when your feet just can't keep still

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They wanted her to tell them exactly who "L" and "M" and "P" were. Liddy or LaRue?  McCord?  Mitchell?   Magruder?  Porter?  How much money was paid out?   What about the others on the list? 

        The Bookkeeper was scared and was having second thoughts.   But she was calling Bernstein by his first name. 

        Woodward was silent at first.   Bernstein was throwing out figures.   He stopped at $700,000.

        "At least that, $350,000 is what's left in the fund."

        The ice seemed broken.   Had she meant Liddy for the "L," or had LaRue or someone else with that initial also gotten cash?

        She would not say. 

        They said they knew Liddy was the only L to be paid from the fund. 

        She confirmed it. 

        An unstated agreement was in the making.  She seemed willing to confirm or deny statements if the reporters remained casual and gave the impression that they simply needed confirmation, not primary information.  If people were to be convinced that Sloan  and Stans were innocent,  they told her,  it was critical that the Post's reporting be precise.  That was where she could help. 

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All The President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward.  1974.  Simon & Schuster. 

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