All The President's Men - Part 1

https://www.politico.com/story/2007/02/howard-hunts-final-mission-002649

          

          According to the film All the President’s Men, Howard Hunt was a former CIA intelligence officer who helped to plot the Watergate burglaries for the Nixon administration.  His mission was to identify “government sources of national security “leaks” to outside parties.”  The film follows the journalist Carl Burstein from the Washington Post who investigated his role in the burglary.  The scene where he begins to gather more information about Hunt taking books out on Senator Kennedy by calling the librarian from the White House library.  The investigation and development of this information was interesting.  When the librarian answers the phone, she is asked about Hunt checking books out.  Her response was an affirmative “yes, I think I do remember.  He took out a whole lot of materials.  Hold on and I’ll see.”  Upon her quick return, she backtracks and states that she was wrong.  In fact, she stumbles in her story, stations that the “truth is that I don’t have a card that Mr. Hunt got materials.  I don’t remember getting materials.  I do remember getting materials for somebody but it wasn’t for Mr. Hunt.  The truth is I don’t even know any Mr. Hunt.”  It is obvious that Carl Burstein was onto something as this conversation was not just strange but I would even say it leans towards a cover-up.

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