Nixon
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1:40:00
Uh, this Ellsberg,
wasn't he a student of yours at Harvard?

1:40:04
I mean, he's your idea, Henry.
So why are you running for cover?

1:40:07
Well, yes,
we taught a class to get her at Harvard...

1:40:09
...but you know these back-stabbing
Ivy League intellectuals.

1:40:12
No, I don't, Henry. I don't.
Prosecute the New York Times. Go for injunction.

1:40:17
Yeah, but is not, bottom line,
gonna change a goddamn thing, John.

1:40:20
The question is how do we
screw Ellsberg so bad...

1:40:25
...it puts the fear of God
into all leakers?

1:40:27
The other issue is how the hell we stop
these leaks once and for all?

1:40:30
Now, someone is talking to the press.
We gotta stop these leaks at any cost, Henry.

1:40:34
You hear me? Then we can go
for the big pic... China, Russia.

1:40:37
Sir, if I might?
Go, Chuck.

1:40:40
We can do this ourselves.
1:40:42
The C.I.A. and the F.B.I.
aren't doing the job.

1:40:44
Now, we can create our own intelligence
unit right here inside the White House.

1:40:51
Well, why not?
1:40:54
Our own intelligence to plug the leaks?
Yeah.

1:40:57
Like plumbers.
Plumbers.

1:41:03
I like it.
I like the idea.

1:41:06
Yeah, but, uh,
is it legal?

1:41:08
Has it ever
been done before?

1:41:10
Oh, sure.
1:41:12
Lyndon, J.F.K., F.D.R.
1:41:15
Truman cut the shit out of my
investigation of the Hiss case in '48.

1:41:21
What he did was illegal.
1:41:23
You know, with this kind of thing,
you got to be brutal.

1:41:25
A leak happens, the whole damn place
should be fired.

1:41:27
Really, I mean, you do it like
the Germans in World War II.

1:41:32
They went through these towns,
and a sniper hit one of'em...

1:41:34
...they'd line the whole
goddamn town up and say...

1:41:36
"Until you talk,
you're all getting shot."

1:41:38
Really, I think thas
what has to be done.

1:41:40
I don't think you can
be Mr. Nice Guy anymore.

1:41:43
You just whisper the word
to me, and I'll shoot Ellsberg myself.

1:41:46
We're not Germans.
Yeah.

1:41:49
Ellsberg's not the issue.
1:41:51
The Pentagon papers aren't the issue.
1:41:54
Is the lie.
1:41:56
Mr. Hiss is lying.
1:41:59
Yeah.

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