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[music playing]

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I just don't understand it, Bob.
I've logged a lot of miles.

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I've followed
the sales textbook by the letter.

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I've applied myself diligently.

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I mean, I try and I try,
and I just cannot get in the door.

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- I mean... what am I doin' wrong?
- Earl, sit down.

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Sure, you've got a great product,

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but you have to remember
what you're really selling: yourself.

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So it's not necessarily what I say
as how I say it?

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That's right, Earl.
A good salesman can sell anything.

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And I remember when you were
a good salesman at the beginning.

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Something's changed.
I don't want to pry,

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but is everything all right at home,
with Margie?

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- [man] Will there be anything else?
- Leave it.

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- Just leave it.
- [man] Yes, sir.

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- Thank you.
- Thanks.

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[Bob] I watched you walking in front
of my desk in an agitated manner,

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smoking without having asked
if you could smoke in my presence.

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0121, mark.

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OK, listen up. Fire team
discipline in there at all times.

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Keep your radios on at all times
during the entire penetration.

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Check yourselves. False IDs?

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- Jim.
- No wallets, no keys?

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We rendezvous where?
The Watergate, room 214. When?

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At 0300 hours.

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Jawohl, mein fartin' fĂĽhrer.

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I swear, Frank,
I'm gonna make you a new asshole.

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Let's get the fuck out of here.

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Years of decency
and clean living are over.

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If anything goes wrong, sit tight.
You'll hear from me or Howard.

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Personally, if anything goes wrong,

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I'll be calling the President
of the United States.

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[Earl] I'm not just gonna be
a good salesman.

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No, doggone it,
I'm gonna be a great salesman.

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- That's the spirit.
- Thanks.

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And remember, Earl,
always look them in the eye.

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Nothing sells like sincerity.

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[man] Five men wearing
white surgical gloves, business suits,

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carrying camera and electronic
surveillance equipment

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were arrested in the headquarters
of the Democratic Committee.

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They were unarmed.
Nobody knows yet why they were there

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or what they were looking for.

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[thunderclap]

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[man] Good evening, General Haig.

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Good evening, sir.

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[man] Judge John Sirica today
sentenced the Watergate burglars

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to terms ranging up to 40 years.

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The White House continues
to deny any involvement.

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[man 2] Presidential counsel, John Dean,

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testified before
the Senate Watergate committee

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that the scandal reaches
to the highest levels.

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[woman] Presidential aides
Haldeman and Ehrlichman

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were ordered to resign today.

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In a stunning announcement, White
House aide Alexander Butterfield

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revealed the existence
of a secret taping system.

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[man 2] Vice President Agnew resigned
today after pleading no contest

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to a charge of income tax evasion.

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[woman] The president has fired
the Watergate special prosecutor,

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Archibald Cox, provoking the greatest
constitutional crisis in history.

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[man 3] Eight resolutions
calling for the impeachment

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of the president were referred
to the judiciary committee by the House.

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[woman] It was disclosed to Judge Sirica

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that there is
an 18-and-a-half-minute gap

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in a June 20th, 1972
taped conversation

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between the president
and Bob Haldeman.

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Shock and anger are coming
from all sectors of the nation.

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[man 1] Sirica ordered the president
to turn over tapes

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to special prosecutor Leon Jaworski.

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The tapes contain conversations
between the president and his aides

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and are believed to include discussions
of the scandal.

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The White House has not yet
responded to Judge Sirica's order

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and it is not yet known
whether the president will comply.

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[knocking]

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[man] Yeah.

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These are the tapes you requested,
Mr. President.

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OK.

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Cocksucker!

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Nixon's never been good
with these things, Al.

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I'll take care of it, sir.
Do you mind, sir?

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- [Haig] Sorry.
- OK. Go on.

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You know, Al,

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if Hoover were alive,

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these tapes would never have gotten out.

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I want the little shit back.

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[chuckles]

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- Mr. Hoover was a realist, sir.
- Yeah. Not like the others.

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Dean, McCord, the rest.

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We never got our side
of the story out, Al.

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People have forgotten.

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Such violence.

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The tear gassing, the riots,

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burning the draft cards,

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the Black Panthers.

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We fixed it, Al,
and they hate me for it.

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'Cause it's Nixon.
They always hated Nixon.

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[Haig] You're all set, sir.

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- OK.
- Good night, Mr. President.

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Good night, Al.

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Hey, Al.

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Men in your profession,

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give 'em a pistol
and then leave the room.

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I don't have a pistol, Al.

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[rewinding]

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Goddamn it.

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Pause.

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Start.

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- [Nixon] They did what?
- [man] Install bugs, photo documents.

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It was a fishing expedition. It was
their fourth attempt at the DNC.

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[Nixon] O'Brien doesn't use that office.

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[man] Possibly looking for an illegal
Hughes donation to the Democrats,

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so they couldn't make an issue
of your Hughes money.

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[Nixon] It was a legal contribution.

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[man] Not clear the burglars
knew what they were looking for.

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[man 2] They were headed for
McGovern's office later that same night.

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- Christ, did Mitchell know?
- I don't know.

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Mitchell's out of his mind.
Martha put her head through a window.

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- Jesus. Through a window?
- Yeah, they're taking her to Bellevue.

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- Maybe she'll stay this time.
- Martha's an idiot.

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She'll do anything
to get Mitchell's attention.

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If Mitchell had been minding the store
instead of Martha,

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we wouldn't have Magruder
running some third-rate burglary.

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We feel the bigger concern
is Gordon Liddy.

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- Liddy? That fruitcake? What about him?
- That's just it, sir. He is a nut.

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Used to work with the plumbers,
turns up running this Watergate caper.

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Remember his plan to firebomb Brookings
using Cubans as firemen?

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- What's Liddy got?
- He was using some campaign cash

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that was laundered for us
through Mexico, the FBI's onto it.

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- We could have a problem with that.
- That's a campaign finance violation.

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- So if...
- Liddy takes the rap for Watergate,

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we can take care of him
and that lets us off the hook.

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I don't have time for this.
Just handle it, Bob.

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Keep it out of the White House.
I gotta see Kissinger.

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He's throwing a tantrum,
threatening to quit. Again.

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What else?

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Well, sir, one of the people implicated
is still on the White House payroll.

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Who? Not another goddamn Cuban.

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Uh, no, sir. A guy named Hunt.

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Howard Hunt, sir.

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Hunt? Howard Hunt?

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Left his White House
phone number in his hotel room.

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He works for Colson.
He used him on the Pentagon Papers.

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After arrest, he dumps his wiretapping
stuff into his White House safe.

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We're trying to figure out when he
stopped being a White House consultant.

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Howard Hunt is working
for the White House? Jesus Christ.

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This is goddamn Disneyland.
Since when?

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[Ehrlichman] Since Chappaquiddick.
He wanted dirt on Kennedy.

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- Colson brought him in.
- You know Hunt, sir?

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Yeah, on the list of horribles.

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I know what he is
and I know what he tracks back to.

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- He was involved in the plumbers?
- [Haldeman] Definitely.

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Colson had him break into Bremer's
apartment after Bremer shot Wallace

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to plant McGovern's campaign literature.

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I had nothing to do with that.

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- He was in this Ellsberg thing?
- Yes. You approved it.

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- I did?
- Right after the Pentagon Papers broke.

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They went in to get his psychiatric
records. We were working on China.

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Fuck.

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[thunder rumbles]

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[camera shutter clicking]

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What the fuck?! You're not
supposed to take pictures of me!

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Take pictures of the files!
Give me the fuckin' film!

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Howard Hunt.

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Jesus Christ. You open up that scab,
you'll uncover a lot of pus.

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What do you mean?

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- Where's Hunt now?
- He's in hiding.

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- He sent Liddy in to talk to Dean.
- [Nixon] And?

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- He wants money.
- Pay him.

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Pay him? I told him get out
of the country. It's crazy to start...

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What the hell are you doing,
John, screwing with the CIA?

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I don't care how much he wants.
Pay him.

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- What are we paying him for, sir?
- Silence.

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But you're covered.
It's only this Ellsberg thing,

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and if that comes out,
it's national security.

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Cut ourselves loose from these clowns,
and that's all there is to it.

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No, it's more than that.
I want Hunt paid.

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We've never done that before, sir.
How do we do it?

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We should set up a Cuban defense fund
on this and take care of all of 'em.

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- Should we talk to Trini about paying?
- Keep Trini out.

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And for God's sake, keep Colson out.

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It's time to baptize
our young counsel here, Mr. Dean.

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That means John can never talk about it.
Attorney-client privilege.

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So get to it.
John, you stay close to this, OK?

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- Don't worry, sir.
- Good.

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- [door closes]
- OK.

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Did I approve the Ellsberg thing?

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Huh?

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I'm glad we tape
all these conversations,

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but I never approved
the break-in at the Ellsbergs'.

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Maybe I approved it after the fact.
[sighs]

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Someday we gotta
start transcribing these tapes.

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You approved that before the fact
because I went over it with you. But...

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- No one's gonna see these tapes.
- Right.

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It's more of a problem for Ehrlichman.
He fixed Hunt up with the phony CIA IDs.

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But... what else does Hunt have on us?

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We gotta turn off the FBI, Bob.

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You go to the CIA and tell Helms
that Hunt is blackmailing the president.

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Tell him Hunt and his Cuban friends
know too damn much,

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and, uh, if he goes public,
if Hunt goes public,

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it will be a fiasco for the CIA.
He'll know what I'm talking about.

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- All right.
- Play it tough.

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That's the way they play it,
that's the way we're gonna play it.

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Don't lie to Helms
and say there's no involvement.

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Just say this is, uh,
a sort of comedy of errors,

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bizarre, without getting into it.
And, uh...

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Say the president believes

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it's gonna open up the whole
Bay of Pigs thing again.

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And tell Helms he should call
the FBI, call Pat Gray,

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and say that we wish,
for the sake of the country,

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don't go any further
into this... hanky-panky, period.

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Bay of Pigs?
That was Kennedy's screw-up.

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- Why would that threaten us?
- Just do what I say, Bob.

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[Haldeman] The only problem
with that, sir...

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- ...gets us to obstruction of justice.
- Got nothing to do with justice.

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- It's national security.
- How is this national security?

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The president says it is.

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Now, this isn't a moral issue, Bob.

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My job is to protect this country
from its enemies,

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and its enemies are inside the walls.
We gotta keep our enemies at bay,

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or our whole program
goes down the tubes.

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Vietnam, China, the Soviet Union.

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- Look at the big picture...
- Damn.

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...we end up doing a hell of a lot
of good in this world.

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Let's not screw it up
with a shit-ass, third-rate burglary.

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[Haldeman] What should
I tell Ziegler to tell the press?

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[Nixon] Tell 'em what we always
tell 'em. Anything but the truth.

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- Fuck!
- Say the president believes

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it's gonna open up
the whole Bay of Pigs thing again.

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- Put me in this position.
- [Haldeman] Bay of Pigs?

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- Expose me like this.
- Why would that threaten us?

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Why don't they fucking shoot me?

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[John F. Kennedy]
In the election of 1860,

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Lincoln said the question
was whether this nation could exist,

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half-slave or half-free.

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In the election of 1960,
with the world around us,

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the question is whether the world
will exist half-slave or half-free.

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I think, in the final analysis,
it depends upon what we do here

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in the United States. I think
it's time America started moving again.

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- [man] Mr. Nixon?
- When it comes to experience,

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through the years I have sat
on the National Security Council,

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I have been in the cabinet,

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I have met with
the legislative leaders...

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- [man 2] Be quiet.
- Relax, everybody, relax.

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...discussions with 35 presidents,
nine prime ministers,

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- two emperors and the Shah of Iran.
- Jesus Christ.

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Has he told them
how many push-ups he can do yet?

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- ...hydroelectric power.
- What the hell happened?

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He just got out of the hospital.

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He hasn't taken one hour off.

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When we consider
the line-up of the world,

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we find there are 590 million people
on our side,

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800 million people
on the Communist side...

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- Shoulda slapped makeup on.
- It's not a beauty contest.

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- We'd better hope not.
- ...600 million people who are neutral.

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What are you doing to him, Murray?
He's not well.

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- He doesn't have to debate Kennedy.
- The odds are 5-3 against us.

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- When it comes to politics...
- He can win without this.

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[man] Senator, one minute for rebuttal.

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Castro is only the beginning of our
difficulties throughout Latin America.

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Oh, shit, he's gonna do it.
Here it comes.

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We've seen Cuba go
to the Communists.

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Eight jet minutes
from the coast of Florida.

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We must attempt to strengthen the
democratic anti-Castro forces in exile.

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These fighters have had
no support from our government.

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- Son of a bitch!
- What?

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Kennedy was briefed last week
by CIA. He's using it against us.

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We can't respond,
he welshed on a deal.

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- It's a disgrace.
- ...we might never have had Castro.

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- Why didn't we?
- [man] Mr. Nixon?

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- Man, he's treading water.
- All right, come on.

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He violated national security.
Attack the bastard.

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...Constitution of the United States,
so help me God.

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[cheering and applause]

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- [man] Mr. Nixon.
- Yeah.

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I think...

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I think that's the sort
of, uh, very dangerous

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- and irresponsible suggestion that...
- It's over. More coffee?

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...helping Cuban exiles
who oppose Castro would

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not only be a violation
of international law,

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it would be an open invitation
for Mr. Khrushchev...

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It's still very close.

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Senator Kennedy's lead
is about, uh, 700,000.

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[Haldeman] Think Daley stuffed
the ballot boxes himself?

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In Texas,
they had the goddamn cattle voting.

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It was he closest race in history,
Dick, and he stole it. Son of a bitch.

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He outspent us and he still cheated.

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A guy who's got everything.

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I can't believe it.

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We came to Congress together. We were
like brothers, for Christ's sake.

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Got all the figures. It's an obvious
fraud. We ask for a recount.

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Don't be ridiculous. Nobody has
contested a presidential election.

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Who's gonna do the counting?
The Democrats control Texas, Illinois.

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- We shift 25,000 votes in two states.
- And how long will that take?

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- Six months, a year?
- What happens to the country?

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If I'd called his shot on Cuba,
I'd have won.

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- That's what I say.
- Made me look soft.

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"I feel very sorry for Nixon

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because he does not know who he is."
You believe this?

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"At each stop he has to decide which
Nixon he's going to be at the moment,

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which must be very exhausting."
Jack Kennedy.

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- It's a disgrace.
- "Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar.

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If he had to stick to the truth,
he'd have very little to say.

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If you vote for Nixon, then you
oughta go to hell." Harry S. Truman.

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That's what killed us, Dick, not Cuba.

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It's the personality problem. You gonna
let the Democrats get away with this?

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Goes to Harvard. His father hands him
everything on a silver platter.

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All my life,
they've been sticking it to me.

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[Nixon] Not the right clothes, not
the right schools, not the right family.

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And then he steals from me.

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Heh, he says I have no class,
and they love him for it.

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Dick, you're only 47.

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If you contest this election,
you'll be finished.

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You gotta swallow this one.
They stole it fair and square.

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We'll get 'em next time, Dick.

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We'll get 'em next time.

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What makes you think there's
gonna be a next time, Murray?

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Because if he's not this Nixon,

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he's nobody.

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- [man] Good morning, sir.
- Hi.

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- Hi.
- Hi.

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We lost.

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00:21:32,124 --> 00:21:33,754
I know.

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I hate to lose.

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It makes us human.

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00:21:44,511 --> 00:21:46,431
It's not fair, Buddy.

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I can take the insults,
I can take the name-calling.

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But I can't take the losing.
I hate it.

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We don't have to put ourselves
through this again, Dick.

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We worked for it. We earned it.

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- It's ours.
- It is. We know that.

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And it's enough that we know.

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Just think of the girls.

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They're still young.

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We never see them.

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00:22:32,267 --> 00:22:36,057
I lost my parents when I was young.
I don't want them to lose theirs.

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00:22:47,407 --> 00:22:51,237
Maybe I should get out of the game.

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What do you think, Buddy?

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And go back to being a lawyer.

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End up with something solid,
some money at the end of the line.

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00:23:03,507 --> 00:23:05,087
You know, I, uh...

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I keep thinking of my old man tonight.

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- He was a failure too.
- You're not a failure, Dick.

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You know how much money he
had in the bank when he died?

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Nothing.

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He was so damned honest.

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But I miss him.

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I miss him a hell of a lot.

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[dogs barking in distance]

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00:23:51,138 --> 00:23:54,428
- Dad! Dad!
- I got the beets for him.

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- Dad.
- Is she in there?

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I don't have time for you right now.
I got work to do.

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- How is thy son?
- Very well, thank you.

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00:24:12,701 --> 00:24:15,621
- What'd he say?
- He said, in life,

353
00:24:15,704 --> 00:24:19,214
- there's no free ride.
- What'd you say?

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00:24:19,291 --> 00:24:21,921
I told them I didn't need a ride,
I need a suit.

355
00:24:22,002 --> 00:24:27,212
Oh, no. Harold,
he doesn't respond well to humor.

356
00:24:27,716 --> 00:24:29,926
Maybe Mother can help straighten it out.

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00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:33,140
I'd rather get a whippin'
than listen to another of her talks.

358
00:24:33,221 --> 00:24:36,101
- Relax, Dick.
- [cash register rings]

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00:24:39,186 --> 00:24:42,436
Donald, finish thy sweeping,
then pick out the bad apples.

360
00:24:42,522 --> 00:24:44,982
Yes, Mother.

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00:24:45,066 --> 00:24:46,526
I'm working.

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00:24:48,570 --> 00:24:51,570
Richard, come with me, would thee?

363
00:24:52,741 --> 00:24:54,661
[stammers] Why me?

364
00:25:01,208 --> 00:25:05,878
Because Harold hast thy father's will
is no reason to admire him.

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00:25:05,962 --> 00:25:11,012
Let Harold's worldliness
be a warning to thee, not an example.

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00:25:11,092 --> 00:25:12,762
Yes, Mother.

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00:25:17,098 --> 00:25:20,228
Harold may have lost touch
with his Bible,

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00:25:20,310 --> 00:25:23,100
but thee must never lapse.

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00:25:25,357 --> 00:25:26,977
Now, give it to me.

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00:25:31,947 --> 00:25:33,907
Do not tell a lie, Richard.

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00:25:33,990 --> 00:25:37,660
The corn silk cigarette Harold
gave thee behind the store this morning.

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00:25:37,744 --> 00:25:41,374
I don't have them. Mother, I...

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00:25:41,456 --> 00:25:43,416
I promise I didn't smoke.

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00:25:45,544 --> 00:25:47,134
I see.

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00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:52,632
Well, then Richard, we have
nothing more to talk about, do we?

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00:25:52,717 --> 00:25:54,007
Please!

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00:25:55,095 --> 00:25:56,135
Please.

378
00:25:57,013 --> 00:25:59,313
Mother, I'm sorry. It was...

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00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:03,641
It was just one time. I'm sorry.

380
00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:08,650
So am I.

381
00:26:10,068 --> 00:26:13,238
Thy father will have
to know of thy lying.

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00:26:13,321 --> 00:26:16,661
No, please, don't... don't...
don't tell him.

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00:26:16,741 --> 00:26:18,991
I'll never do it again,
I promise. Please.

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00:26:19,077 --> 00:26:23,747
- Richard, I expected more from thee.
- Please, Mama.

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00:26:23,832 --> 00:26:26,212
I shall never let thee down again.

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00:26:28,169 --> 00:26:30,709
Then this shall be our little secret.

387
00:26:35,802 --> 00:26:38,642
Remember, I see into thy soul.

388
00:26:39,889 --> 00:26:43,559
Thee may fool the world,
even thy father,

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00:26:43,643 --> 00:26:47,563
but not me, Richard. Never me.

390
00:26:50,108 --> 00:26:51,778
Mother...

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00:26:52,777 --> 00:26:55,857
...think of me always
as thy faithful dog.

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00:27:06,499 --> 00:27:08,499
[dog barking in distance]

393
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,340
- Thank you.
- We'll say grace in the next room.

394
00:27:23,224 --> 00:27:26,694
- Richard.
- Is it my turn?

395
00:27:30,690 --> 00:27:33,440
Oh, Heavenly Father,
we humbly thank you...

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00:27:33,526 --> 00:27:36,646
I'll do it. There's a couple
of things I wanna say.

397
00:27:37,739 --> 00:27:40,409
Could thee at least remove
thy apron, Frank?

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00:27:40,492 --> 00:27:45,162
This blood pays the bills, Hannah.
I'm not ashamed of how I earn my money.

399
00:27:45,246 --> 00:27:47,076
[clears throat]

400
00:27:48,166 --> 00:27:50,166
Heavenly Father,

401
00:27:50,251 --> 00:27:53,501
you told Adam in the garden,
after that business with the snake,

402
00:27:53,588 --> 00:27:58,298
that man would have to earn his way
by the sweat of his face.

403
00:27:58,385 --> 00:28:00,545
Well, as far as I can tell, Father,

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00:28:00,637 --> 00:28:04,517
what was true in Eden
is true in Whittier, California.

405
00:28:04,599 --> 00:28:08,689
So we ask you now to remind
certain of our young people

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00:28:08,770 --> 00:28:12,650
the only way to get a new suit to go to
the promenade with Margaret O'Herlihy,

407
00:28:12,732 --> 00:28:15,482
who happens to be a Catholic,
by the way,

408
00:28:15,568 --> 00:28:19,948
is to work for it. Amen.

409
00:28:20,031 --> 00:28:22,031
- Amen.
- Amen.

410
00:28:22,117 --> 00:28:25,867
- Amen.
- Are we gonna pray now, Daddy?

411
00:28:25,954 --> 00:28:29,294
- Don't be silly.
- You think this is funny?

412
00:28:29,374 --> 00:28:32,844
Maybe a trip to the
wood shed'll straighten you out.

413
00:28:32,919 --> 00:28:36,259
Pretty soon you boys are gonna
have to get out there and scratch.

414
00:28:36,339 --> 00:28:39,219
'Cause you're not gonna
get anywhere on your good looks.

415
00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:41,470
Just ask those fellas.

416
00:28:41,553 --> 00:28:44,013
Charity's only gonna get you so far,

417
00:28:44,097 --> 00:28:46,847
even with saints
like your mother around.

418
00:28:46,933 --> 00:28:51,063
Struggle's what gives life meaning.
Not victory, struggle.

419
00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:54,856
When you quit struggling,
they've beaten you.

420
00:28:54,941 --> 00:28:58,111
And then you end up in the street
with your hand out.

421
00:29:01,030 --> 00:29:02,870
[Nixon] My mother was a saint,

422
00:29:02,949 --> 00:29:06,329
but my old man struggled his whole life.

423
00:29:06,411 --> 00:29:10,871
They could call him a little man,
a poor man,

424
00:29:10,957 --> 00:29:12,537
but they never beat him.

425
00:29:12,625 --> 00:29:18,045
I always tried to remember that,
when things didn't go my way.

426
00:29:18,131 --> 00:29:20,051
Let's really get fired up now!

427
00:29:20,133 --> 00:29:25,183
- [man] Get on your stand, Nixon!
- Twenty-eight, 44!

428
00:29:26,681 --> 00:29:29,851
- [grunting]
- [men singing fight song]

429
00:29:36,608 --> 00:29:39,358
- What's Nixon doing here?
- He thinks he can make it.

430
00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:41,954
Four years of being a tackling dummy.
Poor guy.

431
00:29:42,030 --> 00:29:45,030
- All right! Let's go, defense!
- Hike!

432
00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:49,290
[referee blows whistle]

433
00:29:49,370 --> 00:29:54,080
Worst athlete I've ever seen.
But he's got guts.

434
00:29:54,167 --> 00:29:57,037
- [clapping]
- [panting]

435
00:29:57,128 --> 00:29:59,668
OK, let's go! Let's do it!

436
00:29:59,756 --> 00:30:03,966
In California's gubernatorial race,
Nixon returned to the political arena

437
00:30:04,052 --> 00:30:09,262
in a long and acrimonious bid against
popular incumbent Edmund G. Brown.

438
00:30:09,349 --> 00:30:14,099
Brown's campaign has benefited greatly
from the support of President Kennedy,

439
00:30:14,187 --> 00:30:16,557
while Nixon has had trouble
convincing voters

440
00:30:16,648 --> 00:30:18,938
this is not another run
for the presidency.

441
00:30:19,025 --> 00:30:21,185
With only a few precincts
left unreported,

442
00:30:21,277 --> 00:30:23,817
all indications are
of another defeat for Nixon,

443
00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:28,115
who lost the presidency just two
years ago by a paper-thin margin.

444
00:30:28,201 --> 00:30:30,491
It seems his brief political comeback

445
00:30:30,578 --> 00:30:32,498
- is in ruins.
- Making a statement?

446
00:30:34,165 --> 00:30:36,415
Thank you, Fidel Castro.

447
00:30:36,501 --> 00:30:39,961
- You're not going to blame Castro?
- [Richard] I sure am!

448
00:30:40,046 --> 00:30:43,126
Goddamn missile crisis united
the country behind Kennedy.

449
00:30:43,216 --> 00:30:45,796
He was supporting Brown.
People were scared.

450
00:30:45,885 --> 00:30:47,925
Castro staged this just to beat you.

451
00:30:48,012 --> 00:30:50,472
Before you join the jubilation
of my being beaten,

452
00:30:50,557 --> 00:30:52,767
remember people vote
not out of love but fear.

453
00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:58,191
They don't teach that at Sunday school
or the Whittier Community Playhouse.

454
00:30:58,273 --> 00:31:02,323
- I should go check in with our people.
- [Pat] I'm glad they don't, Dick.

455
00:31:02,402 --> 00:31:06,532
I'm glad they don't because life
is tough and it is unfair

456
00:31:06,614 --> 00:31:10,284
and sometimes you forget
that in your self pity.

457
00:31:10,368 --> 00:31:11,828
[♪ Happy Days are Here Again]

458
00:31:11,911 --> 00:31:16,711
You forget sometimes, Dick, that I had
a life before you, before California.

459
00:31:18,459 --> 00:31:20,459
- [bangs keys]
- Cocksucker!

460
00:31:23,923 --> 00:31:27,053
Don't you want to listen
to Governor Brown's victory speech?

461
00:31:27,135 --> 00:31:30,545
Nope. Not going to listen
to any more speeches ever again.

462
00:31:30,638 --> 00:31:32,598
Amen to that.

463
00:31:32,682 --> 00:31:33,812
It's over, Dick.

464
00:31:35,268 --> 00:31:38,228
- I'll concede in the morning.
- Not that.

465
00:31:38,313 --> 00:31:40,523
[playing classical piano]

466
00:31:47,822 --> 00:31:49,112
Buddy?

467
00:32:08,801 --> 00:32:10,591
I have always stood by you.

468
00:32:10,678 --> 00:32:14,258
I campaigned for you
when I was pregnant.

469
00:32:14,349 --> 00:32:18,139
During Checkers, when Ike
wanted you out, I told you to fight.

470
00:32:19,854 --> 00:32:22,614
This is different, Dick.

471
00:32:22,690 --> 00:32:24,150
You've changed.

472
00:32:26,152 --> 00:32:30,112
You've grown more bitter,
like you're at war with the world.

473
00:32:30,198 --> 00:32:32,198
You weren't that way before.

474
00:32:34,369 --> 00:32:37,579
[sighs] I'm 50 years old now, Dick.

475
00:32:37,664 --> 00:32:40,424
How many millions of miles
have I traveled?

476
00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:44,130
How many millions of peoples' hands
have I shaked I just don't like?

477
00:32:44,212 --> 00:32:47,842
How many thank-you notes have I written?

478
00:32:47,924 --> 00:32:51,094
It's as if I, I don't know,
just went to sleep a long time ago

479
00:32:51,177 --> 00:32:53,387
and missed the years between.

480
00:32:55,890 --> 00:32:57,430
I've had enough.

481
00:33:00,103 --> 00:33:03,273
What are you saying?
What are you talking about?

482
00:33:05,358 --> 00:33:06,858
I want a divorce.

483
00:33:08,611 --> 00:33:12,951
My God. Divorce?
What about the girls?

484
00:33:15,076 --> 00:33:20,076
The girls'll grow up. They only
know you from television anyway.

485
00:33:20,164 --> 00:33:23,334
- [Richard] It'll ruin us, our family.
- No, you're ruining us.

486
00:33:23,418 --> 00:33:25,998
If we stay with you,
you'll take us down with you.

487
00:33:26,087 --> 00:33:28,257
This isn't political.
This is our life.

488
00:33:28,339 --> 00:33:29,799
Everything's political.

489
00:33:29,882 --> 00:33:33,472
- I'm political, you're political.
- No, I'm not. I'm finished.

490
00:33:40,268 --> 00:33:42,688
Well, this is just
what they want, Buddy.

491
00:33:44,105 --> 00:33:45,555
Don't you see?

492
00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:52,450
They want to drive us apart, to beat us.

493
00:33:52,530 --> 00:33:55,530
We can't let them do it.

494
00:33:55,616 --> 00:33:57,656
We've been through too much together.

495
00:33:57,744 --> 00:34:00,044
We belong together.

496
00:34:00,121 --> 00:34:03,291
That's what you said
the first time we met.

497
00:34:03,958 --> 00:34:06,128
You didn't even know me.

498
00:34:07,170 --> 00:34:08,920
Oh, yes, I did.

499
00:34:11,966 --> 00:34:14,716
I asked you to marry me, didn't I?

500
00:34:14,802 --> 00:34:17,602
On our first date.

501
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,970
I said it because I knew...

502
00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:23,639
I knew you were the one.

503
00:34:25,313 --> 00:34:27,523
So solid.

504
00:34:27,607 --> 00:34:30,067
So strong.

505
00:34:30,151 --> 00:34:32,361
- So beautiful.
- Hi, I'm Pat Ryan.

506
00:34:34,072 --> 00:34:37,032
- Richard Nixon.
- [Pat] It's a pleasure to meet you.

507
00:34:37,116 --> 00:34:38,906
[Richard] Pleasure to meet you.

508
00:34:38,993 --> 00:34:40,993
[bell clangs]

509
00:34:55,176 --> 00:34:57,006
[Richard] Well, in a way, yes.

510
00:34:57,095 --> 00:34:59,255
Don't tell me you've
been cutting my part.

511
00:34:59,347 --> 00:35:03,097
Of course, honey, you know I
would never deceive you. Don't you?

512
00:35:03,184 --> 00:35:05,194
[fireworks whistling]

513
00:35:32,088 --> 00:35:34,838
You were the most beautiful thing
I'd ever seen.

514
00:35:37,552 --> 00:35:40,392
I don't want to lose you.

515
00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:45,767
- Ever.
- Dick, don't.

516
00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:54,570
You really want me to quit?

517
00:35:59,073 --> 00:36:01,243
We can be happy.

518
00:36:02,535 --> 00:36:04,575
We really can.

519
00:36:06,372 --> 00:36:09,082
The girls and I love you, Dick.

520
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,130
And if I stop,

521
00:36:15,214 --> 00:36:19,014
there'll be no more talk of divorce?

522
00:36:28,019 --> 00:36:31,519
I'll do it. No more.

523
00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:35,780
Are you serious?

524
00:36:37,153 --> 00:36:39,653
Yeah. I'm out.

525
00:36:41,157 --> 00:36:42,697
Is that the truth?

526
00:36:45,953 --> 00:36:49,793
I'll never run again. I promise.

527
00:36:52,293 --> 00:36:53,713
Yeah.

528
00:36:57,048 --> 00:36:58,838
I love you, Buddy.

529
00:36:59,967 --> 00:37:01,087
I love you.

530
00:37:02,178 --> 00:37:03,968
[whispers] I love you.

531
00:37:07,016 --> 00:37:08,516
Where are they?

532
00:37:08,601 --> 00:37:13,061
- You don't have to make a statement.
- No!

533
00:37:13,147 --> 00:37:18,027
Gentlemen, I can tell you Mr. Nixon
is a man who is graceful in defeat,

534
00:37:18,110 --> 00:37:20,030
and if he was here with us...

535
00:37:20,112 --> 00:37:22,362
[people clamoring]

536
00:37:25,618 --> 00:37:27,408
Can I have some quiet, please?

537
00:37:29,997 --> 00:37:32,117
Give the... Just a second!

538
00:37:32,208 --> 00:37:34,828
Some quiet, please. Quiet!

539
00:37:35,962 --> 00:37:37,422
Thank you!

540
00:37:38,422 --> 00:37:40,592
- [man] Mr. Nixon!
- Uh... Ahem.

541
00:37:40,675 --> 00:37:45,175
I believe Governor Brown has a heart,

542
00:37:45,263 --> 00:37:48,773
even though he believes I do not.

