1 00:00:59,434 --> 00:01:04,800 MoviesWbb.COM 2 00:01:06,942 --> 00:01:11,936 Well, take me back down where cool water flow, yeh 3 00:01:15,242 --> 00:01:17,483 Let me remember things I love 4 00:01:17,578 --> 00:01:19,534 Dan. Your rifle. 5 00:01:19,705 --> 00:01:20,990 SOLDIER: All right, do them all. 6 00:01:21,081 --> 00:01:22,241 First and second squad, too. 7 00:01:22,332 --> 00:01:25,324 Stoppin' at the log where catfish bite 8 00:01:26,587 --> 00:01:28,123 Who's the Ionghair? 9 00:01:28,297 --> 00:01:32,040 That's Ellsberg. Works for Lansdale at the embassy. 10 00:01:32,217 --> 00:01:33,627 He's observing. 11 00:01:35,971 --> 00:01:39,134 I can hear the bull frog callin’ me 12 00:01:42,686 --> 00:01:46,554 Wonder if my rope’s still hangin' to the tree 13 00:01:46,648 --> 00:01:47,637 PLATOON LEADER: Let's move out. 14 00:01:47,774 --> 00:01:49,856 SOLDIER: Let's go. Moving out. 15 00:01:49,943 --> 00:01:53,106 Love to kick my feet way down the shallow water 16 00:01:53,238 --> 00:01:56,355 Shoe fly, dragon fly, get back to your mother 17 00:01:56,450 --> 00:01:58,486 I'll take good care of it. 18 00:01:58,577 --> 00:02:00,533 Skip it across Green River 19 00:03:08,730 --> 00:03:11,563 Bravo 27, this is Kilo 4 Tango. 20 00:03:19,408 --> 00:03:23,321 Fire mission. Grid 298471. 21 00:03:24,788 --> 00:03:26,653 DANIEL: Lay down. 22 00:03:38,844 --> 00:03:41,085 Just hang in there, buddy. They're gonna fix you up. 23 00:03:57,654 --> 00:03:59,110 MAN: Dan? 24 00:04:01,241 --> 00:04:02,697 Dan? 25 00:04:04,035 --> 00:04:05,571 Dan! 26 00:04:06,037 --> 00:04:08,949 Secretary would like a word. You wanna follow me? 27 00:04:14,963 --> 00:04:17,079 ROBERT: Well, you can say what you want to the President. 28 00:04:17,257 --> 00:04:19,248 I've read every one of Ellsberg's reports... 29 00:04:19,426 --> 00:04:22,042 and I'm telling you, it's just not the case. 30 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:23,551 Dan, you know Mr. Komer. 31 00:04:25,015 --> 00:04:26,721 He's been discussing the war with the President... 32 00:04:26,892 --> 00:04:28,177 and, well, his sense is that we've made 33 00:04:28,268 --> 00:04:29,428 real progress over the past year... 34 00:04:29,603 --> 00:04:31,139 but I've been doing my own review, and it seems to me... 35 00:04:31,313 --> 00:04:32,678 that things have gotten worse. 36 00:04:32,856 --> 00:04:33,845 But neither of us have been in the field. 37 00:04:33,940 --> 00:04:34,929 You have, you're the one who knows. 38 00:04:35,025 --> 00:04:36,686 So, what do you say? 39 00:04:37,319 --> 00:04:39,184 Are things better or worse? 40 00:04:40,864 --> 00:04:42,525 Well, Mr. Secretary... 41 00:04:42,699 --> 00:04:45,406 what I'm most impressed by is how much things are the same. 42 00:04:45,577 --> 00:04:47,784 You see, that's exactly what I'm saying. 43 00:04:49,623 --> 00:04:50,863 We put another hundred thousand troops 44 00:04:50,957 --> 00:04:52,663 into the field, things are no better. 45 00:04:52,793 --> 00:04:55,125 To me, that means things are actually worse. 46 00:04:57,631 --> 00:04:58,871 Thank you, Dan. 47 00:05:02,219 --> 00:05:03,675 MAN: Mr. Secretary! 48 00:05:04,346 --> 00:05:06,177 Mr. Secretary! Sir! 49 00:05:07,307 --> 00:05:10,265 ANDREWS: How was your trip, sir? Sir. 50 00:05:10,435 --> 00:05:11,766 Good afternoon, gentlemen. 51 00:05:11,853 --> 00:05:13,639 I don't have any prepared remarks... 52 00:05:13,814 --> 00:05:15,679 but I'd be very happy to take your questions one at a time. 53 00:05:15,857 --> 00:05:17,313 Jim. Mr. Secretary... 54 00:05:17,484 --> 00:05:18,894 I'm wondering if the trip left you 55 00:05:18,985 --> 00:05:20,270 optimistic or pessimistic... 56 00:05:20,445 --> 00:05:22,652 about our prospects in this war and our ability to win it. 57 00:05:22,823 --> 00:05:24,905 He asked whether I was optimistic or pessimistic. 58 00:05:25,075 --> 00:05:26,406 Today, I can tell you that military progress 59 00:05:26,493 --> 00:05:27,528 over the past 12 months... 60 00:05:27,702 --> 00:05:29,033 has exceeded our expectations. 61 00:05:29,204 --> 00:05:31,695 We're very encouraged by what we're seeing in Vietnam. 62 00:05:31,873 --> 00:05:33,363 In every respect, we're making progress. 63 00:05:34,084 --> 00:05:35,574 And I'm especially pleased to have had 64 00:05:35,669 --> 00:05:36,954 Bob Komer along for the trip. 65 00:05:37,128 --> 00:05:38,243 So he could see for himself 66 00:05:38,338 --> 00:05:39,794 that we've been showing great improvement... 67 00:05:39,965 --> 00:05:41,705 in every dimension of the war effort. 68 00:05:45,303 --> 00:05:46,463 Derek. 69 00:06:54,706 --> 00:06:55,821 Good night, Dan. 70 00:06:55,999 --> 00:06:57,990 Good night, Dan. Night, guys. 71 00:07:03,381 --> 00:07:04,370 You okay, Dan? 72 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,092 Yeah. Yeah, thought I'd forgot something. 73 00:07:09,262 --> 00:07:10,377 I didn't. 74 00:07:17,979 --> 00:07:19,435 Next left on Melrose. 75 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:29,543 TRUMAN: We have committed ourselves to the cause... 76 00:08:29,634 --> 00:08:31,465 of a just and peaceful world order 77 00:08:31,553 --> 00:08:33,589 through the United Nations. 78 00:08:33,763 --> 00:08:35,719 DANIEL: "May 3rd, 1950. 79 00:08:35,890 --> 00:08:37,755 "President Truman approved $10 million 80 00:08:37,851 --> 00:08:39,512 "in military aid to Indochina." 81 00:08:46,526 --> 00:08:47,982 DWIGHT EISENHOWER: America ’3 leadership 82 00:08:48,069 --> 00:08:49,354 and prestige depend... 83 00:08:49,529 --> 00:08:53,693 on how we use our power in the interests of world peace. 84 00:08:53,867 --> 00:08:55,607 DANIEL: "I feel concerned about paragraph six... 85 00:08:55,785 --> 00:08:57,241 "which gives authority to control 86 00:08:57,328 --> 00:08:58,989 "general elections in Vietnam." 87 00:09:01,541 --> 00:09:03,577 JOHN F. KENNEDY: The United States, as the world knows, 88 00:09:03,668 --> 00:09:05,784 will never start a war. 89 00:09:06,755 --> 00:09:08,620 DANIEL: "May11th, 1961. 90 00:09:08,798 --> 00:09:09,913 "President Kennedy orders 91 00:09:10,008 --> 00:09:11,714 "a full examination by the Defense Department... 92 00:09:11,885 --> 00:09:14,843 "of a possible commitment of US. forces to Vietnam." 93 00:09:19,184 --> 00:09:22,221 LYNDON JOHNSON: We are not about to send American boys... 94 00:09:22,395 --> 00:09:25,387 9 or 10,000 miles away from home... 95 00:09:25,565 --> 00:09:29,524 to do whatAsian boys ought to be doing for themselves. 96 00:09:29,694 --> 00:09:31,901 "President Johnson chose to reaffirm the Kennedy policies. 97 00:09:32,072 --> 00:09:33,778 "Military operations should be initiated 98 00:09:33,865 --> 00:09:35,651 "under close political control." 99 00:10:21,830 --> 00:10:23,912 KAY: Can we just do the numbers 100 00:10:23,998 --> 00:10:25,283 just one more time ? 101 00:10:26,584 --> 00:10:28,370 The company's selling how many shares? 102 00:10:28,545 --> 00:10:31,082 KAY: 1.35 million shares. 103 00:10:31,256 --> 00:10:32,712 And the price range is? 104 00:10:33,216 --> 00:10:36,458 Between $24.50 and $27 per share. 105 00:10:36,636 --> 00:10:38,376 Not exactly a huge difference. 106 00:10:38,555 --> 00:10:40,637 For them. But, you know, the bankers 107 00:10:40,723 --> 00:10:42,213 always do fiddle with the prices. 108 00:10:42,392 --> 00:10:45,805 But for us, that's over $3 million... 109 00:10:45,979 --> 00:10:48,766 and that represents over five years' salary 110 00:10:48,857 --> 00:10:50,563 for 25 good reporters. 111 00:10:50,733 --> 00:10:52,940 Good. But why spend in the newsroom? 112 00:10:53,111 --> 00:10:54,476 You're far less profitable 113 00:10:54,571 --> 00:10:56,357 than Gannett or Knight or Ridder. 114 00:10:56,531 --> 00:10:57,987 Gannett and Knight and Ridder 115 00:10:58,074 --> 00:11:00,861 own monopoly papers in smaller cities. 116 00:11:01,035 --> 00:11:03,617 And our readers are leaders, you know. 117 00:11:03,705 --> 00:11:05,161 They're educated. They demand more. 118 00:11:05,331 --> 00:11:09,119 That's why we invest in really good reporters. 119 00:11:09,919 --> 00:11:10,908 And so... 120 00:11:11,004 --> 00:11:13,541 Because quality and profitability 121 00:11:13,631 --> 00:11:15,496 do go hand in hand. 122 00:11:16,843 --> 00:11:17,832 See? Yeah. 123 00:11:18,011 --> 00:11:20,252 You know all this already. Oh, gosh! 124 00:11:20,430 --> 00:11:21,465 I don't know if I do. 125 00:11:21,639 --> 00:11:22,924 I should get to breakfast. Yeah. 126 00:11:23,016 --> 00:11:24,552 We don't want Paul or Arthur too antsy this afternoon. 127 00:11:24,726 --> 00:11:25,806 No. 128 00:11:25,977 --> 00:11:27,342 Good luck. 129 00:11:27,770 --> 00:11:29,306 And thank you, Fritz. Mmm-hmm. 130 00:11:30,940 --> 00:11:32,430 See you downtown. I'll see you. 131 00:11:32,609 --> 00:11:34,099 You think this is really necessary? 132 00:11:34,194 --> 00:11:35,479 Oh, God, yes. 133 00:11:35,653 --> 00:11:38,986 Darling, you should hear how they talk at these meetings. 134 00:11:39,157 --> 00:11:40,567 It's as if it's in a foreign language. 135 00:11:40,742 --> 00:11:42,858 No, I meant taking the company public. 136 00:11:48,208 --> 00:11:51,416 It seems we are cash poor. 137 00:11:51,586 --> 00:11:53,042 You know, barely solvent. 138 00:11:53,213 --> 00:11:54,623 That's the newspaper business. 139 00:11:54,797 --> 00:11:56,128 Thafs our newspaper business... 140 00:11:56,299 --> 00:11:57,709 and we need the public offering 141 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,882 to stay in business and to continue to grow. 142 00:12:00,053 --> 00:12:01,259 That's what Fritz says. 143 00:12:01,429 --> 00:12:03,090 And he also says that the family 144 00:12:03,181 --> 00:12:05,217 can maintain control ifwe... 145 00:12:06,809 --> 00:12:08,515 Anyway, I'm just not sure your grandfather... 146 00:12:08,603 --> 00:12:10,685 would have wanted us to give up any control at all. 147 00:12:14,108 --> 00:12:15,973 Hello? WOMAN: Mrs. Graham? 148 00:12:16,152 --> 00:12:17,892 Yes? This is she. 149 00:12:18,071 --> 00:12:20,528 Please hold for the Chief of Staff. 150 00:12:21,449 --> 00:12:22,438 Who is it? 151 00:12:23,451 --> 00:12:24,440 Haldeman. 152 00:12:25,286 --> 00:12:26,366 HALDEMAN: Mrs. Graham, Bob Haldeman. 153 00:12:26,537 --> 00:12:28,027 Yes, hello. 154 00:12:28,206 --> 00:12:30,913 We 've got a bit of an issue over here. 155 00:12:31,084 --> 00:12:32,199 Oh? 156 00:12:32,919 --> 00:12:34,284 MAN 1: Well, that makes perfect sense. 157 00:12:34,379 --> 00:12:35,664 Do you agree with that? 158 00:12:35,838 --> 00:12:37,669 MAN 2: Without a doubt. 159 00:12:44,639 --> 00:12:45,924 Oh, Jesus. 160 00:12:47,225 --> 00:12:48,340 I'm so sorry. 161 00:12:49,102 --> 00:12:50,763 Sorry, sorry, sorry. Good morning. 162 00:12:50,937 --> 00:12:54,976 So late. I had to get all this stuff together... 163 00:12:55,817 --> 00:12:57,773 and then I had an unexpected call. 164 00:12:57,944 --> 00:13:00,105 Well, what is with the suitcase? 165 00:13:00,822 --> 00:13:03,905 Ben, I told you, this is the day. 166 00:13:03,992 --> 00:13:05,323 We're meeting with the bankers today. 167 00:13:05,493 --> 00:13:07,779 Oh, yes. Right, right. You know this. 168 00:13:07,954 --> 00:13:09,490 I bet you every dollar in my wallet 169 00:13:09,580 --> 00:13:10,740 that you are the only person... 170 00:13:10,957 --> 00:13:13,118 in that boardroom who's read through all that nonsense. 171 00:13:13,293 --> 00:13:15,750 I'm probably the only one who needs to. 172 00:13:15,962 --> 00:13:18,578 What do you think of Neil Sheehan? 173 00:13:18,756 --> 00:13:20,667 Oh, gosh, his coverage of Vietnam 174 00:13:20,758 --> 00:13:22,248 is just absolutely marvelous. 175 00:13:22,427 --> 00:13:23,416 VVhy? 176 00:13:23,594 --> 00:13:25,960 You thinking of trying to steal him from The Times? 177 00:13:26,139 --> 00:13:27,595 I'm not sure we can afford him. 178 00:13:27,765 --> 00:13:30,552 He... He hasn't had a piece in three months. 179 00:13:30,768 --> 00:13:31,757 Oh? 180 00:13:32,228 --> 00:13:34,184 Do you think he's onto something? 181 00:13:34,355 --> 00:13:36,596 Well, I saw Abe at a dinner party last week 182 00:13:36,691 --> 00:13:39,353 and he was looking mighty, mighty smug. 183 00:13:40,194 --> 00:13:42,480 Doesn't he always? 184 00:13:42,572 --> 00:13:43,561 So who was it? 185 00:13:43,740 --> 00:13:44,729 Who was what? 186 00:13:44,907 --> 00:13:46,522 Your unexpected call. 187 00:13:47,076 --> 00:13:49,863 Oh, I buried the Iede. 188 00:13:50,163 --> 00:13:51,824 The White House. 189 00:13:52,081 --> 00:13:53,867 Haldeman rang. Yeah? 190 00:13:54,042 --> 00:13:56,203 It seems the President has decided 191 00:13:56,294 --> 00:13:58,000 not to provide Judith... 192 00:13:58,129 --> 00:14:00,040 with credentials to cover the Nixon wedding. 193 00:14:00,214 --> 00:14:02,079 Jesus Christ. Yeah. 194 00:14:02,258 --> 00:14:04,374 They said we could send another reporter. 195 00:14:04,552 --> 00:14:07,009 Oh, yeah? Can't believe that. 196 00:14:07,138 --> 00:14:08,628 I know, I know. 197 00:14:08,806 --> 00:14:10,091 But... But what? 198 00:14:10,266 --> 00:14:11,472 I'm not sure I entirely blame 199 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:13,049 the President on this one, Ben. 200 00:14:13,144 --> 00:14:14,179 No? 201 00:14:14,270 --> 00:14:16,511 Would you want Judith to cover your daughter's wedding? 202 00:14:16,606 --> 00:14:18,062 Well, my daughter's only 10 years old... 203 00:14:18,232 --> 00:14:19,813 I think she burned her bridges 204 00:14:19,901 --> 00:14:21,892 when she crashed Julie's reception. 205 00:14:22,028 --> 00:14:23,609 They're being punitive. Her pen is so sharp. 206 00:14:23,780 --> 00:14:24,815 Of course it's punitive. This is punitive. 207 00:14:25,031 --> 00:14:26,271 Of course it's punitive. 208 00:14:27,367 --> 00:14:31,110 She compared Tricia Nixon to a vanilla ice cream cone. 209 00:14:31,371 --> 00:14:33,077 Yeah, she did. Yeah. 210 00:14:33,790 --> 00:14:35,496 I mean, why would her father want Judy 211 00:14:35,583 --> 00:14:36,823 to cover his daughter's wedding? 212 00:14:37,043 --> 00:14:38,249 Oh, come on. 213 00:14:38,419 --> 00:14:39,579 | just... 214 00:14:40,046 --> 00:14:43,413 Are you sure we're striking the right tone here, Ben? 215 00:14:43,591 --> 00:14:44,671 Oh, we're gonna do this again? 216 00:14:44,842 --> 00:14:46,924 No. Uh, the New Style section. 217 00:14:47,053 --> 00:14:50,216 Sometimes that stiletto party coverage can be a little mean. 218 00:14:50,390 --> 00:14:52,176 I'm handling it. I'm looking for a new editor. 219 00:14:52,350 --> 00:14:53,635 Yes, are you? Because I know 220 00:14:53,726 --> 00:14:55,842 I've talked to you about this before. 221 00:14:56,062 --> 00:14:59,554 You are losing female readership, you know. 222 00:14:59,732 --> 00:15:01,222 And I think you might want to focus more 223 00:15:01,317 --> 00:15:02,306 on what women read... 224 00:15:02,485 --> 00:15:05,192 Katharine, keep your finger outta my eye. 225 00:15:12,286 --> 00:15:13,366 You... 226 00:15:16,707 --> 00:15:18,663 These breakfasts were your idea, you know. 227 00:15:18,835 --> 00:15:22,123 Yes. And you are the publisher and you are my boss. 228 00:15:22,296 --> 00:15:23,911 And I, uh... I value the input, 229 00:15:24,006 --> 00:15:26,122 but I... I heard you the first three times. 230 00:15:26,300 --> 00:15:28,882 You know, ljust think there might be another way... 231 00:15:29,053 --> 00:15:31,169 that we could cool it with the White House. 232 00:15:31,347 --> 00:15:34,430 Maybe we could just send somebody else, you know... 233 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,012 Nope, nope. Nope. I'm not gonna send another reporter. 234 00:15:37,186 --> 00:15:39,051 Because it's not hard news, Ben. 235 00:15:39,147 --> 00:15:40,387 It's just a wedding. 236 00:15:40,565 --> 00:15:42,101 It's notjust a wedding. 237 00:15:42,275 --> 00:15:43,264 It's a wedding of the daughter 238 00:15:43,359 --> 00:15:44,769 of the President of the United States. 239 00:15:44,986 --> 00:15:46,476 Why not let that girl have her day? 240 00:15:46,654 --> 00:15:48,110 And we can't have an administration 241 00:15:48,197 --> 00:15:49,312 dictating to us our coverage... 242 00:15:49,490 --> 00:15:50,696 just because they don't like 243 00:15:50,783 --> 00:15:53,399 what we print about them in our newspaper. 244 00:15:57,999 --> 00:16:00,081 Wonder if Abe cares so passionately 245 00:16:00,168 --> 00:16:02,124 about who covers the wedding for his paper. 246 00:16:02,295 --> 00:16:04,206 I don't give a rat's ass what Abe or anybody 247 00:16:04,297 --> 00:16:05,707 at The New York Times cares about. 248 00:16:05,882 --> 00:16:07,418 Not true. I give one rat's ass. 249 00:16:07,550 --> 00:16:09,461 Yeah. One retromingent... 250 00:16:09,635 --> 00:16:11,171 rat's ass. 251 00:16:36,913 --> 00:16:38,153 MAN: Well, it's real important. 252 00:16:38,247 --> 00:16:40,203 Can you get him for me? 253 00:16:40,750 --> 00:16:43,958 Tell them it's from Sheehan. Don't walk. 254 00:17:11,113 --> 00:17:12,319 It's from Sheehan. 255 00:17:19,413 --> 00:17:21,199 Abe, here it is. 256 00:17:38,307 --> 00:17:39,513 HOWARD: Okay, Broder’s got Nixon 257 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,682 working on his second term. 258 00:17:41,769 --> 00:17:44,852 Osnos has something on G.I.s buying heroin in Saigon... 259 00:17:45,022 --> 00:17:47,434 but Ryder's got a rocket on the FBI list 260 00:17:47,525 --> 00:17:48,605 of potential subversives. 261 00:17:48,776 --> 00:17:50,141 BEN: Save it for the afternoon. 262 00:17:50,236 --> 00:17:52,192 I need Chal and Judith. 263 00:17:52,363 --> 00:17:53,569 HOWARD: Judith! 264 00:17:53,739 --> 00:17:55,775 BEN: Is that real, the subversives list? 265 00:17:55,992 --> 00:17:57,983 Oh, yeah. Hoover and Justice keep a copy. 266 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,366 Thousands of names. 267 00:17:59,537 --> 00:18:01,027 Geyelin heard the White House is shutting Judith out. 268 00:18:01,122 --> 00:18:02,111 Yeah, I'm working on that. 269 00:18:02,206 --> 00:18:03,286 We think editorial should run something. 270 00:18:03,374 --> 00:18:05,114 I just heard somebody say they're working on that. 271 00:18:05,209 --> 00:18:06,198 Well, if the White House is 272 00:18:06,294 --> 00:18:07,329 gonna take a stance like that... 273 00:18:07,420 --> 00:18:09,786 don't you think we should plant a flag? 274 00:18:12,216 --> 00:18:15,800 Did you see Sheehan at the Kissinger press conference? 