Nixon

01:09:36,964 --> 01:09:39,091 there's Track Two. 1001 01:09:39,133 --> 01:09:44,262 In Cuba, Track One was, uh, the Bay of Pigs invasion. 1002 01:09:44,347 --> 01:09:46,848 Track Two was our idea. 1003 01:09:46,933 --> 01:09:50,727 We thought that the invasion wouldn't work unless we got rid of Castro. 1004 01:09:50,812 --> 01:09:56,525 So we asked ourselves, uh, "Who else wants Castro dead?" 1005 01:09:56,609 --> 01:09:59,611 The Mafia or money people? 1006 01:09:59,696 --> 01:10:02,572 So we put together Track Two. 1007 01:10:16,170 --> 01:10:19,631 First assassination attempt was in '60. 1008 01:10:19,716 --> 01:10:23,385 - Just before the election. - Before? Eisenhower approved that? 1009 01:10:23,469 --> 01:10:27,305 Yeah. Well, he didn't veto it. 1010 01:10:27,390 --> 01:10:30,392 I ran the White House side, 1011 01:10:30,476 --> 01:10:34,062 and the Mob contact was Johnny Roselli. 1012 01:10:34,147 --> 01:10:39,359 One of the CIA guys was this jackass, Howard Hunt. 1013 01:10:39,444 --> 01:10:42,237 - Jesus. - Yeah. 1014 01:10:42,321 --> 01:10:44,865 Not just Howard Hunt, but Frank Sturgis 1015 01:10:44,949 --> 01:10:49,035 and all those other Cubans. 1016 01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,037 All of them in the Watergate. 1017 01:10:53,416 --> 01:10:56,626 They're all involved in Cuba. 1018 01:11:01,507 --> 01:11:05,385 Yeah, Hunt reported to my military aide. 1019 01:11:05,470 --> 01:11:09,306 I don't know how much Hunt knows or the Cubans, but... 1020 01:11:10,725 --> 01:11:12,642 ...you never know. 1021 01:11:12,727 --> 01:11:16,688 So you wanted Castro dead. Everybody wanted Castro dead. 1022 01:11:17,607 --> 01:11:21,318 You know, if Hunt and the others are CIA... 1023 01:11:21,402 --> 01:11:25,030 ...why don't we just dump this back in the CIA's lap, 1024 01:11:25,114 --> 01:11:29,618 - let Dick Helms take the fall? - Because... 1025 01:11:29,702 --> 01:11:33,371 Because Helms knows too much. 1026 01:11:34,540 --> 01:11:37,667 If there's anyone in this country who knows more than me, 1027 01:11:37,752 --> 01:11:41,379 it's Hoover and Helms, and you don't fuck with Dick Helms, period. 1028 01:11:41,464 --> 01:11:45,759 All right. But why, if Kennedy was so clean in all this, 1029 01:11:45,843 --> 01:11:49,721 - didn't he cancel Track Two? - 'Cause he didn't even know about it. 1030 01:11:51,641 --> 01:11:55,560 The CIA, uh, never told him. They just kept it going. 1031 01:11:56,395 --> 01:11:59,189 It had a life of its own like it was some... 1032 01:12:00,483 --> 01:12:03,485 ...kind of a thing, you know? 1033 01:12:03,569 --> 01:12:05,529 It doesn't even know it exists. 1034 01:12:05,613 --> 01:12:09,491 It just eats people when it doesn't need 'em anymore. 1035 01:12:09,575 --> 01:12:13,119 Two days after the Bay of Pigs, 1036 01:12:13,204 --> 01:12:17,499 Kennedy called me and he reamed me out. 1037 01:12:17,583 --> 01:12:21,503 - He just found out about Track Two. - You never told him? 1038 01:12:21,587 --> 01:12:24,422 I didn't want him to get the credit. 1039 01:12:25,550 --> 01:12:27,384 He said I'd stabbed him in the back 1040 01:12:27,468 --> 01:12:30,637 and called me a two-bit grocery clerk from Whittier. 1041 01:12:39,856 --> 01:12:42,232 That's the last time I ever saw him. 1042 01:12:46,612 --> 01:12:51,825 See, when I saw Bobby lying there on the floor, 1043 01:12:51,909 --> 01:12:55,662 arms stretched out like that, his eyes staring... 1044 01:12:58,457 --> 01:13:01,042 ...I knew then I'd be president. 1045 01:13:02,211 --> 01:13:05,714 His death paved the way, didn't it? 1046 01:13:05,798 --> 01:13:08,884 Yeah. Vietnam, the Kennedys 1047 01:13:08,968 --> 01:13:12,262 cleared a path through the wilderness just for me. 1048 01:13:14,348 --> 01:13:16,308 Over the bodies. 1049 01:13:18,936 --> 01:13:20,645 Four bodies. 1050 01:13:27,820 --> 01:13:29,362 You mean two. 1051 01:13:30,698 --> 01:13:32,699 Two bodies. 1052 01:13:34,076 --> 01:13:37,120 Four. 1053 01:13:49,091 --> 01:13:51,927 How many did you have? 1054 01:13:52,011 --> 01:13:54,179 Hundreds of thousands? 1055 01:13:58,392 --> 01:14:01,353 Where would we be without death, huh? 1056 01:14:03,522 --> 01:14:05,106 Abe? 1057 01:14:10,863 --> 01:14:12,781 Who's helping us? 1058 01:14:13,991 --> 01:14:17,202 Is it God, or is it... 1059 01:14:18,788 --> 01:14:20,413 ...death? 1060 01:15:13,968 --> 01:15:15,385 Harold. 1061 01:15:16,762 --> 01:15:18,763 Harold, why don't you sit down, huh? 1062 01:15:21,642 --> 01:15:23,018 Here. 1063 01:15:27,273 --> 01:15:28,940 That was a whopper. 1064 01:15:35,031 --> 01:15:37,157 You'll be able to do it now. 1065 01:15:38,492 --> 01:15:41,369 - What? - Go to law school. 1066 01:15:41,454 --> 01:15:44,622 - Mom and Dad'll be able to afford it. - Harold. 1067 01:15:45,708 --