543
00:37:48,849 --> 00:37:51,939
I believe he's a good American,

544
00:37:52,019 --> 00:37:54,599
even though he feels I am not.

545
00:37:54,689 --> 00:37:59,939
I'm proud of the fact that I
defended my opponent's patriotism.

546
00:38:00,778 --> 00:38:05,368
You gentlemen didn't report it,
but I'm proud I did that. And...

547
00:38:05,449 --> 00:38:07,949
And I would appreciate,
for once, gentlemen,

548
00:38:08,035 --> 00:38:10,655
if you would just print what I say.

549
00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:15,289
For 16 years, uh,
ever since the Hiss case,

550
00:38:15,376 --> 00:38:18,796
you've had a lot of fun. A lot of fun.

551
00:38:18,879 --> 00:38:22,299
But recognize you have a responsibility,

552
00:38:22,383 --> 00:38:25,803
if you're against the candidate,
to give him the shaft.

553
00:38:25,886 --> 00:38:29,556
But if you do that, at least put
one lonely reporter on the campaign

554
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:34,140
who will report
what the candidate says now and then.

555
00:38:34,228 --> 00:38:39,188
I think, all in all,
I've given as good as I've taken.

556
00:38:39,275 --> 00:38:41,025
But as I leave you, I...

557
00:38:41,110 --> 00:38:45,990
I want you to know,
just think what you're gonna be missing.

558
00:38:46,907 --> 00:38:49,367
You won't have Nixon
to kick around anymore.

559
00:38:49,452 --> 00:38:51,242
Kick around anymore.

560
00:38:51,329 --> 00:38:53,659
[crowd murmuring]

561
00:38:58,919 --> 00:39:00,589
Uh... [clears throat]

562
00:39:01,547 --> 00:39:05,007
Because, gentlemen,
this is my last press conference.

563
00:39:05,092 --> 00:39:08,682
- Thank you and good day.
- Is this the end of politics for you?

564
00:39:08,763 --> 00:39:10,933
[reporters shouting in unison]

565
00:39:13,392 --> 00:39:14,812
[man] Will you run again?

566
00:39:18,647 --> 00:39:22,727
[male reporter] In California, we can
officially write the political obituary

567
00:39:22,818 --> 00:39:26,028
of Richard Milhous Nixon.
A small town lawyer like Lincoln,

568
00:39:26,113 --> 00:39:29,873
Nixon became a representative at 33
and a senator at 35,

569
00:39:29,950 --> 00:39:33,330
as part of the postwar Republican sweep
of the congressional elections

570
00:39:33,412 --> 00:39:36,292
that attacked FDR's
big-government New Deal.

571
00:39:36,374 --> 00:39:38,884
[man 2] Running as
a South Pacific veteran,

572
00:39:38,959 --> 00:39:41,129
victories over
Congressman Jerry Voorhis

573
00:39:41,212 --> 00:39:44,552
and Senator Helen Gahagan Douglas
made it clear that, to Nixon,

574
00:39:44,632 --> 00:39:48,552
politics was war. He didn't
have opponents, he had enemies.

575
00:39:48,636 --> 00:39:50,926
Why, she's pink,
right down to her underwear!

576
00:39:51,013 --> 00:39:53,853
[man 1] Nixon became one of the
leading lights on the notorious

577
00:39:53,933 --> 00:39:57,563
House Un-American Activities Committee,
questioning labor leaders,

578
00:39:57,645 --> 00:40:00,605
Spanish Civil War veterans,
Hollywood celebrities.

579
00:40:00,689 --> 00:40:04,109
- They'd all be sent back to Russia.
- [man 3] But it was the Alger Hiss case

580
00:40:04,193 --> 00:40:06,073
that made Nixon a household name.

581
00:40:06,153 --> 00:40:08,203
One of the architects
of the United Nations,

582
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,660
intimate of FDR
and Oliver Wendell Holmes,

583
00:40:10,741 --> 00:40:13,331
Alger Hiss was
a State Department diplomat

584
00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:16,161
accused by freelance journalist
Whittaker Chambers

585
00:40:16,247 --> 00:40:18,827
of passing secret documents
to the Soviet Union.

586
00:40:18,916 --> 00:40:21,376
- Hiss is lying.
- Hiss claimed he was being set up

587
00:40:21,460 --> 00:40:24,960
by Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover
to discredit the New Deal's policies.

588
00:40:25,047 --> 00:40:30,047
I am not, and never have been,
a member of the Communist party.

589
00:40:30,136 --> 00:40:32,886
The case came down
to an Underwood typewriter

590
00:40:32,972 --> 00:40:36,182
and a roll of film hidden
in a pumpkin patch.

591
00:40:37,184 --> 00:40:41,774
I asked Hiss if he'd known Chambers.
When he said no, I knew he was lying.

592
00:40:41,856 --> 00:40:43,106
I knew I had him.

593
00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:47,190
[man 1] After two trials, Hiss was
convicted not of spying but of perjury.

594
00:40:47,278 --> 00:40:49,948
To some, Nixon was a hero and a patriot.

595
00:40:50,030 --> 00:40:53,030
But to many, he was a self-promoter.

596
00:40:53,117 --> 00:40:55,237
Eleanor Roosevelt
angrily condemned him.

597
00:40:55,327 --> 00:40:59,617
Nixon continued to tear into Truman,
Acheson and the Democratic party

598
00:40:59,707 --> 00:41:02,287
for losing mainland China in 1949,

599
00:41:02,376 --> 00:41:05,796
and blamed the Korean War
on a weak foreign policy.

600
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,550
I promise to expose and to continue
to expose the people that have sold

601
00:41:09,633 --> 00:41:13,093
- this country down the river!
- [man 1] His speeches, if more subtle

602
00:41:13,179 --> 00:41:17,179
than those of his Republican ally,
Joe McCarthy, were just as aggressive.

603
00:41:18,350 --> 00:41:20,940
[Nixon] The direct result
of Truman's decision

604
00:41:21,020 --> 00:41:23,150
is that China has gone Communist!

605
00:41:23,230 --> 00:41:26,110
Mao is a monster! Why?

606
00:41:26,192 --> 00:41:29,492
Who in the State Department
is watching over American interests?

607
00:41:29,570 --> 00:41:31,780
Who has given the Russians
the atomic bomb?

608
00:41:31,864 --> 00:41:36,874
The Soviet Union is an example of the
slave state in the ultimate development.

609
00:41:37,703 --> 00:41:40,833
[man 3] Driven by demons that
seemed more personal than political,

610
00:41:40,915 --> 00:41:45,915
Nixon became Eisenhower's
vice presidential candidate in 1952.

611
00:41:46,003 --> 00:41:48,003
But then came the Checkers crisis.

612
00:41:48,088 --> 00:41:51,008
Nixon was accused
of hiding a secret slush fund.

613
00:41:51,091 --> 00:41:54,591
About to be kicked off the ticket
by Ike, he went live on television...

614
00:41:54,678 --> 00:41:58,928
- ...in an unprecedented appearance.
- ...give this television audience

615
00:41:59,016 --> 00:42:02,016
a complete financial history.
Everything I've earned...

616
00:42:02,102 --> 00:42:04,652
[man 2] The list included their house,
their Oldsmobile,

617
00:42:04,730 --> 00:42:08,820
Pat's Republican cloth coat. And lastly,
in what was to become history,

618
00:42:08,901 --> 00:42:11,991
a sentimental gift
from a Texas businessman.

619
00:42:12,071 --> 00:42:15,531
You know what it was? It was a little
cocker spaniel dog in a crate

620
00:42:15,616 --> 00:42:17,826
that he'd sent
all the way from Texas,

621
00:42:17,910 --> 00:42:21,160
black and white, spotted.
And our little girl Tricia,

622
00:42:21,247 --> 00:42:23,247
the six-year-old, named it Checkers.

623
00:42:23,332 --> 00:42:27,212
- Fifty-eight million people saw it.
- Like all kids, they love the dog.

624
00:42:27,294 --> 00:42:30,514
It was shameless. It was manipulative.

625
00:42:30,589 --> 00:42:33,679
Regardless of what they say about him,
we're gonna keep him.

626
00:42:33,759 --> 00:42:35,799
[man 2] It was a huge success.

627
00:42:36,595 --> 00:42:40,055
[man 3] He stayed on the national scene,
serving two terms as vice president

628
00:42:40,140 --> 00:42:44,310
under Eisenhower, against Khrushchev
at the Kitchen Debate in Moscow

629
00:42:44,395 --> 00:42:50,185
and stoned by Latin mobs in Venezuela.
Nixon once again became a national hero.

630
00:42:50,276 --> 00:42:53,356
But it all came to a crashing end
against Kennedy in 1960

631
00:42:53,445 --> 00:42:57,025
and Pat Brown in California in '62.

632
00:42:57,116 --> 00:43:00,616
[man 2] And thus ends
a great American political story.

633
00:43:00,703 --> 00:43:04,543
The truth is we never knew
who Richard Nixon really was,

634
00:43:04,623 --> 00:43:07,633
and now that he is gone, we never will.

635
00:43:07,710 --> 00:43:11,250
- [newsreel music warps]
- [jazz music playing]

636
00:43:15,593 --> 00:43:17,433
Poor little Tricia.

637
00:43:17,511 --> 00:43:21,181
I told her her daddy couldn't get a job
in this city when he got out of Duke.

638
00:43:21,265 --> 00:43:24,975
Every white-shoe lawyer firm turned
me down. Didn't have the right look.

639
00:43:25,060 --> 00:43:27,600
- I couldn't even get into the FBI.
- [man] Hi! How are ya?

640
00:43:27,688 --> 00:43:30,858
Did you catch that picture of you
in the news last week, Dick?

641
00:43:30,941 --> 00:43:33,741
- You were standin' on Fifth Avenue.
- Oh, yeah.

642
00:43:33,819 --> 00:43:37,819
You were lookin' straight ahead and
everyone else was lookin' the other way,

643
00:43:37,906 --> 00:43:41,326
- like you just farted or somethin'.
- [laughter]

644
00:43:41,410 --> 00:43:45,290
It said, "Who remembers Dick Nixon?"

645
00:43:45,372 --> 00:43:48,122
Unbelievable. I was screamin'.

646
00:43:48,208 --> 00:43:50,168
Yeah, that was hilarious, Martha.

647
00:43:50,252 --> 00:43:53,922
They were looking the other direction,
waiting for the light to change.

648
00:43:54,006 --> 00:43:56,546
Typical of the press,
they wouldn't correct it.

649
00:43:56,634 --> 00:43:59,304
I think we oughta catch Rocky
before he leaves.

650
00:43:59,386 --> 00:44:02,096
I'm sure it's just a little
run of bad luck, Mr. Nixon.

651
00:44:02,181 --> 00:44:05,101
- He can walk this direction, can't he?
- Oh, I don't know.

652
00:44:05,184 --> 00:44:08,904
- I've read some nice things about you.
- Maybe where you come from.

653
00:44:08,979 --> 00:44:13,729
But where I come from, Dick Nixon is
as misunderstood as a fox in a henhouse.

654
00:44:13,817 --> 00:44:16,987
And do you know why?
Because, my darlin',

655
00:44:17,071 --> 00:44:19,321
they all think that
your smile and your face

656
00:44:19,406 --> 00:44:22,696
are never in the same place
at the same time.

657
00:44:22,785 --> 00:44:25,575
You and me, we're gonna
have to work on that, sweetie.

658
00:44:25,663 --> 00:44:28,333
Someone freshen Martha's drink.
She's down a quart.

659
00:44:28,415 --> 00:44:30,995
Well, zip-a-dee-doo-dah!

660
00:44:31,085 --> 00:44:35,335
- I think he is frightened by my charm.
- I know I am.

661
00:44:35,422 --> 00:44:38,842
- Pat can't stand her.
- It's the thing she does.

662
00:44:38,926 --> 00:44:41,836
- She talks at night.
- Talks all day too.

663
00:44:41,929 --> 00:44:44,009
How the hell can you
put up with her, John?

664
00:44:44,098 --> 00:44:47,928
Well, I'm in love with her.
And she's great in bed.

665
00:44:49,269 --> 00:44:52,609
If a Rockefeller can't
become president of the United States,

666
00:44:52,690 --> 00:44:54,520
then what is the point of democracy?

667
00:44:54,608 --> 00:44:58,488
The point of democracy is that even the
son of a grocer can become president.

668
00:44:58,570 --> 00:45:00,860
And you came damn close, Dick.
How are you?

669
00:45:00,948 --> 00:45:03,528
Hi, John.
New York treating you all right?

670
00:45:03,617 --> 00:45:05,787
I'm sorry I haven't
been able to see you.

671
00:45:05,869 --> 00:45:09,039
- You're looking happy, Rocky.
- Happy. Happy, Dick Nixon.

672
00:45:09,123 --> 00:45:11,213
- You remember him.
- Nice to see you again.

673
00:45:11,291 --> 00:45:16,801
- You're obviously making him happy.
- Oh! Repartee, Dick! That's marvelous!

674
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:21,220
What you predicting? Your boy
Goldwater gonna split the party?

675
00:45:21,301 --> 00:45:23,971
- Some say you are, Rocky.
- Let me tell you something.

676
00:45:24,054 --> 00:45:28,734
Every time the Republican party is a
home to extremism, we lose the election.

677
00:45:28,809 --> 00:45:31,099
- You oughta know better than anybody.
- Yeah.

678
00:45:31,186 --> 00:45:33,896
This guy Goldwater
is as stupid as McCarthy.

679
00:45:33,981 --> 00:45:37,981
And McCarthy never did you any good
in the long run, now, did he?

680
00:45:38,068 --> 00:45:39,818
That's right.

681
00:45:40,821 --> 00:45:46,531
- I hate these cocktail parties.
- John, I'm in hell.

682
00:45:46,618 --> 00:45:50,748
I'll be mentally dead in two years
and physically dead in four.

683
00:45:50,831 --> 00:45:55,921
Make some money, Dick.
Prove yourself to the Wall Street crowd.

684
00:45:56,003 --> 00:45:59,593
Let Goldwater and Rockefeller
take the fall against Kennedy.

685
00:45:59,673 --> 00:46:02,093
I don't know.
I miss making love to the people.

686
00:46:02,176 --> 00:46:04,296
I miss entering a room.

687
00:46:04,386 --> 00:46:08,556
I miss the pure acting of it, John.

688
00:46:10,058 --> 00:46:12,308
I gotta get back in the arena.

689
00:46:15,856 --> 00:46:18,356
Ladies and gentlemen, it's showtime!

690
00:46:18,442 --> 00:46:22,452
Come on up.
Right this way, ladies and gentlemen.

691
00:46:22,529 --> 00:46:26,869
It's for you, it's for me.
It's Studebaker for 1963.

692
00:46:28,035 --> 00:46:31,785
Amen. Bless you for being here.
There's a man that loves Studebakers.

693
00:46:31,872 --> 00:46:35,042
- Can I get your autograph?
- Mr. Nixon, please run again.

694
00:46:35,125 --> 00:46:38,415
The ex-vice president of the United
States, Richard M. Nixon!

695
00:46:38,504 --> 00:46:40,674
[light applause]

696
00:46:40,756 --> 00:46:44,926
- You throw a hell of a party, Jack.
- The party ain't even started yet.

697
00:46:45,010 --> 00:46:48,300
I've asked these gals out to the ranch
for a little private thing.

698
00:46:48,388 --> 00:46:51,098
We're gonna have some fun,
I guarantee ya.

699
00:46:51,183 --> 00:46:53,813
And there's some fellas
I'd really like you to meet.

700
00:46:53,894 --> 00:46:57,904
Trini and I got an early plane. We're
hoping to be back in New York for...

701
00:46:57,981 --> 00:47:03,071
It'll be OK. These guys are interesting.
And quiet. The girls are too.

702
00:47:03,153 --> 00:47:06,323
It's not often us Texans
get an opportunity to entertain

703
00:47:06,406 --> 00:47:08,736
- the future president.
- Here.

704
00:47:08,826 --> 00:47:11,156
Like you said, Jack,
I'm just a New York lawyer.

705
00:47:11,245 --> 00:47:14,365
- [Jack] We'll see about that.
- Mr. Nixon, are you gonna run again?

706
00:47:14,456 --> 00:47:16,706
- I don't know.
- He will! I guarantee it!

707
00:47:18,752 --> 00:47:21,752
[jazz music playing]

708
00:47:22,256 --> 00:47:24,506
- Name it, baby.
- That little convertible?

709
00:47:24,591 --> 00:47:27,051
I'll buy you a diamond ring.
I'll buy you one.

710
00:47:27,135 --> 00:47:28,715
- [woman] Thank you.
- Hello, baby.

711
00:47:28,804 --> 00:47:30,854
Hey, wait, wait, wait.

712
00:47:30,931 --> 00:47:35,351
This is Julie there.
And that's Tricia.

713
00:47:35,435 --> 00:47:40,185
- Oh, yeah.
- She reminds me a bit of you, Sandy.

714
00:47:40,274 --> 00:47:44,324
She really is wholesome.
But, um, what about you?

715
00:47:44,403 --> 00:47:47,783
- What do you like?
- Well, I like music.

716
00:47:47,865 --> 00:47:51,865
- I like jazz.
- Jazz, yeah. Guy Lombardo.

717
00:47:51,952 --> 00:47:53,332
How about rock and roll?

718
00:47:53,412 --> 00:47:55,832
- Elvis Presley?
- Yeah, he's good. Yeah.

719
00:47:55,914 --> 00:47:58,374
- Decent guy.
- Well, I guess,

720
00:47:58,458 --> 00:48:02,998
for me, it also depends on
what I'm doin' to the music, Dick.

721
00:48:04,298 --> 00:48:08,378
- Yeah.
- So, what's it like bein' so famous?

722
00:48:08,468 --> 00:48:10,638
A vice president!

723
00:48:10,721 --> 00:48:14,181
Well, it's, uh, not like that, Sandy.

724
00:48:15,475 --> 00:48:18,685
You see, the reason I got
into politics in the first place was,

725
00:48:18,770 --> 00:48:22,230
well, to do something for the people.

726
00:48:22,316 --> 00:48:26,236
So, how are you two doing?

727
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:30,240
You know, Dick, there's more privacy
in the back of the...

728
00:48:30,324 --> 00:48:35,084
- No, Trini, we're fine here.
- OK.

729
00:48:35,162 --> 00:48:39,582
Hell, Kennedy just pissed Cuba away
to the Russians. Just pissed it away.

730
00:48:39,666 --> 00:48:43,586
And he doesn't know what the hell
he's doin' in Vietnam.

731
00:48:43,670 --> 00:48:46,260
These are dangerous times,
especially for business.

732
00:48:46,340 --> 00:48:50,590
- Agreed.
- We know what you tried to do for Cuba.

733
00:48:50,677 --> 00:48:54,507
If you had been elected in '60,
Castro would be dead now.

734
00:49:00,270 --> 00:49:03,360
Gentlemen, I tried.
I told Kennedy to go into Cuba.

735
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:07,230
He heard me and he made his decision.
I appreciate your sentiments.

736
00:49:07,319 --> 00:49:10,029
I've heard them
from many fine Cuban patriots.

737
00:49:10,113 --> 00:49:12,623
But it's nothing
I can do anything about.

738
00:49:13,867 --> 00:49:17,947
It's a long drive to Dallas. Trini and I
have a plane to catch tomorrow. So...

739
00:49:18,038 --> 00:49:21,708
- Dick, these boys want you to run.
- Absolutely.

740
00:49:21,792 --> 00:49:24,042
- That's right.
- Now, they're serious.

741
00:49:24,127 --> 00:49:27,297
They can deliver the South
and put Texas in your column.

742
00:49:27,381 --> 00:49:28,971
They would have done it in '60.

743
00:49:29,049 --> 00:49:32,219
Only if Kennedy dumps Johnson.
That'll never happen.

744
00:49:32,302 --> 00:49:35,932
I don't think you know how much
people hate Kennedy down here.

745
00:49:36,014 --> 00:49:40,314
He's comin' to town tomorrow, and they
will run his ass outta town on a rail!

746
00:49:40,394 --> 00:49:42,654
- Damn right.
- That we will.

747
00:49:42,729 --> 00:49:46,899
We are willing to give you a shit pot
full of money to get rid of him.

748
00:49:46,984 --> 00:49:48,694
More than you ever dreamed of.

749
00:49:51,947 --> 00:49:56,577
Nobody's gonna beat Kennedy in '64
with all the money in the world.

750
00:50:00,247 --> 00:50:04,077
Suppose Kennedy don't run in '64.

751
00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:06,589
Not a chance.

752
00:50:09,089 --> 00:50:10,669
Yeah.

753
00:50:11,883 --> 00:50:16,103
Well, gentlemen, I promised my wife I...
I'm out of politics.

754
00:50:16,179 --> 00:50:20,559
You just came down here for the weather,
is that right, Mr. Nixon?

755
00:50:20,642 --> 00:50:24,852
I came down here
to close a deal for Studebaker.

756
00:50:24,938 --> 00:50:29,028
- What about '68, Dick?
- Five years, Trini.

757
00:50:29,109 --> 00:50:31,649
In politics, that's an eternity.

758
00:50:31,737 --> 00:50:36,527
Dick... your country needs you.

759
00:50:36,616 --> 00:50:39,826
Unfortunately, the country's
not available right now.

760
00:51:01,558 --> 00:51:06,308
President Kennedy's due in
from Fort Worth in about an hour.

761
00:51:06,396 --> 00:51:09,936
- Kennedy is due in from Fort Worth.
- Yeah, I know.

762
00:51:10,025 --> 00:51:12,275
OK. Let's go through here.

763
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:14,740
- Excuse us.
- Excuse me. Coming through.

764
00:51:14,821 --> 00:51:17,201
- Excuse us.
- Thank you.

765
00:51:17,282 --> 00:51:21,202
Step away from the gate there.
Thank you.

766
00:51:26,917 --> 00:51:29,667
Go find the pilot.
Let's get out of here.

767
00:51:52,984 --> 00:51:54,994
[thunder rumbling]

768
00:51:56,571 --> 00:51:58,911
[march plays on snare drum]

769
00:52:13,338 --> 00:52:16,718
Look, Edgar, these, uh...
these guys were really strange.

770
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,930
- You know, extremists.
- What do you mean by "strange"?

771
00:52:20,011 --> 00:52:22,011
- Right-wing stuff.
- Birchers?

772
00:52:22,097 --> 00:52:24,677
- Birchers, yeah.
- This thing's pretty straight.

773
00:52:24,766 --> 00:52:28,806
- [man] In Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald...
- Oswald's got a Cuba connection?

774
00:52:28,895 --> 00:52:32,145
- To Castro?
- ...maximum security facility.

775
00:52:32,232 --> 00:52:34,862
- Mrs. Kennedy...
- He's a real Communist.

776
00:52:34,943 --> 00:52:37,153
Well, that makes sense.

777
00:52:37,237 --> 00:52:39,947
OK, well, thank you, Edgar.

778
00:52:41,491 --> 00:52:46,251
Senator Ted Kennedy, arriving early
this morning with his mother and sister.

779
00:52:46,329 --> 00:52:52,079
Hoover says this Oswald
checks out as a beatnik,

780
00:52:52,169 --> 00:52:55,799
- a real bum.
- Dick, you should call Bobby.

781
00:52:55,881 --> 00:52:58,841
He doesn't want me at the funeral.

782
00:52:58,925 --> 00:53:02,085
- You don't have to go.
- De Gaulle's gonna be there.

783
00:53:02,179 --> 00:53:07,679
- McMillan. Adenauer.
- [man] We go now to the rotunda...

784
00:53:07,767 --> 00:53:10,347
Nixon can't not be there.

785
00:53:10,437 --> 00:53:14,437
[Pat] Then call him.
I'm sure it was an oversight.

786
00:53:14,524 --> 00:53:18,194
- Yeah.
- ...to pay their respects...

787
00:53:18,278 --> 00:53:21,568
- Jesus.
- ...to their fallen leader.

788
00:53:21,656 --> 00:53:23,866
It's awful.

789
00:53:23,950 --> 00:53:27,620
- It's an awful thing for this country.
- [Pat] Dick?

790
00:53:29,456 --> 00:53:31,916
No, it's his way.

791
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,040
He hates me.

792
00:53:34,127 --> 00:53:36,707
He and Teddy.

793
00:53:36,796 --> 00:53:38,706
They always hated me.

794
00:53:38,798 --> 00:53:43,088
They've lost their brother.
You know what that means, Dick.

795
00:53:44,137 --> 00:53:48,017
[man] These are perhaps the last
images of him alive with his family.

796
00:53:51,478 --> 00:53:54,148
Please, make it stop!

797
00:53:55,690 --> 00:53:58,030
[doctor] Hold him tighter.
Hold him tighter.

798
00:53:58,109 --> 00:53:59,819
[screaming]

799
00:53:59,903 --> 00:54:02,073
Hold him tighter. Hold him tighter.

800
00:54:03,156 --> 00:54:06,366
[Richard] Daddy, please make it stop!

801
00:54:06,451 --> 00:54:08,121
Hold him tighter.

802
00:54:08,203 --> 00:54:10,413
The infection's spread to his spine.

803
00:54:12,582 --> 00:54:13,922
[boy] Come on!

804
00:54:15,835 --> 00:54:18,045
- [shouting]
- [barking]

805
00:54:31,935 --> 00:54:33,015
Stop it!

806
00:54:34,479 --> 00:54:36,809
- [laughing]
- Get off!

807
00:54:56,459 --> 00:54:57,999
[boy] You're it!

808
00:55:08,471 --> 00:55:10,721
No. No, don't!

809
00:55:19,441 --> 00:55:22,441
If I'd been president,
they never would've killed me.

810
00:55:25,238 --> 00:55:28,488
[man] Vice President Johnson,
shown here being sworn in...

811
00:55:28,575 --> 00:55:31,735
- Dick, are you gonna call? Bobby.
- Hmm?

812
00:55:34,247 --> 00:55:35,957
[sighs]

813
00:55:36,041 --> 00:55:39,251
I'll go through Johnson.
We'll be invited.

814
00:55:45,175 --> 00:55:48,925
[Lyndon Johnson] This is a sad time
for all people.

815
00:55:49,012 --> 00:55:51,852
I ask for your help.

816
00:55:51,931 --> 00:55:55,311
...and are going
to see Vietnam through

817
00:55:55,393 --> 00:55:57,773
to an honorable peace...

818
00:56:01,232 --> 00:56:04,232
...to defend an honored cause,

819
00:56:04,319 --> 00:56:07,359
whatever the price,
whatever the burden...

820
00:56:07,447 --> 00:56:13,367
...whatever the sacrifice
that duty may require.

821
00:56:13,453 --> 00:56:18,673
Accordingly... I shall not seek...

822
00:56:20,168 --> 00:56:22,708
...and I will not accept...

823
00:56:22,796 --> 00:56:26,916
...the nomination of my party
for another term as your president.

824
00:56:28,885 --> 00:56:32,755
Good night, and God bless all of you.

825
00:56:34,641 --> 00:56:37,481
[man] Johnson's withdrawal
resurrects Richard Nixon

826
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:41,060
as a strong Republican candidate
with a secret plan to end the war.

827
00:56:41,147 --> 00:56:44,397
His mother, Hannah Nixon,
just before her death last year,

828
00:56:44,484 --> 00:56:47,154
commented on her son's chances.

829
00:56:47,237 --> 00:56:52,737
Mrs. Nixon, do you think your son
will ever return to politics?

830
00:56:52,826 --> 00:56:55,946
I don't think he has a choice.

831
00:56:56,037 --> 00:56:58,867
He has always been a leader.

832
00:56:58,957 --> 00:57:03,497
Do you think he'd make
a great president, Mrs. Nixon?

833
00:57:03,586 --> 00:57:06,756
If he's on God's side, yes.

834
00:57:07,841 --> 00:57:10,381
You must be very proud of your son.

835
00:57:10,468 --> 00:57:13,678
I have always been proud
of all of my children.

836
00:57:17,517 --> 00:57:20,097
[Hannah] Of course,
no one can see into the future.

837
00:57:20,186 --> 00:57:22,436
We didn't know this day would come.

838
00:57:22,522 --> 00:57:25,022
- [man] Where'd he go?
- [man 2] In the side door.

839
00:57:25,108 --> 00:57:28,028
- Is that Mitchell?
- Shit! Missed him.

840
00:57:28,111 --> 00:57:29,451
[doorbell buzzes]

841
00:57:29,529 --> 00:57:32,699
I thought that guy was gonna
kiss your hand on the side of it.

842
00:57:32,782 --> 00:57:34,952
- Congratulations, sir.
- Yeah, thanks.

843
00:57:35,034 --> 00:57:38,004
Jesus, Dick!
I've never seen anything like it.

844
00:57:38,079 --> 00:57:40,579
Even the goddamn Times
is saying you've got it.

845
00:57:40,665 --> 00:57:43,825
- Vietnam's gonna put you in there.
- We got the press this time.

846
00:57:43,918 --> 00:57:48,628
- We got the big mo. We're back.
- So you've decided.

847
00:57:52,135 --> 00:57:54,175
Were you planning to tell me?

848
00:57:55,722 --> 00:57:58,852
We haven't announced
anything yet, but...

849
00:58:00,852 --> 00:58:03,062
Jesus. Uh... Pat?

850
00:58:05,940 --> 00:58:08,980
Uh, wait in the living room,
will you, fellas? What is it, John?

851
00:58:09,068 --> 00:58:12,648
You need her, Dick. In '60,
she was worth five, six million votes.

852
00:58:12,739 --> 00:58:16,329
Yeah. Don't worry.
I'll use the old Nixon charm.

853
00:58:17,702 --> 00:58:19,912
In there. OK.

854
00:58:20,955 --> 00:58:22,245
Who could resist that?

855
00:58:27,712 --> 00:58:29,252
Buddy?

856
00:58:32,091 --> 00:58:33,511
You should be going.

857
00:58:33,593 --> 00:58:36,473
Primaries are soon,
aren't they? New Hampshire.

858
00:58:36,554 --> 00:58:39,184
I love you, Buddy. I need you.

859
00:58:39,265 --> 00:58:41,725
I don't want them to love me.

860
00:58:41,809 --> 00:58:44,769
But I need you out there.

861
00:58:44,854 --> 00:58:49,864
It won't be like the last time.
The war's crippled the Democrats.

862
00:58:49,943 --> 00:58:52,533
I can win. We deserve it.

863
00:58:52,612 --> 00:58:55,702
It's ours, Buddy, at last.

864
00:58:55,782 --> 00:58:59,032
Nobody knows that better than you.

865
00:58:59,118 --> 00:59:01,118
Frank Nixon's boy.

866
00:59:01,204 --> 00:59:05,374
Do you remember what Mom said?
We're not like other people. We...

867
00:59:05,458 --> 00:59:07,578
We don't choose our way.

868
00:59:08,628 --> 00:59:10,878
We can really change things, Buddy.

869
00:59:10,964 --> 00:59:14,554
We got a chance to get it right.
We can change America.

870
00:59:14,634 --> 00:59:18,264
It was our dream, Buddy,
together, always.

871
00:59:20,223 --> 00:59:24,393
- Do you really want this, Dick?
- Yeah. This, above all.

872
00:59:24,477 --> 00:59:29,767
- And then you'll be happy?
- Yeah, you know I will. Yes! I will.

873
00:59:30,858 --> 00:59:32,938
Then I'll be there for you.

874
00:59:33,027 --> 00:59:35,897
And we are gonna win this time.
I can feel it.

875
00:59:35,989 --> 00:59:37,489
Yeah!

876
00:59:38,533 --> 00:59:41,413
You're the strongest woman
I ever met, Buddy.

877
00:59:41,494 --> 00:59:44,584
- Can I just ask for one thing?
- Anything.

878
00:59:44,664 --> 00:59:47,084
- Would you kiss me?
- Yeah!

879
00:59:48,251 --> 00:59:50,591
[big band jazz playing]

880
00:59:54,465 --> 00:59:56,755
We're gonna win the race.

881
00:59:58,511 --> 01:00:02,761
My thanks. It's on to Chicago
and let's win there. Thank you.

882
01:00:02,849 --> 01:00:05,769
I would never question
Senator Kennedy's patriotism.

883
01:00:05,852 --> 01:00:09,612
But going around the country,
promising peace at any price

884
01:00:09,689 --> 01:00:12,519
is, uh, exactly what the
North Vietnamese want to hear.

885
01:00:12,609 --> 01:00:14,069
[man] Cue the crowd.

886
01:00:15,987 --> 01:00:18,487
Go to this bald guy.
Yeah, he's great, isn't he?

887
01:00:19,616 --> 01:00:21,696
[Nixon] I, unlike Senator Kennedy,

888
01:00:21,784 --> 01:00:24,624
have a plan to end the war immediately.

