Nixon (1995)

J.T. Walsh: John Ehrlichman

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• H. R. Haldeman : Eight words back in '72. 'I covered up. I was wrong. I'm sorry'. The American public would have forgiven him. But we never opened our mouths, John. We failed him.

  John Ehrlichman : Dick Nixon apologize? That will be the day. Most of his armor would fall off.

  H. R. Haldeman : You'll tell Mitchell?

  [Ehrlichman nods. Haldeman turns to go, then hesitates] 

  H. R. Haldeman : And John... you *do* know that you and I are next?

• John Ehrlichman : You got people dying because he didn't make the varsity football team. You got the Constitution hanging by a thread because the old man went to Whittier instead of Yale.

• John Ehrlichman : Well, sir, it turns out one of the people implicated is still on the White House payroll.

  Richard M. Nixon : Who? Not another damn Cuban?

  H. R. Haldeman : No sir. A guy named Hunt. Howard Hunt, sir.

  Richard M. Nixon : [Fear creeping on his face]  Hunt? Howard Hunt?

• John Ehrlichman : We created Frankenstein with these damn Cubans.

• John Ehrlichman : What's this Bay of Pigs thing? He goes white every time you mention it.

  H. R. Haldeman : It's a code.