Nixon Page #2
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on the manila envelope in Haig's hand.REPORTERS (V.O.) (CONT'D)
The President has fired the Watergate
Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox,
provoking the gravest constitutional
crisis in American history ...
Haig stops at the door, quietly knocks. No answer.
REPORTERS (V.O.) (CONT'D)
Judge Sirica has ordered the President
to turn over his tapes ...
Haig opens the door.
INT. THE WHITE HOUSE - LINCOLN SITTING ROOM - NIGHT
The room is small, austere, dominated by a portrait of
LINCOLN over the fireplace. HAIG stands in the doorway,
holding the envelope.
HAIG:
These are the tapes you requested, Mr.
President.
RICHARD NIXON is in shadow, silhouetted by the fire in the
hearth. The air-conditioning is going full blast.
Haig crosses the room, opens the envelope, takes out a reel
of tape.
Nixon sits in a small armchair in a corner. A Uher tape
recorder and a headset are on an end table at his elbow.
Next to it is a large tumbler of Scotch.
Haig hands the envelope containing the tapes to Nixon.
NIXON:
This is June twentieth?
HAIG:
It's marked. Also there's June twenty
third. And this year -- March twenty
first. Those are the ones ...
Nixon squints at the label in the firelight.
HAIG (CONT'D)
... the lawyers feel ... will be the
basis of the ... proceedings.
Nixon tries to thread the tape.
NIXON:
Nixon's never been any good with these
things.
He drops the tape on the floor.
NIXON (CONT'D)
Cocksucker!
Haig picks up the tape. Then he steps to the table,
reaches for the lamp.
HAIG:
Do you mind?
Nixon gestures awkwardly. Haig turns on the lamp. For the
first time we can see Nixon's face: he hasn't slept in
days, dark circles, sagging jowls, five-o'-clock shadow.
He hates the light, slurs a strange growl -- the effect of
sleeping pills.
HAIG (CONT'D)
Sorry ...
NIXON:
(gestures)
... go on.
Haig threads the tape. Nixon, looking at it, remembers.
NIXON (CONT'D)
... Y'know Al, if Hoover was alive
none of this would've happened. He
would've protected the President.
HAIG:
Mr. Hoover was a realist.
NIXON:
I trusted Mitchell. It was that damn
big mouth wife of his.
HAIG:
At least Mitchell stood up to it.
NIXON:
Not like the others -- Dean, McCord,
the rest ... We never got our side of
the story out, Al. People've
forgotten. I mean: "F*** you, Mr.
President, f*** you Tricia, f*** you
Julie!" and all that sh*t, just words,
but what violence! The tear gassing,
the riots, burning the draft cards,
Black Panthers -- we fixed it, Al, and
they hate me for it -- the double
dealing bastards. They lionize that
traitor, Ellsberg, for stealing
secrets, but they jump all over me
'cause it's Nixon.
(repeats)
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