- Woodward and Bernstein are told by a fellow reporter that Ken Clawson wrote "the Canuck letter" a fake letter used to sabotage democratic candidate Edmund Muskie.
- Woodward calls Clawson, who issues what Woodward calls "a non-denial denial."
- Clawson immediately calls Sally Aikin, the reporter who told them about the letter.
- Woodward and Bernstein listen in to the phone call.
- The reporters relay this info to Bradlee, and Ken Clawson calls as they're talking to him.
- Clawson says he never wrote the letter, and he doesn't want his wife to find out he was in Sally's apartment.
- Bradlee says he won't print that Clawson was in Sally's apartment…as long as he tells him what he said in Sally's apartment. Smooth move, Bradlee.