Carl, tell me something.
What do you imagine
the head coordinator does?
l guess you're involved in recruiting
other people like yourself...
...other lawyers.
Lawyers?
Like Alex Shipley.
l made it clear that l would not do
anything violent or illegal.
What do you mean by illegal?
Watergate. The whole bugging.
That's horrendous!
What kind of stuff do you guys do then?
Nickel-and-dime stuff.
Stuff.
Stuff with a little wit attached to it.
You mean, when you sent out
on Muskie's stationery that...
...Senator Hubert Humphrey
was going out with call girls?
Listen, if anything,
it helped the man's image!
What was the one
on Muskie's stationery you sent out...
...that said Scoop Jackson
was having a bastard child?
So, sometimes it got up to a quarter.
Off the record.
l think one of the most interesting ones
was the Canuck letter.
What about it?
Come on. Where you claimed
that Muskie slurred the Canadians.
l didn't write that.
Do you know who did?
When you guys print it in the papers,
then l'll know.
Smart guy, Donald.
You're no dummy.
l'm a lawyer, Carl.
l'm a lawyer.
l'm a good lawyer...
...and l'll probably wind up going
to jail and being disbarred...
...and l don't know what l did
that was so goddamned awful.
l'll tell you something.
None of this was my idea.
l didn't go looking for the job.
That's important.
Chapin came to you.
lt's funny, but l keep forgetting that
you guys knew each other in college.
You were friends at SC, you and Chapin.
Who else was there?
There was me...
...Dwight...
...Ziegler...
...all the USC mafia.
That's when you got involved in
the student elections...
...when you started
to try to get your man in...
...so you stuffed ballot boxes, and....
What was that term you guys used
for screwing up the opposition?
Rat-fucking.
You were doing the same stuff
when you were...
...out campaigning for President Nixon.
Let me tell you something,
we did a lot of worse things in college.
Let me ask you something, Carl.
What would you've done if you were
just getting out of the Army...
...been away from the real world
for four years...
...didn't know what kind of law
you wanted to practice...
...and one day you get
a call from an old friend...
...asking if you want to go to work
for the President of the United States?
Chapin was the appointment
secretary for Nixon when he called.
lf those sinister things really happened...
...l don't think Dwight
knew anything about them.
He just did what he was told.
Told by who?
What's the topic for tonight?
Rat-fucking.
ln my day it was simply known
as the double-cross.
ln our present context...
...it means infiltration of the Democrats.
Segretti won't go on the record...
...but if he would,
we know he would implicate Chapin.
And that would put you
inside the White House.
Who?
Be specific.
How high up?
You'll have to find that out for yourself.
l don't like newspapers.
l don't care for inexactitude...
...and shallowness.
The CREEP slush fund...
...that financed the rat-fucking,
we've just about got that nailed down.
Did you change cabs?
Yeah.
Does the FBl know what we know?
Does Justice?
Why haven't they done anything?
lf it didn't deal directly with the break-in,
they didn't pursue.
Who told them not to?
Don't you understand what you're onto?
-Mitchell knew?
-Of course, Mitchell knew!
Do you think something
this size just happens?
Haldeman had to know too.
You'll get nothing from me
about Haldeman.
Segretti said--
Don't concentrate on Segretti.
You'll miss the overall.
The letter...
...that destroyed the Muskie candidacy,
the Canuck letter...
...did it come from inside the White House?
You're missing the overall.
What overall?
They were frightened of Muskie,
and look who got destroyed.
They wanted to run against McGovern.
Look who they're running against.
They bugged.
They followed people.
False press leaks. Fake letters.
They canceled