889
01:00:24,704 --> 01:00:29,634
But not for peace at any price,
but peace with honor.

890
01:00:29,709 --> 01:00:33,589
What do you think this plan is, Edgar?
A nuclear attack?

891
01:00:33,671 --> 01:00:36,471
He's lying, Clyde. Always has.

892
01:00:36,549 --> 01:00:39,049
That's why Nixon's always been useful.

893
01:00:39,135 --> 01:00:42,255
- [Tolson speaking Spanish]
- [man replies]

894
01:00:42,347 --> 01:00:44,057
Hold still.

895
01:00:44,140 --> 01:00:46,730
- OK, who's next?
- The Negro.

896
01:00:46,809 --> 01:00:49,439
No, we gotta have a Negro.
This guy right here.

897
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:50,560
Negro, front row.

898
01:00:51,731 --> 01:00:54,981
- Mr. Nixon, sir.
- Yeah.

899
01:00:55,068 --> 01:00:57,988
We all know you have built your career

900
01:00:58,071 --> 01:01:00,991
on smearing people as Communists.

901
01:01:01,074 --> 01:01:03,834
And now you are building your campaign

902
01:01:03,910 --> 01:01:06,330
on the divisions in this country,

903
01:01:06,412 --> 01:01:09,922
stirring up hatred
and turning people against each other.

904
01:01:09,999 --> 01:01:13,169
- What the fuck's he doing? A speech!
- Cut him off.

905
01:01:13,252 --> 01:01:15,712
- I can't. This isn't Russia.
- Sounds like a Negro.

906
01:01:15,797 --> 01:01:19,417
- Saying Negro things. What's he doing?
- Sounded white when we screened.

907
01:01:19,509 --> 01:01:21,509
Doesn't sound white now,
sounds like Angela Davis.

908
01:01:21,594 --> 01:01:24,474
When are you gonna tell us
what you really stand for?

909
01:01:24,555 --> 01:01:27,015
- Go to commercial!
- There are no commercials.

910
01:01:27,100 --> 01:01:29,140
- You bought the whole half hour.
- Shit!

911
01:01:29,227 --> 01:01:33,517
When are you going to take off that mask
and show us who you really are?

912
01:01:33,606 --> 01:01:34,816
[man] Shut up and sit down!

913
01:01:34,899 --> 01:01:37,399
- [Nixon] OK. OK.
- It's a high hard one, chief.

914
01:01:37,485 --> 01:01:39,945
- Park it.
- There are divisions in this country.

915
01:01:40,029 --> 01:01:43,699
- That's because you created them.
- I did not. The Democrats did.

916
01:01:43,783 --> 01:01:46,493
If it's dialogue you want,
you're more likely to get it from me

917
01:01:46,577 --> 01:01:49,197
than from people burning down cities.
Just think about it.

918
01:01:49,288 --> 01:01:51,498
- Dr. King said the same thing.
- Oh, please.

919
01:01:51,582 --> 01:01:54,542
You know, young man,
who a great hero is? Abraham Lincoln.

920
01:01:54,627 --> 01:01:57,167
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Lincoln. Is he beautiful?

921
01:01:57,255 --> 01:02:00,295
He believed in common ground.
He brought this country together.

922
01:02:01,634 --> 01:02:03,514
I love that man. I love him.

923
01:02:03,594 --> 01:02:06,974
I want the son of a bitch
who got that agitator in here fired!

924
01:02:07,056 --> 01:02:10,386
- I have another question.
- There's a little girl sitting here.

925
01:02:10,476 --> 01:02:13,766
- A little girl sitting with a sign.
- Bag the spook. Go to the girl.

926
01:02:13,855 --> 01:02:16,565
- Can you see the girl?
- There are three simple words:

927
01:02:16,649 --> 01:02:18,939
"Bring us together."
That is what I want,

928
01:02:19,026 --> 01:02:22,446
and that is what the great
silent majority of Americans want.

929
01:02:22,530 --> 01:02:27,080
And that is why I want to be president.
To bring us together.

930
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:30,660
- Give me a break, Mary.
- Now, you all know me. I'm one of you.

931
01:02:30,747 --> 01:02:33,077
I grew up here,
a stone's throw from here,

932
01:02:33,166 --> 01:02:37,746
- on a lemon ranch in Yorba Linda.
- Poorest lemon ranch in California.

933
01:02:37,837 --> 01:02:40,877
Poorest lemon ranch in California,
I can assure you of that.

934
01:02:40,965 --> 01:02:44,885
- My dad sold it before they found oil.
- My dad sold it before they found oil.

935
01:02:44,969 --> 01:02:48,219
- But it was all we had.
- But it was all we had.

936
01:02:48,306 --> 01:02:53,186
- My dad built the house with his hands.
- You're new here. What's your name?

937
01:02:53,269 --> 01:02:55,229
Joaquin, Mr. Hoover.

938
01:02:56,189 --> 01:02:57,689
Oh.

939
01:02:58,399 --> 01:03:04,029
My father sacrificed everything he had
so that his sons could go to college.

940
01:03:04,113 --> 01:03:08,743
- A gentle Quaker mother quietly wept
- Oh, Christ.

941
01:03:08,826 --> 01:03:11,446
- when he went to war.
- Turn this crap off, Clyde.

942
01:03:11,537 --> 01:03:14,037
- It's giving me a headache.
- A great teacher.

943
01:03:14,916 --> 01:03:16,706
You may go, Joaquin.

944
01:03:19,629 --> 01:03:24,799
- I want to see him, Clyde.
- Edgar, he works in the kitchen.

945
01:03:24,884 --> 01:03:28,514
Not the boy, you idiot. Nixon.

946
01:03:29,889 --> 01:03:33,729
Hear what he said in Oregon
about me having too much power?

947
01:03:33,810 --> 01:03:37,310
It's between Nixon and a Kennedy again.

948
01:03:37,396 --> 01:03:41,356
- Who do you want?
- Kennedy? [chuckles]

949
01:03:41,442 --> 01:03:43,152
Never.

950
01:03:43,236 --> 01:03:46,856
He'll fry in hell for what he did to me.

951
01:03:46,948 --> 01:03:49,158
But Nixon don't know that.

952
01:03:49,242 --> 01:03:52,452
Which is why I'm gonna have
to remind him that he needs us

953
01:03:52,537 --> 01:03:55,407
a hell of a lot more than we need him.

954
01:03:56,415 --> 01:03:58,325
[trumpet plays Call to the Post]

955
01:03:58,417 --> 01:03:59,877
[horses nicker and neigh]

956
01:04:02,421 --> 01:04:03,761
[gate bell ringing]

957
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:05,840
- [crowd cheering]
- [horses whinnying]

958
01:04:07,677 --> 01:04:10,677
[announcer calling race]

959
01:04:19,772 --> 01:04:21,732
Your boy's on the way up.

960
01:04:24,110 --> 01:04:27,360
You know, I met this guy years ago
in Havana. You know that.

961
01:04:29,448 --> 01:04:31,118
Come on!

962
01:04:34,453 --> 01:04:36,083
He's folding, Johnny.

963
01:04:39,792 --> 01:04:41,842
No, no, no.
You just wait a second.

964
01:04:42,461 --> 01:04:44,841
Olly's Boy on the inside!

965
01:04:45,756 --> 01:04:47,546
Come on! Come on!

966
01:04:47,633 --> 01:04:50,473
- [people gasping and shouting]
- [horses whinnying]

967
01:04:53,806 --> 01:04:58,846
[announcer] And a tragedy! Olly's Boy
has fallen on the sixteenth pole.

968
01:05:01,898 --> 01:05:05,648
Sunday's Chance goes on
to win it in 25,000...

969
01:05:06,944 --> 01:05:08,574
A bit extreme, isn't it?

970
01:05:09,655 --> 01:05:12,865
It's the drama.
Look, the crowd loves this shit.

971
01:05:14,243 --> 01:05:15,583
May I have your autograph?

972
01:05:15,661 --> 01:05:18,411
Hey, there's Randolph Scott over there.
Look at that.

973
01:05:18,497 --> 01:05:20,667
Cash these for me, would you, Johnny?

974
01:05:22,752 --> 01:05:24,252
[whinnies]

975
01:05:24,337 --> 01:05:27,127
- Easy! Easy, easy!
- It's a two-dollar bet, Edgar.

976
01:05:27,214 --> 01:05:30,384
You got thousands coming on this.
I mean, what the fuck?

977
01:05:30,468 --> 01:05:34,758
I told you, just cash it, Johnny.
And don't swear around me. Come on.

978
01:05:34,847 --> 01:05:36,177
Uh-huh.

979
01:05:37,391 --> 01:05:39,021
Hello.

980
01:05:40,686 --> 01:05:43,686
Edgar. Wonderful to see you.

981
01:05:43,773 --> 01:05:45,113
- Clyde.
- Mr. Nixon.

982
01:05:45,191 --> 01:05:47,611
- Hi.
- Thank you for coming, Richard.

983
01:05:47,693 --> 01:05:49,783
OK. Winning?

984
01:05:49,862 --> 01:05:53,822
Actually, I've just had a bit of luck.
Are you gonna win?

985
01:05:53,908 --> 01:05:55,948
You should ask Bobby.

986
01:05:56,035 --> 01:05:59,075
- Little Bobby.
- Yeah, Bobby Kennedy.

987
01:05:59,163 --> 01:06:00,623
Yeah.

988
01:06:00,706 --> 01:06:03,246
Would you, uh, walk with me
down to the paddock?

989
01:06:03,334 --> 01:06:06,294
- I'd like to look at the horses.
- Can we talk here?

990
01:06:06,379 --> 01:06:08,879
I got the police chiefs in San Diego.

991
01:06:08,965 --> 01:06:12,965
Actually, I'm trying
to spare you an embarrassment.

992
01:06:13,052 --> 01:06:17,392
That was Johnny Roselli you just
passed. He's on his way back.

993
01:06:19,058 --> 01:06:21,558
Roselli? Johnny Roselli?

994
01:06:21,644 --> 01:06:26,984
Yes. You know him, Richard? No?
From Cuba?

995
01:06:27,692 --> 01:06:29,822
[mambo music playing]

996
01:06:32,196 --> 01:06:36,026
- Hey, Johnny Roselli. How're you doin'?
- Dick Nixon.

997
01:06:36,117 --> 01:06:37,447
How are you?

998
01:06:37,535 --> 01:06:40,825
I never met the man. Uh...

999
01:06:40,913 --> 01:06:43,753
Well, I know you've...

1000
01:06:44,583 --> 01:06:48,963
...been very careful not to.
That's why I'm so concerned.

1001
01:06:51,465 --> 01:06:52,505
OK.

1002
01:06:52,591 --> 01:06:55,801
- [gate bell ringing]
- They're off and running!

1003
01:07:02,977 --> 01:07:05,687
[Hoover] You'll win the nomination.

1004
01:07:05,771 --> 01:07:09,861
- It could be 1960 all over again.
- [woman] Love you, Dick!

1005
01:07:09,942 --> 01:07:14,202
And Bobby's got the magic
like a goddamn rock star.

1006
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:17,870
They climb all over each other
just to touch his clothes.

1007
01:07:17,950 --> 01:07:22,200
He'll ride his brother's corpse
right into the White House.

1008
01:07:22,288 --> 01:07:27,418
If things remain as they are.
He's got the anti-war vote.

1009
01:07:27,501 --> 01:07:30,501
Or he'll steal it, like his brother.

1010
01:07:30,588 --> 01:07:33,048
Bobby's a mean little son of a bitch.

1011
01:07:33,132 --> 01:07:36,932
He had the IRS audit my mother
when she was dying in the nursing home.

1012
01:07:37,011 --> 01:07:40,681
- I know.
- We should shoot the son of a bitch.

1013
01:07:44,477 --> 01:07:49,517
- I wanna fight just as dirty, Edgar.
- His women. Use his women.

1014
01:07:52,109 --> 01:07:54,649
Any information you have.

1015
01:07:54,737 --> 01:07:57,527
The son of a bitch is not
gonna steal from me again.

1016
01:07:57,615 --> 01:08:01,025
Can you back me up on this?
Can I count on your support?

1017
01:08:02,161 --> 01:08:07,251
I look at it from the point of view that
the system can only take so much abuse.

1018
01:08:07,333 --> 01:08:10,253
- It adjusts itself eventually.
- Yeah.

1019
01:08:10,336 --> 01:08:14,456
But there are times...
There are savage outbursts.

1020
01:08:14,548 --> 01:08:18,928
The late Dr. King, for example.
Amoral hypocrite.

1021
01:08:19,011 --> 01:08:21,761
Screwing women
like a degenerate tomcat,

1022
01:08:21,847 --> 01:08:26,847
stirring up the blacks,
preaching against our system.

1023
01:08:26,936 --> 01:08:30,646
Sometimes the system
comes very close to cracking.

1024
01:08:33,692 --> 01:08:37,032
We've already had one radical
in the White House.

1025
01:08:37,113 --> 01:08:39,363
I don't believe we
could survive another.

1026
01:08:39,448 --> 01:08:40,778
[whinnies]

1027
01:08:45,204 --> 01:08:47,964
- Well, like I said, Edgar...
- You ask...

1028
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,580
...if you can count on my support.

1029
01:08:52,878 --> 01:08:55,208
As long as I can count on yours.

1030
01:08:57,716 --> 01:08:59,256
Yeah.

1031
01:09:01,762 --> 01:09:04,142
Yeah, the old queen did it on purpose.

1032
01:09:04,223 --> 01:09:06,273
No, he wasn't protecting me.

1033
01:09:06,350 --> 01:09:10,190
- He was just putting me on notice.
- [Haldeman] That he knew Roselli?

1034
01:09:10,271 --> 01:09:13,481
- No.
- Hoover knew a lot of gangsters.

1035
01:09:13,566 --> 01:09:16,226
Johnny Roselli wasn’t just any gangster.

1036
01:09:16,318 --> 01:09:20,908
Johnny Roselli was one of the
gangsters who set up Track Two in Cuba.

1037
01:09:22,825 --> 01:09:25,285
Oh, well, I know all about that.

1038
01:09:25,369 --> 01:09:28,159
I don't understand it.
Track Two is Chile.

1039
01:09:28,247 --> 01:09:32,827
[Nixon] Yeah, Chile, Congo,
Guadalajara, Iran, Cuba.

1040
01:09:32,918 --> 01:09:37,878
Wherever there was need for, uh,
an executive action capability,

1041
01:09:37,965 --> 01:09:40,085
there's Track Two.

1042
01:09:40,176 --> 01:09:45,256
In Cuba, Track One
was, uh, the Bay of Pigs invasion.

1043
01:09:45,347 --> 01:09:47,847
Track Two was our idea.

1044
01:09:47,933 --> 01:09:51,733
We thought that the invasion wouldn't
work unless we got rid of Castro.

1045
01:09:51,812 --> 01:09:57,532
So we asked ourselves, uh,
"Who else wants Castro dead?"

1046
01:09:57,610 --> 01:10:00,610
The Mafia or money people?

1047
01:10:00,696 --> 01:10:03,566
So we put together Track Two.

1048
01:10:17,171 --> 01:10:20,631
First assassination attempt was in '60.

1049
01:10:20,716 --> 01:10:24,386
- Just before the election.
- Before? Eisenhower approved that?

1050
01:10:24,470 --> 01:10:28,310
Yeah. Well, he didn't veto it.

1051
01:10:28,390 --> 01:10:31,390
I ran the White House side,

1052
01:10:31,477 --> 01:10:35,057
and the Mob contact was Johnny Roselli.

1053
01:10:35,147 --> 01:10:40,357
One of the CIA guys was this jackass,
Howard Hunt.

1054
01:10:40,444 --> 01:10:43,244
- Jesus.
- Yeah.

1055
01:10:43,322 --> 01:10:45,872
Not just Howard Hunt,
but Frank Sturgis

1056
01:10:45,950 --> 01:10:50,040
and all those other Cubans.

1057
01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:52,040
All of them in the Watergate.

1058
01:10:54,416 --> 01:10:57,626
They're all involved in Cuba.

1059
01:11:02,508 --> 01:11:06,388
Yeah, Hunt reported to my military aide.

1060
01:11:06,470 --> 01:11:10,310
I don't know how much Hunt knows
or the Cubans, but...

1061
01:11:11,725 --> 01:11:13,635
...you never know.

1062
01:11:13,727 --> 01:11:17,687
So you wanted Castro dead.
Everybody wanted Castro dead.

1063
01:11:18,607 --> 01:11:22,317
You know, if Hunt
and the others are CIA...

1064
01:11:22,403 --> 01:11:26,033
...why don't we just dump this
back in the CIA's lap,

1065
01:11:26,115 --> 01:11:30,615
- let Dick Helms take the fall?
- Because...

1066
01:11:30,703 --> 01:11:34,373
Because Helms knows too much.

1067
01:11:35,541 --> 01:11:38,671
If there's anyone in this country
who knows more than me,

1068
01:11:38,752 --> 01:11:42,382
it's Hoover and Helms, and you
don't fuck with Dick Helms, period.

1069
01:11:42,464 --> 01:11:46,764
All right. But why,
if Kennedy was so clean in all this,

1070
01:11:46,844 --> 01:11:50,724
- didn't he cancel Track Two?
- 'Cause he didn't even know about it.

1071
01:11:52,641 --> 01:11:56,561
The CIA, uh, never told him.
They just kept it going.

1072
01:11:57,396 --> 01:12:00,186
It had a life of its own
like it was some...

1073
01:12:01,483 --> 01:12:04,493
...kind of a thing, you know?

1074
01:12:04,570 --> 01:12:06,530
It doesn't even know it exists.

1075
01:12:06,613 --> 01:12:10,493
It just eats people
when it doesn't need 'em anymore.

1076
01:12:10,576 --> 01:12:14,116
Two days after the Bay of Pigs,

1077
01:12:14,204 --> 01:12:18,504
Kennedy called me
and he reamed me out.

1078
01:12:18,584 --> 01:12:22,504
- He just found out about Track Two.
- [Haldeman] You never told him?

1079
01:12:22,588 --> 01:12:25,418
I didn't want him to get the credit.

1080
01:12:26,550 --> 01:12:28,380
He said I'd stabbed him in the back

1081
01:12:28,469 --> 01:12:31,639
and called me a two-bit
grocery clerk from Whittier.

1082
01:12:31,722 --> 01:12:34,392
[♪ Peggy Lee: Fever]

1083
01:12:40,856 --> 01:12:43,226
That's the last time I ever saw him.

1084
01:12:47,613 --> 01:12:52,833
See, when I saw Bobby
lying there on the floor,

1085
01:12:52,910 --> 01:12:56,660
arms stretched out like that,
his eyes staring...

1086
01:12:59,458 --> 01:13:02,038
...I knew then I'd be president.

1087
01:13:03,212 --> 01:13:06,712
His death paved the way, didn't it?

1088
01:13:06,799 --> 01:13:09,879
Yeah. Vietnam, the Kennedys

1089
01:13:09,968 --> 01:13:13,258
cleared a path
through the wilderness just for me.

1090
01:13:15,349 --> 01:13:17,309
Over the bodies.

1091
01:13:19,937 --> 01:13:21,647
Four bodies.

1092
01:13:28,821 --> 01:13:30,361
You mean two.

1093
01:13:31,698 --> 01:13:33,698
Two bodies.

1094
01:13:35,077 --> 01:13:38,117
- [thunder rumbling]
- Four.

1095
01:13:50,092 --> 01:13:52,932
How many did you have?

1096
01:13:53,011 --> 01:13:55,181
Hundreds of thousands?

1097
01:13:59,393 --> 01:14:02,353
Where would we be without death, huh?

1098
01:14:04,523 --> 01:14:06,113
Abe?

1099
01:14:11,864 --> 01:14:13,784
Who's helping us?

1100
01:14:14,992 --> 01:14:18,202
Is it God, or is it...

1101
01:14:19,788 --> 01:14:21,408
...death?

1102
01:14:44,897 --> 01:14:47,567
[coughing and retching]

1103
01:15:07,211 --> 01:15:09,001
[wheezing]

1104
01:15:14,968 --> 01:15:16,388
Harold.

1105
01:15:17,763 --> 01:15:19,763
Harold, why don't you sit down, huh?

1106
01:15:22,643 --> 01:15:24,023
Here.

1107
01:15:28,273 --> 01:15:29,943
That was a whopper.

1108
01:15:36,031 --> 01:15:38,161
You'll be able to do it now.

1109
01:15:39,535 --> 01:15:42,365
- What?
- Go to law school.

1110
01:15:42,454 --> 01:15:45,624
- Mom and Dad'll be able to afford it.
- Harold.

1111
01:15:46,708 --> 01:15:49,128
Mama expects great things from you.

1112
01:15:50,254 --> 01:15:53,134
Can I... Can I get you anything?

1113
01:15:56,260 --> 01:15:57,840
Relax, Dick.

1114
01:15:59,054 --> 01:16:01,184
It's just me, all right?

1115
01:16:07,104 --> 01:16:09,484
The desert's so beautiful, isn't it?

1116
01:16:15,946 --> 01:16:17,816
I want to go home, Dick.

1117
01:16:18,991 --> 01:16:20,911
Time to go home.

1118
01:16:22,327 --> 01:16:26,827
You... You're not gonna quit
on me now, are you, Harold?

1119
01:16:35,007 --> 01:16:38,007
[wheezing breaths]

1120
01:16:55,944 --> 01:16:58,614
[singing The Itsy-Bitsy Spider]

1121
01:17:13,670 --> 01:17:15,340
Richard.

1122
01:17:17,674 --> 01:17:21,014
- I can't.
- [Hannah] You must.

1123
01:17:22,220 --> 01:17:26,850
This law school,
it's a gift from thy brother.

1124
01:17:26,933 --> 01:17:30,193
He had to die for me to get it?

1125
01:17:34,066 --> 01:17:36,816
Something has to come of this.

1126
01:17:38,362 --> 01:17:41,452
It's meant to make us stronger.

1127
01:17:41,531 --> 01:17:45,331
Thee art stronger than Harold,
stronger than Arthur.

1128
01:17:45,410 --> 01:17:51,250
- God has chosen thee to survive.
- What about happiness, Mother?

1129
01:17:53,543 --> 01:17:57,513
Thee will find thy peace
at the center, Richard.

1130
01:17:57,589 --> 01:18:02,389
Strength in this life,
happiness in the next.

1131
01:18:20,779 --> 01:18:23,489
[applause]

1132
01:18:25,951 --> 01:18:29,291
[♪ Battle Hymn of the Republic]

1133
01:18:43,135 --> 01:18:45,465
[chuckling]

1134
01:18:50,475 --> 01:18:52,935
Now tell me you didn't want this, Buddy.

1135
01:19:01,653 --> 01:19:03,033
Hey!

1136
01:19:22,466 --> 01:19:25,926
When the strongest nation
in the world can be tied down

1137
01:19:26,011 --> 01:19:30,311
for four years in a war in Vietnam
with no end in sight,

1138
01:19:30,390 --> 01:19:34,730
when the richest nation in the world
can't manage its own economy,

1139
01:19:34,811 --> 01:19:38,271
when the nation with the greatest
tradition of the rule of law

1140
01:19:38,356 --> 01:19:41,606
is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness,

1141
01:19:41,693 --> 01:19:45,823
when a nation that has been known for
a century for equality of opportunity

1142
01:19:45,906 --> 01:19:49,406
is torn by unprecedented
racial violence,

1143
01:19:49,493 --> 01:19:53,043
when the president of the United States
cannot travel abroad

1144
01:19:53,121 --> 01:19:57,581
or to any major city at home without
fear of a hostile demonstration,

1145
01:19:57,667 --> 01:20:02,757
then it is time for new leadership
for the United States of America.

1146
01:20:05,550 --> 01:20:09,640
As we look at America, we see cities
enveloped in smoke and flame,

1147
01:20:09,721 --> 01:20:12,261
millions of Americans
crying out in anguish,

1148
01:20:12,349 --> 01:20:17,769
"Did we come all the way for this?
Did American boys die in Normandy

1149
01:20:17,854 --> 01:20:20,564
and Valley Forge for this?"

1150
01:20:20,649 --> 01:20:24,109
I pledge to you
that the current wave of violence

1151
01:20:24,194 --> 01:20:26,284
will not be the wave of the future.

1152
01:20:28,907 --> 01:20:32,697
Now let us begin
by committing ourselves to the truth,

1153
01:20:32,786 --> 01:20:36,826
to find the truth, to speak the truth
and to live the truth.

1154
01:20:36,915 --> 01:20:40,375
A new voice is being heard
across America today.

1155
01:20:40,460 --> 01:20:43,340
It is not the voice
of the protesters or the shouters.

1156
01:20:43,421 --> 01:20:47,591
It is the quiet voice of the majority
of Americans who've been forgotten,

1157
01:20:47,676 --> 01:20:51,006
the non-shouters,
the, uh, non-demonstrators.

1158
01:20:51,096 --> 01:20:56,056
They're the good people. They work hard
and they save and they pay their taxes.

1159
01:20:56,142 --> 01:20:58,562
Now, who are they?
Let me tell you who they are.

1160
01:20:58,645 --> 01:21:00,855
They're in this audience
by the thousands.

1161
01:21:00,939 --> 01:21:03,479
They're the white Americans
and black Americans,

1162
01:21:03,567 --> 01:21:06,187
Mexican Americans
and Italian Americans.

1163
01:21:06,278 --> 01:21:08,568
They're the great silent majority,

1164
01:21:08,655 --> 01:21:12,065
and they have become angry, finally.
Angry, not with hate,

1165
01:21:12,158 --> 01:21:14,828
but angry, my friends,
because they love America

1166
01:21:14,911 --> 01:21:19,121
and they don't like what's happened
to America these last four years.

1167
01:21:19,207 --> 01:21:24,497
Let us understand North Vietnam cannot
defeat or humiliate the United States.

1168
01:21:24,588 --> 01:21:26,668
Only Americans can do that!

1169
01:21:30,051 --> 01:21:31,891
I say to you tonight...

1170
01:21:31,970 --> 01:21:35,970
I say to you tonight we must have
a new feeling of responsibility,

1171
01:21:36,057 --> 01:21:40,347
of self-discipline. We must look
to renew state and local government.

1172
01:21:40,437 --> 01:21:45,477
We must have a complete reform
of a big, bloated federal government.

1173
01:21:45,567 --> 01:21:47,687
Those of us in public service know

1174
01:21:47,777 --> 01:21:50,697
we can have full prosperity
in peacetime.

1175
01:21:50,780 --> 01:21:52,910
Yes, we can cut the defense budget.

1176
01:21:52,991 --> 01:21:55,911
We can reduce, uh,
conventional forces in Europe.

1177
01:21:55,994 --> 01:21:58,084
We can restore the natural environment.

1178
01:21:58,163 --> 01:22:01,333
We can improve health care,
make it more available to all people.

1179
01:22:01,416 --> 01:22:04,916
And yes, we can have a complete reform
of this government.

1180
01:22:05,003 --> 01:22:08,343
We can have a new American revolution!

1181
01:22:08,423 --> 01:22:10,763
[cheering]

1182
01:22:21,353 --> 01:22:24,903
[chanting] The whole world is watching!
The whole world is watching!

1183
01:22:33,990 --> 01:22:35,950
It'd be a disaster.

1184
01:22:36,034 --> 01:22:39,244
There's a lot of sympathy
out there for Cambodia.

1185
01:22:39,329 --> 01:22:42,409
Tiny, little, neutral Buddhist country.

1186
01:22:42,499 --> 01:22:45,709
They'll be rioting in the streets,
on your front lawn!

1187
01:22:45,794 --> 01:22:50,304
Building the Cambodian army up? That
would be harder than a Vietnamese Army.

1188
01:22:50,382 --> 01:22:55,392
They have no tradition. Mr. President,
the government there will collapse.

1189
01:22:55,470 --> 01:22:58,720
- So you're saying do nothing.
- No, sir, continue the bombing.

1190
01:22:58,807 --> 01:23:01,637
The same old horseshit.
Well, that's not good enough.

1191
01:23:01,726 --> 01:23:04,266
I'm sick of being pushed around
by the Vietnamese

1192
01:23:04,354 --> 01:23:08,324
like we're some, uh,
you know, pitiful giant.

1193
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:11,280
They're using our POWs
to humiliate us.

1194
01:23:11,361 --> 01:23:14,201
What we need now
is a bold move into Cambodia

1195
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:17,620
and go right after their
VC base camps

1196
01:23:17,701 --> 01:23:21,791
and, uh... make 'em scream,
hit 'em in the ass.

1197
01:23:21,871 --> 01:23:25,171
- What do you think, Henry?
- Well, as you know,

1198
01:23:25,250 --> 01:23:28,670
most of my staff have weighed in
against this incursion.

1199
01:23:28,753 --> 01:23:33,673
They believe it will fail to achieve
anything fundamental militarily

1200
01:23:33,758 --> 01:23:37,088
and will result
in crushing criticism domestically.

1201
01:23:37,178 --> 01:23:41,018
I didn't ask what your staff thinks.
What do you think, Henry?

1202
01:23:41,099 --> 01:23:43,769
What I think is they're cowards.

1203
01:23:43,852 --> 01:23:47,402
Their opposition
represents the cowardice

1204
01:23:47,480 --> 01:23:51,900
of the eastern establishment.
They don't realize, as you do, sir,

1205
01:23:51,985 --> 01:23:54,525
that the Communists
only respect strength

1206
01:23:54,612 --> 01:23:56,992
and they will only negotiate
in good faith

1207
01:23:57,073 --> 01:23:59,873
if they fear the mad man, Richard Nixon.

1208
01:23:59,951 --> 01:24:03,661
Exactly!
Unpredictability is our best asset.

1209
01:24:03,747 --> 01:24:07,457
We gotta take the war to 'em, hit 'em
where it hurts, right in the nuts.

1210
01:24:07,542 --> 01:24:11,842
- More assassinations. Right, Al?
- That's what they're doing.

1211
01:24:11,921 --> 01:24:15,631
See, your people in the State
Department, Bill, they don't understand.

1212
01:24:15,717 --> 01:24:18,547
- Mr. President...
- Electrify people with bold moves.

1213
01:24:18,636 --> 01:24:23,136
Bold moves make history.
Like, uh... Teddy Roosevelt, TR,

1214
01:24:23,224 --> 01:24:27,194
rushing up San Juan Hill.
Small event, but dramatic.

1215
01:24:27,270 --> 01:24:30,310
- People took notice.
- They'll take notice, all right.

1216
01:24:30,398 --> 01:24:35,398
If we sneak out of this war,
another will start a mile down the road.

1217
01:24:35,487 --> 01:24:39,237
We bite the bullet here in Cambodia.
There.

1218
01:24:40,075 --> 01:24:42,115
We bomb the hell out of these people.

1219
01:24:43,828 --> 01:24:46,538
[whistling descents]

1220
01:24:46,623 --> 01:24:49,503
[Nixon] Tonight, American
and South Vietnamese units

1221
01:24:49,584 --> 01:24:51,344
will attack the headquarters

1222
01:24:51,419 --> 01:24:55,509
for the entire Communist military
operation in South Vietnam.

1223
01:24:55,590 --> 01:24:58,760
This is not an invasion of Cambodia.

1224
01:24:58,843 --> 01:25:03,933
We take this action not for the purpose
of expanding the war into Cambodia,

1225
01:25:04,015 --> 01:25:07,345
but for the purpose
of ending the war in Vietnam.

1226
01:25:10,855 --> 01:25:12,145
[people screaming]

1227
01:25:12,232 --> 01:25:13,822
[man] All across the nation,

1228
01:25:13,900 --> 01:25:16,610
major student protests
against the U.S. invasion

1229
01:25:16,694 --> 01:25:19,454
of Cambodia rocked college campuses.

1230
01:25:19,531 --> 01:25:23,201
At Jackson State, two Negro students
were killed and ten were wounded.

1231
01:25:23,284 --> 01:25:26,754
- ...unanimously and united behind...
- [man 2] In the streets of New York,

1232
01:25:26,830 --> 01:25:29,370
protesters were attacked
by construction workers

1233
01:25:29,457 --> 01:25:32,667
supporting President Nixon's policies.

1234
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:37,300
[man 3] In Washington, protesters
have barricaded the White House

1235
01:25:37,382 --> 01:25:39,422
and are camping out
at the Lincoln Memorial.

1236
01:25:42,804 --> 01:25:45,684
[chanting]

1237
01:25:51,020 --> 01:25:55,070
[Nixon] See, when I think of those kids
out there in Vietnam doing their duty,

1238
01:25:55,150 --> 01:25:58,240
uh, I bet they were scared.
I was when I was there.

