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Lyman lovers!
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Give me a hand! Give me a hand!
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Come on, break it up! Hey, break it up!
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Push him in.
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When it comes to jurisdictional strikes
like this...
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...the administration's job is quite clear.
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The 0-day cooling off period
will be observed.
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And if industry is so hell bent
to invoke Taft-Hartley...
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...any support they get from me
will have to get flogged out.
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Underline and exclamation point.
How many men involved there?
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By next Tuesday, they figure the entire
industry from San Diego to Seattle.
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I'm not through yet.
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You stick one more thing in me, Horace,
and I'll take up faith healing.
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You've been at it an hour.
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Your pressure's risen three points
for every letter you've dictated.
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Your predecessors would go to the clinic.
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My predecessors didn't have a riot
going on outside the White House.
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They were at least sufficiently popular
to get their faces on stamps.
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"Gallup Poll."
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Twenty-nine percent of the people
of the United States approve of what I do.
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Twenty-nine percent.
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When that thing reaches
stroke proportions, put it out as a bulletin.
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It's probably the one thing
that'll make Labor Management...
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...and the Pentagon join hands
and declare a national holiday.
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When did you have your last vacation?
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When I was six months old,
back in Cleveland, Ohio.
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I believe it. Don't forget
the CIA appointment at 2:00.
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Phone Liberman.
Tell him to meet me here.
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Assuming I'll be alive after lunch.
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The White House physician makes
no such assumption.
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Your blood pressure's up again,
and I don't like it one little bit.
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Now this is an order.
Not just medical advice.
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You're to go away for at least two weeks.
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Two weeks?
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And you can have damn few phone calls.
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How about a compromise, Horace?
I'll take a quick swim in my pool.
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Can I squeeze that in, Paul?
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People from West Virginia are waiting for
the crowning of the Rhododendron Queen.
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Have the Secretary of the Interior handle it.
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How are you, Horace?
What's new in fee splitting?
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That's quite a mob scene you got outside.
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Why in God's name do
we elect a man president...
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...and then try to see how fast
we can kill him?
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The Vice-President showed a vast amount
of discretion over valor...
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...to go goodwilling when he did.
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Pity you didn't join him, Jordie.
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I envy Mr. Gianelli his Chianti
and Italian sunshine.
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My own diet for the next several days
will be crow and bitters.
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- Goodbye, Horace.
- Doctor.
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Come on, Ray. You can watch me
do the Lyman crawl.
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Thank you.
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In a half hour I'm due at a meeting
with the illustrious Senator Prentice.
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To hear him tell it,
you're a third-grade idiot with clay arches.
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But the Chair of the Joint Chiefs...
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...one General James Mattoon Scott,
who'll be in front of the committees...
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...he is the reincarnation of Washington
who could walk on that water.
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That Gallup Poll shake you up?
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Well, let's say I've felt more popular
in my time.
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Don't get your nanny up.
You knew there'd be some dislocations.
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You can't gear a country's economy
for war for 20 years...
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...then slam on the brakes
and expect the transition...
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...to go like grease through a goose.
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Doesn't work out like that.
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Think of how the psychology of the thing
has been screwed up from the outset.
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We've been hating the Russians
for a quarter of a century.
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Suddenly we sign a treaty saying
in two months...
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...they're to dismantle their bombs,
we're to dismantle ours...
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...and we all ride to a peaceful glory.
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The country will probably live as if peace
were just as big a threat as war.
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Damn it, Ray.
We could have had our paradise.
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Yes, by God, we could have had
full employment...
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...whopping gross national product...
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...nice, cushy feeling that we got a bomb
for every one of theirs.
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But as sure as God made the State
of Georgia, there'd have come one day...
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...when they'd have blown us up,
or we'd have blown them up.
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And the good doctor worries
about my blood pressure.
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You know who that gentleman is
with the black box?
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There are five.
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You know that one of them sits
outside my bedroom at night?
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You know what he carries in that box?
The codes.
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The codes by which I, Jordan Lyman...
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...can give the order sending us
into a nuclear war.
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Instead of my blood pressure...
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...I think Horace should worry
about my sanity.
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You want to know something, Jordie?
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Riots and unemployment notwithstanding,
you're an exceptionally fine president.
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But 25-year friendship aside,
the day may yet come...
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...when the name Jordan Lyman
and "sanity" will come out as one word.
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Mention that to General James Scott
when he's up in front of you this morning.
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I hear you.
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And try tea sometime, too, huh?
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I'll give it a taste now and then.
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I personally visited the President.
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I presented him with a documented case
listing the reasons for concern.
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Three weeks before the treaty
was ratified...
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...three of us sat in this same committee
and urged its re-evaluation.
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Only last week in Pravda...
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Excuse me, General. Sorry to interrupt.
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As I understand it...
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...you feel the signing of this pact
has been detrimental to our security.
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If my colleague from Georgia
could confine his comments...
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...not only to appropriate business
at hand...
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...but to observe some of the basic rules
of parliamentary procedure.
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In my boorish way, I'm only suggesting
that if you two gentlemen...
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...continue to work from a script
with cues and stage directions...
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...these proceedings take on all the dignity
of a very bad Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Senator, I'd like to hear
what General Scott has to say.
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- Thank you.
- So would I.
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The audience has spoken, General,
and I beg forgiveness.
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I'll make the point again, Senator.
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I think signing a nuclear disarmament pact
with the Soviet Union...
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...and at worst
an insupportable negligence.
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We've stayed alive because we built up
an arsenal and we've kept the peace...
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...because we've dealt with an enemy
who knew we would use that arsenal.
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Now we're asked to believe
that a piece of paper...
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...will take the place of missile sites
and Polaris submarines...
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...and that an enemy who hasn't honored
one solemn treaty in its existence...
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...will now, for our convenience,
do precisely that.
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I have strong doubts.
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Hear! That's what I say...
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Senator Prentice,
if you would indulge me, sir.
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If you would indulge me for a moment, sir.
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From the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff I would welcome and respect...
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...any judgement having to do specifically
with military considerations...
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...but insofar as his political attitudes
are concerned...
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...these, I'm sure we could dispense with.
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Senator, we're talking about the survival
of the United States.
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Is my uniform a disqualification
in that area?
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I presume, General,
that an alternative to the treaty...
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...that would meet with your approval
would be continuing to build bombs.
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Bigger bombs, better bombs, more bombs.
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Until at some given instant,
a trigger-happy idiot presses the button...
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...and we all go down the drain
waving the American flag.
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I'd prefer that to a Pearl Harbor,
when we went down the drain...
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I did not address the Senator.
I was talking to the witness.
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I'm suggesting there hasn't been
a piece of paper written...
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...in the history of mankind that could
serve as a deterrent to a Pearl Harbor.
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I wonder why we haven't learned
that lesson by now.
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Every 20 years or so we have
to pick ourselves up bleeding...
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...and pay for that mistake.
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I might add, Senator...
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...those mistakes are delivered to us COD
by peace-loving men...
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...and bought and paid for
with the lives of other men.
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Men in uniform.
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Have we ever forgotten to thank you?
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I wasn't soliciting your appreciation,
Senator Clark, only your memory.
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With all due respect, Senator, might I elicit
one small admission on your part?
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That the State of the Union is such
that the current administration...
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Thank you.
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Well, they listened,
but I'm not sure they heard.
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Your testimony was the most effective
defense of a position I've ever heard.
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Coming from you, Jiggs,
that's fulsome praise indeed.
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That forces me to invite you for a drink,
in the name of gratitude.
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In the name of military protocol,
you force me to accept.
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- Your first appointment is at 2:00, General.
- Thank you.
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Incidentally, Jiggs.
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The alert on Sunday, nobody from the Hill.
No congressmen.
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This one must be deep and dark,
straight down the line.
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I noticed that nobody from Congress
was on the list.
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Hello, Colonel. Hot poop
from all around the globe.
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All properly decoded in 4.0 fashion,
and respectively submitted...
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...by yours truly,
Lieutenant Junior Grade Dorsey Grayson.
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Give this one a reading.
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"Last call annual Preakness pool."
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Top secret code, too.
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"$10 already deposited with Murdock.
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"Give lengths your pick will win.
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"Deadline: 17:00, Saturday.
Post time: 1:00, Sunday, 18 May."
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Scott, where'd this come from?
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General Scott's aid, you know,
Colonel Murdock.
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He gave me that message
at 07:25 this morning.
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Did you get that name, Colonel?
General Scott.
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Yeah, I'm so disillusioned,
I could sit down and cry.
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My hero turns out to be a bookie.
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Say, who'd this go to?
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Nothing but the cream.
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Commander Vandenburg,
Missile Center, California.
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Commander...
Strategic Air Command, Omaha.
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Vice-Admiral Farley C. Barnswell,
Commanding Sixth League, Gibraltar.
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St. Pat, Pearl Harbor and...
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...Commander First Airborne Corps Unit,
United States Army, Fort Bragg, sir.
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They must have a sure thing.
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Colonel, look at this.
Barnswell doesn't think so.
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Just proves that sometimes even
an admiral can't cough up $10 for a bet.
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Hiya, Jiggs.
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How are you, Mutt?
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Just fine. Good to see you.
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You look great. Where are you stationed?
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I haven't given a straight answer to that
in four months.
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But with your clearance, you know already.
Hell, you probably got me my orders.
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I'm Exec of ECOMCON, Jiggs.
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ECOMCON?
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Yes. Site Y.
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Don't blame me for your orders.
Come on in.
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You live at the base at Site Y?
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Nobody could live at that hellhole.
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It's bad enough when the old man
keeps me there four or five days at a time.
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Mabel and I have a house in El Paso.
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I'll give you the number. If you ever get
down that way, we can open a bottle.
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Listen, I have to go to a party tonight.
If you're free it might be fun for you.
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Jiggs, I'd love to but I just can't.
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How long will you stay?
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Just till the old man briefs Scott.
I think you know him. Colonel Broderick?
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Broderick.
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Good officer, don't you think?
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For certain armies.
The kind that goose step.
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You don't find a happy medium
in this man's army.
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That's for sure.
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Say, how many men are there
in your outfit now?
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Are you up to strength yet?
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Sure we are. We got the full t.o.
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A hundred officers, 3,600 enlisted.
The last of them came in six weeks ago.
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You know, it's funny.
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What?
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We seem to spend more time training
for seizure than for prevention.
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Like the Commies already had the stuff
and we had to get it back.
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- Colonel Henderson?
- Yes.
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Colonel Broderick's waiting for you.
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The sergeant at the desk will show you
where to go.
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Jiggs, it's wonderful seeing you.
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When you get to El Paso,
that's the number. You call.
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You bet I will.
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And, Mutt, stop growing, will you?
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Casey, I hope you didn't discuss
Sunday's alert with Colonel Henderson.
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I needn't remind you that it's top secret.
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If you needn't remind me,
why do you bring it up?
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I see no reason for humor.
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I made a note of it, or was it to place a bet
on the Preakness pool with General Scott?
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How did you find out about that?
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Well, you got Grayson all lathered up
about racehorses.
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That kid better learn to keep
his mouth shut.
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Don't jump the kid.
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How was he to know
the nation's security...
234
00:17:55,085 --> 00:17:57,885
...rests on Admiral Barnswell's
parting with $10?
235
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That was the General's personal business.
236
00:18:04,486 --> 00:18:06,406
What are you getting so hot about?
237
00:18:09,005 --> 00:18:11,645
You're right. It's not important.
238
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Operator, have you got a listing
for ECOMCON?
239
00:18:27,007 --> 00:18:29,448
E-C-O-M-C-O-N.
240
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You don't? Thank you very much.
241
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ECOMCON and horse racing.
What the hell's going on here?
242
00:18:45,409 --> 00:18:49,009
Can you explain why the good General
walks into a Senate hearing...
243
00:18:49,890 --> 00:18:52,610
...like he's St. George
and the administration's a dragon?
244
00:18:52,690 --> 00:18:53,890
Simmer down, Paul.
245
00:18:54,450 --> 00:18:57,331
I mean it. Your boss did everything
but draw a sword.
246
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They asked, he answered.
You guys are getting sensitive.
247
00:19:00,291 --> 00:19:02,051
Little too sensitive if you ask me.
248
00:19:02,091 --> 00:19:04,652
- Good evening, Senator.
- Good evening, Colonel.
249
00:19:04,732 --> 00:19:06,532
It's as simple as this.
250
00:19:06,652 --> 00:19:09,412
The President trusts Russia.
The American people don't.
251
00:19:09,492 --> 00:19:12,693
They don't believe the Russians
will take the bombs apart on July 1...
252
00:19:12,813 --> 00:19:13,813
...and neither do I.
253
00:19:13,893 --> 00:19:17,812
Senator, do you think that the President's
position is so unreasonable?
254
00:19:18,452 --> 00:19:21,492
If Russia reneges or cheats,
we'd find out immediately.
255
00:19:21,612 --> 00:19:25,733
The deal is off. There'd be no danger.
Now, doesn't that make sense?
256
00:19:25,853 --> 00:19:28,253
Let's hear the view of someone
more knowledgeable...
257
00:19:28,293 --> 00:19:32,014
...as to the Soviet Union's capacity
to destroy us. Colonel Casey?
258
00:19:32,734 --> 00:19:35,054
As a military officer,
I steer clear of politics.
259
00:19:35,094 --> 00:19:39,055
Let's forget that you're a military officer.
You also happen to be a citizen.
260
00:19:39,095 --> 00:19:41,495
Well, then I'll have to take the Fifth.
261
00:19:41,895 --> 00:19:45,056
Colonel, do you like the treaty
or don't you?
262
00:19:45,536 --> 00:19:47,456
Oh, Senator. Pardon me.
263
00:19:47,616 --> 00:19:49,696
I want you to meet
the Indian Ambassador's wife.
264
00:19:49,816 --> 00:19:51,936
Just a moment.
We're discussing the treaty.
265
00:19:52,056 --> 00:19:54,736
I want you to hear
the Pentagon's viewpoint.
266
00:19:55,216 --> 00:19:56,536
Go ahead, Colonel.
267
00:19:58,217 --> 00:20:00,417
The treaty isn't viewed very favorably.
268
00:20:00,457 --> 00:20:02,817
Neither are income taxes,
but we pay them.
269
00:20:02,857 --> 00:20:06,378
But you make me think that fruit salad
on your chest is for neutrality...
270
00:20:06,458 --> 00:20:08,418
...evasiveness and fence-straddling.
271
00:20:08,578 --> 00:20:10,658
On the contrary, they're standard awards...
272
00:20:10,778 --> 00:20:13,579
...for cocktail courage
and dinner-table heroism.
273
00:20:13,819 --> 00:20:15,379
I thought you'd invented them.
274
00:20:16,579 --> 00:20:17,819
Excuse me, Paul.
275
00:20:25,060 --> 00:20:27,579
Ellie. I didn't know you were back in town.
276
00:20:28,779 --> 00:20:30,379
You never looked.
277
00:20:32,660 --> 00:20:35,180
You surprised me tonight, Colonel Casey.
278
00:20:35,780 --> 00:20:38,580
The voice of reason coming out
of a military man?
279
00:20:38,660 --> 00:20:40,261
I've got a lot of hidden talents.
280
00:20:40,381 --> 00:20:45,381
Oh, I suspected that right along.
Ever since my ex-lover introduced us.
281
00:20:46,582 --> 00:20:50,182
And how is the staunch General Scott?
And his lovely wife?
282
00:20:50,582 --> 00:20:51,782
He keeps busy.
283
00:20:51,862 --> 00:20:55,583
So I read. There's a sizeable portion
of the citizenry...
284
00:20:55,583 --> 00:20:58,823
...who says that he's the savior
of the western world.
285
00:20:59,063 --> 00:21:00,823
He does his job, Ellie.
286
00:21:01,063 --> 00:21:05,183
Well, take care of him, Jiggs.
See that he rests on the seventh day.
287
00:21:05,383 --> 00:21:06,583
I'll try.
288
00:21:09,184 --> 00:21:13,625
That marvelous military stoicism.
