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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...
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...rests on Admiral Barnswell's
parting with $10?
235
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That was the General's personal business.
236
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What are you getting so hot about?
237
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You're right. It's not important.
238
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Operator, have you got a listing
for ECOMCON?
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E-C-O-M-C-O-N.
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You don't? Thank you very much.
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ECOMCON and horse racing.
What the hell's going on here?
242
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Can you explain why the good General
walks into a Senate hearing...
243
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...like he's St. George
and the administration's a dragon?
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Simmer down, Paul.
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I mean it. Your boss did everything
but draw a sword.
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They asked, he answered.
You guys are getting sensitive.
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Little too sensitive if you ask me.
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- Good evening, Senator.
- Good evening, Colonel.
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It's as simple as this.
250
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The President trusts Russia.
The American people don't.
251
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They don't believe the Russians
will take the bombs apart on July 1...
252
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...and neither do I.
253
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Senator, do you think that the President's
position is so unreasonable?
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If Russia reneges or cheats,
we'd find out immediately.
255
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The deal is off. There'd be no danger.
Now, doesn't that make sense?
256
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Let's hear the view of someone
more knowledgeable...
257
00:19:13,420 --> 00:19:17,140
...as to the Soviet Union's capacity
to destroy us. Colonel Casey?
258
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As a military officer,
I steer clear of politics.
259
00:19:20,220 --> 00:19:24,180
Let's forget that you're a military officer.
You also happen to be a citizen.
260
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Well, then I'll have to take the Fifth.
261
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Colonel, do you like the treaty
or don't you?
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Oh, Senator. Pardon me.
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I want you to meet
the Indian Ambassador's wife.
264
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Just a moment.
We're discussing the treaty.
265
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I want you to hear
the Pentagon's viewpoint.
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Go ahead, Colonel.
267
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The treaty isn't viewed very favorably.
268
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Neither are income taxes,
but we pay them.
269
00:19:47,980 --> 00:19:51,500
But you make me think that fruit salad
on your chest is for neutrality...
270
00:19:51,580 --> 00:19:53,540
...evasiveness and fence-straddling.
271
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On the contrary, they're standard awards...
272
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...for cocktail courage
and dinner-table heroism.
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I thought you'd invented them.
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Excuse me, Paul.
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Ellie. I didn't know you were back in town.
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You never looked.
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You surprised me tonight, Colonel Casey.
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The voice of reason coming out
of a military man?
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I've got a lot of hidden talents.
280
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Oh, I suspected that right along.
Ever since my ex-lover introduced us.
281
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And how is the staunch General Scott?
And his lovely wife?
282
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He keeps busy.
283
00:20:36,980 --> 00:20:40,700
So I read. There's a sizeable portion
of the citizenry...
284
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...who says that he's the savior
of the western world.
285
00:20:44,180 --> 00:20:45,940
He does his job, Ellie.
286
00:20:46,180 --> 00:20:50,300
Well, take care of him, Jiggs.
See that he rests on the seventh day.
287
00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:51,700
I'll try.
288
00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:58,740
That marvelous military stoicism.
The iron mask.
289
00:20:59,580 --> 00:21:02,900
Is that for quenching a torch
or washing a wound?
290
00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:07,420
Well, let me put it to you this way,
Jiggs, darling.
291
00:21:07,620 --> 00:21:09,940
What the hell business is it of yours?
292
00:21:11,940 --> 00:21:13,780
- I want that.
- No, you don't.
293
00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:22,140
Now, you listen to me.
Now, what is it? Is it just Scott?
294
00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:25,700
It's Scott. It's that and everything.
295
00:21:27,780 --> 00:21:29,180
It's my whole damned life.
296
00:21:29,900 --> 00:21:33,140
You're not the first dame to ever wind up
on the bottom of the deck.
297
00:21:33,220 --> 00:21:36,540
It happens every day. What matters is
how a person lives with it.
298
00:21:36,620 --> 00:21:38,940
Stop playing the part
of the anguished drunk...
299
00:21:38,980 --> 00:21:43,140
...digging olives out of martinis and
boring everybody with tragic stories.