1239
01:25:58,695 --> 01:26:00,195
But when it comes down to it,

1240
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:04,410
you really have to look up to these men
because they're the greatest.

1241
01:26:09,414 --> 01:26:11,254
I mean, you see these bums, you know,

1242
01:26:11,332 --> 01:26:14,842
blowing up the campuses,
burning books and so forth.

1243
01:26:14,919 --> 01:26:18,009
And they call themselves
"flower children."

1244
01:26:18,089 --> 01:26:21,839
I call them spoiled rotten.
And I tell you what would cure them.

1245
01:26:21,926 --> 01:26:26,306
A good, old-fashioned trip to my Ohio
father's woodshed. Right, Julie?

1246
01:26:26,389 --> 01:26:29,139
- Right, Dad.
- That's what these bums need.

1247
01:26:29,225 --> 01:26:32,345
- Well, thanks and congratulations.
- Thank you, sir.

1248
01:26:32,437 --> 01:26:35,437
Yeah. OK. Thanks, everybody. Bye.

1249
01:26:36,524 --> 01:26:38,734
[chanting] The whole world is watching.

1250
01:26:46,326 --> 01:26:48,196
[gunfire]

1251
01:26:48,286 --> 01:26:50,286
- [siren blaring]
- [shouting]

1252
01:26:51,414 --> 01:26:53,754
[woman wailing]

1253
01:26:56,669 --> 01:27:00,709
[man 3] Less than 24 hours after
President Nixon called them bums,

1254
01:27:00,798 --> 01:27:04,718
four students were shot dead
at Kent State University in Ohio.

1255
01:27:04,802 --> 01:27:07,722
Enraged student groups are calling

1256
01:27:07,805 --> 01:27:10,215
for a general strike
tomorrow to shut down...

1257
01:27:10,308 --> 01:27:14,518
I tell you, the soldiers were provoked.
Now, stop this pussyfooting around.

1258
01:27:14,604 --> 01:27:16,154
Jesus Christ, dead kids.

1259
01:27:16,231 --> 01:27:19,231
How the hell did we give the Democrats
a weapon like this?

1260
01:27:19,317 --> 01:27:22,487
Well, one way or the other,
Kent State is not good.

1261
01:27:22,570 --> 01:27:25,700
- We have to get out in front of this.
- Follow the money.

1262
01:27:25,782 --> 01:27:29,242
- Sir?
- These kids are manipulated

1263
01:27:29,327 --> 01:27:32,287
by the Communists,
like Chambers and Hiss.

1264
01:27:32,372 --> 01:27:33,872
What's the matter with you?

1265
01:27:33,957 --> 01:27:38,087
- This isn't '48. They'll never buy it.
- How do you know that, John?

1266
01:27:38,169 --> 01:27:40,089
What's Hoover found,
for God's sake?

1267
01:27:40,171 --> 01:27:44,471
He called the other day, sir.
He asked for President Harding.

1268
01:27:45,176 --> 01:27:48,756
- We can have a national prayer day.
- Never complain, never explain.

1269
01:27:48,846 --> 01:27:52,806
Come on, these
are not fraternity pranks, John.

1270
01:27:52,892 --> 01:27:55,062
No, this is anarchy.
It's a revolution.

1271
01:27:55,144 --> 01:27:58,154
- I wouldn't go that far, sir.
- Why not?

1272
01:27:59,357 --> 01:28:03,647
Well, is it worth it, sir? I mean,
is the war worth a one-term presidency?

1273
01:28:03,736 --> 01:28:06,106
Right now I think
that's what we're looking at.

1274
01:28:06,197 --> 01:28:09,407
I will not go down as the first
American president to lose a war.

1275
01:28:09,492 --> 01:28:12,452
Going to Cambodia, bombing Hanoi,
bombing Laos buys us time

1276
01:28:12,537 --> 01:28:15,367
so we can get out and give
the South Vietnamese a chance.

1277
01:28:15,456 --> 01:28:19,286
- Exactly, sir.
- If we keep our heads, we'll win this.

1278
01:28:19,377 --> 01:28:21,877
- What, win Vietnam, sir?
- No, no.

1279
01:28:22,839 --> 01:28:27,129
No, but we can drive a stake through
the heart of the Communist alliance.

1280
01:28:27,218 --> 01:28:30,428
Henry's getting strong signals
from the Chinese.

1281
01:28:30,513 --> 01:28:33,103
They fear the Vietnamese
more than the Russians

1282
01:28:33,182 --> 01:28:36,102
and they're worried
about a united Vietnam.

1283
01:28:36,185 --> 01:28:39,345
Now, if we stick it out,
we'll end up negotiating separately

1284
01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:42,149
with both the Chinese and the Soviets.

1285
01:28:42,233 --> 01:28:45,493
And we'll get better deals
than we ever dreamed of from both.

1286
01:28:45,570 --> 01:28:51,070
- That is triangular diplomacy.
- [Kissinger] Exactly, Mr. President.

1287
01:28:51,159 --> 01:28:54,159
That's what geopolitics is about.

1288
01:28:54,245 --> 01:28:57,825
The linking of the whole world
for self-interest.

1289
01:28:57,915 --> 01:29:00,745
You tell me, Ron,
how the hell I can explain that on TV

1290
01:29:00,835 --> 01:29:04,085
to a bunch of simpleminded reporters
and, uh, weeping mothers.

1291
01:29:04,172 --> 01:29:05,962
[Ron] But what am I telling the press

1292
01:29:06,049 --> 01:29:08,589
- about Kent State?
- Tell 'em what the hell you like.

1293
01:29:08,676 --> 01:29:11,796
- They don't understand anyway.
- Excuse me, sir.

1294
01:29:13,097 --> 01:29:16,017
Are you saying you're
gonna recognize Red China?

1295
01:29:16,100 --> 01:29:18,810
That would cost us
our strongest support.

1296
01:29:18,895 --> 01:29:21,685
No, I can do this because
I spent my whole career

1297
01:29:21,773 --> 01:29:25,533
- building anti-Communist credentials.
- If Kennedy or Johnson tried it,

1298
01:29:25,610 --> 01:29:28,070
they'd have crucified them,
and rightfully so.

1299
01:29:28,154 --> 01:29:32,244
Damned risky, Mr. President.
Why don't we wait until the second term?

1300
01:29:32,325 --> 01:29:35,535
- This will get us a second term.
- This will get me a second term.

1301
01:29:35,620 --> 01:29:39,410
Damn it, without risk, there's
no heroism, there's no history.

1302
01:29:39,499 --> 01:29:42,209
Nixon was born to do this.
Give history a nudge.

1303
01:29:42,293 --> 01:29:43,843
- Come on!
- Hear, hear.

1304
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:48,130
If Cambodia doesn't work,
we'll bomb Hanoi if we have to.

1305
01:29:48,216 --> 01:29:51,756
That's right.
And if necessary, I'll drop the big one.

1306
01:29:55,515 --> 01:29:58,175
We have to entertain the possibility.

1307
01:30:03,648 --> 01:30:06,358
Goddamn it! Who cooked this damn steak?

1308
01:30:06,442 --> 01:30:09,282
Manolo, there's blood all over my plate.
Take it away.

1309
01:30:09,362 --> 01:30:10,992
I'm sorry, sir.

1310
01:30:23,876 --> 01:30:25,536
You all right?

1311
01:30:26,671 --> 01:30:28,171
Yeah.

1312
01:30:29,549 --> 01:30:33,549
My brother, Harold,
was the same age as those kids, John.

1313
01:30:33,636 --> 01:30:38,096
- Tuberculosis got him.
- It wasn't your fault.

1314
01:30:38,182 --> 01:30:42,102
The soldiers were kids too.
They just panicked.

1315
01:30:42,186 --> 01:30:43,346
Yeah.

1316
01:30:44,772 --> 01:30:48,112
They were throwing rocks,
John, just rocks.

1317
01:30:51,028 --> 01:30:53,028
They don't think I feel,

1318
01:30:53,114 --> 01:30:56,124
but I feel too much sometimes.

1319
01:30:57,118 --> 01:31:01,158
I just can't let a whole policy
be dominated by our sentimentality.

1320
01:31:01,247 --> 01:31:05,127
You're doing the right thing.
Don't let 'em shake you.

1321
01:31:07,211 --> 01:31:10,381
You know, it broke my heart
when Harold died.

1322
01:31:10,465 --> 01:31:13,255
That was a long time ago.

1323
01:31:14,552 --> 01:31:16,262
Yeah.

1324
01:31:16,345 --> 01:31:19,465
I think that's when it starts,
when you're a kid.

1325
01:31:19,557 --> 01:31:23,387
The laughs and snubs
and slights you get

1326
01:31:23,478 --> 01:31:26,808
because you're poor or Irish

1327
01:31:26,898 --> 01:31:30,478
or Jewish or just ugly.

1328
01:31:31,694 --> 01:31:35,074
Get off that. That leads nowhere.

1329
01:31:36,032 --> 01:31:40,292
But you should offer condolences
to the families of those kids.

1330
01:31:40,369 --> 01:31:41,749
Sure.

1331
01:31:43,039 --> 01:31:46,829
I'd like to.
I'd like to offer my condolences.

1332
01:31:49,754 --> 01:31:51,714
But Nixon can't.

1333
01:32:06,437 --> 01:32:09,187
[man] Enraged student groups
across the country

1334
01:32:09,273 --> 01:32:11,363
are calling for
a general strike tomorrow

1335
01:32:11,442 --> 01:32:15,822
to shut down the entire university
system until the Vietnam War is ended.

1336
01:32:15,905 --> 01:32:18,485
Oh, this is nothing
compared to Venezuela.

1337
01:32:18,574 --> 01:32:22,454
When I was vice president, Ike sent me
down there like a blocking tackle.

1338
01:32:22,537 --> 01:32:25,457
They threw rocks, broke out windows.

1339
01:32:25,540 --> 01:32:28,630
Almost overturned the car.
Read Six Crises, Bob.

1340
01:32:28,709 --> 01:32:31,089
- I did, sir.
- Pat was brave.

1341
01:32:35,591 --> 01:32:39,391
Jesus, they're serious.
Why are we stopping? Come on, move it!

1342
01:32:44,767 --> 01:32:47,887
- Jesus!
- Get that little punk!

1343
01:32:47,979 --> 01:32:49,849
Tackle! Go on, get him!

1344
01:32:49,939 --> 01:32:51,059
Yeah!

1345
01:32:51,148 --> 01:32:53,148
[indistinct shouting]

1346
01:32:53,693 --> 01:32:56,823
Yeah. Reminds me
of my days at Whittier.

1347
01:32:56,904 --> 01:32:59,574
- These kids are useless.
- Probably flunking.

1348
01:32:59,657 --> 01:33:02,367
Nothing to do except come here
and chase girls.

1349
01:33:03,160 --> 01:33:06,910
Their parents' fault.
They're poisoning the upper class, Bob.

1350
01:33:06,998 --> 01:33:10,578
- Too soft, too many cars, color TVs.
- Don't forget the South, the West.

1351
01:33:10,668 --> 01:33:13,378
Good football colleges.
More with than against you.

1352
01:33:13,462 --> 01:33:17,012
Let's not forget they're just kids.
They don't vote.

1353
01:33:17,091 --> 01:33:19,801
This is the fall of the Roman Empire.
Are you blind?

1354
01:33:19,885 --> 01:33:22,255
We're putting the fig leaves
on the statues.

1355
01:33:33,149 --> 01:33:35,029
Mr. President.

1356
01:33:35,109 --> 01:33:37,649
- Bob.
- I don't know what to say, sir.

1357
01:33:37,737 --> 01:33:41,027
Soon as we learned from the Secret
Service that you were en route,

1358
01:33:41,115 --> 01:33:43,525
the director was notified.
He should be here.

1359
01:33:43,618 --> 01:33:47,908
- So where the hell is he?
- Rushing back from his tennis game.

1360
01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:50,870
- So let's go.
- Told me to take you

1361
01:33:50,958 --> 01:33:53,168
- to his conference room.
- No, his office.

1362
01:33:53,252 --> 01:33:56,552
I want a private conversation with him.
I don't wanna be bugged.

1363
01:33:56,631 --> 01:33:58,421
- Then his office will be fine.
- OK.

1364
01:34:07,308 --> 01:34:08,638
All right.

1365
01:34:10,561 --> 01:34:14,231
- How's the job going, Bob?
- Frankly, it stinks, sir.

1366
01:34:14,315 --> 01:34:16,225
I have no access.

1367
01:34:17,526 --> 01:34:21,196
- We'll see to that.
- [sighs] He's nervous, sir.

1368
01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:24,120
He's heard you're looking
for a new director.

1369
01:34:24,200 --> 01:34:27,660
- Certainly isn't acting like it.
- That's Helms.

1370
01:34:27,745 --> 01:34:32,665
He's the epitome of sang-froid.
A world-class poker player.

1371
01:34:32,750 --> 01:34:35,460
Yeah? Well, I own the fucking casino.

1372
01:34:42,218 --> 01:34:46,388
I'm honored, Dick,
that you've come all the way out here

1373
01:34:46,472 --> 01:34:49,102
to Virginia to visit us at last.

1374
01:34:51,394 --> 01:34:54,484
- My friends call me Mr. President.
- Then so shall I.

1375
01:34:54,563 --> 01:34:57,943
- Mr. Helms.
- Arrange for some coffee,

1376
01:34:58,025 --> 01:34:59,855
will you, General Cushman?

1377
01:35:02,279 --> 01:35:03,819
Gentleman, please.

1378
01:35:06,242 --> 01:35:08,582
[doors closing]

1379
01:35:10,454 --> 01:35:14,794
Bob Cushman is a lieutenant general
in the Marine Corps,

1380
01:35:14,875 --> 01:35:18,545
deputy director of the CIA.

1381
01:35:18,629 --> 01:35:23,169
- This is what you use him for?
- I didn't choose him as my deputy.

1382
01:35:23,259 --> 01:35:27,969
- You did.
- You live pretty well out here.

1383
01:35:28,055 --> 01:35:31,555
I understand why you keep
your budgets classified.

1384
01:35:32,852 --> 01:35:35,732
I suppose you're unhappy...

1385
01:35:37,189 --> 01:35:41,649
...because I haven't implemented
your domestic intelligence plan.

1386
01:35:41,736 --> 01:35:43,316
Yeah, you're correct.

1387
01:35:43,404 --> 01:35:46,914
I'm concerned these students
are being funded by foreign interests

1388
01:35:46,991 --> 01:35:50,911
whether they know it or not.
The FBI's useless in this area.

1389
01:35:50,995 --> 01:35:53,405
I want your full attention
on this matter.

1390
01:35:53,497 --> 01:35:56,207
We've tried, but so far
we've come up with nothing.

1391
01:35:56,292 --> 01:35:59,382
Then find something!
I want these leaks stopped.

1392
01:35:59,462 --> 01:36:03,262
Jack Anderson, The New York Times,
the State Department.

1393
01:36:03,340 --> 01:36:06,340
- I wanna know who's talking.
- I'm sure you realize

1394
01:36:06,427 --> 01:36:08,677
that this is a tricky area,

1395
01:36:08,763 --> 01:36:12,393
given our charter and
the Congressional oversight committee.

1396
01:36:12,475 --> 01:36:16,265
Screw congressional oversight.
I know damn well, going back to the '50s

1397
01:36:16,353 --> 01:36:20,153
this agency reports what it wants
and buries what it wants.

1398
01:36:20,232 --> 01:36:25,242
- Pay close attention to this.
- Is something else bothering you?

1399
01:36:25,321 --> 01:36:26,911
Yes.

1400
01:36:26,989 --> 01:36:29,619
It involves some old
and forgotten papers...

1401
01:36:30,826 --> 01:36:33,036
...things I signed as vice president.

1402
01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:38,250
I want the original in my office
and I don't want copies anywhere else.

1403
01:36:39,460 --> 01:36:42,130
You're referring, I believe,

1404
01:36:42,213 --> 01:36:45,553
to chairing
the special operations group

1405
01:36:45,633 --> 01:36:48,473
- as vice president.
- Yeah.

1406
01:36:49,804 --> 01:36:52,604
As you know, that was unique.

1407
01:36:54,350 --> 01:36:59,100
Not an operation so much
as an organic phenomenon.

1408
01:36:59,188 --> 01:37:03,528
It grew, it changed shape,

1409
01:37:03,609 --> 01:37:07,319
it developed appetites.

1410
01:37:08,614 --> 01:37:13,624
It's not unusual in such cases
that things aren't committed to paper.

1411
01:37:14,620 --> 01:37:16,540
That could be very embarrassing.

1412
01:37:17,748 --> 01:37:22,288
I, for one, saw to it that my name was
never connected with these operations.

1413
01:37:23,254 --> 01:37:24,344
Diem.

1414
01:37:24,421 --> 01:37:26,461
[gunfire]

1415
01:37:28,384 --> 01:37:29,974
Trujillo.

1416
01:37:30,052 --> 01:37:31,342
Lumumba.

1417
01:37:31,428 --> 01:37:32,638
Guatemala.

1418
01:37:35,015 --> 01:37:37,135
- Iran.
- [sirens blaring]

1419
01:37:37,685 --> 01:37:38,805
Cuba.

1420
01:37:47,152 --> 01:37:51,412
It's a shame you didn't
take similar precautions, Dick.

1421
01:37:56,954 --> 01:38:00,924
I'm interested in those documents
that put your people together

1422
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:03,460
with the gangster elements.

1423
01:38:04,795 --> 01:38:07,835
- All the documents.
- President Kennedy threatened

1424
01:38:07,923 --> 01:38:11,183
to smash the CIA into 1,000 pieces.

1425
01:38:11,260 --> 01:38:13,300
You could do the same.

1426
01:38:15,431 --> 01:38:17,561
I'm not Jack Kennedy. Uh...

1427
01:38:17,641 --> 01:38:22,441
- Your agency is secure.
- Not if I give you all the cards.

1428
01:38:23,647 --> 01:38:25,647
[sighs]

1429
01:38:28,319 --> 01:38:32,659
I promised the American people
peace with honor in Southeast Asia.

1430
01:38:34,116 --> 01:38:38,236
That may take time.
Two, maybe three years.

1431
01:38:38,329 --> 01:38:41,959
But, in the meantime,
your agency will continue

1432
01:38:42,041 --> 01:38:44,501
at current levels of funding.

1433
01:38:46,003 --> 01:38:49,093
Current levels may not be sufficient.

1434
01:38:49,173 --> 01:38:54,093
Well, the president will support
a reasonable request for an increase.

1435
01:38:54,178 --> 01:38:55,888
And me?

1436
01:38:57,389 --> 01:39:00,809
Of course,
you will continue as DCI, Dick.

1437
01:39:01,852 --> 01:39:03,812
You're doing a magnificent job.

1438
01:39:06,148 --> 01:39:08,728
Of course, I accept. I'm flattered.

1439
01:39:10,069 --> 01:39:15,199
And I want you to know that
I serve only one president at a time.

1440
01:39:15,282 --> 01:39:20,372
Yes. And you'll give
General Cushman full access.

1441
01:39:21,956 --> 01:39:24,116
[deep breath]

1442
01:39:24,208 --> 01:39:26,878
It could take a little time.

1443
01:39:26,961 --> 01:39:29,671
But I'll order a search
for your papers.

1444
01:39:29,755 --> 01:39:32,585
- Good.
- It does raise...

1445
01:39:32,675 --> 01:39:35,885
- ...a troubling issue.
- What?

1446
01:39:35,970 --> 01:39:38,300
Castro.

1447
01:39:39,556 --> 01:39:43,346
- Yes?
- We have recent intelligence

1448
01:39:43,435 --> 01:39:46,435
that a Soviet nuclear submarine

1449
01:39:46,522 --> 01:39:51,942
- has docked at Cienfuegos.
- We'll launch a formal protest.

1450
01:39:52,027 --> 01:39:56,237
I don't think we can treat this
as a formality.

1451
01:39:57,783 --> 01:40:02,833
Mr. Kennedy gave the Russians a verbal
promise that he would not invade Cuba.

1452
01:40:02,913 --> 01:40:06,963
But you authorized Dr. Kissinger
to put this in writing?

1453
01:40:10,004 --> 01:40:14,174
- Are you tapping Kissinger?
- My job, unpleasant at times,

1454
01:40:14,258 --> 01:40:16,588
is to know what others
don't want me to know.

1455
01:40:16,677 --> 01:40:20,137
Not if you have spies
in the White House.

1456
01:40:20,222 --> 01:40:23,352
It is not my practice
to spy on the president.

1457
01:40:23,434 --> 01:40:27,154
Dr. Kissinger manages to convey his
innermost secrets to the world

1458
01:40:27,229 --> 01:40:29,059
without my help.

1459
01:40:30,357 --> 01:40:32,187
Dick...

1460
01:40:32,276 --> 01:40:35,986
We've lived with communism in Cuba
for ten years.

1461
01:40:36,071 --> 01:40:39,701
But it's never been the policy
of this government to accept that.

1462
01:40:39,783 --> 01:40:44,043
- And it's certainly not CIA policy.
- CIA policy?

1463
01:40:44,121 --> 01:40:48,331
The CIA has no policy
except what I dictate to you.

1464
01:40:50,919 --> 01:40:55,509
I tried to, uh, adjust to the world
as it is today,

1465
01:40:55,591 --> 01:40:59,181
not as you or I wanted it
to be ten years ago.

1466
01:40:59,261 --> 01:41:02,971
Is that why you and Kissinger
are negotiating with the Chinese?

1467
01:41:04,308 --> 01:41:08,438
This is a very dangerous direction,
Mr. President.

1468
01:41:08,520 --> 01:41:12,690
Terrible consequences can result
from such enormous errors of judgment.

1469
01:41:14,693 --> 01:41:18,573
If we were able to separate
China from Russia once and for all,

1470
01:41:18,655 --> 01:41:21,195
we can, we could create
a balance of power

1471
01:41:21,283 --> 01:41:23,913
that would secure peace
into the next century.

1472
01:41:23,994 --> 01:41:27,414
And offer Cuba to the Russians
as a consolation prize?

1473
01:41:29,541 --> 01:41:35,251
- Cuba would be a small price to pay.
- So President Kennedy thought.

1474
01:41:39,676 --> 01:41:44,176
I never thought Kennedy
was ready for the presidency.

1475
01:41:48,644 --> 01:41:50,604
Well, now...

1476
01:41:50,687 --> 01:41:53,357
...I would never, uh...

1477
01:41:53,440 --> 01:41:56,150
...never consider...

1478
01:41:57,694 --> 01:41:59,784
His death was awful.

1479
01:42:00,906 --> 01:42:03,366
It was an awful thing
for this country.

1480
01:42:05,661 --> 01:42:07,041
Yeah.

1481
01:42:09,665 --> 01:42:12,285
Do you ever think of death, Dick?

1482
01:42:13,710 --> 01:42:17,590
Flowers are a continual reminder
of our mortality.

1483
01:42:18,590 --> 01:42:21,720
- Do you appreciate flowers?
- No.

1484
01:42:23,345 --> 01:42:26,595
No, they make me sick
and they smell like death.

1485
01:42:28,725 --> 01:42:31,055
I had two brothers die young.

1486
01:42:32,896 --> 01:42:34,856
Let me tell you,

1487
01:42:34,940 --> 01:42:37,480
there are worse things than death.

1488
01:42:37,568 --> 01:42:39,028
Yes.

1489
01:42:42,030 --> 01:42:44,780
There's such a thing as evil.

1490
01:42:47,244 --> 01:42:51,664
You must be familiar
with my favorite poem by Yeats,

1491
01:42:51,748 --> 01:42:53,748
The Second Coming.

1492
01:42:56,420 --> 01:42:58,840
Black Irish, very moving.

1493
01:43:01,425 --> 01:43:06,175
Turning and turning
in the widening gyre

1494
01:43:06,263 --> 01:43:10,353
The falcon cannot hear the falconer

1495
01:43:10,434 --> 01:43:13,444
Things fall apart

1496
01:43:13,520 --> 01:43:17,320
The center cannot hold

1497
01:43:17,399 --> 01:43:21,779
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

1498
01:43:21,862 --> 01:43:26,912
And everywhere, the ceremony
of innocence is lost

1499
01:43:26,992 --> 01:43:31,252
The best lack all conviction

1500
01:43:31,330 --> 01:43:37,290
And the worst are full
of passionate intensity

1501
01:43:39,796 --> 01:43:42,626
But it ends so beautifully ominous.

1502
01:43:44,343 --> 01:43:47,223
What rough beast

1503
01:43:47,304 --> 01:43:51,274
Its hour come round at last

1504
01:43:51,350 --> 01:43:56,350
Slouches toward Bethlehem
to be born?

1505
01:43:58,690 --> 01:44:00,230
Yes.

1506
01:44:01,485 --> 01:44:05,105
This country stands at such a juncture.

1507
01:44:10,577 --> 01:44:12,157
Manolo?

1508
01:44:16,166 --> 01:44:17,576
Mano?

1509
01:44:17,668 --> 01:44:20,378
- [Manolo] Mr. President.
- Yeah.

1510
01:44:20,462 --> 01:44:23,922
I'm sorry. I was asleep.

1511
01:44:25,175 --> 01:44:26,925
What can I get you?

1512
01:44:28,345 --> 01:44:31,005
- Well, you know.
- Of course.

1513
01:44:45,404 --> 01:44:48,284
Do you miss Cuba, Manolo?

1514
01:44:49,408 --> 01:44:51,368
Yes, Mr. President.

1515
01:44:56,540 --> 01:45:00,960
We let you down, didn't we?
Your people.

1516
01:45:01,044 --> 01:45:04,094
That was Mr. Kennedy, sir.

1517
01:45:10,387 --> 01:45:13,307
You don't think he was a hero, do you?

1518
01:45:15,392 --> 01:45:18,232
He was a politician.

1519
01:45:27,988 --> 01:45:30,198
Did you cry when he died?

1520
01:45:34,453 --> 01:45:35,953
Yes, sir.

1521
01:45:37,539 --> 01:45:38,909
Why?

1522
01:45:40,334 --> 01:45:42,674
I don't know.

1523
01:45:44,004 --> 01:45:47,594
He made me...

1524
01:45:47,674 --> 01:45:50,264
...see the stars.

1525
01:45:57,142 --> 01:45:59,442
How did he do that?

1526
01:46:01,772 --> 01:46:03,482
Those kids.

1527
01:46:05,484 --> 01:46:09,034
Why do they hate me so much?

1528
01:46:37,641 --> 01:46:40,181
[helicopter buzzing overhead]

1529
01:47:00,497 --> 01:47:03,537
[choir singing
Battle Hymn of the Republic]

1530
01:47:32,529 --> 01:47:35,199
[students murmuring]

1531
01:47:47,461 --> 01:47:50,461
Hi, I'm Dick Nixon.

1532
01:47:50,547 --> 01:47:52,257
Hi, there.

1533
01:47:54,009 --> 01:47:55,969
- Where you from?
- Syracuse.

1534
01:47:56,052 --> 01:47:59,432
Oh, yeah, the, uh, Orangemen.

1535
01:47:59,514 --> 01:48:02,104
Now, there's a football program.

1536
01:48:02,184 --> 01:48:06,404
Jim Brown and that other tailback,

1537
01:48:06,480 --> 01:48:09,610
- the one with the blood disease.
- Ernie Davis.

1538
01:48:09,691 --> 01:48:11,691
Yeah, right, right, right.

1539
01:48:11,943 --> 01:48:15,653
I used to play a little ball myself
at Whittier.

1540
01:48:15,739 --> 01:48:20,829
Of course, they used
to use me as a tackling dummy.

1541
01:48:20,911 --> 01:48:23,371
We didn't come here
to talk about football.

1542
01:48:25,832 --> 01:48:27,632
Yeah, I understand that.

1543
01:48:28,960 --> 01:48:32,590
- How old are you, young lady?
- Nineteen.

1544
01:48:33,298 --> 01:48:34,588
Yeah.

1545
01:48:35,509 --> 01:48:40,179
Well, probably most of you think
I'm a real SOB. I know that.

1546
01:48:40,263 --> 01:48:42,853
I understand how you feel.
But, you know,

1547
01:48:42,933 --> 01:48:45,643
I want peace too.
But peace with honor.

1548
01:48:45,727 --> 01:48:48,017
- What does that mean?
- Bullshit.

1549
01:48:48,104 --> 01:48:51,694
Well, you can't have peace
without a price.

1550
01:48:51,775 --> 01:48:55,435
Sometimes you have to be
willing to fight for peace,

1551
01:48:55,529 --> 01:48:57,529
and sometimes to die.

1552
01:48:57,614 --> 01:49:01,374
Yeah? Tell that to the GIs who are
gonna die tomorrow in Vietnam.

1553
01:49:01,451 --> 01:49:05,041
- What lets you kill women and children?
- What you have to understand

1554
01:49:05,121 --> 01:49:08,041
is we're willing to die
for what we believe in.

1555
01:49:08,124 --> 01:49:10,134
- That's the truth.
- Yeah.

1556
01:49:10,210 --> 01:49:11,630
Yeah.

1557
01:49:13,755 --> 01:49:17,545
Look, that man up there,
he lived in similar times.

1558
01:49:17,634 --> 01:49:21,974
Oh, he had chaos, civil war,
hatred between the races.

1559
01:49:22,055 --> 01:49:26,385
- [man] This is all bullshit.
- Sometimes I go to the Lincoln Room

1560
01:49:26,476 --> 01:49:29,936
at the White House and just pray.
But, you know,

1561
01:49:30,021 --> 01:49:34,231
liberals act like idealism
belongs to them.

1562
01:49:34,317 --> 01:49:36,737
That's not true.

1563
01:49:36,820 --> 01:49:42,660
My family went Republican
because Lincoln freed the slaves.

1564
01:49:42,742 --> 01:49:44,952
My grandmother was an abolitionist.

1565
01:49:45,036 --> 01:49:49,156
It was Quakers who founded Whittier,
my hometown...

1566
01:49:49,249 --> 01:49:52,079
- [woman] Address the issues.
- ...to abolish slavery.

1567
01:49:52,168 --> 01:49:55,248
They were, you know,
conservative Bible folk,

1568
01:49:55,338 --> 01:49:59,298
but they had a powerful sense
of right and wrong.

1569
01:49:59,384 --> 01:50:02,764
Forty years ago,
[chuckles] I was like you.

1570
01:50:02,846 --> 01:50:07,426
- Looking for answers. See?
- Come on.

1571
01:50:07,517 --> 01:50:09,437
[man 2] Tricky Dick himself.

1572
01:50:10,520 --> 01:50:15,730
My mother used to feed hobos
stopping over at our house.

1573
01:50:15,817 --> 01:50:17,277
[Haldeman] We got him.

1574
01:50:17,360 --> 01:50:19,070
- [man] Don't push, pig.
- Move away.

1575
01:50:19,154 --> 01:50:22,414
It's OK, Bob, we're just rapping,
my friends and I.

1576
01:50:22,490 --> 01:50:25,200
In fact, we agree on a lot of things,
don't we?

1577
01:50:25,285 --> 01:50:28,615
No, we don't.
You say you want to end the war,

1578
01:50:28,705 --> 01:50:34,335
- so why don't you?
- Change always comes slowly.

1579
01:50:35,378 --> 01:50:37,458
I pulled out more than half the troops.

1580
01:50:37,547 --> 01:50:41,087
I'm trying to cut the military budget
for the first time in 30 years.

1581
01:50:41,176 --> 01:50:43,136
I want a volunteer army.

1582
01:50:43,219 --> 01:50:46,099
But it's also a question
of American credibility.

1583
01:50:46,181 --> 01:50:48,931
- Our position in the world.
- Come on, Mr. Nixon.

1584
01:50:49,017 --> 01:50:53,687
- It's a civil war between Vietnamese.
- You don't want the war.

1585
01:50:53,772 --> 01:50:57,322
We don't want the war.
The Vietnamese don't want the war.

1586
01:50:57,400 --> 01:50:59,400
So why does it go on?

1587
01:51:04,908 --> 01:51:07,198
- You should be going, Mr. President.
- OK.

1588
01:51:07,869 --> 01:51:09,199
Please.

1589
01:51:12,248 --> 01:51:14,498
You can't stop it, can you?

1590
01:51:15,460 --> 01:51:17,130
Even if you wanted to.

1591
01:51:17,212 --> 01:51:20,962
- [helicopter buzzing]
- 'Cause it's not you, it's the system.

1592
01:51:21,049 --> 01:51:24,049
The system won't let you stop it.

1593
01:51:27,555 --> 01:51:30,515
There's... There's more at stake here

1594
01:51:30,600 --> 01:51:33,190
than what you want or what I want.

1595
01:51:33,269 --> 01:51:34,689
Then what's the point?