The iron mask.
289
00:21:14,465 --> 00:21:17,785
Is that for quenching a torch
or washing a wound?
290
00:21:19,385 --> 00:21:22,306
Well, let me put it to you this way,
Jiggs, darling.
291
00:21:22,506 --> 00:21:24,826
What the hell business is it of yours?
292
00:21:26,826 --> 00:21:28,667
- I want that.
- No, you don't.
293
00:21:33,187 --> 00:21:37,026
Now, you listen to me.
Now, what is it? Is it just Scott?
294
00:21:38,586 --> 00:21:40,586
It's Scott. It's that and everything.
295
00:21:42,667 --> 00:21:44,067
It's my whole damned life.
296
00:21:44,787 --> 00:21:48,028
You're not the first dame to ever wind up
on the bottom of the deck.
297
00:21:48,108 --> 00:21:51,428
It happens every day. What matters is
how a person lives with it.
298
00:21:51,508 --> 00:21:53,828
Stop playing the part
of the anguished drunk...
299
00:21:53,868 --> 00:21:58,029
...digging olives out of martinis and
boring everybody with tragic stories.
300
00:21:59,229 --> 00:22:02,910
You know, sober, Ellie, you're a bright,
beautiful dame.
301
00:22:03,230 --> 00:22:04,670
Good to have around.
302
00:22:09,830 --> 00:22:11,470
Will you drive me home, Jiggs?
303
00:22:12,630 --> 00:22:14,030
Whenever you say.
304
00:22:15,070 --> 00:22:16,471
I'll get my coat.
305
00:22:21,231 --> 00:22:23,712
Good night, Stew.
Thank you for a very nice party.
306
00:22:23,832 --> 00:22:26,312
Thanks for coming, Senator.
Pleasure having you.
307
00:22:28,112 --> 00:22:30,593
I hope you forgive
my little outburst tonight.
308
00:22:30,593 --> 00:22:34,553
It's a combination of deep concerns
and dry martinis. A dangerous combo.
309
00:22:34,593 --> 00:22:36,754
I've been reamed by experts, Senator.
310
00:22:36,794 --> 00:22:38,194
Grey Thunderbird.
311
00:22:40,594 --> 00:22:44,193
I was simply trying to get you to say
what I happen to know you believe in.
312
00:22:44,273 --> 00:22:46,633
You work for the one man
who commands confidence...
313
00:22:46,673 --> 00:22:49,353
...and could possibly lead us
out of this mess.
314
00:22:50,194 --> 00:22:51,554
You just remember:
315
00:22:52,234 --> 00:22:55,994
There are plenty of us up on the Hill
who stand right alongside of you.
316
00:22:58,075 --> 00:23:01,395
We've all got to stay on the alert
these days, Casey.
317
00:23:01,475 --> 00:23:02,995
Specially on Sunday, right?
318
00:23:16,877 --> 00:23:17,877
Thank you.
319
00:23:28,958 --> 00:23:30,278
There you are.
320
00:23:30,398 --> 00:23:34,399
Something's come up. I've got to drive out
to Fort Myer to see the General.
321
00:23:35,079 --> 00:23:36,799
May I call a cab for you?
322
00:23:37,199 --> 00:23:38,760
No, thank you. I'll manage.
323
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,480
I'm sorry, Ellie, but this is very important.
324
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,561
All right, Jiggs, but just in case
someone forgets to mention it...
325
00:23:46,641 --> 00:23:48,361
...you're a great crutch.
326
00:23:49,441 --> 00:23:53,040
It's too bad you're only available
20 minutes at a time.
327
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,800
You can't tell. Sometimes the country
can spare me for a whole evening.
328
00:24:01,041 --> 00:24:03,041
Give me a rain check, I'll prove it.
329
00:24:03,281 --> 00:24:06,162
Tuck it somewhere safe
where you won't forget it.
330
00:24:06,602 --> 00:24:07,962
Good night, Ellie.
331
00:24:09,002 --> 00:24:10,362
Good night, Jiggs.
332
00:25:30,171 --> 00:25:31,651
- Hi, Jack.
- Hi, Jiggs.
333
00:25:33,451 --> 00:25:35,411
Colonel Broderick's with him.
334
00:25:45,212 --> 00:25:47,212
Well, well, well.
335
00:25:48,853 --> 00:25:52,853
If it isn't my favorite jarhead himself,
Jiggs Casey.
336
00:25:53,413 --> 00:25:57,134
Hello, Broderick. I thought you'd be
in Okinawa, or maybe worse.
337
00:25:57,774 --> 00:26:01,855
Not me, Casey boy, not me.
Still protecting the great unwashed?
338
00:26:02,535 --> 00:26:05,135
I thought you'd be
a civil liberties lawyer by now.
339
00:26:05,175 --> 00:26:07,255
You might make it yet.
340
00:26:09,334 --> 00:26:12,214
By the way, Casey, my boy,
I hear you're doing a fine job...
341
00:26:12,334 --> 00:26:14,534
...as Director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
342
00:26:18,455 --> 00:26:20,415
- Hello, Jiggs.
- Good morning, sir.
343
00:26:21,375 --> 00:26:22,976
How was the party last night?
344
00:26:23,016 --> 00:26:24,856
Well, you missed a good one.
345
00:26:25,576 --> 00:26:27,016
Anyone there I know?
346
00:26:27,216 --> 00:26:31,177
Paul Girard from the White House and
Senator Prentice were the ranking guests.
347
00:26:32,337 --> 00:26:34,577
There must have been a hassle
over the treaty.
348
00:26:34,657 --> 00:26:36,138
There was, sir.
349
00:26:37,058 --> 00:26:39,938
- Prentice uphold our side all right?
- He was pretty candid.
350
00:26:40,018 --> 00:26:42,178
Also quite complimentary about you.
351
00:26:43,058 --> 00:26:45,378
By the way, Ellie Holbrook was there.
352
00:26:46,338 --> 00:26:47,618
Nice seeing her again.
353
00:26:51,419 --> 00:26:53,659
- Let's get on with it, Jiggs.
- Yes, sir.
354
00:26:54,859 --> 00:26:57,540
These are from January's All Red Alert, sir.
355
00:26:58,860 --> 00:27:01,620
Pearl Harbor, 12 minutes
after the threat warning.
356
00:27:01,740 --> 00:27:06,421
Twelve minutes and over 80 percent
of the fleet sitting there like overfed ducks.
357
00:27:07,461 --> 00:27:08,261
Next.
358
00:27:13,262 --> 00:27:15,742
Wright Field, 22 minutes into the alert.
359
00:27:16,222 --> 00:27:18,541
This one really gives me an ache in the gut.
360
00:27:18,581 --> 00:27:22,341
Half of those aircraft aren't even scrambled
let alone off the ground.
361
00:27:26,142 --> 00:27:27,582
Over Mount Thunder.
362
00:27:29,142 --> 00:27:32,383
- The President's in the middle helicopter.
- Right out in the open.
363
00:27:32,383 --> 00:27:34,223
Thirty-four minutes into the alert.
364
00:27:34,343 --> 00:27:38,424
Canned sound indicates possibility
of hostile action by the Soviet Union.
365
00:27:43,104 --> 00:27:44,825
There are 30 more shots, sir.
366
00:27:44,945 --> 00:27:47,225
Each one of them more fouled up
than the others.
367
00:27:48,545 --> 00:27:50,985
Let's hope Sunday's alert
will be different, sir.
368
00:27:51,585 --> 00:27:53,545
It damn well better be.
369
00:27:57,345 --> 00:27:59,586
Wouldn't it help
if you changed your mind...
370
00:28:00,386 --> 00:28:02,026
About what, Jiggs?
371
00:28:02,386 --> 00:28:05,027
Inviting the congressional people
to observe the alert.
372
00:28:07,427 --> 00:28:09,907
It wouldn't hurt us if a congressman
or a senator...
373
00:28:09,987 --> 00:28:12,428
...saw how effectively we can work
when we have to.
374
00:28:12,548 --> 00:28:15,388
Nobody from the Hill is
to know a thing about this.
375
00:28:16,148 --> 00:28:17,308
Yes, sir.
376
00:28:20,629 --> 00:28:21,429
Yes?
377
00:28:21,509 --> 00:28:24,829
9:20, sir. They're waiting for you
in the conference room.
378
00:28:26,348 --> 00:28:29,908
I've even persuaded the President
to come down without the press.
379
00:28:30,348 --> 00:28:31,988
- No newspapermen?
- None.
380
00:28:36,989 --> 00:28:38,789
Get to bed late, sir?
381
00:28:42,830 --> 00:28:46,191
Got to bed too early.
Slept from 8:00 to 8:00. Too much sleep.
382
00:28:48,191 --> 00:28:49,591
I may never wake up.
383
00:28:51,231 --> 00:28:52,832
Stay close, Jiggs.
384
00:28:53,752 --> 00:28:55,832
I'll want to see you after this meeting.
385
00:29:25,755 --> 00:29:28,556
Colonel Murdock said you've heard
about our Preakness pool.
386
00:29:28,596 --> 00:29:29,756
Yes, sir.
387
00:29:30,036 --> 00:29:32,436
I'd appreciate it if you'd keep it to yourself.
388
00:29:32,556 --> 00:29:34,395
All I want is the right horse.
389
00:29:36,835 --> 00:29:41,156
Admiral Barnswell's reply. I'd appreciate it
if you'd keep that in confidence, too.
390
00:29:41,236 --> 00:29:42,436
Of course, sir.
391
00:29:44,756 --> 00:29:46,836
I see the Navy wasn't here today.
392
00:29:48,037 --> 00:29:50,837
Admiral Palmer couldn't make it.
We'll brief him later.
393
00:29:50,997 --> 00:29:55,158
Speaking of the Navy, that reminds me.
That young J.G. In All Service Radio.
394
00:29:55,238 --> 00:29:56,438
Grayson, sir?
395
00:29:56,958 --> 00:29:58,958
He's a bit of a gossip, isn't he?
396
00:29:58,998 --> 00:30:00,518
He means well.
397
00:30:02,559 --> 00:30:05,599
Well, I'm off to New York
and the AVO Convention.
398
00:30:05,679 --> 00:30:08,799
If you get a chance, listen in.
I'd like to know what you think.
399
00:30:08,919 --> 00:30:11,319
- Certainly, sir. Good luck.
- Thank you.
400
00:30:41,363 --> 00:30:43,522
Hey, Colonel, get a load of this.
401
00:30:43,562 --> 00:30:45,282
What is it, Grayson?
402
00:30:46,882 --> 00:30:48,162
A transfer.
403
00:30:49,002 --> 00:30:50,083
Pearl Harbor?
404
00:30:50,123 --> 00:30:53,403
Yes, I think I got some kind
of guardian angel around here.
405
00:30:53,803 --> 00:30:56,604
Good old Pearl Harbor.
406
00:30:57,084 --> 00:31:01,204
By the way, Barnswell was the only one
to poop out of the Chairman's racing form.
407
00:31:01,324 --> 00:31:03,885
All the others came through
with their IOUs.
408
00:31:27,207 --> 00:31:31,528
Ladies and gentlemen, you have heard me
in my nightly newscasts.
409
00:31:31,808 --> 00:31:33,528
You know where I stand.
410
00:31:34,128 --> 00:31:38,729
I'm not a lover of communists, socialists,
or intellectual bleeding hearts.
411
00:31:39,209 --> 00:31:41,369
I happen to have only one interest...
412
00:31:41,409 --> 00:31:45,930
... and that is symbolized by the red,
white and blue of our glorious flag.
413
00:31:50,370 --> 00:31:52,409
Now I'm going to give you the one man...
414
00:31:52,409 --> 00:31:56,569
... who not only speaks for that flag,
but has fought for it with distinction...
415
00:31:56,609 --> 00:31:58,770
... and now represents it with honor.
416
00:31:59,810 --> 00:32:03,570
Four-star general, winner of
the Congressional Medal of Honor...
417
00:32:03,770 --> 00:32:07,771
... and two Distinguished Service Crosses,
a hero of war...
418
00:32:08,211 --> 00:32:10,771
... a stalwart protector of the peace.
419
00:32:11,411 --> 00:32:12,812
Ladies and gentlemen...
420
00:32:13,332 --> 00:32:19,133
... the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
General James Mattoon Scott!
421
00:32:23,133 --> 00:32:26,133
We want Scott! We want Scott!
422
00:32:51,376 --> 00:32:55,377
Ladies and gentlemen,
members of the American Veterans Order.
423
00:32:57,377 --> 00:33:01,136
I would like to thank Mr. MacPherson
for his most laudatory comments.
424
00:33:01,256 --> 00:33:03,136
You're very generous, Harold.
425
00:33:03,256 --> 00:33:05,456
Perhaps patriotism is old-fashioned.
426
00:33:06,376 --> 00:33:08,857
Perhaps love of country is outdated.
427
00:33:09,657 --> 00:33:14,658
Perhaps even a minute degree of sentiment
to one's motherland is considered pass�.
428
00:33:15,338 --> 00:33:18,378
But God help us,
and God help our country...
429
00:33:18,738 --> 00:33:21,979
... if the cynics, the one-worlders,
the intellectual dilettantes...
430
00:33:22,059 --> 00:33:24,979
... ever persuade us that these things
have passed us by...
431
00:33:24,979 --> 00:33:26,939
... because, ladies and gentlemen...
432
00:33:26,979 --> 00:33:31,780
... patriotism, loyalty, sentiment,
they are the United States of America!
433
00:33:44,941 --> 00:33:48,342
In my lifetime, I have seen 1,000 ways
a man can die.
434
00:33:49,342 --> 00:33:53,182
And I know that in this country,
we have a perverse habit of forgetting...
435
00:33:53,262 --> 00:33:55,743
Operator, would you connect me
with the White House?
436
00:34:36,667 --> 00:34:40,787
The President's expecting you, Colonel.
The study, second door on the right.
437
00:35:04,230 --> 00:35:07,470
All I can tell you, pal,
is this better be damned important.
438
00:35:09,830 --> 00:35:12,631
- How are you, Colonel Casey?
- Mr. President.
439
00:35:12,751 --> 00:35:14,751
- Please, sit down.
- Thank you, sir.
440
00:35:16,711 --> 00:35:18,310
Ever been up here before, Colonel?
441
00:35:18,430 --> 00:35:20,830
No, sir. It's a big room.
442
00:35:21,350 --> 00:35:24,431
Too big for living and too small
for conventions.
443
00:35:24,631 --> 00:35:28,231
- You want a drink, Colonel?
- Yes, sir. Scotch, please.
444
00:35:28,351 --> 00:35:30,512
- Fine. I'll keep you company.
- Thank you.
445
00:35:30,552 --> 00:35:32,832
- How about you, Paul?
- No, no, thanks.
446
00:35:36,232 --> 00:35:39,953
And now, Colonel,
that matter of national security.
447
00:35:47,154 --> 00:35:51,834
Mr. President, have you ever heard
of a military unit known as ECOMCON?
448
00:35:53,634 --> 00:35:54,434
What?
449
00:35:54,434 --> 00:35:57,834
I'm sorry. E-C-O-M-C-O-N. ECOMCON.
450
00:35:59,915 --> 00:36:00,835
No.
451
00:36:02,915 --> 00:36:04,235
What does it mean?
452
00:36:05,436 --> 00:36:06,716
I'm not sure, sir.
453
00:36:08,916 --> 00:36:10,756
In formal military abbreviations...
454
00:36:10,756 --> 00:36:14,157
...it could stand for Emergency
Communications Control, but...
455
00:36:17,157 --> 00:36:19,558
I've never heard anything like that.
456
00:36:20,038 --> 00:36:22,038
- Have you, Paul?
- No, I haven't.
457
00:36:25,357 --> 00:36:27,917
Mr. President, have you ever authorized...
458
00:36:27,957 --> 00:36:32,518
...the formation of any type of secret unit,
regardless of it's name...
459
00:36:33,158 --> 00:36:37,358
...that has something to do with preserving
the security of things like...
