Evie said. “He was the Chair.”Ducharme let out a deep breath. “My uncle, the General, was one of the Philosophers. And another was Groves. I recognized him from the crime scene photos. The third must have been Parker.”“Who was Lucius?” Ducharme asked. “The person Nixon was talking to on the phone at the end?”“The head of the Society of the Cincinnati,” Evie guessed. “Named after Lucius Cincinnatus. And the General was Haig.”“Yeah, recognized that,” Ducharme said.They were silent for a while, the only sound the fan cooling off the projector bulb.“Fuck,” Ducharme finally said. “What the hell is in this document?”“We know it’s powerful.” Evie filtered through the facts. “Powerful enough to force Nixon to resign, because he did the very next day—“ she held out the case, showing him the date. “We know Nixon had his offices wired for sound, but no one has ever released a film before like this. It seems the Philosophers had his private office rigged for video and sound.
