 129 00:11:36,729 --> 00:11:38,526 Hi, there. 130 00:11:38,631 --> 00:11:40,792 How are my princesses? 131 00:11:43,936 --> 00:11:46,598 -I got an A in SociaI Studies. -You did? 132 00:11:47,106 --> 00:11:48,403 That's great. 133 00:11:48,541 --> 00:11:50,270 Go wash up, you two. 134 00:11:51,977 --> 00:11:53,604 -Hi. -Hey. 135 00:12:00,019 --> 00:12:01,179 Looks good. 136 00:12:02,655 --> 00:12:05,351 You can keep that. They made a thousand of them. 137 00:12:05,591 --> 00:12:07,991 -Thanks. -It's good to see you. 138 00:12:08,494 --> 00:12:10,826 You know you're supposed to caII first. 139 00:12:11,097 --> 00:12:12,394 I know. 140 00:12:17,670 --> 00:12:18,762 What's this? 141 00:12:19,138 --> 00:12:20,503 I'm on a roII. 142 00:12:21,741 --> 00:12:25,199 That's great. Maybe I can get the roof fixed. 143 00:12:26,946 --> 00:12:29,471 It's done. Paid for. Do it. 144 00:12:29,782 --> 00:12:31,477 -Job's working out? -Yeah. 145 00:12:32,318 --> 00:12:33,285 Marie... 146 00:12:35,154 --> 00:12:37,884 I reaIIy think that this is gonna change things for us. 147 00:12:37,990 --> 00:12:40,959 Sam, job sounds good. 148 00:12:42,862 --> 00:12:45,092 I've got dinner on the stove. 149 00:12:47,032 --> 00:12:48,192 Thanks. 150 00:12:55,741 --> 00:12:58,005 Ijust wanted to have a IittIe taIk. 151 00:12:58,110 --> 00:13:01,443 -Mommy, JuIie's standing on the chair. -JuIie, come on, down. 152 00:13:01,714 --> 00:13:03,375 I gotta get inside. 153 00:13:03,482 --> 00:13:07,077 I'm sorry. Just caII first. AII right? 154 00:13:08,020 --> 00:13:11,956 -When? -I don't know. Try Sunday. 155 00:13:12,925 --> 00:13:15,189 -After 10:00, though, aII right? -Okay. 156 00:13:15,327 --> 00:13:18,455 I'II caII you Sunday after 10:00. 157 00:13:24,436 --> 00:13:25,664 You Iook good. 158 00:13:28,274 --> 00:13:29,502 Back to work. 159 00:13:33,479 --> 00:13:34,503 Mommy. 160 00:13:34,647 --> 00:13:37,707 JuIie, come on. EIIen, go get your brother, pIease. 161 00:13:38,751 --> 00:13:40,412 You Iook nice, Marie. 162 00:13:48,027 --> 00:13:49,255 Hey, Tuffer. 163 00:13:51,564 --> 00:13:52,792 Hey, boy. 164 00:14:13,285 --> 00:14:18,188 Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 16,500,000 shares. 165 00:14:18,290 --> 00:14:22,727 What happened, Mr. Bernstein, to the land of plenty? 166 00:14:24,396 --> 00:14:28,196 When there's plenty for the few, and nothing for the plenty? 167 00:14:29,001 --> 00:14:30,662 ls that the American dream? 168 00:14:30,769 --> 00:14:33,863 Now remember, the customer's weapon is money. 169 00:14:34,540 --> 00:14:38,306 That's what he'll want to talk about. Your weapon is quality. 170 00:14:38,577 --> 00:14:42,877 That's what you'll insist on talking about. Don't get caught in the price game. 171 00:14:42,982 --> 00:14:47,043 you tell him how great it is. 172 00:14:48,754 --> 00:14:49,743 How much? 173 00:14:52,658 --> 00:14:57,322 This is a very high quaIity desk. This one is 38 inches. 174 00:14:59,131 --> 00:15:00,359 How much is it? 175 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:03,934 This is $529. 176 00:15:04,069 --> 00:15:08,267 I reaIIy beIieve in this desk. I want to show you something. This is.... 177 00:15:08,374 --> 00:15:13,107 It's aII right. I know pretty much what to Iook for in a desk. 178 00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:18,350 Sam, I'm gonna be buying a Iot of stuff... 179 00:15:18,817 --> 00:15:21,843 and I'm just wondering, what's your best price? 180 00:15:26,425 --> 00:15:29,258 -I'II see what I can do foryou. -AII right. 181 00:15:29,995 --> 00:15:31,826 Give it your best shot. 182 00:15:31,997 --> 00:15:33,362 I'II do that. 183 00:15:38,570 --> 00:15:40,003 Okey-dokey. 184 00:15:42,675 --> 00:15:47,203 What I can do is I can give you 10% off that desk, which is $476. 185 00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:50,647 Jesus! Sam, that's it? That's your best price? 186 00:15:50,749 --> 00:15:52,444 It's our seIection of the month. 187 00:15:52,551 --> 00:15:56,351 Excuse me. Can I see you in my office for a minute pIease, Sam? 188 00:15:56,455 --> 00:15:58,548 Yes, I'II be right.... 189 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:02,127 I'II be right with you. 190 00:16:08,934 --> 00:16:12,301 What are you doing? Are you out of yourfucking mind? 191 00:16:12,738 --> 00:16:15,832 Offering 10%? Are you trying to give this stuff away? 192 00:16:15,941 --> 00:16:18,569 -You said-- -It's aIready been marked down. 193 00:16:20,946 --> 00:16:25,406 For Christ's sake, that's Iess than we paid forthe damn thing. 194 00:16:25,751 --> 00:16:28,151 You know I think there's been a misunderstanding-- 195 00:16:28,253 --> 00:16:30,847 I'm not interested in what you think. 196 00:16:30,956 --> 00:16:33,686 I'm interested in what you're gonna do about it. 197 00:16:33,792 --> 00:16:35,885 I guess I couId teII him-- 198 00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:39,692 You can't teII him shit. You've made the offer. 199 00:16:40,933 --> 00:16:44,733 That's it. Go out and hope he doesn't take it. 200 00:16:47,906 --> 00:16:49,396 AII right, Mr. Jones. 201 00:16:51,643 --> 00:16:55,477 Sir, can I show you some of our other very nice.... 202 00:16:55,581 --> 00:16:58,209 AII right, then. Yes. 203 00:17:12,264 --> 00:17:15,131 You Iooked Iike you're gonna shit your pants. 204 00:17:16,602 --> 00:17:18,069 You're on the board. 205 00:17:19,238 --> 00:17:22,867 -You see him write that check? -He did it to me, we do it to you. 206 00:17:22,975 --> 00:17:24,738 Fifty-fifty aII right with you? 207 00:17:24,843 --> 00:17:26,834 -Sure. -Good job, Sam. 208 00:17:33,252 --> 00:17:35,152 It's not Iying. It's business. 209 00:17:36,155 --> 00:17:40,285 But it's not right. I shouId have said something on the spot. 210 00:17:40,392 --> 00:17:42,189 No, you shouIdn't have. 211 00:17:42,961 --> 00:17:46,954 What are you saying, that I shouId swaIIow something Iike that? 212 00:17:47,332 --> 00:17:50,324 It makes me sad that you wouId accept something, of aII peopIe. 213 00:17:50,436 --> 00:17:53,234 Sam, I'm just saying it's not that big a deaI. 214 00:17:54,306 --> 00:17:58,265 It is a big deaI. Bonny, if we're going to be partners... 215 00:17:58,377 --> 00:18:00,811 we have to get this kind of thing straight. 216 00:18:00,913 --> 00:18:03,780 Sam, I get it. Okay? I've been there. 217 00:18:05,050 --> 00:18:06,915 But this guy's your boss. 218 00:18:07,019 --> 00:18:10,785 If he wants to be an asshoIe, you might just have to Iet him do. 219 00:18:10,889 --> 00:18:13,187 -But, Bonny-- -There's no ''but,'' Sam. 220 00:18:13,459 --> 00:18:16,587 -What about my rights? -You've got a right to be mad, sure. 221 00:18:16,695 --> 00:18:19,755 ExactIy. That's what I'm saying, partner. That's aII I'm saying. 222 00:18:19,865 --> 00:18:22,026 Sam, it's a job. 223 00:18:23,535 --> 00:18:26,993 This is what I mean. A man doesn't give up his rights at a job. 224 00:18:27,106 --> 00:18:31,304 A man doesn't give up his rights anywhere. You of aII peopIe shouId know that. 225 00:18:31,510 --> 00:18:35,776 What shouId I know? 'Cause I'm bIack, I shouId mouth off to my boss? 226 00:18:37,783 --> 00:18:41,014 AII this rights shit. Rights this, rights that. 227 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:43,281 Rights, my ass. It's a job. 228 00:18:43,822 --> 00:18:47,383 You got a right to pay your biIIs, pay foryour kids. 229 00:18:47,826 --> 00:18:52,024 I'm just saying you can't keep quitting jobs. 230 00:18:53,265 --> 00:18:55,256 We aII gotta work somehow. 231 00:18:58,403 --> 00:19:00,735 Come on. You're a saIesman, right? 232 00:19:02,107 --> 00:19:04,200 Iike you do. 233 00:19:13,452 --> 00:19:15,750 Explain this to me, Mr. Bernstein. 