All the President's Men1976

National editor:
Let me tell what happened when I was having lunch today at the Sans Souci.

Rosenfeld:
Correction--when you were drinking your lunch at the bar of the Sans Souci.

National editor:
This White House guy, a good one, a pro, came up and asked what is this Watergate compulsion with you guys and I said, well, we think it's important and he said, if it's so goddamn important, who the hell are Woodward and Bernstein?

Rosenfeld:
Ask him what he's really saying--he means take the story away from Woodstein and give it to his people at the National Desk.

National editor:
Well, I've got some pretty experienced fellas sitting around, wouldn't you say so?

Rosenfeld:
Absolutely--and that's all they do, sit sit sit--every once in a while, they call up a Senator, some reporting.

National editor:
Well, what if your boys get it wrong?

Bradlee:
Then it's our asses, isn't it?

Simons:
And we'll all have to go to work for a living.