275 00:18:16,012 --> 00:18:17,047 BAGDIKIAN: No. 276 00:18:17,221 --> 00:18:18,757 What about the AI Haig thing? 277 00:18:18,931 --> 00:18:20,922 No, Times sent the new kid. 278 00:18:21,601 --> 00:18:23,011 The new kid, huh? 279 00:18:23,144 --> 00:18:25,055 You think Sheehan's onto something. 280 00:18:25,229 --> 00:18:26,218 Yeah. 281 00:18:26,939 --> 00:18:29,180 Well, Neil has been known to disappear. 282 00:18:29,358 --> 00:18:31,895 No, no. I'm telling you, he has something. 283 00:18:32,194 --> 00:18:34,276 You want me to do a little digging? 284 00:18:34,447 --> 00:18:36,904 No, that's below your pay grade. 285 00:18:37,033 --> 00:18:38,193 Intern! 286 00:18:39,410 --> 00:18:41,822 You working on anything important, chief? 287 00:18:42,038 --> 00:18:43,574 Uh, no, Mr. Bradlee. 288 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:46,781 Well, everything we do is important at The Post. 289 00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:48,324 Yeah. That's $40. 290 00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:51,373 I want you to take the first train up to New York... 291 00:18:51,547 --> 00:18:53,208 and go to The Times building on 43rd. 292 00:18:53,299 --> 00:18:54,288 Don't tell them who you work for... 293 00:18:54,467 --> 00:18:56,958 but find a reporter by the name of Sheehan. 294 00:18:57,136 --> 00:18:58,672 Uh, Neil Sheehan? 295 00:18:58,846 --> 00:19:03,135 Yeah, yeah, find out what Neil Sheehan is working on. 296 00:19:04,101 --> 00:19:05,557 Is that legal? 297 00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:09,228 Well, what is it you think we do here for a living, kid? 298 00:19:09,732 --> 00:19:11,017 Get a receipt for the tickets. 299 00:19:11,108 --> 00:19:12,097 Yeah. 300 00:19:28,376 --> 00:19:30,708 MAN: Morning, Mrs. Graham. Hello, morning. 301 00:19:34,548 --> 00:19:36,459 KAY: Hello. Morning, everybody. 302 00:19:36,634 --> 00:19:37,623 Hi, 02. Mrs. Graham. 303 00:19:37,802 --> 00:19:39,087 Morning, Arthur. 304 00:19:40,471 --> 00:19:41,961 Hello. Hello, everyone. 305 00:19:44,642 --> 00:19:46,257 So, everyone's here. 306 00:19:46,477 --> 00:19:48,809 Hello, Ray. My Galahad. Good morning. 307 00:19:49,188 --> 00:19:50,598 Thank you. 308 00:20:01,992 --> 00:20:03,323 And I used to be the only one 309 00:20:03,411 --> 00:20:05,242 who brought his homework to class. 310 00:20:07,665 --> 00:20:10,247 I think we're all here. Should we get started? 311 00:20:10,418 --> 00:20:11,828 Didn't you crash the wedding 312 00:20:11,919 --> 00:20:14,126 of Nixon's other daughter to get a story? 313 00:20:14,296 --> 00:20:16,878 Well, I did get a story but I didn't crash Julie's wedding. 314 00:20:17,049 --> 00:20:18,755 No, just the reception afterwards, right? 315 00:20:18,884 --> 00:20:19,873 There is a distinction. 316 00:20:20,177 --> 00:20:21,212 Not to the father of the bride. 317 00:20:21,303 --> 00:20:22,292 He's paying per plate. 318 00:20:22,388 --> 00:20:23,878 I think the American people are paying per plate. 319 00:20:24,390 --> 00:20:25,880 HOWARD: Wait, let's do a story about that. 320 00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:27,764 Yeah, let's... Judith should crash again. 321 00:20:28,352 --> 00:20:29,558 I didn't crash Julie's wedding. 322 00:20:29,645 --> 00:20:30,885 What would you call it, Judith? 323 00:20:31,021 --> 00:20:32,636 Well, Iwould call it deft reportage. 324 00:20:32,815 --> 00:20:34,180 All right, come on, come on, everybody. 325 00:20:34,358 --> 00:20:37,270 How are we gonna cover this Nixon-Cox wedding? 326 00:20:41,949 --> 00:20:43,735 Uh... Who else is gonna be there? 327 00:20:43,909 --> 00:20:45,069 Here. Judith's got the guest list. 328 00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:47,155 No, I mean of the other press. 329 00:20:47,329 --> 00:20:49,911 The Times, the Sun, the Globe, all the international papers. 330 00:20:50,082 --> 00:20:51,242 All right. 331 00:20:51,917 --> 00:20:55,250 So, we call them, we call all of them... 332 00:20:56,422 --> 00:20:59,129 and we say Nixon has shut us out... 333 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:01,791 and then we ask them for their notes. 334 00:21:02,178 --> 00:21:04,260 Ben, there's no way in hell anyone's gonna give me a fill. 335 00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:07,172 No, it'll be an act of solidarity. 336 00:21:07,349 --> 00:21:09,806 They'll be defending the First Amendment. 337 00:21:09,977 --> 00:21:11,683 We'll tell them that the only way 338 00:21:11,771 --> 00:21:13,477 to protect the right to publish... 339 00:21:13,689 --> 00:21:15,680 is to publish. 340 00:21:20,946 --> 00:21:22,231 I don't understand. 341 00:21:22,323 --> 00:21:24,939 You said we'd set the price at $27. 342 00:21:25,075 --> 00:21:26,611 No, we said there was a range. 343 00:21:26,786 --> 00:21:29,118 And the demand on the road show was soft. 344 00:21:29,497 --> 00:21:32,489 Why not set it at $26? Or $25 even? 345 00:21:32,666 --> 00:21:34,452 Well, Paul, we feel that setting the price 346 00:21:34,543 --> 00:21:36,454 at $24.50 would be more prudent. 347 00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:37,994 It's just a couple bucks. 348 00:21:38,172 --> 00:21:39,912 It's notjust a couple of bucks. 349 00:21:40,007 --> 00:21:42,464 lt's1.35 million shares... 350 00:21:42,968 --> 00:21:44,674 so it is... 351 00:21:46,263 --> 00:21:47,594 Three million. 352 00:21:48,307 --> 00:21:52,346 Over $3 million less. That's a lot to a newspaper. 353 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,226 How many reporters is that? 354 00:21:54,396 --> 00:21:55,385 It's 25. 355 00:21:55,523 --> 00:21:56,808 Let's not get bogged down. 356 00:21:56,982 --> 00:21:58,188 PAUL: It has to be quite a few. 357 00:21:58,275 --> 00:21:59,765 ARTHUR: At least a dozen. Fritz? 358 00:22:01,487 --> 00:22:02,852 It's 25 reporters. 359 00:22:03,030 --> 00:22:05,066 Twenty-five reporters. 360 00:22:08,744 --> 00:22:10,075 but a few of our investors 361 00:22:10,162 --> 00:22:12,869 balked at the nature of the company. 362 00:22:13,290 --> 00:22:14,405 They don't like newspapers? 363 00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:17,120 They like Gannett and Knight and Ridder... 364 00:22:17,294 --> 00:22:18,283 but frankly they're concerned 365 00:22:18,379 --> 00:22:21,041 about your ability to turn a serious profit. 366 00:22:34,895 --> 00:22:36,226 Gannett and Knight and Ridder 367 00:22:36,313 --> 00:22:38,019 own monopoly papers in smaller markets. 368 00:22:38,190 --> 00:22:40,306 That's why they're more profitable. 369 00:22:40,484 --> 00:22:43,351 The whole point of the offering is to grow... 370 00:22:43,529 --> 00:22:45,565 while investing in the quality of the paper. 371 00:22:45,739 --> 00:22:49,027 Kay and I have talked a great deal about this... 372 00:22:49,201 --> 00:22:52,034 and we believe that improving quality... 373 00:22:52,204 --> 00:22:55,492 will naturally lead to greater profitability. 374 00:22:57,459 --> 00:22:58,574 Unfortunate. 375 00:22:58,752 --> 00:23:00,242 It's more than unfortunate. 376 00:23:00,754 --> 00:23:02,540 Doesn't this happen all the time? 377 00:23:02,715 --> 00:23:05,627 Bankers lowering the price for their institutional investors. 378 00:23:05,801 --> 00:23:07,211 Fritz, isn't this what we discussed? 379 00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:08,501 I think the family should consider 380 00:23:08,596 --> 00:23:09,585 giving up some control. 381 00:23:09,763 --> 00:23:11,845 Maybe another board seat. Absolutely not. 382 00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:14,343 This isn't a surprise, Fritz. Ever since Phil's accident... 383 00:23:14,435 --> 00:23:15,424 FRITZ: Arthur. 384 00:23:15,603 --> 00:23:18,060 No offense, Kay. It's unfortunate... 385 00:23:18,188 --> 00:23:19,724 but the buyers are obviously skittish 386 00:23:19,815 --> 00:23:21,180 about having a woman in charge... 387 00:23:21,358 --> 00:23:23,440 and it's not like it's an easy sell. 388 00:23:23,611 --> 00:23:26,353 It's a local paper with modest margins, modest ambitions. 389 00:23:26,530 --> 00:23:27,986 PAUL: Ithink Mr. Bradlee would take issue 390 00:23:28,073 --> 00:23:29,233 with that characterization. 391 00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:31,239 ARTHUR: Sure, she pads his budget every year. 392 00:23:31,368 --> 00:23:32,949 Call my office. Tell them I'm going to 393 00:23:33,078 --> 00:23:34,614 miss my lunch at Occidental. 394 00:23:34,955 --> 00:23:36,661 Another dozen reporters. For what? 395 00:23:36,832 --> 00:23:38,368 To nip at the heels of The Times? 396 00:23:38,542 --> 00:23:39,622 So we can pretend like 397 00:23:39,710 --> 00:23:41,575 we're even remotely in the same league? 398 00:23:41,754 --> 00:23:44,040 Make it a five o'clock drink at the Jefferson. 399 00:23:44,214 --> 00:23:46,170 FRITZ: Arthur, Kay was right. Lazard isjust trying... 400 00:23:46,342 --> 00:23:47,331 to cut a better deal by squeezing us. 401 00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:48,461 ARTHUR: Come on, Fritz. 402 00:23:48,636 --> 00:23:49,625 Why do you think that is? 403 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:50,755 FRITZ: Because they're bankers. 404 00:23:50,971 --> 00:23:52,336 ARTHUR: Which is why they want more control. 405 00:23:52,431 --> 00:23:53,420 They want assurances 406 00:23:53,515 --> 00:23:54,675 that she's not gonna squander it all. 407 00:23:54,767 --> 00:23:55,756 I mean, come on. 408 00:23:56,477 --> 00:23:58,809 Fritz, Kay throws a great party... 409 00:23:58,979 --> 00:24:01,595 but her father gave the paper to her husband. 410 00:24:01,774 --> 00:24:03,355 The only reason she's running things 411 00:24:03,442 --> 00:24:05,649 is because he... Because Phil died. 412 00:24:07,154 --> 00:24:10,692 Don't get me wrong, I think she is a lovely woman. 413 00:24:10,866 --> 00:24:12,527 But she got rid ofAl Friendly... 414 00:24:12,701 --> 00:24:14,191 and brought in a pirate 415 00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:16,698 who does nothing but bleed our margins. 416 00:24:16,872 --> 00:24:18,362 I mean, you can't be surprised 417 00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:19,572 that the buyers are concerned... 418 00:24:19,750 --> 00:24:20,956 that she doesn't have the resolve 419 00:24:21,043 --> 00:24:22,749 to turn a serious profit. 420 00:24:28,258 --> 00:24:30,374 Kay, it's your decision... 421 00:24:30,719 --> 00:24:32,801 but in my opinion, if you want this 422 00:24:32,888 --> 00:24:35,049 to be more than a little family paper... 423 00:24:35,224 --> 00:24:38,307 it has to be more than a little family business. 424 00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:46,690 All right. 425 00:24:48,028 --> 00:24:49,017 We're set? 426 00:24:49,154 --> 00:24:51,110 LIZ: All set, Mr. Parsons. 427 00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:55,027 Accident... 428 00:24:58,288 --> 00:24:59,949 It wasn't an accident. 429 00:25:01,083 --> 00:25:02,243 Phil's suicide. 430 00:25:02,418 --> 00:25:06,582 I don't know why people insist on calling it an accident. 431 00:25:08,048 --> 00:25:10,460 Is it to make them feel better? 432 00:25:11,593 --> 00:25:14,676 Or do they think they're being kind? 433 00:25:14,847 --> 00:25:16,838 I don't know, I don't know. 434 00:25:17,725 --> 00:25:19,807 So, do you think I should 435 00:25:19,935 --> 00:25:22,142 give up more seats on the board? 436 00:25:22,479 --> 00:25:24,310 Of course not. 437 00:25:25,858 --> 00:25:27,689 We're going to be fine. 438 00:25:27,943 --> 00:25:29,399 Hmm. 439 00:25:29,528 --> 00:25:32,315 This passage in the prospectus, 440 00:25:32,406 --> 00:25:34,943 I read it earlier today. 441 00:25:38,787 --> 00:25:40,743 Oh, yes. 442 00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:43,451 "In the unlikely instance of disaster 443 00:25:43,542 --> 00:25:44,702 "or catastrophic event... 444 00:25:44,877 --> 00:25:48,290 "in the week following the initial public offering... 445 00:25:48,881 --> 00:25:50,712 "Lazard Freres and Company retains 446 00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:52,630 "full right to cancel the issue." 447 00:25:52,801 --> 00:25:54,291 It's boilerplate, Kay. 448 00:25:54,470 --> 00:25:56,631 It's standard contractual language. 449 00:25:58,057 --> 00:26:01,595 But, so, the bankers could pull out. 450 00:26:02,269 --> 00:26:04,760 Only if there's a true disaster. 451 00:26:05,022 --> 00:26:07,104 Ben gets hit by a truck... 452 00:26:07,191 --> 00:26:10,775 the world runs outta newspaper ink... 453 00:26:12,362 --> 00:26:14,023 the truck goes around the block 454 00:26:14,114 --> 00:26:16,321 and hits Ben again... 455 00:26:16,408 --> 00:26:17,818 You think one of those is possible. 456 00:26:17,993 --> 00:26:19,654 No, ldon't... 457 00:26:19,828 --> 00:26:21,614 but, you know, the Nixon White House 458 00:26:21,705 --> 00:26:23,445 is nothing if not vindictive. 459 00:26:23,624 --> 00:26:24,909 Just this morning... 460 00:26:25,084 --> 00:26:27,700 they barred us from covering Tricia Nixon's wedding. 461 00:26:28,587 --> 00:26:30,248 Somehow, I doubt that will rise 462 00:26:31,924 --> 00:26:33,460 I know. Probably not. 463 00:26:33,634 --> 00:26:36,922 Although, when Ben sets his mind to plunder... 464 00:26:37,096 --> 00:26:40,554 it's not hard to imagine something more serious. 465 00:26:42,184 --> 00:26:44,220 Catastrophic events... 466 00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:47,060 do occur, you know. 467 00:26:47,231 --> 00:26:50,598 Yeah, but the right to cancel is only for a week. 468 00:26:51,318 --> 00:26:53,809 A week from the public offering. 469 00:26:54,613 --> 00:26:57,901 Seven days after they ring that bell on Tuesday... 470 00:26:58,242 --> 00:27:00,073 the deal is done. 471 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:01,149 Hmm. 472 00:27:02,746 --> 00:27:04,782 It's gonna be fine, Kay. 473 00:27:23,517 --> 00:27:24,723 (HORNHONKS Jesus. 474 00:27:31,608 --> 00:27:33,564 Do you know what floor the newsroom's on? 475 00:27:33,944 --> 00:27:35,059 Five. 476 00:27:35,362 --> 00:27:37,478 Uh, no, no, six, yeah. Six. 477 00:27:51,795 --> 00:27:53,626 MAN 1: Things are heating up in East Pakistan? 478 00:27:53,797 --> 00:27:55,537 MAN 2: Well, five million refugees 479 00:27:55,632 --> 00:27:57,623 could destabilize West Bengal. 480 00:27:57,801 --> 00:27:59,712 So, Lindsay's lowering the boom tomorrow. 481 00:27:59,887 --> 00:28:01,423 They gotta cut 100 million. 482 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,171 Gonna be some blood on the floor of Gracie Mansion. 483 00:28:06,476 --> 00:28:08,637 I heard the Mayors gave it to Nixon in Philly. 484 00:28:08,812 --> 00:28:10,268 Yeah, Tolchin's down there. He's filing. 485 00:28:10,439 --> 00:28:11,770 Take a look at this. 486 00:28:12,024 --> 00:28:13,639 Any of you guys see that piece on the hijacking? 487 00:28:13,817 --> 00:28:14,806 Jeez, there's been another hijacking? 488 00:28:14,985 --> 00:28:16,395 You think six pages is enough? 489 00:28:16,570 --> 00:28:19,562 Well, we got three columns on the front page. I'll take it. 490 00:28:19,740 --> 00:28:21,355 On the flight? On the flight. 491 00:28:21,950 --> 00:28:23,736 Can I help you, Mac? 492 00:28:24,203 --> 00:28:26,068 Just delivering a package to Mr. Meetson. 493 00:28:26,580 --> 00:28:28,696 Mattson. I'll see that he gets it. 494 00:28:30,209 --> 00:28:31,790 ART: I knew a couple 495 00:28:31,877 --> 00:28:35,085 whose yacht was shipwrecked in the South Pacific. 496 00:28:35,172 --> 00:28:36,207 ART: Hold on, quiet. 497 00:28:37,007 --> 00:28:38,247 I knew a couple whose yacht 498 00:28:38,342 --> 00:28:40,128 was shipwrecked in the South Pacific. 499 00:28:40,302 --> 00:28:42,509 It looks bleak, so the man asks... 500 00:28:42,804 --> 00:28:45,841 "Does the will take care of the kids?" His wife nods. 501 00:28:46,016 --> 00:28:48,302 "What about your mother?" "Yes-ll 502 00:28:48,477 --> 00:28:51,765 "Okay, did we donate to Nixon?" 503 00:28:51,939 --> 00:28:54,521 His wife shakes her head. "Yes." 504 00:28:54,691 --> 00:28:57,023 "Did we pledge or give?" 505 00:28:57,194 --> 00:28:58,434 "We pledged." 506 00:28:58,612 --> 00:29:00,443 "Thank God," shouts the man. "Nixon'll find us. 507 00:29:00,614 --> 00:29:01,649 "We're saved!" 508 00:29:06,078 --> 00:29:08,444 JOE: Well, speaking of Nixon, I just talked to Kissinger... 509 00:29:08,622 --> 00:29:11,079 who was going on about the end of the China embargo. 510 00:29:11,416 --> 00:29:13,623 He's convinced it's a rather clever geopolitical move. 511 00:29:14,086 --> 00:29:16,623 Ithink this is our cue, ladies. 512 00:29:17,214 --> 00:29:18,920 Someone at this table of luminaries 513 00:29:19,007 --> 00:29:20,497 must have an idea what they're up to. 514 00:29:20,676 --> 00:29:22,758 I wonder what his buddy Joe McCarthy would say. 515 00:29:22,928 --> 00:29:25,214 The New Style Section did a lovely piece 516 00:29:25,305 --> 00:29:26,670 on Lawrence Durrell. 517 00:29:26,848 --> 00:29:29,305 It's about time Style had a good piece. 518 00:29:29,476 --> 00:29:30,841 I think it's a bit improved. 519 00:29:31,019 --> 00:29:33,351 I hear he's at work on another series of novels. 520 00:29:33,522 --> 00:29:36,514 I hear he's at work on finding a fourth wife. 521 00:29:36,692 --> 00:29:38,102 I will say, he's one of the few individuals... 522 00:29:38,277 --> 00:29:39,983 who could probably cozy up to communist China... 523 00:29:40,153 --> 00:29:41,814 without fear of major political cost. 524 00:29:41,989 --> 00:29:43,229 Eh, but is Nixon that smart? 525 00:29:43,323 --> 00:29:44,563 He never laughed at one of myjokes. 526 00:29:46,952 --> 00:29:48,908 Oh, Kay, ldon't know how you do it. 527 00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:50,694 I don't know how you keep up with it all 528 00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:52,780 when you have this dayjob. 529 00:29:54,001 --> 00:29:55,411 You need to read more books. 530 00:29:55,585 --> 00:29:58,292 Kay, could I havejust a word? 531 00:30:00,674 --> 00:30:01,709 Um... 532 00:30:03,218 --> 00:30:04,583 Everything all right? 533 00:30:04,761 --> 00:30:06,626 Marg okay? Yes, she's fine. 534 00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:08,591 Said the procedure went very well. 535 00:30:08,765 --> 00:30:10,221 Oh, good, I've been meaning to... 536 00:30:12,102 --> 00:30:13,217 I wanted to tell you, 537 00:30:13,312 --> 00:30:15,018 and Iwant you to hear from me first... 