234 00:19:20,225 --> 00:19:23,888 All l want is a little piece of the American Dream. 235 00:19:25,264 --> 00:19:27,425 Like my father and his father. 236 00:19:30,369 --> 00:19:32,462 ls that too much to expect? 237 00:19:49,655 --> 00:19:52,954 Hey, Tuffer. Hey, boy. 238 00:19:53,458 --> 00:19:55,187 You miss me, don't you? 239 00:19:55,294 --> 00:19:57,455 Of course you miss me. 240 00:20:01,133 --> 00:20:05,035 This is a good country, Maestro. Filled with good people. 241 00:20:06,471 --> 00:20:08,530 But what good is good... 242 00:20:09,608 --> 00:20:11,269 in times like these? 243 00:21:29,288 --> 00:21:30,346 I've been trying to caII. 244 00:21:30,455 --> 00:21:32,616 DoubIe Scotch, Scotch and soda, doubIe bourbon. 245 00:21:32,724 --> 00:21:33,850 It's not a good time, Sam. 246 00:21:33,959 --> 00:21:35,722 Oh, no. I know. Ijust came to say hi. 247 00:21:35,827 --> 00:21:37,727 -You want to see a menu? -Yes, pIease. 248 00:21:37,829 --> 00:21:40,354 -Here you go. I'II be right back. -Thank you. 249 00:21:41,733 --> 00:21:44,201 ...great change, at the same time. 250 00:21:44,303 --> 00:21:47,329 One change is defense spending is on the way down now. 251 00:21:47,439 --> 00:21:51,170 For the first time in 20 years, the Federal government is spending more.... 252 00:21:51,276 --> 00:21:52,868 That's too much saIt. 253 00:21:54,846 --> 00:21:56,143 I know. Sorry. 254 00:21:58,483 --> 00:21:59,711 How is it? 255 00:22:01,453 --> 00:22:05,981 It is good. Remember Sam Jr. used to caII these ''mashapotos''? 256 00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:10,620 That's right. Is everything okay at work? 257 00:22:12,864 --> 00:22:15,662 Top of the charts. Top of the saIes board. 258 00:22:16,802 --> 00:22:18,565 I'm doing very weII. 259 00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:20,771 That's great. 260 00:22:21,406 --> 00:22:23,840 Maybe I'II be driving a CadiIIac soon. 261 00:22:27,913 --> 00:22:29,881 He was a friend of yours? 262 00:22:30,115 --> 00:22:31,082 Who? 263 00:22:32,351 --> 00:22:35,115 The one with the CadiIIac. I drove by Iast night. 264 00:22:35,821 --> 00:22:38,119 -Jesus, are you spying on me? -No. 265 00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:41,454 What you doing Iurking around the house for? 266 00:22:43,295 --> 00:22:45,388 I wasn't Iurking, Marie. Ijust.... 267 00:22:47,532 --> 00:22:50,365 You toId me to caII. I caIIed and nobody answered, so-- 268 00:22:50,469 --> 00:22:52,835 I said, try me, okay? 269 00:22:53,405 --> 00:22:56,135 You know what? I don't want to taIk about this. 270 00:22:59,911 --> 00:23:01,401 I respect that. 271 00:23:04,383 --> 00:23:07,147 Ijust want you to know I'm not seeing anyone. 272 00:23:07,886 --> 00:23:09,649 Okay, that's your business. 273 00:23:10,822 --> 00:23:13,848 It's important to me that you know that. 274 00:23:14,726 --> 00:23:17,627 Fine. Now I know. 275 00:23:18,730 --> 00:23:20,595 TabIe four wants their check. 276 00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:25,859 I'm sorry. Okay? I didn't mean.... 277 00:23:33,311 --> 00:23:34,608 Can I caII you Iater? 278 00:23:34,713 --> 00:23:38,114 Look, if I get off at a decent hour, I'II caII you. 279 00:23:39,284 --> 00:23:40,842 -AII right? -AII right. 280 00:23:43,522 --> 00:23:48,357 Mr. Bernstein, sir, there are people who sit and wait their lives away... 281 00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:51,896 on the promise of a dream that will not come. 282 00:23:52,931 --> 00:23:54,626 They are the sheep. 283 00:23:54,733 --> 00:23:58,191 We have a great deal to be thankful for as Americans tonight. 284 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:05,469 You've chosen El Dorado, with front wheel drive. lt's our most- 285 00:24:05,944 --> 00:24:09,675 But there are also many more like us, Maestro... 286 00:24:10,449 --> 00:24:14,180 -who will not be pushed around. -The time has come when the masses... 287 00:24:15,887 --> 00:24:17,821 ...have been pushed to the wall. 288 00:24:17,923 --> 00:24:21,518 When they cannot any longer address their grievances through the legal... 289 00:24:21,626 --> 00:24:23,389 political machinery of this country. 290 00:24:23,495 --> 00:24:26,157 We're not the decision-makers, the masses are. 291 00:24:26,264 --> 00:24:29,529 lf they think it's time to overthrow the system, there's nothing you... 292 00:24:29,634 --> 00:24:31,397 or anyone eIse can do. 293 00:24:52,290 --> 00:24:54,952 Hi. I'm Sam Bicke. 294 00:24:55,060 --> 00:24:56,186 HaroId. 295 00:24:56,294 --> 00:24:57,727 -How are you? -Yeah. 296 00:24:58,396 --> 00:24:59,829 Are you with the poIice? 297 00:24:59,931 --> 00:25:02,229 I'm not poIice. I'm Sam Bicke. 298 00:25:02,334 --> 00:25:05,462 Yeah, I got that. What can I do foryou? 299 00:25:06,071 --> 00:25:09,370 As a matter of fact... 300 00:25:10,709 --> 00:25:15,305 I've seen you on teIevision. I mean, the Panthers on teIevision... 301 00:25:15,514 --> 00:25:18,642 and I'm in compIete agreement with your stand. 302 00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:21,116 Except that I'm white. 303 00:25:21,219 --> 00:25:23,847 We've aII got to be born something. 304 00:25:23,955 --> 00:25:27,447 Do you know what that means? 305 00:25:29,895 --> 00:25:34,423 It means you're not getting to your whoIe audience. 306 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,801 I mean, I'm white, but I'm in the same boat. 307 00:25:39,905 --> 00:25:41,031 You own the boat. 308 00:25:41,139 --> 00:25:45,803 No, I don't own the boat. I'm not the man in the CadiIIac. 309 00:25:47,045 --> 00:25:48,376 That's not me. 310 00:25:52,284 --> 00:25:53,342 May I? 311 00:25:59,658 --> 00:26:01,319 -HaroId. -Yes. 312 00:26:01,426 --> 00:26:06,022 I feeI Iike I can taIk to you. I sort of knew it wouId be Iike that. 313 00:26:08,199 --> 00:26:13,034 I know what it's Iike to not be respected, and be Iied to... 314 00:26:13,138 --> 00:26:15,800 and be treated Iike a great, big nothing. 315 00:26:15,907 --> 00:26:18,000 And I want to do something. 316 00:26:18,343 --> 00:26:20,038 You want to do something? 317 00:26:20,145 --> 00:26:22,909 Like the BIack Panthers, I want to do something.... 318 00:26:23,014 --> 00:26:26,313 The system is not right. 319 00:26:30,422 --> 00:26:33,391 I have to go, but I want to throw an idea at you. 320 00:26:39,264 --> 00:26:40,595 Zebras. 321 00:26:42,701 --> 00:26:43,895 Zebras? 322 00:26:46,338 --> 00:26:49,307 See, they're bIack and they're white. 323 00:26:51,810 --> 00:26:56,008 The BIack Panthers become the Zebras... 324 00:26:56,481 --> 00:26:59,109 and membership wiII doubIe. 325 00:27:01,853 --> 00:27:05,721 I don't want you to answer me right now. Just think about it. 326 00:27:12,297 --> 00:27:13,958 This is $107. 327 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,966 I wanted to feeI Iike I was starting to do something. 328 00:27:22,841 --> 00:27:26,777 Sam. It's a great start. 329 00:27:29,314 --> 00:27:30,713 Take a Iook. 330 00:27:32,083 --> 00:27:35,177 -You see what I see? -What's that? 331 00:27:41,059 --> 00:27:43,254 You're famiIiar with Carnegie, right? 332 00:27:44,729 --> 00:27:46,026 I gave it to you. 333 00:27:47,332 --> 00:27:50,927 DaIe Carnegie. How to Win Friends and lnfluence People. 334 00:27:51,069 --> 00:27:52,764 Oh, yes. I know the book. 335 00:27:54,472 --> 00:27:55,962 No, you don't. 336 00:27:57,475 --> 00:27:58,999 You've seen the book. 337 00:27:59,110 --> 00:28:01,806 Maybe browsed through it. But you don't know the book. 338 00:28:01,913 --> 00:28:05,713 If you knew the book, you'd know what I mean when I say... 339 00:28:06,551 --> 00:28:09,111 ''AIways give a dog a good name.'' 340 00:28:11,289 --> 00:28:12,586 AIways give a dog a name. 341 00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:17,355 A good name. Damn it. You've reaIIy got to Iisten better. 