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 thas
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
Is the lie.
1:41:56
Mr. Hiss is lying.
1:41:59
Yeah.
1:42:01
Remember, John,
back in '48?
1:42:03
Nobody believed Alger Hiss
was a Communist except me.
1:42:06
Well, they loved Hiss like they loved
this Ellsberg character.
1:42:09
He was their kind-
Ivy League establishment.
1:42:12
I am not,
and never have been...
1:42:14
Mr. Hiss is lying.
Mr. Hiss?
1:42:16
I was dirt to them, nothing.
And Dick kicked the shit out of'em.
1:42:21
I wouldn't have if Hiss hadn't lied
about knowing Chambers.
1:42:24
The documents were old and out of date,
just like these Pentagon papers.
1:42:28
The key thing we proved
was that Hiss was a liar.
1:42:31
Then people bought
that he was a spy.
1:42:34
Is the lie that gets you.
1:42:37
All right, Henry,
we're gonna go your way.
1:42:39
Crush this Ellsberg
same way we did Hiss.
1:42:42
There is no other choice,
Mr. President.
1:42:44
We're gonna hit him so hard, he'll look
like everything thas sick and evil...
1:42:47
...about the eastern establishment.
1:42:49
You and your plumbers, you're gonna
get all the dirt on this guy.
1:42:52
Les see him going to the bathroom
in front of the American public.
1:42:55
And when we finish with him,
they'll crucify him.
1:42:57
Then we'll get our second term.