538 00:30:15,188 --> 00:30:17,099 there's an article about me 539 00:30:17,190 --> 00:30:19,727 coming out in The Times tomorrow. 540 00:30:20,902 --> 00:30:22,563 It's not flattering. 541 00:30:23,947 --> 00:30:23,981 HARRY: Running? Me? 542 00:30:23,989 --> 00:30:25,445 HARRY: Running? Me? 543 00:30:25,615 --> 00:30:27,401 Now, you know me better than that. 544 00:30:27,576 --> 00:30:29,237 MARY: Three days and three nights and not a word. 545 00:30:29,411 --> 00:30:30,526 HARRY: Well, I've been very busy. 546 00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:31,609 MARY: For all I knew you were lying 547 00:30:31,705 --> 00:30:32,740 in the gutter somewhere... 548 00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:34,287 with a knife in your back. 549 00:30:34,374 --> 00:30:35,739 HARRY: Lying in the gutter? 550 00:30:37,044 --> 00:30:39,285 Now, look, sweetheart, I'll tell you what happened. 551 00:30:40,297 --> 00:30:41,958 I was in Birmingham. 552 00:30:42,132 --> 00:30:43,167 MARY: Birmingham? 553 00:30:43,342 --> 00:30:44,377 Hello? 554 00:30:44,551 --> 00:30:46,132 KAY: Hello, Ben. 555 00:30:46,303 --> 00:30:47,509 Hello, Katharine. 556 00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:50,466 I 'm sorry to bother you so late. 557 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,632 Listen, were you able to make any headway with Mr. Sheehan? 558 00:30:53,810 --> 00:30:56,677 No, no. I haven't. 559 00:30:56,855 --> 00:31:00,939 I just had an odd conversation with Bob McNamara... 560 00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:05,148 and I think The Times may have a big story tomorrow. 561 00:31:05,947 --> 00:31:07,687 Oh, damn it. 562 00:31:07,866 --> 00:31:10,482 You know, he wouldn’t give me any details... 563 00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:15,780 but Bob said it was quite detrimental to him and... 564 00:31:37,270 --> 00:31:38,635 Ben! 565 00:31:39,231 --> 00:31:40,641 We got 'em. 566 00:31:40,816 --> 00:31:42,147 We got 'em. 567 00:31:42,317 --> 00:31:43,477 Huh? 568 00:31:43,610 --> 00:31:45,020 Yeah, quite good. The happy couple. 569 00:31:45,195 --> 00:31:46,981 Hey, chief! Mr. Bradlee. 570 00:31:47,155 --> 00:31:49,191 So, did you track down Sheehan? 571 00:31:49,366 --> 00:31:52,950 No, but, I saw a mock-up of tomorrow's front page. 572 00:31:53,787 --> 00:31:55,573 There's a big gap. 573 00:31:55,747 --> 00:31:57,408 Nothing there but the name. 574 00:32:01,711 --> 00:32:02,917 Shit. 575 00:32:03,088 --> 00:32:04,294 Shit. 576 00:32:04,881 --> 00:32:06,087 Shit! 577 00:32:14,141 --> 00:32:15,972 Give us three. Here you go. 578 00:32:16,143 --> 00:32:18,555 Here, here, here. Thank you, thank you. 579 00:32:19,271 --> 00:32:20,602 Thanks, got it. 580 00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:28,268 FEMALE OPERATOR: General Haig, sir. 581 00:32:28,447 --> 00:32:29,653 NIXON: Hi, AI. HAIG: Yes, sir. 582 00:32:29,823 --> 00:32:31,688 NIXON: What about the casualties last week? 583 00:32:31,783 --> 00:32:32,818 You got that figure yet? 584 00:32:32,993 --> 00:32:35,655 HAIG: No, sir, but I think it's gonna be quite low. 585 00:32:36,163 --> 00:32:37,152 NIXON: Fine. 586 00:32:37,330 --> 00:32:40,117 Okay. Nothing else of interest in the world today? 587 00:32:40,292 --> 00:32:42,749 HAIG: Yes, sir. Very significant... 588 00:32:42,919 --> 00:32:46,036 this goddamn New York Times expose... 589 00:32:46,214 --> 00:32:47,875 ...ofthe most highly classified 590 00:32:47,966 --> 00:32:49,752 documents of the war. 591 00:32:49,843 --> 00:32:51,959 NIXON: You mean that was leaked out of the Pentagon? 592 00:32:52,137 --> 00:32:55,504 HAIG: The whole study that was done for McNamara. 593 00:32:56,308 --> 00:33:00,267 This is a devastating, uh, security breach... 594 00:33:00,604 --> 00:33:03,016 of the greatest magnitude of anything I’ve ever seen. 595 00:33:03,190 --> 00:33:05,101 NIXON: Well, what's being done about it then? 596 00:33:05,275 --> 00:33:06,811 Did we know this was coming out? 597 00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:08,646 HAIG: No, we did not, sir. 598 00:33:08,737 --> 00:33:09,726 FEMALE OPERATOR: l have Doctor Kissinger. 599 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,817 NIXON: Henry, the thing to me is just unconscionable. 600 00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:14,902 This is treasonable action on the part 601 00:33:14,993 --> 00:33:16,654 of the bastards that put it out. 602 00:33:17,329 --> 00:33:19,035 KISSINGER: I'm absolutely certain... 603 00:33:19,206 --> 00:33:22,744 that this violates all sorts of security laws. 604 00:33:22,918 --> 00:33:24,454 NIXON: People have gotta be put to the torch 605 00:33:24,544 --> 00:33:26,250 for this sort of thing. 606 00:33:27,881 --> 00:33:31,373 Christ! McNamara knew we couldn't win in '65. 607 00:33:31,468 --> 00:33:34,084 That's six goddamn years ago. 608 00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:38,471 Well, at least we got the wedding. 609 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,351 Is anybody else tired of reading the news 610 00:33:43,438 --> 00:33:45,053 instead of reporting it? 611 00:33:45,690 --> 00:33:46,975 Do we have any leads? 612 00:33:47,150 --> 00:33:48,356 There's a guy Phil and I know in Boston... 613 00:33:48,443 --> 00:33:49,432 who worked at Defense 614 00:33:49,528 --> 00:33:50,643 when McNamara commissioned the study. 615 00:33:50,737 --> 00:33:52,273 All right, call him. 616 00:33:52,447 --> 00:33:54,108 Anybody else? 617 00:33:54,282 --> 00:33:55,897 So that's it? 618 00:33:56,451 --> 00:33:59,318 Our best goddamn lead is coming from editorial? 619 00:33:59,412 --> 00:34:01,073 Well, we are sucking hind tit 620 00:34:01,164 --> 00:34:02,324 in our own backyard. 621 00:34:02,499 --> 00:34:04,239 Ben, come on, it's one story. 622 00:34:04,417 --> 00:34:06,157 No, it's 7,000 pages... 623 00:34:06,336 --> 00:34:08,372 detailing how the White House has been 624 00:34:08,463 --> 00:34:10,419 lying about the Vietnam War for 30 years. 625 00:34:10,590 --> 00:34:15,550 It's Truman and Eisenhower and Jack and LBJ lying. 626 00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:17,927 Lying about Vietnam. 627 00:34:18,098 --> 00:34:19,963 And you think that's one story? 628 00:34:21,184 --> 00:34:22,890 Let's do ourjobs. 629 00:34:24,396 --> 00:34:25,806 Find those pages! 630 00:34:30,485 --> 00:34:31,725 Ben,uh”. 631 00:34:32,237 --> 00:34:34,774 I might have something. Maybe. 632 00:34:34,948 --> 00:34:37,815 Well, let me know when it's a little less wishy-washy. 633 00:34:37,993 --> 00:34:40,985 I'm gonna go chase down a lead of my own. 634 00:34:45,250 --> 00:34:47,866 KAY: Why don't you cut your bangs, just a little bit? 635 00:34:48,044 --> 00:34:49,705 Mummy, I'm right in the middle. 636 00:34:55,594 --> 00:34:58,131 It's a bit hard to read, isn't it? 637 00:34:58,305 --> 00:35:00,796 Harder for you, I imagine. 638 00:35:01,308 --> 00:35:02,423 No. 639 00:35:02,809 --> 00:35:04,049 VVhy? 640 00:35:04,853 --> 00:35:06,309 These were your people... 641 00:35:06,479 --> 00:35:09,812 McNamara and Kennedy and Johnson. 642 00:35:09,983 --> 00:35:12,269 Well, Jack and Lyndon were your father's friends. 643 00:35:12,444 --> 00:35:13,900 You flew down to Texas with Lyndon 644 00:35:13,987 --> 00:35:15,193 the weekend after his convention. 645 00:35:15,363 --> 00:35:17,399 That's your fault. You wanted to see his helicopter land. 646 00:35:17,574 --> 00:35:19,735 And the instant he saw you, he invited you to the ranch. 647 00:35:19,909 --> 00:35:21,991 Oh, well, hejust wanted the paper to endorse. 648 00:35:22,162 --> 00:35:23,402 Yes, but my point is 649 00:35:23,496 --> 00:35:25,282 you had Steve and Bill waiting at home. 650 00:35:25,457 --> 00:35:26,617 You had houseguests... I know. 651 00:35:26,708 --> 00:35:27,868 ...waiting at the farm. 652 00:35:27,959 --> 00:35:29,620 You had nothing but dirty clothes in your suitcase. 653 00:35:29,711 --> 00:35:30,951 How do you know what I had in my suitcase? 654 00:35:31,087 --> 00:35:32,122 Yet you jumped on Air Force One, 655 00:35:32,213 --> 00:35:33,202 spent the weekend... 656 00:35:33,298 --> 00:35:34,287 Idid notjump. 657 00:35:34,382 --> 00:35:35,497 ...swimming and speed-boating... 658 00:35:35,717 --> 00:35:37,082 You and Luvie Pearson said I had to go! 659 00:35:37,177 --> 00:35:38,633 ...with Lyndon and Lady Bird. 660 00:35:43,850 --> 00:35:45,511 It's hard to say... 661 00:35:46,603 --> 00:35:49,265 "no" to the President of the United States. 662 00:35:54,027 --> 00:35:55,858 Were you expecting someone? 663 00:35:56,029 --> 00:35:57,735 At this hour? 664 00:36:03,078 --> 00:36:04,989 I hope I'm not too early. 665 00:36:05,163 --> 00:36:07,700 Not at all. Must be urgent. 666 00:36:07,874 --> 00:36:09,535 LALLY: Where's your sister? 667 00:36:11,961 --> 00:36:13,826 LALLY: That's my tea, darling. 668 00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:16,872 Where's your sister? Let's go find her. 669 00:36:16,966 --> 00:36:18,422 Let's go find her. 670 00:36:21,096 --> 00:36:23,303 I trust you saw The New York Times. 671 00:36:23,890 --> 00:36:25,050 Hmm. 672 00:36:25,183 --> 00:36:27,265 The study, the one they are working off of... 673 00:36:27,352 --> 00:36:28,683 that was commissioned by Robert McNamara. 674 00:36:28,770 --> 00:36:29,759 Yeah. 675 00:36:29,938 --> 00:36:32,224 And if he commissioned it, he might have a copy. 676 00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:40,228 I don't need to tell you that finding a source... 677 00:36:40,407 --> 00:36:42,113 it's like finding a needle in a haystack. 678 00:36:42,283 --> 00:36:43,363 I don't need the metaphor. 679 00:36:43,535 --> 00:36:44,524 Well, I haven't been a writer 680 00:36:44,619 --> 00:36:45,859 for a while so that old cliche... 681 00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:47,993 that was the best comparison I could come up with. 682 00:36:49,457 --> 00:36:52,073 I need a copy of that study, Kay. 683 00:36:53,753 --> 00:36:55,209 Give her the ball, Ben. 684 00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:56,790 Here you go. Thank you. 685 00:36:59,259 --> 00:37:02,046 You know, Ben, as much as I do relish 686 00:37:02,137 --> 00:37:03,627 a good investigative assignment... 687 00:37:05,181 --> 00:37:07,888 Bob McNamara is an old friend. 688 00:37:08,059 --> 00:37:10,266 He's going through a lot in his life right now. 689 00:37:10,437 --> 00:37:13,429 I just think he's probably said all he wants to say. 690 00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:15,562 Why do you think? 691 00:37:15,734 --> 00:37:16,940 VVhy? VVhy? 692 00:37:17,110 --> 00:37:18,520 Why is he talking to you? 693 00:37:18,695 --> 00:37:20,981 Well, ljust told you, he's my friend and... 694 00:37:21,156 --> 00:37:23,647 Is he talking to any other friends? 695 00:37:25,326 --> 00:37:26,691 I'm not sure 696 00:37:26,786 --> 00:37:28,742 I appreciate the implication of what you just said. 697 00:37:28,913 --> 00:37:30,995 McNamara is talking to you... 698 00:37:31,291 --> 00:37:33,282 because you are the publisher of The Washington Post. 699 00:37:33,460 --> 00:37:35,075 That's not true. No, that is not why. 700 00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:37,039 Because he wants you to bail him out. 701 00:37:37,130 --> 00:37:38,165 Because he wants you on his side. 702 00:37:38,256 --> 00:37:39,496 No, there's no ulterior... Nol 703 00:37:39,591 --> 00:37:42,048 Ben, that's not my role. You know that. 704 00:37:42,218 --> 00:37:45,210 I wouldn't presume to tell you how to write about him. 705 00:37:45,388 --> 00:37:48,846 Just as I wouldn't take it upon myself... 706 00:37:49,017 --> 00:37:52,805 to tell him he should hand over a classified study... 707 00:37:52,979 --> 00:37:55,345 which would be a crime, by the way... 708 00:37:55,523 --> 00:37:58,390 just so he can serve as your source. 709 00:37:59,402 --> 00:38:01,768 Our source, Katharine. 710 00:38:13,625 --> 00:38:14,990 No. Uh... No... 711 00:38:15,168 --> 00:38:18,706 I'm not. I'm not going to ask Bob for the study. 712 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:19,960 All right. 713 00:38:20,131 --> 00:38:21,541 I get it. You have a relationship 714 00:38:21,633 --> 00:38:22,622 with Bob McNamara. 715 00:38:23,885 --> 00:38:26,922 But don't you think you have an obligation as well 716 00:38:27,013 --> 00:38:28,719 to the paper and to the public? 717 00:38:28,890 --> 00:38:30,346 Let me ask you something. 718 00:38:30,517 --> 00:38:32,348 Was that how you felt when you were 719 00:38:32,435 --> 00:38:34,221 palling around with Jack Kennedy? 720 00:38:34,395 --> 00:38:36,477 Where was your sense of duty then? 721 00:38:36,648 --> 00:38:40,436 I don't recall you pushing him particularly hard on anything. 722 00:38:40,527 --> 00:38:43,234 I pushed Jack when I had to. 723 00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:44,857 I never pulled any punches. 724 00:38:45,031 --> 00:38:46,191 Is that right? 725 00:38:46,366 --> 00:38:49,278 'Cause you used to dine at the White House once a week. 726 00:38:49,452 --> 00:38:51,613 All the trips to Camp David. 727 00:38:51,788 --> 00:38:53,653 Oh, and that drunken birthday cruise 728 00:38:53,748 --> 00:38:55,909 on the Sequoia you told me about. 729 00:38:57,710 --> 00:38:58,916 Hard to believe you would have 730 00:38:59,003 --> 00:39:00,743 gofien achoseianafions”. 731 00:39:00,922 --> 00:39:03,789 ifyou didn't pull a few punches. 732 00:39:09,013 --> 00:39:10,378 NEWSCASTER: Street protests broke out today 733 00:39:10,473 --> 00:39:11,553 across the country... 734 00:39:11,724 --> 00:39:13,339 after the publication of more excerpts... 735 00:39:13,518 --> 00:39:15,474 from a classified Department of Defense study 736 00:39:15,562 --> 00:39:17,018 in The New York Times. 737 00:39:17,188 --> 00:39:18,348 The study, commissioned 738 00:39:18,439 --> 00:39:20,725 by former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara... 739 00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:22,265 has ignited further debate 740 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:23,691 over the ongoing war in Vietnam... 741 00:39:24,487 --> 00:39:26,773 as it makes clear that Kennedy and Johnson... 742 00:39:26,948 --> 00:39:28,904 as well as Eisenhower and Truman, 743 00:39:28,992 --> 00:39:31,654 deeply misled the country on Vietnam. 744 00:39:31,828 --> 00:39:33,568 The bombshell series has appeared 745 00:39:33,663 --> 00:39:35,949 for the last two days in The New York Times. 746 00:39:36,124 --> 00:39:38,206 We don't want your stinking war. 747 00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:40,037 One, two, three, four. 748 00:39:40,128 --> 00:39:42,289 We don't want your stinking war. 749 00:39:44,299 --> 00:39:45,584 I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways 750 00:39:45,675 --> 00:39:48,667 MAN: Not for what is politic but for what is right. 751 00:39:48,845 --> 00:39:49,834 WOMAN: Right! 752 00:39:50,013 --> 00:39:52,379 Like my brother Mario said... 753 00:39:52,557 --> 00:39:54,798 "There is a time when the operation 754 00:39:54,893 --> 00:39:56,884 ”of the machine becomes so odious... 755 00:39:57,061 --> 00:39:59,768 "that you've got to put your body upon the gears... 756 00:39:59,939 --> 00:40:02,351 ”and upon the wheels, and upon the levers... 757 00:40:02,525 --> 00:40:04,641 ”and you’ve got to make it stop. " 758 00:40:04,819 --> 00:40:06,150 One, two, three four. 759 00:40:06,237 --> 00:40:08,193 We don't want your stinking war. 760 00:40:08,364 --> 00:40:10,901 MAN: Someone gives up his life, 761 00:40:10,992 --> 00:40:12,482 so that the President... 762 00:40:12,660 --> 00:40:14,400 doesn 't have to admit something 763 00:40:14,495 --> 00:40:16,031 the entire world already knows. 764 00:40:16,205 --> 00:40:17,661 Your dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Rosenthal 765 00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:18,909 is at seven in the Oak Room... 766 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,035 and then I'll meet you tomorrow morning 767 00:40:20,126 --> 00:40:21,115 in the lobby at eight... 768 00:40:21,210 --> 00:40:22,199 so you'll have plenty of time 769 00:40:22,295 --> 00:40:23,330 to get downtown before the offering. 770 00:40:23,421 --> 00:40:24,661 And the breakfast. 771 00:40:24,756 --> 00:40:27,042 HOWARD: "All designed to meet these five desiderata." 772 00:40:29,594 --> 00:40:30,583 Bagdikian. 773 00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:32,176 HARRY: It’s Harry Rowen. 774 00:40:32,347 --> 00:40:36,090 Hey, uh, let me call you back from outside the newsroom. 775 00:40:58,873 --> 00:41:02,491 Excuse me, are you important? 776 00:41:03,044 --> 00:41:05,000 I'm a general assignment reporter. 777 00:41:05,171 --> 00:41:06,536 Okay. 778 00:41:38,871 --> 00:41:40,702 Uh, I think I got something. 779 00:41:40,873 --> 00:41:41,862 Be my guest. 780 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,706 BEN: Can we lose The New York Times from the nut graph? 781 00:41:43,876 --> 00:41:44,865 Ben, they are the source of the story. 782 00:41:45,003 --> 00:41:46,994 Every time | read The New York Times above the fold... 783 00:41:47,171 --> 00:41:48,331 Mr. Bradlee? No. 784 00:41:48,506 --> 00:41:50,246 I feel like somebody's shoving a hot poker up my ass. 785 00:41:50,466 --> 00:41:51,501 CHALMERS: All right, just say The Times, 786 00:41:51,592 --> 00:41:52,627 and drop it a graph below the fold. 787 00:41:52,844 --> 00:41:53,833 HOWARD: There you go. 788 00:41:53,928 --> 00:41:55,043 BEN: That would be less painful. 789 00:41:55,888 --> 00:41:57,219 Ithink I got something. 790 00:41:57,390 --> 00:41:59,096 BEN: "McNaughton had McNamara plan for action." 791 00:41:59,267 --> 00:42:01,474 Well, that's two months before the election. 792 00:42:01,644 --> 00:42:03,180 "Suggested sending large numbers 793 00:42:03,271 --> 00:42:04,727 "of US. forces to interlard." 794 00:42:04,814 --> 00:42:05,803 "Interlard"? 795 00:42:05,982 --> 00:42:06,971 Where'd you get these? 796 00:42:07,066 --> 00:42:08,272 Somebody left them on my desk. 797 00:42:08,443 --> 00:42:09,683 BEN: All these guys sound like they sleep 798 00:42:09,777 --> 00:42:11,142 with a damn thesaurus. 799 00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:15,192 So McNaughton was secretly suggesting to McNamara... 800 00:42:15,366 --> 00:42:16,355 to provoke the North so we'd 801 00:42:16,451 --> 00:42:17,657 have grounds for escalation? CHALMERS: Yep. 802 00:42:17,744 --> 00:42:19,405 Yeah, it was in The Times article. 