342 00:28:17,462 --> 00:28:18,793 You're right. I'm sorry. 343 00:28:18,897 --> 00:28:21,764 It's a Carnegie technique for deaIing with peopIe. 344 00:28:23,001 --> 00:28:26,937 When somebody's performance isn't good, you don't criticize them. 345 00:28:27,038 --> 00:28:31,134 You don't say, ''Your work's shit.'' Right? Instead you say: 346 00:28:31,776 --> 00:28:35,075 ''Your work used to be great, now it's not so great.'' 347 00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:38,641 And then you ask them a question Iike: 348 00:28:40,218 --> 00:28:42,186 ''Everything okay at home?'' 349 00:28:44,022 --> 00:28:45,353 Are you asking me? 350 00:28:45,457 --> 00:28:48,620 I'm teaching you. You just Iearned a management technique. 351 00:28:52,163 --> 00:28:53,755 Don't mind me teaching you, do you? 352 00:28:53,865 --> 00:28:57,733 sir. -Good. Just one more IittIe thing. 353 00:28:59,003 --> 00:29:02,166 But, Marie, he wants me to cut it. 354 00:29:02,207 --> 00:29:06,166 It's a job, Sam. Shave it off. You'II forget you ever had a mustache. 355 00:29:06,277 --> 00:29:11,214 I won't forget. I'II neverforget. Marie, don't you remember? 356 00:29:11,349 --> 00:29:12,873 Remember what? 357 00:29:12,984 --> 00:29:15,043 Daddy, do you Iike my picture? 358 00:29:15,653 --> 00:29:17,518 Yes, honey, it's very nice. 359 00:29:18,423 --> 00:29:20,152 I grew it foryou. 360 00:29:20,258 --> 00:29:21,919 Sam, pIease. 361 00:29:22,060 --> 00:29:23,027 Mom! 362 00:29:24,696 --> 00:29:29,190 You've got to see these peopIe, they just Iie to make money. 363 00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:32,667 And then, I'm the sIeazy one of these so-caIIed businessmen. 364 00:29:32,771 --> 00:29:33,863 God damn it. 365 00:29:35,874 --> 00:29:38,934 I mean they don't have any right... 366 00:29:39,911 --> 00:29:43,608 to say haIf of the things that they say to us. 367 00:29:44,649 --> 00:29:47,584 I mean, Iook at the way they make you dress. 368 00:29:50,889 --> 00:29:53,881 I dress Iike this so I can support my famiIy. 369 00:30:19,884 --> 00:30:24,753 Can't you see what they're doing to us? 370 00:30:27,859 --> 00:30:30,293 You're going to Iose this job, aren't you? 371 00:30:31,663 --> 00:30:35,929 What? I'm not going to Iose my job. 372 00:30:36,034 --> 00:30:39,162 Just teII me now, because I can do it on my own. 373 00:30:47,579 --> 00:30:50,844 I'm doing great. 374 00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:54,682 I'm so tired of this. 375 00:31:06,097 --> 00:31:09,123 I don't want you stopping by Iike this anymore. 376 00:31:17,175 --> 00:31:18,938 I reaIIy mean it. 377 00:31:31,522 --> 00:31:33,547 I think it Iooks good. 378 00:31:33,658 --> 00:31:36,889 And it makes me Iook a IittIe oIder and trustworthy. 379 00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:39,629 You wouId trust me. 380 00:31:39,731 --> 00:31:42,894 That's not reaIIy the point, though. What I'm saying is-- 381 00:31:43,001 --> 00:31:46,232 I'm surprised you wouId say that, Bonny. I reaIIy am. 382 00:31:46,337 --> 00:31:49,898 Because I wouId think that you wouId have more feeIing. 383 00:31:50,008 --> 00:31:53,535 Joey, Iet's get some of these dishes cIeared and get you to bed. 384 00:31:53,645 --> 00:31:54,907 No. You sit. 385 00:31:58,449 --> 00:31:59,416 Joey. 386 00:32:01,586 --> 00:32:02,678 Yes, ma'am. 387 00:32:02,820 --> 00:32:06,654 That's a good kid. That's a reaI good kid. 388 00:32:06,758 --> 00:32:08,225 His mothertaught him weII. 389 00:32:08,326 --> 00:32:10,817 I bet she did. 390 00:32:10,995 --> 00:32:12,826 No offense, but I wouIdn't be surprised... 391 00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:15,900 if his father had a IittIe something to do with that. 392 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,093 He probabIy got something from me. 393 00:32:18,369 --> 00:32:21,930 What do you think? If yourfather went away... 394 00:32:22,407 --> 00:32:24,170 wouId that make you sad? 395 00:32:25,143 --> 00:32:26,735 He's not gonna go away. 396 00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:29,914 Of course he's not. If he did? 397 00:32:30,848 --> 00:32:33,612 If your mommy wanted him to go. 398 00:32:34,986 --> 00:32:36,317 She wouIdn't say that. 399 00:32:36,421 --> 00:32:38,286 Why don't you just Ieave those there. 400 00:32:38,389 --> 00:32:41,085 It's past your bedtime. Give yourfather a kiss. 401 00:32:43,161 --> 00:32:45,220 -Good night, Daddy. -Good night, baby. 402 00:32:45,330 --> 00:32:48,595 Things wiII work out, Sam. You'II see. 403 00:32:50,601 --> 00:32:52,626 -Good night, Mommy. -Good night, baby. 404 00:32:52,737 --> 00:32:54,796 Say good night to your UncIe Sam. 405 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:56,998 Good night, UncIe Sam. 406 00:33:01,879 --> 00:33:03,176 Good night, son. 407 00:33:45,123 --> 00:33:50,060 I know it was important to you, Sam. I want to thank you forthe sacrifice. 408 00:33:51,396 --> 00:33:55,457 I think it was a good decision. Now you can smiIe. 409 00:33:56,334 --> 00:34:00,361 You Iook Iike a famiIy man instead of some schmuck with a pussy on his face. 410 00:34:01,939 --> 00:34:03,497 -Marty? -Yes. 411 00:34:04,175 --> 00:34:08,441 Get up to the spic's pIace and get me an egg saIad... 412 00:34:08,946 --> 00:34:10,811 and whatever eIse you want. 413 00:34:11,516 --> 00:34:15,350 ls independence too much to ask, Mr. Bernstein? 414 00:34:17,422 --> 00:34:19,947 l mean, you're your own boss, right? 415 00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:23,391 You don't have any idea what it's like to work for somebody else... 416 00:34:23,494 --> 00:34:25,485 like some kind of a slave. 417 00:34:26,397 --> 00:34:31,300 But l'm telling you, slavery never really ended in this country. 418 00:34:32,937 --> 00:34:37,271 They just gave it another name. Employee. 419 00:34:37,508 --> 00:34:40,841 Remember power is a state of mind. 420 00:34:41,612 --> 00:34:44,172 You have as much as you think you have. 421 00:34:44,415 --> 00:34:47,179 lf you don't think you have any, you don't. 422 00:34:47,852 --> 00:34:50,844 Talk about yourself as you see yourself... 423 00:34:50,955 --> 00:34:54,254 and someday that will be yourself. 424 00:34:54,725 --> 00:34:57,489 The salesman must see himself as a winner. 425 00:34:58,062 --> 00:34:59,529 Say it along with me. 426 00:35:02,433 --> 00:35:06,893 I'm not sure I understand this business about the schooI bus. 427 00:35:08,005 --> 00:35:11,406 That's just it. The bus is the business. 428 00:35:12,477 --> 00:35:14,104 It's a movabIe store. 429 00:35:15,213 --> 00:35:18,341 -A movabIe tire store? -ExactIy. 430 00:35:20,685 --> 00:35:24,246 You see, we take out aII of the seats, just gut the whoIe bus... 431 00:35:24,388 --> 00:35:27,084 and put the tires. FiII it up with the tires. 432 00:35:27,391 --> 00:35:31,020 Then you bring the tires to the customer, at his convenience. 433 00:35:31,129 --> 00:35:32,289 You're a deIivery service. 434 00:35:32,396 --> 00:35:36,594 That's just the beginning of it, because I wouId bring the tire... 435 00:35:36,734 --> 00:35:40,670 and change it, I'II put the tire on your car whiIe you're mowing the Iawn. 436 00:35:41,005 --> 00:35:43,439 Or anything eIse that that you want to do. 437 00:35:43,708 --> 00:35:47,303 And we'd paint the bus a bright red because that wouId give the company... 438 00:35:47,411 --> 00:35:51,643 its own individuaI identity and make it memorabIe. A sort of trademark. 