460
00:36:37,358 --> 00:36:39,639
...television, telephone or radio?
461
00:36:39,919 --> 00:36:41,319
No, I haven't.
462
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,320
Do you know of
any secret Army installation, sir...
463
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,040
...that's been set up somewhere
near El Paso recently?
464
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:50,520
The answer is no again.
465
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:52,760
Why?
466
00:36:53,841 --> 00:36:57,241
Sir, this is something very difficult
for me because...
467
00:36:57,321 --> 00:37:00,161
...it concerns a superior officer
whom I admire and respect.
468
00:37:00,241 --> 00:37:02,441
Let's get on with it, Colonel, huh?
469
00:37:03,441 --> 00:37:04,521
Yes, sir.
470
00:37:09,042 --> 00:37:12,162
Yesterday I learned from a friend of mine,
Colonel Henderson...
471
00:37:12,242 --> 00:37:14,643
...that he's the exec officer of ECOMCON.
472
00:37:16,563 --> 00:37:20,043
His commanding officer is
an Army colonel named John Broderick.
473
00:37:20,364 --> 00:37:23,564
They're both from Signal Corps,
which indicates communications.
474
00:37:24,164 --> 00:37:29,005
They've had 100 officers
and 3,600 men training secretly...
475
00:37:29,165 --> 00:37:32,245
...at a desert base near El Paso
for six weeks or so.
476
00:37:33,165 --> 00:37:36,364
Well, then Henderson said
an odd thing to me, sir.
477
00:37:36,444 --> 00:37:40,444
Something that, well,
I can't shake quite loose of.
478
00:37:42,005 --> 00:37:46,525
He said they were spending more time
training for seizing than for preventing.
479
00:37:47,646 --> 00:37:49,246
Who set up this outfit?
480
00:37:49,806 --> 00:37:53,046
Henderson and Broderick
reported directly to General Scott...
481
00:37:53,206 --> 00:37:55,407
...so, I assume General Scott did, sir.
482
00:37:55,527 --> 00:37:59,047
You assume? You work directly
under General Scott, don't you?
483
00:38:00,407 --> 00:38:04,328
Yes, sir, but, well, I guess I'd been
cut out for some security reason.
484
00:38:06,608 --> 00:38:07,928
Go ahead, Colonel.
485
00:38:12,848 --> 00:38:16,209
Mr. President, this is
General Hardesty's writing.
486
00:38:16,849 --> 00:38:19,049
I know it pretty well.
487
00:38:19,129 --> 00:38:22,210
That paper came from
the Joint Chiefs' meeting room.
488
00:38:23,210 --> 00:38:25,530
I can't make much out of this scrawl.
489
00:38:26,410 --> 00:38:31,251
"Airlift ECOMCON 40 K 212s
at Site Y by 07:00 Sunday.
490
00:38:31,811 --> 00:38:33,811
"Chi, New York, LA, Utah."
491
00:38:34,411 --> 00:38:35,411
K 212s?
492
00:38:35,451 --> 00:38:37,412
Air Force jet transports, sir.
493
00:38:38,852 --> 00:38:39,852
What do you make of it?
494
00:38:40,012 --> 00:38:43,131
They're obviously scheduled to lift
this command out of Site Y...
495
00:38:43,211 --> 00:38:46,411
...that's the base near El Paso,
before the alert, Sunday...
496
00:38:46,451 --> 00:38:50,012
...and take those troops to Chicago, LA,
New York and Utah.
497
00:38:50,332 --> 00:38:51,332
Why Utah?
498
00:38:51,452 --> 00:38:54,732
The phone company has big relay facilities
for its long lines there.
499
00:38:54,732 --> 00:38:56,933
Precisely what are you leading up to?
500
00:38:57,013 --> 00:38:59,213
I'm not certain, Mr. President, but...
501
00:39:01,413 --> 00:39:05,534
Well, let me tell you the other things
that have happened the past two days.
502
00:39:06,454 --> 00:39:09,414
General Scott has a kind of pool
going on the Preakness race...
503
00:39:09,454 --> 00:39:10,935
...which runs on Sunday.
504
00:39:11,055 --> 00:39:13,815
He sent messages to every important
field commander...
505
00:39:13,855 --> 00:39:16,415
...talking about getting their bets
in on time.
506
00:39:16,815 --> 00:39:20,455
Admiral Barnswell was the only one
who sent in a "no bet" message.
507
00:39:21,935 --> 00:39:26,856
Your General Scott's interest in horses
isn't classified, Colonel.
508
00:39:29,816 --> 00:39:33,217
I don't think those messages had anything
to do with horses, sir.
509
00:39:33,337 --> 00:39:35,137
I think it was some kind of code.
510
00:39:35,817 --> 00:39:37,658
That's a fair-sized assumption.
511
00:39:37,738 --> 00:39:40,738
General Scott wanted those messages
kept under wraps.
512
00:39:40,858 --> 00:39:42,338
- Under wraps?
- Yes, sir.
513
00:39:42,458 --> 00:39:46,059
A J.G. Who decoded those messages
is being shipped out to Hawaii.
514
00:39:48,339 --> 00:39:50,459
There are other things, Mr. President.
515
00:39:50,539 --> 00:39:53,058
Last night at a party
at Stewart Dillard's house...
516
00:39:53,138 --> 00:39:55,138
- You were there, Paul.
- Yes.
517
00:39:55,258 --> 00:39:58,539
Senator Prentice indicated to me
a knowledge of the alert.
518
00:39:59,619 --> 00:40:02,019
No one on the Hill is supposed
to know about it.
519
00:40:02,059 --> 00:40:05,380
Senator Prentice knows.
And General Scott knows that he knows.
520
00:40:05,380 --> 00:40:07,380
- That's quite an assumption.
- How do you know?
521
00:40:07,420 --> 00:40:10,580
The General lied.
He said he was in bed last night at 8:00.
522
00:40:10,620 --> 00:40:13,101
I went to his quarters
after the party because...
523
00:40:13,181 --> 00:40:16,581
...I was concerned that Senator Prentice
had found out about the alert.
524
00:40:16,621 --> 00:40:21,102
He wasn't in bed. He was with Prentice
who arrived at his house at 11:45.
525
00:40:22,102 --> 00:40:23,622
And that's all?
526
00:40:24,302 --> 00:40:26,622
Well, Congress recessed yesterday.
527
00:40:26,782 --> 00:40:29,502
Vice-President Gianelli is in Italy
on a goodwill tour.
528
00:40:29,582 --> 00:40:32,303
This Sunday, you'll be
at an underground command post...
529
00:40:32,383 --> 00:40:34,223
...on Mount Thunder, completely alone.
530
00:40:34,303 --> 00:40:36,703
You won't even have press people
in attendance.
531
00:40:36,783 --> 00:40:37,823
That's true.
532
00:40:38,623 --> 00:40:40,984
General Scott asked that I come alone.
533
00:40:41,824 --> 00:40:43,584
All right, Colonel.
534
00:40:44,424 --> 00:40:46,185
Let's sum it up, shall we?
535
00:40:48,105 --> 00:40:49,625
You're suggesting what?
536
00:40:50,905 --> 00:40:54,186
I'm not sure, Mr. President,
just some possibilities...
537
00:40:54,226 --> 00:40:57,986
...what we call "capabilities"
in military intelligence.
538
00:40:58,386 --> 00:41:00,705
You got something against
the English language?
539
00:41:01,185 --> 00:41:02,185
No, sir.
540
00:41:02,185 --> 00:41:04,225
Then speak it plainly if you will.
541
00:41:08,786 --> 00:41:12,506
I'm suggesting there's a military plot
to take over the government.
542
00:41:12,906 --> 00:41:15,387
This may occur sometime
this coming Sunday.
543
00:41:20,428 --> 00:41:24,028
You realize you could be broken out
of the Service for what you've said?
544
00:41:24,108 --> 00:41:27,429
I've thought about the consequences.
I've been a Marine for 18 years.
545
00:41:27,509 --> 00:41:28,909
Comment, Paul?
546
00:41:30,389 --> 00:41:33,509
With all due respect to Jiggs,
it's just incredible...
547
00:41:34,509 --> 00:41:38,389
...that a secret base could've been
constructed without our hearing about it.
548
00:41:38,509 --> 00:41:42,390
Sir, when you think of the people
and the supplies involved...
549
00:41:45,710 --> 00:41:47,911
Frankly, sir, it doesn't seem logical.
550
00:41:47,991 --> 00:41:49,831
It can be checked out, though.
551
00:41:49,911 --> 00:41:53,511
Yes, I'll call Bill Condon
at the Bureau of Budget. Right now.
552
00:42:01,513 --> 00:42:05,113
I know what Scott's attitude is
on the treaty. What's yours?
553
00:42:08,113 --> 00:42:11,912
I agree with General Scott, sir.
I think we're being played for suckers.
554
00:42:12,912 --> 00:42:17,113
I think it's your business. Yours and
the Senate. You did it and they agreed.
555
00:42:18,713 --> 00:42:21,113
I don't see how we in the military
can question it.
556
00:42:21,193 --> 00:42:23,834
I mean, we can question it
but we can't fight it.
557
00:42:27,234 --> 00:42:28,594
We shouldn't, anyway.
558
00:42:31,035 --> 00:42:33,915
- Jiggs? Isn't that what they call you?
- Yes, sir.
559
00:42:36,436 --> 00:42:39,356
So you stand by the Constitution, Jiggs?
560
00:42:42,156 --> 00:42:45,156
I never thought of it just like that,
Mr. President.
561
00:42:45,956 --> 00:42:49,957
But that's what we've got,
and I guess it's worked pretty well so far.
562
00:42:50,157 --> 00:42:53,157
I sure don't want to be the one to say
we ought to change it.
563
00:42:53,357 --> 00:42:54,557
Neither do I.
564
00:42:58,838 --> 00:43:01,798
Do you have any bright ideas
on what else I can do?
565
00:43:02,558 --> 00:43:05,599
No, sir, not a one. I'm just a buck passer.
566
00:43:07,559 --> 00:43:13,040
I remember what Harry Truman said:
"Inside this room, the buck stops."
567
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:16,839
Thanks for coming to see me, Colonel.
568
00:43:16,959 --> 00:43:17,999
Yes, sir.
569
00:43:19,599 --> 00:43:22,559
I'd appreciate it if you'd call my secretary
in the morning.
570
00:43:22,599 --> 00:43:23,960
Tell her where you'll be.
571
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,800
- Thanks for coming.
- That's all right, sir. It was...
572
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,000
A pleasure, Colonel?
573
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,601
To get it out of my gut, yes, sir.
574
00:43:33,601 --> 00:43:36,401
I don't know whether you believe this,
but I hope I'm wrong.
575
00:43:37,201 --> 00:43:40,202
Colonel, I hope you're wrong, too.
576
00:43:41,842 --> 00:43:43,362
Good night, sir.
577
00:43:51,563 --> 00:43:54,163
- Good night, Jiggs.
- Good night, Paul.
578
00:44:00,004 --> 00:44:01,164
It is, huh?
579
00:44:02,284 --> 00:44:03,804
Okay, Bill. Thank you.
580
00:44:09,285 --> 00:44:12,806
Condon says there's never been
any money cleared for anything called...
581
00:44:12,846 --> 00:44:14,766
...ECOMCON or whatever it is.
582
00:44:16,446 --> 00:44:18,447
So your conclusion is negative?
583
00:44:19,367 --> 00:44:23,247
My conclusion is that my friend,
Colonel Casey...
584
00:44:23,367 --> 00:44:26,366
...is one Marine with a hell
of an imagination.
585
00:44:29,966 --> 00:44:33,207
You know something, Paul?
586
00:44:33,207 --> 00:44:35,447
I'm not about to disregard his story.
587
00:44:35,567 --> 00:44:36,767
But, Mr. President...
588
00:44:36,847 --> 00:44:41,968
Of course, if it's true, we've only got
four full days left before Sunday.
589
00:44:44,288 --> 00:44:47,009
We'll have to come up
with a list of men I can trust.
590
00:44:47,049 --> 00:44:51,569
I can't move very far without the head
of the White House Secret Service.
591
00:44:51,569 --> 00:44:54,690
And Chris Todd. He has the best mind
in the government.
592
00:44:55,090 --> 00:44:58,210
And can keep his mouth shut.
And get Ray Clark.
593
00:44:58,570 --> 00:45:03,370
With all due respect to Colonel Casey,
let me give you my unequivocal reaction.
594
00:45:04,290 --> 00:45:08,571
To believe any fraction of it, you have
to believe in this ECOMCON business.
595
00:45:08,651 --> 00:45:12,131
Nobody's heard of it before.
Not you, Mr. President. Not Girard.
596
00:45:12,171 --> 00:45:14,532
Not even Bill Condon
who should've heard of it.
597
00:45:14,612 --> 00:45:16,772
What makes you think it does exist?
598
00:45:16,972 --> 00:45:19,732
We have only, and again,
my apologies, Colonel Casey...
599
00:45:19,732 --> 00:45:21,933
...your conjecture. No supportable facts.
600
00:45:22,013 --> 00:45:25,613
What about the Hardesty note?
That refers to it and to a Site Y.
601
00:45:25,733 --> 00:45:29,134
That could easily mean another place.
These military games.
602
00:45:29,534 --> 00:45:34,213
The multiplicity of our secret bases
confuses ourselves more than the Soviets.
603
00:45:36,773 --> 00:45:39,573
Army Intelligence was asked
to run a security check on...
604
00:45:39,573 --> 00:45:42,014
...Colonel Broderick almost two years ago.
605
00:45:42,134 --> 00:45:45,574
There's no question that the man's views
are more than just extreme.
606
00:45:45,614 --> 00:45:47,374
They border on out-and-out fascism!
607
00:45:47,414 --> 00:45:50,335
- Again, that's suspect, but not evidence.
- Exactly.
608
00:45:51,375 --> 00:45:53,135
- Colonel Casey.
- Yes, sir.
609
00:45:54,335 --> 00:45:57,536
What about this communications setup
at Mount Thunder?
610
00:45:58,336 --> 00:46:01,737
Whoever controls it, controls
the communications across the country.
611
00:46:01,777 --> 00:46:04,417
Rubbish. If I went into court
as Scott's counsel...
612
00:46:04,537 --> 00:46:06,537
...l'd move to quash the indictment...
613
00:46:06,537 --> 00:46:09,017
...and we'd be out of the courtroom
in 10 minutes.
614
00:46:09,137 --> 00:46:11,937
I'm only offering presumption of evidence.
615
00:46:13,337 --> 00:46:15,578
The Navy being left out
of the JCS meetings...
616
00:46:15,618 --> 00:46:19,058
...the Hardesty note,
this business of the jet transports...
617
00:46:19,178 --> 00:46:20,938
Forgive me, Mr. President...
618
00:46:21,338 --> 00:46:24,179
...but as for flying troops
to the big cities in an alert...
619
00:46:24,259 --> 00:46:26,659
...that seems to me not only logical
but prudent.
620
00:46:27,139 --> 00:46:30,580
Obviously, if the Russians struck,
we'd need disciplined troops...
621
00:46:30,620 --> 00:46:34,940
...in the metropolitan areas to keep order
and prevent complete breakdown.
622
00:46:35,180 --> 00:46:39,141
And if I may say so, the conversion
of a wagering pool on the Preakness...
623
00:46:39,181 --> 00:46:42,460
...into a code for some sinister plot
to seize the government...
624
00:46:42,580 --> 00:46:47,740
...seems to me suggestive of rather lurid
deductive powers to say the very least.
625
00:46:50,661 --> 00:46:54,941
Mr. Secretary, you saw Scott's
performance on television last night.
626
00:46:55,381 --> 00:46:59,822
That was no apolitical military officer.
That was a dedicated politician.
627
00:46:59,942 --> 00:47:02,022
We've always known that, Senator...
628
00:47:02,062 --> 00:47:05,143
...but that's no proof of this military junta
you're suggesting.
