John McMartin credited as playing...
Foreign Editor
- Scott, Foreign Editor: It's a dangerous story for this paper.
- Ben Bradlee: How dangerous?
- Scott, Foreign Editor: Well, it's not that we're using nameless sources that bothers me. Or that everything we print, the White House denies. Or that no other papers are reprinting our stuff.
- Howard Simons: What then?
- Scott, Foreign Editor: Look, there are two thousand reporters in this town, are there five on Watergate? When did the Washington Post suddenly get the monopoly on wisdom? Why would the Republicans do it? McGovern's self-destructed just like Humphrey, Muskie, the bunch of them. I don't believe this story. It doesn't make sense.