J. Edgar: The Most Powerful Man in the World Page #11

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But did he do it alone?

Ls he the one who actually took the child?

How can you be sure?

Well, the mountain of evidence

we discovered, uncovered...

confirmed, and clarified,

you cannot dispute it.

- Clarence Darrow did.

- Of course. Heh.

Of course, Agent Owens.

That's what he does.

Mrs. Roosevelt issued

a statement questioning his guilt.

Well, she has enough to hide on her own

when it comes to un-American activities.

Well, if you're comfortable with it

as an ending, I'll do my best with it.

Yes. Yes, l am.

Sir.

Watch this with me.

He received my letter

and the audio tape last night.

President Johnson affixes his signature...

using more than 100 pens.

One of the coveted souvenirs

goes to the Nobel prize-winner...

Martin Luther King,

a dedicated leader...

Go on, say it, Clyde.

Lt just seems so risky, Edgar,

over a couple negative articles.

He's deliberately surrounded himself

with communists...

and, with the power he's gathering,

he's now our greatest domestic threat.

On behalf of the Nobel Committee...

- ...we hand over to you the insignia...

- He's going to decline the award, Clyde.

He knows what we have can ruin him.

Of the Nobel Peace Prize,

the diploma and the gold medal.

There's no question about it.

He's done.

L accept the Nobel Prize for Peace...

at a moment when 22 million Negroes

of the United States...

are enga...

Sorry to interrupt, sir.

Your next appointment is here.

The doctor first, Miss Gandy.

Yes, of course.

Send him in in a few minutes. Thank you.

Stay strong, Edgar.

You stay strong, Edgar.

Stay strong. Unh!

The parade as it makes its way...

to the Capitol Building

for the inauguration.

You can see the Roosevelt High

Marching Band leading the way.

The motorcade is making progress

down Pennsylvania Avenue...

carrying our 37th president.

Richard Milhous Nixon

waves to the crowd.

Yep, there's the president

and his wife Pat...

happily waving.

When morals decline...

and good men do nothing...

evil flourishes.

Every citizen has a duty to learn of this

that threatens his home...

his children.

A society uninterested and unwilling

to learn from the past...

is doomed.

We must never forget our history.

We must never lower our guard.

Even today, there are organizations

that have America as their prime target.

They would destroy the safety

and the happiness of every individual...

and thrust us into

a condition of lawlessness...

immorality that passes the imagination.

The president will see you now,

Mr. Hoover.

Alrighty.

Edgar, come in.

Oh, l am so sorry, Mr. Hoover.

You weren't answering your telephone.

You had a photo session

with a retiring agent.

He's leaving now.

Where's Clyde?

Lt's a bad day for him, sir.

Will you...? Will you schedule

a dinner for us, please...

in our old corner booth?

I'm afraid he's too tired today, sir.

Perhaps you'd like to dine at his house?

L think he'd like that.

Yes.

Yes, thank you, Miss Gandy.

Helen?

Yes?

Do l kill everything that l love?

He's not gone yet, Edgar.

And everything that we've built?

No.

The Bureau is stronger

than just you and me now.

Your child is sure

and keeps this country safe.

Helen, if any...

If anything ever happens to me, l need you

to do something for me, do you understand?

Of course.

Nixon, he's gonna come for it all.

He'll crucify me and my Bureau.

I'm afraid of what will happen

if I'm not here to protect it, Miss Gandy.

Your private files, sir?

Then no one will ever find them.

Thank you, Helen.

No matter what kind of pressure

they put on?

No matter how much?

Yes, Edgar.

No matter how much pressure.

L promise you.

Thank you, Helen.

Well, did Nixon ask for your resignation?

No, he wanted to know

what we had in the files on him.

What did you say?

L said, "What files, sir?"

But he knows.

He wants us to expand our wiretaps

to include news reporters now, Clyde.

We can't do that, especially not now.

That's the problem, Clyde.

If l don't agree to do his black bag jobs,

he'll create his own private force.

Oh, that's illegal.

Yes, well, he didn't say it outright,

but l saw it in his eyes.

He won't be controlled, Clyde.

He's a menace who'll do anything

to hold on to power.

Right. l see.

Yes. See, l never played his game,

that's the problem.

And if to some what l did

seemed like rule-bending...

then perhaps they need to figure out

what it is they did...

that made them feel blackmailed

or intimidated.

L wasn't thinking that.

Then what? What were you thinking?

L was thinking it might be time

for us to retire.

Shut up, Clyde.

You built a great thing, Edgar.

And if you stop now,

you'll be celebrated.

That's what you've

always wanted, isn't it?

Our country's lasting adoration?

Well, there's a chance you could have it.

Yes. Yes, and why wouldn't l? Hmm?

Why wouldn't l, Clyde?

L saved this country

from a Bolshevik invasion...

rid this country of radicals,

captured Machine Gun Kelly...

killed Dillinger, captured Karpis,

convicted Bruno Hauptmann.

And now, with my last breath when l try

to help save this country again...

I'm rewarded with a forced retirement?

L will not go down,

and the fact that you suggest that...

makes me question your very loyalty.

My loyalty, Edgar?

Yes, your loyalty, Clyde.

L read your manuscript, Edgar.

You didn't arrest Karpis.

And you know as well as l do

there was no white horse in the street...

no gun in the back seat.

And you didn't kill Dillinger.

Agent Purvis did.

But you kept all the glory for yourself.

And Machine Gun Kelly never said,

"Don't shoot, G-Men."

You made that up

to sell comic books, Edgar.

And when we went to the scene

of the greatest crime of the century...

Mr. Lindbergh didn't come out

and shake your hand...

and express his faith in the FBI.

He called you a fussy little man,

and he refused to even meet you.

And you didn't arrest Hauptmann.

Agent Sisk did.

You weren't even at the scene, Edgar.

Only the photo op.

Edgar, most of what you wrote

is exaggeration...

some of it blatant lies, and l don't

even know if you realize it anymore.

Edgar...

you can lie to everyone else,

the whole world...

for your own sake,

for the sake of the Bureau...

but you cannot lie to me.

L should've never given you

your job, Clyde.

You know that?

You weren't even qualified.

You remember the day

you came in for your interview?

L do.

You walked into my office

and you fixed my window...

you picked up my handkerchief.

You handed it to me.

You remember why l was sweating,

Clyde?

Lt's because you were exercising.

No, l was...

l was sweating because l...

l knew at that very moment...

l knew at that very moment that l...

l needed you.

And I've never needed anyone else

in my entire life.

Not like that.

So l began to perspire.

L know.

Edgar, are you all right?

Yes, yes, it's...

lt's just indigestion, Clyde.

Let's go to dinner tomorrow night,

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