439 00:35:51,849 --> 00:35:53,840 And you have the bus aIready? 440 00:35:53,951 --> 00:35:57,682 My friend, my partner, Bonny, has the bus and he has the tooIs. 441 00:35:57,788 --> 00:36:00,018 And I bring the management experience. 442 00:36:00,124 --> 00:36:01,853 And that you have as weII? 443 00:36:02,093 --> 00:36:03,822 That I do, sir. Yes, I do. 444 00:36:04,462 --> 00:36:09,229 It says here you're currentIy empIoyed as an office furniture saIesman? 445 00:36:09,901 --> 00:36:13,302 That's correct. But I'm ready to move on. 446 00:36:13,404 --> 00:36:18,341 And priorto office saIes, you were a tire saIesman with yourfather? 447 00:36:19,076 --> 00:36:21,670 JuIius Bicke, that's my brother. 448 00:36:22,246 --> 00:36:25,977 Brother. Okay, and why did you Ieave his empIoyment? 449 00:36:28,152 --> 00:36:32,088 He expected me to Iie. 450 00:36:33,024 --> 00:36:37,256 I don't beIieve that someone shouId have to Iie to make a Iiving. 451 00:36:39,764 --> 00:36:40,788 AII right. 452 00:36:40,898 --> 00:36:43,560 Over and over he wouId teII me... 453 00:36:44,769 --> 00:36:46,703 that 15% is rock bottom. 454 00:36:47,638 --> 00:36:50,630 SeII beIow that, we Iose money. That's a Iie. 455 00:36:51,142 --> 00:36:55,238 In the retaiI tire business, the markup is aIways at Ieast 30%. 456 00:36:55,479 --> 00:36:58,277 So, 30 is rock bottom. 457 00:36:59,150 --> 00:37:03,951 What one shouId teII the customer.... Let me show you. 458 00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:08,283 Good morning, Mr. Ford. 459 00:37:08,459 --> 00:37:10,359 I think I understand, Mr. Bicke.... 460 00:37:10,461 --> 00:37:12,361 Let me just show you. 461 00:37:12,730 --> 00:37:17,224 Good morning. Sam Bicke. You're here to buy tires. 462 00:37:17,702 --> 00:37:19,192 Yes. 463 00:37:20,438 --> 00:37:22,804 Let's get down to brass tacks. This is the deaI. 464 00:37:22,907 --> 00:37:25,501 The markup on aII of my tires is 30%. 465 00:37:26,344 --> 00:37:29,643 I wiII show you the company invoice to prove that to you. 466 00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:33,012 I'II do that foryou, Mr. Ford. I'II make you my best offer. 467 00:37:33,784 --> 00:37:38,153 I'II spIit the difference with you. I'II take haIf the markup as my profit... 468 00:37:38,256 --> 00:37:41,020 and you'II take haIf the markup as your savings. 469 00:37:41,826 --> 00:37:43,726 Even Steven. Fair deaI. 470 00:37:45,796 --> 00:37:47,161 What do you think? 471 00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:50,525 What do I think? Or.... 472 00:37:50,635 --> 00:37:52,865 Yes. No, I'm back to normaI now. 473 00:37:54,238 --> 00:37:56,763 -It's 15%. -ExactIy. 474 00:37:57,275 --> 00:38:00,005 But it's the same thing, what your brother offered. 475 00:38:00,111 --> 00:38:02,443 No. My brother... 476 00:38:03,147 --> 00:38:07,709 wiII go to 15%, but he wants you to hoId at Iist. 477 00:38:07,952 --> 00:38:10,250 5% if you have to... 478 00:38:10,354 --> 00:38:13,187 10% if you're gonna Iose the customer out the door. 479 00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:18,092 But the saIesman who offers 15%, he's a faiIure. 480 00:38:18,929 --> 00:38:21,762 He's a man who doesn't know how to hoId his ground. 481 00:38:22,633 --> 00:38:25,796 And who do you think, at the end of the month... 482 00:38:26,537 --> 00:38:28,971 gets the promotion, gets the bonus? 483 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,603 The one with the biggest profit margin? 484 00:38:31,709 --> 00:38:33,006 The biggest Iiar. 485 00:38:35,546 --> 00:38:37,173 I'm sorry. 486 00:38:37,281 --> 00:38:41,650 Ijust want you to know that I wouId run an honest business. 487 00:38:41,919 --> 00:38:44,615 That I wouId not ask my saIesmen to Iie... 488 00:38:45,423 --> 00:38:48,449 or make them feeI Iike a faiIure... 489 00:38:48,726 --> 00:38:52,355 or some kind of a piece of garbage. 490 00:38:53,864 --> 00:38:55,161 WeII, that's.... 491 00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:58,058 I admire that. 492 00:38:59,904 --> 00:39:02,464 -Your idea? -Yes, sir. 493 00:39:02,940 --> 00:39:04,271 WeII, that's it. 494 00:39:05,242 --> 00:39:06,573 That's it? 495 00:39:08,312 --> 00:39:12,772 Mr. Ford, I want to thank you, sir, because this Ioan isn't just for me. 496 00:39:12,883 --> 00:39:16,284 I think it can change the way we think about American business. 497 00:39:16,387 --> 00:39:19,356 Mr. Bicke, I'm reaIIy very sorry. 498 00:39:20,825 --> 00:39:25,319 That's it for now. I have to send your appIication on to Washington... 499 00:39:25,429 --> 00:39:28,956 and they wiII review it. And it's a whoIe process. 500 00:39:33,137 --> 00:39:35,196 Of course. 501 00:39:37,108 --> 00:39:39,372 Mr. Ford at the SBA... 502 00:39:40,144 --> 00:39:43,113 Bonny, I gotta teII you, he was very impressed. 503 00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:45,307 Did you teII him the bus don't run? 504 00:39:45,649 --> 00:39:46,843 I didn't. 505 00:39:48,285 --> 00:39:50,253 Did you teII him your partner was bIack? 506 00:39:50,354 --> 00:39:53,380 I did, yes. I checked the ''Negro'' box. 507 00:39:53,491 --> 00:39:55,959 That was stupid, Sam. This isn't working. 508 00:39:56,093 --> 00:39:57,788 No, Bonny. 509 00:39:58,629 --> 00:40:01,689 The government is Iooking for bIack businessmen. 510 00:40:02,299 --> 00:40:05,530 I've been here 16 years, and they haven't found me yet. 511 00:40:09,006 --> 00:40:13,466 EIIen, sit next to JuIie. Sam. Come on, son. 512 00:40:13,644 --> 00:40:16,272 EIIen, can you just sit. That's great, JuIie. 513 00:40:21,919 --> 00:40:24,683 EIIen, sit next to your sister. Come on, Sam Jr. 514 00:40:30,327 --> 00:40:33,296 EIIen, honey, sit next to JuIie. 515 00:40:33,397 --> 00:40:34,989 Come on, you guys. Dinner's ready. 516 00:40:35,099 --> 00:40:37,124 Daddy's taking a picture. 517 00:40:39,103 --> 00:40:41,196 That's aII right, honey, I got it. 518 00:40:41,839 --> 00:40:45,036 -See you next Sunday, Sam. -Yeah, I'II see you next Sunday. 519 00:40:51,115 --> 00:40:53,549 Tuffer! No. 520 00:41:24,081 --> 00:41:27,642 $125 is yourtotaI. I Iet the tax sIide. 521 00:41:27,751 --> 00:41:28,775 Thank you. 522 00:41:30,488 --> 00:41:32,854 You remind me of my ex-wife. 523 00:41:33,157 --> 00:41:38,094 She's got the dimpIes, aIso, when she smiIes. They're nice. 524 00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:42,728 CompIiments and a good deaI. I shouId shop here more often. 525 00:41:44,335 --> 00:41:46,963 You shouId, miss, or is it missus? 526 00:41:47,771 --> 00:41:48,738 Miss. 527 00:41:51,408 --> 00:41:53,740 -Is this the current phone? -Yes. 528 00:41:55,479 --> 00:41:58,004 WouId you Iike me to deIiver it? 529 00:41:58,849 --> 00:42:02,341 No. That's aII right. I'II have someone from the office stop by. 530 00:42:02,753 --> 00:42:04,448 It wouIdn't be a probIem. 531 00:42:04,588 --> 00:42:05,953 I'II be just fine. 532 00:42:07,324 --> 00:42:09,224 You aIready are. 533 00:42:10,227 --> 00:42:13,458 I don't want you to deIiver it. I'II have it picked up. 534 00:42:13,697 --> 00:42:17,827 I didn't mean me, personaIIy. We have peopIe who deIiver. 535 00:42:30,748 --> 00:42:33,512 I think there's been a misunderstanding. 536 00:42:33,951 --> 00:42:35,851 I Iove my wife very much. 537 00:42:35,953 --> 00:42:40,049 We are aII married men. FamiIy men. 538 00:42:41,392 --> 00:42:42,416 Yeah. 539 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:44,184 Because... 540 00:42:46,297 --> 00:42:51,166 what's odd about your aborted fIirtation with that woman today... 541 00:42:51,735 --> 00:42:54,670 according to Marty's recoIIection, correct me if I'm wrong... 542 00:42:54,772 --> 00:42:58,264 is that you referred to her dimpIes... 