1596
01:51:34,771 --> 01:51:38,361
What's the point of being president?
You're powerless!

1597
01:51:38,441 --> 01:51:41,781
No! No, I'm not powerless.

1598
01:51:41,861 --> 01:51:44,701
Because I understand the system,
I believe I can...

1599
01:51:44,781 --> 01:51:48,161
I can control it,
maybe not control it totally,

1600
01:51:48,243 --> 01:51:50,993
but tame it enough
to make it do some good.

1601
01:51:52,372 --> 01:51:55,042
Sounds like you're talking
about a wild animal.

1602
01:51:58,378 --> 01:52:00,498
Yeah, maybe I am.

1603
01:52:00,588 --> 01:52:03,168
We really must go,
Mr. President. Please.

1604
01:52:03,258 --> 01:52:07,298
- [woman] Hey, what about the war, man?
- [man] When you gonna get us out?

1605
01:52:07,387 --> 01:52:10,387
- The old man's moving.
- Move it. Get away.

1606
01:52:10,473 --> 01:52:13,143
She got it, Bob.
Nineteen-year-old college kid.

1607
01:52:13,226 --> 01:52:15,556
- What? Who?
- She understood something

1608
01:52:15,645 --> 01:52:18,555
that's taken me 25 years
in politics to understand.

1609
01:52:18,648 --> 01:52:22,318
The CIA, the Mafia,
those Wall Street bastards.

1610
01:52:22,402 --> 01:52:24,572
- Sir?
- The beast.

1611
01:52:24,654 --> 01:52:28,074
Nineteen-year-old kid.
She called it a wild animal.

1612
01:52:28,158 --> 01:52:29,658
Yes, sir.

1613
01:52:32,662 --> 01:52:35,332
[♪ Battle Hymn of the Republic]

1614
01:52:53,558 --> 01:52:57,438
[man] In Washington, the size
of the crowds have swelled to over

1615
01:52:57,520 --> 01:53:01,610
a quarter of a million demonstrators
protesting the ongoing war in Vietnam.

1616
01:53:01,691 --> 01:53:04,441
[Nixon] There must be
a quarter million out there.

1617
01:53:04,527 --> 01:53:08,357
They've been at it for a whole year.
Young kids just like Tricia.

1618
01:53:10,116 --> 01:53:13,236
You think they got a point, Edgar?

1619
01:53:13,328 --> 01:53:19,038
- This whole damn system of government.
- Remember what Lenin said in 1917.

1620
01:53:19,125 --> 01:53:21,495
The power was lying in the street.

1621
01:53:21,586 --> 01:53:24,246
Just waiting for someone to pick it up.

1622
01:53:24,339 --> 01:53:26,629
Communists have never
been closer than now.

1623
01:53:26,716 --> 01:53:29,966
Now is the time to get back
to the old themes.

1624
01:53:30,053 --> 01:53:32,813
The ones that made you president.

1625
01:53:32,889 --> 01:53:35,309
Let the communists
know you're on to them.

1626
01:53:35,391 --> 01:53:38,601
Little bastards think they can
ruin Tricia's wedding

1627
01:53:38,686 --> 01:53:41,146
by dancing naked in the reflection pool.

1628
01:53:41,231 --> 01:53:44,151
Don't listen to 'em.
And don't quit.

1629
01:53:45,068 --> 01:53:48,398
Remember, Kennedy and King
were against the war.

1630
01:53:48,488 --> 01:53:50,278
Where are they now?

1631
01:53:52,367 --> 01:53:55,867
How the hell The Times got a hold of
this Ellsberg stuff is a disgrace.

1632
01:53:57,705 --> 01:54:00,415
Yeah. We can't keep a damn secret
in this government.

1633
01:54:00,500 --> 01:54:03,340
They're stealing papers
right out of this office.

1634
01:54:03,419 --> 01:54:05,549
Johnson had the same damn problem

1635
01:54:05,630 --> 01:54:08,670
- until he bugged his own office.
- We took that system out.

1636
01:54:08,758 --> 01:54:11,218
That was a mistake.

1637
01:54:11,302 --> 01:54:14,432
The White House was full
of Kennedy people then.

1638
01:54:14,514 --> 01:54:17,474
- It still is.
- Who's behind this?

1639
01:54:17,559 --> 01:54:21,899
Well, you have CIA people
all over this place.

1640
01:54:21,980 --> 01:54:26,360
Helms has seen to that.
Then there's Kissinger's staff.

1641
01:54:26,442 --> 01:54:30,532
Kissinger himself, I believe,
may be the leaker.

1642
01:54:30,613 --> 01:54:32,203
- Kissinger?
- Hmm.

1643
01:54:32,282 --> 01:54:35,032
He's obsessed with his own image.

1644
01:54:35,118 --> 01:54:38,368
He wants his Nobel Peace Prize
a little too much.

1645
01:54:38,454 --> 01:54:41,214
And as the late Dr. King proved,

1646
01:54:41,291 --> 01:54:44,591
even an ape can win a prize
with good press.

1647
01:54:44,669 --> 01:54:47,709
Jesus, I'd like to book him
into a psychiatrist's office.

1648
01:54:47,797 --> 01:54:51,547
He comes in here ranting and raving,
dumping his crap all over the place.

1649
01:54:53,428 --> 01:54:56,888
- Could you prove it, Edgar?
- Mr. President,

1650
01:54:56,973 --> 01:54:58,973
I always get my man.

1651
01:55:00,351 --> 01:55:01,891
Yeah, you do.

1652
01:55:01,978 --> 01:55:05,268
This damn tie. Could you help me?

1653
01:55:05,356 --> 01:55:06,766
Yeah.

1654
01:55:10,486 --> 01:55:13,656
- See, I'd be bugging myself.
- Look.

1655
01:55:15,325 --> 01:55:19,575
- Who'd get the tapes?
- No one. Your property.

1656
01:55:20,663 --> 01:55:22,753
And it would prove your case.

1657
01:55:22,832 --> 01:55:26,632
Why do you think Kissinger
is taping all your calls?

1658
01:55:27,795 --> 01:55:29,625
For history.

1659
01:55:30,924 --> 01:55:32,764
His word against yours.

1660
01:55:32,842 --> 01:55:36,262
And right now, he's got the records.

1661
01:55:40,516 --> 01:55:43,016
I'll get Manolo to do this.

1662
01:55:43,603 --> 01:55:45,733
Thanks.

1663
01:55:45,813 --> 01:55:47,943
You know, Churchill once said to me,

1664
01:55:48,024 --> 01:55:50,444
"If you want your own
history written properly,

1665
01:55:50,526 --> 01:55:52,526
you better write it yourself."

1666
01:55:52,612 --> 01:55:54,742
The only thing is, Edgar,

1667
01:55:54,822 --> 01:55:57,202
I don't want this to come back
and haunt me.

1668
01:55:57,283 --> 01:56:00,163
It won't, as long as I'm here.

1669
01:56:00,828 --> 01:56:02,328
Good.

1670
01:56:04,165 --> 01:56:06,495
[big band jazz playing]

1671
01:56:09,045 --> 01:56:10,625
This way.

1672
01:56:16,052 --> 01:56:17,762
What's wrong?

1673
01:56:18,763 --> 01:56:21,223
We're just not going
to buckle to these people.

1674
01:56:21,307 --> 01:56:23,387
No more war!

1675
01:56:30,233 --> 01:56:32,403
- It's beautiful.
- OK.

1676
01:56:37,240 --> 01:56:38,490
[man] Yes, thank you.

1677
01:56:48,084 --> 01:56:50,924
Princess, may I?

1678
01:56:52,255 --> 01:56:53,755
Thank you.

1679
01:57:06,769 --> 01:57:10,359
I'm very proud of you today,
Princess. Very.

1680
01:57:10,440 --> 01:57:11,770
Thank you, Daddy.

1681
01:57:27,915 --> 01:57:29,285
Yeah?

1682
01:57:29,375 --> 01:57:33,375
Some very secret essays on Vietnam have
been leaked to The New York Times.

1683
01:57:33,463 --> 01:57:35,713
I know, I know. Not now, Chuck.

1684
01:57:41,971 --> 01:57:44,391
- The New York Times.
- Get Ron over here.

1685
01:57:48,811 --> 01:57:51,481
It's the happiest day of my life.

1686
01:57:57,320 --> 01:58:01,110
[man] The New York Times began
publishing the first in a series

1687
01:58:01,199 --> 01:58:06,749
of 47 volumes of top-secret Pentagon
tapes relating to the war in Vietnam.

1688
01:58:06,829 --> 01:58:10,209
The papers, leaked by defense analyst
Daniel Ellsberg,

1689
01:58:10,291 --> 01:58:15,091
reveal a pattern of government lies
and American involvement in the war.

1690
01:58:15,171 --> 01:58:18,261
[Kissinger] Mr. President,
we are in a revolutionary situation.

1691
01:58:18,341 --> 01:58:22,011
We are under siege.
The Black Panthers, the Weathermen.

1692
01:58:22,095 --> 01:58:25,215
The State Department under Rogers
is leaking like a sieve.

1693
01:58:25,306 --> 01:58:28,766
And now this little,
insignificant little shit, Ellsberg,

1694
01:58:28,851 --> 01:58:31,691
publishing all the diplomatic secrets
of this country

1695
01:58:31,771 --> 01:58:34,731
is destroying our ability
to conduct foreign policy.

1696
01:58:34,816 --> 01:58:37,566
I wonder if people here wouldn't
think ten years in prison

1697
01:58:37,652 --> 01:58:40,202
was cheap if they could contribute
to ending this war.

1698
01:58:40,279 --> 01:58:45,829
The man has become a drug fiend. He
shot people from helicopters in Vietnam.

1699
01:58:45,910 --> 01:58:49,700
He's had sexual relations with his wife
in front of their children.

1700
01:58:49,789 --> 01:58:53,209
He sees a shrink in LA.
The man's all fucked up.

1701
01:58:53,292 --> 01:58:56,042
And now he's trying
to look good for the liberals.

1702
01:58:56,129 --> 01:58:59,129
And if he gets away with it,
everybody will follow his lead.

1703
01:58:59,215 --> 01:59:03,045
- This man must be stopped at all costs.
- I'm as frustrated as you are, Henry,

1704
01:59:03,136 --> 01:59:06,716
but don't you think this is a Democrat
problem? They started the war.

1705
01:59:06,806 --> 01:59:10,846
- It makes them look bad.
- But, Mr. President, the Russians,

1706
01:59:10,935 --> 01:59:13,845
the Vietnamese...
it makes you look like a weakling!

1707
01:59:13,938 --> 01:59:17,318
Goddamn it. How long have we had
this jackass dog? Two years?

1708
01:59:17,400 --> 01:59:20,650
Still doesn't come. We need a dog
that looks happy when the press is here.

1709
01:59:20,736 --> 01:59:23,316
- He's photogenic. Try new biscuits.
- Ah, fuck it.

1710
01:59:23,406 --> 01:59:25,946
He doesn't like me, John.
It's your fault, Henry.

1711
01:59:26,033 --> 01:59:29,743
- I beg your pardon?
- It's your people talking to the press.

1712
01:59:29,829 --> 01:59:33,209
This Ellsberg, wasn't he
a student of yours at Harvard?

1713
01:59:33,291 --> 01:59:36,501
I mean, he's your idea, Henry.
So why are you running for cover?

1714
01:59:36,586 --> 01:59:38,666
Yes, we taught
a class together at Harvard,

1715
01:59:38,754 --> 01:59:41,974
but you know these back-stabbing
Ivy League intellectuals.

1716
01:59:42,049 --> 01:59:45,889
- No, I don't, Henry.
- Prosecute The New York Times.

1717
01:59:45,970 --> 01:59:49,100
- Go for injunction.
- Yeah, but it's not, bottom line,

1718
01:59:49,182 --> 01:59:51,102
gonna change a goddamn thing, John.

1719
01:59:51,184 --> 01:59:54,904
The... question is how do we
screw Ellsberg so bad,

1720
01:59:54,979 --> 01:59:57,359
it puts the fear of God
into all leakers?

1721
01:59:57,440 --> 02:00:00,780
The other issue is how the hell
we stop these leaks once and for all?

1722
02:00:00,860 --> 02:00:04,650
Now, someone is talking to the press.
We gotta stop these leaks at any cost.

1723
02:00:04,739 --> 02:00:07,199
You hear me?
Then we can go for the big pick:

1724
02:00:07,283 --> 02:00:09,283
- China, Russia.
- Sir, if I might?

1725
02:00:09,368 --> 02:00:12,868
- Go, Chuck.
- We can do this ourselves.

1726
02:00:12,955 --> 02:00:15,455
The CIA and the FBI
aren't doing the job.

1727
02:00:15,541 --> 02:00:20,091
Now, we can create our own intelligence
unit right here inside the White House.

1728
02:00:23,090 --> 02:00:27,590
- Well, why not?
- Our own intelligence plugs the leaks?

1729
02:00:27,678 --> 02:00:31,218
- [Colson] Yeah. Like plumbers.
- Plumbers.

1730
02:00:34,810 --> 02:00:37,150
I like it. I like the idea.

1731
02:00:38,147 --> 02:00:41,437
Yeah, but is it legal?
Has it ever been done before?

1732
02:00:42,568 --> 02:00:44,148
Oh, sure.

1733
02:00:44,237 --> 02:00:47,777
Lyndon, JFK, FDR.

1734
02:00:49,033 --> 02:00:53,503
I mean, Truman cut the shit out of my
investigation of the Hiss case in '48.

1735
02:00:53,579 --> 02:00:56,409
- What he did was illegal.
- With this kind of thing,

1736
02:00:56,499 --> 02:01:00,289
you got to be brutal. A leak happens,
the whole damn place should be fired.

1737
02:01:00,378 --> 02:01:03,758
Really, I mean, you do it
like the Germans in World War II.

1738
02:01:03,839 --> 02:01:06,759
They went through these towns,
and a sniper hit one of 'em,

1739
02:01:06,842 --> 02:01:09,182
they'd line the whole
goddamn town up and say,

1740
02:01:09,262 --> 02:01:11,432
"Until you talk,
you're all getting shot."

1741
02:01:11,514 --> 02:01:13,974
Really, I think that's
what has to be done.

1742
02:01:14,058 --> 02:01:16,938
I don't think you
can be Mr. Nice Guy anymore.

1743
02:01:17,019 --> 02:01:20,309
You just whisper the word to me,
and I'll shoot Ellsberg myself.

1744
02:01:20,398 --> 02:01:24,938
- We're not Germans.
- Yeah. Ellsberg's not the issue.

1745
02:01:25,027 --> 02:01:28,277
The Pentagon Papers aren't the issue.

1746
02:01:28,364 --> 02:01:31,324
It's the lie.

1747
02:01:31,409 --> 02:01:34,619
- Mr. Hiss is lying.
- Yeah.

1748
02:01:35,746 --> 02:01:37,536
Remember, John, back in '48?

1749
02:01:37,623 --> 02:01:40,463
Nobody believed Alger Hiss
was a communist except me.

1750
02:01:40,543 --> 02:01:43,713
They loved Hiss like they
love this Ellsberg character.

1751
02:01:43,796 --> 02:01:46,546
He was their kind:
Ivy League establishment.

1752
02:01:46,632 --> 02:01:50,392
- I am not, and never have been...
- Mr. Hiss is lying.

1753
02:01:50,469 --> 02:01:53,639
- Mr. Hiss?
- I was dirt to them, nothing.

1754
02:01:53,723 --> 02:01:57,563
- And Dick kicked the shit out of 'em.
- I wouldn't have if Hiss hadn't lied

1755
02:01:57,643 --> 02:02:01,103
about knowing Chambers. The
documents were old and out of date,

1756
02:02:01,188 --> 02:02:03,728
just like these Pentagon Papers.

1757
02:02:03,816 --> 02:02:06,986
The key thing we proved
was that Hiss was a liar.

1758
02:02:07,069 --> 02:02:09,819
Then people bought that he was a spy.

1759
02:02:09,905 --> 02:02:11,695
It's the lie that gets you.

1760
02:02:13,242 --> 02:02:15,832
All right, Henry,
we're gonna go your way.

1761
02:02:15,911 --> 02:02:18,161
Crush this Ellsberg
same way we did Hiss.

1762
02:02:18,247 --> 02:02:20,077
There is no other choice,
Mr. President.

1763
02:02:20,166 --> 02:02:23,706
We'll hit him so hard, he'll look
like everything that's sick and evil

1764
02:02:23,794 --> 02:02:26,714
about the eastern establishment.
You and your plumbers,

1765
02:02:26,797 --> 02:02:28,377
you get all the dirt
on this guy.

1766
02:02:28,466 --> 02:02:31,176
See him going to the bathroom
in front of the public.

1767
02:02:31,260 --> 02:02:33,760
And when we finish with him,
they'll crucify him.

1768
02:02:33,846 --> 02:02:35,756
Then we'll get our second term.

1769
02:02:37,600 --> 02:02:40,230
- [rooster crows]
- [mambo music playing]

1770
02:02:40,311 --> 02:02:42,231
[yelling in Spanish]

1771
02:02:51,197 --> 02:02:53,277
The claws are out, Frank.

1772
02:02:54,825 --> 02:02:57,695
- You seen the guys?
- They're around.

1773
02:02:57,787 --> 02:02:59,787
Why? You got a customer?

1774
02:03:02,249 --> 02:03:05,959
- The White House.
- You're fuckin' me.

1775
02:03:06,045 --> 02:03:09,255
We're gonna be plumbers, Frank.
We're gonna plug leaks.

1776
02:03:10,257 --> 02:03:13,427
- Who are we workin' for?
- A guy named Gordon Liddy.

1777
02:03:13,511 --> 02:03:16,721
He thinks he's Martin Bormann.
He wants to meet you.

1778
02:03:18,474 --> 02:03:22,944
- Gordon Liddy, Frank Sturgis.
- Hey, Frank.

1779
02:03:28,442 --> 02:03:32,202
[Nixon] Did you see the look on
Hoover's face? He's redder than a beet.

1780
02:03:32,279 --> 02:03:34,449
That little closet fairy's
got no choice.

1781
02:03:34,532 --> 02:03:37,582
He hates McGovern and Kennedy
so much, he's gotta love me.

1782
02:03:37,660 --> 02:03:41,250
- And Lyndon?
- He looked old, didn't he?

1783
02:03:41,330 --> 02:03:44,750
- Have you talked to Lyndon?
- I asked, "Lyndon, what would you do

1784
02:03:44,834 --> 02:03:48,924
on a scale of one to ten?" He said,
"Bomb the shit out of Hanoi, boy.

1785
02:03:49,004 --> 02:03:51,094
Bomb them where they live."

1786
02:03:51,173 --> 02:03:56,143
Yeah. Bob, tell Trini I'll be
in Key Biscayne at 4:00.

1787
02:03:56,220 --> 02:03:58,680
- With Pat?
- No, alone.

1788
02:03:58,764 --> 02:04:01,274
Pat's staying here with Mrs. Eisenhower.

1789
02:04:01,350 --> 02:04:03,520
- Yes, sir.
- Good.

1790
02:04:05,688 --> 02:04:08,768
Hi, Buddy. What are you doing here?

1791
02:04:08,858 --> 02:04:10,318
I missed you.

1792
02:04:11,944 --> 02:04:14,614
Why don't we go down
to Key Biscayne together?

1793
02:04:14,697 --> 02:04:17,907
Because I have to relax.

1794
02:04:21,662 --> 02:04:26,462
You know, I was just thinking tonight.

1795
02:04:26,542 --> 02:04:31,502
Remember when you used to drive me
on dates with other boys?

1796
02:04:31,589 --> 02:04:35,259
- Yeah.
- Didn't let me out of your sight.

1797
02:04:36,218 --> 02:04:38,798
Yeah. Sure.

1798
02:04:40,556 --> 02:04:42,556
It was a long time ago.

1799
02:04:44,351 --> 02:04:47,561
Yes, it's been a long time.

1800
02:04:52,943 --> 02:04:54,743
Now, look, Buddy.

1801
02:04:57,031 --> 02:04:59,031
I don't need that.

1802
02:05:04,955 --> 02:05:07,285
I'm not Jack Kennedy.

1803
02:05:10,961 --> 02:05:13,841
No, you're not.

1804
02:05:13,923 --> 02:05:18,933
So stop comparing yourself to him.
You have no reason to.

1805
02:05:20,429 --> 02:05:25,769
You have everything you ever wanted.
You earned it.

1806
02:05:25,851 --> 02:05:31,111
- Why can't you just enjoy it?
- [sighs] I do.

1807
02:05:31,190 --> 02:05:36,900
- I do in my own way.
- Then what are you scared of, honey?

1808
02:05:36,987 --> 02:05:42,277
I'm not scared, Buddy.
You don't understand.

1809
02:05:45,454 --> 02:05:48,464
They're playing for keeps, Buddy.

1810
02:05:48,541 --> 02:05:51,921
You know, the press, the kids,
the liberals out there.

1811
02:05:52,002 --> 02:05:54,962
They're out there trying
to figure out how to tear me down.

1812
02:05:55,047 --> 02:05:58,377
- They're all your enemies?
- Yes.

1813
02:05:58,467 --> 02:06:03,597
- You, personally?
- Yes!

1814
02:06:04,723 --> 02:06:10,143
Listen, this is about me.
Why can't you understand that?

1815
02:06:10,229 --> 02:06:12,309
I mean, you of all people.

1816
02:06:13,482 --> 02:06:16,692
It's not the war. It's Nixon!

1817
02:06:18,153 --> 02:06:21,283
It's not Vietnam, it's Nixon.
They want to destroy Nixon.

1818
02:06:21,365 --> 02:06:25,905
If I expose myself just the slightest
bit, they'll tear my insides out.

1819
02:06:25,995 --> 02:06:29,745
You want that? You know?
You want to see that, Buddy?

1820
02:06:29,832 --> 02:06:31,372
It's not pretty!

1821
02:06:32,918 --> 02:06:35,548
Sometimes I think that's
what you want, Dick.

1822
02:06:35,629 --> 02:06:37,839
What the hell are you saying?

1823
02:06:39,466 --> 02:06:41,086
Are you drunk?

1824
02:06:42,595 --> 02:06:45,045
Jesus, you sound just like them now.

1825
02:06:47,182 --> 02:06:49,642
I gotta keep fighting, Buddy,
for the country.

1826
02:06:49,727 --> 02:06:53,097
These people running things, the elite!

1827
02:06:53,188 --> 02:06:56,188
They're just soft, chicken-shit faggots.

1828
02:06:57,693 --> 02:07:00,073
They don't have
the long-term vision anymore.

1829
02:07:00,154 --> 02:07:03,994
They just want to cover their ass and
meet girls and tear each other down.

1830
02:07:04,074 --> 02:07:07,874
Oh, God, this country's in deep,
deep, deep trouble, Buddy.

1831
02:07:07,953 --> 02:07:10,463
I have to see this through, you know.

1832
02:07:10,539 --> 02:07:13,289
Mother would have expected
no less of me.

1833
02:07:16,170 --> 02:07:18,090
I'm sorry, Buddy.

1834
02:07:20,841 --> 02:07:23,971
I just wish you knew
how much I love you, that's all.

1835
02:07:24,053 --> 02:07:29,223
It took me a long time to fall
in love with you, Dick, but I did.

1836
02:07:30,100 --> 02:07:32,810
And it doesn't make you happy.

1837
02:07:32,895 --> 02:07:35,555
- You want them to love you.
- No, I don't.

1838
02:07:35,648 --> 02:07:38,478
- I'm not Jack Kennedy.
- They never will, Dick.

1839
02:07:38,567 --> 02:07:43,317
No matter how many elections you win,
they never will.

1840
02:07:55,167 --> 02:07:57,497
[crowd murmuring]

1841
02:08:08,555 --> 02:08:10,515
Gentlemen, the president.

1842
02:08:20,818 --> 02:08:24,528
Gentlemen, this is our last damn leak.

1843
02:08:24,613 --> 02:08:27,203
It's no way to run
a goddamn government.

1844
02:08:28,701 --> 02:08:32,041
We're gonna prosecute Ellsberg
and anyone else who wants to leak

1845
02:08:32,121 --> 02:08:36,291
and that means anyone here
who crosses the line, I'm going after.

1846
02:08:36,375 --> 02:08:40,165
OK? The permissiveness
of this year is over.

1847
02:08:40,254 --> 02:08:43,724
The belts are coming off and people
are gonna go to the woodshed.

1848
02:08:43,799 --> 02:08:48,089
'Cause the government cannot survive
with a counter-government inside it.

1849
02:08:48,178 --> 02:08:51,558
I know how traitors operate.
I've dealt with them all my life.

1850
02:08:51,640 --> 02:08:53,560
I've worked with these cases.

1851
02:08:53,642 --> 02:08:56,522
It's never little people.
The little people do not leak.

1852
02:08:56,603 --> 02:09:00,063
It's always some smooth son of a bitch
like Ellsberg.

1853
02:09:00,149 --> 02:09:05,069
The Harvard Hebrew boys who leak.

1854
02:09:05,154 --> 02:09:09,784
I hear people say, "But Ellsberg
did it for the good of the country.

1855
02:09:09,867 --> 02:09:12,327
People's right to know."

1856
02:09:13,328 --> 02:09:17,828
Well, that's in every case.
Alger Hiss said the same thing.

1857
02:09:17,916 --> 02:09:20,536
So did the Rosenbergs.
Look what happened to them.

1858
02:09:20,627 --> 02:09:23,167
[mimics electrical crackling]
Old Sparky got 'em.

1859
02:09:23,255 --> 02:09:25,545
They always
underestimated old Nixon, see.

1860
02:09:25,632 --> 02:09:29,142
We're gonna fight just as dirty.
This is sudden death, gentlemen.

1861
02:09:29,219 --> 02:09:31,139
We're gonna get 'em on the ground,

1862
02:09:31,221 --> 02:09:34,471
stick in our spikes and twist
and show them no mercy.

1863
02:09:34,558 --> 02:09:39,228
So, uh, starting today,
no one in this room talks to the press

1864
02:09:39,313 --> 02:09:43,573
without checking with Mr. Haldeman here.

1865
02:09:43,650 --> 02:09:47,950
That means we're on complete freeze
on The New York Times, CBS,

1866
02:09:48,030 --> 02:09:51,870
PBS, Jack Anderson
and The Washington Post.

1867
02:09:51,950 --> 02:09:55,700
Mr. Haldeman is the chief high
executioner from now on.

1868
02:09:55,788 --> 02:10:00,118
Don't come whining to me when he tells
you to do something. That's me talking.

1869
02:10:00,209 --> 02:10:03,589
If you do come to me,
I'm tougher than he is.

1870
02:10:03,670 --> 02:10:07,380
Anyone who screws with us,
his fucking head comes off.

1871
02:10:07,466 --> 02:10:08,796
You got that?

1872
02:10:12,805 --> 02:10:15,255
Well, thank you very much, gentlemen.

1873
02:10:15,349 --> 02:10:17,349
Good day to you.

1874
02:10:23,899 --> 02:10:28,649
[Nixon] History will never be the same.

1875
02:10:28,737 --> 02:10:31,657
We've taken a step into the future.

1876
02:10:31,740 --> 02:10:33,620
We have changed the world.

1877
02:10:33,700 --> 02:10:36,870
- Five, ten.
- What else you got?

1878
02:11:02,437 --> 02:11:05,687
I must say, you look very good,
Mr. Chairman.

1879
02:11:08,235 --> 02:11:10,855
[interpreter] Looks can be deceiving.

1880
02:11:10,946 --> 02:11:14,776
We know what risks you've taken
in inviting us here.

1881
02:11:14,867 --> 02:11:16,697
[interpreter] I took no risk.

1882
02:11:16,785 --> 02:11:20,745
I am too old to be afraid
of what anyone thinks.

1883
02:11:27,004 --> 02:11:28,464
[Mao speaking in Mandarin]

1884
02:11:28,547 --> 02:11:31,877
[interpreter] Don't ever trust them.
They never tell the truth

1885
02:11:31,967 --> 02:11:34,587
or honor their commitments.

1886
02:11:34,678 --> 02:11:38,058
Vietnamese are like Russians.

1887
02:11:38,140 --> 02:11:39,810
Both are dogs.

1888
02:11:39,892 --> 02:11:42,942
Mr. Chairman,
there's an old saying in my country:

1889
02:11:43,020 --> 02:11:46,520
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

1890
02:11:48,150 --> 02:11:51,570
[interpreter] That has
the added virtue of being true.

1891
02:11:51,653 --> 02:11:54,743
[Kissinger] Your writings have
changed the world, Mr. Chairman.

1892
02:11:54,823 --> 02:11:56,873
[interpreter speaking Mandarin]

1893
02:11:56,950 --> 02:11:58,490
[speaks in Mandarin]

1894
02:11:58,577 --> 02:12:03,827
[interpreter] Bullshit.
My writings mean absolutely nothing.

1895
02:12:06,585 --> 02:12:11,295
- I want to know your secret.
- [Kissinger] My secret, Mr. Chairman?

1896
02:12:11,381 --> 02:12:13,381
[speaking in Mandarin]

1897
02:12:17,930 --> 02:12:20,640
How a fat man gets so many girls.

1898
02:12:24,478 --> 02:12:29,268
Power, Mr. Chairman,
is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

1899
02:12:33,028 --> 02:12:35,108
[speaking in Mandarin]

1900
02:12:35,197 --> 02:12:39,617
[interpreter] You know,
I voted for you in your last election.

1901
02:12:39,701 --> 02:12:41,871
I was the, uh, lesser of two evils.

1902
02:12:43,497 --> 02:12:46,207
[interpreter] You are too modest,
Mr. Nixon.

1903
02:12:47,709 --> 02:12:50,499
You are as evil as I am.

1904
02:12:51,380 --> 02:12:53,970
We are the new emperors.

1905
02:12:55,300 --> 02:13:00,720
We are both from poor families
and others pay to feed the hunger in us.

1906
02:13:01,640 --> 02:13:04,640
In my case, millions of reactionaries.

1907
02:13:04,726 --> 02:13:08,556
In your case, millions of Vietnamese.

1908
02:13:08,647 --> 02:13:11,477
Civil war is always
the cruelest kind of war,

1909
02:13:11,566 --> 02:13:14,316
but our two nations
were forged by revolution.

1910
02:13:14,403 --> 02:13:16,243
The United States, China.

1911
02:13:16,321 --> 02:13:20,701
[interpreter] Peace? Is peace
all you're interested in?

1912
02:13:20,784 --> 02:13:23,374
The real war is in us.

1913
02:13:23,453 --> 02:13:25,453
[speaking in Mandarin]

1914
02:13:28,333 --> 02:13:32,093
History is a symptom of our disease.

1915
02:13:37,092 --> 02:13:39,842
[man] In a surprise Christmas
bombing of Hanoi,

1916
02:13:39,928 --> 02:13:42,258
President Nixon delivered more tonnage

1917
02:13:42,347 --> 02:13:45,347
than was used at Dresden
in World War II.

1918
02:13:45,434 --> 02:13:49,654
It is without doubt the most brutal
bombing in American history.

1919
02:13:49,730 --> 02:13:53,190
Newspapers are calling it
a Stone Age tactic

1920
02:13:53,275 --> 02:13:56,935
and Nixon a maddened tyrant.
Nixon's response:

1921
02:13:57,029 --> 02:14:01,909
"When the Vietnamese take the Paris
peace talks seriously, I'll stop."

1922
02:14:16,840 --> 02:14:18,840
A penny for your thoughts.

1923
02:14:21,803 --> 02:14:23,973
Just think of the...

1924
02:14:24,056 --> 02:14:25,806
Think of the life Mao's led.

1925
02:14:27,225 --> 02:14:30,595
In '52, I... I called him a monster.

1926
02:14:31,646 --> 02:14:35,436
Now he could be our most important ally.

1927
02:14:35,525 --> 02:14:38,855
Only Nixon could've done that.

1928
02:14:38,945 --> 02:14:41,105
You're a long way from Whittier.

1929
02:14:42,074 --> 02:14:45,744
Yep. Yes, I am.

1930
02:14:47,871 --> 02:14:49,911
- Congratulations, Dick.
- [door opens]

1931
02:14:49,998 --> 02:14:51,998
- Mr. Ziegler.
- Mr. President,

1932
02:14:52,084 --> 02:14:54,594
the press guys asked
if you could come back.

1933
02:14:54,669 --> 02:14:57,589
- The hell with them.
- I'll go back, Mr. President.

1934
02:14:57,672 --> 02:15:00,882
No, they want you, Mr. President.
I, uh...

1935
02:15:00,967 --> 02:15:03,177
I think it would be a good move.

1936
02:15:07,766 --> 02:15:09,266
- Who's back there?
- Everybody.