300
00:21:44,340 --> 00:21:48,020
You know, sober, Ellie, you're a bright,
beautiful dame.
301
00:21:48,340 --> 00:21:49,780
Good to have around.
302
00:21:54,940 --> 00:21:56,580
Will you drive me home, Jiggs?
303
00:21:57,740 --> 00:21:59,140
Whenever you say.
304
00:22:00,180 --> 00:22:01,580
I'll get my coat.
305
00:22:06,340 --> 00:22:08,820
Good night, Stew.
Thank you for a very nice party.
306
00:22:08,940 --> 00:22:11,420
Thanks for coming, Senator.
Pleasure having you.
307
00:22:13,220 --> 00:22:15,700
I hope you forgive
my little outburst tonight.
308
00:22:15,700 --> 00:22:19,660
It's a combination of deep concerns
and dry martinis. A dangerous combo.
309
00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:21,860
I've been reamed by experts, Senator.
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Grey Thunderbird.
311
00:22:25,700 --> 00:22:29,300
I was simply trying to get you to say
what I happen to know you believe in.
312
00:22:29,380 --> 00:22:31,740
You work for the one man
who commands confidence...
313
00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:34,460
...and could possibly lead us
out of this mess.
314
00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:36,660
You just remember:
315
00:22:37,340 --> 00:22:41,100
There are plenty of us up on the Hill
who stand right alongside of you.
316
00:22:43,180 --> 00:22:46,500
We've all got to stay on the alert
these days, Casey.
317
00:22:46,580 --> 00:22:48,100
Specially on Sunday, right?
318
00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:02,980
Thank you.
319
00:23:14,060 --> 00:23:15,380
There you are.
320
00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:19,500
Something's come up. I've got to drive out
to Fort Myer to see the General.
321
00:23:20,180 --> 00:23:21,900
May I call a cab for you?
322
00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:23,860
No, thank you. I'll manage.
323
00:23:23,940 --> 00:23:26,580
I'm sorry, Ellie, but this is very important.
324
00:23:28,060 --> 00:23:31,660
All right, Jiggs, but just in case
someone forgets to mention it...
325
00:23:31,740 --> 00:23:33,460
...you're a great crutch.
326
00:23:34,540 --> 00:23:38,140
It's too bad you're only available
20 minutes at a time.
327
00:23:38,940 --> 00:23:42,900
You can't tell. Sometimes the country
can spare me for a whole evening.
328
00:23:46,140 --> 00:23:48,140
Give me a rain check, I'll prove it.
329
00:23:48,380 --> 00:23:51,260
Tuck it somewhere safe
where you won't forget it.
330
00:23:51,700 --> 00:23:53,060
Good night, Ellie.
331
00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:55,460
Good night, Jiggs.
332
00:25:15,260 --> 00:25:16,740
- Hi, Jack.
- Hi, Jiggs.
333
00:25:18,540 --> 00:25:20,500
Colonel Broderick's with him.
334
00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:32,300
Well, well, well.
335
00:25:33,940 --> 00:25:37,940
If it isn't my favorite jarhead himself,
Jiggs Casey.
336
00:25:38,500 --> 00:25:42,220
Hello, Broderick. I thought you'd be
in Okinawa, or maybe worse.
337
00:25:42,860 --> 00:25:46,940
Not me, Casey boy, not me.
Still protecting the great unwashed?
338
00:25:47,620 --> 00:25:50,220
I thought you'd be
a civil liberties lawyer by now.
339
00:25:50,260 --> 00:25:52,340
You might make it yet.
340
00:25:54,420 --> 00:25:57,300
By the way, Casey, my boy,
I hear you're doing a fine job...
341
00:25:57,420 --> 00:25:59,620
...as Director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
342
00:26:03,540 --> 00:26:05,500
- Hello, Jiggs.
- Good morning, sir.
343
00:26:06,460 --> 00:26:08,060
How was the party last night?
344
00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:09,940
Well, you missed a good one.
345
00:26:10,660 --> 00:26:12,100
Anyone there I know?