629
00:47:05,143 --> 00:47:06,663
Gentlemen, gentlemen.
630
00:47:09,663 --> 00:47:13,264
We've pretty much exhausted
the information as well as ourselves.
631
00:47:14,984 --> 00:47:18,064
I don't know if the evidence is
as damning as it seems.
632
00:47:18,464 --> 00:47:20,424
I do know it's sufficiently damning...
633
00:47:20,424 --> 00:47:23,985
...to proceed as if there were more
than a few grains of truth in it.
634
00:47:24,025 --> 00:47:27,305
So the following is the plan of procedure:
635
00:47:29,385 --> 00:47:32,026
Chris will stay here to coordinate things.
636
00:47:33,306 --> 00:47:36,746
Art's job is to keep tabs on
the Joint Chiefs that were mentioned.
637
00:47:36,786 --> 00:47:39,307
You'll have to have men available,
men you trust...
638
00:47:39,387 --> 00:47:41,907
...to handle any situation that comes up.
639
00:47:46,588 --> 00:47:48,388
I want you to go to El Paso.
640
00:47:49,948 --> 00:47:52,987
Take the phone number from Colonel Casey
of his friend there.
641
00:47:53,107 --> 00:47:54,827
You're to find that base...
642
00:47:55,387 --> 00:47:58,628
...if it means crawling underground
until you hit a tunnel.
643
00:47:58,828 --> 00:48:01,628
But you're to find that base if it exists.
644
00:48:03,988 --> 00:48:06,509
I don't like sending you down there, Ray.
645
00:48:06,749 --> 00:48:09,829
- Lf there were anyone else I could trust...
- Forget it, Jordie.
646
00:48:09,909 --> 00:48:12,430
Outside of getting parity
for Georgia cotton...
647
00:48:12,510 --> 00:48:16,790
...I haven't accomplished a lot
for this country. Maybe this is my chance.
648
00:48:19,191 --> 00:48:20,511
- Paul?
- Yes, sir.
649
00:48:20,551 --> 00:48:24,111
This is a note you're to take
to Admiral Barnswell in Gibraltar.
650
00:48:24,191 --> 00:48:26,791
I want you to get his reply in writing.
Understand?
651
00:48:26,831 --> 00:48:29,511
In a court of law,
your word wouldn't count for much...
652
00:48:29,591 --> 00:48:31,751
...against that of Barnswell's or Scott's.
653
00:48:31,831 --> 00:48:34,392
Mr. President, it's Wednesday evening.
654
00:48:34,632 --> 00:48:38,232
My feeling is that next week at this time
we'll all be laughing about this.
655
00:48:38,352 --> 00:48:39,913
I hope you're right.
656
00:48:41,913 --> 00:48:43,553
- Colonel Casey?
- Yes, sir.
657
00:48:45,233 --> 00:48:47,834
You'll have the thankless job of informer.
658
00:48:49,034 --> 00:48:51,154
Keep your eye on General Scott.
659
00:48:51,434 --> 00:48:55,355
Keep us informed as to whom he talks to,
whom he hears from, where he goes.
660
00:48:55,435 --> 00:48:57,715
Find out everything you can about him.
661
00:48:58,435 --> 00:48:59,395
Yes, sir.
662
00:49:04,034 --> 00:49:05,794
I think that does it, gentlemen.
663
00:49:06,595 --> 00:49:09,435
It strikes me you're taking
all the necessary steps save one.
664
00:49:09,515 --> 00:49:12,595
Chris, I hope you're quite correct
in your assumption...
665
00:49:12,635 --> 00:49:16,516
...that we're all panicky idiots.
But if you are incorrect in that judgement...
666
00:49:16,556 --> 00:49:19,756
...we're in for a week
of unadulterated nightmare.
667
00:49:44,319 --> 00:49:45,359
Good evening, sir.
668
00:49:46,119 --> 00:49:47,560
Working late, Jiggs?
669
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:52,360
Just checking out some final touches
so there won't be any foul-ups on the alert.
670
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:55,361
Some problems in Texas?
671
00:49:57,361 --> 00:49:58,921
No, sir. No problems.
672
00:49:59,921 --> 00:50:01,842
I'm glad everything goes well.
673
00:50:02,842 --> 00:50:05,362
I called you after I got back
from New York.
674
00:50:05,722 --> 00:50:08,521
About 4:00. They said you'd already gone.
675
00:50:08,601 --> 00:50:10,481
Well, as you can see, not so.
676
00:50:11,721 --> 00:50:13,201
How was the big city, General?
677
00:50:13,561 --> 00:50:15,322
You know these conventions.
678
00:50:16,162 --> 00:50:18,162
A rat race, luncheons, dinners...
679
00:50:18,522 --> 00:50:21,282
If I ate one more piece of chicken,
I'm afraid...
680
00:50:23,483 --> 00:50:25,083
Did you hear the speech?
681
00:50:25,563 --> 00:50:26,483
Yes, sir.
682
00:50:27,363 --> 00:50:28,083
And?
683
00:50:28,804 --> 00:50:29,964
Lmpressive.
684
00:50:32,564 --> 00:50:35,084
Now, there's a carefully chosen word.
685
00:50:35,765 --> 00:50:38,485
You wouldn't be holding something back,
would you?
686
00:50:40,325 --> 00:50:44,805
That commentator who introduced you,
he struck me as being a little overripe.
687
00:50:45,165 --> 00:50:48,685
He is. But he provides a platform
for stating my position.
688
00:50:49,406 --> 00:50:52,206
I merely use him. I don't have to like him
or trust him.
689
00:50:52,406 --> 00:50:53,326
I see.
690
00:50:54,406 --> 00:50:55,486
Do you see?
691
00:50:59,567 --> 00:51:02,367
This country's in trouble, Jiggs,
deep trouble.
692
00:51:04,528 --> 00:51:06,968
Now, there are two ways
we can handle this.
693
00:51:07,088 --> 00:51:09,088
We can sit here on our duffs and...
694
00:51:09,128 --> 00:51:12,329
...ask for divine guidance and hope for it.
Or we can...
695
00:51:17,168 --> 00:51:18,728
Or we can what, Jiggs?
696
00:51:19,888 --> 00:51:21,288
What would your advice be?
697
00:51:24,889 --> 00:51:28,569
We're a nation of laws, of rules.
698
00:51:29,969 --> 00:51:33,290
We're military men so we've taken an oath
to uphold the Constitution.
699
00:51:33,370 --> 00:51:34,770
The democratic way.
700
00:51:35,970 --> 00:51:37,371
Yes, sir. The democratic way.
701
00:51:37,491 --> 00:51:40,411
Do your duty and, as you put it,
ask for divine guidance.
702
00:51:42,011 --> 00:51:43,291
You're right, Jiggs.
703
00:51:43,371 --> 00:51:45,092
You're absolutely right.
704
00:51:46,532 --> 00:51:50,212
You know, Jiggs, you've been working
too hard on this damned alert.
705
00:51:50,532 --> 00:51:51,812
You look tired.
706
00:51:55,332 --> 00:51:57,692
Why don't you take the rest
of the week off?
707
00:51:57,732 --> 00:52:01,013
Duck down to White Sulphur Springs
and blow yourself to a good time.
708
00:52:01,133 --> 00:52:03,733
I couldn't. There are too many details
on the alert.
709
00:52:03,773 --> 00:52:05,374
Murdock will handle it.
710
00:52:05,574 --> 00:52:07,934
I should be with you at Mount Thunder
on Sunday.
711
00:52:08,014 --> 00:52:09,574
And you will be.
712
00:52:09,694 --> 00:52:13,095
Check back on the job Sunday morning
and we'll pick it up together.
713
00:52:13,175 --> 00:52:15,735
In the meantime,
you've got a three-day pass. Enjoy it.
714
00:52:15,815 --> 00:52:18,776
- When do you think I ought to leave, sir?
- Right now.
715
00:52:18,976 --> 00:52:19,976
Yes, sir.
716
00:52:25,735 --> 00:52:27,335
Have a good time, Jiggs.
717
00:52:28,575 --> 00:52:29,895
Thank you, sir.
718
00:52:44,537 --> 00:52:46,698
Paul Girard get off all right?
719
00:52:46,778 --> 00:52:49,658
Still skeptical, but he's on his way
to Gibraltar.
720
00:52:49,858 --> 00:52:52,699
Some fellows have all the luck.
Me, I get to go to Texas.
721
00:52:52,739 --> 00:52:55,699
It's enough to make a man
want to quit politics.
722
00:52:55,899 --> 00:52:57,699
It's Mutt Henderson's home phone.
723
00:52:57,699 --> 00:53:00,259
... Flight 543 for Dallas and El Paso...
724
00:53:00,299 --> 00:53:03,299
- Well, that's me.
- Good luck, Senator.
725
00:53:05,259 --> 00:53:07,140
Oh, incidentally, Jiggs.
726
00:53:07,660 --> 00:53:10,580
I'm told that a Miss Eleanor Holbrook,
you know her...
727
00:53:11,180 --> 00:53:12,060
Yes.
728
00:53:12,580 --> 00:53:14,781
I'm told she knows more
about General Scott...
729
00:53:14,901 --> 00:53:17,741
...than his wife knows about him
or the Air Force.
730
00:53:17,861 --> 00:53:18,861
Could be.
731
00:53:18,901 --> 00:53:22,462
In fact, she may know enough about him
to put some ammo in our guns.
732
00:53:25,182 --> 00:53:26,662
You catch my meaning?
733
00:53:27,463 --> 00:53:29,903
I'm not sure I want to catch your meaning.
734
00:53:29,903 --> 00:53:31,983
Just because General Scott
booted you out...
735
00:53:32,103 --> 00:53:35,702
...and told you to take a vacation,
that don't mean you'll take a vacation.
736
00:53:35,742 --> 00:53:38,262
I think you should see this Miss Holbrook.
737
00:53:38,582 --> 00:53:40,943
If she's got something on Scott,
we want it.
738
00:53:41,943 --> 00:53:46,183
There are all sorts of ways of protecting
the President of the United States.
739
00:53:49,384 --> 00:53:51,184
Take care of yourself, Senator.
740
00:53:52,784 --> 00:53:54,184
You, too, Colonel.
741
00:54:13,386 --> 00:54:15,307
Isn't that MacPherson, the commentator?
742
00:54:15,387 --> 00:54:16,187
Yes.
743
00:54:17,947 --> 00:54:19,587
That's General Scott's car.
744
00:54:20,187 --> 00:54:23,388
Buddy, you've just been impressed
into the Secret Service.
745
00:56:46,994 --> 00:56:49,462
Harold MacPherson
and General James Scott.
746
00:56:49,530 --> 00:56:51,088
There's a pair to draw to.
747
00:57:01,775 --> 00:57:03,936
Good morning, General.
This is Jordan Lyman.
748
00:57:04,011 --> 00:57:06,344
Good morning.
We're both early birds today.
749
00:57:06,414 --> 00:57:10,680
General, to come right to the point.
I'm not going to participate in the alert.
750
00:57:10,952 --> 00:57:12,476
Frankly, I'm tired out.
751
00:57:13,054 --> 00:57:16,684
I've decided to go to my place at Blue Lake
and fish for a few days.
752
00:57:16,759 --> 00:57:19,626
You'll forgive me, sir,
but I must say I don't like it.
753
00:57:19,695 --> 00:57:22,494
As Commander in Chief,
orders can only be given by you.
754
00:57:22,566 --> 00:57:26,127
Mr. President, I don't think
the Russians will be very impressed...
755
00:57:26,203 --> 00:57:29,071
...by an alert that takes place
while you go fishing.
756
00:57:29,140 --> 00:57:32,007
Suppose you let me be
thejudge of that, General.
757
00:57:32,243 --> 00:57:34,473
I'm afraid my decision is final.
758
00:57:34,545 --> 00:57:36,706
Of course. It's up to you, sir.
759
00:57:38,182 --> 00:57:40,480
When do you expect to go to Blue Lake?
760
00:57:40,619 --> 00:57:42,211
Late Friday, probably.
761
00:57:42,721 --> 00:57:44,985
I envy you. Good luck with the fish.
762
00:57:45,224 --> 00:57:47,989
- Goodbye, General.
- Goodbye, Mr. President.
763
00:57:57,204 --> 00:57:58,432
Hold my calls.
764
00:58:05,714 --> 00:58:07,477
Colonel Broderick, please.
765
00:58:07,783 --> 00:58:09,716
What's that, Mrs. Henderson?
766
00:58:10,284 --> 00:58:13,447
I'm an old friend of his.
I'm real anxious to see him.
767
00:58:14,555 --> 00:58:16,285
Clark, ma'am. Ray Clark.
768
00:58:18,493 --> 00:58:22,260
I know it's restricted,
but I thought perhaps if I could talk to him.
769
00:58:23,566 --> 00:58:24,828
What's that?
770
00:58:24,901 --> 00:58:27,734
I didn't quite hear you.
Would you say that again?
771
00:58:31,208 --> 00:58:34,143
Well, is there any way I could get
a message to him?
772
00:58:40,618 --> 00:58:44,145
Would you be good enough
to just tell him that Ray Clark called?
773
00:58:45,323 --> 00:58:47,450
Thank you very much, Mrs. Henderson.
774
00:58:58,705 --> 00:58:59,831
Fill her up?
775
00:59:00,207 --> 00:59:02,539
No thanks, honey. Just check my oil.
776
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:07,941
Hey, you mind?
777
00:59:08,282 --> 00:59:11,480
Not at all. Tell me,
could you turn that down some?
778
00:59:11,553 --> 00:59:12,884
Oh, sure, honey.
779
00:59:13,122 --> 00:59:14,953
Hey, Charlie, turn it down.
780
00:59:15,924 --> 00:59:18,756
- Do you rent space in that thing?
- Oh, you.
781
00:59:24,032 --> 00:59:25,397
You want to dance?
782
00:59:26,034 --> 00:59:29,003
No, thank you, honey.
I just had a hernia operation.
783
00:59:31,841 --> 00:59:33,103
You are funny.
784
00:59:35,378 --> 00:59:38,212
I was sort of hoping you were in the Army.
785
00:59:40,384 --> 00:59:41,316
Why?
786
00:59:42,119 --> 00:59:44,953
Charlie heard there was a new base
being put up here.
787
00:59:45,023 --> 00:59:46,888
That's why he bought the place.
788
00:59:49,561 --> 00:59:51,085
You see any soldiers?
789
00:59:51,563 --> 00:59:53,588
How long has the base been here?
790
00:59:54,065 --> 00:59:55,123
Who knows?
791
00:59:55,867 --> 01:00:00,134
You know Charlie, he's always decorating
this place. He has a talent for that.
792
01:00:00,673 --> 01:00:03,767
And on Saturday night,
he puts out a huge sign.
793
01:00:03,843 --> 01:00:07,336
It says, "Big Party."
And he doubles his drinks, too.
794
01:00:07,981 --> 01:00:10,142
And I don't water them none, either.
795
01:00:10,417 --> 01:00:12,852
You wonder what the country's coming to.
796
01:00:13,955 --> 01:00:17,891
All those boys sitting up in the desert,
never seeing no girls.
797
01:00:19,695 --> 01:00:21,890
Well, they might as well be in stir.
798
01:00:22,431 --> 01:00:24,399
How far is the base from here?
799
01:00:25,067 --> 01:00:27,296
About 50 miles or so.
800
01:00:28,303 --> 01:00:32,468
You hear the planes coming in and out
all the time, but don't see any pilots.
801
01:00:32,875 --> 01:00:35,708
Not so much as one single pilot.
802
01:00:37,246 --> 01:00:40,114
What's the matter?
Don't they drink in the Air Force?
803
01:00:41,918 --> 01:00:43,647
How would I get in there?
804
01:00:44,187 --> 01:00:47,715
Oh, lots of luck.
You can't even see the place.
805
01:00:47,825 --> 01:00:51,261
There's just a road over leading to the left
and then nothing.
806
01:00:52,664 --> 01:00:55,030
I was telling Charlie.