543 00:42:58,375 --> 00:43:01,776 as being Iike those of your ex-wife's. 544 00:43:05,149 --> 00:43:07,913 -I don't think I did that. -He sure did. 545 00:43:08,018 --> 00:43:10,043 I think there's been a misunderstanding. 546 00:43:10,154 --> 00:43:13,487 As I toId you when I took you on... 547 00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:16,287 I onIy hire married men. 548 00:43:16,393 --> 00:43:19,089 A singIe saIesman is distracted. 549 00:43:19,763 --> 00:43:24,462 A divorced saIesman faiIs at seIIing, the same as marriage. 550 00:43:26,270 --> 00:43:29,433 It's aII right for a guy to... 551 00:43:29,540 --> 00:43:33,340 Iie to some broad about not being married when he is. 552 00:43:34,645 --> 00:43:37,011 That's fine. That's to be expected. 553 00:43:38,482 --> 00:43:42,077 But you wouIdn't expect that guy to Iie to his boss, wouId you? 554 00:43:50,094 --> 00:43:52,585 I guess I did try to pick up on that woman. 555 00:43:53,497 --> 00:43:58,196 I didn't want you to think that I was being dishonest to my wife. 556 00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:02,606 You did try to pick her up then? 557 00:44:04,808 --> 00:44:05,797 Yes. 558 00:44:05,909 --> 00:44:09,345 My son was correct in his estimation of your character? 559 00:44:09,847 --> 00:44:11,815 Yes. 560 00:44:12,983 --> 00:44:16,749 And if I were to ask you and your wife to join... 561 00:44:17,721 --> 00:44:22,351 me and Marty and our wives for dinner in, say, a week ortwo... 562 00:44:23,193 --> 00:44:24,956 that wouId be okay with you? 563 00:44:28,866 --> 00:44:31,494 Yes, I think that... 564 00:44:35,839 --> 00:44:37,500 she'd Iike that very much. 565 00:44:39,877 --> 00:44:43,540 When l was little l was taught not to be rude, Mr. Bernstein, but... 566 00:44:44,314 --> 00:44:47,283 what am l supposed to do about the people who won't respect me? 567 00:44:47,384 --> 00:44:50,785 What I wanted to do is just check on the status of my appIication. 568 00:44:50,888 --> 00:44:51,946 Sorry, Mr. Bicke. 569 00:44:52,056 --> 00:44:55,890 Mr. Ford shouId have toId you, but processing takes eight to ten weeks. 570 00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,357 No, he did not teII me that. 571 00:44:59,496 --> 00:45:02,556 Perhaps you couId check back, say, September 1. 572 00:45:05,335 --> 00:45:06,666 -September? -Yes. 573 00:45:14,311 --> 00:45:16,973 I do understand your position. 574 00:45:19,083 --> 00:45:21,881 I'm sure that you deaI with a Iot of incompetence. 575 00:45:22,419 --> 00:45:25,183 But I am a businessman... 576 00:45:26,023 --> 00:45:28,514 and a businessman can't wait. 577 00:45:28,625 --> 00:45:30,855 If you gonna have a future, you gotta make it. 578 00:45:30,961 --> 00:45:34,897 So I wouId reaIIy appreciate it if I couId see Mr. Ford. 579 00:45:35,365 --> 00:45:36,491 What was yourfirst name? 580 00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:37,931 SamueI J. 581 00:45:38,669 --> 00:45:41,035 I wiII taIk to Mr. Ford... 582 00:45:42,306 --> 00:45:45,537 and if he has time for a meeting, we'II caII you next week. 583 00:45:45,676 --> 00:45:49,043 Since I'm here, maybe I couId just see him-- 584 00:45:49,146 --> 00:45:54,049 If he has time, we'II caII you next week. DeaI? 585 00:45:59,323 --> 00:46:00,290 DeaI. 586 00:46:15,973 --> 00:46:18,305 Least you couId do is discourage him. 587 00:46:18,408 --> 00:46:20,638 DoubIe bourbon and a vodka martini up. 588 00:46:21,345 --> 00:46:23,438 It wouId heIp if you wore your wedding ring. 589 00:46:23,547 --> 00:46:26,038 For God's sake, Sam, aren't we done yet? 590 00:46:26,150 --> 00:46:29,483 WouId you consider going to the dinner? You couId drive your own car. 591 00:46:29,586 --> 00:46:32,919 I'm not gonna put on some charade. If you're theirtop saIesman... 592 00:46:33,023 --> 00:46:36,117 what do they care if you're married, divorced, or queer? 593 00:46:48,772 --> 00:46:52,333 Sir, you shouId be ashamed of yourseIf. That woman is my wife. 594 00:46:52,442 --> 00:46:54,410 They make her wearthat. 595 00:46:54,511 --> 00:46:55,944 Sam. 596 00:47:08,158 --> 00:47:11,958 ReaIIy, it's aII right. I'II just wait here. I'm fine here. 597 00:47:12,062 --> 00:47:13,620 Mr. Bicke, pIease.... 598 00:47:13,730 --> 00:47:17,962 He'II understand. He'II Ieave at some point and he'II be going to his car. 599 00:47:18,068 --> 00:47:22,027 He'II Ieave at some point, I'II waIk him down. That's aII the time.... 600 00:47:22,139 --> 00:47:24,403 -Mr. Bicke. -Mr. Ford. 601 00:47:26,810 --> 00:47:28,505 It's good to see you, sir. 602 00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:31,910 Why don't we step outside and get a cup of coffee? How's that? 603 00:47:32,015 --> 00:47:34,848 Coffee. In the cafeteria. 604 00:47:35,252 --> 00:47:37,686 ActuaIIy, there's a machine in the Iobby. 605 00:47:38,188 --> 00:47:40,315 The Iobby's fine. 606 00:47:42,259 --> 00:47:43,385 Have a seat. 607 00:47:48,899 --> 00:47:51,367 Now, how exactIy can I heIp you, Mr. Bicke? 608 00:47:51,468 --> 00:47:53,265 Yes, weII, sir.... 609 00:47:53,604 --> 00:47:58,541 FunniIy enough, my situation is that I reaIIy.... 610 00:47:59,109 --> 00:48:03,011 It's very urgent that I get this thing roIIing, if you know what I mean. 611 00:48:03,413 --> 00:48:04,539 No, I don't. 612 00:48:05,515 --> 00:48:07,278 The bus thing. The tire thing. 613 00:48:07,384 --> 00:48:10,615 Yes, I rememberyour appIication and I sent it aIong. 614 00:48:10,721 --> 00:48:13,053 Now there's reaIIy nothing more I can do. 615 00:48:13,156 --> 00:48:15,147 You can't teII me anything eIse? 616 00:48:15,525 --> 00:48:16,617 No, I can't. 617 00:48:17,561 --> 00:48:20,997 I toId you in our meeting, and I beIieve you were toId again... 618 00:48:21,665 --> 00:48:25,965 that the process wiII take eight to ten weeks. You'II be notified by maiI. 619 00:48:26,937 --> 00:48:29,906 You can't expedite that? 620 00:48:30,173 --> 00:48:33,870 It wiII take eight to ten weeks and you'II be notified by maiI. 621 00:48:34,845 --> 00:48:36,813 Now, I have to get back. 622 00:48:41,184 --> 00:48:45,018 Is there some way that this couId be speeded up? 623 00:48:45,122 --> 00:48:46,851 Is there some way that couId happen? 624 00:48:46,957 --> 00:48:51,758 No, there isn't. And if you come back again, I wiII have to add that to yourfiIe. 625 00:48:52,829 --> 00:48:55,423 Impatience is not a virtue, Mr. Bicke. 626 00:48:57,367 --> 00:48:59,699 Okay. Good Iuck. 627 00:49:06,743 --> 00:49:08,074 In the maiI then? 628 00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:11,069 Yes. 629 00:49:18,255 --> 00:49:23,090 A nation, like a person, has to have a certain inner drive in order to succeed. 630 00:49:23,894 --> 00:49:27,557 ln economic affairs that inner drive is called a competitive spirit. 631 00:49:28,332 --> 00:49:32,462 Whether this nation stays number one in the world's economy.... 632 00:49:42,546 --> 00:49:47,108 ...over 40 rounds from the hotel's rooftop. The sniper, former Navy seaman... 633 00:49:47,451 --> 00:49:50,443 Mark Jimmy Essex, had testified in his court- martial- 634 00:49:55,292 --> 00:49:57,954 For his part, Allende vowed he would not give in. 635 00:49:58,061 --> 00:50:01,792 He would not, he said, ''Betray the working classes.'' ln the end he found.... 636 00:50:01,898 --> 00:50:05,698 Who are these men, Maestro... 637 00:50:05,936 --> 00:50:08,131 who keep us waiting at their feet? 638 00:50:09,706 --> 00:50:12,231 The meek shall not inherit the earth. 639 00:50:12,676 --> 00:50:17,079 The earth belongs to the bullies who do not care how they get to the top... 640 00:50:17,447 --> 00:50:19,244 as long as they arrive. 