346
00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:16,260
Paul Girard from the White House and
Senator Prentice were the ranking guests.
347
00:26:17,420 --> 00:26:19,660
There must have been a hassle
over the treaty.
348
00:26:19,740 --> 00:26:21,220
There was, sir.
349
00:26:22,140 --> 00:26:25,020
- Prentice uphold our side all right?
- He was pretty candid.
350
00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:27,260
Also quite complimentary about you.
351
00:26:28,140 --> 00:26:30,460
By the way, Ellie Holbrook was there.
352
00:26:31,420 --> 00:26:32,700
Nice seeing her again.
353
00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:38,740
- Let's get on with it, Jiggs.
- Yes, sir.
354
00:26:39,940 --> 00:26:42,620
These are from January's All Red Alert, sir.
355
00:26:43,940 --> 00:26:46,700
Pearl Harbor, 12 minutes
after the threat warning.
356
00:26:46,820 --> 00:26:51,500
Twelve minutes and over 80 percent
of the fleet sitting there like overfed ducks.
357
00:26:52,540 --> 00:26:53,340
Next.
358
00:26:58,340 --> 00:27:00,820
Wright Field, 22 minutes into the alert.
359
00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:03,620
This one really gives me an ache in the gut.
360
00:27:03,660 --> 00:27:07,420
Half of those aircraft aren't even scrambled
let alone off the ground.
361
00:27:11,220 --> 00:27:12,660
Over Mount Thunder.
362
00:27:14,220 --> 00:27:17,460
- The President's in the middle helicopter.
- Right out in the open.
363
00:27:17,460 --> 00:27:19,300
Thirty-four minutes into the alert.
364
00:27:19,420 --> 00:27:23,500
Canned sound indicates possibility
of hostile action by the Soviet Union.
365
00:27:28,180 --> 00:27:29,900
There are 30 more shots, sir.
366
00:27:30,020 --> 00:27:32,300
Each one of them more fouled up
than the others.
367
00:27:33,620 --> 00:27:36,060
Let's hope Sunday's alert
will be different, sir.
368
00:27:36,660 --> 00:27:38,620
It damn well better be.
369
00:27:42,420 --> 00:27:44,660
Wouldn't it help
if you changed your mind...
370
00:27:45,460 --> 00:27:47,100
About what, Jiggs?
371
00:27:47,460 --> 00:27:50,100
Inviting the congressional people
to observe the alert.
372
00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:54,980
It wouldn't hurt us if a congressman
or a senator...
373
00:27:55,060 --> 00:27:57,500
...saw how effectively we can work
when we have to.
374
00:27:57,620 --> 00:28:00,460
Nobody from the Hill is
to know a thing about this.
375
00:28:01,220 --> 00:28:02,380
Yes, sir.
376
00:28:05,700 --> 00:28:06,500
Yes?
377
00:28:06,580 --> 00:28:09,900
9:20, sir. They're waiting for you
in the conference room.
378
00:28:11,420 --> 00:28:14,980
I've even persuaded the President
to come down without the press.
379
00:28:15,420 --> 00:28:17,060
- No newspapermen?
- None.
380
00:28:22,060 --> 00:28:23,860
Get to bed late, sir?
381
00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:31,260
Got to bed too early.
Slept from 8:00 to 8:00. Too much sleep.
382
00:28:33,260 --> 00:28:34,660
I may never wake up.
383
00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:37,900
Stay close, Jiggs.
384
00:28:38,820 --> 00:28:40,900
I'll want to see you after this meeting.
385
00:29:10,820 --> 00:29:13,620
Colonel Murdock said you've heard
about our Preakness pool.
386
00:29:13,660 --> 00:29:14,820
Yes, sir.
387
00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:17,500
I'd appreciate it if you'd keep it to yourself.
388
00:29:17,620 --> 00:29:19,460
All I want is the right horse.
389
00:29:21,900 --> 00:29:26,220
Admiral Barnswell's reply. I'd appreciate it
if you'd keep that in confidence, too.
390
00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:27,500
Of course, sir.