803 00:42:19,537 --> 00:42:21,073 It was a good piece. You should check it out. 804 00:42:21,247 --> 00:42:22,236 It was well-written. Jesus Christ. 805 00:42:22,415 --> 00:42:24,747 Give it to someone who can't type 91 words a minute... 806 00:42:24,917 --> 00:42:26,498 and have it proofed, okay? 807 00:42:26,669 --> 00:42:27,875 Ben? Yeah? 808 00:42:28,046 --> 00:42:29,536 Ithink we got something. 809 00:42:29,714 --> 00:42:30,999 What is it? 810 00:42:39,098 --> 00:42:40,463 Jesus Christ. 811 00:42:41,309 --> 00:42:42,719 Shit. Are these 812 00:42:42,810 --> 00:42:44,141 part of the pages of the McNamara study? 813 00:42:44,312 --> 00:42:45,347 Where did you get these? 814 00:42:45,521 --> 00:42:47,011 Somebody left them on my desk. 815 00:42:47,190 --> 00:42:48,305 On your desk? 816 00:42:48,483 --> 00:42:50,599 I didn't... It was a woman. A woman? 817 00:42:50,777 --> 00:42:53,268 We got over 100 pages of the McNamara study here. 818 00:42:53,446 --> 00:42:55,277 A hippie woman. 819 00:42:55,448 --> 00:42:56,938 Hey, Debbie, get me Bagdikian. 820 00:42:57,116 --> 00:42:58,105 She had one of those skirts... 821 00:42:58,242 --> 00:42:59,857 He's out. He went somewhere. 822 00:42:59,952 --> 00:43:00,941 Fine. 823 00:43:01,037 --> 00:43:02,368 Probably between 5'4" and 5'6”... 824 00:43:02,538 --> 00:43:06,451 If these are the real thing, we are back in the ballgame. 825 00:43:06,626 --> 00:43:07,615 It was a tie-dye skirt. 826 00:43:07,794 --> 00:43:11,286 And this is gonna be the front page of tomorrow's paper. 827 00:43:11,380 --> 00:43:15,248 Um... Give it to Marder. It's his lucky day. 828 00:43:21,557 --> 00:43:23,639 My God, the fun. 829 00:43:25,812 --> 00:43:27,052 WOMAN: RAND Corporation. 830 00:43:27,146 --> 00:43:28,556 BAGDIKIAN: Harry Rowen, please. 831 00:43:33,945 --> 00:43:35,060 HARRY: This is Harry. 832 00:43:35,238 --> 00:43:37,069 Harry, it's Ben Bagdikian. 833 00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:38,901 You think someone's bugging your phone? 834 00:43:39,408 --> 00:43:42,366 I think someone might be bugging yours. 835 00:43:42,954 --> 00:43:45,286 Why would someone bug my phone? 836 00:43:45,456 --> 00:43:46,821 If I thought the McNamara study 837 00:43:46,916 --> 00:43:48,031 had leaked from RAND... 838 00:43:48,209 --> 00:43:50,791 I'd bug the phone of the president of RAND. 839 00:43:51,337 --> 00:43:53,043 It's a 000 study. 840 00:43:53,214 --> 00:43:55,455 A copy of which was sent to RAND for safekeeping. 841 00:43:55,633 --> 00:43:58,170 Two copies, if I'm not mistaken. 842 00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:02,086 Jesus Christ, Ben, that leak didn't come from us. 843 00:44:02,265 --> 00:44:03,801 You sure about that? 844 00:44:04,559 --> 00:44:06,015 Look, in my experience... 845 00:44:06,185 --> 00:44:07,800 guys who want stuff like this out there 846 00:44:07,895 --> 00:44:08,975 and have the guts to do it... 847 00:44:09,147 --> 00:44:10,432 they're a particular type. 848 00:44:10,523 --> 00:44:11,854 They've got conscience and conviction... 849 00:44:12,024 --> 00:44:14,231 but they've also got ego. 850 00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,601 Now, there's a guy that we both know, okay? 851 00:44:16,779 --> 00:44:18,485 He was there the same time as I was. 852 00:44:18,573 --> 00:44:19,938 He left right after. 853 00:44:20,116 --> 00:44:21,856 You know who I'm talking about, right? 854 00:44:22,034 --> 00:44:23,444 Isn't he the first guy you thought of 855 00:44:23,536 --> 00:44:25,868 when you saw the article in The Times? 856 00:44:28,332 --> 00:44:30,869 Okay, look, [gotta go. 857 00:44:38,676 --> 00:44:39,961 Mr. and Mrs. Rosenthal. 858 00:44:40,136 --> 00:44:41,967 Oh, yes, | see. You're welcome. 859 00:44:43,931 --> 00:44:44,920 ABE: I don't wanna push it. 860 00:44:45,099 --> 00:44:46,464 Hi. ABE: Ah, Kay. 861 00:44:46,642 --> 00:44:47,631 What a treat! 862 00:44:47,810 --> 00:44:49,471 I'm just going to apologize in advance. 863 00:44:49,562 --> 00:44:50,847 Great to see you. 864 00:44:51,022 --> 00:44:54,480 I'm no fun at all, Abe. I'm just so nervous... 865 00:44:54,650 --> 00:44:56,186 about tomorrow at the stock exchange. 866 00:44:56,277 --> 00:44:57,608 And I have to make a big speech. 867 00:44:57,778 --> 00:44:59,359 No,no,no,no. Poor you. 868 00:44:59,530 --> 00:45:01,691 No, going public is a good move for The Post. 869 00:45:01,866 --> 00:45:03,822 Maybe you can even think about expanding. 870 00:45:03,993 --> 00:45:05,858 Try to be more of a national paper. 871 00:45:06,370 --> 00:45:07,951 I wish Abe would let me buy shares. 872 00:45:08,122 --> 00:45:09,862 That's against company policy... 873 00:45:10,041 --> 00:45:12,532 but ifyou're nervous and need distraction... 874 00:45:12,710 --> 00:45:15,452 I do happen to have a copy of today's Times. 875 00:45:15,630 --> 00:45:16,619 Abe! 876 00:45:17,632 --> 00:45:19,213 Unless you read it already. 877 00:45:19,383 --> 00:45:22,546 Oh, you awful man. You really are. 878 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:24,085 Can we get you something to drink? 879 00:45:24,263 --> 00:45:26,174 MURREY: Bundy argues for sustained bombing. 880 00:45:26,349 --> 00:45:27,338 BEN: Great stuff. 881 00:45:27,433 --> 00:45:28,422 MURREY: He thinks it'll turn the tide. 882 00:45:28,517 --> 00:45:29,632 This is February of '65. 883 00:45:29,894 --> 00:45:30,883 BEN: Jesus Christ. 884 00:45:31,020 --> 00:45:33,352 But by April, they realize it's not gonna cut it... 885 00:45:33,522 --> 00:45:35,387 and LBJ sends two battalions. 886 00:45:35,483 --> 00:45:36,518 BEN: Great stuff. HOWARD: And get this. 887 00:45:36,692 --> 00:45:38,148 He changes the mission 888 00:45:38,236 --> 00:45:40,192 from base security to active combat. 889 00:45:40,363 --> 00:45:42,103 My God. It's a huge shift. 890 00:45:42,281 --> 00:45:43,521 He's widening the war. 891 00:45:43,699 --> 00:45:45,360 But he insists on secrecy. 892 00:45:45,534 --> 00:45:46,899 The American people are not to be told. 893 00:45:47,078 --> 00:45:48,488 All right, okay. So this is the real deal... 894 00:45:48,663 --> 00:45:50,244 so how long till you can write it up? 895 00:45:50,414 --> 00:45:51,824 I can have it for Thursday. 896 00:45:51,999 --> 00:45:53,079 Well, what if we pretend 897 00:45:53,167 --> 00:45:55,158 you're a reporter, not a novelist? 898 00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:56,704 Uh, Isuppose I could pull 899 00:45:56,796 --> 00:45:58,161 something together by tomorrow night. 900 00:45:58,339 --> 00:46:00,079 Okay, we can run it on Wednesday. 901 00:46:01,550 --> 00:46:03,165 MURREY: I know we need to get this out, Ben, 902 00:46:03,261 --> 00:46:04,626 but I'd like to spend a minute... 903 00:46:04,804 --> 00:46:06,886 going through what we've got on Rolling Thunder. 904 00:46:07,056 --> 00:46:08,592 BEN: Go through all the research you want... 905 00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:10,381 but so help me God, if we don't have 906 00:46:10,476 --> 00:46:11,841 these pages by tomorrow night... 907 00:46:12,019 --> 00:46:13,054 we might as well not have them at all. 908 00:46:13,145 --> 00:46:14,225 Too late. 909 00:46:15,481 --> 00:46:16,470 BEN: What? 910 00:46:16,565 --> 00:46:17,805 Times already has it. 911 00:46:21,988 --> 00:46:23,228 Well, of course they have it. 912 00:46:23,406 --> 00:46:25,567 "President Johnson decided on April 1, 1965..." 913 00:46:25,741 --> 00:46:28,232 Of course The Times had... Written by Neil Sheehan. 914 00:46:28,411 --> 00:46:30,322 'flubecause a month of bombing..." 915 00:46:30,955 --> 00:46:32,365 NIXON: Neil Sheehan’s a bastard. 916 00:46:32,456 --> 00:46:33,866 He '3 been a bastard for years. 917 00:46:34,041 --> 00:46:35,531 EHRLICHMAN: Mr. President, the Attorney General 918 00:46:35,626 --> 00:46:36,957 has called a couple times... 919 00:46:37,128 --> 00:46:39,119 about these New York Times stories. 920 00:46:40,047 --> 00:46:41,537 NIXON: You mean to prosecute The Times? 921 00:46:41,716 --> 00:46:42,705 Hell, my view is 922 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:44,961 to prosecute the goddamn pricks that gave it to 'em. 923 00:46:45,136 --> 00:46:46,171 EHRLICHMAN: lfyou can find out who that is. 924 00:46:46,262 --> 00:46:47,251 NIXON: Yeah, I know. 925 00:46:47,430 --> 00:46:49,045 I mean, could The Times be prosecuted? 926 00:46:49,223 --> 00:46:50,429 EHRLICHMAN: Apparently so. 927 00:46:51,309 --> 00:46:52,424 NIXON: As far as The Times is concerned, 928 00:46:52,518 --> 00:46:53,507 hell, they’re our enemies. 929 00:46:53,686 --> 00:46:55,847 I think we just oughta do it. 930 00:46:56,397 --> 00:46:58,308 Son of a bitch. 931 00:47:01,527 --> 00:47:02,812 Abe Rosenthal. 932 00:47:02,987 --> 00:47:05,444 Good evening. Their table is right over there, sir. 933 00:47:07,158 --> 00:47:08,989 ABE: Brownell and Loeb over at Lord Day and Lord... 934 00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,448 told Punch in no uncertain terms not to publish. 935 00:47:12,621 --> 00:47:14,737 Only after Scotty Reston threatened 936 00:47:14,832 --> 00:47:16,163 to publish in the Vineyard Gazette... 937 00:47:16,334 --> 00:47:17,699 did Punch decide to print. 938 00:47:17,877 --> 00:47:20,209 Wouldn't have had quite the same impact. 939 00:47:21,422 --> 00:47:22,411 Jimmy. 940 00:47:24,508 --> 00:47:28,296 We've been asked to refrain from further publication... 941 00:47:28,471 --> 00:47:30,632 by the Attorney General. 942 00:47:32,141 --> 00:47:34,507 Nixon's taking us to court? 943 00:47:40,608 --> 00:47:42,064 Kay, I'm sorry... 944 00:47:42,234 --> 00:47:43,565 Oh, no. 945 00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:48,399 Gosh. 946 00:47:53,329 --> 00:47:54,990 Why don't I go get the check? 947 00:47:55,164 --> 00:47:56,370 No, sit tight, don't argue with me. 948 00:47:56,540 --> 00:47:58,451 I'll be right back. 949 00:48:03,923 --> 00:48:06,084 Mr. Rosenthal had to leave on business. 950 00:48:06,258 --> 00:48:07,964 Certainly, we'll put it on his tab. 951 00:48:08,135 --> 00:48:09,341 No, I'll take the bill, 952 00:48:09,428 --> 00:48:11,919 but could I trouble you to use your telephone? 953 00:48:12,098 --> 00:48:13,383 But of course, madam. 954 00:48:23,401 --> 00:48:25,437 He was a bit of a showboat, but smart. 955 00:48:25,528 --> 00:48:26,984 And he worked for McNamara... 956 00:48:27,154 --> 00:48:28,314 and he had opinions 957 00:48:28,406 --> 00:48:31,148 on the decision-making that went into Vietnam. 958 00:48:31,325 --> 00:48:32,314 BEN: Okay. 959 00:48:32,451 --> 00:48:35,193 Word is, he doved. Pretty hard. 960 00:48:35,371 --> 00:48:37,282 BEN: Would he have access to the study? 961 00:48:37,456 --> 00:48:39,412 Pretty sure RAND had a copy. 962 00:48:39,583 --> 00:48:42,416 BEN: No shit. All right, well, can you find him? 963 00:48:42,586 --> 00:48:44,702 Thought maybe I'd try. 964 00:48:48,175 --> 00:48:50,416 DEBBIE: I've got Mrs. Graham on the line. 965 00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:53,044 Katharine. 966 00:48:53,597 --> 00:48:57,215 KAY: Hey, listen, I’ve got tomorrow’s headline. 967 00:48:57,309 --> 00:48:59,925 Oh, Christ, okay, again? 968 00:49:00,396 --> 00:49:02,387 John Mitchell contacted The Times. 969 00:49:02,565 --> 00:49:05,477 Seems the President is going to seek an injunction. 970 00:49:06,193 --> 00:49:07,979 No, shit. 971 00:49:08,154 --> 00:49:10,315 This means that we're in the goddamn ballgame. 972 00:49:10,489 --> 00:49:12,354 Because if The Times gets shutdown... 973 00:49:12,533 --> 00:49:13,818 If they get shut down, 974 00:49:13,909 --> 00:49:16,321 there is no ballgame. Ballgame’s over. 975 00:49:16,495 --> 00:49:17,701 Now, Katharine, 976 00:49:17,788 --> 00:49:20,154 anybody would kill to have a crack at this. 977 00:49:20,332 --> 00:49:23,165 Well, sure, but not if it means breaking the law. 978 00:49:23,335 --> 00:49:27,123 If a federal judge stops The Times from publishing... 979 00:49:27,298 --> 00:49:29,710 well, I don't see how we could publish... 980 00:49:29,884 --> 00:49:32,296 even if we could get hold of a copy. 981 00:49:35,222 --> 00:49:38,180 Ben? You have something? 982 00:49:39,310 --> 00:49:40,299 No. 983 00:49:41,353 --> 00:49:44,060 Okay, so then there '3 nothing to talk about really. 984 00:49:44,231 --> 00:49:47,143 No, nothing to talk about at all... 985 00:49:47,318 --> 00:49:50,276 but thank you for the tip, Mrs. Graham. 986 00:49:51,489 --> 00:49:53,525 What are you still doing here? 987 00:50:17,473 --> 00:50:18,838 KAY: Excuse me. 988 00:50:22,561 --> 00:50:23,892 All right. 989 00:50:26,690 --> 00:50:27,850 Oh, there she is. 990 00:50:28,025 --> 00:50:29,606 KAY: Hello. How are ya, Kay? 991 00:50:29,777 --> 00:50:31,688 Good morning, everyone. Good to see you. 992 00:50:31,862 --> 00:50:32,851 MAN: Hello? 993 00:50:32,947 --> 00:50:34,403 Yeah, I'm looking for Dan Ellsberg. 994 00:50:34,573 --> 00:50:36,109 He doesn’t work here anymore. 995 00:50:36,283 --> 00:50:37,898 Do you know where he is now? 996 00:50:38,077 --> 00:50:39,863 No, I don 't. Who is this? 997 00:50:40,246 --> 00:50:41,577 Thank you. 998 00:50:41,747 --> 00:50:44,204 EXCHANGE PRESIDENT: And it is my great privilege to welcome 999 00:50:44,291 --> 00:50:46,247 The Washington Post Company... 1000 00:50:46,418 --> 00:50:48,784 to the American Stock Exchange. 1001 00:50:53,717 --> 00:50:56,003 More than a privilege, Mrs. Graham. 1002 00:50:56,095 --> 00:50:57,426 This is a real honor. 1003 00:50:58,722 --> 00:50:59,711 KAREN: Hello, this is Karen. 1004 00:50:59,807 --> 00:51:00,967 Yeah, I'm looking for Dan Ellsberg. 1005 00:51:01,141 --> 00:51:02,631 You got the wrong number. 1006 00:51:05,020 --> 00:51:06,009 Speech. 1007 00:51:06,146 --> 00:51:08,307 Go and project confidence, Kay. 1008 00:51:10,317 --> 00:51:11,306 Gentlemen... 1009 00:51:12,278 --> 00:51:14,894 thank you all for helping make 1010 00:51:14,989 --> 00:51:17,480 The Washington Post a more robust company. 1011 00:51:19,743 --> 00:51:21,279 RECEPTIONIST: Center for International Studies. 1012 00:51:21,453 --> 00:51:23,034 Yeah, I'm looking for Dan Ellsberg. 1013 00:51:23,205 --> 00:51:24,615 He '3 not here. 1014 00:51:25,833 --> 00:51:27,448 But he still works there? 1015 00:51:27,626 --> 00:51:30,493 Yes. Can I take a message? 1016 00:51:30,588 --> 00:51:33,125 Uh, tell him Ben Bagdikian called. 1017 00:51:33,299 --> 00:51:34,334 EXCHANGE PRESIDENT: Congratulations. 1018 00:51:34,425 --> 00:51:35,414 PHOTOGRAPHER: Guys, why don't we 1019 00:51:35,509 --> 00:51:36,544 get together for a photograph? 1020 00:51:36,635 --> 00:51:37,841 EXCHANGE PRESIDENT: Yes. PAUL: Good idea. Absolutely. 1021 00:51:37,928 --> 00:51:39,088 PHOTOGRAPHER: Here we go. KAY: Let me see it. 1022 00:51:39,263 --> 00:51:41,049 PAUL: Smile, Kay. Shall I hold it? 1023 00:51:41,223 --> 00:51:42,633 You just bought a share of The Post! 1024 00:51:42,808 --> 00:51:45,299 I know. I'm so happy. 1025 00:51:45,477 --> 00:51:50,392 1.35 million shares at $24.50 a share. 1026 00:51:53,819 --> 00:51:56,026 I believe this will not only make The Post solvent... 1027 00:51:56,113 --> 00:51:58,354 but stronger than it ever has been. 1028 00:51:58,449 --> 00:51:59,438 To The Post! ALL: The Post! 1029 00:51:59,617 --> 00:52:01,232 He said to call from a secure phone. 1030 00:52:01,327 --> 00:52:02,442 Mmm-hmm. 1031 00:52:09,627 --> 00:52:11,037 Ihear Kennedy said Phil Graham 1032 00:52:11,128 --> 00:52:12,493 was the smartest man he ever met. 1033 00:52:12,671 --> 00:52:15,253 Yeah, for Kay's father to hand her husband the company... 1034 00:52:15,424 --> 00:52:17,130 says something about the guy. 1035 00:52:17,301 --> 00:52:20,509 I thought it said something about the time. 1036 00:52:20,679 --> 00:52:21,668 HOWARD: Turn it up. 1037 00:52:21,847 --> 00:52:23,758 WALTER CRONKITE: Good evening. The New York Times late today 1038 00:52:23,849 --> 00:52:25,885 was barred, at least until Saturday... 1039 00:52:26,060 --> 00:52:28,551 from publishing any more classified documents... 1040 00:52:28,729 --> 00:52:32,313 dealing with the cause and conduct of the Vietnam War. 1041 00:52:32,483 --> 00:52:34,223 The Times, true to its word... 1042 00:52:34,401 --> 00:52:35,982 said it would abide by the decision 1043 00:52:36,070 --> 00:52:37,856 of Federal Judge Murray Gurfein... 1044 00:52:38,030 --> 00:52:40,021 but will resist a permanent injunction 1045 00:52:40,115 --> 00:52:41,400 at a hearing Friday. 1046 00:52:41,575 --> 00:52:43,406 The Nixon administration have charged that 1047 00:52:43,494 --> 00:52:45,405 the final two parts of The Times' series... 1048 00:52:45,579 --> 00:52:47,160 would result in irreparable injury 1049 00:52:47,247 --> 00:52:48,862 to the national defense. 1050 00:52:49,041 --> 00:52:50,577 Hell, why bother fighting the communists? 1051 00:52:50,751 --> 00:52:52,457 Think Jefferson just rolled over in his grave. 1052 00:52:52,628 --> 00:52:55,244 Have the courts ever stopped a paper from publishing before? 1053 00:52:55,422 --> 00:52:58,960 Not in the history of the republic. 1054 00:52:59,134 --> 00:53:01,170 Good thing we're not part of this mess. 1055 00:53:01,345 --> 00:53:03,836 I'd give my left one to be in this mess. 1056 00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:06,801 There's our front page lede tomorrow. 1057 00:53:06,892 --> 00:53:08,302 Chal, that's yours. 1058 00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:10,509 All right. 1059 00:53:11,146 --> 00:53:13,853 Party's over. Let's get back to ourjobs. 1060 00:53:29,248 --> 00:53:31,785 MR. BOSTON: Hello? Hi, it's Ben. 1061 00:53:31,959 --> 00:53:33,495 Yes. Dan? 1062 00:53:33,669 --> 00:53:34,704 No. 1063 00:53:34,795 --> 00:53:38,538 Oh, I'm trying to get a hold of a fella I used to know... 1064 00:53:38,716 --> 00:53:41,128 617-597-4580. 1065 00:53:41,301 --> 00:53:42,416 Okay. 1066 00:53:45,431 --> 00:53:47,137 Hold on. 1067 00:53:48,475 --> 00:53:49,931 Was it 4580? 1068 00:53:50,102 --> 00:53:51,717 Call from another phone. 1069 00:53:51,895 --> 00:53:56,013 617-597-4580. 1070 00:54:05,701 --> 00:54:10,070 617-597-4580. 1071 00:54:18,547 --> 00:54:19,536 DANIEL: Hello? 1072 00:54:19,715 --> 00:54:22,957 Yeah, I'm looking for... Yeah. Hey, Ben, it's Dan. 1073 00:54:23,135 --> 00:54:26,343 Dan, it's good to hear your voice. 1074 00:54:26,513 --> 00:54:27,969 Yeah, it’s been a while. 