641 00:50:27,090 --> 00:50:31,789 l am an honest man, and if that is to be my undoing, then so be it. 642 00:50:32,129 --> 00:50:34,029 But l will not go quietly. 643 00:50:52,749 --> 00:50:55,411 You've just got to have a IittIe more patience. 644 00:50:59,056 --> 00:51:00,614 It's aII about money. 645 00:51:01,158 --> 00:51:02,853 It ain't aII about money. 646 00:51:08,565 --> 00:51:09,691 Now what? 647 00:51:13,270 --> 00:51:15,101 -You got a probIem? -Yeah, I got a probIem. 648 00:51:15,205 --> 00:51:16,502 I paid you to fix the Ieak. 649 00:51:16,606 --> 00:51:19,473 -You've stiII got one? -I've got haIf-a-fucking-dozen of them. 650 00:51:19,576 --> 00:51:22,409 What kind of rip-off joint you running here, anyhow? 651 00:51:24,581 --> 00:51:29,109 -You sound Iike you're having a bad day. -I'm having a bad day with this fucking car. 652 00:52:03,053 --> 00:52:05,044 -You have a nice day, now. -Yeah. 653 00:52:16,833 --> 00:52:19,199 What is the matter with you? This thing is Ioaded. 654 00:52:19,302 --> 00:52:21,827 Nobody shouId taIk to another person Iike that. 655 00:52:21,938 --> 00:52:24,099 So you start swinging this fucking thing around? 656 00:52:24,207 --> 00:52:26,300 -You out of your mind? -He didn't respect you. 657 00:52:26,409 --> 00:52:28,969 So what? You think I'm Iosing sIeep overthat buIIshit? 658 00:52:29,079 --> 00:52:31,343 But how can you take that racist crap? 659 00:52:31,748 --> 00:52:35,684 Just because I didn't cuss his ass out doesn't mean I took shit off of him. 660 00:52:35,785 --> 00:52:38,049 AII I took off of him was the money that he owed me. 661 00:52:38,155 --> 00:52:42,285 And I sure as shit ain't some UncIe Tom, if that's what you're trying to say. 662 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:44,850 Are we cIear on that? 663 00:52:45,395 --> 00:52:46,726 Yes, we're cIear. 664 00:52:47,430 --> 00:52:49,125 Jesus Christ! 665 00:52:53,136 --> 00:52:58,073 I didn't mean you were a Tom. I didn't mean that. 666 00:53:04,981 --> 00:53:06,448 I'm so sorry, Bonny. 667 00:53:12,622 --> 00:53:14,112 Are we stiII friends? 668 00:53:15,759 --> 00:53:17,226 Yeah, we're friends. 669 00:53:22,699 --> 00:53:26,066 Last night near the site of that massacre, some 200 lndians... 670 00:53:26,169 --> 00:53:29,764 took control of two buildings on the Pine Ridge Sioux reservation. 671 00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:32,101 The lndians attacked at midnight... 672 00:53:32,209 --> 00:53:35,178 fully aware of the cliche that lndians don't fight at night. 673 00:53:35,278 --> 00:53:37,974 We have bet our lives that we can make change... 674 00:53:38,215 --> 00:53:42,276 for the American lndian, whether we live or die. 675 00:53:43,019 --> 00:53:46,921 And l'm prepared to die. l would rather die than submit to slavery. 676 00:54:47,017 --> 00:54:50,783 ...lnternal Security Division of the Justice Department of the FBl.... 677 00:54:55,125 --> 00:54:57,423 And I apoIogize, Ma. 678 00:54:59,429 --> 00:55:03,798 She's your daughter, but she's my wife and you have to teII me where Marie is. 679 00:55:06,403 --> 00:55:10,305 Okay. Mrs. Anderson, where is Marie? 680 00:55:12,042 --> 00:55:16,001 Then I'II just have to keep caIIing. 681 00:55:22,385 --> 00:55:25,183 9082. Thank you. 682 00:55:53,416 --> 00:55:54,883 Marie Bicke, pIease. 683 00:55:56,753 --> 00:55:59,415 Yes, I know exactIy what time it is. 684 00:55:59,522 --> 00:56:03,652 It's 3:27 in the morning and I demand to speak to my wife. 685 00:56:06,396 --> 00:56:10,526 That's right, this is Sam Bicke, and who is this? 686 00:56:10,667 --> 00:56:13,067 Who is this, sir? 687 00:56:19,409 --> 00:56:20,433 Marie? 688 00:56:21,711 --> 00:56:26,045 Wait. No, you hoId on. 689 00:56:26,149 --> 00:56:30,051 Marie, I got a divorce decree today... 690 00:56:30,153 --> 00:56:34,487 and we're supposed to be separated, we're supposed to be working on this. 691 00:56:35,992 --> 00:56:38,017 It's onIy been one year. 692 00:56:38,895 --> 00:56:41,386 It certainIy has not been two years. 693 00:56:42,098 --> 00:56:44,066 No, it has not been aImost two! 694 00:56:47,103 --> 00:56:51,938 I have a Iife. Why wouId you say that, Marie? 695 00:56:53,610 --> 00:56:55,305 When you're-- Marie? 696 00:56:56,746 --> 00:56:59,271 God damn it! 697 00:57:56,673 --> 00:58:00,609 l could stand here before this audience, and make all kinds of excuses.... 698 00:58:02,111 --> 00:58:04,443 I appreciate aII the time you've taken. 699 00:58:04,614 --> 00:58:09,176 I have spent a Iot of time, but it's okay because I know you're gonna be happy. 700 00:58:09,752 --> 00:58:11,549 I need to measure the space. 701 00:58:11,721 --> 00:58:15,953 So we can deIiver it this afternoon, or is Saturday better? 702 00:58:17,026 --> 00:58:19,927 As I said before, I have to stiII measure the space. 703 00:58:20,029 --> 00:58:23,021 I'II have the boys come over. They can measure the space. 704 00:58:23,132 --> 00:58:25,259 You're not gonna Iet me down, are you, Stan? 705 00:58:25,368 --> 00:58:29,668 This doesn't have to be done today because we'II be here in the morning. 706 00:58:40,683 --> 00:58:42,412 Turn that down. 707 00:58:47,824 --> 00:58:49,121 God damn it! 708 00:58:58,835 --> 00:59:02,635 What did you just do? You out of yourfucking mind? 709 00:59:03,339 --> 00:59:06,570 ActuaIIy, I have some bad news because I'm not going to.... 710 00:59:07,443 --> 00:59:08,933 This is my Iast day. 711 00:59:09,846 --> 00:59:11,279 -What? -ActuaIIy... 712 00:59:11,714 --> 00:59:14,615 I'm not going to be abIe to finish today because... 713 00:59:14,717 --> 00:59:18,585 I have a very important Ietter that's coming in. 714 00:59:18,688 --> 00:59:20,553 I'm starting my own business... 715 00:59:20,657 --> 00:59:24,218 and I have an enormous amount of pIans that I have to make. 716 00:59:24,327 --> 00:59:26,591 Have your desk cIeared in 10 minutes. 717 00:59:26,729 --> 00:59:27,787 AII right. 718 00:59:28,665 --> 00:59:32,431 ...'cause people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. 719 00:59:32,535 --> 00:59:36,027 Well, l'm not a crook. l've earned everything l've got. 720 00:59:36,739 --> 00:59:40,197 l sold all my stocks for $300,000. lt's all l owned. 721 00:59:40,310 --> 00:59:42,437 l sold my apartment in New York.... 722 00:59:45,481 --> 00:59:47,415 It's about money, Dick. 723 01:00:04,901 --> 01:00:07,529 ...and the testimony you gave us last week... 724 01:00:08,404 --> 01:00:12,465 was that you had dispersed some $69,000... 725 01:00:13,009 --> 01:00:15,637 in what you might call a sabotage program. 726 01:00:16,512 --> 01:00:20,676 And that you also perjured yourself at the trial... 727 01:00:20,950 --> 01:00:22,645 at Mr. Magruder's request. 728 01:00:23,219 --> 01:00:26,746 Would you explain to the committee how you dispersed the $69,000? 729 01:00:27,056 --> 01:00:29,251 l don't think that was gone into with much detail. 730 01:00:29,359 --> 01:00:33,728 Roger ZeffIer, pIease. Sam Bicke, Bicke Tires. 731 01:00:34,330 --> 01:00:38,960 Speaking to Haldeman and Ehrlichman l said ''The boil had to be pricked.'' 732 01:00:39,068 --> 01:00:40,399 No. 733 01:00:40,536 --> 01:00:42,367 ...prick the boil and take the heat. 734 01:00:42,472 --> 01:00:44,099 You're the prick. 735 01:00:47,110 --> 01:00:51,911 HeIIo, Roger. No, I wasn't saying that. This is Sam Bicke. 736 01:00:53,616 --> 01:00:55,049 Yes, that's right, JuIius' brother. 737 01:00:55,151 --> 01:00:57,551 As a matter of fact, I'm back with JuIius now. 738 01:00:57,654 --> 01:01:01,886 I'm handIing shipping and receiving for him. I have a purchase orderthat... 739 01:01:01,991 --> 01:01:06,189 we sent in a coupIe of days ago. It's number 3765. 740 01:01:09,899 --> 01:01:13,835 WeII, it is a Iot of tires. We're opening an outIet in the HiII district. 