391
00:29:29,820 --> 00:29:31,900
I see the Navy wasn't here today.
392
00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:35,900
Admiral Palmer couldn't make it.
We'll brief him later.
393
00:29:36,060 --> 00:29:40,220
Speaking of the Navy, that reminds me.
That young J.G. In All Service Radio.
394
00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:41,500
Grayson, sir?
395
00:29:42,020 --> 00:29:44,020
He's a bit of a gossip, isn't he?
396
00:29:44,060 --> 00:29:45,580
He means well.
397
00:29:47,620 --> 00:29:50,660
Well, I'm off to New York
and the AVO Convention.
398
00:29:50,740 --> 00:29:53,860
If you get a chance, listen in.
I'd like to know what you think.
399
00:29:53,980 --> 00:29:56,380
- Certainly, sir. Good luck.
- Thank you.
400
00:30:26,420 --> 00:30:28,580
Hey, Colonel, get a load of this.
401
00:30:28,620 --> 00:30:30,340
What is it, Grayson?
402
00:30:31,940 --> 00:30:33,220
A transfer.
403
00:30:34,060 --> 00:30:35,140
Pearl Harbor?
404
00:30:35,180 --> 00:30:38,460
Yes, I think I got some kind
of guardian angel around here.
405
00:30:38,860 --> 00:30:41,660
Good old Pearl Harbor.
406
00:30:42,140 --> 00:30:46,260
By the way, Barnswell was the only one
to poop out of the Chairman's racing form.
407
00:30:46,380 --> 00:30:48,940
All the others came through
with their IOUs.
408
00:31:12,260 --> 00:31:16,580
Ladies and gentlemen, you have heard me
in my nightly newscasts.
409
00:31:16,860 --> 00:31:18,580
You know where I stand.
410
00:31:19,180 --> 00:31:23,780
I'm not a lover of communists, socialists,
or intellectual bleeding hearts.
411
00:31:24,260 --> 00:31:26,420
I happen to have only one interest...
412
00:31:26,460 --> 00:31:30,980
... and that is symbolized by the red,
white and blue of our glorious flag.
413
00:31:35,420 --> 00:31:37,460
Now I'm going to give you the one man...
414
00:31:37,460 --> 00:31:41,620
... who not only speaks for that flag,
but has fought for it with distinction...
415
00:31:41,660 --> 00:31:43,820
... and now represents it with honor.
416
00:31:44,860 --> 00:31:48,620
Four-star general, winner of
the Congressional Medal of Honor...
417
00:31:48,820 --> 00:31:52,820
... and two Distinguished Service Crosses,
a hero of war...
418
00:31:53,260 --> 00:31:55,820
... a stalwart protector of the peace.
419
00:31:56,460 --> 00:31:57,860
Ladies and gentlemen...
420
00:31:58,380 --> 00:32:04,180
... the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
General James Mattoon Scott!
421
00:32:08,180 --> 00:32:11,180
We want Scott! We want Scott!
422
00:32:36,420 --> 00:32:40,420
Ladies and gentlemen,
members of the American Veterans Order.
423
00:32:42,420 --> 00:32:46,180
I would like to thank Mr. MacPherson
for his most laudatory comments.
424
00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:48,180
You're very generous, Harold.
425
00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:50,500
Perhaps patriotism is old-fashioned.
426
00:32:51,420 --> 00:32:53,900
Perhaps love of country is outdated.
427
00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:59,700
Perhaps even a minute degree of sentiment
to one's motherland is considered pass�.
428
00:33:00,380 --> 00:33:03,420
But God help us,
and God help our country...
429
00:33:03,780 --> 00:33:07,020
... if the cynics, the one-worlders,
the intellectual dilettantes...
430
00:33:07,100 --> 00:33:10,020
... ever persuade us that these things
have passed us by...
431
00:33:10,020 --> 00:33:11,980
... because, ladies and gentlemen...
432
00:33:12,020 --> 00:33:16,820
... patriotism, loyalty, sentiment,
they are the United States of America!
433
00:33:29,980 --> 00:33:33,380
In my lifetime, I have seen 1,000 ways
a man can die.
