Washington to kill him.
We have the ''Senate approving
the ABM Treaty.''
ABM.
Of course, we have ''McGovern
offering the VP spot...''
...to everybody.
Yeah, that's news.
l'll tell you what will be news.
When somebody accepts it! That's news!
Here is some great art.
McGovern and Humphrey at breakfast,
smiling their asses off.
lsn't that great?
-He says, ''l'm George's friend...''
-Why is that man smiling?
Sounds friendly. Very friendly.
''...l'll be helping him in ways he never
dreamed possible.''
Metro?
Well, we got the schoolteachers
on Capitol Hill.
l think we could mention that
this might be the time...
...to go to the front page
on the district home rule.
-Oh, come on!
-Listen to him.
This time it could go all the way.
The House is going to vote next week
on a Senate resolution.
Well, when they pass it, we'll run with it.
Okay, fellas, let's go around again.
Foreign?
Taiwan emergency, Philippines.
Okay, fine. National?
l'll stand on the Eagleton follow-up,
McGovern offered a replacement...
...to Humphrey, Kennedy, and Ribicoff.
They turned him down.
That's the page-one lead right there.
You're ignoring the importance
of the Dahlberg repercussions.
Nobody cares about
the Dahlberg repercussions.
lt was our story that got the GAO
to start an audit with CREEP Finance.
We printed it. When the friggin' audit
is done, we'll print that, too.
Let me tell you what happened today.
l was having lunch at the Sans Souci, and...
...this White House guy, a good one, a pro...
...came up and asked me, ''What is this
Watergate compulsion with you guys?''
Compulsion? This is a story.
This is not compulsion.
l said, ''Well, we think it's important.''
He said...
...''lf it's so goddamn important, who in
the hell are Woodward and Bernstein?''
What do you expect him to say
from the White House?
''You're doing a great job?''
Why don't you ask him
what he's really saying?
He wants to take the story
from Woodstein and...
-...give it to his National desk.
-At least l have...
...some experienced guys sitting around...
...who know the politicians,
who have the contacts.
You said it. Sitting around.
lt's a dangerous story for this paper.
What if your boys get it wrong?
Then it's our ass, isn't it?
We all have to go out and work for a living.
National gets eight columns.
Nine for Foreign.
Metro...fifteen.
That's it, fellas.
Scott, l need to see you.
How dangerous?
lt's not just that we're using
unnamed sources that bothers me...
...or that everything we print,
the White House denies...
...or that almost no other papers
are reprinting our stuff.
What then?
There are over 2,000 reporters
in this town...
...and there are five on Watergate?
Where did the Washington Post
suddenly get the monopoly on wisdom?
Why would the Republicans do it?
McGovern is self-destructing, just like
Humphrey, Muskie, the bunch of them.
l don't believe the story.
lt doesn't make sense.
Woodward, Bradlee will see us now.
Ben, it's the hottest item.
lt's in over 500 papers.
Yesterday's weather report
for people who were drunk...
...and slept all day.
Jesus! Send it out
to the San Francisco Chronicle.
How about the crossword puzzle?
No space, Mickey.
The last thing you guys bought
from me was the obituaries!
What do you guys want?
The GAO reports are due out
the morning of Nixon's renomination.
Sit down, sit down.
That's two weeks from now.
Since they're only responsible
to Congress...
...there's no way the White House
can control the investigation.
There's a source over
at General Accounting that tells us...
...there's a whole rat's nest
of illegal shit going on over at CREEP.
Like what?
Like a slush fund.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
of unaccounted-for cash.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars?
Any comment from CREEP?
Yes. Unavailable for comment.
They're not talking.
What else besides the money?
Where's the goddamn story?
The money is the key to whatever