1075 00:54:28,140 --> 00:54:29,346 Yeah. 1076 00:54:47,785 --> 00:54:49,776 DANIEL: Who is it? It's Ben. 1077 00:54:59,338 --> 00:55:00,373 Ben. 1078 00:55:00,798 --> 00:55:02,163 Dan. 1079 00:55:07,721 --> 00:55:10,212 The study had 47 volumes. 1080 00:55:10,390 --> 00:55:11,971 I slipped out a couple at a time. 1081 00:55:12,059 --> 00:55:13,469 Took me months to copy it all. 1082 00:55:17,439 --> 00:55:18,554 What the hell? 1083 00:55:18,732 --> 00:55:21,519 Well, we were all former government guys. 1084 00:55:21,693 --> 00:55:23,399 Top clearance, all of that. 1085 00:55:23,570 --> 00:55:25,526 McNamara wanted academics to have 1086 00:55:25,614 --> 00:55:27,229 the chance to examine what had happened. 1087 00:55:27,407 --> 00:55:28,442 He would say to us, 1088 00:55:28,534 --> 00:55:29,990 "Let the chips fall where they may." 1089 00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:31,400 Brave man. 1090 00:55:31,578 --> 00:55:34,194 Well, I think guilt was a bigger motivator than courage. 1091 00:55:34,373 --> 00:55:36,079 McNamara didn't lie as well as the rest... 1092 00:55:36,250 --> 00:55:39,208 but I don't think he saw what was coming, what we'd find. 1093 00:55:39,378 --> 00:55:41,243 But it didn't take him long to figure out... 1094 00:55:41,421 --> 00:55:42,410 well, for us all to figure out 1095 00:55:42,506 --> 00:55:44,167 if the public ever saw these papers... 1096 00:55:44,341 --> 00:55:45,956 they would turn against the war. 1097 00:55:46,134 --> 00:55:48,967 Covert ops, guaranteed debt, rigged elections? 1098 00:55:49,137 --> 00:55:52,880 It's all in there. Ike, Kennedy, Johnson. 1099 00:55:53,058 --> 00:55:54,514 They violated the Geneva Convention. 1100 00:55:54,685 --> 00:55:57,427 They lied to Congress and they lied to the public. 1101 00:55:57,604 --> 00:56:01,392 They knew we couldn't win and still sent boys to die. 1102 00:56:01,567 --> 00:56:03,228 What about Nixon? 1103 00:56:04,570 --> 00:56:06,401 He's just carrying on like all the others. 1104 00:56:06,572 --> 00:56:09,405 Too afraid to be the one who loses the war on his watch. 1105 00:56:11,159 --> 00:56:13,821 Someone said this at some point... 1106 00:56:13,996 --> 00:56:16,658 about why we stayed when we knew we were losing. 1107 00:56:17,875 --> 00:56:20,116 10% was to help the South Vietnamese. 1108 00:56:20,294 --> 00:56:22,125 20% was to hold back the commies. 1109 00:56:23,088 --> 00:56:25,295 70% was to avoid 1110 00:56:25,382 --> 00:56:27,919 the humiliation of an American defeat. 1111 00:56:28,093 --> 00:56:32,177 70% of those boys... 1112 00:56:32,347 --> 00:56:34,463 just to avoid being humiliated? 1113 00:56:35,225 --> 00:56:36,761 That stuck with me. 1114 00:56:45,903 --> 00:56:47,734 They're gonna come after you, you know. 1115 00:56:47,821 --> 00:56:49,311 And I gotta be honest... 1116 00:56:50,198 --> 00:56:52,814 the bread crumbs weren't too hard to follow. 1117 00:56:54,453 --> 00:56:55,488 I know. 1118 00:56:57,873 --> 00:56:59,829 They're gonna lock you up, Dan. 1119 00:57:00,334 --> 00:57:03,246 Wouldn't you go to prison to stop this war? 1120 00:57:05,088 --> 00:57:07,329 Theoretically, sure. 1121 00:57:10,636 --> 00:57:13,799 You are gonna publish these documents? 1122 00:57:16,224 --> 00:57:17,464 Yeah. 1123 00:57:18,477 --> 00:57:21,139 Even with the injunction? 1124 00:57:22,689 --> 00:57:23,895 Yes. 1125 00:57:28,028 --> 00:57:31,065 Well, then it's not so theoretical then, is it? 1126 00:57:41,833 --> 00:57:44,745 I'm gonna go do some work in the studio. 1127 00:57:53,220 --> 00:57:55,882 My day was great, thanks for asking. 1128 00:58:12,322 --> 00:58:15,109 That picture makes me sad. 1129 00:58:16,368 --> 00:58:17,824 Me too. 1130 00:58:23,291 --> 00:58:24,747 Bradlee. BAGDIKIAN: I'm in Boston. 1131 00:58:24,918 --> 00:58:26,874 I'm gonna need two seats. 1132 00:58:26,962 --> 00:58:27,951 VVhy? 1133 00:58:28,130 --> 00:58:30,246 I'm gonna need to buy two seats 1134 00:58:30,340 --> 00:58:31,580 on the first flight out tomorrow... 1135 00:58:31,758 --> 00:58:33,248 probably first class. 1136 00:58:34,386 --> 00:58:36,126 No shit, you have them? 1137 00:58:38,682 --> 00:58:40,889 Well then just get your ass back here... 1138 00:58:41,268 --> 00:58:42,633 and come straight to the house. 1139 00:58:42,728 --> 00:58:44,184 Get Chal and Meg and the others. 1140 00:58:44,354 --> 00:58:45,343 I don't want the whole newsroom 1141 00:58:45,439 --> 00:58:46,599 knowing about this yet. 1142 00:58:46,690 --> 00:58:47,805 I gotta go. 1143 00:58:47,941 --> 00:58:50,227 Didn't you just invite a bunch of people over? 1144 00:58:50,402 --> 00:58:51,391 Yeah. 1145 00:58:51,653 --> 00:58:53,769 Yeah, they'll Show up sometime tomorrow. 1146 00:58:53,947 --> 00:58:54,936 When sometime tomorrow? 1147 00:58:55,032 --> 00:58:56,613 Is this a breakfast thing or a lunch thing? 1148 00:58:56,783 --> 00:58:58,819 Don't know. Do you need me to get things? 1149 00:58:58,952 --> 00:59:00,488 Nah, we'll figure it all out. Okay. 1150 00:59:00,620 --> 00:59:02,485 Well, where are you going? Out. 1151 00:59:02,664 --> 00:59:04,074 You going to the newsroom? No. 1152 00:59:04,249 --> 00:59:05,785 Love you, bear. 1153 00:59:07,127 --> 00:59:09,118 I got a cake. I hope it's okay? 1154 00:59:09,296 --> 00:59:11,958 Oh, sure, as long as nobody counts the candles. 1155 00:59:14,009 --> 00:59:16,091 Uh, sorry to barge in again. 1156 00:59:16,595 --> 00:59:18,506 Maybe I should give you a key. 1157 00:59:18,889 --> 00:59:21,426 Ah, not here to crash your party. 1158 00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:22,589 What's up? 1159 00:59:22,768 --> 00:59:24,804 Well, I could use a minute. 1160 00:59:32,027 --> 00:59:33,892 So, can I ask you a hypothetical question? 1161 00:59:34,071 --> 00:59:36,232 Oh, dear, I don't like hypothetical questions. 1162 00:59:36,406 --> 00:59:37,646 Well, I don't think you're gonna 1163 00:59:37,741 --> 00:59:39,151 like the real one either. 1164 00:59:42,329 --> 00:59:43,614 Do you have the papers? 1165 00:59:45,415 --> 00:59:46,621 Not yet. 1166 00:59:50,420 --> 00:59:53,753 Oh, gosh, because you know... 1167 00:59:53,965 --> 00:59:56,251 the position that would put me in. 1168 00:59:56,843 --> 00:59:58,333 You know, we have language 1169 00:59:58,428 --> 00:59:59,838 in the prospectus that we've... 1170 01:00:00,013 --> 01:00:02,174 Yeah, I know that the bankers can change their mind. 1171 01:00:02,349 --> 01:00:04,431 And I know what is at stake. 1172 01:00:04,601 --> 01:00:05,807 You know... 1173 01:00:05,977 --> 01:00:08,389 the only couple I knew that both Kennedy 1174 01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:10,061 and LBJ wanted to socialize with... 1175 01:00:10,232 --> 01:00:14,271 was you and your husband and you owned the damn paper. 1176 01:00:16,113 --> 01:00:17,819 Of course that's the way things worked. 1177 01:00:17,989 --> 01:00:20,150 Politicians and the press, they trusted each other... 1178 01:00:20,325 --> 01:00:21,861 so they could go to the same dinner party 1179 01:00:21,952 --> 01:00:23,408 and drink cocktails and tell jokes... 1180 01:00:23,578 --> 01:00:25,443 while there was a war waging in Vietnam. 1181 01:00:25,622 --> 01:00:27,158 Ben, I don't know what we're talking about. 1182 01:00:27,249 --> 01:00:29,080 I'm not protecting Lyndon. 1183 01:00:29,251 --> 01:00:30,366 No, you got his former Secretary of Defense, 1184 01:00:30,460 --> 01:00:31,449 Robert McNamara... 1185 01:00:31,628 --> 01:00:33,744 the man who commissioned this study. 1186 01:00:33,839 --> 01:00:35,170 He's one of about a dozen party guests... 1187 01:00:35,340 --> 01:00:37,001 out on your patio. I'm not protecting him. 1188 01:00:37,092 --> 01:00:38,081 I'm not protecting any of them. 1189 01:00:38,176 --> 01:00:39,211 I'm protecting the paper. 1190 01:00:39,302 --> 01:00:42,920 Yeah? Well, I wasn't a stooge for Jack Kennedy. 1191 01:00:43,181 --> 01:00:44,637 The night he was assassinated 1192 01:00:44,724 --> 01:00:46,965 Tony and I were down at the Naval Hospital... 1193 01:00:47,144 --> 01:00:50,636 so we would be there to meet Jackie when she landed. 1194 01:00:50,814 --> 01:00:51,803 She was bringing Jack's body 1195 01:00:51,898 --> 01:00:53,479 back on the plane from Dallas... 1196 01:00:53,650 --> 01:00:55,936 and she walked into the room. 1197 01:00:56,111 --> 01:00:57,942 She was still wearing that pink suit 1198 01:00:58,029 --> 01:00:59,985 with Jack's blood all over it. 1199 01:01:00,699 --> 01:01:03,532 She fell into Tony's arms and they held each other... 1200 01:01:03,702 --> 01:01:05,693 for quite a long time. 1201 01:01:07,664 --> 01:01:10,155 And then Jackie looked at me and said... 1202 01:01:10,333 --> 01:01:12,824 "None of this, none of what you see, 1203 01:01:12,919 --> 01:01:14,079 "none of what I say... 1204 01:01:14,254 --> 01:01:17,917 "is ever going to be in your newspaper, Ben." 1205 01:01:18,717 --> 01:01:21,584 And thatjust about broke my heart. 1206 01:01:21,678 --> 01:01:23,669 I never... 1207 01:01:23,889 --> 01:01:25,504 I never thought of Jack as a source, 1208 01:01:25,599 --> 01:01:27,055 I thought of him as a friend. 1209 01:01:27,642 --> 01:01:29,598 And that was my mistake. 1210 01:01:30,103 --> 01:01:33,186 And it was something that Jack knew all along. 1211 01:01:33,690 --> 01:01:36,397 We can't be both. We have to choose. 1212 01:01:36,860 --> 01:01:38,270 And... 1213 01:01:38,361 --> 01:01:40,022 And that's the point. 1214 01:01:40,197 --> 01:01:42,153 The days of us all smoking cigars together 1215 01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:44,196 down on Pennsylvania Avenue are over. 1216 01:01:44,910 --> 01:01:48,903 Your friend McNamara's study proves that. 1217 01:01:49,915 --> 01:01:51,871 The way they lied. 1218 01:01:53,335 --> 01:01:55,121 The way they lied. 1219 01:01:55,545 --> 01:01:57,661 Those days have to be over. 1220 01:01:59,466 --> 01:02:02,424 We have to be the check on their power. 1221 01:02:02,594 --> 01:02:04,585 Ifwe don't hold them accountable, 1222 01:02:04,679 --> 01:02:06,965 I mean, my God, who will? 1223 01:02:08,642 --> 01:02:10,178 Well, I've never smoked a cigar... 1224 01:02:10,352 --> 01:02:12,809 and I have no problem holding Lyndon or Jack... 1225 01:02:12,979 --> 01:02:15,220 or Bob or any of them accountable. 1226 01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,476 But we can't hold them accountable 1227 01:02:17,567 --> 01:02:19,432 ifwe don't have a newspaper. 1228 01:02:21,404 --> 01:02:23,690 When I get my hands on that study... 1229 01:02:23,865 --> 01:02:26,402 what are you going to do, Mrs. Graham? 1230 01:02:29,871 --> 01:02:31,532 Oh, uh... 1231 01:02:31,915 --> 01:02:33,530 Happy birthday, by the way. 1232 01:02:36,044 --> 01:02:37,830 Oh, that's not what I heard. 1233 01:02:38,255 --> 01:02:39,415 Am I right? 1234 01:02:45,303 --> 01:02:46,509 Hi. Good morning. Club soda. 1235 01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:48,261 Enjoy your flight. Yes, thank you. 1236 01:02:49,307 --> 01:02:51,343 Sir, I'm gonna need to put your seat 1237 01:02:51,434 --> 01:02:53,174 in the full upright position before takeoff. 1238 01:02:53,353 --> 01:02:54,388 Yeah. 1239 01:02:55,146 --> 01:02:57,057 Must be precious cargo. 1240 01:02:57,357 --> 01:03:00,474 Yeah. It's just government secrets. 1241 01:03:00,568 --> 01:03:03,981 Please fasten your seatbelt. Thank you. 1242 01:03:17,252 --> 01:03:19,914 You know why we're here? Beats me. 1243 01:03:20,338 --> 01:03:21,874 Hi, Marina. Hi. 1244 01:03:22,048 --> 01:03:24,164 Do you want lemonade? Little early for me. 1245 01:03:24,342 --> 01:03:25,752 Loosen up, I'm buying. 1246 01:03:25,927 --> 01:03:28,009 What kinda lemonade do you have there? 1247 01:03:28,305 --> 01:03:30,967 Uh... It's the one with the lemons in it. 1248 01:03:31,141 --> 01:03:32,130 Okay. 1249 01:03:33,476 --> 01:03:34,886 BAGDIKIAN: There you go. 1250 01:03:37,230 --> 01:03:39,221 Phil, help me out. 1251 01:03:41,109 --> 01:03:43,020 Grab my briefcase. 1252 01:03:44,988 --> 01:03:46,524 Is that. ..? Yep. 1253 01:03:59,294 --> 01:04:00,625 It's not the full report 1254 01:04:00,712 --> 01:04:02,998 but it's over 4,000 pages of it. 1255 01:04:06,092 --> 01:04:08,083 MEG: Are these in order? I don't think so. 1256 01:04:08,261 --> 01:04:09,376 There are no page numbers. 1257 01:04:09,554 --> 01:04:11,340 Yeah, that's where the top secret stamps were. 1258 01:04:11,514 --> 01:04:12,720 My source had to cut 'em off. 1259 01:04:12,891 --> 01:04:14,256 I was supposed to retire on Friday. 1260 01:04:14,434 --> 01:04:15,765 Ben, how we supposed to comb through 1261 01:04:15,852 --> 01:04:16,841 4,000 pages of material? 1262 01:04:17,020 --> 01:04:18,055 They're not even loosely organized? 1263 01:04:18,229 --> 01:04:19,469 The Times had three months. 1264 01:04:19,564 --> 01:04:20,644 There's no way we can possibly get this done. 1265 01:04:20,815 --> 01:04:22,351 He's right. We've got less than eight hours. 1266 01:04:22,525 --> 01:04:23,890 We could shoot for City. Then we'd have ten. 1267 01:04:24,069 --> 01:04:25,559 Hey,hey,hey. For the last six years 1268 01:04:25,653 --> 01:04:26,859 we've been playin' catch-up... 1269 01:04:27,030 --> 01:04:28,019 and now thanks to 1270 01:04:28,114 --> 01:04:29,479 the President of the United States... 1271 01:04:29,657 --> 01:04:31,113 who, by the way, is taking a shit 1272 01:04:31,201 --> 01:04:32,611 all over the First Amendment... 1273 01:04:32,786 --> 01:04:34,447 we have the goods. 1274 01:04:34,621 --> 01:04:36,327 And we don't have any competition. 1275 01:04:36,748 --> 01:04:38,613 There's dozens of stories in here. 1276 01:04:38,792 --> 01:04:41,408 The Times has barely scratched the surface. 1277 01:04:41,753 --> 01:04:44,711 We have ten hours 'til the deadline... 1278 01:04:45,215 --> 01:04:47,001 so we dig in. 1279 01:04:50,762 --> 01:04:52,673 MEG: I think this memo's from McNamara. 1280 01:04:52,847 --> 01:04:54,462 "It is my belief that there should be 1281 01:04:54,557 --> 01:04:56,172 "a three- or four-week pause in bombing." 1282 01:04:56,351 --> 01:04:58,342 Wait, wait, wait. I saw the other half of that memo. 1283 01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,557 Anyone have the back half of a cable from Dulles in '54? 1284 01:05:01,731 --> 01:05:03,687 I thought I saw one from July. 1285 01:05:03,858 --> 01:05:05,814 Yeah, here it is. "The reasons for this belief... 1286 01:05:05,985 --> 01:05:07,771 "are that we must lay a foundation 1287 01:05:07,862 --> 01:05:09,227 "in the mind of the American public." 1288 01:05:09,406 --> 01:05:11,112 That's it! That's it! 1289 01:05:12,784 --> 01:05:14,240 So Johnson wasn't trying to make peace. 1290 01:05:14,327 --> 01:05:15,533 He was just manipulating the public? 1291 01:05:15,703 --> 01:05:18,285 Eyes out for a suspension in bombing from when? 1292 01:05:18,456 --> 01:05:20,037 '65 to '68. 1293 01:05:20,208 --> 01:05:21,539 CHALMERS: What about a memo 1294 01:05:21,626 --> 01:05:23,992 from Eisenhower's special committee on Indochina? 1295 01:05:24,838 --> 01:05:25,873 Uh, Meg read a part of one to me. 1296 01:05:25,964 --> 01:05:26,953 Meg? 1297 01:05:27,048 --> 01:05:28,254 BAGDIKIAN: Anybody see a mention 1298 01:05:28,341 --> 01:05:29,456 of the RAND Viet Cong study? 1299 01:05:29,551 --> 01:05:31,633 Yeah, I think this might be from your RAND study. 1300 01:05:31,803 --> 01:05:33,418 "VC are deeply committed. 1301 01:05:33,513 --> 01:05:35,378 "South Vietnam is a lost cause." 1302 01:05:35,557 --> 01:05:37,172 Whoa! There you go. Bingo. 1303 01:05:37,559 --> 01:05:38,799 All right. CHALMERS: Meg, I need the... 1304 01:05:38,935 --> 01:05:39,970 MEG: Yeah, I put it on the shelf. 1305 01:05:40,061 --> 01:05:42,598 Couple of piles. We're getting somewhere. 1306 01:05:42,939 --> 01:05:45,521 All right, it's 1:30. Four o'clock story conference. 1307 01:05:45,692 --> 01:05:47,683 Can I interest anyone in some lemonade? 1308 01:05:47,861 --> 01:05:49,317 BEN: Yes! Does it have vodka in it? 1309 01:05:49,487 --> 01:05:50,772 I don't put vodka in my lemonade. 1310 01:05:50,864 --> 01:05:51,899 BEN: Go easy on the kid. 1311 01:05:51,990 --> 01:05:52,979 CHALMERS: Why not? 1312 01:05:53,074 --> 01:05:54,439 MURREY: How much, sweetheart? MARINA: A quarter. 1313 01:05:54,576 --> 01:05:55,816 It's 50 cents. 1314 01:05:55,910 --> 01:05:57,775 Inflation. BEN: Price is going up. 1315 01:06:01,249 --> 01:06:02,580 Mr. Bradlee. 1316 01:06:02,750 --> 01:06:03,956 Roger Clark. 1317 01:06:04,127 --> 01:06:06,083 Oh, you're Roger Clark? 1318 01:06:06,254 --> 01:06:07,915 It's nice to meet you in person. 1319 01:06:08,131 --> 01:06:11,168 You are our senior legal counsel. 1320 01:06:11,885 --> 01:06:13,750 Yes, we've spoken on the phone. 1321 01:06:13,845 --> 01:06:15,301 My voice should sound familiar. 1322 01:06:15,472 --> 01:06:17,679 When did you finish law school? 1323 01:06:18,266 --> 01:06:20,598 I graduated... Rhetorical question. 1324 01:06:20,768 --> 01:06:22,599 You know, the guy we had before you 1325 01:06:22,687 --> 01:06:24,393 is now Secretary of State. 1326 01:06:24,647 --> 01:06:26,729 I did not know that. 1327 01:06:27,650 --> 01:06:29,481 A little joke, perhaps not the time. 1328 01:06:29,569 --> 01:06:31,150 What exactly can I help you with... 1329 01:06:31,321 --> 01:06:33,937 So, why would the CIA Director send a memo on war policy? 1330 01:06:34,115 --> 01:06:35,776 PHIL: Because they weren't calling it a war yet. 1331 01:06:35,950 --> 01:06:37,656 Okay, I've got turkey with mustard. 1332 01:06:37,744 --> 01:06:39,109 Roast beef with horseradish. 1333 01:06:39,287 --> 01:06:41,573 Howard, come look at this. Chal, you've gotta see this. 1334 01:06:41,748 --> 01:06:43,784 It's a full analysis of McNamara's 1335 01:06:43,875 --> 01:06:44,910 changing view of the war. 1336 01:06:45,084 --> 01:06:46,369 CHALMERS: Does it say anything about why he does? 1337 01:06:46,461 --> 01:06:47,951 So we knew they were gonna assassinate Diem. 1338 01:06:48,129 --> 01:06:49,585 Yeah, and we did nothing to stop it. 1339 01:06:49,756 --> 01:06:51,462 MEG: I think I got something on McNamara on the fireplace. 1340 01:06:51,549 --> 01:06:53,164 The other fireplace. 1341 01:06:54,719 --> 01:06:56,334 CHALMERS: Murrey, where's the back half of this one? 1342 01:06:56,429 --> 01:06:57,885 What's the thing you just gave me? 1343 01:06:59,307 --> 01:07:00,797 Tell me these aren't the classified documents 1344 01:07:00,892 --> 01:07:02,257 from the McNamara study. 1345 01:07:02,435 --> 01:07:04,016 4,000 pages of 'em. 1346 01:07:04,187 --> 01:07:06,849 Hungry? I need to use a phone. 