1937
02:15:09,351 --> 02:15:11,231
OK.

1938
02:15:13,230 --> 02:15:16,110
Gentlemen, I go now
to discover the exact length,

1939
02:15:16,191 --> 02:15:17,901
width and depth of the shaft.

1940
02:15:17,984 --> 02:15:20,994
[reporters chuckling, murmuring]

1941
02:15:26,535 --> 02:15:28,985
Ladies and gentlemen, the president.

1942
02:15:29,079 --> 02:15:31,209
- Hi.
- Hi.

1943
02:15:31,289 --> 02:15:33,619
- Mr. President...
- [man] Congratulations, sir.

1944
02:15:33,708 --> 02:15:36,128
- Well done!
- Thank you, sir!

1945
02:15:57,357 --> 02:16:00,607
Well, it looks to me

1946
02:16:00,694 --> 02:16:04,954
like we're gonna lose a war
for the first goddamn time.

1947
02:16:05,031 --> 02:16:08,411
- Yep.
- You're goin' right along with it,

1948
02:16:08,493 --> 02:16:11,293
buyin' into this Kissinger bullshit,

1949
02:16:11,371 --> 02:16:15,711
this... detente with Communists.

1950
02:16:15,792 --> 02:16:18,922
Detente. Sounds like
a couple of fags dancin'.

1951
02:16:23,842 --> 02:16:27,552
Jack, we're not living in the same
country you and I knew in '46.

1952
02:16:27,637 --> 02:16:31,097
Our people are just not gonna sacrifice
in major numbers for war.

1953
02:16:31,183 --> 02:16:34,313
Can't even get 'em to accept cuts
in their gas tax.

1954
02:16:34,394 --> 02:16:38,234
Now, the Arabs and the Japanese
are draining the gold reserves...

1955
02:16:38,315 --> 02:16:39,355
Whose fault is that?

1956
02:16:39,441 --> 02:16:42,861
If we'd won in Vietnam,
we wouldn't be having this conversation.

1957
02:16:42,944 --> 02:16:46,454
Nobody's fault, Jack. It's, uh, change.
It's a fact of history.

1958
02:16:46,531 --> 02:16:49,661
Even that old cocksucker
J. Edgar Hoover's dead.

1959
02:16:49,743 --> 02:16:51,993
Now who'd have thought that possible?

1960
02:16:53,788 --> 02:16:56,458
How's the food over there in China,
Mr. Nixon?

1961
02:16:56,541 --> 02:16:58,961
It's delicious, if you're president.

1962
02:17:01,004 --> 02:17:04,554
So, what are you gonna do
about that Allende fella

1963
02:17:04,633 --> 02:17:09,143
nationalizing our businesses in Chile?
You gonna send Kissinger down there?

1964
02:17:09,221 --> 02:17:13,601
We're gonna get rid of him, Allende,
I mean, just as fast as we can.

1965
02:17:13,683 --> 02:17:17,233
- He's at the top of the list.
- How about Kissinger along with him?

1966
02:17:18,355 --> 02:17:20,185
Now, Kissinger's misunderstood.

1967
02:17:20,273 --> 02:17:22,983
He acts like a liberal
for his establishment friends,

1968
02:17:23,068 --> 02:17:26,568
- but he's even tougher than I am.
- [man] So Kissinger stays.

1969
02:17:26,655 --> 02:17:29,235
Just like Castro, Mr. Nixon.

1970
02:17:30,825 --> 02:17:33,445
Yeah. He stays.

1971
02:17:34,913 --> 02:17:37,753
And you are comfortable
with that decision?

1972
02:17:40,877 --> 02:17:42,337
[Jack] Desi's got a point.

1973
02:17:42,420 --> 02:17:47,590
What the hell are we gonna do about
the Communists in our own backyard?

1974
02:17:47,676 --> 02:17:49,836
What do you really mean, Jack?

1975
02:17:49,928 --> 02:17:53,258
I mean, I got
federal price controls on my oil.

1976
02:17:53,348 --> 02:17:57,268
And the rag heads
are beatin' the shit out of me, Dick.

1977
02:17:57,352 --> 02:18:01,192
And your EPA environmental agency
has got its thumb so far up my ass,

1978
02:18:01,273 --> 02:18:04,323
- it's scratchin' my ear!
- I think it's time for us to be...

1979
02:18:04,401 --> 02:18:07,401
- Let him finish, Bob.
- I got a federal judge orderin' me

1980
02:18:07,487 --> 02:18:12,197
to bus my grandkids halfway across this
town to go to school with nigger kids.

1981
02:18:13,535 --> 02:18:17,325
Now, Dick, Mr. President,

1982
02:18:17,414 --> 02:18:20,254
aren't you forgetting
who put you where you are?

1983
02:18:21,501 --> 02:18:25,421
The American people
put me where I am, Jack.

1984
02:18:25,505 --> 02:18:27,545
Really?

1985
02:18:27,632 --> 02:18:31,762
- Well, that can be changed.
- In a heartbeat.

1986
02:18:40,979 --> 02:18:44,769
Jack, I've learned politics
is the art of compromise.

1987
02:18:44,858 --> 02:18:48,488
I learned it the hard way.
I don't know if you have.

1988
02:18:48,570 --> 02:18:50,450
Well, let me tell you this, Jack.

1989
02:18:50,530 --> 02:18:53,240
If you don't like it,
there's an election in November

1990
02:18:53,325 --> 02:18:56,905
and you can take your money out
in the open and give it to Wallace.

1991
02:18:56,995 --> 02:19:00,865
How about it, Jack? Willing to do that?

1992
02:19:00,957 --> 02:19:06,207
Hand this country over to some pansy
poet socialist like George McGovern?

1993
02:19:08,089 --> 02:19:11,589
'Cause if you're not happy
with the EPA up your ass,

1994
02:19:11,676 --> 02:19:14,216
try the IRS.

1995
02:19:15,555 --> 02:19:17,845
Goddamn, Dick.

1996
02:19:17,932 --> 02:19:23,352
- You're not threatening me, are ya?
- Presidents don't threaten, Jack.

1997
02:19:23,438 --> 02:19:25,478
They don't have to.

1998
02:19:28,276 --> 02:19:30,436
Good day to you, gentlemen. Thank you.

1999
02:19:55,553 --> 02:19:58,853
[man] With third party candidate
George Wallace out of the race,

2000
02:19:58,932 --> 02:20:00,812
paralyzed by an assassin's bullet,

2001
02:20:00,892 --> 02:20:03,522
Richard Nixon
has crushed George McGovern

2002
02:20:03,603 --> 02:20:06,653
in the 1972 presidential election.

2003
02:20:06,731 --> 02:20:11,531
It is the second-biggest landslide
in American history.

2004
02:20:11,611 --> 02:20:13,241
As the new term begins,

2005
02:20:13,321 --> 02:20:16,741
it does not seem the Watergate
investigations have damaged Nixon

2006
02:20:16,825 --> 02:20:20,115
politically in any significant way.

2007
02:20:21,621 --> 02:20:24,671
Probably our biggest achievement
as an administration,

2008
02:20:24,749 --> 02:20:27,919
when it's all said and done,
isn't China or Russia.

2009
02:20:28,002 --> 02:20:31,672
It's pulling out of Vietnam
without a right-wing revolt.

2010
02:20:31,756 --> 02:20:36,216
- I believe you're right.
- The presidency isn't enough anymore.

2011
02:20:37,846 --> 02:20:42,136
- Sir?
- The presidency by itself

2012
02:20:42,225 --> 02:20:46,685
won't protect us, Bob.
We're beyond politics now.

2013
02:20:50,900 --> 02:20:54,450
- Mr. Ehrlichman.
- Yeah.

2014
02:20:55,488 --> 02:20:59,698
Sir, just in from Paris. The Vietnamese
have accepted Henry's peace proposal.

2015
02:20:59,784 --> 02:21:02,124
- Good.
- The bombing worked. They're caving.

2016
02:21:02,203 --> 02:21:03,953
Congratulations!

2017
02:21:04,038 --> 02:21:08,168
That mad bomber theory
wasn't so crazy after all.

2018
02:21:08,251 --> 02:21:09,961
Henry is coming back to join us.

2019
02:21:10,044 --> 02:21:13,134
He wants to be included
in the photographs, of course.

2020
02:21:13,214 --> 02:21:15,844
- [Haldeman] There's a surprise.
- This could be it.

2021
02:21:15,925 --> 02:21:18,795
This could be it. Four long years. Jeez.

2022
02:21:18,887 --> 02:21:22,757
Incidentally, I don't know if this is
the right time, but you should know.

2023
02:21:22,849 --> 02:21:27,019
Bill Sullivan at the FBI got back
to us with his report on Kissinger.

2024
02:21:28,730 --> 02:21:31,690
- I didn't wanna bring it up because...
- Go on.

2025
02:21:32,692 --> 02:21:37,572
Well, Sullivan, uh, thinks he's the one.
Henry's the leaker.

2026
02:21:46,706 --> 02:21:48,286
Yeah, I knew it.

2027
02:21:48,374 --> 02:21:50,964
I knew it from '69 on
and I said it all along.

2028
02:21:51,044 --> 02:21:53,594
- I remember.
- I didn't, Bob.

2029
02:21:54,923 --> 02:21:58,263
Looks like he talked to Joe Kraft
and The Times.

2030
02:21:59,260 --> 02:22:01,760
Claims that he was dead
set against the bombing,

2031
02:22:01,846 --> 02:22:05,846
that you were unstable and that, uh,
he has to handle you with kid gloves.

2032
02:22:05,934 --> 02:22:08,194
[Haldeman] That explains
his press notices.

2033
02:22:08,269 --> 02:22:10,649
Working both sides of the fence.
Jew-boy Henry.

2034
02:22:12,440 --> 02:22:14,230
My God.

2035
02:22:14,317 --> 02:22:16,987
- He talked to The New York Times?
- [Ehrlichman] Yes, he did.

2036
02:22:17,070 --> 02:22:20,110
[Haldeman] We ought a fire his whining
ass right now, when he's on top.

2037
02:22:20,198 --> 02:22:23,868
You know what? It'd set the right
example for the this administration.

2038
02:22:23,952 --> 02:22:27,292
[Ehrlichman] I would personally
volunteer for that assignment right now.

2039
02:22:34,295 --> 02:22:36,955
No. No.

2040
02:22:37,048 --> 02:22:40,798
He's our only star right now.
He'd go crying to the press.

2041
02:22:40,885 --> 02:22:43,795
He'd crucify us.

2042
02:22:43,888 --> 02:22:46,008
Son of a bitch.

2043
02:22:46,099 --> 02:22:47,929
Get someone on our staff on his ass.

2044
02:22:48,017 --> 02:22:50,557
Tap his phones.
I wanna know everyone he talks to.

2045
02:22:50,645 --> 02:22:53,605
Let's see how long
the Kissinger mystique lasts.

2046
02:22:53,690 --> 02:22:56,900
So, John, what about
these Watergate clowns?

2047
02:22:56,985 --> 02:23:00,735
This, uh, Sirica's crazy.
Thirty-five year sentence.

2048
02:23:00,822 --> 02:23:04,532
No weapons, right? No injuries.

2049
02:23:04,617 --> 02:23:06,907
There's no success.
It's just ridiculous.

2050
02:23:06,995 --> 02:23:10,575
Sirica's just trying to force someone
to testify, but they're solid.

2051
02:23:10,665 --> 02:23:14,915
What about this Washington Post crap?
Woodwind and Fernstein.

2052
02:23:15,003 --> 02:23:17,843
- Bernstein, sir.
- Who the fuck are they, anyway?

2053
02:23:17,922 --> 02:23:20,842
Bob, you working on revoking
their television license?

2054
02:23:20,925 --> 02:23:22,295
- Yes, sir, I am.
- Good.

2055
02:23:22,385 --> 02:23:25,755
Well, they're trying to connect
Bob and John with the secret fund.

2056
02:23:25,847 --> 02:23:28,847
- But they don't have much.
- They don't have anything.

2057
02:23:30,476 --> 02:23:32,636
The F.B.I.'s feeding me their reports.

2058
02:23:32,729 --> 02:23:35,859
I didn't think you should lose any
more sleep over it, sir.

2059
02:23:35,940 --> 02:23:38,530
Good man, John, good man.

2060
02:23:40,653 --> 02:23:41,993
- [rumble]
- [gasp]

2061
02:23:50,705 --> 02:23:55,955
I can therefore announce that our long
and tragic involvement in Vietnam...

2062
02:23:56,044 --> 02:24:00,054
...is at an end.
Our mission is accomplished.

2063
02:24:01,758 --> 02:24:04,758
We have a cease-fire...

2064
02:24:04,844 --> 02:24:08,474
...and our prisoners of war
are coming back home.

2065
02:24:08,556 --> 02:24:13,886
South Vietnam has the right
to determine its own future.

2066
02:24:13,978 --> 02:24:17,108
So, we have peace with honor.

2067
02:24:22,737 --> 02:24:25,317
The president will take
some of your questions now.

2068
02:24:25,406 --> 02:24:27,406
- [man] Mr. President!
- Dan.

2069
02:24:27,492 --> 02:24:29,452
Isn't it true little has been achieved

2070
02:24:29,535 --> 02:24:32,325
that the Communists
have not been offering since 1969,

2071
02:24:32,413 --> 02:24:35,923
that in fact your administration
has needlessly prolonged the war

2072
02:24:36,000 --> 02:24:38,250
and escalated it
to new levels of violence?

2073
02:24:38,336 --> 02:24:43,666
I will, uh... try to answer
that question in some detail.

2074
02:24:43,758 --> 02:24:45,258
[woman] Mr. President!

2075
02:24:45,343 --> 02:24:47,933
What is your reaction
to James McCord's statement

2076
02:24:48,012 --> 02:24:50,102
that high-level White House officials

2077
02:24:50,181 --> 02:24:52,351
were involved
in the Watergate break-in?

2078
02:24:52,433 --> 02:24:55,603
That's the dumbest thing
I've ever heard.

2079
02:24:55,687 --> 02:24:59,107
The Washington Post is reporting
that Mr. Haldeman and Ehrlichman

2080
02:24:59,190 --> 02:25:01,940
secretly dispersed
up to $900,000 in campaign funds.

2081
02:25:02,026 --> 02:25:03,526
Is there any truth to that?

2082
02:25:03,611 --> 02:25:05,781
Now, let me make this perfectly clear.

2083
02:25:05,863 --> 02:25:09,283
I will not respond to the charges
of The Washington Post.

2084
02:25:09,367 --> 02:25:13,367
Nor will I comment on a matter
that is currently before the courts.

2085
02:25:13,454 --> 02:25:16,164
- [man] Mr. President!
- [man 2] Sir!

2086
02:25:16,249 --> 02:25:19,539
Sir, do you intend to cooperate
with Senator Ervin's committee?

2087
02:25:19,627 --> 02:25:22,707
Will you agree to the appointment
of a special prosecutor?

2088
02:25:22,797 --> 02:25:25,507
- [reporters] Mr. President, sir!
- Mr. President!

2089
02:25:28,636 --> 02:25:30,846
- [Haldeman] Thank you.
- Mr. President!

2090
02:25:36,394 --> 02:25:38,194
Mr. President, sir...

2091
02:25:38,271 --> 02:25:40,481
Ron, get in there and do something!

2092
02:25:45,486 --> 02:25:47,566
I end the longest war
in American history

2093
02:25:47,655 --> 02:25:51,735
and they keep harping on this
chicken-shit! God!

2094
02:25:51,826 --> 02:25:53,406
God!

2095
02:25:56,205 --> 02:25:58,995
You know who's behind this, don't you?
Teddy Kennedy.

2096
02:25:59,083 --> 02:26:03,253
Yeah, he drowns a broad in his car,
and he can't run for president.

2097
02:26:03,337 --> 02:26:06,127
[Ehrlichman] He did get pretty
burned at Chappaquiddick.

2098
02:26:06,215 --> 02:26:09,925
My point exactly! Somebody had to die
before he got his shit in the papers!

2099
02:26:10,011 --> 02:26:13,681
Fucking Kennedys get away
with everything! Goddamn them!

2100
02:26:13,765 --> 02:26:16,135
You see me screwin'
everything that moves?

2101
02:26:17,185 --> 02:26:20,435
For Christ's sake, I did what
The New York Times editorial page

2102
02:26:20,521 --> 02:26:24,021
said for me to do!
I ended the war!

2103
02:26:24,108 --> 02:26:28,148
I got S.A.L.T. One with the Russians,
I opened China.

2104
02:26:28,237 --> 02:26:31,157
So why are these assholes
turning on me?

2105
02:26:31,240 --> 02:26:34,370
'Cause they don't like the way I look,
where I went to school!

2106
02:26:34,452 --> 02:26:37,582
- Because they're not Americans.
- They don't trust America.

2107
02:26:37,663 --> 02:26:39,293
Why would they?

2108
02:26:39,373 --> 02:26:42,253
They just come here to stick
their snouts in the trough.

2109
02:26:42,335 --> 02:26:44,285
Who are these people? Sulzberger.

2110
02:26:44,378 --> 02:26:47,088
Their parents are gold traders
from eastern Europe,

2111
02:26:47,173 --> 02:26:48,973
with due respect.
They buy things.

2112
02:26:49,050 --> 02:26:52,890
They come to "Jew" York city and buy up
things. And one of the things they buy,

2113
02:26:52,970 --> 02:26:56,970
Mr. President, is The New York Times.
You know what? You should be proud,

2114
02:26:57,058 --> 02:26:59,268
because they'll never trust you, sir.

2115
02:26:59,352 --> 02:27:02,062
Because we speak
for the average American.

2116
02:27:02,146 --> 02:27:04,726
You know why they're turning on me?

2117
02:27:04,816 --> 02:27:08,396
It's because they're not serious
about power, that's why.

2118
02:27:08,486 --> 02:27:10,646
They're playing with power.

2119
02:27:10,738 --> 02:27:13,278
They're forgetting
the national interest.

2120
02:27:13,366 --> 02:27:17,196
In the old days people knew
how to hold power, how to set limits.

2121
02:27:17,286 --> 02:27:20,996
They wouldn't have torn this country
apart over a third-rate burglary.

2122
02:27:21,082 --> 02:27:24,672
For Christ's sake, now all they
care about are their egos,

2123
02:27:24,752 --> 02:27:26,672
looking good at cocktail parties.

2124
02:27:26,754 --> 02:27:29,014
Beating out other papers
and chasing girls.

2125
02:27:29,090 --> 02:27:32,180
Wondering whether someone
said something nice about them.

2126
02:27:32,260 --> 02:27:34,090
Short-term, frivolous bullshit.

2127
02:27:34,178 --> 02:27:37,598
Ben Bradlee worrying
about Teddy Kennedy liking him.

2128
02:27:38,307 --> 02:27:40,887
- Get Mr. Dean in here, Will you?
- Mr. President,

2129
02:27:40,977 --> 02:27:45,647
I fear we are drifting toward oblivion.
We are playing a totally reactive game.

2130
02:27:45,731 --> 02:27:51,111
We have to get ahead of the ball.
Now, we all know that you are clean.

2131
02:27:51,195 --> 02:27:53,195
Right?

2132
02:27:53,281 --> 02:27:57,701
Then let's take off the gloves.
Let's do a housecleaning.

2133
02:27:57,785 --> 02:27:59,995
Housecleaning?

2134
02:28:07,461 --> 02:28:09,881
No, it could be ugly, Henry,
really ugly.

2135
02:28:09,964 --> 02:28:12,554
It must be done, sir.
Your government is paralyzed.

2136
02:28:12,633 --> 02:28:15,343
All kinds of shit could come out.
The Ellsberg thing.

2137
02:28:15,428 --> 02:28:17,428
You knew about that, didn't you, Henry?

2138
02:28:17,513 --> 02:28:19,893
Well, I heard something.
It sounded idiotic.

2139
02:28:19,974 --> 02:28:21,604
Idiotic.
Yeah, I suppose it was.

2140
02:28:21,684 --> 02:28:24,814
I thought it was your idea
to expose Ellsberg as a sex fiend.

2141
02:28:24,896 --> 02:28:27,226
I guess somebody just
took you too literally.

2142
02:28:27,315 --> 02:28:31,525
I never suggested a bunch of imbeciles
break into a psychiatrist's office.

2143
02:28:31,611 --> 02:28:35,411
It doesn't matter. The point is you
might lose your media darling halo

2144
02:28:35,489 --> 02:28:38,409
if the media start sniffing
around our dirty laundry.

2145
02:28:38,492 --> 02:28:42,292
Sir, I never had anything to do with
that and I resent the implication...

2146
02:28:42,371 --> 02:28:46,831
Resent it all you want, Henry,
but you're in with the rest of us.

2147
02:28:46,918 --> 02:28:51,298
Cambodia. Ellsberg.
The wiretaps you put in.

2148
02:28:51,380 --> 02:28:54,590
The president wants you to know
you can’t just click your heels

2149
02:28:54,675 --> 02:28:57,965
and head back to Harvard Yard.
It's your ass too, Henry,

2150
02:28:58,054 --> 02:29:01,514
and it's in the wind
twisting with everyone else's.

2151
02:29:11,484 --> 02:29:14,284
- Sir.
- Yeah?

2152
02:29:14,362 --> 02:29:19,532
There are times when
even the president can go too far.

2153
02:29:23,412 --> 02:29:26,622
You played it perfectly, sir.
That cocksucker'll think twice

2154
02:29:26,707 --> 02:29:29,077
- before he leaks again.
- Yeah.

2155
02:29:29,168 --> 02:29:32,798
He'll be looking in his toilet bowl
every time he pulls the chain.

2156
02:29:34,757 --> 02:29:36,217
Hunt wants more money.

2157
02:29:36,300 --> 02:29:38,680
- Another 122,000.
- Fuck.

2158
02:29:38,761 --> 02:29:42,311
If he doesn't get it right away,
he's going to blow us out of the water.

2159
02:29:42,390 --> 02:29:45,310
He means it. Since his wife died
in the plane crash, he's over the edge.

2160
02:29:45,393 --> 02:29:46,983
Pay him. Pay him what he wants.

2161
02:29:47,061 --> 02:29:51,441
We gotta turn the faucet off on Hunt and
these Cubans. They're out of control.

2162
02:29:51,524 --> 02:29:53,734
John, you might want to...

2163
02:29:53,818 --> 02:29:55,898
It's gotta be Helms. He's behind this.

2164
02:29:55,987 --> 02:29:58,447
- I think we can leverage Helms.
- How?

2165
02:29:58,531 --> 02:30:02,831
When I met with him,
he kind of tipped his hand.

2166
02:30:02,910 --> 02:30:05,160
This affair,
the president wants you to know,

2167
02:30:05,246 --> 02:30:07,906
is related to the Bay of Pigs.
And if it comes out...

2168
02:30:07,999 --> 02:30:10,329
This has nothing to do
with the Bay of Pigs!

2169
02:30:11,752 --> 02:30:14,002
I have no concern
about the Bay of Pigs!

2170
02:30:14,088 --> 02:30:16,338
[Haldeman] I couldn't believe it.

2171
02:30:16,424 --> 02:30:19,804
This is what the president
told me to relay to you, Dick.

2172
02:30:19,885 --> 02:30:22,345
I had to remind him
who he was talking to.

2173
02:30:22,430 --> 02:30:26,140
So I was wondering? What's such
dynamite in this Bay of Pigs thing?

2174
02:30:26,225 --> 02:30:27,925
Sir.

2175
02:30:31,355 --> 02:30:35,355
Though it was clearly effective, because
all of a sudden it was no problem

2176
02:30:35,443 --> 02:30:38,613
for Helms to go to the FBI
and try to put a lid on Watergate.

2177
02:30:39,488 --> 02:30:43,068
- What about the documents promised?
- He'll give us the documents.

2178
02:30:43,159 --> 02:30:46,699
But I think if we offer him
an ambassadorship,

2179
02:30:46,787 --> 02:30:49,997
the ambassadorship to Iran,
we can get rid of him. He'll go...

2180
02:30:50,082 --> 02:30:54,712
- No, I promised Iran to Townsend.
- Townsend in Belgium. It's available.

2181
02:30:54,795 --> 02:30:59,375
He gave us 300 grand. Belgium's
not worth more than 100, 150.

2182
02:30:59,467 --> 02:31:01,127
What about England?

2183
02:31:01,218 --> 02:31:04,048
Forget it.
Annenberg's paid three times that much.

2184
02:31:04,138 --> 02:31:07,308
Helms wants Iran,
or there might be a problem.

2185
02:31:07,391 --> 02:31:10,191
All his old buddies are over there
making a fortune...

2186
02:31:10,269 --> 02:31:11,729
When does this end, Bob?

2187
02:31:11,812 --> 02:31:13,312
- [Dean] Executive clemency.
- What?

2188
02:31:13,397 --> 02:31:17,527
Hunt and the Cubans have nothing to lose
now. Pardon them all.

2189
02:31:17,610 --> 02:31:20,740
Nobody investigates a crime
for which criminals have been pardoned.

2190
02:31:20,821 --> 02:31:22,861
- Yeah, I like that.
- But it'll never do.

2191
02:31:22,948 --> 02:31:26,328
Pardoning them means we're guilty.
Press, the people'll go nuts.

2192
02:31:26,410 --> 02:31:29,250
Am I supposed to sit here
and watch them coming closer,

2193
02:31:29,330 --> 02:31:31,000
eating their way to the center?

2194
02:31:31,082 --> 02:31:33,212
Lyndon bugged, so did Kennedy.

2195
02:31:33,292 --> 02:31:37,922
F.D.R. cut a deal with Lucky Luciano.
Christ, even Eisenhower had a mistress.

2196
02:31:38,005 --> 02:31:41,415
What's so special about me? Huh?

2197
02:31:41,509 --> 02:31:45,969
What about Lyndon? He could make
a couple calls to the... Hell, and...

2198
02:31:46,055 --> 02:31:48,555
...shut this whole damn thing down.

2199
02:31:48,641 --> 02:31:50,271
- Anyone talk to him?
- I have.

2200
02:31:50,351 --> 02:31:52,601
- What'd he say?
- No dice, he hit the roof.

2201
02:31:52,686 --> 02:31:54,056
Why?

2202
02:31:54,146 --> 02:31:57,606
He said if you go out with a story
about how he bugged your plane,

2203
02:31:57,691 --> 02:31:59,571
he's gonna reveal...

2204
02:32:07,993 --> 02:32:09,583
He's gonna reveal...

2205
02:32:10,538 --> 02:32:12,788
- ...Vietnamese peace talks...
- All right.

2206
02:32:12,873 --> 02:32:14,793
All right! Stop!

2207
02:32:14,875 --> 02:32:16,535
What's the matter with you?

2208
02:32:18,003 --> 02:32:22,633
I know. I just know
we've made too many enemies.

2209
02:32:23,384 --> 02:32:27,304
There's another thing. Bob and I have to
testify before the urban committee.

2210
02:32:27,388 --> 02:32:30,598
No, you're not.
You're gonna claim executive privilege.

2211
02:32:30,683 --> 02:32:32,983
You're gonna stonewall it
all the way.

2212
02:32:33,060 --> 02:32:35,400
Plead the 5th Amendment.
I don't give a shit.

2213
02:32:35,479 --> 02:32:38,149
They can't force
the president's people to testify.

2214
02:32:38,232 --> 02:32:40,782
Executive privilege
looks like we're covering.

2215
02:32:40,860 --> 02:32:43,280
We are covering up
for God's sake.

2216
02:32:43,362 --> 02:32:45,412
Some petty, stupid shit.

2217
02:32:46,490 --> 02:32:50,410
There are things I can say what
other people said, and they'd be lies.

2218
02:32:50,494 --> 02:32:53,754
When I say them,
nobody believes me anyway.

2219
02:32:55,499 --> 02:32:58,249
Then, we're going to
have to give them Mitchell.

2220
02:33:00,171 --> 02:33:02,461
Mitchell's family.

2221
02:33:02,548 --> 02:33:05,628
Either it goes to Mitchell,
or it comes here.

2222
02:33:06,969 --> 02:33:08,759
John's right, boss.

2223
02:33:09,930 --> 02:33:13,680
It's not personal.
It's just the way the game is played.

2224
02:33:13,767 --> 02:33:16,097
Sometimes you gotta punt.

2225
02:33:18,522 --> 02:33:19,982
[kicks desk]

2226
02:33:21,775 --> 02:33:23,355
Jesus.

2227
02:33:23,444 --> 02:33:26,534
I'm so goddamn worn-out with this.

2228
02:33:35,664 --> 02:33:37,254
Who's gonna tell Mitchell?

2229
02:33:37,333 --> 02:33:39,003
- You do it.
- Why me?

2230
02:33:39,668 --> 02:33:43,248
'Cause he hates you. It's worse
when you get it from someone you trust.

2231
02:33:43,339 --> 02:33:45,469
Hey. He's wrong, you know.

2232
02:33:47,009 --> 02:33:49,589
About Kennedy and L.B.J. and Truman.

2233
02:33:49,678 --> 02:33:50,718
How so?

2234
02:33:50,804 --> 02:33:54,274
Well, I mean, sure, they did stuff, Bob,
but nothing like this.

2235
02:33:54,350 --> 02:33:59,560
I mean, forget about the break-in,
the, the enemies list, the... You know?

2236
02:33:59,647 --> 02:34:03,147
You got the attempted firebombing
of the Brookings Institution.

2237
02:34:03,234 --> 02:34:06,574
Planting McGovern stuff
on the guy that shot Wallace?

2238
02:34:06,654 --> 02:34:08,704
Trying to slip L.S.D. to Jack Anderson?

2239
02:34:08,781 --> 02:34:11,281
Old man plays politics
harder than anybody else.

2240
02:34:11,367 --> 02:34:13,577
You think this is about politics?

2241
02:34:13,661 --> 02:34:17,371
Do you think L.B.J. would have
ever asked Hunt to forge a cable

2242
02:34:17,456 --> 02:34:21,246
implicating Kennedy in the assassination
of the president of Vietnam?

2243
02:34:21,335 --> 02:34:23,535
How long have you known Bob,
20 years?

2244
02:34:23,629 --> 02:34:27,089
This is the Roosevelt Room,
named after our 26th president

2245
02:34:27,174 --> 02:34:29,384
20 years, you ever shake hands with him?

2246
02:34:29,468 --> 02:34:31,798
Ever have a real conversation with him?

2247
02:34:34,265 --> 02:34:37,595
No, this...
This is about Richard Nixon.

2248
02:34:37,685 --> 02:34:40,935
You got people dying because
he didn't make varsity football.

2249
02:34:41,021 --> 02:34:43,611
You got the Constitution hanging by
a thread

2250
02:34:43,691 --> 02:34:47,031
because he went to Whittier,
not to Yale.

2251
02:34:47,695 --> 02:34:49,945
And what is this Bay of Pigs thing?

2252
02:34:50,030 --> 02:34:52,200
Goes white every time you mention it.

2253
02:34:54,076 --> 02:34:57,746
- It's a code or something.
- Well, shit, even I figured that out.

2254
02:34:59,164 --> 02:35:01,044
I think he means...

2255
02:35:02,960 --> 02:35:05,670
- The Kennedy assassination...
- Yeah?

2256
02:35:05,754 --> 02:35:10,134
They went after Castro and in some
crazy way it got turned back on Kennedy.

2257
02:35:10,217 --> 02:35:14,347
I don't think the old man knows what
happened. But he's afraid to find out.

2258
02:35:14,430 --> 02:35:17,640
He's shitting peach pits every time
he thinks about it.

2259
02:35:17,725 --> 02:35:20,435
Created a Frankenstein
with those damn Cubans.

2260
02:35:20,519 --> 02:35:23,349
Eight words back in '72:

2261
02:35:23,439 --> 02:35:29,109
"I covered up." "I was wrong."
"I'm sorry."

2262
02:35:29,194 --> 02:35:31,904
And the American public
would've forgiven him.

2263
02:35:31,989 --> 02:35:35,119
But we never opened our mouths, John.

2264
02:35:36,076 --> 02:35:37,986
We failed him.

2265
02:35:38,078 --> 02:35:42,168
Dick Nixon saying "I'm sorry"?
[chuckles] That'll be the day.

2266
02:35:42,249 --> 02:35:44,829
His whole suit of armor would fall off.

2267
02:35:44,918 --> 02:35:49,128
- So, you tell Mitchell.
- Yeah.

2268
02:35:49,214 --> 02:35:53,224
And John, you do know
that we're next, don't you?

2269
02:35:55,763 --> 02:35:58,353
[thunder rumbles]

2270
02:36:03,437 --> 02:36:06,437
[siren blaring in distance]

2271
02:36:08,442 --> 02:36:10,572
You're early, John.

