Secret Honor Page #8

They didn't give a sh*t

about Communism.

What they told me was this -

They had to have me in the White House

for eight more years because it involved -

What else?

Money and power.

I mean, millions

for the Bohemian Grove guys...

and billions for the Mob...

because of the, uh -

because of the, uh...

heroin.

Your Honor...

ladies and gentlemen

of the American jury...

your hour has come.

Consider the crisis.

It is the morning after

the smashing victory mandate.

November 8, 1972.

My client, Richard Nixon,

has just received the word...

from the Committee of 100...

and that word was...

"Here is the plan, Richard."

All right, ladies and gentlemen

of the jury...

point one of that plan -

Continue the war in Vietnam...

until 1976...

whatever the cost.

Uh, point two -

Accept a draft in '76...

for a third term.

Or take it.

Point three -

Seal the deal with China

against the Soviets...

and then...

carve up the markets

of the rest of the goddamn world.

That's it.

That's the plan, Your Honor. Period.

Sure, that is the word...

that my client received

from his masters.

And you know who they are, too.

All right, Your Honor,

what did my client do?

Well, I'll tell you this -

He took the hardest possible way.

He chose to orchestrate the tapes...

like a great drama.

He chose secret honor!

Yeah, sure.

Secret honor.

And public shame.

You know...

I really did...

want to grow up...

to be Abraham Lincoln.

No, no, I did.

But you know what I found out?

I found out that the world

is nothing more than a bunch of...

second-generation mobsters...

and their lawyers...

and the P.R. Guys...

and the new-money crooks

who made theirs in the war...

and the old-money crooks

who made theirs selling slaves...

and phony merchandise

to both sides during the Civil -

Look, I didn't want this.

I sure as hell didn't look for it.

But that is what I found!

And I'll tell you something else -

That is what public life is all about!

And I am not the only one!

And if you can't stand the burnt,

then you get the hell out of the, uh -

Y-You get -You get out the -

Sh*t! F***! Piss! You know what the hell

I'm trying to say, for Christ's sake!

Well, so, I, um-I, um -

I had to have a way to, uh,

leak the tapes.

L-l-l-I needed

a deep background source.

[Chuckles]

I needed a Deep Throat, is what I -

Look, I had to find a way to destroy

that huge '72 popular vote mandate -

Look, I would have been unbeatable in '76.

You understand what I -

I did not want to run in '76!

I - I could not continue...

with this fraud.

I couldn't -

I couldn't go on. I was -

Well, so, um...

Dean, he, uh -

Uh, no. No, no.

It was - It was - It was not Dean.

It was, uh - It was Haig.

He, uh - He carried the ball for me

on the tapes...

and he cut Henry off at the pass

in Paris -

Then thatJudas son of a b*tch turned out to be

a Rockefeller traitor all the goddamn time!

They knew that I had to go

because they wanted their man.

They wanted Ford in there

for six more years. [Chuckles]

They would have got him too,

except that he had to pardon me...

and thereby destroy his chances

for re-election in '76.

Poor bastard.

[Snickers, Chuckles]

I - [Muttering]

John Dean, John Dean, John Dean, John -

You know John Dean

did me a favor?

I would have had to invent John Dean!

[Chuckles]

What the hell. He was young.

He had to watch his ass.

I have nothing againstJohn Dean.

As a matter of fact,

I like John Dean.

[Chuckles]

No...

I have nothing against any of them...

because we were all

small-fry nothings...

compared to the big guys

up there at Bohemian Grove.

You know what I did?

I sold my soul at Bohemian Grove...

for sh*t.

I kissed Rockefeller's ass...

and he sh*t all over me.

Oh, yeah. That's what they do.

Those Eastern pricks!

They fly from New York

to Los Angeles...

shitting every step of the way

on all of us!

And they got a million guys

down there too. Oh, yeah.

They can send down

to Central Casting in Hollywood...

and get some dummy

that looks good on the tube -

[Chuckling, Muttering]

Mm-hmm!

Some Arrow-collared killer type who -

All right. All right.

Wall Street is asking for Agnew?

You know what I did?

I gave 'em Agnew!

[Laughing]

That f***ing Agnew!

I mean, he was taking bribes

with both goddamn hands, for Chri -

You know what Agnew did?

You won't even believe this.

Agnew, one time -

[Chuckling] F***in' Ag -

One day Agnew,

he took a turkey and $200...

right in the office!

[Laughing]

A live f***ing turkey,

for Christ's sake!

[Continues Laughing]

F***ing Agnew!

You see, they wanted more from me.

They wanted everything from me

because I was the hole card.

See, I was the China card.

I was in the middle.

The Rockefeller guys

were screwing me from the rear...

and the China Committee big boys

had me by the nuts up front.

Look, I had to be very cautious...

because Hunt and Liddy

and Krogh and Caulfield -

You know, th-th-the Watergate -

They're all ex-C.I.A., those guys, you know.

They're ex-this and they're ex-that.

And those bastards, they know

where the bodies are buried, see.

So I couldn't just go running in there

and do any goddamn thing I wa -

All right, that money...

is still pouring in from Asia!

[Chuckles] And Patman, he -

he's watching all this money-

I mean, it's coming in there...

from Flying Tiger, you know,

and, uh, Air America...

[Imitates Plane Engine,

Blows Raspberry]

Dropping millions of goddamn dollars!

And Patman, he-he -

It was coming in from the Bank of Seoul too.

And, of course,

always from the Bank ofTaiwan.

But Patman, he was so f***in' funny.

F***in' - He - [Laughs]

Goddamn Patman, he-he said -

he said-he said-he said-he said -

he said-he said-he said-he said...

"Where the f***

is all this money coming from?"

[Continues Laughing]

I - I just -

You understand...

what it means...

if they catch me?

It means the, uh -

[Whispers]

It means the firing squad.

That's right, Your Honor.

That's what it means.

Make no mistake...

about that.

If they catch me - Phfft!

I mean, do you think

that there would be a pardon...

for the man who kept the war going

in Southeast Asia...

in exchange for vast sums of money?

American tax money?

A fortune in blood to be used

to purchase a third term for my client?

I mean, Your Honor, the country

would have boiled over...

because this blood bribery meant

the death of thousands of American boys.

I didn't want that!

I didn't -

I mean, for Christ's sake, who the hell

wants to go down in history...

as a traitor who took bribes

to keep a f***ing war going?

[Stammers]

You understand then...

why I had to lead the press and the Congress

to the tip of the wrong iceberg?

See, I had to leave a little trail of crimes

and misdemeanors for them to follow...

so that they wouldn't find out

about the treason and stick me in a cage...

like a f***ing animal!

I mean, like a...

common criminal.

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