1347 01:07:07,023 --> 01:07:08,979 There's one in the other room. 1348 01:07:09,150 --> 01:07:10,265 PHIL: Two. MEG: Is that it? 1349 01:07:10,443 --> 01:07:11,649 PHIL: This is it. This is it. 1350 01:07:11,736 --> 01:07:13,067 MURREY: Hmm? 1351 01:07:13,321 --> 01:07:15,027 PHIL: This is the other half of it. 1352 01:07:26,376 --> 01:07:28,332 Oh, my God. 1353 01:07:56,114 --> 01:07:59,106 Hi. Thanks for letting me drop by. 1354 01:07:59,492 --> 01:08:01,733 Marg still napping? Yeah. 1355 01:08:01,911 --> 01:08:03,401 Do you mind ifwe talk in the sunroom? 1356 01:08:03,496 --> 01:08:04,861 Just so I can hear her if she wakes. 1357 01:08:05,039 --> 01:08:06,870 No, of course not. I can't stay long. 1358 01:08:06,958 --> 01:08:08,414 I've got a big event at the house later. 1359 01:08:08,585 --> 01:08:11,292 I guess you've read everything now. 1360 01:08:12,213 --> 01:08:14,078 Yes, I have. I have, yes. 1361 01:08:14,173 --> 01:08:16,129 And I went over it again this morning. 1362 01:08:16,634 --> 01:08:18,124 All of it. 1363 01:08:19,345 --> 01:08:20,835 And ljust... 1364 01:08:22,557 --> 01:08:26,721 Forgive me, Bob, I know you're dealing with so much... 1365 01:08:28,563 --> 01:08:32,431 but it's just so hard to try to make sense of why. 1366 01:08:32,609 --> 01:08:34,975 Of how you could have done all these things. 1367 01:08:37,322 --> 01:08:41,656 Well, it's easy for the papers to Characterize us as liars. 1368 01:08:41,826 --> 01:08:43,942 We were just trying to push back... 1369 01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:45,985 No, but you let it go on and on and on. 1370 01:08:46,164 --> 01:08:48,871 My son is home now and safe, thank God. 1371 01:08:49,042 --> 01:08:50,782 But you watched him go. 1372 01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:52,245 You knew we couldn't win over there... 1373 01:08:52,420 --> 01:08:55,378 for years and years and years, and yet you let me... 1374 01:08:56,924 --> 01:08:59,916 you let so many of our friends send our boys off. 1375 01:09:00,094 --> 01:09:02,130 Kay, we were doing the best we could. 1376 01:09:02,930 --> 01:09:05,763 It was domino theory, containment... 1377 01:09:06,059 --> 01:09:07,640 and eventually we felt 1378 01:09:07,727 --> 01:09:09,467 that military pressure was the only thing... 1379 01:09:09,646 --> 01:09:11,432 that was gonna drive Ho Chi Minh to the table. 1380 01:09:11,606 --> 01:09:13,142 Our decision-making process was... 1381 01:09:13,316 --> 01:09:14,852 Flawed. 1382 01:09:19,781 --> 01:09:22,898 It was flawed. That's what your study said. 1383 01:09:24,661 --> 01:09:25,946 Yes. 1384 01:09:28,289 --> 01:09:33,079 I do believe that you were trying to do your best... 1385 01:09:34,045 --> 01:09:36,627 and I know how difficult it can be 1386 01:09:36,714 --> 01:09:38,545 to make choices that will... 1387 01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:40,540 That's kind of you. 1388 01:09:41,594 --> 01:09:45,132 Well, what comes next might not be so kind. 1389 01:09:47,225 --> 01:09:49,011 You have the papers. 1390 01:09:51,145 --> 01:09:52,555 Letsjustsay”. 1391 01:09:52,730 --> 01:09:56,143 I may have a big decision to make. 1392 01:10:01,406 --> 01:10:02,896 ANTHONY: They will argue it's a violation 1393 01:10:02,990 --> 01:10:04,025 of the Espionage Act. 1394 01:10:04,117 --> 01:10:05,232 That is a felony, Ben. 1395 01:10:05,410 --> 01:10:07,241 That's only if the documents we print 1396 01:10:07,328 --> 01:10:08,659 could damage the United States. 1397 01:10:08,746 --> 01:10:10,452 There's a federal judge in New York 1398 01:10:10,540 --> 01:10:11,575 who seems to think that they could. 1399 01:10:11,749 --> 01:10:12,784 Well, I've got six seasoned journalists 1400 01:10:12,875 --> 01:10:13,864 in the next room... 1401 01:10:14,001 --> 01:10:15,866 who've been reporting on this war for the last ten years... 1402 01:10:16,045 --> 01:10:18,036 and I'll lay odds that they have a better idea... 1403 01:10:18,214 --> 01:10:19,499 of what could damage the United States 1404 01:10:19,590 --> 01:10:20,579 than somejudge... 1405 01:10:20,758 --> 01:10:21,998 who is just now wading 1406 01:10:22,093 --> 01:10:23,583 into this territory for the first time. 1407 01:10:23,761 --> 01:10:26,127 "Wading." Is that a metaphor for Vietnam? 1408 01:10:26,305 --> 01:10:29,092 Okay. Ben, look, we know your reporters are talented. 1409 01:10:29,267 --> 01:10:31,303 But The New York Times spent three months 1410 01:10:31,394 --> 01:10:33,259 going over these documents. 1411 01:10:33,438 --> 01:10:35,144 You've got, what, seven hours now 1412 01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:36,471 until the paper goes to press? 1413 01:10:36,649 --> 01:10:38,981 Can you honestly tell me that that is enough time... 1414 01:10:39,152 --> 01:10:42,895 to make sure not a single military plan, 1415 01:10:42,989 --> 01:10:44,229 not a single US. soldier... 1416 01:10:44,407 --> 01:10:46,864 not a single American life will be put in harm's way? 1417 01:10:47,034 --> 01:10:48,695 That this will do no damage 1418 01:10:48,786 --> 01:10:50,651 to the United States ifyou publish? 1419 01:10:50,830 --> 01:10:51,865 Yes. 1420 01:10:54,125 --> 01:10:55,365 ROGER: You're sure about that? 1421 01:10:55,543 --> 01:10:56,578 No! 1422 01:10:56,753 --> 01:10:58,835 That's why I've called you guys. 1423 01:11:00,047 --> 01:11:02,379 ROBERT: Look, Kay, lknow why The Times ran the story 1424 01:11:02,467 --> 01:11:03,798 but you need to understand... 1425 01:11:03,968 --> 01:11:05,458 the study was for posterity. 1426 01:11:05,553 --> 01:11:07,589 It was written for academics in the future... 1427 01:11:07,764 --> 01:11:09,345 and right now we're still in the middle of the war. 1428 01:11:09,515 --> 01:11:11,051 The papers can't be objective. 1429 01:11:11,225 --> 01:11:13,341 And I suppose the public has a right to know... 1430 01:11:13,519 --> 01:11:15,760 but I would prefer that the study 1431 01:11:15,855 --> 01:11:17,220 not be made widely available... 1432 01:11:17,398 --> 01:11:20,140 until it can be read with some perspective. You understand. 1433 01:11:20,234 --> 01:11:21,565 Mmm. 1434 01:11:24,822 --> 01:11:26,938 We've been through a lot, haven't we? 1435 01:11:27,116 --> 01:11:30,483 You and Marg were there for me... 1436 01:11:30,661 --> 01:11:32,743 at the lowest point of my life. 1437 01:11:32,914 --> 01:11:36,247 You helped me, you selected my entire board... 1438 01:11:36,417 --> 01:11:38,829 you're my most trusted advisor... 1439 01:11:39,003 --> 01:11:40,493 my dear friend. 1440 01:11:41,672 --> 01:11:45,085 But my feelings about that and about you... 1441 01:11:45,259 --> 01:11:48,717 can't be part of this decision to publish or not. 1442 01:11:48,888 --> 01:11:53,177 I'm here asking your advice, Bob... 1443 01:11:53,351 --> 01:11:55,342 not your permission. 1444 01:11:56,270 --> 01:11:59,057 Well, then as one of your most trusted advisors... 1445 01:11:59,232 --> 01:12:01,188 and someone who knows how much you care about this company... 1446 01:12:01,359 --> 01:12:02,348 I'm worried, Kay. 1447 01:12:02,527 --> 01:12:04,108 I worked in Washington for ten years, 1448 01:12:04,195 --> 01:12:05,435 I've seen these people up close. 1449 01:12:05,530 --> 01:12:07,816 Bobby and Lyndon, they were tough customers, 1450 01:12:07,907 --> 01:12:09,863 but Nixon is different. 1451 01:12:10,034 --> 01:12:12,150 He's got some real bad people around him. 1452 01:12:12,328 --> 01:12:14,193 And ifyou publish he'll get the very worst of them. 1453 01:12:14,372 --> 01:12:15,578 The Colsons and the Ehrlichmans 1454 01:12:15,665 --> 01:12:16,654 and he'll crush you. 1455 01:12:16,833 --> 01:12:18,118 I know he'sjust awful, but I... 1456 01:12:18,292 --> 01:12:20,704 Nixon's a son of a bitch! He hates you. 1457 01:12:20,878 --> 01:12:21,867 He hates Ben. 1458 01:12:21,963 --> 01:12:23,123 He's wanted to ruin the paper for years... 1459 01:12:23,297 --> 01:12:25,913 and you will not get a second chance, Kay. 1460 01:12:26,092 --> 01:12:27,878 The Richard Nixon I know will muster 1461 01:12:27,969 --> 01:12:29,379 the full power of the presidency... 1462 01:12:29,554 --> 01:12:31,465 and if there's a way to destroy your paper, 1463 01:12:31,556 --> 01:12:33,672 by God, he'll find it. 1464 01:12:36,519 --> 01:12:38,555 ANTHONY: Publish information that harms national security. 1465 01:12:38,729 --> 01:12:39,844 I told you, there is nothing in there. 1466 01:12:40,022 --> 01:12:41,728 If there is, the paper will be prosecuted. 1467 01:12:41,899 --> 01:12:43,264 Isn't that why you're here? 1468 01:12:43,442 --> 01:12:44,807 Yes, Ben, but if we lose... 1469 01:12:44,986 --> 01:12:46,567 With what we pay you, you really shouldn't lose. 1470 01:12:46,654 --> 01:12:47,643 Ben, you need to listen to them. 1471 01:12:47,738 --> 01:12:48,818 Hey, Fritz. Good to see you. 1472 01:12:48,906 --> 01:12:49,895 This is about the future of the company 1473 01:12:49,991 --> 01:12:51,026 and ensuring there is one. 1474 01:12:51,117 --> 01:12:53,324 That's a little melodramatic, don't you think? 1475 01:12:53,411 --> 01:12:54,821 Melodramatic? You're talking about 1476 01:12:54,912 --> 01:12:57,028 exposing years of government secrets. 1477 01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:00,201 I can't imagine they're gonna take that lightly. 1478 01:13:00,585 --> 01:13:02,075 You could jeopardize the public offering. 1479 01:13:02,253 --> 01:13:04,244 You could jeopardize our television stations. 1480 01:13:04,422 --> 01:13:06,413 You know a felon can't hold a broadcast license. 1481 01:13:06,591 --> 01:13:08,297 You think I give two shits about the television stations? 1482 01:13:08,384 --> 01:13:09,373 You should. They make a hell of 1483 01:13:09,468 --> 01:13:10,503 a lot more money than you do... 1484 01:13:10,595 --> 01:13:13,086 and without that revenue we'll be forced to sell. 1485 01:13:13,180 --> 01:13:15,091 If the government wins and we're convicted... 1486 01:13:15,266 --> 01:13:17,928 The Washington Post as we know it will cease to exist. 1487 01:13:18,102 --> 01:13:19,638 Ifwe live in a world where the government 1488 01:13:19,729 --> 01:13:21,265 can tell us what we can and cannot print... 1489 01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:22,599 then The Washington Post as we know it 1490 01:13:22,690 --> 01:13:24,806 has already ceased to exist. 1491 01:13:26,068 --> 01:13:27,683 What if we wait? 1492 01:13:28,779 --> 01:13:30,815 What if we hold off on printing today 1493 01:13:30,907 --> 01:13:33,239 and instead we call the Attorney General... 1494 01:13:33,409 --> 01:13:35,946 and we tell him that we intend to print on Sunday? 1495 01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:37,656 That way we give them and us time 1496 01:13:37,747 --> 01:13:39,863 to figure out the legality of all of it... 1497 01:13:40,041 --> 01:13:42,498 while the court in New York decides The Times'case. 1498 01:13:42,668 --> 01:13:44,829 You're suggesting we alert the Attorney General... 1499 01:13:45,004 --> 01:13:47,165 to the fact that we have these documents... 1500 01:13:47,340 --> 01:13:49,956 that we're going to print in a few days? 1501 01:13:53,679 --> 01:13:56,591 Well, yes, that is the idea. 1502 01:13:56,933 --> 01:13:57,968 BAGDIKIAN: Yeah, well... 1503 01:13:58,434 --> 01:13:59,924 outside of landing the Hindenburg 1504 01:14:00,019 --> 01:14:01,259 in a lightning storm... 1505 01:14:01,437 --> 01:14:03,428 that's about the shittiest idea I've ever heard. 1506 01:14:03,606 --> 01:14:04,812 Oh, boy. 1507 01:14:12,573 --> 01:14:14,404 KAY: Oh, here's the man of the hour. 1508 01:14:14,575 --> 01:14:16,065 HARRY: Kay. 1509 01:14:16,243 --> 01:14:17,358 KAY: For you. 1510 01:14:17,536 --> 01:14:18,571 I'm found. 1511 01:14:18,663 --> 01:14:19,652 Thank you, Kay. 1512 01:14:19,747 --> 01:14:20,862 You didn't have to go through all this trouble. 1513 01:14:20,957 --> 01:14:22,322 No, we had to turn them away at the door. 1514 01:14:22,416 --> 01:14:23,405 Didn't we, dear? 1515 01:14:23,584 --> 01:14:24,573 Thanks. Oh. 1516 01:14:24,752 --> 01:14:26,788 Gene. Mrs. Graham. 1517 01:14:26,963 --> 01:14:29,079 So, everything okay? 1518 01:14:29,256 --> 01:14:32,248 Uh, it's gotten pretty hot over at Ben's house. 1519 01:14:32,343 --> 01:14:34,675 Oh, things are not going well? 1520 01:14:34,845 --> 01:14:38,212 No. Ben and Mr. Beebe are at real Ioggerheads. 1521 01:14:38,683 --> 01:14:40,674 Fritz and Ben on opposite sides? 1522 01:14:40,768 --> 01:14:41,803 I made a commitment to publish these papers. 1523 01:14:41,894 --> 01:14:42,883 Excuse me. Pardon me. 1524 01:14:42,979 --> 01:14:44,844 The whole staff will revolt, ifwe don't publish. 1525 01:14:44,939 --> 01:14:47,180 ANTHONY: Meg, I hardly think people are gonna resign. 1526 01:14:47,358 --> 01:14:48,347 BEN: Enjoying the fight? 1527 01:14:48,526 --> 01:14:49,857 TONY: Yeah, who's winning? 1528 01:14:50,027 --> 01:14:51,983 Nixon. I didn't see him come in. 1529 01:14:52,154 --> 01:14:54,816 Really? He's got his hand so far up Fritz's ass. 1530 01:14:56,283 --> 01:14:57,523 Where is Fritz? 1531 01:14:59,912 --> 01:15:02,619 ANTHONY: That is not at all what I'm saying. No. 1532 01:15:02,748 --> 01:15:04,238 MEG: Not in so many words, but you're a bunch of lawyers. 1533 01:15:04,333 --> 01:15:05,322 Will you cut through the shit! 1534 01:15:05,418 --> 01:15:06,533 ANTHONY: Is the profanity necessary? 1535 01:15:06,627 --> 01:15:07,662 lfwe're not gonna publish, 1536 01:15:07,753 --> 01:15:09,539 why are we busting our rear ends, Ben? 1537 01:15:09,714 --> 01:15:11,250 Just keep writing. 1538 01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:15,086 Can you stop playing Chopsticks? 1539 01:15:15,261 --> 01:15:17,468 BAGDIKIAN: We're not gonna get it wrong! 1540 01:15:20,141 --> 01:15:21,722 What's up there, Fritz? 1541 01:15:22,393 --> 01:15:24,179 Calling Kay. 1542 01:15:24,812 --> 01:15:27,724 I'm sorry, Ben. I know you want this. 1543 01:15:27,898 --> 01:15:29,854 There will be another one. 1544 01:15:30,401 --> 01:15:32,232 Like hell there will be. 1545 01:15:32,862 --> 01:15:34,477 ROGER: Given the sensitive circumstances... 1546 01:15:34,655 --> 01:15:36,236 PHIL: Sensitive circumstances? Really? 1547 01:15:36,407 --> 01:15:37,817 ROGER: How would you describe it? 1548 01:15:37,992 --> 01:15:40,449 MURREY: Uh, well, we're trying to make a story. 1549 01:15:40,953 --> 01:15:43,194 FRITZ: Hello. Hello, I'm making a telephone call. 1550 01:15:43,372 --> 01:15:45,203 Yeah, well, it's my house. 1551 01:15:45,374 --> 01:15:47,660 So I'll be on the call. All right, Ben. 1552 01:15:48,002 --> 01:15:52,371 ljust want to thank you all for coming out this evening... 1553 01:15:52,548 --> 01:15:55,290 to help me launch Harry Gladstein... 1554 01:15:55,468 --> 01:15:57,504 and his new sailboat... 1555 01:15:57,678 --> 01:15:59,964 into the Chesapeake Bay. 1556 01:16:01,724 --> 01:16:05,262 And into his very well earned retirement. 1557 01:16:05,436 --> 01:16:07,222 Let me just tell you a little bit about 1558 01:16:07,313 --> 01:16:09,520 why I'm so wild about Harry. 1559 01:16:09,815 --> 01:16:12,602 Mrs. Graham. It's Mr. Beebe on the phone. 1560 01:16:12,818 --> 01:16:15,605 In 1949, wasn't it? 1561 01:16:15,905 --> 01:16:19,568 Uh, Phil Graham first brought Harry to the company. 1562 01:16:19,742 --> 01:16:22,279 I'm afraid they need you now. And I remember, he told me... 1563 01:16:22,453 --> 01:16:23,659 Mrs. Graham. 1564 01:16:23,829 --> 01:16:25,319 They need you now. 1565 01:16:27,750 --> 01:16:30,958 Oh, dear. I'm so sorry. 1566 01:16:31,128 --> 01:16:32,868 Forgive me, Harry. HARRY: Yeah. 1567 01:16:33,047 --> 01:16:34,833 I think I'll have to suspend. 1568 01:16:35,007 --> 01:16:37,339 Well, you're paying the overtime. 1569 01:16:37,426 --> 01:16:39,462 I'll be right back. 1570 01:16:39,637 --> 01:16:41,298 I'm so sorry, Mrs. Graham. 1571 01:16:41,764 --> 01:16:42,753 Yeah. 1572 01:16:43,099 --> 01:16:44,509 We should wait. 1573 01:16:44,683 --> 01:16:48,096 Yeah, I understand, Ben, but if you wait a day... 1574 01:16:49,480 --> 01:16:51,971 Fritz on the phone for me? We Should be on this call. 1575 01:16:52,149 --> 01:16:54,390 Well, there's an extension in the living room. 1576 01:16:54,568 --> 01:16:57,401 Liz, show them where, please? Thank you. 1577 01:17:07,623 --> 01:17:08,658 Hello, Fritz? 1578 01:17:08,833 --> 01:17:11,324 Hello, Kay. Would you like me to catch you up? 1579 01:17:11,418 --> 01:17:12,498 I say we can, he says we can't. 1580 01:17:12,586 --> 01:17:13,621 There, you're caught up. 1581 01:17:13,712 --> 01:17:15,373 FRITZ: Ben... ARTHUR: Hello, it’s Art. 1582 01:17:15,548 --> 01:17:18,130 Well, Ben, there are concerns here 1583 01:17:18,217 --> 01:17:20,082 that are frankly above your pay grade. 1584 01:17:20,261 --> 01:17:21,842 BEN: Well, there's a few above yours, Art, 1585 01:17:21,929 --> 01:17:23,214 like fucking freedom of the press. 1586 01:17:23,389 --> 01:17:25,095 Let's just be civil if we can. 1587 01:17:25,266 --> 01:17:27,131 BEN: Do you think Nixon is going to be civil? 1588 01:17:27,309 --> 01:17:29,800 He is trying to censor the goddamn New York Times. 1589 01:17:29,979 --> 01:17:31,469 Yes, The Times, not The Post. 1590 01:17:31,647 --> 01:17:33,262 BEN: It's the same damn thing. 1591 01:17:33,440 --> 01:17:37,024 This is an historic fight. If they lose, we lose. 1592 01:17:37,403 --> 01:17:39,064 PAUL: Hello? Is someone on the phone? 1593 01:17:39,238 --> 01:17:40,353 P H I L: This is Phil. 1594 01:17:40,531 --> 01:17:42,146 Is that Phil Geyelin? 1595 01:17:42,324 --> 01:17:44,030 PHIL: Uh, yes, Mrs. Graham. 1596 01:17:44,618 --> 01:17:46,904 Good. I'd like you to weigh in ifyou would... 1597 01:17:47,079 --> 01:17:48,239 because I wanna know 1598 01:17:48,330 --> 01:17:50,286 what the staff is feeling about this. 1599 01:17:50,499 --> 01:17:53,036 PHIL: Uh, well, frankly, Mrs. Graham... 1600 01:17:53,210 --> 01:17:55,121 Ben Bagdikian and Chal Roberts 1601 01:17:55,212 --> 01:17:57,703 have, uh, both threatened to resign... 1602 01:17:57,882 --> 01:17:59,918 if we don ’t publish, that is. 1603 01:18:00,092 --> 01:18:01,332 Come on, Kay, what do you expect? 1604 01:18:01,427 --> 01:18:02,416 They got nothing to lose. 1605 01:18:02,511 --> 01:18:03,921 Due respect, we all have everything 1606 01:18:04,013 --> 01:18:05,344 to lose if we don't publish. 1607 01:18:05,514 --> 01:18:08,176 What will happen to the reputation of this paper? 1608 01:18:08,350 --> 01:18:10,432 Everyone will find out we had the study. 