434
00:33:34,380 --> 00:33:38,220
And I know that in this country,
we have a perverse habit of forgetting...
435
00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:40,780
Operator, would you connect me
with the White House?
436
00:34:21,700 --> 00:34:25,820
The President's expecting you, Colonel.
The study, second door on the right.
437
00:34:49,260 --> 00:34:52,500
All I can tell you, pal,
is this better be damned important.
438
00:34:54,860 --> 00:34:57,660
- How are you, Colonel Casey?
- Mr. President.
439
00:34:57,780 --> 00:34:59,780
- Please, sit down.
- Thank you, sir.
440
00:35:01,740 --> 00:35:03,340
Ever been up here before, Colonel?
441
00:35:03,460 --> 00:35:05,860
No, sir. It's a big room.
442
00:35:06,380 --> 00:35:09,460
Too big for living and too small
for conventions.
443
00:35:09,660 --> 00:35:13,260
- You want a drink, Colonel?
- Yes, sir. Scotch, please.
444
00:35:13,380 --> 00:35:15,540
- Fine. I'll keep you company.
- Thank you.
445
00:35:15,580 --> 00:35:17,860
- How about you, Paul?
- No, no, thanks.
446
00:35:21,260 --> 00:35:24,980
And now, Colonel,
that matter of national security.
447
00:35:32,180 --> 00:35:36,860
Mr. President, have you ever heard
of a military unit known as ECOMCON?
448
00:35:38,660 --> 00:35:39,460
What?
449
00:35:39,460 --> 00:35:42,860
I'm sorry. E-C-O-M-C-O-N. ECOMCON.
450
00:35:44,940 --> 00:35:45,860
No.
451
00:35:47,940 --> 00:35:49,260
What does it mean?
452
00:35:50,460 --> 00:35:51,740
I'm not sure, sir.
453
00:35:53,940 --> 00:35:55,780
In formal military abbreviations...
454
00:35:55,780 --> 00:35:59,180
...it could stand for Emergency
Communications Control, but...
455
00:36:02,180 --> 00:36:04,580
I've never heard anything like that.
456
00:36:05,060 --> 00:36:07,060
- Have you, Paul?
- No, I haven't.
457
00:36:10,380 --> 00:36:12,940
Mr. President, have you ever authorized...
458
00:36:12,980 --> 00:36:17,540
...the formation of any type of secret unit,
regardless of it's name...
459
00:36:18,180 --> 00:36:22,380
...that has something to do with preserving
the security of things like...
460
00:36:22,380 --> 00:36:24,660
...television, telephone or radio?
461
00:36:24,940 --> 00:36:26,340
No, I haven't.
462
00:36:28,740 --> 00:36:31,340
Do you know of
any secret Army installation, sir...
463
00:36:31,380 --> 00:36:34,060
...that's been set up somewhere
near El Paso recently?
464
00:36:34,140 --> 00:36:35,540
The answer is no again.
465
00:36:36,780 --> 00:36:37,780
Why?
466
00:36:38,860 --> 00:36:42,260
Sir, this is something very difficult
for me because...
467
00:36:42,340 --> 00:36:45,180
...it concerns a superior officer
whom I admire and respect.
468
00:36:45,260 --> 00:36:47,460
Let's get on with it, Colonel, huh?
469
00:36:48,460 --> 00:36:49,540
Yes, sir.
470
00:36:54,060 --> 00:36:57,180
Yesterday I learned from a friend of mine,
Colonel Henderson...
471
00:36:57,260 --> 00:36:59,660
...that he's the exec officer of ECOMCON.
472
00:37:01,580 --> 00:37:05,060
His commanding officer is
an Army colonel named John Broderick.
473
00:37:05,380 --> 00:37:08,580
They're both from Signal Corps,
which indicates communications.
474
00:37:09,180 --> 00:37:14,020
They've had 100 officers
and 3,600 men training secretly...
475
00:37:14,180 --> 00:37:17,260
...at a desert base near El Paso
for six weeks or so.
476
00:37:18,180 --> 00:37:21,380
Well, then Henderson said
an odd thing to me, sir.
