They make four different attempts to break into the DNC headquarters, each time being foiled by a minor but obvious mistake, like one of Hunt’s Cuban buddies from the Bay of Pigs days bringing the wrong set of lock picks with him to Washington. (He was not, by the way, not that the idea ever occurs to any of the Nixonites.) But they are a clown show from the start, messing up basic tasks, misreading rooms, and generally falling backward into any small successes. The two are hired by the Nixon administration to act as “plumbers” who will identify and stop leaks, starting with obtaining proof that Daniel Ellsberg was acting on behalf of the Soviet Union when he leaked the Pentagon Papers. Gordon Liddy, an unnervingly intense man who in his spare time enjoys listening to recordings of Nazi rallies and bragging about the “Celtic-Teutonic” lineage of his wife, Fran (Judy Greer). Kennedy for its failure, rather than anything he did - he now reluctantly works at a PR firm, and on the side writes spy novels that his wife, Dorothy (Headey), types up for him. Once a man of influence who helped plan the Bay of Pigs invasion - blaming John F.
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