2272
02:36:12,905 --> 02:36:16,615
If you'd been that stealthy at the
Watergate, we wouldn't be in this mess.

2273
02:36:18,619 --> 02:36:22,159
- I was sorry to hear about your wife.
- Yes.

2274
02:36:23,832 --> 02:36:25,502
Take out the money.

2275
02:36:25,584 --> 02:36:28,714
The president would like to know
if that was the last payment.

2276
02:36:28,796 --> 02:36:31,456
- I'll bet he would.
- Is it?

2277
02:36:32,925 --> 02:36:35,885
In Richard Nixon's long history
of underhanded dealings

2278
02:36:35,969 --> 02:36:39,759
he's never had better value for his
money. If I were to open my mouth,

2279
02:36:39,848 --> 02:36:42,388
all the dominoes would fall.

2280
02:36:43,811 --> 02:36:45,901
Can I ask you a question?

2281
02:36:45,979 --> 02:36:47,899
How the hell do you have the temerity

2282
02:36:47,981 --> 02:36:50,861
to blackmail the president
of the United States?

2283
02:36:50,943 --> 02:36:55,153
That's not the question, John.
The question is, why is he paying?

2284
02:36:55,239 --> 02:36:59,079
- To protect his people.
- I'm one of his people.

2285
02:36:59,159 --> 02:37:02,539
The Cubans are his people.
And we're going to jail for him.

2286
02:37:02,621 --> 02:37:06,501
Howard, you will serve no more
than two years, then he'll pardon you.

2287
02:37:06,583 --> 02:37:09,713
Maybe. Maybe not.

2288
02:37:10,838 --> 02:37:13,798
But you don't leave your men
on the beach, John.

2289
02:37:13,882 --> 02:37:16,592
You don't make them beg for their money
like thieves.

2290
02:37:16,677 --> 02:37:20,007
You don't dump men with families
who've served their country.

2291
02:37:20,097 --> 02:37:23,097
He didn't know.
This thing has gotten out of hand.

2292
02:37:23,183 --> 02:37:27,023
You think a man as controlled as Richard
Nixon would've allowed a break-in

2293
02:37:27,104 --> 02:37:30,524
at the Democratic National Headquarters
without knowing it?

2294
02:37:30,607 --> 02:37:35,237
You think Mitchell or Haldeman wouldn't
have run it by him at least once?

2295
02:37:35,320 --> 02:37:37,910
The president's men did nothing,

2296
02:37:37,990 --> 02:37:41,700
nothing without
Richard Nixon's permission.

2297
02:37:45,330 --> 02:37:47,500
John, sooner or later...

2298
02:37:47,583 --> 02:37:52,133
Sooner, I think, you're going to learn
the lesson that's been learned

2299
02:37:52,212 --> 02:37:55,722
by everyone who's ever
gotten close to Richard Nixon.

2300
02:37:55,799 --> 02:38:00,889
That he's the darkness
reaching out for the darkness.

2301
02:38:02,473 --> 02:38:06,273
And eventually it's either you or him.

2302
02:38:08,812 --> 02:38:11,522
Your grave's already been dug, John.

2303
02:38:25,037 --> 02:38:28,327
[man] F.B.I. director-designate
L. Patrick Gray

2304
02:38:28,415 --> 02:38:31,125
shocked the Senate
by revealing that John Dean

2305
02:38:31,210 --> 02:38:34,630
has been secretly receiving
F.B.I. reports on Watergate.

2306
02:38:34,713 --> 02:38:36,963
Crown, this is Echo Six.
How are you, sir?

2307
02:38:37,049 --> 02:38:40,009
[man] Gray also said that Dean lied
when he claimed Howard Hunt

2308
02:38:40,093 --> 02:38:42,353
did not
have an office in the White House.

2309
02:38:42,429 --> 02:38:44,639
- How is he?
- He's in a bad mood.

2310
02:38:44,723 --> 02:38:46,973
He's running late. Have a seat.

2311
02:38:50,979 --> 02:38:53,479
This is the sort of thing
Mafia people can do.

2312
02:38:53,565 --> 02:38:56,935
Washing money, things like that.
We don't know about these things

2313
02:38:57,027 --> 02:38:59,947
- because we're not criminals.
- [Nixon] How much you need?

2314
02:39:01,114 --> 02:39:06,334
I would say these people will cost a
million dollars over the next two years.

2315
02:39:06,411 --> 02:39:09,211
We could get that.

2316
02:39:09,289 --> 02:39:13,459
Get a million dollars in cash.
I know where it could be gotten.

2317
02:39:16,338 --> 02:39:19,048
I'm still not confident
we can ride through this.

2318
02:39:19,132 --> 02:39:22,762
Some people are gonna have to go
to jail. Hunt's not the only problem.

2319
02:39:22,844 --> 02:39:27,564
Haldeman let me use the $350,000 cash
fund in his safe to make the payments.

2320
02:39:27,641 --> 02:39:31,391
Ehrlichman had a role, a big role,
in the Ellsberg break-in.

2321
02:39:31,478 --> 02:39:33,518
Oh, I don't know about that.

2322
02:39:33,605 --> 02:39:37,775
And... And I'm... [clears throat]

2323
02:39:37,859 --> 02:39:41,609
I think it's time we begin to think
in terms of cutting our losses.

2324
02:39:45,325 --> 02:39:49,405
[Nixon] Are you... You're saying
cut our losses, John, and all the rest.

2325
02:39:49,496 --> 02:39:53,616
And, you know, suppose the thing blows
and they indict Bob and the others?

2326
02:39:53,709 --> 02:39:56,919
Jesus, you'd never recover
from that, John. I mean...

2327
02:39:57,004 --> 02:40:01,174
No, it's better to fight it out instead
and not let people testify.

2328
02:40:01,258 --> 02:40:05,848
Sir, I, I still don't think
we can contain this anymore.

2329
02:40:06,763 --> 02:40:10,523
There's a cancer on the presidency,
and it's growing with every day...

2330
02:40:10,601 --> 02:40:12,311
Jesus, you know, every...

2331
02:40:12,394 --> 02:40:16,314
Everything's a crisis among the upper
intellectual types, the softheads.

2332
02:40:16,398 --> 02:40:19,438
The average people don't think
it's much of a crisis.

2333
02:40:19,526 --> 02:40:22,896
For Christ's sake, this is not Vietnam.
No one's dying here.

2334
02:40:22,988 --> 02:40:25,108
I mean, isn't it ridiculous?

2335
02:40:25,198 --> 02:40:28,198
- I agree. It's ridiculous but...
- It's goddamn crazy!

2336
02:40:28,285 --> 02:40:30,075
Goldwater was right when he said

2337
02:40:30,162 --> 02:40:34,172
"For Christ's sakes, everybody bugs
everybody else." We know that.

2338
02:40:35,292 --> 02:40:39,672
It's the cover-up, John,
not the deed, that's really bad here.

2339
02:40:41,548 --> 02:40:45,968
If only Mitchell could step up
and take the brunt of it, you know.

2340
02:40:46,053 --> 02:40:50,223
Give 'em the hors d'oeuvre. Maybe they
won't come back for the main course.

2341
02:40:52,059 --> 02:40:54,809
You know, that's the tragedy
in all this. Uh...

2342
02:40:54,895 --> 02:40:58,725
Mitchell's gonna get it anyway,
so it's time he assumed responsibility.

2343
02:40:58,815 --> 02:41:00,725
You're not paying attention.

2344
02:41:00,817 --> 02:41:04,237
He won't. He's told Ehrlichman he won't.

2345
02:41:04,321 --> 02:41:07,821
You tell my good friend Dick
I got suckered into this thing

2346
02:41:07,908 --> 02:41:11,738
by not paying attention
to what these bastards were doing.

2347
02:41:11,828 --> 02:41:15,158
I don't have a guilty conscience,
and he shouldn't either.

2348
02:41:16,750 --> 02:41:18,000
Yeah.

2349
02:41:22,422 --> 02:41:23,712
Well, he's right.

2350
02:41:24,675 --> 02:41:28,255
Maybe it is time to, uh,
go the hang-out route, John.

2351
02:41:28,345 --> 02:41:31,675
A full and thorough investigation.

2352
02:41:31,765 --> 02:41:36,135
We've cooperated with the F.B.I.
We'll cooperate with the Senate.

2353
02:41:36,228 --> 02:41:39,188
- What have we got to hide?
- No, we've nothing to hide.

2354
02:41:39,272 --> 02:41:41,692
No. Nothing to hide.

2355
02:41:41,775 --> 02:41:42,855
You know, the only...

2356
02:41:42,943 --> 02:41:46,453
The only fault in the plan is
they're not gonna believe the truth.

2357
02:41:46,530 --> 02:41:50,160
- That's the incredible thing.
- I agree. It's... it's tricky.

2358
02:41:51,159 --> 02:41:53,659
Everything seems to lead back here.

2359
02:41:53,745 --> 02:41:56,495
- People would never understand.
- No.

2360
02:41:56,581 --> 02:41:59,961
John, I want you to get away
from this madhouse.

2361
02:42:00,043 --> 02:42:01,843
I want these reporters.

2362
02:42:01,920 --> 02:42:06,720
I want you to go up to Camp David
for the weekend and write up a report.

2363
02:42:06,800 --> 02:42:10,090
Put everything you know
about Watergate in there and say,

2364
02:42:10,178 --> 02:42:12,968
"Mr. President, here it all is." OK?

2365
02:42:13,056 --> 02:42:15,926
You want me to put it all in writing
over my signature?

2366
02:42:17,144 --> 02:42:21,774
Well, uh... nobody knows more
about this thing than you do, John.

2367
02:42:21,857 --> 02:42:24,937
You know, the details.
That stuff I don't know. But.

2368
02:42:29,239 --> 02:42:33,869
Sir, I'm not going to
be the scapegoat for this.

2369
02:42:33,952 --> 02:42:36,792
Haldeman and Ehrlichman
are in it just as deep as I am.

2370
02:42:36,872 --> 02:42:41,672
No, now, John, you don't wanna
start down that road. I remember, uh...

2371
02:42:41,752 --> 02:42:45,252
...Whittaker Chambers
telling me back in '48.

2372
02:42:45,338 --> 02:42:47,418
He was a man who suffered greatly.

2373
02:42:47,507 --> 02:42:52,087
And he said, "On the road of the
informer, it is always night."

2374
02:42:52,179 --> 02:42:58,019
Now, it's beyond you, or even me, John.
It's the country. It's the presidency.

2375
02:42:58,101 --> 02:43:01,441
- I understand that, sir.
- You know how I feel about loyalty.

2376
02:43:01,521 --> 02:43:05,231
I'm not gonna let any of my people
go to jail, that I promise you.

2377
02:43:05,317 --> 02:43:10,447
The important thing is to keep this
away from Haldeman and Ehrlichman.

2378
02:43:10,530 --> 02:43:14,370
I'm trusting you to do this, John, and
I have complete confidence in you. OK?

2379
02:43:14,451 --> 02:43:16,241
- I'll work on it.
- OK.

2380
02:43:16,328 --> 02:43:18,868
Say hi to that wife of yours,
will you? Good.

2381
02:43:20,207 --> 02:43:22,827
- Shit.
- It happens.

2382
02:43:22,918 --> 02:43:25,128
The place is a shambles.

2383
02:43:25,212 --> 02:43:26,342
Hey!

2384
02:43:29,591 --> 02:43:33,051
I was determined that we should
get to the bottom of Watergate

2385
02:43:33,136 --> 02:43:37,466
and the truth should be fully brought
out, no matter who was involved.

2386
02:43:38,558 --> 02:43:43,308
Today, in one of the most difficult
decisions of my presidency

2387
02:43:43,396 --> 02:43:47,816
I accepted the resignations of two of my
closest associates in the White House,

2388
02:43:47,901 --> 02:43:50,321
Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman,

2389
02:43:50,403 --> 02:43:54,163
two of the finest public servants
it has been my privilege to know.

2390
02:43:58,954 --> 02:44:00,624
More light, Chief?

2391
02:44:01,623 --> 02:44:03,253
No, Bob.

2392
02:44:10,382 --> 02:44:11,672
Six bodies.

2393
02:44:11,758 --> 02:44:15,758
[Nixon] The counsel to the president,
John Dean, has also resigned.

2394
02:44:15,846 --> 02:44:18,556
I will not place the
blame on subordinates,

2395
02:44:18,640 --> 02:44:21,770
on people whose zeal
exceeded their judgment,

2396
02:44:21,852 --> 02:44:26,942
and who may have done wrong in a cause
they deeply believed to be right.

2397
02:44:28,608 --> 02:44:33,568
In any organization, the man at the top
must bear the responsibility.

2398
02:44:33,655 --> 02:44:38,865
That responsibility, therefore, belongs
here in this office and I accept that.

2399
02:44:38,952 --> 02:44:41,792
There can be no whitewash
at the White House.

2400
02:44:41,872 --> 02:44:44,712
Two wrongs do not make a right.

2401
02:44:44,791 --> 02:44:47,001
Now, I love America.

2402
02:44:47,085 --> 02:44:51,585
God bless America, and God bless each
and every one of you.

2403
02:44:53,550 --> 02:44:55,550
And we're clear.

2404
02:44:59,097 --> 02:45:00,557
Out.

2405
02:45:20,368 --> 02:45:21,698
Thank you.

2406
02:45:28,251 --> 02:45:30,671
Are you going to Key Biscayne?

2407
02:45:31,713 --> 02:45:33,513
- Yeah.
- Excuse me, sir.

2408
02:45:33,590 --> 02:45:35,220
When?

2409
02:45:36,927 --> 02:45:38,467
Tomorrow.

2410
02:45:45,393 --> 02:45:49,733
Ron told me that, um...
Bob Haldeman has been calling,

2411
02:45:49,814 --> 02:45:51,944
but you won't talk to him.

2412
02:45:53,401 --> 02:45:55,901
If he's convicted,
will you pardon him?

2413
02:45:59,866 --> 02:46:01,156
No.

2414
02:46:07,958 --> 02:46:11,418
Why are you cutting yourself off
from the rest of us?

2415
02:46:13,421 --> 02:46:15,631
Can't we discuss this?

2416
02:46:15,715 --> 02:46:20,635
- What exactly do you want to discuss?
- You. What you're doing.

2417
02:46:21,888 --> 02:46:25,388
- What am I doing?
- I wish I knew. You're hiding.

2418
02:46:28,770 --> 02:46:32,820
- Hiding what?
- Whatever it is you've been hiding.

2419
02:46:32,899 --> 02:46:35,729
You're letting it destroy you, Dick.

2420
02:46:37,404 --> 02:46:39,534
You won't even ask for help...

2421
02:46:44,577 --> 02:46:47,037
Manolo, uh...

2422
02:46:47,122 --> 02:46:49,422
Mrs. Nixon's finished.

2423
02:46:53,003 --> 02:46:55,503
I am the only one left, Dick.

2424
02:46:56,464 --> 02:46:59,014
If you don't even talk to me...

2425
02:47:07,809 --> 02:47:10,729
Brezhnev's coming in three days.

2426
02:47:10,812 --> 02:47:14,822
I don't wanna deal with them
and him and you.

2427
02:47:17,444 --> 02:47:20,704
How much more?
How much more is it going to cost?

2428
02:47:20,780 --> 02:47:24,280
When do the rest of us
stop paying off your debts?

2429
02:47:28,496 --> 02:47:32,286
I'd like to finish my dinner in peace

2430
02:47:32,375 --> 02:47:35,285
if it's not too much to ask.

2431
02:47:39,382 --> 02:47:41,382
No, it isn't.

2432
02:47:45,305 --> 02:47:48,805
I won't interfere with you anymore.
I'm finished trying.

2433
02:47:50,852 --> 02:47:52,902
Thank you.

2434
02:47:52,979 --> 02:47:54,729
"Thank you"?

2435
02:47:55,857 --> 02:47:58,937
Dick, sometimes I understand
why they hate you.

2436
02:48:05,325 --> 02:48:06,735
[gavel pounds]

2437
02:48:06,826 --> 02:48:11,906
The committee will come to order.
Counsel will call the first witness.

2438
02:48:11,998 --> 02:48:13,998
Mr. John W. Dean, III.

2439
02:48:14,084 --> 02:48:16,424
After I departed the president's office

2440
02:48:16,503 --> 02:48:20,593
I went to a meeting with Haldeman
and Ehrlichman to discuss the matter.

2441
02:48:20,673 --> 02:48:24,433
The sum and substance
of that discussion was,

2442
02:48:24,511 --> 02:48:27,761
the way to handle this now
was for Mitchell to step forward.

2443
02:48:27,847 --> 02:48:31,807
It was a disappointment to me because
it was quite clear that the cover-up,

2444
02:48:31,893 --> 02:48:35,773
as far as the White House was...
was concerned, was going to continue.

2445
02:48:35,855 --> 02:48:38,685
Why is he doing this?
He's our goddamn lawyer.

2446
02:48:38,775 --> 02:48:41,355
If he had a problem,
why didn't he come talk with us?

2447
02:48:41,444 --> 02:48:44,154
Remember, the weasel's got no proof.

2448
02:48:45,532 --> 02:48:48,622
It's still an informer's word
against the president's.

2449
02:48:48,701 --> 02:48:51,451
...were all indictable
for obstruction of justice.

2450
02:48:51,538 --> 02:48:55,458
That was the reason I was disagreeing
with all that was being discussed.

2451
02:48:55,542 --> 02:48:57,042
Give 'em hell, general.

2452
02:49:00,630 --> 02:49:02,630
[speaking in Russian]

2453
02:49:03,883 --> 02:49:07,263
[woman interpreter]
Mao taught me in 1963...

2454
02:49:09,848 --> 02:49:12,268
...if I have nuclear weapons...

2455
02:49:14,561 --> 02:49:17,561
...let 400 million Chinese die...

2456
02:49:18,731 --> 02:49:21,111
...300 million will be left.

2457
02:49:22,235 --> 02:49:25,195
- Mao!
- Yeah.

2458
02:49:25,822 --> 02:49:29,242
I can tell you what happened.
You want names? I can give you names.

2459
02:49:29,325 --> 02:49:31,575
Haldeman.
I'm talking about the president.

2460
02:49:31,661 --> 02:49:33,951
- [Brezhnev] Mao!
- We all know in our country...

2461
02:49:34,038 --> 02:49:35,958
[Dean] I can give you the president.

2462
02:49:36,249 --> 02:49:38,579
This man in his dog heart.

2463
02:49:40,920 --> 02:49:43,260
[interpreter] You want him
to be your ally?

2464
02:49:44,632 --> 02:49:47,842
Well, he was your ally
for 20 years, Leonid.

2465
02:49:47,927 --> 02:49:49,507
Yes, yes, Dick.

2466
02:49:49,596 --> 02:49:52,756
- [speaking in Russian]
- [interpreter speaking Russian]

2467
02:49:55,059 --> 02:49:57,059
Mr. Nixon...

2468
02:49:58,271 --> 02:50:01,821
[interpreter] Life is the best teacher,
and therefore it must not interfere

2469
02:50:01,900 --> 02:50:05,780
with the building of the S.A.L.T. Two
treaty between our great countries.

2470
02:50:09,115 --> 02:50:12,485
Peace in our era is possible.

2471
02:50:14,204 --> 02:50:18,294
- Excuse me, uh, Leonid.
- It's OK, Dick. It's OK.

2472
02:50:20,084 --> 02:50:22,094
[speaking in Russian]

2473
02:50:32,138 --> 02:50:35,138
He's spilling his guts to the
Ervin committee. Unfortunately...

2474
02:50:53,368 --> 02:50:54,698
[Julie] Did you?

2475
02:50:55,495 --> 02:50:58,035
- Daddy?
- What?

2476
02:50:58,122 --> 02:50:59,832
Did you cover it up?

2477
02:51:06,464 --> 02:51:09,174
You think I'd do
something like that, honey?

2478
02:51:12,178 --> 02:51:15,928
Well, then you can't give up.
You just can't.

2479
02:51:16,015 --> 02:51:19,175
You're one of the best presidents
this country has ever had.

2480
02:51:19,269 --> 02:51:23,769
You've done what Lincoln did, brought
this country back from civil war.

2481
02:51:23,856 --> 02:51:26,856
You can't let your enemies
tear you down.

2482
02:51:26,943 --> 02:51:29,403
You've gotta stay and fight.

2483
02:51:29,487 --> 02:51:32,777
I'll go out there and make speeches.
Nobody knows the real you,

2484
02:51:32,865 --> 02:51:36,655
how sweet you are,
how nice you are to people.

2485
02:51:36,744 --> 02:51:38,954
I'll tell them.

2486
02:51:40,707 --> 02:51:43,537
You're the most
decent person I know.

2487
02:51:46,379 --> 02:51:49,009
[Nixon] I just hope I haven't
let you down, Kitten.

2488
02:51:50,967 --> 02:51:53,547
[Julie] They just don't know
the real you.

2489
02:51:55,179 --> 02:51:57,719
They just don't know.

2490
02:51:57,807 --> 02:52:01,847
Tricky Dick always knew
what was goin' on.

2491
02:52:02,645 --> 02:52:05,765
Every last goddamn detail.

2492
02:52:05,857 --> 02:52:09,737
And my husband is not going
to take the rap this time.

2493
02:52:09,819 --> 02:52:13,909
They know they can't shut me up.
Probably end up killin' me.

2494
02:52:13,990 --> 02:52:17,280
She doesn't know what she's
talking about. Stop bothering her!

2495
02:52:17,368 --> 02:52:19,868
Hell, she's nuts.
You bastards have seen to that.

2496
02:52:19,954 --> 02:52:21,414
Will you get together again?

2497
02:52:21,497 --> 02:52:24,917
Our marriage is finished, thank you.
Stick that up your keister!

2498
02:52:31,716 --> 02:52:35,426
Now, were the visitors that
went into the White House warned

2499
02:52:35,511 --> 02:52:39,311
that their conversations with
the president would be taped?

2500
02:52:39,390 --> 02:52:41,770
Again, I am not aware
of the technical details.

2501
02:52:41,851 --> 02:52:45,351
On Friday, we have the high
school students from Ohio.

2502
02:52:45,438 --> 02:52:49,608
Saturday is the National
Women's Republican Club.

2503
02:52:49,692 --> 02:52:52,242
[man] ...Watergate wide open,
former White House aide

2504
02:52:52,320 --> 02:52:56,030
Alexander Butterfield testified
before the Senate Select committee.

2505
02:52:56,115 --> 02:52:59,865
He revealed a taping system
that may have recorded conversations

2506
02:52:59,952 --> 02:53:02,752
in the White House,
the executive office building

2507
02:53:02,830 --> 02:53:05,120
and even members of his own family.

2508
02:53:05,208 --> 02:53:08,378
All calls to the White House

2509
02:53:08,461 --> 02:53:11,301
of whatever nature and character,
would be taped?

2510
02:53:11,381 --> 02:53:14,591
- The tape would not discriminate.
- None of them had knowledge

2511
02:53:14,675 --> 02:53:17,085
that their conversations
were being taped?

2512
02:53:17,178 --> 02:53:18,798
[man] This is a stunning revelation.

2513
02:53:18,888 --> 02:53:21,718
If such tapes exist,
they could tell us, once and for all

2514
02:53:21,808 --> 02:53:25,558
what did the president know,
and when did he know it.

2515
02:53:25,645 --> 02:53:26,975
[Nixon] I want Hunt paid.

2516
02:53:27,063 --> 02:53:29,273
It's time to go the hang-out route.

2517
02:53:30,983 --> 02:53:34,693
- [Kissinger] If they fear the madman...
- [Nixon] It's a legal contribution.

2518
02:53:34,779 --> 02:53:36,739
Who the hell authorized this?

2519
02:53:36,823 --> 02:53:39,663
- [Dean] I still don't...
- ...the CIA...

2520
02:53:41,160 --> 02:53:44,790
There's a cancer on the presidency,
and it's growing with every day...

2521
02:53:44,872 --> 02:53:46,292
[Nixon] ...too damn much...

2522
02:53:47,083 --> 02:53:51,093
If Hunt goes public,
it'll be a fiasco for the C.I.A.

2523
02:53:51,170 --> 02:53:52,750
They're like love letters.

2524
02:53:52,839 --> 02:53:54,589
- [clicking]
- [tape whirring]

2525
02:53:54,674 --> 02:53:57,764
You should burn 'em.

2526
02:53:57,844 --> 02:54:00,474
Why didn't you?

2527
02:54:01,514 --> 02:54:05,024
They're evidence.
You can't legally destroy evidence.

2528
02:54:05,101 --> 02:54:09,151
You don't expect me to believe that
for one minute, do ya?

2529
02:54:11,232 --> 02:54:16,242
Does it matter what's on 'em?
Really? Murder, Dick?

2530
02:54:16,320 --> 02:54:19,700
Sex? Your secrets, your fantasies?

2531
02:54:19,782 --> 02:54:23,452
- Or is just me and you and...
- Don't be ridiculous.

2532
02:54:23,536 --> 02:54:26,456
[Pat] I remember Alger Hiss.

2533
02:54:26,539 --> 02:54:29,369
I know how ugly you can be.

2534
02:54:29,459 --> 02:54:31,669
You're capable of anything.

2535
02:54:39,385 --> 02:54:42,795
See, it doesn't really matter
at the end of the day what's on them

2536
02:54:42,889 --> 02:54:47,929
because you have absolutely no remorse.
No concept of remorse.

2537
02:54:48,019 --> 02:54:52,399
You want the tapes to get out.
You want them to see you at your worst.

2538
02:54:52,482 --> 02:54:53,982
- You're drunk.
- Oh, yeah!

2539
02:54:54,066 --> 02:54:56,736
No one'll ever see those tapes,
including you.

2540
02:54:56,819 --> 02:54:59,989
And what would I find out
that I haven't known for years?

2541
02:55:02,408 --> 02:55:07,538
What makes it so damn sad is that
you couldn't confide in any of us.

2542
02:55:07,622 --> 02:55:10,672
You had to make a record
for the whole world.

2543
02:55:10,750 --> 02:55:12,330
[sighs]

2544
02:55:12,418 --> 02:55:17,878
- They were for me. They're mine.
- They're not "yours". They are you.

2545
02:55:25,097 --> 02:55:27,427
You should burn them.

2546
02:55:41,572 --> 02:55:43,242
[gasps]

2547
02:55:46,702 --> 02:55:50,122
- What has changed in you, Richard?
- Go away!

2548
02:56:00,132 --> 02:56:04,142
[Nixon] These guys went after Castro
seven times, ten times.

2549
02:56:04,220 --> 02:56:09,220
What, do you think people like that,
just gave up? They just don't walk away.

2550
02:56:14,313 --> 02:56:16,313
- What, do you think?
- I never said this.

2551
02:56:16,399 --> 02:56:18,279
- Seven times, ten times.
- Ten times.

2552
02:56:18,359 --> 02:56:21,899
- You think people like that gave up?
- Never.

2553
02:56:21,988 --> 02:56:25,448
Castro. These guys went after Castro.

2554
02:56:30,830 --> 02:56:33,750
If this got out,
they'd blame me for everything.

2555
02:56:33,833 --> 02:56:36,793
Forget Kennedy or Johnson. It's Nixon!

2556
02:56:38,004 --> 02:56:41,014
[audio on tape in reverse]

2557
02:56:51,475 --> 02:56:53,135
[audio stops]

2558
02:56:55,354 --> 02:57:00,114
Whoever killed Kennedy came from
this thing we created, this beast.

2559
02:57:05,823 --> 02:57:08,993
[man] In the latest bombshell,
the president's lawyers revealed

2560
02:57:09,076 --> 02:57:11,326
that there is
an 18-and-a-half-minute gap

2561
02:57:11,412 --> 02:57:13,412
in a critical Watergate tape.

2562
02:57:13,497 --> 02:57:17,877
Reactions of disbelief and anger are
being heard across the country.

2563
02:57:19,879 --> 02:57:21,419
[groans]

2564
02:57:21,505 --> 02:57:23,295
[wheezes] My God.

2565
02:57:23,382 --> 02:57:27,892
Pat!

2566
02:57:27,970 --> 02:57:30,760
- Has he had chest pains?
- He woke up coughing blood!

2567
02:57:30,848 --> 02:57:31,888
I'm in charge here!

2568
02:57:31,974 --> 02:57:33,394
Has he been short of breath?

2569
02:57:33,476 --> 02:57:36,346
- No, and he's sure that he has T.B.!
- Why T.B.?

2570
02:57:36,437 --> 02:57:39,357
Because his family had it.
His brother had it.

2571
02:57:42,026 --> 02:57:44,356
- I think it's flooded.
- [Hannah] Richard.

2572
02:57:47,406 --> 02:57:49,696
[nurse] Get those I.V.s started.

2573
02:57:52,370 --> 02:57:53,660
[Pat] Please lie down, Dick.

2574
02:57:53,746 --> 02:57:56,156
- They need you to lie down!
- Sedate him!

2575
02:57:56,248 --> 02:57:57,668
Dick. Dick.

2576
02:58:01,712 --> 02:58:03,712
[Hannah] Richard?

2577
02:58:05,007 --> 02:58:08,177
- Mother.
- Pretty soon, you boys'll have to...

2578
02:58:08,260 --> 02:58:10,140
Maybe a trip to the woodshed'll...

2579
02:58:11,347 --> 02:58:12,927
[Julie] Daddy?

2580
02:58:14,266 --> 02:58:16,766
[monitors beeping]

2581
02:58:34,578 --> 02:58:38,248
- [big band jazz playing]
- [coughing]

2582
02:58:46,966 --> 02:58:49,176
[thunder rumbles]

2583
02:58:53,305 --> 02:58:57,015
[man] Vice President Agnew
has resigned today pleading no contest

2584
02:58:57,101 --> 02:58:59,441
to charges of income tax evasion.

2585
02:58:59,520 --> 02:59:02,770
This follows Watergate Special
Prosecutor Archibald Cox's

2586
02:59:02,857 --> 02:59:06,567
continuing investigation
into President Nixon's finances.

2587
02:59:06,652 --> 02:59:08,952
The president paid no income tax

2588
02:59:09,029 --> 02:59:11,989
- in 1971 and '72
- They need you to lie down, Dick.

2589
02:59:12,074 --> 02:59:15,874
...and may have used funds to improve
his residence in San Clemente...

2590
02:59:15,953 --> 02:59:18,833
[Pat] Where's the blood coming from?
What's wrong with him?

2591
02:59:18,914 --> 02:59:22,214
He's got an acute viral pneumonia
and a very serious phlebitis.

2592
02:59:22,293 --> 02:59:25,463
If a clot were to break loose,
it could go into his lungs.

2593
02:59:25,546 --> 02:59:26,756
Oh, no.

2594
02:59:26,839 --> 02:59:29,469
[man] The president has returned
to the White House.

2595
02:59:29,550 --> 02:59:32,550
But Archibald Cox has declared war
by issuing a subpoena

2596
02:59:32,636 --> 02:59:35,806
- for nine of the president's tapes.
- Never! Over my dead body.

2597
02:59:35,890 --> 02:59:38,100
It's the president's personal property.

2598
02:59:38,184 --> 02:59:42,944
I'll never give up my tapes to a bunch
of Kennedy-loving, Democrat cocksuckers.

2599
02:59:43,022 --> 02:59:46,862
This could trigger the impeachment.
They'll go to the Supreme Court.

2600
02:59:46,942 --> 02:59:50,492
I appointed three of those bastards.
I'll never give them my tapes.

2601
02:59:50,571 --> 02:59:53,111
[Haig] Can the president afford
to ignore a subpoena?

2602
02:59:53,199 --> 02:59:57,119
Who the hell does Cox think he is? I've
never made a dime from public office.

2603
02:59:57,203 --> 03:00:00,293
I'm honest. My dad died broke. Jesus.

2604
03:00:00,372 --> 03:00:04,712
That son of a bitch Cox, he went
to the same law school as Jack Kennedy.

2605
03:00:04,794 --> 03:00:07,464
The last gasp of the establishment.

2606
03:00:07,546 --> 03:00:10,506
Yeah, they got the hell
kicked out of 'em in the election

2607
03:00:10,591 --> 03:00:12,931
so now they gotta squeal
about Watergate

2608
03:00:13,010 --> 03:00:15,930
'cause we were the first
real threat to them in years.

2609
03:00:16,013 --> 03:00:21,523
My God, we would've changed it so they
couldn't have changed it back in years.

2610
03:00:21,602 --> 03:00:22,812
Yeah.

2611
03:00:24,897 --> 03:00:27,607
- If only the, uh...
- [Haig] Mr. President.

2612
03:00:27,691 --> 03:00:30,401
- Sir, Congress is...
- No, over here, sir.