741 01:01:14,037 --> 01:01:17,131 BIack peopIe have to have tires, too, Roger. 742 01:01:22,478 --> 01:01:26,778 Yes, that's the correct address. If you couId just drop-ship those, that wouId be fine. 743 01:01:26,883 --> 01:01:28,111 Monday's fine. 744 01:01:38,061 --> 01:01:41,258 The operation they're talking about is the burglary of the Watergate. 745 01:01:41,364 --> 01:01:42,353 That's correct, sir. 746 01:01:42,465 --> 01:01:44,956 Mr. Magruder,just one very brief question. 747 01:01:45,201 --> 01:01:48,136 Did John Dean prepare you for your grand jury? 748 01:01:52,975 --> 01:01:57,071 ...by making their lives better at home, for themselves and their children. 749 01:01:59,916 --> 01:02:04,114 That key is in your hands. Every action l have taken tonight... 750 01:02:04,987 --> 01:02:07,888 is designed to help us snap out of this self-doubt... 751 01:02:08,357 --> 01:02:11,121 this self-disparagement that saps our energy. 752 01:02:14,163 --> 01:02:16,723 She declared it was all part of the national plan... 753 01:02:16,833 --> 01:02:19,324 to bring an end to the Black Panther party. 754 01:03:14,290 --> 01:03:15,382 Darn it. 755 01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:25,797 l want the American people... 756 01:03:25,902 --> 01:03:29,998 l want you to know beyond the shadow of a doubt... 757 01:03:31,107 --> 01:03:33,268 that during my term as president... 758 01:03:33,442 --> 01:03:38,072 justice will be pursued fairly, fully.... 759 01:03:38,948 --> 01:03:40,939 Please let them know, Maestro... 760 01:03:42,552 --> 01:03:44,611 let them know l was nervous... 761 01:03:46,522 --> 01:03:51,289 that unlike the powerful, l was not so arrogant... 762 01:03:52,762 --> 01:03:56,163 as to be sure that my actions were righteous. 763 01:03:57,300 --> 01:04:00,997 Certainty is the disease of kings, Maestro. 764 01:04:02,538 --> 01:04:07,339 And Sam Bicke was many things, but not a king. 765 01:04:09,045 --> 01:04:12,913 He just wanted to make a change. To stop the lies. 766 01:04:14,016 --> 01:04:15,483 And he aimed high. 767 01:04:40,576 --> 01:04:41,804 HeIIo, SamueI. 768 01:04:44,013 --> 01:04:46,504 The IandIord was kind enough to aIIow me in. 769 01:04:47,350 --> 01:04:49,944 He stopped by. I see you received his note. 770 01:04:52,955 --> 01:04:53,922 JuIius. 771 01:04:54,023 --> 01:04:56,719 We have some things to discuss, don't you think? 772 01:04:58,094 --> 01:04:59,186 To discuss? 773 01:05:02,965 --> 01:05:06,457 -Good seeing you, of course. -Cut the crap. Sit down. 774 01:05:18,648 --> 01:05:20,878 You're a very strange man, SamueI. 775 01:05:23,386 --> 01:05:27,755 I've aIways known this. I've aIways tried to heIp. 776 01:05:31,093 --> 01:05:33,618 So why wouId you steaI from me, your brother? 777 01:05:37,867 --> 01:05:39,994 -I didn't steaI-- -You did. 778 01:05:41,070 --> 01:05:44,301 I had to baiI yourfriend, Bonny, out of jaiI this evening. 779 01:05:45,608 --> 01:05:46,700 Bonny? 780 01:05:46,876 --> 01:05:50,175 For receiving stoIen goods. My goods. 781 01:05:52,248 --> 01:05:56,548 Did you think Roger ZeffIer wouIdn't become suspicious of yourfriend? 782 01:05:57,386 --> 01:06:02,221 That somehow this deIivery was kosher? That 550 tires beIonged to that address? 783 01:06:08,631 --> 01:06:10,622 Roger ZeffIer is a racist. 784 01:06:10,900 --> 01:06:15,769 Perhaps that's so. Shame on Roger ZeffIer. But you are a crook. 785 01:06:17,039 --> 01:06:20,202 So, you teII me, Sam. Which shame is greater? 786 01:06:20,710 --> 01:06:24,111 -I am not-- -Look at me. 787 01:06:26,682 --> 01:06:29,674 This is your brother. 788 01:06:32,121 --> 01:06:35,090 Do I deserve this now, foryou to Iie to me? 789 01:06:38,828 --> 01:06:39,886 JuIius, pIease. 790 01:06:39,996 --> 01:06:42,897 No. No ''pIease, JuIius''. No! 791 01:06:45,468 --> 01:06:47,834 I have been to the poIice. 792 01:06:47,937 --> 01:06:51,338 Begging forgiveness for a mistake that was not a mistake. 793 01:06:51,941 --> 01:06:55,206 Because I took responsibiIity, SamueI. 794 01:06:55,978 --> 01:06:57,969 So that no one wouId go to jaiI. 795 01:06:58,647 --> 01:07:02,515 So that this man, Bonny, yourfriend, wouId not go to jaiI. 796 01:07:04,220 --> 01:07:06,188 And my famiIy caused this. 797 01:07:07,990 --> 01:07:10,959 So you must teII me, Sam, pIease... 798 01:07:12,028 --> 01:07:14,053 which is the greater shame? 799 01:07:32,882 --> 01:07:34,440 I'm sorry, JuIius. 800 01:07:37,953 --> 01:07:39,580 What is your name? 801 01:07:46,328 --> 01:07:49,388 I had an idea. 802 01:07:52,068 --> 01:07:55,037 For a tire business. Like you. 803 01:08:01,410 --> 01:08:06,347 I wanted to get a head start untiI my Ioan came in, and my Ioan was denied. 804 01:08:06,849 --> 01:08:10,216 Because they're racists. Nixon. 805 01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:15,281 AII of them. Like ZeffIer. 806 01:08:17,827 --> 01:08:22,560 I didn't get the money because my partner is bIack. 807 01:08:26,469 --> 01:08:31,168 I was gonna pay you back. I'm just trying to keep my famiIy together. 808 01:08:32,007 --> 01:08:36,671 And the IittIe guy just can't do it anymore. 809 01:08:36,779 --> 01:08:40,146 Because there's a cancer in the system. 810 01:08:40,349 --> 01:08:44,911 The whoIe system has a cancer, and I'm being punished because I resist. 811 01:08:45,020 --> 01:08:47,386 But somebody has to resist. 812 01:08:54,130 --> 01:08:56,758 You're my brother. 813 01:09:02,605 --> 01:09:04,573 As of this moment, SamueI... 814 01:09:06,342 --> 01:09:10,472 I wash my hands of you. No more. That's it. Nothing. 815 01:09:11,347 --> 01:09:15,044 And if you steaI from me again, brother or no brother... 816 01:09:15,184 --> 01:09:16,845 I wiII send you to jaiI. 817 01:10:02,898 --> 01:10:06,197 You can pick the only luxury convertible made in America. 818 01:10:06,802 --> 01:10:10,294 But no matter which of nine Cadillac models you are to select... 819 01:10:10,539 --> 01:10:13,007 they're all part of the Cadillac tradition. 820 01:10:13,175 --> 01:10:14,972 Tonight, February 17. 821 01:10:15,110 --> 01:10:18,102 Good evening. Secret Service officials are still puzzling over... 822 01:10:18,214 --> 01:10:20,648 the landing of an Army helicopter early today... 823 01:10:20,749 --> 01:10:23,274 on the south lawn of the White House. 824 01:10:23,385 --> 01:10:26,149 lt all started shortly after midnight last night... 825 01:10:26,255 --> 01:10:28,689 when Army Private First Class, Robert Preston... 826 01:10:28,791 --> 01:10:30,691 stole an unarmed helicopter... 827 01:10:30,893 --> 01:10:32,588 from Fort Mead, Maryland. 828 01:10:32,962 --> 01:10:36,898 The joy-riding pilot was identified as 20year-old PFC Robert Preston... 829 01:10:36,999 --> 01:10:38,557 an Army helicopter mechanic... 830 01:10:38,667 --> 01:10:41,898 who was reportedly unhappy over flunking out of flight school. 831 01:10:42,004 --> 01:10:45,064 He was charged with unlawful entry into the White House grounds. 832 01:10:45,174 --> 01:10:49,304 l sincerely believe that if his attitude was to crash into the White House... 833 01:10:49,478 --> 01:10:52,106 he could have accomplished it without any problem. 834 01:10:52,214 --> 01:10:55,342 Do you think his attitude was to crash into the White House? 835 01:10:55,451 --> 01:10:57,043 l do. l really do. 836 01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:00,047 lt wasn't like a light bulb really. 837 01:11:00,256 --> 01:11:02,884 lt was more like an old candle... 838 01:11:02,992 --> 01:11:05,290 just a plain, simple idea. 839 01:11:06,996 --> 01:11:11,831 But in that moment, Mr. Bernstein, l knew... 840 01:11:13,035 --> 01:11:16,095 the die was cast. 841 01:11:19,275 --> 01:11:20,572 Mr. Bernstein... 