807
01:00:55,100 --> 01:01:00,003
We ought to drive up there sometime
with a couple of kegs of beer for the boys...
808
01:01:00,072 --> 01:01:03,838
...and tell them where it's from.
You know, leave cards or something.
809
01:03:00,571 --> 01:03:04,372
I'm glad we can offer you some real
Mediterranean weather, Mr. Girard.
810
01:03:04,442 --> 01:03:05,670
Thank you, Admiral.
811
01:03:05,744 --> 01:03:08,406
Instead of that dirty stuff they have
in the Atlantic.
812
01:03:08,813 --> 01:03:10,748
- Care for a cigar?
- No, thanks.
813
01:03:13,686 --> 01:03:17,315
Admiral, I understand you're not much
of a betting man.
814
01:03:18,424 --> 01:03:20,119
That depends on the game.
815
01:03:21,727 --> 01:03:24,993
What is your pleasure?
Poker, roulette, what?
816
01:03:25,065 --> 01:03:28,364
No, those are house games.
I don't much care for the odds.
817
01:03:29,403 --> 01:03:30,837
What about horse racing?
818
01:03:30,905 --> 01:03:35,239
On occasion. Depends on the race,
sometimes the weather.
819
01:03:36,544 --> 01:03:40,106
- And the horse does make the difference.
- Well, that's true.
820
01:03:40,516 --> 01:03:42,245
What about the Preakness?
821
01:03:44,587 --> 01:03:46,714
Have you got anything good going there?
822
01:03:51,093 --> 01:03:53,152
I only bet on sure things.
823
01:03:56,098 --> 01:04:00,365
You're a very lucky sailor.
That's exactly what I've got for you.
824
01:04:00,470 --> 01:04:01,596
A sure thing.
825
01:04:02,005 --> 01:04:03,836
What is the bet, Mr. Girard?
826
01:04:04,140 --> 01:04:08,305
There are members of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff who are involved in treason.
827
01:04:08,379 --> 01:04:10,904
We know who they are,
and the essence of the plan.
828
01:04:10,981 --> 01:04:14,383
And from you,
I want a signed statement indicating...
829
01:04:14,553 --> 01:04:19,116
...when you first heard of this operation
and your complicity in this entire matter.
830
01:04:25,698 --> 01:04:27,689
Frankly, I wish I had more time.
831
01:04:28,434 --> 01:04:30,265
I wish you did, too, Admiral.
832
01:04:35,075 --> 01:04:36,804
Unfortunately, you don't.
833
01:04:43,576 --> 01:04:44,565
Jiggs.
834
01:04:44,644 --> 01:04:47,876
I'm looking for a very pretty girl
named Eleanor Holbrook.
835
01:04:48,182 --> 01:04:49,171
Come in.
836
01:04:49,416 --> 01:04:50,474
Thank you.
837
01:04:52,252 --> 01:04:54,118
You're a long way from the barracks.
838
01:04:54,189 --> 01:04:55,986
I was in the neighborhood.
839
01:04:56,291 --> 01:04:57,258
A fact?
840
01:04:57,926 --> 01:05:01,190
A lie. I just thought the country
could spare me for an evening.
841
01:05:01,261 --> 01:05:03,752
- I wondered how you were.
- I'm fine, Jiggs.
842
01:05:04,364 --> 01:05:06,993
- Would you like a martini?
- That sounds great.
843
01:05:14,543 --> 01:05:15,601
Very nice.
844
01:05:17,346 --> 01:05:19,007
Yes, that's right.
845
01:05:19,615 --> 01:05:22,585
- You've never been here before.
- No, not even close.
846
01:05:23,153 --> 01:05:24,211
Thank you.
847
01:05:25,722 --> 01:05:27,384
What is it, Jiggs?
848
01:05:28,226 --> 01:05:30,251
You have something on your mind.
849
01:05:30,595 --> 01:05:33,564
Well, hasn't your mother
ever told you about Marines?
850
01:05:33,764 --> 01:05:35,789
Well, I know all about this Marine.
851
01:05:35,866 --> 01:05:38,357
Never a wasted moment
or a thrown-away day.
852
01:05:39,470 --> 01:05:41,735
What do you want?
853
01:05:41,807 --> 01:05:43,365
Well, you invited me.
854
01:05:43,475 --> 01:05:46,410
Remember? A rain check handed out
the night of the party.
855
01:05:46,745 --> 01:05:49,078
Oh, yes. Good for one visit, anytime.
856
01:05:49,616 --> 01:05:50,844
Here I am.
857
01:05:52,318 --> 01:05:54,081
What shall we talk about?
858
01:05:54,153 --> 01:05:57,954
Nuclear disarmament, high cost of living,
ladies' fashions?
859
01:05:58,959 --> 01:06:04,421
Or should we fall back on the familiar item
of conversation, gentleman Jim Scott?
860
01:06:07,269 --> 01:06:11,500
Well, this must come as a shock to you,
but I lock up the office now and then.
861
01:06:12,439 --> 01:06:13,997
You're a beautiful woman.
862
01:06:14,408 --> 01:06:17,867
Don't tell me after all this time
you're making a pass, Jiggs.
863
01:06:20,348 --> 01:06:22,510
The window's open.
You could always scream.
864
01:06:38,169 --> 01:06:39,864
Is this when I scream?
865
01:06:41,539 --> 01:06:42,767
You want to scream?
866
01:06:45,943 --> 01:06:47,740
That's a rather unfair question.
867
01:06:49,782 --> 01:06:51,613
I'm a little vulnerable now.
868
01:06:53,952 --> 01:06:57,480
Particularly when it concerns an old friend
I happen to like.
869
01:07:13,342 --> 01:07:14,639
Do me a favor.
870
01:07:17,345 --> 01:07:19,677
Don't complicate my life right now.
871
01:07:21,015 --> 01:07:23,040
I just got over a very bad burn.
872
01:07:32,362 --> 01:07:34,796
Would you like another martini?
873
01:07:34,864 --> 01:07:36,627
Perhaps we should talk about...
874
01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:52,111
It's funny. It doesn't feel like an iron mask.
875
01:07:53,284 --> 01:07:54,876
You're a fraud, Jiggs.
876
01:07:56,254 --> 01:07:58,314
Hey, how about dinner someplace?
877
01:07:58,657 --> 01:08:01,922
You might even talk me into wheeling you
around a dance floor.
878
01:08:03,095 --> 01:08:07,556
No. I'll fix something for us here.
Did you know that I'm a swinging cook?
879
01:08:08,101 --> 01:08:10,296
Sounds like I've got myself a good deal.
880
01:08:11,304 --> 01:08:13,773
You might have, Jiggs. A very good deal.
881
01:08:15,443 --> 01:08:17,343
I'll make you two promises:
882
01:08:18,045 --> 01:08:21,641
A very good steak, medium rare,
and the truth, which is very rare.
883
01:09:05,530 --> 01:09:06,998
And it's in writing?
884
01:09:08,534 --> 01:09:10,866
Thank God. Now when can you get back?
885
01:09:13,674 --> 01:09:18,441
Trans Ocean, Flight 42 out of Madrid.
886
01:09:19,546 --> 01:09:22,175
Good. I'll see you for breakfast.
887
01:09:50,814 --> 01:09:52,839
Someone I knew 1,000 years ago.
888
01:09:53,650 --> 01:09:56,119
It's funny, I can't even remember his name.
889
01:09:56,187 --> 01:10:00,180
Scott, James Mattoon Scott,
General in the United States Air Force.
890
01:10:01,093 --> 01:10:02,583
Doesn't ring a bell.
891
01:10:02,895 --> 01:10:06,353
Why does a girl keep a photograph
of a man she doesn't even remember?
892
01:10:08,867 --> 01:10:10,232
I can't imagine.
893
01:10:19,279 --> 01:10:21,805
That's an easy way to get rid of a ghost.
894
01:10:22,650 --> 01:10:24,242
It works wonders.
895
01:10:26,887 --> 01:10:28,320
No symptoms remaining?
896
01:10:28,389 --> 01:10:30,255
None that I'm aware of.
897
01:10:31,126 --> 01:10:34,391
If I find that I'm kidding myself,
I know where to go for help.
898
01:10:37,133 --> 01:10:38,566
There's an easy test.
899
01:10:41,237 --> 01:10:44,672
Bring it out in the open, look at it,
talk about it, see if it hurts.
900
01:10:45,540 --> 01:10:48,065
I don't know what's to be gained
by hurting...
901
01:10:50,746 --> 01:10:52,577
...but if you think it's right...
902
01:10:53,716 --> 01:10:55,377
I think it's right.
903
01:10:56,987 --> 01:10:58,614
I was in love with him.
904
01:11:01,558 --> 01:11:02,616
I found...
905
01:11:04,295 --> 01:11:06,195
...excitement in his strength.
906
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:11,631
I didn't mind about the backstreet angle...
907
01:11:14,139 --> 01:11:17,905
...sneaking time together,
stolen moments from his wife.
908
01:11:20,679 --> 01:11:23,147
Eleanor Holbrook, the emancipated woman.
909
01:11:32,627 --> 01:11:33,616
Go on.
910
01:11:34,195 --> 01:11:36,789
I don't know. I don't know
when it changed.
911
01:11:42,070 --> 01:11:46,531
But I began to realize
that he really never felt anything.
912
01:11:49,812 --> 01:11:51,506
Each move was calculated.
913
01:11:54,149 --> 01:11:56,447
He's a very careful man, your general.
914
01:11:58,588 --> 01:12:01,113
I don't believe he ever took a chance
in his life...
915
01:12:01,190 --> 01:12:04,683
...or ever really felt anything,
any real emotion.
916
01:12:11,035 --> 01:12:14,164
He was so sure of me
that he could even write letters.
917
01:12:16,074 --> 01:12:19,169
A careful man doesn't incriminate himself
in writing.
918
01:12:19,478 --> 01:12:21,173
That's where you're wrong.
919
01:12:23,115 --> 01:12:25,606
If he's sure enough, he can do anything...
920
01:12:26,886 --> 01:12:28,751
...anything to amuse himself.
921
01:12:33,627 --> 01:12:34,753
I kept them.
922
01:12:36,096 --> 01:12:39,999
I told myself that I'd use them
against him for revenge.
923
01:12:43,337 --> 01:12:44,702
At least, Jiggs...
924
01:12:46,041 --> 01:12:48,168
...he was right about me in that respect.
925
01:12:49,078 --> 01:12:51,239
I was pretty low, but not that low.
926
01:12:54,084 --> 01:12:55,745
Is that what you wanted?
927
01:12:57,320 --> 01:12:59,311
Does that prove anything to you?
928
01:12:59,888 --> 01:13:02,152
- I'm sorry, Ellie.
- No.
929
01:13:03,325 --> 01:13:05,759
You said to bring it out in the open.
Now it is.
930
01:13:05,828 --> 01:13:08,161
- We go from here, all right?
- Sure.
931
01:13:11,401 --> 01:13:14,633
I'll go and repair the damages
and get back to that steak.
932
01:13:15,673 --> 01:13:16,935
Don't go away.
933
01:13:45,939 --> 01:13:48,101
You know, it's a funny thing, Jiggs.
934
01:13:49,244 --> 01:13:50,905
I'm not surprised at Scott.
935
01:13:52,981 --> 01:13:54,950
But do you know what does cut?
936
01:13:55,351 --> 01:13:58,445
The fact that he sent you.
And the fact that you came.
937
01:14:00,589 --> 01:14:03,286
I need these, Ellie.
The reason doesn't matter.
938
01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:06,921
And trying to soften me up
with a little preliminary lovemaking...
939
01:14:07,097 --> 01:14:08,563
That was dirty pool, Jiggs.
940
01:14:08,631 --> 01:14:13,125
You didn't come here to salvage me.
You came here to salvage his good name.
941
01:14:13,202 --> 01:14:16,297
If I could tell you why I had to do this,
you'd understand.
942
01:14:17,174 --> 01:14:19,608
I was a stupid, impressionable female...
943
01:14:20,243 --> 01:14:23,907
...who let an Air Force general use her
like his personal airplane.
944
01:14:24,081 --> 01:14:27,107
I don't rate any applause, God knows.
But you...
945
01:14:29,755 --> 01:14:33,282
Scott didn't want to dirty his hands
collecting those letters...
946
01:14:34,393 --> 01:14:37,989
...but Colonel Casey is always ready
to clean up the General's privy.
947
01:15:26,884 --> 01:15:30,218
The man on the right, that's Murdock,
General Scott's aide.
948
01:15:30,955 --> 01:15:34,823
On the left, that's Colonel Broderick.
He commands the base at Site Y.
949
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,254
I don't know who the other man is.
950
01:15:38,731 --> 01:15:40,926
So the rabbit laid bait for the fox.
951
01:15:42,234 --> 01:15:45,363
If I'd gone up to Blue Lake,
they'd have tried to kidnap me.
952
01:15:45,438 --> 01:15:46,905
I have no doubt of that at all.
953
01:15:46,973 --> 01:15:49,999
I'll make the following admission,
Colonel Casey.
954
01:15:50,076 --> 01:15:53,603
Any doubts I may have had have been
properly placed in the wastebasket.
955
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:55,045
Good man, Chris.
956
01:15:56,750 --> 01:15:58,981
Your group did a great job
this morning, Art.
957
01:15:59,053 --> 01:16:01,180
- It's appreciated.
- Thank you, sir.
958
01:16:01,255 --> 01:16:04,224
I can bring out another point
that's made in that film.
959
01:16:04,292 --> 01:16:07,751
Scott had to dispatch Colonel Broderick
all the way from El Paso...
960
01:16:07,829 --> 01:16:10,354
...on a job that any investigator
could've done.
961
01:16:10,432 --> 01:16:14,199
This must mean, in terms of numbers,
he's no better off than we are.
962
01:16:14,270 --> 01:16:16,067
That's good solid evidence, right there.
963
01:16:16,139 --> 01:16:19,439
And gentlemen,
Paul Girard should be here very shortly.
964
01:16:20,511 --> 01:16:23,480
This stuff you unearthed, Colonel Casey,
is dynamite.
965
01:16:24,114 --> 01:16:27,378
Very revealing of General Scott's
extracurricular love life.
966
01:16:29,218 --> 01:16:31,812
Any taste of victory we have
in our mouths...
967
01:16:31,889 --> 01:16:34,483
...is due in no small measure
to your efforts.
968
01:16:35,059 --> 01:16:38,426
The taste I've got in my mouth,
Mr. Secretary, is unmentionable.
969
01:16:38,495 --> 01:16:40,657
I can understand that feeling, Colonel.
970
01:16:40,732 --> 01:16:43,394
But when you deal with a jackal
like your general...
971
01:16:43,468 --> 01:16:45,459
This is a full Air Force general.
972
01:16:45,537 --> 01:16:48,132
Six times wounded.
Wearing half the medals he deserves.
973
01:16:48,207 --> 01:16:49,674
Whatever he is, he's no jackal.
974
01:16:49,742 --> 01:16:52,006
My God, the sensitivity of our warriors.
975
01:16:52,078 --> 01:16:53,546
Did I step on your old school tie?
976
01:16:53,613 --> 01:16:55,171
You're just like a lot of civilians.
977
01:16:55,248 --> 01:16:58,149
After every armistice you want
to put us away in mothballs.
978
01:16:58,218 --> 01:17:00,812
When it comes to dying,
you want to put us in a uniform!
979
01:17:00,887 --> 01:17:02,149
That's enough!
980
01:17:02,556 --> 01:17:03,545
Please.
981
01:17:04,091 --> 01:17:05,786
I'm sorry, sir.
982
01:17:06,461 --> 01:17:09,123
You have every right to resent
what you were forced to do.
983
01:17:09,197 --> 01:17:11,222
It was a dirty, thankless job.
984
01:17:11,532 --> 01:17:14,127
Its necessity doesn't make it
more palatable.
985
01:17:14,203 --> 01:17:17,661
I appreciate how you feel,
and deeply appreciate what you've done.
