1 00:00:36,203 --> 00:00:37,944 What makes Roy Cohn tick? 2 00:00:41,625 --> 00:00:44,743 A love of a good fight. 3 00:00:46,004 --> 00:00:50,624 A certain pleasure I derive in fighting against power 4 00:00:50,717 --> 00:00:52,800 and the establishment. 5 00:00:55,305 --> 00:01:00,846 I will take on a cause against practically anybody. 6 00:01:03,605 --> 00:01:05,221 I hate hypocrisy. 7 00:15:02,235 --> 00:15:06,479 You describe yourself, and it rings true, as a non-conformist. 8 00:15:06,572 --> 00:15:09,906 Right. I am myself, an oddball in a lot of ways. 9 00:15:11,661 --> 00:15:15,280 I don't like conventional things or conventional standards 10 00:15:15,373 --> 00:15:18,286 or conventional people or conventional boredom, 11 00:15:18,376 --> 00:15:20,834 or anything along those lines. 12 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:25,585 In fact, I, very early in life, broke with tradition, 13 00:15:25,675 --> 00:15:30,170 and left my Jewish upper-class-oriented life, in New York, 14 00:15:30,263 --> 00:15:35,554 and became a contradiction of everything I was supposed to stand for. 15 00:34:11,132 --> 00:34:13,624 - Let me talk to you about your boat. - Sure. 16 00:34:13,718 --> 00:34:18,884 - Okay. What did you--? The boat sunk off Florida. - Okay, it was not my boat. 17 00:34:18,974 --> 00:34:21,011 It was owned by a corporation. 18 00:34:21,101 --> 00:34:24,720 And it was leased part-time by the firm. 19 00:34:24,813 --> 00:34:29,308 A crew member's killed on a boat that many considered yours. 20 00:34:29,401 --> 00:34:31,233 So it was not my boat. 21 00:35:25,498 --> 00:35:29,868 The name of the crew member was Charles Martensen, he was 21, 22 00:35:29,961 --> 00:35:32,248 and his father, who I've talked to... 23 00:35:35,008 --> 00:35:39,469 In effect-- Not in effect, just out and out thinks you murdered his son. 24 00:35:39,554 --> 00:35:43,548 - He thinks I murdered his son? - To get the insurance on the boat. 25 00:35:43,642 --> 00:35:46,555 Well, of course, let's look at it this way. 26 00:35:46,645 --> 00:35:51,060 A, I didn't own the boat. B, I didn't get the insurance. 27 00:35:51,149 --> 00:35:54,313 C, the statement is an outrageous falsehood. 28 00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:58,772 Four, how am I gonna get angry at a man who lost his son? 29 00:35:59,866 --> 00:36:03,234 Couldn't be sorrier for him and for what happened. 30 00:48:36,622 --> 00:48:40,411 Many people who I've talked to have said to me, 31 00:48:40,501 --> 00:48:43,539 "Do you know that Roy is a homosexual?" 32 00:48:55,391 --> 00:48:57,223 I would answer you this way. 33 00:48:57,309 --> 00:49:00,598 Anybody who knows me, or knows anything about me, 34 00:49:00,688 --> 00:49:03,055 or who knows the way my mind works, 35 00:49:03,149 --> 00:49:06,688 would have an awfully hard time reconciling... 36 00:49:07,987 --> 00:49:12,607 that with any kind of homosexuality. 37 00:49:13,534 --> 00:49:17,198 In other words, every facet of my personality, 38 00:49:17,288 --> 00:49:22,079 my aggressiveness and my toughness, and everything along those lines, 39 00:49:22,168 --> 00:49:28,256 is just totally, I suppose, incompatible with anything like that. 40 00:49:28,340 --> 00:49:31,629 But he didn't say he was, he didn't say he wasn't. 41 00:52:52,378 --> 00:52:56,372 A lot of people say they see you with a lot of good-looking young men. 42 00:52:57,424 --> 00:53:00,838 I like young people. There's no question about that. 43 00:53:00,928 --> 00:53:04,012 I like being around young people. They're more fun. 44 01:01:39,946 --> 01:01:44,407 If I said to you, "Roy Cohn, what are your flaws?" 45 01:01:44,492 --> 01:01:45,778 What are my flaws? 46 01:01:47,621 --> 01:01:49,613 Okay, I'll tell you what my flaws are. 47 01:01:49,706 --> 01:01:53,950 My flaws are being completely tactless. 48 01:01:54,044 --> 01:01:57,537 I cannot listen to baloney. Impatience. 49 01:01:59,216 --> 01:02:05,463 A total failure to sympathize with the emotional element in life. 50 01:18:52,353 --> 01:18:54,219 Last question today. 51 01:18:54,313 --> 01:18:58,102 A fair number of people say Roy Cohn is amoral. 52 01:18:58,192 --> 01:19:02,357 He will use anything to win, do anything to win. 53 01:19:02,446 --> 01:19:05,860 Employ any trick, any subterfuge, etcetera. 54 01:19:05,950 --> 01:19:10,285 I'd say that has to come, probably, from people who have lost to me. 55 01:19:10,371 --> 01:19:11,907 - Because I... - But here...