477
00:37:21,460 --> 00:37:25,460
Something that, well,
I can't shake quite loose of.
478
00:37:27,020 --> 00:37:31,540
He said they were spending more time
training for seizing than for preventing.
479
00:37:32,660 --> 00:37:34,260
Who set up this outfit?
480
00:37:34,820 --> 00:37:38,060
Henderson and Broderick
reported directly to General Scott...
481
00:37:38,220 --> 00:37:40,420
...so, I assume General Scott did, sir.
482
00:37:40,540 --> 00:37:44,060
You assume? You work directly
under General Scott, don't you?
483
00:37:45,420 --> 00:37:49,340
Yes, sir, but, well, I guess I'd been
cut out for some security reason.
484
00:37:51,620 --> 00:37:52,940
Go ahead, Colonel.
485
00:37:57,860 --> 00:38:01,220
Mr. President, this is
General Hardesty's writing.
486
00:38:01,860 --> 00:38:04,060
I know it pretty well.
487
00:38:04,140 --> 00:38:07,220
That paper came from
the Joint Chiefs' meeting room.
488
00:38:08,220 --> 00:38:10,540
I can't make much out of this scrawl.
489
00:38:11,420 --> 00:38:16,260
"Airlift ECOMCON 40 K 212s
at Site Y by 07:00 Sunday.
490
00:38:16,820 --> 00:38:18,820
"Chi, New York, LA, Utah."
491
00:38:19,420 --> 00:38:20,420
K 212s?
492
00:38:20,460 --> 00:38:22,420
Air Force jet transports, sir.
493
00:38:23,860 --> 00:38:24,860
What do you make of it?
494
00:38:25,020 --> 00:38:28,140
They're obviously scheduled to lift
this command out of Site Y...
495
00:38:28,220 --> 00:38:31,420
...that's the base near El Paso,
before the alert, Sunday...
496
00:38:31,460 --> 00:38:35,020
...and take those troops to Chicago, LA,
New York and Utah.
497
00:38:35,340 --> 00:38:36,340
Why Utah?
498
00:38:36,460 --> 00:38:39,740
The phone company has big relay facilities
for its long lines there.
499
00:38:39,740 --> 00:38:41,940
Precisely what are you leading up to?
500
00:38:42,020 --> 00:38:44,220
I'm not certain, Mr. President, but...
501
00:38:46,420 --> 00:38:50,540
Well, let me tell you the other things
that have happened the past two days.
502
00:38:51,460 --> 00:38:54,420
General Scott has a kind of pool
going on the Preakness race...
503
00:38:54,460 --> 00:38:55,940
...which runs on Sunday.
504
00:38:56,060 --> 00:38:58,820
He sent messages to every important
field commander...
505
00:38:58,860 --> 00:39:01,420
...talking about getting their bets
in on time.
506
00:39:01,820 --> 00:39:05,460
Admiral Barnswell was the only one
who sent in a "no bet" message.
507
00:39:06,940 --> 00:39:11,860
Your General Scott's interest in horses
isn't classified, Colonel.
508
00:39:14,820 --> 00:39:18,220
I don't think those messages had anything
to do with horses, sir.
509
00:39:18,340 --> 00:39:20,140
I think it was some kind of code.
510
00:39:20,820 --> 00:39:22,660
That's a fair-sized assumption.
511
00:39:22,740 --> 00:39:25,740
General Scott wanted those messages
kept under wraps.
512
00:39:25,860 --> 00:39:27,340
- Under wraps?
- Yes, sir.
513
00:39:27,460 --> 00:39:31,060
A J.G. Who decoded those messages
is being shipped out to Hawaii.
514
00:39:33,340 --> 00:39:35,460
There are other things, Mr. President.
515
00:39:35,540 --> 00:39:38,060
Last night at a party
at Stewart Dillard's house...
516
00:39:38,140 --> 00:39:40,140
- You were there, Paul.
- Yes.
517
00:39:40,260 --> 00:39:43,540
Senator Prentice indicated to me
a knowledge of the alert.