986
01:17:17,740 --> 01:17:21,074
I could never bring myself to use
any of this against Scott.
987
01:17:21,144 --> 01:17:23,169
Suppose it comes down to bare knuckles.
988
01:17:23,246 --> 01:17:25,908
Chris, I'm not prepared
to answer that just now.
989
01:17:25,982 --> 01:17:27,814
Thank God, I don't have to.
990
01:17:28,519 --> 01:17:31,352
For the first time,
I'd say we were on top of it.
991
01:17:31,422 --> 01:17:32,684
Mr. President.
992
01:17:37,861 --> 01:17:39,351
Paul Girard is dead.
993
01:17:42,666 --> 01:17:43,963
Oh, my God!
994
01:17:44,135 --> 01:17:47,435
His plane crashed in the mountains
outside of Madrid.
995
01:17:47,939 --> 01:17:49,270
Any effects?
996
01:17:52,144 --> 01:17:54,978
The wreckage was strewn out
for a couple of miles.
997
01:17:55,048 --> 01:17:57,016
Nothing left of anybody.
998
01:18:30,487 --> 01:18:33,183
You've got to give out
some kind of statement.
999
01:18:34,891 --> 01:18:37,326
- Can I draft one for you?
- What?
1000
01:18:39,097 --> 01:18:40,564
About his being away.
1001
01:18:44,901 --> 01:18:48,098
Say he was abroad on a vacation.
Don't say any more than that.
1002
01:18:53,478 --> 01:18:56,880
I've had two close friends in my life.
I mean, really close.
1003
01:18:59,618 --> 01:19:01,085
One was Paul Girard.
1004
01:19:04,090 --> 01:19:05,717
The other is Ray Clark.
1005
01:19:07,260 --> 01:19:09,627
One of them helped me become president.
1006
01:19:11,465 --> 01:19:14,457
This one helped me to remain president.
1007
01:19:16,704 --> 01:19:18,695
I've cost Paul Girard his life.
1008
01:19:21,342 --> 01:19:24,005
What about Ray Clark? Where is he?
1009
01:19:26,448 --> 01:19:28,143
Where in God's name is he?
1010
01:19:29,050 --> 01:19:31,747
Now look here, Prentice.
Don't you jolly me, boy.
1011
01:19:31,821 --> 01:19:35,848
I'm 24 hours stuck in this oven.
You heard me right, boy.
1012
01:19:37,995 --> 01:19:41,931
When I get out of here, you better be ready
with a long list of answers.
1013
01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:46,027
You heard me right, boy.
You heard me right.
1014
01:19:49,874 --> 01:19:51,067
Yes, Senator.
1015
01:19:51,942 --> 01:19:53,239
I agree, sir.
1016
01:19:55,012 --> 01:19:56,604
By all means, Senator.
1017
01:19:57,514 --> 01:19:58,777
Very well, sir.
1018
01:20:03,021 --> 01:20:07,550
Prentice assures me your committee
was notified of the existence of this base.
1019
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:10,827
You were vacationing someplace
off in Georgia...
1020
01:20:10,930 --> 01:20:13,399
...getting a change of scene or something.
1021
01:20:13,667 --> 01:20:17,626
You better get yourself a change of story
because that don't cut any ice.
1022
01:20:18,038 --> 01:20:21,770
I've been doing no vacationing
since Congress has been in session.
1023
01:20:22,076 --> 01:20:25,534
There is no record of any ECOMCON base...
1024
01:20:25,846 --> 01:20:27,871
...or any designation like it.
1025
01:20:32,321 --> 01:20:35,722
Why don't you have yourself a drink
and finish your dinner?
1026
01:20:36,758 --> 01:20:39,956
I'll show you around our base
a little later on.
1027
01:20:40,029 --> 01:20:41,621
We're mighty proud of it.
1028
01:20:41,698 --> 01:20:43,563
I'd like to take that tour right now.
1029
01:20:43,633 --> 01:20:46,762
That won't be possible, Senator,
that won't be possible.
1030
01:20:47,171 --> 01:20:50,572
But I'll see you later.
We'll look around when it's cooler.
1031
01:21:40,629 --> 01:21:41,789
Jordie, boy.
1032
01:21:43,465 --> 01:21:46,161
Right now, short of
a Confederate miracle...
1033
01:21:48,471 --> 01:21:52,305
...you're going to be walking in a parade
with both your legs cut off.
1034
01:21:55,780 --> 01:21:59,375
I'm not going to make matters worse
by getting drunk on the job.
1035
01:22:15,901 --> 01:22:18,836
Keep on working.
I will talk with the Consul.
1036
01:22:21,808 --> 01:22:24,436
- Are you the American Consul?
- Yes, I'm from the embassy.
1037
01:22:24,510 --> 01:22:26,671
- I'm Captain Ortega.
- Henry Whitney.
1038
01:22:27,313 --> 01:22:30,841
We are collecting the effects,
but there really isn't very much.
1039
01:22:32,286 --> 01:22:36,951
As I told them over the phone, there were
only two American nationals on board.
1040
01:22:37,092 --> 01:22:40,255
Mrs. Agnes Buchanan
from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1041
01:22:40,829 --> 01:22:44,663
And a Mr. Paul Girard.
His destination was Washington.
1042
01:22:45,433 --> 01:22:48,129
There was no address
on the passenger manifest.
1043
01:23:09,862 --> 01:23:12,592
Did you find any effects of the Americans?
Anything at all?
1044
01:23:12,664 --> 01:23:14,359
Nothing yet, se�or.
1045
01:23:30,583 --> 01:23:31,948
Senator Clark?
1046
01:23:33,019 --> 01:23:33,883
Yeah.
1047
01:23:40,161 --> 01:23:42,857
I'm Colonel Henderson,
Colonel Broderick's adjutant.
1048
01:23:42,930 --> 01:23:46,594
I didn't think Colonel Broderick
had an adjutant, just a bartender.
1049
01:23:47,135 --> 01:23:48,727
I don't understand, sir.
1050
01:23:48,804 --> 01:23:51,830
Well, it's just that you're so hospitable
around here.
1051
01:23:52,808 --> 01:23:55,538
I got a message yesterday
that you'd call my home.
1052
01:23:55,610 --> 01:23:59,445
I didn't connect you with the message
until I found out you were here.
1053
01:23:59,582 --> 01:24:02,449
I'm sorry about your having
to stay in your room.
1054
01:24:02,518 --> 01:24:05,818
Frankly, I don't understand it,
but the orders were quite specific.
1055
01:24:05,889 --> 01:24:07,584
I'll just have to live with it.
1056
01:24:07,658 --> 01:24:11,891
As to the call, I was really phoning
for a mutual friend of ours, Jiggs Casey.
1057
01:24:12,797 --> 01:24:13,957
Mutt, isn't it?
1058
01:24:14,799 --> 01:24:17,063
That's what they call me.
How do you know Jiggs?
1059
01:24:17,135 --> 01:24:19,900
He has been up before our committee
a number of times...
1060
01:24:19,972 --> 01:24:22,702
...and he's done some favors for me
on occasion.
1061
01:24:26,244 --> 01:24:27,836
Could I get you a drink?
1062
01:24:27,912 --> 01:24:29,971
Those part of your orders, Colonel?
1063
01:24:30,715 --> 01:24:31,876
I don't understand.
1064
01:24:31,951 --> 01:24:33,680
To get me snoggered?
1065
01:24:34,186 --> 01:24:35,414
No, sir. I just...
1066
01:24:35,488 --> 01:24:38,252
These bottles have been coming in
every hour on the hour.
1067
01:24:38,324 --> 01:24:40,452
Doesn't that seem a little odd to you?
1068
01:24:40,894 --> 01:24:43,761
I mean, keeping me cooped up in here
with a flow of bourbon!
1069
01:24:43,830 --> 01:24:46,197
- I don't know what you're saying.
- What do you know?
1070
01:24:46,267 --> 01:24:47,393
About what?
1071
01:24:47,468 --> 01:24:49,629
Would you sit down and hear me out?
1072
01:24:50,905 --> 01:24:51,929
I guess so.
1073
01:24:55,210 --> 01:24:57,576
I want to preface this
with an assurance to you.
1074
01:24:57,646 --> 01:25:01,810
My mind is sound, even though I've been
cooped up here for a day and a night.
1075
01:25:04,019 --> 01:25:05,782
Do you trust Jiggs Casey?
1076
01:25:05,854 --> 01:25:08,255
You name it, he can have it, sir. Why?
1077
01:25:09,626 --> 01:25:11,856
If he told you something,
would you believe him?
1078
01:25:11,928 --> 01:25:13,294
I would, indeed.
1079
01:25:13,631 --> 01:25:15,861
All right, then. Check this one out.
1080
01:25:19,036 --> 01:25:21,665
When you told Jiggs about ECOMCON
last Monday...
1081
01:25:22,641 --> 01:25:24,575
...he'd never heard of it before.
1082
01:25:25,844 --> 01:25:26,869
That's funny.
1083
01:25:28,314 --> 01:25:30,509
There was a moment, just one moment.
1084
01:25:32,251 --> 01:25:34,844
How did you know about
my seeing Jiggs on Monday?
1085
01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:37,548
He told me.
He told some other people, too.
1086
01:25:37,756 --> 01:25:39,656
He'd never heard of it before.
1087
01:25:40,025 --> 01:25:44,963
After you left, Jiggs went over
all the JCS orders for the last year.
1088
01:25:45,798 --> 01:25:48,666
There was no record of ECOMCON
or anything like it.
1089
01:25:48,735 --> 01:25:52,694
Impossible. Colonel Broderick goes to
Washington all the time to brief the brass.
1090
01:25:52,773 --> 01:25:54,207
Not all of the brass.
1091
01:25:54,909 --> 01:25:58,037
Not President Lyman, not me.
A very selective briefing.
1092
01:25:59,047 --> 01:26:00,776
All you've got to know is this:
1093
01:26:01,850 --> 01:26:05,980
The government of the United States is
at the top of the Washington Monument...
1094
01:26:06,221 --> 01:26:09,748
...tipping right and left, ready to fall
and break up on the pavement.
1095
01:26:09,825 --> 01:26:11,986
Just a handful of men can prevent that.
1096
01:26:12,394 --> 01:26:14,055
And you're one of them.
1097
01:26:14,798 --> 01:26:16,322
Now you listen to me, Mutt.
1098
01:26:20,837 --> 01:26:23,602
I'll tell you the damnedest story
you ever heard.
1099
01:26:25,509 --> 01:26:29,947
You're relieved. I'm taking the civilian
in my custody. Go back to the barracks.
1100
01:26:30,015 --> 01:26:31,243
Senator Clark.
1101
01:26:42,928 --> 01:26:44,054
Post 10.
1102
01:26:46,264 --> 01:26:47,788
Give me Colonel Broderick's office.
1103
01:27:47,834 --> 01:27:51,269
I'm sorry, but I have orders that the civilian
is not to leave the base.
1104
01:27:51,336 --> 01:27:55,170
I'm countermanding those orders,
and escorting the civilian into town.
1105
01:27:55,841 --> 01:27:58,538
Sir, I don't know.
Colonel Broderick said that...
1106
01:28:02,248 --> 01:28:03,681
Throw the keys over here.
1107
01:28:03,750 --> 01:28:07,016
Eject that cartridge belt,
and throw it down on the ground.
1108
01:28:31,047 --> 01:28:33,608
You stay put right here.
I'll phone the White House.
1109
01:28:33,851 --> 01:28:38,185
When this is over, you can take off
your girdle and have yourself a good cry.
1110
01:28:38,622 --> 01:28:41,490
Say, have you got a dime
to stop a revolution with?
1111
01:29:32,582 --> 01:29:37,144
Ma'am, did you see a real tall soldier
with a funny hat waiting right here?
1112
01:29:37,821 --> 01:29:38,685
No.
1113
01:30:07,054 --> 01:30:09,248
Could your men have been mistaken, Art?
1114
01:30:09,889 --> 01:30:13,086
Not a chance, sir.
The gate guard was too positive.
1115
01:30:13,159 --> 01:30:14,684
It was Henderson all right.
1116
01:30:14,761 --> 01:30:17,559
Brought into the Fort Myer stockade,
10:30 this morning.
1117
01:30:17,631 --> 01:30:21,568
Rode in the back of an Army sedan
under guard. Now held incommunicado.
1118
01:30:23,171 --> 01:30:25,139
Okay, Arthur. Thank you.
1119
01:30:26,908 --> 01:30:28,399
At least he's alive.
1120
01:30:29,578 --> 01:30:31,170
Admiral Barnswell, sir.
1121
01:30:37,988 --> 01:30:40,218
Admiral Barnswell, this is the President.
1122
01:30:42,926 --> 01:30:45,827
Well, sir, he came aboard a few days ago...
1123
01:30:47,230 --> 01:30:51,463
...he passed on your personal greetings,
and that's about the size of it, sir.
1124
01:30:56,074 --> 01:30:59,976
Frankly, no, Mr. President.
He gave me nothing to sign.
1125
01:31:03,783 --> 01:31:07,879
I'm sorry, sir. I can only recount to you
the situation as it occurred.
1126
01:31:08,688 --> 01:31:10,247
I signed no paper.
1127
01:31:11,158 --> 01:31:12,887
He took nothing with him.
1128
01:31:17,697 --> 01:31:21,155
Well, if anything happens
to revitalize your memory, Admiral...
1129
01:31:21,834 --> 01:31:23,860
...l'd appreciate a phone call.
1130
01:31:34,883 --> 01:31:37,182
It's now 2:20 on a Saturday afternoon.
1131
01:31:39,288 --> 01:31:41,449
At 2:20 tomorrow afternoon...
1132
01:31:42,625 --> 01:31:45,823
...somebody will have thrown a switch
at Mount Thunder...
1133
01:31:46,763 --> 01:31:50,358
...General James Scott will be
on all three television networks...
1134
01:31:51,168 --> 01:31:55,468
...explaining to the United States people
why this crucifixion is an act of faith.
1135
01:31:57,542 --> 01:32:00,238
What would you call this?
Sponge-throwing time?
1136
01:32:00,311 --> 01:32:02,871
Mr. President, what are you waiting for?
1137
01:32:03,514 --> 01:32:07,042
Fire Scott, Hardesty, Dieffenbach, Riley.
1138
01:32:08,020 --> 01:32:11,650
Sedition, pure and simple.
Close down Mount Thunder.
1139
01:32:11,925 --> 01:32:13,586
Declare a state of martial law.
1140
01:32:13,660 --> 01:32:16,356
And then where do I stand?
A lunatic. A paranoiac.
1141
01:32:16,529 --> 01:32:18,930
A screaming wild man
with nothing to back him up...
1142
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:21,400
...because his proof is scattered
over a mountain...
1143
01:32:21,469 --> 01:32:26,371
...disappeared in an airport, or it's all part
of delirium tremens of a dipso senator.
1144
01:32:31,779 --> 01:32:34,680
Would you allow me to strike
that last idiotic remark?
1145
01:32:35,649 --> 01:32:39,142
There's no need, Jordie.
It's just what the Congress would say.
1146
01:32:40,288 --> 01:32:42,586
But you do have one last alternative.
1147
01:32:43,158 --> 01:32:44,250
And that is?
1148
01:32:47,096 --> 01:32:50,088
To use these letters
that Casey got from the girl.
1149
01:32:53,170 --> 01:32:58,198
When you get to the bottom of the barrel,
where we are now, you use expedients.
1150
01:33:00,177 --> 01:33:01,508
Hit the network cutoff.
1151
01:33:01,578 --> 01:33:02,909
Network cutoff.
1152
01:33:03,714 --> 01:33:04,703
Good.
1153
01:33:05,516 --> 01:33:07,382
Now, one more time. Position A.
1154
01:33:07,786 --> 01:33:09,219
Site G. Pope Field.
1155
01:33:14,460 --> 01:33:16,860
- Position B.
- ECOMCON force. Site Y.
1156
01:33:19,866 --> 01:33:22,562
- Position C.
- Site X. Mount Thunder, C.P.
