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in bombing from when?

'65 to '68.

What about a memo

from Eisenhower's

special committee in Indochina?

Uh, Meg read a

part of one to me.

-Meg?

-Anybody see a mention

-of the Rand Vietcong study?

-Yeah, I think this might be

from your Rand study,

"VC are deeply committed."

"South Vietnam is a lost cause."

Whoa! There you go!

-Meg, Meg, Meg, I need the uh...

-I put it on the shelf.

A couple of piles.

We're gettin' somewhere.

All right, it's 1:30, at

4:
00 story conference.

Can I interest anyone

in some lemonade?

Does it have vodka in it?

-I don't, I don't

-Hey,

-put vodka in my lemonade.

-go easy on the kid.

Why not?

-How much, sweetheart?

-A quarter.

It's fifty cents.

-Inflation.

-It's going up!

Mr. Bradlee. Roger Clark.

Oh, you're Roger Clark.

Nice to meet you in person.

You...you are our

senior legal counsel.

Yes, we've-we've

spoken on the phone.

My voice should sound familiar.

When did you finish law school?

-I graduated--

-Rhetorical question.

-You know,

-Yes.

the guy we had before you

is now Secretary of State?

I did not know that.

A little joke, perhaps

not the time--

What exactly can

I help you with?

So, why would the CIA director

send a memo on work orders?

'Cause they weren't

calling it a war yet.

Okay, I've got

turkey with mustard,

-roast beef with horseradish.

-Oh, I'll take it.

Howard, come look at this.

-Chal, you've gotta see this--

-Take a napkin.

it's a full analysis of McNamara's

changing view of the war.

Does it say anything

about why...?

So, we knew they were

gonna assassinate Diem.

Yeah, and they did

nothing to stop it.

I think I got something on

McNamara on the fireplace--

the other fireplace.

Murray, where's the

back half of this one?

Tell me these aren't the

classified documents

from the McNamara study.

-4,000 pages of it.

-Hungry?

I need to use a phone.

There's uh, one in the other room.

-Is that it?

-This is it, this is it.

This is gonna happen.

Hi, thanks for

letting me drop by.

-Marg still napping?

-Yeah, yeah.

Do you mind if we

talk in the center?

-Just so I can hear her.

-No, no

-She wakes...

-Of course not.

I can't stay long, I've got a

-big event at the house later.

-I guess you've

read everything now.

Yes, I have, I have. Yes.

And I went over it

again this morning.

All of it.

And I just...

Forgive me, Bob, I...

know you're dealing

with so much, but

but it's just, it's so hard to, um,

try to make sense of why

of how you could

have done all these things.

How you could

just lie to us all.

Well... i-it's easy

for the papers to

characterize us

as liars, we were just

trying to push back--

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