wrote on the break-in.
All right, so some of it was bullshit.
What is the matter with you?
You told me yourself you were
going to fire him last month.
Look...he wants on the story bad.
They both do!
He knows a lot of people.
Howard, they're hungry!
You remember when you were hungry?
-How's it going?
-What are you doing?
-Polishing it a little.
-What?
-Polishing it.
-What's wrong with it?
Nothing. Nothing. lt's good.
Then what are you doing?
l'm just helping. lt's a little fuzzy.
May l have it?
You're not saying what you mean.
l know exactly what l mean.
l can't tell from this
whether Hunt works for Colson....
May l have it, please?
-Some conclusions--
-May l have it?
Yes. l'm not looking for a fight.
l'm not looking for a fight either.
l'm just aware of the fact that
you've only been here nine months.
What's that got to do with anything?
l've been in the business since l was 16.
What are you saying?
l'm trying to tell you,
if you'd read mine, then yours....
-May l read yours?
-Yeah.
l walked by, gave yours a glance,
it didn't look right...
...so l just figured l'd refine it a little.
The first paragraph
must have more clarity...
...if the reader is going to understand it.
You don't mention Colson's name
until the third paragraph.
l think mine's better.
But you go ahead and read it.
lf you think yours is better,
we'll give yours to the desk.
l've got Colson's name up front.
He's a White House consultant
and nobody knows it.
Yours is better.
lf you're going to do it, do it right.
Here are my notes.
lf you're going to hype it,
hype it with the facts.
l don't mind what you did.
l mind the way you did it.
Woodward! Bernstein!
You're both on the story.
Now don't fuck it up!
Steuben, what's the name of that girl
that you bombed out with...
-...that works in Colson's office?
-Sharon Lyle.
Why are you looking at me like that?
You are attractive.
You are very attractive.
You know,
my girlfriend told me to watch out for you.
-Who?
-l'm not giving any names!
Steuben said you worked for Colson.
Steuben's crazy.
l never worked for Colson.
That's what he said.
l worked for an assistant.
Colson was really big on secrets, anyway.
Even if l had worked for him,
l wouldn't know anything.
Did you know...Howard Hunt?
Didn't he work--
Yeah, l knew Howard.
-Nice?
-He's a nice person.
He's secretive...he's secretive,
but a decent man.
Do you have any idea what he did?
The White House said
he was doing some investigative work.
What do you say?
-He was doing investigative work.
-On what?
-Different things.
-Like what?
She warned me!
l'm not going to take my book out.
l'm just asking you.
The scuttlebutt for a while was that
he was investigating Kennedy.
Why?
The White House was real paranoid
about Teddy Kennedy.
l remember seeing a book about
Chappaquiddick on his desk.
He was always getting material
out of the White House Library...
...and the Library of Congress.
Anything he could find.
White House Library.
This is Carl Bernstein,
of the Washington Post.
l was wondering if you can remember...
...any books that a Howard Hunt
checked out on Senator Kennedy?
-Howard Hunt?
-Yes, ma'am.
Yes, I think I do remember.
He took out a whole lot of material.
Why don't you hold on and I'll see?
l sure will. Thank you very much.
-Mr. Bernstein?
-Yes, ma'am?
-I was wrong.
-l beg your pardon?
The truth is, I don't have a...card
that says Mr. Hunt took any material.
I don't remember getting material for....
I do remember getting material
for somebody, but it wasn't Mr. Hunt.
The truth is, I didn't have any requests
at all from Mr. Hunt.
The truth is, I don't know any Mr. Hunt.
l was just wondering
if you have any books--
Yes, we're checking into
that information now.
We'd like to find out
just what it was that Hunt did...
...when he worked as a White House
consultant on the Pentagon Papers.
Yes, l'd appreciate that, if you