2613
03:00:30,486 --> 03:00:33,656
Sir, Congress is considering
four articles of impeachment.

2614
03:00:33,739 --> 03:00:37,199
- Yeah. For what?
- They're very serious charges, sir.

2615
03:00:37,284 --> 03:00:38,954
- First, abuse of power.
- Yep.

2616
03:00:39,036 --> 03:00:41,406
- Second, obstruction of justice.
- What else?

2617
03:00:41,497 --> 03:00:44,417
Third, the failure
to cooperate with Congress.

2618
03:00:44,500 --> 03:00:48,170
- And last, bombing Cambodia, sir.
- Can't impeach me for Cambodia.

2619
03:00:48,254 --> 03:00:50,344
The president can bomb anybody he likes.

2620
03:00:50,422 --> 03:00:53,302
- [Ziegler] That's true.
- We'll win that, but the other three...

2621
03:00:53,384 --> 03:00:55,554
- Fred, they sell tickets.
- It's Ron, sir.

2622
03:00:55,636 --> 03:00:58,506
They sell tickets to an impeachment
like a damn circus.

2623
03:00:58,597 --> 03:01:01,427
OK, so they impeach me.
Well, fuck 'em!

2624
03:01:02,852 --> 03:01:05,652
Yeah, well,
it's just a matter of mathematics.

2625
03:01:05,729 --> 03:01:08,109
How many votes we have in the Senate?

2626
03:01:08,190 --> 03:01:10,440
- [Haig] About a dozen.
- A dozen?

2627
03:01:10,526 --> 03:01:13,186
Jeez, I got half of 'em elected.

2628
03:01:13,279 --> 03:01:18,199
OK, so I got the South
and Goldwater and his boys.

2629
03:01:19,535 --> 03:01:21,485
I'll take my chances in the Senate.

2630
03:01:21,579 --> 03:01:23,329
- Yes, we should.
- This damn leg.

2631
03:01:23,414 --> 03:01:25,924
Well, then, sir, we'll, uh...

2632
03:01:26,000 --> 03:01:29,340
...have to deal with the possibility
of removal from office,

2633
03:01:29,420 --> 03:01:33,210
loss of pension and possibly...
possibly even prison.

2634
03:01:33,299 --> 03:01:36,969
Yeah, well, plenty of people
did their best writing in prison.

2635
03:01:37,052 --> 03:01:39,892
- Gandhi, Lenin.
- [Ziegler] That's right.

2636
03:01:39,972 --> 03:01:42,932
What I know about this country,
I could rip it apart.

2637
03:01:43,017 --> 03:01:46,807
If they want a public humiliation,
that's what they'll get.

2638
03:01:46,896 --> 03:01:50,686
- Yes, they will.
- I'll never resign this office. Never.

2639
03:01:50,774 --> 03:01:54,494
- Where the fuck am I? What's in there?
- The P.O.W.s and their families.

2640
03:01:54,570 --> 03:01:57,490
- I'm supposed to be...
- Compassionate, grateful...

2641
03:01:57,573 --> 03:01:58,703
- Proud.
- Sir?

2642
03:01:58,782 --> 03:02:01,082
- Proud. Of them.
- Oh, yes, of course.

2643
03:02:01,160 --> 03:02:03,580
- Fire him.
- Who?

2644
03:02:03,662 --> 03:02:08,422
- Cox. Archibald Cox. Fire him!
- He works for the attorney general.

2645
03:02:08,500 --> 03:02:11,500
- Only Richardson can fire him.
- May I echo my concern, sir?

2646
03:02:11,587 --> 03:02:16,087
- Then tell Richardson to fire him!
- Well, Richardson won't do that, sir.

2647
03:02:16,175 --> 03:02:18,835
- He'll resign.
- The hell he will. Then fire him too.

2648
03:02:18,928 --> 03:02:22,098
If you have to go down to the janitor
at the justice department

2649
03:02:22,181 --> 03:02:23,771
fire that son of a bitch.

2650
03:02:23,849 --> 03:02:27,389
Mr. President, may I
just say something, sir?

2651
03:02:29,021 --> 03:02:31,521
I think that you should
welcome this subpoena.

2652
03:02:31,607 --> 03:02:33,517
- Why?
- Well, sir,

2653
03:02:33,609 --> 03:02:37,029
the tapes can only prove
that Dean was a liar. Right?

2654
03:02:37,112 --> 03:02:39,532
That's right, sir.

2655
03:02:42,618 --> 03:02:44,948
Well, there's more.

2656
03:02:45,037 --> 03:02:47,117
There's more than just me.

2657
03:02:47,206 --> 03:02:49,786
You can't break, my boy.

2658
03:02:49,875 --> 03:02:52,205
Even though it's ended.

2659
03:02:52,294 --> 03:02:55,764
You can't admit,
even to yourself, when it's gone.

2660
03:02:56,966 --> 03:02:59,876
Do you think those P.O.W.s
in there did?

2661
03:03:00,719 --> 03:03:03,299
Now, there's some people,
and we both know them, Al

2662
03:03:03,389 --> 03:03:05,969
think you can go stand
in the middle of a bull ring

2663
03:03:06,058 --> 03:03:07,928
and cry "mea culpa, mea culpa,"

2664
03:03:08,018 --> 03:03:12,228
while the crowd is hissing
and booing and spitting on you.

2665
03:03:13,065 --> 03:03:16,895
Well, a man doesn't cry. I don't cry.

2666
03:03:17,653 --> 03:03:20,913
You don't cry. You fight.

2667
03:03:20,990 --> 03:03:22,990
[applause, muffled]

2668
03:03:24,743 --> 03:03:25,993
OK.

2669
03:03:26,078 --> 03:03:30,328
Ladies and gentlemen,
the president of the United States!

2670
03:03:30,416 --> 03:03:33,416
[♪ Hail to the Chief]

2671
03:03:35,337 --> 03:03:39,417
Good evening. We interrupt this program
for a special report from NBC news.

2672
03:03:39,508 --> 03:03:41,178
The country is in the midst

2673
03:03:41,260 --> 03:03:45,180
of what may be the most serious
constitutional crisis in its history.

2674
03:03:45,264 --> 03:03:49,104
President Nixon has fired special
prosecutor Archibald Cox.

2675
03:03:49,184 --> 03:03:51,604
Attorney General Elliot Richardson
has quit

2676
03:03:51,687 --> 03:03:55,477
and his deputy William Ruckelshaus
was fired when he refused to fire Cox.

2677
03:03:55,566 --> 03:03:58,476
Attorney General Robert Bork
executed Nixon's orders,

2678
03:03:58,569 --> 03:04:01,819
- fired the prosecutor.
- ...to head off impeachment proceedings

2679
03:04:01,905 --> 03:04:05,825
the president has agreed to release
transcripts of 46 taped conversations.

2680
03:04:05,909 --> 03:04:09,199
[man] In a simple ceremony, Gerald
Ford was sworn in as vice president.

2681
03:04:09,288 --> 03:04:13,878
Citing wrongdoing, a judge has dismissed
all charges against Daniel Ellsberg.

2682
03:04:13,959 --> 03:04:17,629
A grand jury has indicted former
Nixon aides Haldeman, Ehrlichman...

2683
03:04:17,713 --> 03:04:21,223
You're a lawyer, for God's sake.
How can you let this shit go through?

2684
03:04:21,300 --> 03:04:24,430
- Look. This. Nixon can't say that.
- Well, you did say it, sir.

2685
03:04:24,511 --> 03:04:26,721
Never! I never
said that about Jews.

2686
03:04:26,805 --> 03:04:30,215
- Makes me sound like an anti-Semite.
- We can check the tapes again.

2687
03:04:30,309 --> 03:04:34,899
No need. I know what I said.
Have you lost your mind? Look, Al!

2688
03:04:34,980 --> 03:04:38,780
Nixon can't say this!
"Niggers. Niggers." It can't say that!

2689
03:04:38,859 --> 03:04:41,399
- We could delete it.
- We're doing the best we can.

2690
03:04:41,487 --> 03:04:44,527
- It's not good enough!
- Would you have us black it out, sir?

2691
03:04:44,615 --> 03:04:48,735
- We could write "expletive deleted."
- Cut all these "goddamns"

2692
03:04:48,827 --> 03:04:51,907
and "Jesus Christs" out. Jesus.

2693
03:04:51,997 --> 03:04:56,287
Mr. President. Don't you see that all
these deletion marks in the transcripts

2694
03:04:56,376 --> 03:04:59,836
make it look as though you...
you do nothing but swear?

2695
03:05:03,967 --> 03:05:06,217
It soils my mother's memory.

2696
03:05:06,303 --> 03:05:10,263
You think I want the whole goddamn
world to see my mother like this?

2697
03:05:10,349 --> 03:05:12,679
Raising a dirty-mouth?

2698
03:05:12,768 --> 03:05:17,108
We could start again, sir, but we
don't really have the staff to do that.

2699
03:05:17,189 --> 03:05:20,439
Then start over! Just start over!

2700
03:05:20,526 --> 03:05:23,606
The world will see only what I show 'em!

2701
03:05:23,695 --> 03:05:26,405
From page one, Al. Page one, Ron!

2702
03:05:26,490 --> 03:05:28,910
Ron, get in there and do something.

2703
03:05:28,992 --> 03:05:31,162
All this stuff.

2704
03:05:37,543 --> 03:05:40,253
- [door slams]
- Five seconds, Mr. President.

2705
03:05:40,337 --> 03:05:44,717
And four, three, two...

2706
03:05:49,805 --> 03:05:52,845
Good evening, my fellow Americans.

2707
03:05:52,933 --> 03:05:54,893
Tonight I'm taking an action

2708
03:05:54,977 --> 03:05:57,807
unprecedented in the history
of this office.

2709
03:05:57,896 --> 03:06:01,476
I had no knowledge of the cover-up
till John Dean told me about it

2710
03:06:01,567 --> 03:06:04,437
- on March 21st, a year ago.
- I think I'm going to throw up.

2711
03:06:04,528 --> 03:06:06,778
...no payment to Hunt
or anyone else be made.

2712
03:06:06,864 --> 03:06:11,334
- He's lost touch with reality.
- I've made my mistakes,

2713
03:06:11,410 --> 03:06:14,790
but in all my years of public life,
I have never profited.

2714
03:06:14,872 --> 03:06:18,212
Can you imagine
what this man would have been

2715
03:06:18,292 --> 03:06:21,172
- had he ever been loved?
- I've earned every penny.

2716
03:06:21,253 --> 03:06:24,963
In all of my years of public life
I have never obstructed justice.

2717
03:06:25,048 --> 03:06:28,508
It's a tragedy
because he had greatness in his grasp.

2718
03:06:28,594 --> 03:06:32,184
- I welcome this examination.
- But had the defects of his qualities.

2719
03:06:32,264 --> 03:06:35,024
- I made $250,000...
- [Haig] They'll crucify him.

2720
03:06:35,100 --> 03:06:37,230
[Kissinger] Does anybody
really care anymore?

2721
03:06:37,311 --> 03:06:39,981
...which many of you
were good enough to purchase.

2722
03:06:41,523 --> 03:06:44,863
And what happens after?

2723
03:06:44,943 --> 03:06:46,693
...every year.

2724
03:06:48,113 --> 03:06:51,823
When I, in 1968 decided to become
a candidate for the president,

2725
03:06:51,909 --> 03:06:56,539
I decided to clean the decks
and to put everything in real estate.

2726
03:06:56,622 --> 03:07:00,372
So, that's where the money came from.
That's all I own.

2727
03:07:00,459 --> 03:07:03,459
That's what we have,
and that's what we owe.

2728
03:07:03,545 --> 03:07:06,795
Because people have got to know
whether or not their president...

2729
03:07:06,882 --> 03:07:08,882
...their president is a crook.

2730
03:07:08,967 --> 03:07:12,797
Well, I am not a crook.
I've earned everything I have

2731
03:07:12,888 --> 03:07:14,508
...doesn't have a mink coat.

2732
03:07:14,598 --> 03:07:17,478
She does have a respectable
Republican cloth coat.

2733
03:07:17,559 --> 03:07:20,899
And I always tell her
she'd look good in anything.

2734
03:07:20,979 --> 03:07:26,819
There has never been any feathering
of nests. Not in this administration.

2735
03:07:27,569 --> 03:07:29,279
Now, let me just say this.

2736
03:07:29,363 --> 03:07:32,413
And I want to say this
to the television audience...

2737
03:07:32,491 --> 03:07:35,741
[man] Supreme Court ruled today
eight to nothing that Nixon's claims

2738
03:07:35,827 --> 03:07:38,657
of executive privilege
cannot be used in criminal cases

2739
03:07:38,747 --> 03:07:42,247
- and must turn over subpoenaed tapes.
- [man 2] The House Judiciary Committee

2740
03:07:42,334 --> 03:07:44,254
has voted 27 to 11

2741
03:07:44,336 --> 03:07:46,996
to recommend impeachment
to the House.

2742
03:07:47,089 --> 03:07:49,759
The deliberations
now go to the House floor.

2743
03:07:49,841 --> 03:07:53,591
In its report, the committee offers
evidence Nixon obstructed justice

2744
03:07:53,679 --> 03:07:57,719
on at least 36 occasions, that he
encouraged his aides to commit perjury

2745
03:07:57,808 --> 03:08:00,938
and that Nixon abused
the powers of his office.

2746
03:08:01,019 --> 03:08:03,599
In a separate report,
the Senate Select committee

2747
03:08:03,689 --> 03:08:07,529
details the misuse of the I.R.S.,
the F.B.I., the C.I.A.

2748
03:08:07,609 --> 03:08:09,609
and the justice department.

2749
03:08:09,695 --> 03:08:12,445
It denounces the plumbers
and it raises the question

2750
03:08:12,531 --> 03:08:17,331
of whether the United States
had a valid election in 1972.

2751
03:08:17,411 --> 03:08:19,411
[music playing on record player]

2752
03:08:24,209 --> 03:08:25,289
[knock on door]

2753
03:08:28,630 --> 03:08:30,880
[knocking on door continues]

2754
03:08:30,966 --> 03:08:32,376
Come in.

2755
03:08:44,396 --> 03:08:49,686
Victory at Sea, Al. Henry.
The Pacific Theatre.

2756
03:08:49,776 --> 03:08:53,856
Christ, you can almost hear the waves
breaking over the decks.

2757
03:08:55,324 --> 03:08:57,334
- [chuckles]
- [lowers volume]

2758
03:08:59,453 --> 03:09:02,293
I'm afraid we have another problem,
Mr. President.

2759
03:09:03,123 --> 03:09:04,923
[Manolo] Excuse me, gentlemen.

2760
03:09:09,546 --> 03:09:12,086
June 23rd, '72, sir.

2761
03:09:14,760 --> 03:09:19,220
Your instructions to Haldeman
regarding the C.I.A. and the F.B.I.

2762
03:09:20,474 --> 03:09:22,024
So?

2763
03:09:22,100 --> 03:09:26,850
Your lawyers feel that
it's the smoking gun.

2764
03:09:26,938 --> 03:09:30,188
Totally out of context.
I was protecting the national security.

2765
03:09:30,275 --> 03:09:32,855
Sir, the deadline is today.

2766
03:09:36,031 --> 03:09:37,991
Can we get around this, Al?

2767
03:09:39,326 --> 03:09:43,866
It's the Supreme Court, sir.
You don't get around it.

2768
03:09:47,709 --> 03:09:49,839
If, uh...

2769
03:09:49,920 --> 03:09:54,220
If you resign, you can keep your tapes
as a private citizen.

2770
03:09:54,299 --> 03:09:56,929
You could fight them for years.

2771
03:09:59,805 --> 03:10:01,715
What if I stay?

2772
03:10:04,643 --> 03:10:07,233
You have the army.

2773
03:10:07,312 --> 03:10:08,902
The army?

2774
03:10:10,857 --> 03:10:12,317
Lincoln used it.

2775
03:10:19,157 --> 03:10:20,657
That was civil war.

2776
03:10:21,952 --> 03:10:23,332
How do you see this?

2777
03:10:27,082 --> 03:10:28,422
Oh, God.

2778
03:10:28,500 --> 03:10:31,540
We can't survive this, sir.

2779
03:10:34,506 --> 03:10:39,176
They also have you instructing Dean
to make the pay off to Hunt.

2780
03:10:39,261 --> 03:10:43,351
There's nothing in that statement
the president can't explain.

2781
03:10:43,432 --> 03:10:48,942
Sir, you talked about opening up
the whole Bay of Pigs thing again.

2782
03:10:49,020 --> 03:10:52,110
- That's right.
- Three days before, the June 20th tape.

2783
03:10:52,190 --> 03:10:55,900
- The one with the 18-minute gap.
- I don't know anything about that.

2784
03:10:55,986 --> 03:10:59,106
You mentioned
the Bay of Pigs several times.

2785
03:10:59,197 --> 03:11:03,237
Sooner or later, they're going to
want to know what that means.

2786
03:11:03,326 --> 03:11:06,246
They're going to want to
know what's on that gap.

2787
03:11:06,329 --> 03:11:09,579
It's gone. No one will
ever find out what's on it.

2788
03:11:12,335 --> 03:11:16,455
They might if there was
another recording.

2789
03:11:18,800 --> 03:11:20,720
We both know it's possible.

2790
03:11:25,474 --> 03:11:29,144
I know for a fact
that it's possible.

2791
03:11:32,230 --> 03:11:33,690
I've spoken to Ford.

2792
03:11:33,773 --> 03:11:38,613
There's a very strong chance
that he'll pardon you.

2793
03:11:38,695 --> 03:11:42,525
I don't need a goddamned deal,
for God's sake. I...

2794
03:11:42,616 --> 03:11:47,616
This is something that
you will have to do, Mr. President.

2795
03:11:49,664 --> 03:11:54,084
I thought you'd rather do it now.

2796
03:11:58,590 --> 03:12:00,590
I'll wait outside.

2797
03:12:05,847 --> 03:12:07,597
Sir.

2798
03:12:08,767 --> 03:12:12,187
May I say, sir, that if you stay now,

2799
03:12:12,270 --> 03:12:16,520
it will paralyze the nation
and its foreign policy.

2800
03:12:20,111 --> 03:12:23,451
You always had a great
sense of timing, Henry.

2801
03:12:23,532 --> 03:12:27,332
When to give and when to take.

2802
03:12:30,413 --> 03:12:34,173
How do you think Mao
and Brezhnev will react?

2803
03:12:34,251 --> 03:12:37,551
Do you think they'll
remember us, Henry,

2804
03:12:37,629 --> 03:12:40,339
after all the great things
you and I did together,

2805
03:12:40,423 --> 03:12:45,263
as some kind of...
of crooks?

2806
03:12:45,345 --> 03:12:50,055
They will understand.
To be undone by a third-rate burglary

2807
03:12:50,141 --> 03:12:53,141
is a fate of biblical proportions.

2808
03:12:55,355 --> 03:12:59,225
History will treat you far more
kindly than your contemporaries.

2809
03:12:59,317 --> 03:13:01,067
Yeah.

2810
03:13:01,152 --> 03:13:04,952
Depends who writes the history books.

2811
03:13:05,031 --> 03:13:08,491
I'm not a quitter, never have been.

2812
03:13:08,577 --> 03:13:11,497
But I'm not stupid either.

2813
03:13:11,580 --> 03:13:15,080
A trial would kill me.
That's what they want.

2814
03:13:15,166 --> 03:13:19,166
They won't get it. Fuck 'em.

2815
03:13:41,484 --> 03:13:45,574
If they harass you, I too will resign,
and I will tell the world why.

2816
03:13:45,655 --> 03:13:49,485
Don't be stupid.
The world needs you, Henry.

2817
03:13:51,036 --> 03:13:53,496
You always saw the big picture.

2818
03:13:57,042 --> 03:13:59,962
You were my equal in many ways.

2819
03:14:09,304 --> 03:14:12,264
You're the only friend I got, Henry.

2820
03:14:14,893 --> 03:14:17,233
Do you ever pray?

2821
03:14:18,396 --> 03:14:23,726
You know, believe in a supreme being?

2822
03:14:25,445 --> 03:14:29,655
Not really.
You mean on my knees?

2823
03:14:33,662 --> 03:14:37,252
My mother used to pray a lot.

2824
03:14:37,332 --> 03:14:42,252
It's been a long time
since I really prayed.

2825
03:14:48,009 --> 03:14:50,839
Let's pray, Henry.

2826
03:14:50,929 --> 03:14:55,429
Let's pray a little.
Just you and me.

2827
03:15:03,566 --> 03:15:06,356
I hope this doesn't embarrass you,
Henry.

2828
03:15:06,444 --> 03:15:09,284
No. Not at all, no.

2829
03:15:09,364 --> 03:15:13,454
This is not going to leak, is it?

2830
03:15:15,912 --> 03:15:18,962
Don't be too proud, Henry.

2831
03:15:19,040 --> 03:15:23,710
Never be too proud
to go on your knees before God.

2832
03:15:35,640 --> 03:15:38,640
[sobbing] God.

2833
03:15:44,607 --> 03:15:46,567
How can a...

2834
03:15:46,651 --> 03:15:50,241
How can a country come apart like this?

2835
03:15:50,321 --> 03:15:53,321
What have I done wrong?

2836
03:15:54,951 --> 03:15:59,501
I opened China.
I made peace with Russia.

2837
03:16:00,749 --> 03:16:03,829
I ended the war.

2838
03:16:05,503 --> 03:16:08,303
I did what I thought was right.

2839
03:16:13,511 --> 03:16:16,221
God, why do they hate me so?

2840
03:16:16,306 --> 03:16:20,426
It's unbelievable. It... It's insane.

2841
03:16:21,853 --> 03:16:27,273
Oh, Mom, I'm sorry. God, please
forgive me, God. I didn't mean it.

2842
03:16:27,358 --> 03:16:31,028
I never wanted to do...
I don't want this to... Is it me?

2843
03:16:31,112 --> 03:16:34,872
Is this happening?
I can't believe...

2844
03:16:40,705 --> 03:16:42,535
Al.

2845
03:16:58,014 --> 03:17:03,484
They smelled the blood on me
this time, Al. I got soft, you know?

2846
03:17:04,354 --> 03:17:07,824
A rusty, metallic smell.

2847
03:17:07,899 --> 03:17:12,529
- [Haig] I know it well, sir.
- It came over from Vietnam, you know?

2848
03:17:12,612 --> 03:17:15,162
- Sir?
- That smell.

2849
03:17:16,282 --> 03:17:19,202
I mean, everyone suffered so much.

2850
03:17:19,285 --> 03:17:22,405
Their boys killed.

2851
03:17:22,497 --> 03:17:26,207
They need to sacrifice something.

2852
03:17:26,292 --> 03:17:29,212
You know, appease the gods of war.

2853
03:17:30,088 --> 03:17:33,218
Mars, Jupiter.

2854
03:17:36,302 --> 03:17:39,392
I am that blood, General.

2855
03:17:41,391 --> 03:17:44,181
I am that sacrifice.

2856
03:17:44,978 --> 03:17:47,728
In the highest place of all.

2857
03:17:51,192 --> 03:17:55,362
Yeah. All leaders
must finally be sacrificed.

2858
03:17:56,614 --> 03:17:59,534
Things won't be the same after this.

2859
03:17:59,617 --> 03:18:05,327
No, I played by the rules. Rules changed
right in the middle of the game.

2860
03:18:05,415 --> 03:18:09,125
There's no respect for American
institutions anymore.

2861
03:18:10,879 --> 03:18:13,879
No, people are cynical.

2862
03:18:13,965 --> 03:18:17,625
The press, ah,
the press is out of control.

2863
03:18:19,095 --> 03:18:22,385
People spit on soldiers.

2864
03:18:22,473 --> 03:18:25,023
Government secrets mean nothing.

2865
03:18:26,477 --> 03:18:29,647
I pity the next guy who sits here.

2866
03:18:32,483 --> 03:18:34,653
Good night, gentlemen.

2867
03:18:40,575 --> 03:18:43,115
Mr. President.

2868
03:19:19,614 --> 03:19:24,534
When they look at you,
they see what they want to be.

2869
03:19:27,288 --> 03:19:32,288
When they look at me,
they see what they are.

2870
03:19:37,632 --> 03:19:40,762
Dick, please don't.

2871
03:19:47,308 --> 03:19:49,428
I can't.

2872
03:19:49,519 --> 03:19:52,519
I don't have the strength anymore.

2873
03:19:53,982 --> 03:19:56,152
It'll be over soon.

2874
03:19:56,234 --> 03:19:59,404
No, it's going to start now.

2875
03:20:00,405 --> 03:20:05,445
Oh, Buddy.
If I could just sleep.

2876
03:20:05,535 --> 03:20:08,905
- If I could just sleep.
- There'll be time for that.

2877
03:20:08,997 --> 03:20:10,827
Yeah.

2878
03:20:15,336 --> 03:20:20,166
You know, once when I was sick as a boy,

2879
03:20:20,258 --> 03:20:25,258
my mother gave me this stuff
and she made me swallow it.

2880
03:20:26,681 --> 03:20:29,891
It made me throw up all over her.

2881
03:20:32,020 --> 03:20:35,560
I wish I could do that now.

2882
03:20:41,487 --> 03:20:44,237
I'm so afraid.

2883
03:20:44,907 --> 03:20:47,697
There's darkness out there.

2884
03:20:49,495 --> 03:20:54,785
I could always see where I was going.
But it's dark out there.

2885
03:20:57,128 --> 03:21:01,378
God, I've always
been afraid of the dark.

2886
03:21:02,967 --> 03:21:04,967
Buddy.

2887
03:21:31,996 --> 03:21:37,536
There are many fine careers.
This country needs good farmers,

2888
03:21:37,627 --> 03:21:42,587
good businessmen, good plumbers

2889
03:21:42,673 --> 03:21:45,763
good carpenters.

2890
03:21:45,843 --> 03:21:49,353
I remember my old man.

2891
03:21:49,430 --> 03:21:53,020
I think that they would
have called him sort of a,

2892
03:21:53,101 --> 03:21:56,061
sort of a little man, a common man.

2893
03:21:56,145 --> 03:22:01,895
Well, he didn't consider
himself that way.

2894
03:22:01,984 --> 03:22:06,574
You know what he was?
He was a streetcar motorman first.

2895
03:22:06,656 --> 03:22:10,236
Then he was a farmer.

2896
03:22:10,326 --> 03:22:12,286
Then he had a lemon ranch.

2897
03:22:12,370 --> 03:22:16,120
It was the poorest lemon ranch
in California, I can assure you.

2898
03:22:16,207 --> 03:22:19,247
He sold it before they found oil on it.

2899
03:22:22,338 --> 03:22:24,968
Then he was a grocer.

2900
03:22:25,049 --> 03:22:27,549
But he was a great man

2901
03:22:27,635 --> 03:22:30,925
because he did his job.

2902
03:22:31,013 --> 03:22:34,183
And every job counts up to the hilt

2903
03:22:34,267 --> 03:22:36,847
regardless of what happens.

2904
03:22:38,229 --> 03:22:41,729
Nobody will ever write a book,
probably, about my mother.

2905
03:22:41,816 --> 03:22:47,816
Well, I guess all of you would
say this about your mother.

2906
03:22:49,490 --> 03:22:52,870
My mother was a saint.

2907
03:22:52,952 --> 03:22:58,502
And I think of her
two boys dying of tuberculosis

2908
03:22:58,583 --> 03:23:03,383
and seeing each of them die.
And when they died...

2909
03:23:07,842 --> 03:23:13,432
Yes, she will have no books
written about her.

2910
03:23:14,765 --> 03:23:18,345
But she was a saint.

2911
03:23:19,395 --> 03:23:23,355
Now, however, we look to the future.

2912
03:23:23,441 --> 03:23:27,651
I remember something, uh,
Theodore Roosevelt wrote

2913
03:23:27,737 --> 03:23:31,907
when his first wife died
in his twenties.

2914
03:23:31,991 --> 03:23:35,701
He thought the light had gone
from his life forever.

2915
03:23:35,786 --> 03:23:39,366
But he went on, and he not
only became president

2916
03:23:39,457 --> 03:23:42,247
but as an ex-president,
he served his country

2917
03:23:42,335 --> 03:23:46,375
always in the arena,
tempestuous, strong,

2918
03:23:46,464 --> 03:23:49,014
sometimes right, sometimes wrong.

2919
03:23:49,091 --> 03:23:52,261
But he was a man.

2920
03:23:52,345 --> 03:23:57,965
And as I leave that's an example
I think all of us should remember.

2921
03:23:58,059 --> 03:24:03,689
See, we think sometimes when, things
happen that don't go the right way;

2922
03:24:03,773 --> 03:24:07,573
we think that when someone
dear to us dies,

2923
03:24:07,652 --> 03:24:10,492
when we lose an election,

2924
03:24:10,571 --> 03:24:14,241
or when we suffer defeat
that all is ended.

2925
03:24:14,325 --> 03:24:19,285
Not true.
It's only a beginning, always,

2926
03:24:19,372 --> 03:24:23,582
because the greatness comes,
not when things go always good for you,

2927
03:24:23,668 --> 03:24:27,628
but the greatness comes
when you're really tested,

2928
03:24:27,713 --> 03:24:31,423
when you take some knocks,
some disappointments

2929
03:24:31,509 --> 03:24:33,589
when sadness comes.

2930
03:24:33,678 --> 03:24:37,758
Because only if you've been
in the deepest valley

2931
03:24:37,848 --> 03:24:43,438
can you ever know
how magnificent it is

2932
03:24:43,521 --> 03:24:45,771
to be on the highest mountain.

2933
03:24:49,360 --> 03:24:52,650
So, I say to you on this occasion,

2934
03:24:52,738 --> 03:24:57,118
we leave, proud of the people
who have stood by us and worked for us

2935
03:24:57,201 --> 03:25:00,661
and served this government
and this country.

2936
03:25:00,746 --> 03:25:03,536
They want you to continue
to serve in government

2937
03:25:03,624 --> 03:25:05,754
if that is what you wish.

2938
03:25:05,835 --> 03:25:09,335
Remember, always give your best.

2939
03:25:09,422 --> 03:25:13,682
Never get discouraged.
Never be petty.

2940
03:25:13,759 --> 03:25:17,349
Always remember, others may hate you.

2941
03:25:17,430 --> 03:25:21,680
But those who hate you don't win
unless you hate them.

2942
03:25:21,767 --> 03:25:26,437
And then, you destroy yourself.

2943
03:25:26,522 --> 03:25:32,242
And so we leave with high hopes
and good spirits and with deep humility.

2944
03:25:32,320 --> 03:25:34,450
And I say to each
and every one of you,

2945
03:25:34,530 --> 03:25:36,910
not only will we always remember you

2946
03:25:36,991 --> 03:25:42,251
but always, you will be
in our hearts.

2947
03:25:42,330 --> 03:25:46,920
And you'll be in our prayers.

2948
03:25:47,001 --> 03:25:53,011
And only then will you find what
we Quakers call "peace at the center".

2949
03:26:01,432 --> 03:26:04,432
[helicopter whirring]

2950
03:26:07,772 --> 03:26:13,742
He gave of himself with intelligence
and energy and devotion to duty.

2951
03:26:13,819 --> 03:26:19,659
Richard Nixon was buried and honored
by five presidents on April 26, 1994.

2952
03:26:19,742 --> 03:26:24,542
Less than a year after his beloved wife,
Pat, had died.

2953
03:26:24,622 --> 03:26:28,422
Nixon always maintained that
if he had not been driven from office

2954
03:26:28,501 --> 03:26:33,761
the North Vietnamese would not have
overwhelmed the South in 1975.

2955
03:26:33,839 --> 03:26:38,509
In a sideshow, Cambodian society was
destroyed and mass genocide resulted.

2956
03:26:38,594 --> 03:26:43,224
The second half of the 20th century
will be known as the age of Nixon.

2957
03:26:43,307 --> 03:26:46,807
In his absence, Russia and the
United States returned to a decade

2958
03:26:46,894 --> 03:26:49,564
of high-budget military expansion
and near war.

2959
03:26:50,481 --> 03:26:53,531
Nixon, who was pardoned
by President Ford,

2960
03:26:53,609 --> 03:26:59,199
lived to write six books and travel
the world as an elder statesman.

2961
03:26:59,281 --> 03:27:04,331
For the remainder of his life, he fought
successfully to protect his tapes.

2962
03:27:04,412 --> 03:27:09,212
The National Archives spent
14 years indexing and cataloging them.

2963
03:27:09,291 --> 03:27:13,751
Out of 4,000 hours,
60 hours have been made public.

2964
03:27:13,838 --> 03:27:16,918
[♪ Star-Spangled Banner playing]

2965
03:27:32,231 --> 03:27:35,571
[♪ choir singing Shenandoah]