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Dick film - Plot summary

Betsy Jobs and Arlene Lorenzo are two teenage girls living in Washington D.C. in the early 1970s. Betsy comes from a wealthy family in the Georgetown area, while Arlene lives with her widowed mother in an apartment in the Watergate building. One night, the two girls on a quest to mail a letter to enter a contest to win a date with Bobby Sherman, sneak out of Arlene's home, at the same time as the Watergate break-in. They manage to enter and leave through the parking garage and taping the handel of a firewall door. They accidentally cause the break-in to be discovered, when they are seen by G. Gordon Liddy, who they believe to be jewel thieves and panic and run away. The security guard startled, then calls the police who immediately arrest the burglars. The next day while at the White House on a school tour, G. Gordon Liddy, recognizes and instantly becomes suspicious. He has H. R. Haldeman interrogate them.

Nixon's men stumble to improvise reasons to keep the girls at hand until they can find out whether they are enemies of the President, and finally appoint them as the President's official dog-walkers... which means they must be admitted repeatedly to the White House. On these visits they accidentally influence major events in various ways, such as by bringing cookies that they have inadvertently baked marijuana into. They also learn the major secrets of the Watergate scandal without realizing what they know. Arlene, previously infatuated with teen idol singer Bobby Sherman, now falls equally hard for "Dick", the president. Just after reading an 18½-minute message of love into his tape recorder, she plays back another part of the tape and quickly realizes his true nature.

The girls now reevaluate what they have learned and decide to reveal everything to Woodward and Bernstein, so they become informants; two 15-year old girls are the true identity of the famous Deep Throat. Nixon's men realize that the girls are a real threat and attempt tactics such as bugging and undercover agents. For a time the girls distrust Woodward and Bernstein, who are depicted as small-mindedly competitive. Also, their only piece of physical evidence is eaten by Betsy's dog.Eventually the girls decide to take action and sneak into Haldeman's house to steal a crucial tape recording. They give this to Woodward and Bernstein, and Nixon's career is over.

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