:14:02
Don't lie to Helms and say
there's no involvement.
:14:05
Just say this is a comedy of errors...
bizarre...without getting into it.
:14:09
And, uh...
:14:11
Say the president believes it's gonna
open up the whole Bay of Pigs again.
:14:16
And tell Helms he should call
the F.B.I., call Pat Gray...
:14:19
...and say that we wish,
for the sake of the country...
:14:22
...that, uh, don't go any further
into this hanky-panky, period.
:14:26
Bay of Pigs?
:14:29
That was Kennedy's screw-up.
Why would that threaten us?
:14:33
Just do what I say, Bob.
:14:35
The only problem with that, sir...
:14:38
It does get us into
obstruction of justice.
:14:40
It's got nothing to do with justice,
Bob. It's national security.
:14:43
How is this national security?
:14:45
The president says it is.
:14:47
Now, this isn't
a moral issue, Bob.
:14:49
My job is to protect this country
from its enemies...
:14:52
...and its enemies are
inside the walls.
:14:55
We gotta keep
our enemies at bay...
:14:57
...or our whole program
goes down the tubes.
:15:00
Uh, Vietnam, China,
the Soviet Union.
:15:03
When you look at
the big picture, Bob...
:15:05
...damn.
We end up doing good in this world.
:15:09
So let's not screw it up
with a shit-ass, third-rate burglary.
:15:12
What should I tell
Ziegler to tell the press?
:15:15
Tell'em what we always tell'em.
Anything but the goddamn truth.
:15:19
Fuck!
:15:21
Say the president believes it's gonna
open up the whole Bay of Pigs again.
:15:24
Put me in this position...
Bay of Pigs?
:15:28
Expose me like this.
Why would that threaten us?
:15:31
Why don't they
Just fucking shoot me?
:15:33
In the election of 1860...
:15:35
Abraham Lincoln said the question
was whether this nation could exist...
:15:38
...half-slave or half-free.
:15:40
In the election of 1960
and with the world around us...
:15:44
...the question is whether the world
will exist half-slave or half-free.
:15:48
And I think,
in the final analysis...
:15:50
...it depends upon what we do
here in the United States.
:15:53
It's time America started moving again.
:15:56
Mr. Nixon?
:15:59
When it comes
to experience...