1157
01:33:22,803 --> 01:33:24,100
Good, good.
1158
01:33:39,986 --> 01:33:40,976
Let's hear it.
1159
01:33:41,055 --> 01:33:42,989
Barney Rutkowski, Air Defense.
1160
01:33:43,257 --> 01:33:47,490
He's screaming bloody murder about those
12 troop carriers dispatched to El Paso.
1161
01:33:47,629 --> 01:33:51,224
Says they're checked for El Paso
and then lost on the radar screen.
1162
01:33:51,300 --> 01:33:53,791
Wants to know where they went and why.
1163
01:33:53,869 --> 01:33:57,863
He also wants to know why 30 more
are at Bragg with the same destination.
1164
01:33:58,108 --> 01:34:01,601
- What did you tell him?
- I told him it was classified and to forget it.
1165
01:34:01,679 --> 01:34:03,237
Well, that ought to do it.
1166
01:34:05,249 --> 01:34:08,616
He's a hard-nosed book player
with a radar screen at his bed.
1167
01:34:09,086 --> 01:34:13,455
If I know him, he's not going to stop here.
He'll go right up to the President.
1168
01:34:14,860 --> 01:34:16,191
Go ahead, Barney.
1169
01:34:16,461 --> 01:34:19,988
One of my controllers was watching
a flight of troop carriers Wednesday...
1170
01:34:20,065 --> 01:34:21,396
... heading for El Paso.
1171
01:34:21,467 --> 01:34:24,698
They turned northwest
and dropped off our radar screens.
1172
01:34:24,871 --> 01:34:27,465
We tried to find out about it
through channels...
1173
01:34:27,540 --> 01:34:29,566
... and all we get is the big stall.
1174
01:34:29,676 --> 01:34:32,543
There's some kind of a secret base
out there...
1175
01:34:32,613 --> 01:34:35,242
... and I think I should have been
notified of it.
1176
01:34:35,984 --> 01:34:37,212
Keep going, General.
1177
01:34:37,352 --> 01:34:42,311
Thirty more transports were due at this
classified place at 7:00 a.m. Tomorrow.
1178
01:34:42,789 --> 01:34:45,656
Now I learn it's been moved up
to 23:00 tonight.
1179
01:34:54,102 --> 01:34:56,230
I want all those aircraft grounded.
1180
01:34:57,039 --> 01:34:59,803
You're to give the order
that they're to stand down.
1181
01:34:59,875 --> 01:35:04,108
That's been authorized by the President,
can be verified by calling the White House.
1182
01:35:04,181 --> 01:35:05,671
Do you understand that?
1183
01:35:05,749 --> 01:35:07,148
I guess I do, sir.
1184
01:35:07,684 --> 01:35:09,015
I want you available.
1185
01:35:09,085 --> 01:35:11,486
Phone in and let this office know
where you are.
1186
01:35:11,556 --> 01:35:12,716
Yes, sir.
1187
01:35:15,826 --> 01:35:18,420
The next step should be
to your liking, Chris.
1188
01:35:19,330 --> 01:35:20,729
- Esther?
- Yes, sir.
1189
01:35:20,998 --> 01:35:22,465
Call the Pentagon.
1190
01:35:23,034 --> 01:35:25,435
Tell General Scott
I want to see him right away.
1191
01:35:25,504 --> 01:35:28,302
I think it's time we faced the enemy,
Mr. President.
1192
01:35:29,074 --> 01:35:30,508
He's not the enemy.
1193
01:35:30,910 --> 01:35:32,605
Scott, the Joint Chiefs...
1194
01:35:33,346 --> 01:35:37,784
...even the very emotional, very illogical
lunatic fringe, they're not the enemy.
1195
01:35:38,385 --> 01:35:39,852
The enemy is an age.
1196
01:35:40,821 --> 01:35:42,049
A nuclear age.
1197
01:35:43,624 --> 01:35:46,753
It happens to have killed man's faith
in his ability...
1198
01:35:48,163 --> 01:35:50,358
...to influence what happens to him.
1199
01:35:50,764 --> 01:35:54,063
And out of this comes a sickness.
A sickness of frustration.
1200
01:35:54,902 --> 01:35:57,531
A feeling of impotence,
helplessness, weakness.
1201
01:35:58,807 --> 01:36:01,742
And from this, this desperation...
1202
01:36:03,011 --> 01:36:05,947
...we look for a champion
in red, white and blue.
1203
01:36:06,215 --> 01:36:08,615
Every now and then
a man on a white horse rides by...
1204
01:36:08,684 --> 01:36:12,121
...and we appoint him to be
our personal god for the duration.
1205
01:36:12,956 --> 01:36:17,655
For some men it was a Senator McCarthy.
For others it was a General Walker.
1206
01:36:19,464 --> 01:36:21,329
Now it's a General Scott.
1207
01:36:47,561 --> 01:36:49,961
- Yes?
- General Scott is here, sir.
1208
01:36:53,268 --> 01:36:55,031
Send him in, please.
1209
01:37:02,209 --> 01:37:04,234
Good evening, Mr. President.
1210
01:37:04,312 --> 01:37:05,745
Sit down, General.
1211
01:37:15,425 --> 01:37:18,326
I'm glad you decided to call off
that fishing trip.
1212
01:37:19,295 --> 01:37:20,729
Don't bother about that.
1213
01:37:23,767 --> 01:37:25,496
We don't need it tonight.
1214
01:37:27,505 --> 01:37:29,973
We aren't going to have an alert tomorrow.
1215
01:37:31,976 --> 01:37:35,537
I beg your pardon, Mr. President.
You wish the alert cancelled?
1216
01:37:35,680 --> 01:37:37,910
I do. I intend to cancel it.
1217
01:37:39,651 --> 01:37:40,914
May I ask why?
1218
01:37:41,987 --> 01:37:46,583
Certain facts have come to my attention.
I won't waste time detailing them all now.
1219
01:37:46,859 --> 01:37:49,829
I'll simply say that
I want your resignation tonight...
1220
01:37:50,564 --> 01:37:54,092
...and those of Generals Hardesty,
Riley and Dieffenbach as well.
1221
01:38:00,441 --> 01:38:04,071
Either you are joking,
or you have taken leave of your senses.
1222
01:38:04,146 --> 01:38:08,241
I know of no reason why I should remove
my name from the active list voluntarily.
1223
01:38:08,316 --> 01:38:10,841
Or, for that matter,
any of the other Joint Chiefs.
1224
01:38:10,918 --> 01:38:13,284
You could give me the reasons, General.
1225
01:38:13,888 --> 01:38:16,824
But if you want me to itemize them,
I shall be glad to do so.
1226
01:38:16,892 --> 01:38:17,881
Please do.
1227
01:38:18,060 --> 01:38:20,221
You have used, without my authority...
1228
01:38:21,163 --> 01:38:24,622
...substantial sums from
the Joint Chiefs' Contingency Fund...
1229
01:38:25,135 --> 01:38:29,163
...to establish a base, and train
a special unit of troops whose purpose...
1230
01:38:29,240 --> 01:38:32,505
...and even whose existence,
was kept secret from me...
1231
01:38:33,110 --> 01:38:36,808
...from officials of the Bureau of the Budget
and members of the Congress.
1232
01:38:36,882 --> 01:38:38,315
And the name of the unit?
1233
01:38:38,383 --> 01:38:39,748
You know that unit.
1234
01:38:40,318 --> 01:38:42,445
It's designation is ECOMCON.
1235
01:38:45,323 --> 01:38:47,985
I'm afraid your memory fails you,
Mr. President.
1236
01:38:48,059 --> 01:38:51,291
You gave me verbal authorization
for the base and the unit.
1237
01:38:51,697 --> 01:38:53,927
As I recall, we covered many items
that day.
1238
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:56,026
Perhaps you didn't pay much attention.
1239
01:38:56,103 --> 01:38:58,571
I assumed you'd inform
the Director of the Budget.
1240
01:38:58,639 --> 01:39:01,130
What was the date of that meeting,
General?
1241
01:39:01,208 --> 01:39:06,112
I can't recall exactly, but it was right here
in this office. Last November, I believe.
1242
01:39:06,181 --> 01:39:08,649
You have a record of the date and subject?
1243
01:39:09,184 --> 01:39:12,052
Certainly, Mr. President, in my office.
1244
01:39:13,088 --> 01:39:15,989
If you want,
I'll get it from the Pentagon now.
1245
01:39:16,058 --> 01:39:18,389
That won't be necessary, General.
1246
01:39:18,460 --> 01:39:19,984
No, it won't be necessary.
1247
01:39:20,361 --> 01:39:23,798
Colonel Murdock, my aide, is outside.
He sat in on the meeting.
1248
01:39:24,533 --> 01:39:28,299
He will substantiate my memorandum
as to the date and the discussion.
1249
01:39:28,404 --> 01:39:31,841
- I'll ask him in.
- That won't be necessary either, General.
1250
01:39:33,376 --> 01:39:36,972
You kept a member of the US Senate
forcibly detained at this base...
1251
01:39:37,048 --> 01:39:38,481
...and he will so testify.
1252
01:39:38,549 --> 01:39:39,538
That would be?
1253
01:39:39,617 --> 01:39:43,383
That would be Senator Raymond Clark,
the senior senator from Georgia.
1254
01:39:44,089 --> 01:39:47,252
I wasn't aware that Senator Clark
had ever visited the base.
1255
01:39:47,326 --> 01:39:49,726
He will also testify as to the collusion...
1256
01:39:50,529 --> 01:39:54,056
...between the commander of the base
and Senator Prentice of California...
1257
01:39:54,132 --> 01:39:58,229
...who with yourself and a handful of others
knew of the existence of the base.
1258
01:40:05,946 --> 01:40:07,174
Any other charges?
1259
01:40:07,414 --> 01:40:09,882
Would you like them
in chronological order?
1260
01:40:10,851 --> 01:40:14,049
The selection of a commanding officer
for a secret base...
1261
01:40:14,122 --> 01:40:17,182
...who is openly contemptuous
of civilian authority...
1262
01:40:17,459 --> 01:40:21,294
...and who's made statements that come
close to violation of the sedition laws.
1263
01:40:21,430 --> 01:40:25,866
I never discuss politics with my officers,
but I do demand the highest competence.
1264
01:40:26,468 --> 01:40:29,869
Colonel Broderick is an excellent officer
with a fine combat record.
1265
01:40:29,938 --> 01:40:32,601
And an interesting travel record,
you might add.
1266
01:40:32,675 --> 01:40:37,112
What was he doing on a motor boat
cruising around my island at Blue Lake?
1267
01:40:37,179 --> 01:40:40,877
Don't tell me that's my imagination
because I've got him on film.
1268
01:40:40,951 --> 01:40:45,354
What about the kidnapping and detention
of Colonel Henderson at the airport today?
1269
01:40:45,423 --> 01:40:47,186
I know about that case.
1270
01:40:47,258 --> 01:40:50,352
Colonel Henderson struck an enlisted man
and left his post.
1271
01:40:50,428 --> 01:40:52,693
He's now being held for disciplinary action.
1272
01:40:52,831 --> 01:40:56,733
Incommunicado, you might add.
So that he doesn't tell what he knows.
1273
01:40:58,170 --> 01:41:01,196
And then there are the wagering activities
of yours, General...
1274
01:41:01,273 --> 01:41:03,639
...particularly a betting pool
on the Preakness.
1275
01:41:03,709 --> 01:41:05,540
Come now, Mr. President.
1276
01:41:06,079 --> 01:41:09,640
Or perhaps more aptly classified,
your personal and private code.
1277
01:41:10,483 --> 01:41:13,180
It covers your plan
for the military overthrow...
1278
01:41:13,254 --> 01:41:15,381
...of the United States Government.
1279
01:41:15,790 --> 01:41:19,021
I presume, Mr. President,
you're prepared to back up that charge.
1280
01:41:19,260 --> 01:41:22,355
I am prepared to brand you
for what you are, General.
1281
01:41:23,298 --> 01:41:26,700
A strutting egoist
with a Napoleonic power complex.
1282
01:41:27,570 --> 01:41:29,333
And an out-and-out traitor!
1283
01:41:30,773 --> 01:41:33,264
I know you think
I'm a weak sister, General...
1284
01:41:33,675 --> 01:41:37,406
...but when it comes to my oath of office
and defending the Constitution...
1285
01:41:37,479 --> 01:41:38,673
I know how to salute a flag.
1286
01:41:38,747 --> 01:41:41,615
You don't know the democratic processes
it represents.
1287
01:41:41,684 --> 01:41:44,346
Don't you presume to take on that job,
Mr. President...
1288
01:41:44,420 --> 01:41:46,320
...because you're not qualified.
1289
01:41:46,389 --> 01:41:49,587
Your action in the past year
has bordered on criminal negligence.
1290
01:41:49,660 --> 01:41:53,562
The treaty with the Russians is a violation
of any concept of security.
1291
01:41:53,631 --> 01:41:57,466
You're not a weak sister, Mr. President.
You're a criminally weak sister.
1292
01:41:59,471 --> 01:42:03,374
If you will talk about your oath of office,
I'm here to tell you face to face:
1293
01:42:03,442 --> 01:42:06,309
You violated that oath by stripping
the country's muscles...
1294
01:42:06,379 --> 01:42:08,813
...when you played upon the fear
of the people...
1295
01:42:08,881 --> 01:42:12,476
...and told them they could remove
that fear by the stroke of a pen.
1296
01:42:12,551 --> 01:42:16,579
Then when this nation rejected you
and began militantly to oppose you...
1297
01:42:16,990 --> 01:42:20,517
...you violated that oath by not resigning
and turning the country over...
1298
01:42:20,594 --> 01:42:23,086
...to someone who'd represent the people.
1299
01:42:23,164 --> 01:42:26,531
And that would be
General James Mattoon Scott, wouldn't it?
1300
01:42:29,738 --> 01:42:32,969
I don't know whether to laugh
at such megalomania, or simply cry.
1301
01:42:33,042 --> 01:42:37,537
James Mattoon Scott hasn't the slightest
interest in his own glorification...
1302
01:42:37,881 --> 01:42:40,907
...but he does have a concern
about the survival of this country.
1303
01:42:40,984 --> 01:42:43,042
Then, by God, run for office!
1304
01:42:43,719 --> 01:42:47,678
You have a such a fervid, passionate,
evangelical affection for your country.
1305
01:42:47,756 --> 01:42:49,884
Why in God's name don't you have faith...
1306
01:42:49,959 --> 01:42:52,894
...in the system of government
you're so hell-bent to protect?
1307
01:42:52,962 --> 01:42:56,194
You say I've duped the people.
I've bilked them. I've misled them.
1308
01:42:56,267 --> 01:42:58,735
I've stripped them naked
and made them defenseless.
1309
01:42:58,803 --> 01:43:01,203
You accuse me of having lost their faith...
1310
01:43:01,272 --> 01:43:04,731
...and deliberately and criminally
shut my ears to the national voice?
1311
01:43:04,810 --> 01:43:06,107
I do.
1312
01:43:08,046 --> 01:43:10,208
Where the hell have you heard that voice?
1313
01:43:10,283 --> 01:43:11,614
In freight elevators?
1314
01:43:11,684 --> 01:43:14,517
In dark alleys? In secret places
in the dead of night?
1315
01:43:15,021 --> 01:43:18,320
How did that voice seep into a locked room
full of conspirators?
1316
01:43:18,391 --> 01:43:22,259
That's not where you hear the voice
of the people. Not in this republic.
1317
01:43:22,328 --> 01:43:24,854
You want to defend
the United States of America?
1318
01:43:24,932 --> 01:43:28,732
Then defend it with the tools it supplies
you with, it's Constitution.
1319
01:43:28,802 --> 01:43:31,431
You ask for a mandate, General,
from a ballot box.
1320
01:43:31,506 --> 01:43:35,169
You don't steal it after midnight
when the country has it's back turned.
1321
01:43:35,243 --> 01:43:37,235
Are you serious, Mr. President?
