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:41:01
Most people who live in Washington
settle for the Washington papers.

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[ Goodwin ] Well, the Times
is the paper of record.

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- Ahh.
- Ooh.

:41:09
Dick hopes someday to be confused
with an important person.

:41:11
''Although the crowd was cordoned off
at a distance of a hundred yards,

:41:14
an unidentified Venezuelan struck Nixon
in the head with a thrown onion.''

:41:19
- Ow !
- The Senators should sign this guy.

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Did you guys know there was a grand jury
in New York on the quiz shows ?

:41:24
Jim Lemon can't even hit
the cutoff man. This guy throws
a 300-foot strike with an onion.

:41:27
- Have they come up with anything ?
- They sealed the presentment.

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- That's a no.
- Why do you say that ?

:41:33
A presentment's
a statement of findings.

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lf there were anything in it,
they'd want to release it
to the public, right ?

:41:37
lf the purpose is to make findings
public, then why keep it a secret ?

:41:46
[ Goodwin ] Why seal the presentment ?
lt's illogical.

:41:48
- lt's a local matter.
- lt's television.

:41:50
Whoa. TV.
:41:53
lt's under our jurisdiction,
right ? l mean, we have
oversight over all the agencies.

:41:56
- lt includes the F.C.C.
- You're gonna investigate
a dead investigation ?

:42:00
We're gonna put television
on trial. Television.

:42:03
Everybody in the country'll
know about it.

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- What do you have ?
- There's somethin' there.

:42:12
Mr. Chairman,
l'll find it.

:42:16
The networks,
pharmaceutical industry ?

:42:20
Cosmetics ?
[ Chuckling ]

:42:22
That's big game, son.
You don't go huntin' in your underwear.

:42:26
Sir, l smell somethin'. At least give
me a chance to see what l can dig up.

:42:30
Let me go up to New York.
:42:32
[ Lishman ] Ya know, this isn't
some junket for you to stay in
a hotel and see a Broadway show.

:42:36
l'm givin' you exactly one week to
find something. You get that ?

:42:41
Unseal a presentment.
l don't know.

:42:45
l don't know how you go about that.
l've never--

:42:49
Oh, here you go.
Look at this.

:42:52
Hasn't been a presentment under seal
in the State of New York since 1869.

:42:55
That explains it.
:42:57
- 1869 ?
- Yeah.


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