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And it was something that

Jack knew all along.

We can't be both,

we have to choose.

And uh...

And that's the point.

The days of us smoking

cigars together

down on Pennsylvania Avenue

were over.

Your friend McNamara's study

proves that.

The way they lied.

The way they lied.

Those days have to be over.

We have to be the check

on their power.

If we don't hold

them accountable,

then, my God, who will?

Well, I've never

smoked a cigar.

And I have no problem

holding Lyndon or Jack or

Bob or any of them accountable.

We can't hold them accountable

if we don't have a newspaper.

When I get my hands

on that study,

what are you going to do,

Mrs. Graham?

Oh, um...

Happy birthday, by the way.

Oh, that's not what I heard.

-Club soda.

-Yes, thank you.

Sir,

I'm gonna need to put your seat

in a full upright position

-before take-off.

-Oh, yeah.

Oh, must be precious cargo.

Yeah...it's just...

government secrets.

Oh.

Please fasten you seatbelt.

-You know why we're here?

-Beats me.

-Hi, Marina.

-Hi.

-Do you want lemonade?

-A little early for me.

Ah, loosen up, I'm buying.

What kind of lemonade

you have there?

Uh, it's the one

with the lemons in it.

Okay.

There you go.

Bill, help me out.

Grab my briefcase.

-Is that...?

-Yup.

It's not the full report,

but it's over 4,000 pages of it.

Huh, are these in order?

I don't think so.

There are no page numbers.

Yeah, that's where the

top secret stamps were.

My source had to cut 'em off.

We're supposed

to retire on Friday.

Ben, how are we supposed to

comb through 4,000 pages--

They're not even

loosely organized.

The Times had three months.

There's no way we

get this amount...

Yeah, he's right,

we got less than eight hours.

We get two per city,

then we have ten.

Hey, hey, hey, for the last six

years we've been playing catch up.

And now thanks to the President

of the United States

who, by the way, is taking a sh*t

all over the First Amendment,

we have the goods.

We don't have any competition.

There's dozens of

stories in here.

The Times has barely

scratched the surface.

We have ten hours till

the deadline, so,

we dig in.

I think this memo's

from McNamara.

Uh "It is my belief

that there should be

a three or four week

pause in bombing--"

Wait, wait, wait, I saw the

other half of that memo.

Uh, anyone have the back half

of a cable from Dulles in '54?

I thought I saw one from July.

Yeah, here it is, uh, "The

reasons for this belief

"are that we must

lay a foundation

"in the mind of the

American public."

Th-Th-Th-That's it!

Mm-hmm.

So Johnson wasn't

trying to make peace,

he was just manipulating

the public?

Eyes out for a suspension

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