842 01:11:21,744 --> 01:11:24,804 I have the utmost respect foryou. 843 01:11:25,714 --> 01:11:27,079 Your music... 844 01:11:27,483 --> 01:11:30,008 is both pure and honest. 845 01:11:31,287 --> 01:11:33,949 And that is why l have chosen you... 846 01:11:34,390 --> 01:11:38,520 to present the truth about me to the world. 847 01:11:39,595 --> 01:11:42,792 $120, 40, 60, 80, 200. 848 01:11:42,898 --> 01:11:45,924 One, two, three, four and 33 cents. 849 01:11:46,035 --> 01:11:48,469 There you are, Mr. Bicke. AII cashed out. 850 01:11:48,637 --> 01:11:49,729 I'm sorry. 851 01:11:54,310 --> 01:11:58,804 lt's a shame innocent lives are going to have to be lost, Maestro. 852 01:12:00,316 --> 01:12:04,616 And l will do my best to prevent as many deaths... 853 01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:08,588 as l possibly can. But that won't be easy. 854 01:12:11,293 --> 01:12:13,818 lf history teaches us anything... 855 01:12:14,897 --> 01:12:18,663 it's that you have got to get the seat of government. 856 01:12:20,803 --> 01:12:25,331 The whole goddamned chair, you just kick it out. 857 01:12:25,974 --> 01:12:29,239 Let the system dangle till it doesn't breathe. 858 01:12:33,182 --> 01:12:37,209 lf you destroy the seat of government, then you've made a change. 859 01:12:37,353 --> 01:12:39,048 A real change. 860 01:12:41,990 --> 01:12:43,651 And l am going to do it. 861 01:13:10,085 --> 01:13:14,044 No, this is.... I'm sure it's just.... 862 01:13:14,156 --> 01:13:16,920 I have an injury. 863 01:13:18,193 --> 01:13:20,991 It's okay. Thank you. 864 01:13:35,077 --> 01:13:38,137 Good morning, gentIemen. My name is Sam Bicke. 865 01:13:38,814 --> 01:13:41,681 If you do what I say, no one wiII be hurt. 866 01:13:42,284 --> 01:13:47,119 I want you to fIy this pIane, and I want you to fIy it Iow. 867 01:13:49,792 --> 01:13:52,090 I want you to fIy it very Iow. 868 01:14:05,207 --> 01:14:07,004 I have to take controI here. 869 01:14:43,345 --> 01:14:46,473 lt's a shame there aren't more people like Bonny. 870 01:14:47,716 --> 01:14:49,377 What a beautiful man. 871 01:14:52,588 --> 01:14:56,024 l hope that he will forgive me for stealing his gun. 872 01:15:25,821 --> 01:15:28,346 They Iet you in Iooking Iike that? 873 01:15:29,391 --> 01:15:31,359 I wanted to taIk to you. 874 01:15:32,828 --> 01:15:35,956 I'm sorry things didn't work out. No hard feeIings. 875 01:15:37,533 --> 01:15:41,162 I wanted to thank you forteaching me... 876 01:15:42,471 --> 01:15:45,804 that to be a saIesman... 877 01:15:46,575 --> 01:15:49,738 you don't have to be a good man. 878 01:15:51,513 --> 01:15:53,413 You got a fever, Bicke? 879 01:15:55,017 --> 01:15:56,917 You're sweating Iike a pig. 880 01:15:57,019 --> 01:16:00,580 Here, wipe yourforehead, for Christ's sake. 881 01:16:01,990 --> 01:16:03,924 I'm trying to eat a meaI. 882 01:16:23,512 --> 01:16:25,207 You aII right, son? 883 01:18:35,844 --> 01:18:39,075 You Iove me. Don't you, boy? 884 01:18:41,983 --> 01:18:44,417 Because I wouId never Ieave you. 885 01:18:48,323 --> 01:18:49,312 Come on. 886 01:19:03,071 --> 01:19:04,504 Good boy. 887 01:20:52,047 --> 01:20:55,539 Sir? Excuse me. 888 01:20:56,585 --> 01:20:58,018 You Ieft your case. 889 01:23:43,418 --> 01:23:47,115 TWA skycap with wheelchair, please come to TWA ticket counter. 890 01:24:00,368 --> 01:24:03,428 l have received reports from various parts of the country... 891 01:24:03,538 --> 01:24:07,702 of many instances of sharp increases in the price of gasoline. 892 01:24:12,280 --> 01:24:17,047 Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to begin boarding Flight 523 to Atlanta. 893 01:24:18,119 --> 01:24:22,556 ln accordance with our security measures, we do ask you to begin to form a line. 894 01:24:23,691 --> 01:24:27,821 Please have your tickets and any carryon baggage with you at this time. 895 01:24:28,363 --> 01:24:32,197 This is the general boarding call for Flight 523 to Atlanta. 896 01:25:48,343 --> 01:25:51,608 Nobody move. I'II kiII you. 897 01:25:52,046 --> 01:25:53,980 I've got a bomb, I'II kiII you. 898 01:25:56,084 --> 01:25:59,815 You, come here. CIose that door. CIose it. 899 01:26:00,989 --> 01:26:03,082 Sir, pIease just caIm down. 900 01:26:03,458 --> 01:26:04,857 -What? -Just caIm down. 901 01:26:04,959 --> 01:26:07,450 We're gonna take care of anything you need. 902 01:26:08,730 --> 01:26:09,788 No! 903 01:26:23,311 --> 01:26:25,541 Write down that my name is Sam Bicke. 904 01:26:28,249 --> 01:26:32,151 If you don't move, then no one wiII get hurt. 905 01:26:32,687 --> 01:26:35,247 If you don't move, then no one wiII get hurt. 906 01:26:35,757 --> 01:26:39,523 You understand? I want you to fIy this pIane. 907 01:26:40,428 --> 01:26:43,522 I want you to fIy it Iow. I want you to fIy it very Iow. 908 01:26:43,798 --> 01:26:48,030 I hearyou, Sam. Ijust need to caII the tower. Okay? 909 01:26:49,003 --> 01:26:50,436 I'm gonna caII the tower. 910 01:26:50,538 --> 01:26:52,529 I'm gonna reach over here and get my headset. 911 01:26:52,640 --> 01:26:54,437 I'II put it on and then caII the tower... 912 01:26:54,542 --> 01:26:58,478 because I need them to come and take the tugs out in front of the wheeIs. 913 01:27:41,289 --> 01:27:44,690 You have to heIp him to fIy the pIane. Okay? 914 01:27:46,561 --> 01:27:50,088 She's gonna heIp you fIy the pIane. You have to move him. 915 01:27:50,198 --> 01:27:52,962 Sam, I can fIy the pIane myseIf. Just Iet her go. 916 01:28:06,281 --> 01:28:09,546 PIease Iet me go. 917 01:28:13,388 --> 01:28:15,117 I don't want to die. 918 01:28:17,392 --> 01:28:20,691 Look at me, Maestro. Am l smiling? 919 01:28:36,244 --> 01:28:41,045 Tell them why l did this, Maestro. History needs to be clear on this. 920 01:28:42,317 --> 01:28:45,411 They can rebuild the White House, but they will never... 921 01:28:46,054 --> 01:28:48,022 forget me. 922 01:28:48,556 --> 01:28:50,547 Not ever. 923 01:28:55,063 --> 01:28:58,157 l was here, Maestro. 924 01:28:59,100 --> 01:29:00,465 l did this. 925 01:29:01,002 --> 01:29:05,063 And a man is only remembered for his work. 926 01:29:06,808 --> 01:29:08,605 Just tell them that. 927 01:29:17,218 --> 01:29:20,449 The first hijack attempt in the United States in more than a year... 928 01:29:20,555 --> 01:29:22,819 was made today in Baltimore. lt failed. 929 01:29:22,924 --> 01:29:26,758 There had not been another hijacking attempt in this country until today. 930 01:29:26,861 --> 01:29:30,729 And it happened at the same Baltimore airport, but with far worse consequences. 931 01:29:30,832 --> 01:29:33,858 Forty-four-year-old Samuel Bicke walked to the departure gate... 932 01:29:33,968 --> 01:29:38,769 carrying a harmless-looking attache case which contained gasoline and a detonator. 933 01:29:38,873 --> 01:29:43,003 He was running and acting like he was crazy. Out of his mind. 934 01:29:43,211 --> 01:29:47,238 Bicke ran through the boarding bridge yelling for passengers to get out of his way. 935 01:29:47,348 --> 01:29:49,578 A policeman ran after him, but by that time... 936 01:29:49,684 --> 01:29:52,847 Bicke was inside and had forced the stewardesses to close the door. 937 01:29:52,954 --> 01:29:55,115 The policeman fired through the door's window... 938 01:29:55,223 --> 01:29:57,248 and killed the would-be hijacker. 939 01:29:57,358 --> 01:30:01,158 His motive may never be known, but authorities say that there's no question... 940 01:30:01,262 --> 01:30:05,858 the hijacker intended to destroy himself and everyone else aboard Delta Flight 523. 941 01:30:06,667 --> 01:30:10,626 Neil Strauser, CBS News, at the Baltimore Washington lnternational Airport.