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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