1322
01:43:38,514 --> 01:43:40,482
Are you honest-to-God serious?
1323
01:43:43,285 --> 01:43:45,117
I could walk out of here tonight...
1324
01:43:45,188 --> 01:43:47,816
...and offer myself as candidate
for the presidency...
1325
01:43:47,891 --> 01:43:49,950
...and by tomorrow, I'd be at that desk...
1326
01:43:50,026 --> 01:43:52,493
...with precisely the mandate
you hold so dear.
1327
01:43:52,561 --> 01:43:55,792
And what's more, you know it, I know it,
and the country knows it.
1328
01:43:55,865 --> 01:43:59,461
Don't say I'd have seized an office
tomorrow without the benefit of support.
1329
01:43:59,536 --> 01:44:03,597
If you had the guts to call for a show
of hands, you'd be on an airplane to Ohio.
1330
01:44:03,673 --> 01:44:05,869
You can ask for and get
your show of hands.
1331
01:44:05,943 --> 01:44:08,343
Wait a year and nine months
for an election.
1332
01:44:08,412 --> 01:44:12,577
By then, I don't think there'll be
an electorate, let alone an election.
1333
01:44:12,918 --> 01:44:17,014
I think we'll be sitting in our own rubble.
A minimum of 100 million dead.
1334
01:44:17,489 --> 01:44:19,617
And on the gravestone we can carve:
1335
01:44:19,692 --> 01:44:23,093
"They died for Jordan Lyman's
concept of peace."
1336
01:44:42,751 --> 01:44:44,742
Did it ever occur to you that...
1337
01:44:45,320 --> 01:44:47,915
...if you took over this government
by force...
1338
01:44:48,825 --> 01:44:52,489
...you wouldn't have to wait
a year and nine months for the funeral?
1339
01:44:52,996 --> 01:44:57,228
If the Soviet Union saw our government
taken over by a military dictatorship...
1340
01:44:58,669 --> 01:45:01,364
...how long would it take them
to break the treaty?
1341
01:45:01,437 --> 01:45:03,098
Possibly even attack us?
1342
01:45:04,640 --> 01:45:07,838
I think perhaps a question of days,
perhaps hours...
1343
01:45:08,846 --> 01:45:10,279
...certainly weeks.
1344
01:45:13,618 --> 01:45:17,486
I want your resignation, General.
I want it tonight. I'm expecting it.
1345
01:45:17,689 --> 01:45:22,059
Along with the other members of the Joint
Chiefs who are involved in this treason.
1346
01:45:22,895 --> 01:45:25,125
I'll tell you quite unequivocally...
1347
01:45:25,664 --> 01:45:28,463
...l'll not tell the reason
for your resignation.
1348
01:45:28,802 --> 01:45:32,499
If that were ever made public,
this country would go down the drain.
1349
01:45:33,240 --> 01:45:35,970
- Will you resign, General?
- I will not resign.
1350
01:45:37,477 --> 01:45:39,843
I can demand your resignation,
as you well know.
1351
01:45:39,913 --> 01:45:42,439
Demand and be damned.
I will not resign voluntarily.
1352
01:45:42,516 --> 01:45:44,006
Nor will any of the others.
1353
01:45:44,085 --> 01:45:46,747
But what I will do is take this issue
to the people.
1354
01:45:46,821 --> 01:45:48,414
I'll demand a public platform.
1355
01:45:48,991 --> 01:45:52,051
Then we'll see which one of us
the United States will follow.
1356
01:45:59,636 --> 01:46:00,968
Anything else...
1357
01:46:03,274 --> 01:46:04,332
...Mr. President?
1358
01:46:10,013 --> 01:46:12,538
I've called a press conference
for tomorrow.
1359
01:46:14,885 --> 01:46:18,150
I'll announce that I've asked for
all of your resignations.
1360
01:46:19,556 --> 01:46:21,148
I'll use as a reason...
1361
01:46:30,937 --> 01:46:32,996
...our differences over the treaty.
1362
01:46:33,572 --> 01:46:36,440
Without proof,
you couldn't possibly say otherwise.
1363
01:46:36,543 --> 01:46:38,443
You simply wouldn't dare.
1364
01:46:38,979 --> 01:46:40,344
I'm going to fight you.
1365
01:47:37,810 --> 01:47:41,007
I'm sorry, Jiggs.
Return them to Miss Holbrook.
1366
01:48:16,620 --> 01:48:19,590
This will be delivered at:00 tonight
on all major networks.
1367
01:48:19,657 --> 01:48:21,716
I'll be taping it in one hour.
1368
01:48:23,227 --> 01:48:24,818
This is strong stuff, General.
1369
01:48:24,895 --> 01:48:26,328
Thank you, General.
1370
01:48:28,632 --> 01:48:33,570
Are you sure that he won't use this
press conference to make any accusations?
1371
01:48:34,072 --> 01:48:38,567
He'll use this press conference to support
a position that is totally indefensible.
1372
01:48:41,146 --> 01:48:45,139
General, if he accuses us of sedition,
whether he has the proof or not...
1373
01:48:46,853 --> 01:48:48,514
...this could be a sticky business.
1374
01:48:48,588 --> 01:48:50,317
Jordan Lyman is finished...
1375
01:48:50,690 --> 01:48:54,821
...no matter what he says during his press
conference, no matter what he does after.
1376
01:48:54,929 --> 01:48:59,389
An educated guess is that within a week
there'll be a move for impeachment.
1377
01:48:59,467 --> 01:49:00,695
That's it, gentlemen.
1378
01:49:00,768 --> 01:49:04,397
You're welcome to stay here and watch
on television. I'll be at the studio.
1379
01:49:04,472 --> 01:49:07,499
Colonel Murdock will be in touch with me
if I'm needed.
1380
01:49:07,576 --> 01:49:08,565
Good day.
1381
01:49:27,866 --> 01:49:31,131
Ladies and gentlemen,
the President of the United States.
1382
01:49:40,845 --> 01:49:42,813
All right, gentlemen. Let's begin.
1383
01:49:44,082 --> 01:49:47,246
The Gallup Poll of last week
indicated what appears to be...
1384
01:49:47,319 --> 01:49:50,880
... a very universal rejection
of your entire political philosophy.
1385
01:49:50,956 --> 01:49:54,984
The nuclear treaty with the Soviets.
Would you comment on that?
1386
01:49:55,061 --> 01:49:57,495
Insofar as the treaty is concerned...
1387
01:49:58,298 --> 01:50:02,395
... my reasons for asking that it be ratified
have been stated and re-stated.
1388
01:50:03,838 --> 01:50:06,306
We have reached a point on this earth...
1389
01:50:11,946 --> 01:50:14,141
Excuse mejust a moment, gentlemen.
1390
01:50:21,524 --> 01:50:23,549
Jordie, you better talk to this fellow.
1391
01:50:23,626 --> 01:50:26,151
This is Henry Whitney
from our embassy in Madrid.
1392
01:50:26,229 --> 01:50:27,753
He brought this.
1393
01:50:36,841 --> 01:50:40,277
I'm the only one who's read that paper.
Nobody knows I'm here.
1394
01:50:42,246 --> 01:50:44,737
Delay the press conference for a half hour.
1395
01:50:45,516 --> 01:50:49,954
You are never to disclose or even hint at
the existence of this paper, Mr. Whitney.
1396
01:50:50,021 --> 01:50:51,921
I emphasize the word "never."
1397
01:50:51,990 --> 01:50:54,356
- Ray, have this Photostatted.
- Yes, sir.
1398
01:50:55,293 --> 01:50:58,593
Colonel Casey, see that Scott
and the others get copies right away.
1399
01:50:58,664 --> 01:50:59,653
Yes, sir.
1400
01:51:20,188 --> 01:51:22,952
That's a signed statement
from Admiral Barnswell.
1401
01:51:27,463 --> 01:51:31,059
You're a night crawler, Colonel.
A peddler. You sell information.
1402
01:51:31,635 --> 01:51:34,729
Are you sufficiently up on your Bible
to know who Judas was?
1403
01:51:37,608 --> 01:51:40,839
I suggest you read that letter, sir.
It's from the President.
1404
01:51:40,911 --> 01:51:42,503
I asked you a question.
1405
01:51:44,983 --> 01:51:46,814
Are you ordering me to answer, sir?
1406
01:51:46,885 --> 01:51:47,749
I am.
1407
01:51:51,255 --> 01:51:53,018
Yes, I know who Judas was.
1408
01:51:54,425 --> 01:51:56,825
He was a man I worked for and admired...
1409
01:51:57,061 --> 01:51:59,690
...until he disgraced the four stars
on his uniform.
1410
01:52:09,876 --> 01:52:12,243
Mr. President, for the past 48 hours...
1411
01:52:12,646 --> 01:52:16,980
... there has been considerable scuttlebutt
concerning the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1412
01:52:17,251 --> 01:52:21,655
There have been rumors that there is to be
some sort of mass resignation.
1413
01:52:22,190 --> 01:52:24,556
Would you care to comment on that, sir?
1414
01:52:25,226 --> 01:52:29,629
I'll answer that, but I'd like to preface
with a few other comments.
1415
01:52:31,266 --> 01:52:32,598
In a democracy...
1416
01:52:33,836 --> 01:52:38,000
... once the president and the Senate,
as responsible authorities...
1417
01:52:38,909 --> 01:52:42,345
... make a decision, then debate
and opposition among the military...
1418
01:52:42,512 --> 01:52:46,381
... who have opposed this treaty
from the outset, must come to an end.
1419
01:52:48,353 --> 01:52:49,945
This is the way in war.
1420
01:52:50,521 --> 01:52:54,288
So it also must be in the councils
of government here in Washington.
1421
01:52:54,693 --> 01:52:56,285
I have had no choice...
1422
01:52:56,895 --> 01:53:00,921
... but to ask for the resignation
of General James Scott.
1423
01:53:02,834 --> 01:53:07,534
At the same time, I have asked
for the resignations of three other officers:
1424
01:53:08,540 --> 01:53:11,168
General Hardesty and
General Dieffenbach...
1425
01:53:11,377 --> 01:53:13,846
... the Chiefs of Staff
of the Air Force and Army...
1426
01:53:13,913 --> 01:53:16,939
... and General Riley,
Commandant of the Marine Corps.
1427
01:53:19,519 --> 01:53:22,512
Yes, I've already heard. He told me so.
1428
01:53:26,795 --> 01:53:28,592
General, I'll be right out.
1429
01:53:36,271 --> 01:53:38,205
General, all hell's broken loose.
1430
01:53:39,040 --> 01:53:42,841
General, he's asked them to resign.
Hardesty, Dieffenbach, Riley and yourself.
1431
01:53:42,912 --> 01:53:44,880
Riley called here. He tried to reach you.
1432
01:53:44,947 --> 01:53:47,178
Somehow Lyman got a hold
of Barnswell's statement.
1433
01:53:47,251 --> 01:53:49,617
It implicated all of us.
Names, dates, the works.
1434
01:53:49,686 --> 01:53:51,586
Jim, what are we going to do?
1435
01:53:51,722 --> 01:53:54,351
When do we tape?
You got my speech, didn't you?
1436
01:53:54,426 --> 01:53:58,590
Yes, but when this came out minutes ago,
the five network vice-presidents called me.
1437
01:53:58,663 --> 01:54:00,654
Do I get on the air or don't I?
1438
01:54:00,733 --> 01:54:04,931
We've gone along with you all the way,
but for God's sake, we're in jeopardy now.
1439
01:54:05,004 --> 01:54:06,869
The last thing we want is publicity.
1440
01:54:06,939 --> 01:54:08,337
Shut up, Prentice.
1441
01:54:08,673 --> 01:54:09,662
Harold?
1442
01:54:09,841 --> 01:54:11,934
General, it's out of my hands now.
1443
01:54:14,212 --> 01:54:15,407
What will you do?
1444
01:54:15,481 --> 01:54:18,211
Go to Mount Thunder and cut in
on the television networks.
1445
01:54:18,284 --> 01:54:20,878
- He's asked for your...
- He won't get them!
1446
01:54:20,953 --> 01:54:24,321
Dieffenbach, Riley and Hardesty are made
of sterner stuff than you.
1447
01:54:24,391 --> 01:54:26,450
- General, be realistic.
- Go to hell!
1448
01:54:29,730 --> 01:54:32,290
I can comment on that to this extent.
1449
01:54:33,367 --> 01:54:38,499
Americans, traditionally and historically,
have given vent to their views.
1450
01:54:39,675 --> 01:54:42,508
On the day that this government
does anything arbitrarily...
1451
01:54:42,578 --> 01:54:45,376
... to stifle those views,
it will have to change form.
1452
01:54:45,447 --> 01:54:47,312
It will cease to be a democracy.
1453
01:54:47,549 --> 01:54:50,986
And I can state quite frankly
that this day will not come.
1454
01:54:58,762 --> 01:55:01,663
Gentlemen, the papersjust handed me...
1455
01:55:02,801 --> 01:55:04,268
... are the resignations...
1456
01:55:04,669 --> 01:55:07,331
... of Generals Hardesty, Riley,
and Dieffenbach.
1457
01:55:08,974 --> 01:55:10,533
I'll repeat that, gentlemen.
1458
01:55:10,610 --> 01:55:15,513
These three officers havejust officially
tendered their resignations.
1459
01:55:16,115 --> 01:55:19,481
Their statements will be made public
after this conference.
1460
01:55:19,718 --> 01:55:22,118
Before we have any further questions...
1461
01:55:22,954 --> 01:55:25,253
... may I insert these comments?
1462
01:55:25,758 --> 01:55:29,785
The point of this treaty, as I've reiterated
on a number of occasions...
1463
01:55:30,063 --> 01:55:32,258
... is that in every true sense...
1464
01:55:32,366 --> 01:55:36,427
... we force ourselves gradually
to step away from an offensive posture.
1465
01:55:38,706 --> 01:55:40,003
I'm sorry, sir.
1466
01:55:41,643 --> 01:55:42,905
Where to, sir?
1467
01:55:48,083 --> 01:55:49,015
Sir?
1468
01:55:54,323 --> 01:55:55,551
Take me home.
1469
01:56:02,732 --> 01:56:04,963
Your General's just been shot down.
1470
01:56:06,003 --> 01:56:06,935
Yes.
1471
01:56:11,243 --> 01:56:12,835
Were those the bullets?
1472
01:56:14,913 --> 01:56:17,245
They might have been, but they weren't.
1473
01:56:22,622 --> 01:56:24,487
- Ellie.
- Yes?
1474
01:56:26,658 --> 01:56:28,057
Another rain check?
1475
01:56:31,263 --> 01:56:33,960
Tuck it somewhere safe,
where you won't forget.
1476
01:56:38,338 --> 01:56:41,570
There has been abroad in this land
in recent months...
1477
01:56:41,642 --> 01:56:45,602
...a whisper that we have somehow
lost our greatness...
1478
01:56:46,815 --> 01:56:50,046
...that we do not have the strength
to win without war...
1479
01:56:51,119 --> 01:56:53,588
...the struggles for liberty
throughout the world.
1480
01:56:54,490 --> 01:56:55,957
This is slander...
1481
01:56:57,193 --> 01:56:59,354
...because our country is strong...
1482
01:56:59,629 --> 01:57:01,790
...strong enough to be a peacemaker.
1483
01:57:02,398 --> 01:57:05,094
It is proud. Proud enough to be patient.
1484
01:57:06,103 --> 01:57:09,732
The whisperers, the detractors,
the violent men are wrong.
1485
01:57:10,907 --> 01:57:15,811
We will remain strong and proud,
peaceful and patient...
1486
01:57:17,048 --> 01:57:19,711
...and we will see a day
when on this earth...
1487
01:57:20,052 --> 01:57:23,852
...all men will walk out
of the long tunnels of tyranny...
1488
01:57:25,457 --> 01:57:27,824
...into the bright sunshine of freedom.
1489
01:57:33,267 --> 01:57:37,599
Ladies and gentlemen, that was
the President of the United States.