- Next stop: the Sloan residence.
- Sloan, played by a young Seventh Heaven dad, lets them in.
- He says he believes in Richard Nixon, and that Nixon didn't know anything about the Watergate break-in.
- However, he says that the White House never encouraged them to come forward with the truth.
- The silence itself is a cover-up, in Bernstein's opinion.
- Sloan says that Colson wasn't involved, but he won't confirm who is.
- Woodward asks Sloan how it worked when he handed out the money.
- "Badly."
- Sloan elaborates, and says John Mitchell would order him to hand out the money, and that's how it worked.
- They fill in the executives back at the Post.
- Bradlee isn't happy. "Goddammit, when is somebody gonna go on the record in this story?!" People are more tight-lipped about this than they are with Star Wars spoilers.