1609 01:18:10,603 --> 01:18:12,468 Hell, I bet half the town knows already. 1610 01:18:12,646 --> 01:18:14,432 What will it look like if we sit on our asses? 1611 01:18:14,607 --> 01:18:16,188 It'll look like we were prudent. 1612 01:18:16,358 --> 01:18:17,848 BEN: It will look like we were afraid! 1613 01:18:18,027 --> 01:18:21,019 We will lose! The country will lose! Nixon wins! 1614 01:18:21,197 --> 01:18:22,858 Nixon wins this one, and the next one... 1615 01:18:23,032 --> 01:18:24,818 and all the ones after that, because we were scared. 1616 01:18:24,992 --> 01:18:26,232 Because the only way to assert 1617 01:18:26,327 --> 01:18:28,409 the right to publish is to publish. 1618 01:18:33,167 --> 01:18:34,247 Fritz. 1619 01:18:34,418 --> 01:18:36,659 Is Fritz there? 1620 01:18:38,464 --> 01:18:40,295 Fritz, are you on? 1621 01:18:40,966 --> 01:18:42,706 FRITZ: I’m here, Kay. 1622 01:18:45,679 --> 01:18:47,715 What do you think? 1623 01:18:49,308 --> 01:18:52,266 What do you think I should do? 1624 01:18:54,271 --> 01:18:55,727 FRITZ: Ithink... 1625 01:18:56,482 --> 01:18:58,894 there are arguments on both sides. 1626 01:18:59,151 --> 01:19:00,140 Yeah. 1627 01:19:02,780 --> 01:19:04,771 Butlguess I wouldn't publish. 1628 01:19:28,013 --> 01:19:30,345 Let's go. Let's do it. 1629 01:19:30,516 --> 01:19:34,555 Let's go. Let's go, let's go. Let's publish. 1630 01:19:38,691 --> 01:19:40,181 What? Phil? 1631 01:19:40,359 --> 01:19:41,940 What'd she say? 1632 01:19:42,778 --> 01:19:44,234 We go. 1633 01:19:46,115 --> 01:19:48,106 She says, we publish. 1634 01:19:49,285 --> 01:19:50,274 Hot damn. My God. 1635 01:19:50,369 --> 01:19:51,950 Holy shit. Let's get this out. 1636 01:19:52,121 --> 01:19:53,361 Holy Shit. 1637 01:19:54,081 --> 01:19:55,287 I need that, Meg. MEG: Sorry. 1638 01:19:55,416 --> 01:19:56,405 Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold your horses. 1639 01:19:56,500 --> 01:19:57,615 I need the notes! Sorry. 1640 01:19:57,793 --> 01:19:59,078 How many pages is it? 13. 1641 01:19:59,253 --> 01:20:00,868 We got two hours to get it to the composing room. 1642 01:20:01,046 --> 01:20:02,832 CHALMERS: I got it! Almost! Wait one moment. I'm typing. 1643 01:20:03,007 --> 01:20:04,338 BAGDIKIAN: All right. 1644 01:20:05,551 --> 01:20:06,540 Wait, wait, wait. Who's taking it? 1645 01:20:06,719 --> 01:20:07,754 I got it. 1646 01:20:07,928 --> 01:20:08,917 Call National desk. 1647 01:20:09,013 --> 01:20:10,503 Tell them Bagdikian is coming with the story. 1648 01:20:10,681 --> 01:20:11,921 Done! 1649 01:20:12,099 --> 01:20:13,635 All right. Get it in the paper. 1650 01:20:13,809 --> 01:20:15,265 Editorial meeting. 1651 01:20:15,436 --> 01:20:17,677 Ben? Yeah? Thanks. 1652 01:20:17,896 --> 01:20:20,103 HOWARD: Good job, Murrey. 1653 01:20:26,613 --> 01:20:28,604 That it? That's it. 1654 01:20:39,126 --> 01:20:41,412 You... You got half an hour. 1655 01:20:52,598 --> 01:20:54,884 I'm not sure how much thought 1656 01:20:54,975 --> 01:20:56,431 you've put into this decision... 1657 01:20:56,602 --> 01:20:57,682 but we still have time. 1658 01:20:57,770 --> 01:20:59,385 The print deadline is not 'til midnight. 1659 01:20:59,563 --> 01:21:01,554 I know when the print deadline is. 1660 01:21:01,732 --> 01:21:03,597 Look, I'm still learning how to do this, 1661 01:21:03,692 --> 01:21:05,023 but everything I know about business... 1662 01:21:05,194 --> 01:21:07,651 tells me you're making a serious mistake here. 1663 01:21:07,821 --> 01:21:09,561 One that will cost you and your paper dearly, 1664 01:21:09,656 --> 01:21:11,487 and hurt every person gathered here. 1665 01:21:11,658 --> 01:21:14,195 Not to mention, the hundreds of others who work for you. 1666 01:21:14,370 --> 01:21:16,201 I'm just trying to put my thoughts together. 1667 01:21:16,372 --> 01:21:18,738 Kay, all Iwant is what is best 1668 01:21:18,832 --> 01:21:20,242 for you and your business. 1669 01:21:21,001 --> 01:21:23,708 But I just got off the phone with a couple of bankers... 1670 01:21:23,879 --> 01:21:26,871 and they think it's possible, likely even... 1671 01:21:27,049 --> 01:21:29,415 that a number of their institutional investors... 1672 01:21:29,593 --> 01:21:31,549 will pull out ifyou go ahead and publish. 1673 01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:34,883 And ifthey pull out, Kay... 1674 01:21:36,058 --> 01:21:38,299 You got a couple of hours. 1675 01:21:38,852 --> 01:21:39,887 Foryoursake, 1676 01:21:39,978 --> 01:21:42,185 and for the sake of every one of your employees... 1677 01:21:42,356 --> 01:21:44,017 I hope you will reconsider. 1678 01:21:51,532 --> 01:21:53,193 Give me the canister. 1679 01:21:58,914 --> 01:21:59,949 Get it downstairs... 1680 01:22:00,124 --> 01:22:01,864 and I want the page editor standing over Lino 1681 01:22:01,959 --> 01:22:03,199 'til they got it ready to print. 1682 01:22:03,377 --> 01:22:04,366 Okay. 1683 01:22:08,090 --> 01:22:09,751 ROGER: Mr. Bagdikian. 1684 01:22:15,097 --> 01:22:17,088 I need to know your source. 1685 01:22:17,683 --> 01:22:19,548 I thought I was clear earlier. 1686 01:22:20,352 --> 01:22:22,593 Well, we weren't going to press earlier. 1687 01:22:22,771 --> 01:22:25,137 Yeah, well, my answer's the same. 1688 01:22:25,482 --> 01:22:27,438 "This action has been commenced to enjoin 1689 01:22:27,526 --> 01:22:29,141 "The New York Times and their agents... 1690 01:22:29,319 --> 01:22:30,980 "from further disseminating or disclosing 1691 01:22:31,071 --> 01:22:32,402 "certain alleged top secret documents." 1692 01:22:32,573 --> 01:22:34,484 Are you trying to piss me off? 1693 01:22:34,658 --> 01:22:36,273 No. Not me. Judge Gurfein. 1694 01:22:36,452 --> 01:22:38,192 lfyou look at the text of his restraining order... 1695 01:22:38,370 --> 01:22:40,326 | read his restraining order. 1696 01:22:40,497 --> 01:22:42,328 So then you know that if The Times was your source... 1697 01:22:42,499 --> 01:22:43,909 we would be in direct violation... 1698 01:22:44,084 --> 01:22:46,541 I did not get the study from The Times. 1699 01:22:47,004 --> 01:22:47,993 You're sure? 1700 01:22:49,047 --> 01:22:50,503 We done? 1701 01:22:54,136 --> 01:22:56,468 Did you get it from their source? 1702 01:23:03,395 --> 01:23:04,931 Excuse me? 1703 01:23:07,816 --> 01:23:09,852 Did you get the study 1704 01:23:09,943 --> 01:23:12,525 from the same source as The Times? 1705 01:23:14,948 --> 01:23:17,439 We do not reveal our sources. 1706 01:23:18,535 --> 01:23:20,491 "This action has been commenced to enjoin 1707 01:23:20,579 --> 01:23:22,240 "The New York Times and its agents..." 1708 01:23:22,414 --> 01:23:23,904 I get it! I get it! 1709 01:23:27,586 --> 01:23:29,702 If you got the study from the same source 1710 01:23:29,796 --> 01:23:31,536 that would amount to collusion. 1711 01:23:31,715 --> 01:23:34,582 Yeah, we could all be executed at dawn. 1712 01:23:35,844 --> 01:23:38,836 And we could be held in contempt of court... 1713 01:23:39,014 --> 01:23:42,427 which means Mr. Bradlee and Mrs. Graham could go to jail. 1714 01:23:46,313 --> 01:23:48,099 Mr. Bagdikian... 1715 01:23:49,358 --> 01:23:52,771 how likely is it that your source... 1716 01:23:52,945 --> 01:23:55,561 and The Times source are the same person? 1717 01:23:57,324 --> 01:23:59,064 It's likely. 1718 01:24:00,702 --> 01:24:02,283 How likely? 1719 01:24:04,623 --> 01:24:05,908 Very. 1720 01:24:06,625 --> 01:24:08,456 It's very likely. Yes. 1721 01:24:19,638 --> 01:24:21,378 What is all this? 1722 01:24:21,848 --> 01:24:23,759 Lemonade earnings. 1723 01:24:24,851 --> 01:24:27,718 Marina wanted me to put it away for safekeeping. 1724 01:24:27,896 --> 01:24:29,056 Oh, wow. 1725 01:24:33,944 --> 01:24:35,730 We're publishing. 1726 01:24:39,366 --> 01:24:40,526 Wow. 1727 01:24:43,245 --> 01:24:45,531 I didn't think Kay'd do it. 1728 01:24:48,333 --> 01:24:49,994 That's brave. 1729 01:24:50,919 --> 01:24:53,160 Well, she's not the only one who's brave. 1730 01:24:53,630 --> 01:24:54,870 Oh. 1731 01:24:54,965 --> 01:24:56,921 What have you got to lose? 1732 01:24:57,134 --> 01:24:58,624 Uh, myjob. 1733 01:24:58,802 --> 01:25:00,133 My reputation. 1734 01:25:00,304 --> 01:25:01,919 Oh, Ben, please. 1735 01:25:03,140 --> 01:25:05,222 We both know this will do nothing 1736 01:25:05,309 --> 01:25:08,142 but burnish your reputation. 1737 01:25:08,312 --> 01:25:09,722 And as for yourjob... 1738 01:25:10,147 --> 01:25:12,229 you can always find another one. 1739 01:25:13,525 --> 01:25:16,642 Now, if you're trying to make me feel better... 1740 01:25:21,033 --> 01:25:23,024 You're very brave. 1741 01:25:24,995 --> 01:25:26,485 But Kay... 1742 01:25:27,789 --> 01:25:31,782 Kay is in a position she never thought she'd be in. 1743 01:25:32,210 --> 01:25:34,075 A position I'm sure plenty of people 1744 01:25:34,171 --> 01:25:36,787 don't think she should have. 1745 01:25:37,132 --> 01:25:39,168 And when you're told time and time again 1746 01:25:39,259 --> 01:25:41,170 that you're not good enough. 1747 01:25:41,345 --> 01:25:44,428 That your opinion doesn't matter as much. 1748 01:25:44,931 --> 01:25:48,139 When they don't just look past you. 1749 01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:51,848 When, to them, you're not even there. 1750 01:25:52,481 --> 01:25:54,517 When that's been your reality for so long... 1751 01:25:54,691 --> 01:25:57,478 it's hard not to let yourself think it's true. 1752 01:25:58,695 --> 01:26:01,402 So, to make this decision... 1753 01:26:01,990 --> 01:26:04,572 to risk her fortune and the company 1754 01:26:04,660 --> 01:26:06,992 that's been her entire life... 1755 01:26:08,413 --> 01:26:10,449 well, I think that's brave. 1756 01:26:16,922 --> 01:26:17,911 Bradlee. 1757 01:26:18,006 --> 01:26:20,338 BAGDIKIAN: Ben, we got a problem. 1758 01:26:31,019 --> 01:26:32,850 You remember this? 1759 01:26:34,940 --> 01:26:36,601 The day before the funeral. Yeah. 1760 01:26:36,775 --> 01:26:38,015 Wasn't it? 1761 01:26:38,735 --> 01:26:39,941 Yeah. 1762 01:26:41,613 --> 01:26:42,693 I didn't... 1763 01:26:42,781 --> 01:26:45,113 I didn't wanna do it... 1764 01:26:45,367 --> 01:26:47,824 but Fritz said I should go in... 1765 01:26:47,994 --> 01:26:50,360 and say a few words to the Board. 1766 01:26:52,916 --> 01:26:55,749 So, ltried to rehearse something... 1767 01:26:55,919 --> 01:26:58,035 but it all turned out so awful, 1768 01:26:58,130 --> 01:26:59,245 and before I knew it... 1769 01:26:59,423 --> 01:27:00,913 the car was there ready to take me 1770 01:27:01,007 --> 01:27:02,463 and then you came out. 1771 01:27:03,385 --> 01:27:04,875 I remember. 1772 01:27:05,053 --> 01:27:06,293 You came out in 1773 01:27:06,388 --> 01:27:08,720 your little nightgown and your robe. 1774 01:27:08,932 --> 01:27:11,218 And you hopped in the car with me. 1775 01:27:11,309 --> 01:27:12,970 Gave me this. 1776 01:27:14,062 --> 01:27:18,055 Somehow you managed to scribble these notes for me. 1777 01:27:18,817 --> 01:27:21,684 So I'd know what to say. 1778 01:27:22,154 --> 01:27:24,941 Butldont have my glasses up here. 1779 01:27:25,115 --> 01:27:27,481 So, just read it for me. Mummy... 1780 01:27:27,659 --> 01:27:29,695 Oh, come on, just... Would you read it to me? 1781 01:27:34,708 --> 01:27:36,949 "One, thank them. 1782 01:27:37,377 --> 01:27:40,335 "Two, there has been a crisis, 1783 01:27:40,422 --> 01:27:42,162 "but you know they will carry on. 1784 01:27:42,340 --> 01:27:45,503 "Three, never expected to be in this... 1785 01:27:46,803 --> 01:27:48,509 "situation. 1786 01:27:49,264 --> 01:27:54,258 "Four, going off to clear mind and think about the future. 1787 01:27:54,436 --> 01:27:57,052 "Five, no changes at this time, 1788 01:27:57,147 --> 01:27:59,433 "paper will remain in the family. 1789 01:27:59,649 --> 01:28:02,812 "And six, and be carried on in the tradition... 1790 01:28:02,986 --> 01:28:05,227 "so well set." So well set. 1791 01:28:06,823 --> 01:28:10,315 You know, ljust wanted to hold on to the company... 1792 01:28:10,494 --> 01:28:12,826 for you and Don and Billy and Steve. 1793 01:28:12,996 --> 01:28:14,702 You did. You have. 1794 01:28:14,873 --> 01:28:16,329 Well... 1795 01:28:18,752 --> 01:28:20,663 You know that quote? 1796 01:28:22,464 --> 01:28:23,499 That quote... 1797 01:28:23,715 --> 01:28:28,835 "A woman preaching is like a dog walking on its hind legs. 1798 01:28:29,346 --> 01:28:30,927 "It's not done well... 1799 01:28:31,097 --> 01:28:35,431 "and you're surprised to see it's done at all." 1800 01:28:36,436 --> 01:28:37,676 Samuel Johnson. 1801 01:28:37,854 --> 01:28:39,264 Oh, Mummy. Yeah. 1802 01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:40,929 Well, it's a bunch ofnonsense. 1803 01:28:41,107 --> 01:28:44,144 No, but that's the way we all thought then... 1804 01:28:44,861 --> 01:28:46,146 you know? 1805 01:28:46,655 --> 01:28:50,193 I was never supposed to be in this job. 1806 01:28:52,035 --> 01:28:56,074 When my father chose your dad to run the company... 1807 01:28:56,540 --> 01:28:58,997 I thought it was the most natural thing in the world. 1808 01:28:59,167 --> 01:29:01,374 I was so proud, because you know... 1809 01:29:01,545 --> 01:29:05,333 Phil was so brilliant. And he was... 1810 01:29:08,802 --> 01:29:10,633 so gifted... 1811 01:29:11,847 --> 01:29:14,589 But I thought that was the way it was supposed to be. 1812 01:29:14,766 --> 01:29:17,633 Everybody thought that way then. 1813 01:29:18,770 --> 01:29:21,261 And I was raising you kids... 1814 01:29:23,483 --> 01:29:27,522 and lwas happy in my life. 1815 01:29:27,696 --> 01:29:29,812 The way it was. 1816 01:29:32,367 --> 01:29:35,780 But then when it all fell apart, you know... 1817 01:29:39,875 --> 01:29:42,582 When Phil died, it wasjust... 1818 01:29:42,752 --> 01:29:46,040 I was 45 years old and I had never held... 1819 01:29:46,214 --> 01:29:49,706 I'd never had to hold ajob in my life. 1820 01:29:51,928 --> 01:29:54,965 But ljust, I loved the paper, you know... 1821 01:29:55,140 --> 01:29:56,505 I do. 1822 01:29:57,475 --> 01:29:58,885 I do so love the paper. 1823 01:29:58,977 --> 01:30:00,968 I don't want it to be my fault. 1824 01:30:01,146 --> 01:30:02,352 I don't want to be the one who... 1825 01:30:03,690 --> 01:30:07,774 I don't wanna let Phil and my father... 1826 01:30:07,944 --> 01:30:11,186 and all of you kids and everybody down. 1827 01:30:12,699 --> 01:30:14,235 Mrs. Graham? 1828 01:30:23,084 --> 01:30:25,166 You ran here? Yeah. 1829 01:30:27,047 --> 01:30:29,083 There's been a bit of a... 1830 01:30:29,257 --> 01:30:30,747 complication. 1831 01:30:32,135 --> 01:30:33,545 I didn't understand at first, 1832 01:30:33,637 --> 01:30:35,218 but now everything is in a different light. 1833 01:30:35,388 --> 01:30:38,801 Our source might be the same as The New York Times. 1834 01:30:39,100 --> 01:30:40,089 Okay. 1835 01:30:41,144 --> 01:30:43,510 If so, we could be held in contempt. 1836 01:30:43,813 --> 01:30:45,394 Meaning? 1837 01:30:45,774 --> 01:30:48,015 Well, we could all go to prison. 1838 01:30:50,946 --> 01:30:52,777 Now putting that aside... 1839 01:30:54,157 --> 01:30:56,944 Katharine, I've come to realize... 1840 01:30:58,411 --> 01:31:01,369 just how much you have at stake. 1841 01:31:29,734 --> 01:31:31,395 Paul. PAUL: Glad you're here. 1842 01:31:31,486 --> 01:31:32,521 Fritz is sitting with Mrs. Graham now. 1843 01:31:32,612 --> 01:31:33,601 And Ben is here. 1844 01:31:33,697 --> 01:31:35,483 Yes, I figured he would be. 1845 01:31:59,014 --> 01:32:00,299 Jesus Christ. 1846 01:32:00,473 --> 01:32:01,679 Mr. Bradlee, if you knew 1847 01:32:01,766 --> 01:32:02,755 Mr. Bagdikian received the study... 1848 01:32:02,934 --> 01:32:04,094 from the same source as The Times... 1849 01:32:04,269 --> 01:32:06,009 I didn't know because I'm not in the habit... 1850 01:32:06,146 --> 01:32:07,511 of asking my reporters who their sources are... 1851 01:32:07,689 --> 01:32:08,724 and if you'd spent any time 1852 01:32:08,815 --> 01:32:10,021 at a real goddamn newspaper you'd know why. 1853 01:32:10,191 --> 01:32:11,772 You understand he's trying to help you, Ben? 1854 01:32:12,569 --> 01:32:14,400 Mrs. Graham, hi. 1855 01:32:15,030 --> 01:32:16,236 We can all... 1856 01:32:16,322 --> 01:32:18,859 We can all appreciate why Ben wants to publish... 1857 01:32:19,034 --> 01:32:20,615 and if these papers had come from someone else... 1858 01:32:20,785 --> 01:32:22,946 we might have been able to skirt the issue. 1859 01:32:24,330 --> 01:32:25,695 Anything from the folks upstairs? 1860 01:32:25,790 --> 01:32:26,779 COPY EDITOR: No. 1861 01:32:26,958 --> 01:32:28,368 We gotta start the run 1862 01:32:28,460 --> 01:32:31,167 or we won't get to the carriers on time. 1863 01:32:34,674 --> 01:32:36,289 I disagreed with you earlier, 1864 01:32:36,384 --> 01:32:37,999 but I thought it brave. But this? 1865 01:32:38,178 --> 01:32:39,588 Ifwe were to publish knowing this, 1866 01:32:39,679 --> 01:32:41,260 it would just be irresponsible. 1867 01:32:41,431 --> 01:32:43,968 Fritz, do you agree? 1868 01:32:44,350 --> 01:32:46,557 Well, I don't particularly ertheidea 1869 01:32:46,644 --> 01:32:48,509 of Kay as a convicted felon. 1870 01:32:49,564 --> 01:32:51,145 And then there's the issue of the prospectus. 1871 01:32:51,316 --> 01:32:52,522 Based on the conversations I've had 1872 01:32:52,609 --> 01:32:53,724 with my friends at Cravath... 1873 01:32:53,902 --> 01:32:55,358 IbeHeve a criminal indictment 1874 01:32:55,445 --> 01:32:57,731 would qualify as a catastrophic event. 1875 01:32:57,906 --> 01:33:00,898 And given the likelihood of indictment now... 1876 01:33:02,619 --> 01:33:03,608 Kay, it could... 1877 01:33:03,787 --> 01:33:06,199 Yes, I understand. 1878 01:33:07,749 --> 01:33:10,912 We have a responsibility to the company... 1879 01:33:11,086 --> 01:33:12,246 to all the employees 1880 01:33:12,337 --> 01:33:14,498 and to the long-term health of the paper. 1881 01:33:15,256 --> 01:33:16,792 Absolutely, Kay. 1882 01:33:20,095 --> 01:33:22,882 Yes. However, um... 1883 01:33:30,980 --> 01:33:33,312 The prospectus also talks about... 1884 01:33:33,483 --> 01:33:35,974 the mission of the paper, which is... 1885 01:33:36,319 --> 01:33:38,025 "outstanding news collection 1886 01:33:38,113 --> 01:33:39,694 "and reporting," isn't that right? 1887 01:33:39,864 --> 01:33:40,853 Yes. 1888 01:33:40,949 --> 01:33:41,938 And... 1889 01:33:42,075 --> 01:33:44,407 And it also says... 1890 01:33:44,577 --> 01:33:45,657 that the newspaper will 1891 01:33:45,745 --> 01:33:47,952 "be dedicated to the welfare of the nation... 