All the Presidents Men I Need to Know What You Know

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  Ben Bradlee : Yous know the results of the latest Gallup Poll? One-half the land never even heard of the word Watergate. Nobody gives a shit. You guys are probably pretty tired, correct? Well, you should be. Go along domicile, go a squeamish hot bath. Rest up... 15 minutes. And so go your asses back in gear. We're under a lot of pressure, you know, and y'all put us in that location. Nothing's riding on this except the, uh, outset subpoena to the Constitution, liberty of the printing, and perhaps the future of the land. Non that any of that matters, only if you guys fuck upwardly again, I'yard going to get mad. Goodnight.

• Howard Simons : And then can we employ their names?

  Carl Bernstein : No.

  Ben Bradlee : Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney Full general, the highest-ranking police force enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're correct.

• Ben Bradlee : All non-denial denials. They dubiousness our beginnings, but they don't say the story isn't accurate.

• Ken Clawson : Delight, heed, at present, if y'all're going to refer to that declared chat with Sally Aiken, you can't print that it took place in her apartment. I have a wife and a family unit and a dog and a true cat.

  Ben Bradlee : A wife and a family and a canis familiaris and a true cat. Right, Ken, right, yeah. Uh, Ken, I don't want to impress that you were in Emerge'south apartment...

  Ken Clawson : Thank God.

  Ben Bradlee : I merely want to know what you said, in Emerge'southward apartment.

• John Mitchell : [on telephone] All that crap y'all're putting in the newspaper? It's all been denied. You tell your publisher, tell Katie Graham she'due south gonna become her tit caught in a large wringer if that's published. Good Christ, that's the most sickening affair I ever heard.

  Ben Bradlee : [afterward] He really said that about Mrs. Graham?

  Carl Bernstein : [nods]

  Ben Bradlee : Well, I'd cut the words "her tit" and print it.

  Carl Bernstein : Why?

  Ben Bradlee : This is a family newspaper.

• Ben Bradlee : Where's the goddamn story?

  Bob Woodward : The money's the key to whatsoever this is.

  Ben Bradlee : Says who?

  Howard Simons : Deep Throat.

  Ben Bradlee : Who?

  Howard Simons : Oh, that's Woodward's garage freak; his source in the executive department.

  Ben Bradlee : Garage Freak? Jesus, what kind of a crazy fucking story is this? Who did y'all say?

  Howard Simons : He's on deep groundwork, I call him deep... throat.

• Scott, Foreign Editor : It's a dangerous story for this paper.

  Ben Bradlee : How dangerous?

  Scott, Foreign Editor : Well, it's not that we're using nameless sources that bothers me. Or that everything we impress, the White Business firm denies. Or that no other papers are reprinting our stuff.

  Howard Simons : What and so?

  Scott, Foreign Editor : Look, at that place are 2 thousand reporters in this town, are there five on Watergate? When did the Washington Post of a sudden get the monopoly on wisdom? Why would the Republicans do it? McGovern'south self-destructed just like Humphrey, Muskie, the agglomeration of them. I don't believe this story. It doesn't make sense.

• Ben Bradlee : Now agree information technology, hold it. Nosotros're near to accuse Haldeman, who only happens to exist the second virtually important man in this country, of conducting a criminal conspiracy from inside the White Firm. It would be dainty if we were right.

• Ben Bradlee : How much can you tell me most Deep Pharynx?

  Bob Woodward : How much do you demand to know?

  Ben Bradlee : Practise you lot trust him?

  Bob Woodward : Yes.

  Ben Bradlee : I can't do the reporting for my reporters, which means I have to trust them. And I hate trusting everyone. Run that baby.

• Ben Bradlee : *Woodstein*...!

  [Newsroom goes quiet]

• Ben Bradlee : How are you going to go it?

  Bob Woodward : Nosotros haven't had any luck yet.

  Ben Bradlee : Get some.

• Ben Bradlee : Look, McGovern's dropped to nothing, Nixon's guaranteed the renomination, the Post is stuck with a story no ane else wants, information technology'll sink the goddamn paper. Everyone says, "Get off it, Ben", and I come on very sage and I say, uh, "Well, you'll see, you lot wait till this bottoms out." But the truth is, I can't figure out WHAT we've got.

• National Editor : Ben, it's a dangerous story for this newspaper. What if your boys go it wrong?

  Ben Bradlee : And so it'due south our asses.

• Ben Bradlee : Bernstein, are y'all sure on this story?

  Carl Bernstein : Absolutely.

  Ben Bradlee : Woodward?

  Bob Woodward : I'm sure.

  Ben Bradlee : I'm non. Information technology nevertheless seems thin.

  Howard Simons : Get another source.

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