2:34:00
I'll take my chances in the Senate.
Yes, we should.
2:34:03
This damn leg.
Well, then, sir, we'll, uh...
2:34:06
...have to deal with the possibility
of removal from office...
2:34:10
...loss of pension
and possibly...
2:34:12
...possibly
even prison.
2:34:14
Yeah, well, plenty of people
did their best writing in prison.
2:34:17
Gandhi, Lenin.
Thas right.
2:34:20
What I know about this country,
I could rip it apart.
2:34:23
If they want a public humiliation,
thas what they'll get.
2:34:27
Yes, they will.
I will never resign this office. Never.
2:34:30
Where the fuck am I? Whas in there?
2:34:32
The P.O.W.s and their families.
Oh. I'm supposed to be...
2:34:35
Compassionate, grateful...
Proud.
2:34:37
Sir?
Proud. Of them.
2:34:39
Oh, yes, of course.
Fire him.
2:34:41
Who?
Cox. Archibald Cox. Fire him!
2:34:44
He works for the attorney general.
2:34:47
Only Richardson can fire him.
May I echo my concern here, sir?
2:34:50
Then tell Richardson
to fire him!
2:34:52
Well, Richardson won't do that, sir.
He'll resign.
2:34:55
The hell he will.
Then fire him too.
2:34:57
If you have to go all the way down to
the janitor at the justice department...
2:35:00
...fire that son of a bitch.
He's asked for it.
2:35:02
Mr. President,
may I just say something, sir?
2:35:07
I think that you should
welcome this subpoena.
2:35:09
Why?
Well, sir...
2:35:11
...the tapes can only prove
that Dean was a liar. Right?
2:35:15
Thas right, sir.
2:35:20
Well, there's more.
2:35:22
There's more than just me.
2:35:24
You can't break, my boy.
2:35:27
Even though is ended.
2:35:29
You can't admit, even to yourself,
when is gone.
2:35:32
Uh, do you think
those P.O.W.s in there did?
2:35:37
Now, there's some people,
and we both know them, Al...
2:35:41
...think you can go stand in the middle
of a bull ring and cry "mea culpa, mea culpa"...
2:35:45
...while the crowd is hissing and booing
and spitting on you.
2:35:49
Well, a man doesn't cry.
I don't cry.
2:35:53
You don't cry.
2:35:55
You fight.