1892 01:33:48,123 --> 01:33:50,865 "and to the, uh, principles of a free press..." 1893 01:33:50,959 --> 01:33:51,948 Yes, but... 1894 01:33:52,043 --> 01:33:56,787 So, one could argue that the bankers were put on notice. 1895 01:33:56,965 --> 01:33:59,331 But Kay, these are extraordinary circumstances. 1896 01:33:59,509 --> 01:34:02,342 Are they? Are they? For a newspaper? 1897 01:34:02,512 --> 01:34:04,878 One that covers the Nixon White House. 1898 01:34:05,056 --> 01:34:07,672 Can you guarantee me that we could go to print... 1899 01:34:07,851 --> 01:34:09,466 without endangering any of our soldiers? 1900 01:34:09,644 --> 01:34:11,009 You can't be considering... 1901 01:34:11,187 --> 01:34:13,599 I'm talking to Mr. Bradlee now. 1902 01:34:17,652 --> 01:34:19,859 Fritz, you're not gonna let her do this. 1903 01:34:19,946 --> 01:34:20,935 She can't go to... 1904 01:34:21,114 --> 01:34:22,729 No, now, she can, Arthur. 1905 01:34:22,907 --> 01:34:24,272 And it's entirely her decision. 1906 01:34:24,450 --> 01:34:26,862 Kay, you're allowing Mr. Bradlee... 1907 01:34:27,036 --> 01:34:28,697 to lead you to folly. 1908 01:34:28,872 --> 01:34:30,578 The legacy of the company is at stake 1909 01:34:30,665 --> 01:34:32,951 and if you want to protect that legacy... 1910 01:34:33,126 --> 01:34:34,741 This company's been in my life... 1911 01:34:34,919 --> 01:34:36,034 for longer than most of the people 1912 01:34:36,129 --> 01:34:37,460 working there have been alive. 1913 01:34:37,630 --> 01:34:40,588 So, I don't need the lecture on legacy. 1914 01:34:42,427 --> 01:34:45,715 And this is no longer my father's company. 1915 01:34:46,514 --> 01:34:48,505 It's no longer my husband's company. 1916 01:34:48,725 --> 01:34:50,340 It's my company. 1917 01:34:50,894 --> 01:34:52,600 And anyone who thinks otherwise... 1918 01:34:52,770 --> 01:34:55,512 probably doesn't belong on my board. 1919 01:34:56,024 --> 01:34:57,935 Can you guarantee me that we can go to... 1920 01:34:58,109 --> 01:34:59,315 100%! 1921 01:34:59,485 --> 01:35:01,350 All right, then. 1922 01:35:01,863 --> 01:35:04,104 My decision stands... 1923 01:35:06,826 --> 01:35:08,612 and I'm going to bed. 1924 01:35:24,636 --> 01:35:26,217 It's Ben Bradlee. Run it. 1925 01:35:26,387 --> 01:35:27,467 Yes, sir. 1926 01:35:27,639 --> 01:35:29,220 Start it up. 1927 01:36:44,632 --> 01:36:47,465 DISTRIBUTOR: Let's go! Let's go! 1928 01:36:48,136 --> 01:36:50,673 This is not a party, this is a war here! 1929 01:37:03,276 --> 01:37:05,187 I've got the Assistant Attorney General. 1930 01:37:05,361 --> 01:37:06,692 BEN: Put him on. 1931 01:37:07,947 --> 01:37:09,528 Good morning. REHNQUIST: Good morning. 1932 01:37:09,699 --> 01:37:10,814 This is William Rehnquist 1933 01:37:10,908 --> 01:37:12,990 from the Office of Legal Counsel at Justice. 1934 01:37:13,161 --> 01:37:14,367 BEN: Yes, sir. 1935 01:37:14,537 --> 01:37:16,243 Mr. Bradlee, l have been advised 1936 01:37:16,331 --> 01:37:17,696 by the Secretary of Defense... 1937 01:37:17,874 --> 01:37:19,239 that the material published 1938 01:37:19,334 --> 01:37:21,040 in The Washington Post this morning... 1939 01:37:21,210 --> 01:37:22,871 contains information relating to 1940 01:37:22,962 --> 01:37:25,044 the national defense of the United States... 1941 01:37:25,214 --> 01:37:27,956 and bears a top-secret classification. 1942 01:37:28,134 --> 01:37:30,796 As such, the publication of this information... 1943 01:37:30,970 --> 01:37:33,461 is directly prohibited by the Espionage Act... 1944 01:37:33,639 --> 01:37:38,133 title 18 of the United States code, section 793. 1945 01:37:38,311 --> 01:37:40,723 As publication will cause irreparable injury... 1946 01:37:40,897 --> 01:37:43,684 to the defense interests of the United States... 1947 01:37:43,858 --> 01:37:45,814 I respectfully request that you publish 1948 01:37:45,902 --> 01:37:48,735 no further information of this character... 1949 01:37:49,030 --> 01:37:51,567 and advise me that you have made arrangements... 1950 01:37:51,741 --> 01:37:53,231 for the return of these documents 1951 01:37:53,326 --> 01:37:55,066 to the Department of Defense. 1952 01:37:55,411 --> 01:37:57,367 Well, thank you for the call, Mr. Rehnquist... 1953 01:37:57,538 --> 01:38:01,577 but I'm sure you understand I must respectfully decline. 1954 01:38:02,293 --> 01:38:04,750 I appreciate your time. 1955 01:38:08,674 --> 01:38:09,789 What's next? 1956 01:38:09,967 --> 01:38:12,379 We're going to court. Today. 1957 01:38:12,553 --> 01:38:15,636 Ifwe get a ruling in our favor, or The Times does... 1958 01:38:15,807 --> 01:38:19,015 we'll be at the Supreme Court sometime next week. 1959 01:38:30,571 --> 01:38:31,560 No, I wanna make sure all the dates 1960 01:38:31,656 --> 01:38:32,691 are locked down between sixth... 1961 01:38:32,782 --> 01:38:34,022 We're focusing on Johnson... 1962 01:38:36,452 --> 01:38:37,817 I don't want any more articles 1963 01:38:37,912 --> 01:38:39,618 just about shoes and about dresses. 1964 01:38:41,165 --> 01:38:42,621 Well, that's where you're wrong, Al. 1965 01:38:42,708 --> 01:38:44,414 I happen to be a woman and I know a few. 1966 01:38:46,546 --> 01:38:47,626 Your Honor, the stories published 1967 01:38:47,713 --> 01:38:48,748 in The Times and now The Post... 1968 01:38:48,840 --> 01:38:50,046 have created a diplomatic 1969 01:38:50,133 --> 01:38:52,169 and security disaster for the United States. 1970 01:38:52,343 --> 01:38:55,506 How exactly have these papers created a diplomatic disaster? 1971 01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:57,841 Why would other countries talk to us in confidence... 1972 01:38:58,015 --> 01:38:59,596 if secrets like this can be leaked? 1973 01:38:59,684 --> 01:39:00,890 So, does this make it difficult 1974 01:39:00,977 --> 01:39:02,137 for the President to govern? 1975 01:39:02,228 --> 01:39:05,061 If the President can't keep secrets, he can't govern. 1976 01:39:05,231 --> 01:39:06,892 Nothing less than the integrity 1977 01:39:06,983 --> 01:39:09,474 of the presidency is at stake. 1978 01:39:10,027 --> 01:39:11,392 Yes, I know. 1979 01:39:11,571 --> 01:39:13,562 I'm sure it has rattled investors, Jerry. 1980 01:39:13,656 --> 01:39:15,863 That's why I'm calling you. 1981 01:39:16,033 --> 01:39:18,194 Yes, I understand a number of them 1982 01:39:18,286 --> 01:39:20,902 have considered pulling out but we feel... 1983 01:39:22,331 --> 01:39:25,994 FRITZ: Of course. I stand behind the decision. 1984 01:39:31,507 --> 01:39:33,213 Well, you know, one could argue 1985 01:39:33,301 --> 01:39:36,259 it's raising the profile of The Post. 1986 01:39:37,763 --> 01:39:41,096 Would The Post have published military plans for D-Day... 1987 01:39:41,267 --> 01:39:43,349 if they'd had them in advance? 1988 01:39:44,353 --> 01:39:46,719 Well, ldon't think there's any comparison 1989 01:39:46,814 --> 01:39:48,429 between a pending invasion of Europe... 1990 01:39:48,608 --> 01:39:51,395 and a historical survey ofAmerican involvement 1991 01:39:51,486 --> 01:39:52,942 in the Vietnam War. 1992 01:39:54,489 --> 01:39:56,025 The Supreme Court has decided 1993 01:39:56,115 --> 01:39:57,821 to hold a hearing tomorrow morning... 1994 01:39:57,992 --> 01:40:00,904 to resolve the tangle of conflicting decisions... 1995 01:40:01,078 --> 01:40:02,818 over what of the Pentagon Papers 1996 01:40:02,914 --> 01:40:04,529 can be published and more broadly... 1997 01:40:04,707 --> 01:40:06,163 the issue of freedom of the press 1998 01:40:06,250 --> 01:40:08,206 versus government security. 1999 01:40:08,377 --> 01:40:09,833 But in agreeing to hear the cases of 2000 01:40:09,921 --> 01:40:11,286 The New York Times and The Washington Post... 2001 01:40:11,464 --> 01:40:14,297 Supreme's granted cert. 2002 01:40:14,467 --> 01:40:16,003 Emergency expedited basis. 2003 01:40:16,093 --> 01:40:17,799 We're in court with The Times tomorrow. 2004 01:40:20,097 --> 01:40:21,928 What are you so happy about? 2005 01:40:27,855 --> 01:40:31,188 I always wanted to be part of a small rebellion. 2006 01:40:41,702 --> 01:40:43,408 I asked him what he considers... 2007 01:40:43,579 --> 01:40:45,069 the most important revelations 2008 01:40:45,164 --> 01:40:46,904 to date from the Pentagon documents. 2009 01:40:47,500 --> 01:40:49,365 I think the lesson is the people of this country... 2010 01:40:49,544 --> 01:40:51,125 can 't afford to let the President 2011 01:40:51,212 --> 01:40:52,702 run the country by himself. 2012 01:40:53,464 --> 01:40:55,750 Even foreign affairs any more than domestic affairs, 2013 01:40:55,841 --> 01:40:57,377 without the help of Congress. 2014 01:40:57,552 --> 01:40:58,541 l was struck, in fact, 2015 01:40:58,636 --> 01:40:59,671 by President Johnson's reaction... 2016 01:40:59,845 --> 01:41:02,427 to these revelations as close to treason. 2017 01:41:02,598 --> 01:41:04,429 Because it reflected to me the sense 2018 01:41:04,517 --> 01:41:06,803 that what was damaging to the reputation... 2019 01:41:06,978 --> 01:41:08,593 of a particular administration, 2020 01:41:08,688 --> 01:41:10,098 a particular individual... 2021 01:41:10,273 --> 01:41:12,389 was in itself treason. 2022 01:41:12,567 --> 01:41:15,434 Which is very close to saying, "I am the State. " 2023 01:41:21,993 --> 01:41:23,073 But this is a self-governing country. 2024 01:41:23,160 --> 01:41:24,149 Ben? 2025 01:41:24,787 --> 01:41:27,403 The Constitution provides for a separation of powers... 2026 01:41:27,582 --> 01:41:30,540 What on earth are you doing? 2027 01:41:46,142 --> 01:41:48,975 They all followed your lead and published the papers. 2028 01:41:49,895 --> 01:41:52,102 At least we're not alone. 2029 01:41:53,107 --> 01:41:54,688 No matter what happens tomorrow, 2030 01:41:54,775 --> 01:41:57,482 we are not a little local paper anymore. 2031 01:41:57,570 --> 01:41:58,650 Hmm. 2032 01:42:11,417 --> 01:42:12,452 MAN 1: I'd be very interested in your opinion. 2033 01:42:12,543 --> 01:42:13,578 MAN 2: Sounds good. 2034 01:42:13,669 --> 01:42:14,704 MAN 1: All right, I'll see you at the first break. 2035 01:42:14,795 --> 01:42:15,784 MAN 2: All right. 2036 01:42:17,923 --> 01:42:19,288 I am sorry. 2037 01:42:23,387 --> 01:42:25,048 Mrs. Graham, there's an entrance 2038 01:42:25,139 --> 01:42:26,424 around the side for the appellants. 2039 01:42:26,599 --> 01:42:27,839 Oh, thank you very much. 2040 01:42:29,352 --> 01:42:31,092 I'm sorry I'm walking so fast. 2041 01:42:31,187 --> 01:42:33,143 I was supposed to be here half hour ago... 2042 01:42:33,314 --> 01:42:34,804 but then I had to make copies of the brief 2043 01:42:34,899 --> 01:42:36,309 and there was so much traffic... 2044 01:42:36,400 --> 01:42:37,435 and you just wouldn't think 2045 01:42:37,526 --> 01:42:38,606 there'd be all these people, you know? 2046 01:42:38,694 --> 01:42:40,901 No, you wouldn't. You work for Roger Clark then? 2047 01:42:41,072 --> 01:42:42,437 I work for the government. 2048 01:42:42,531 --> 01:42:44,442 The Solicitor General's office. 2049 01:42:44,617 --> 01:42:46,073 Oh. You're on the other team. 2050 01:42:46,243 --> 01:42:47,232 Mrs. Graham... 2051 01:42:48,287 --> 01:42:50,869 I probably shouldn't say this. 2052 01:42:51,290 --> 01:42:54,407 My brother, he's still over there and... 2053 01:42:57,880 --> 01:42:59,962 Well, I hope you win. 2054 01:43:01,467 --> 01:43:02,673 Besides, I like someone 2055 01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:04,125 telling these guys what's what. 2056 01:43:04,303 --> 01:43:05,509 But don't tell my boss I said that. 2057 01:43:05,596 --> 01:43:06,802 He'd fire me just for talking to you. 2058 01:43:15,106 --> 01:43:16,312 ROGER: Ben. BEN: How are ya, kid? 2059 01:43:16,482 --> 01:43:17,938 ROGER: Fritz. FRITZ: Roger. 2060 01:43:21,862 --> 01:43:23,193 I told you to be here at eight. 2061 01:43:23,280 --> 01:43:24,269 Yes. I was here at eight, 2062 01:43:24,365 --> 01:43:25,480 but Richard sent me back to make... 2063 01:43:25,574 --> 01:43:26,654 ls Richard your boss? 2064 01:43:26,742 --> 01:43:28,528 No, but you weren't here so... 2065 01:43:28,703 --> 01:43:31,319 I don't want excuses. Just take a seat. 2066 01:43:32,873 --> 01:43:33,862 Mrs. Graham. 2067 01:43:34,041 --> 01:43:35,121 Morning. 2068 01:43:38,587 --> 01:43:40,202 Morning, gentlemen. Good to see you. 2069 01:43:40,381 --> 01:43:42,337 Kay. Punch, Abe. 2070 01:43:42,508 --> 01:43:44,669 Nice to be on the same side for a change. 2071 01:43:44,844 --> 01:43:46,425 I'll tell you what's nice... 2072 01:43:46,595 --> 01:43:49,883 making the front page of your newspaper on a daily basis. 2073 01:43:50,224 --> 01:43:52,010 Must be a lot of people from Boston 2074 01:43:52,101 --> 01:43:53,762 to Washington reading about us. 2075 01:43:54,353 --> 01:43:55,809 Yes... 2076 01:43:55,980 --> 01:43:58,096 well, I suppose it's appropriate... 2077 01:43:58,566 --> 01:44:00,147 given what's at stake. 2078 01:44:01,402 --> 01:44:02,391 All rise. 2079 01:44:06,073 --> 01:44:07,734 The Honorable, the Chief Justice 2080 01:44:07,825 --> 01:44:09,065 and the Associate Justices... 2081 01:44:09,243 --> 01:44:11,950 of the Supreme Court of the United States. 2082 01:44:12,288 --> 01:44:15,405 Oyez, oyez, oyez. 2083 01:44:16,709 --> 01:44:18,290 All persons having business before 2084 01:44:18,377 --> 01:44:20,208 the Honorable of the Supreme Court... 2085 01:44:21,297 --> 01:44:23,333 Mr. Rosenthal. Mr. Rosenthal. 2086 01:44:23,507 --> 01:44:24,838 MAN: Mr. Sulzberger, do you think 2087 01:44:24,925 --> 01:44:26,210 they'll decide in your favor? 2088 01:44:26,385 --> 01:44:28,341 Well, overall we feel encouraged. 2089 01:44:29,263 --> 01:44:32,426 27 congressmen filed amicus briefs on our behalf. 2090 01:44:32,892 --> 01:44:33,972 As well as the ACLU... 2091 01:44:34,059 --> 01:44:35,048 We should make a statement. 2092 01:44:35,144 --> 01:44:36,259 You would think that's herjob. 2093 01:44:36,353 --> 01:44:39,265 I believe everything we had to say we've already said. 2094 01:44:40,024 --> 01:44:42,185 PUNCH: Well, we feel confident... 2095 01:45:00,252 --> 01:45:01,492 Meg Greenfield. 2096 01:45:02,755 --> 01:45:03,744 Okay. 2097 01:45:04,131 --> 01:45:06,964 Everyone, listen up! Listen up! 2098 01:45:07,134 --> 01:45:08,374 We've got a decision. 2099 01:45:15,142 --> 01:45:17,758 The Supreme Court. The decision's in. 2100 01:45:28,572 --> 01:45:30,312 The vote is... 2101 01:45:31,659 --> 01:45:33,240 6-3. 2102 01:45:34,078 --> 01:45:35,909 6-3. We win. 2103 01:45:36,080 --> 01:45:38,571 We win! And so does The Times! 2104 01:45:42,169 --> 01:45:43,158 GENE: Yes! 2105 01:45:46,465 --> 01:45:47,955 No Shit! 2106 01:45:50,886 --> 01:45:52,467 Nicejob, Gene. 2107 01:45:53,264 --> 01:45:55,471 No gloating! No gloating. I'm just satisfied. 2108 01:46:00,479 --> 01:46:03,061 MEG: What? I can't hear you. ltstooloud. 2109 01:46:03,232 --> 01:46:04,347 Okay. 2110 01:46:04,525 --> 01:46:06,186 Listen up, everybody. Listen up. 2111 01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:08,021 Justice Black's opinion. 2112 01:46:08,195 --> 01:46:09,184 Okay. 2113 01:46:11,782 --> 01:46:14,990 "The founding fathers gave the free press... 2114 01:46:15,202 --> 01:46:17,659 "the protection it must have... 2115 01:46:20,416 --> 01:46:24,284 "to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. 2116 01:46:27,756 --> 01:46:29,838 "The press was to serve the governed, 2117 01:46:29,925 --> 01:46:31,415 "not the governors." 2118 01:46:36,181 --> 01:46:37,170 Thank you. 2119 01:46:56,368 --> 01:46:57,904 That looks great. 2120 01:47:13,761 --> 01:47:17,379 You know what my husband said about the news? 2121 01:47:17,556 --> 01:47:20,593 He called it the first rough draft of history. 2122 01:47:20,768 --> 01:47:22,884 That's good, isn't it? 2123 01:47:23,604 --> 01:47:26,141 Oh, well, we don't always get it right, you know? 2124 01:47:26,315 --> 01:47:28,271 We're not always perfect, but I think 2125 01:47:28,359 --> 01:47:30,475 ifwe just keep on it, you know? 2126 01:47:30,653 --> 01:47:32,063 That's the job, isn't it? 2127 01:47:36,659 --> 01:47:37,944 Yes, it is. 2128 01:47:53,842 --> 01:47:56,379 KAY: Oh, Ken Clawson came by to see me earlier. 2129 01:47:56,470 --> 01:47:57,459 BEN: Oh? 2130 01:47:57,596 --> 01:47:59,507 KAY: Apparently, Justice is still considering 2131 01:47:59,598 --> 01:48:00,758 criminal charges against us. 2132 01:48:00,933 --> 01:48:02,139 BEN: Yeah, well, I bet they are. 2133 01:48:02,851 --> 01:48:04,091 KAY: And you're not worried. 2134 01:48:04,269 --> 01:48:06,134 BEN: Nope. No, Katharine, that's yourjob. 2135 01:48:06,313 --> 01:48:07,723 KAY: I suppose it is. 2136 01:48:07,898 --> 01:48:10,139 Oh, thank God the court ruling was very clear. 2137 01:48:11,110 --> 01:48:14,443 BEN: Yeah, well, I'm sure Nixon will fall right in line. 2138 01:48:14,613 --> 01:48:15,978 KAY: Hmm. Good, because you know... 2139 01:48:16,156 --> 01:48:17,771 I don't think I could ever live through 2140 01:48:17,866 --> 01:48:19,402 something like this again. 2141 01:48:21,036 --> 01:48:22,901 NIXON: I want it clearly understood 2142 01:48:22,997 --> 01:48:25,409 that from now on, ever... 2143 01:48:25,582 --> 01:48:28,039 no reporter from The Washington Post 2144 01:48:28,127 --> 01:48:29,583 is ever to be in the White House. 2145 01:48:29,753 --> 01:48:31,243 Is that clear? AIDE: Absolutely. 2146 01:48:32,881 --> 01:48:35,088 NIXON: Never. Never in the White House. 2147 01:48:35,426 --> 01:48:38,634 No church service. Nothing that Mrs. Nixon does. 2148 01:48:38,804 --> 01:48:40,635 You tell Connie, "Don’t tell Mrs. Nixon, " 2149 01:48:40,723 --> 01:48:41,803 'cause she’ll approve it. 2150 01:48:42,016 --> 01:48:44,723 No reporter from The Washington Post 2151 01:48:44,810 --> 01:48:47,017 is ever to be in the White House again. 2152 01:48:47,187 --> 01:48:48,597 And no photographer either. 2153 01:48:48,772 --> 01:48:50,308 No photographer, is that clear? 2154 01:48:50,399 --> 01:48:52,435 None ever to be in. 2155 01:48:52,609 --> 01:48:54,145 Now that is a total order. 2156 01:48:54,319 --> 01:48:55,934 And if necessary, l’ll fire you. 2157 01:48:56,113 --> 01:48:57,478 You understand? AIDE: ldo understand. 2158 01:48:57,656 --> 01:49:00,147 NIXON: Okay. All right. Good. 2159 01:49:20,846 --> 01:49:22,336 FEMALE DISPATCHER: DC police, second precinct. 2160 01:49:22,514 --> 01:49:24,129 SECURITY GUARD: Yes, hello. This is Frank Wills. 2161 01:49:24,308 --> 01:49:26,014 I think we might have a burglary in progress 2162 01:49:26,101 --> 01:49:27,716 at The Watergate.