518
00:39:44,620 --> 00:39:47,020
No one on the Hill is supposed
to know about it.
519
00:39:47,060 --> 00:39:50,380
Senator Prentice knows.
And General Scott knows that he knows.
520
00:39:50,380 --> 00:39:52,380
- That's quite an assumption.
- How do you know?
521
00:39:52,420 --> 00:39:55,580
The General lied.
He said he was in bed last night at 8:00.
522
00:39:55,620 --> 00:39:58,100
I went to his quarters
after the party because...
523
00:39:58,180 --> 00:40:01,580
...I was concerned that Senator Prentice
had found out about the alert.
524
00:40:01,620 --> 00:40:06,100
He wasn't in bed. He was with Prentice
who arrived at his house at 11:45.
525
00:40:07,100 --> 00:40:08,620
And that's all?
526
00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:11,620
Well, Congress recessed yesterday.
527
00:40:11,780 --> 00:40:14,500
Vice-President Gianelli is in Italy
on a goodwill tour.
528
00:40:14,580 --> 00:40:17,300
This Sunday, you'll be
at an underground command post...
529
00:40:17,380 --> 00:40:19,220
...on Mount Thunder, completely alone.
530
00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:21,700
You won't even have press people
in attendance.
531
00:40:21,780 --> 00:40:22,820
That's true.
532
00:40:23,620 --> 00:40:25,980
General Scott asked that I come alone.
533
00:40:26,820 --> 00:40:28,580
All right, Colonel.
534
00:40:29,420 --> 00:40:31,180
Let's sum it up, shall we?
535
00:40:33,100 --> 00:40:34,620
You're suggesting what?
536
00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:39,180
I'm not sure, Mr. President,
just some possibilities...
537
00:40:39,220 --> 00:40:42,980
...what we call "capabilities"
in military intelligence.
538
00:40:43,380 --> 00:40:45,700
You got something against
the English language?
539
00:40:46,180 --> 00:40:47,180
No, sir.
540
00:40:47,180 --> 00:40:49,220
Then speak it plainly if you will.
541
00:40:53,780 --> 00:40:57,500
I'm suggesting there's a military plot
to take over the government.
542
00:40:57,900 --> 00:41:00,380
This may occur sometime
this coming Sunday.
543
00:41:05,420 --> 00:41:09,020
You realize you could be broken out
of the Service for what you've said?
544
00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:12,420
I've thought about the consequences.
I've been a Marine for 18 years.
545
00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:13,900
Comment, Paul?
546
00:41:15,380 --> 00:41:18,500
With all due respect to Jiggs,
it's just incredible...
547
00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:23,380
...that a secret base could've been
constructed without our hearing about it.
548
00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:27,380
Sir, when you think of the people
and the supplies involved...
549
00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:32,900
Frankly, sir, it doesn't seem logical.
550
00:41:32,980 --> 00:41:34,820
It can be checked out, though.
551
00:41:34,900 --> 00:41:38,500
Yes, I'll call Bill Condon
at the Bureau of Budget. Right now.
552
00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:50,100
I know what Scott's attitude is
on the treaty. What's yours?
553
00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:56,900
I agree with General Scott, sir.
I think we're being played for suckers.
554
00:41:57,900 --> 00:42:02,100
I think it's your business. Yours and
the Senate. You did it and they agreed.
555
00:42:03,700 --> 00:42:06,100
I don't see how we in the military
can question it.
556
00:42:06,180 --> 00:42:08,820
I mean, we can question it
but we can't fight it.
557
00:42:12,220 --> 00:42:13,580
We shouldn't, anyway.
558
00:42:16,020 --> 00:42:18,900
- Jiggs? Isn't that what they call you?
- Yes, sir.
559
00:42:21,420 --> 00:42:24,340
So you stand by the Constitution, Jiggs?
560
00:42:27,140 --> 00:42:30,140
I never thought of it just like that,
Mr. President.
561
00:42:30,940 --> 00:42:34,940
But that's what we've got,
and I guess it's worked pretty well so far.
562
00:42:35,140 --> 00:42:38,140
I sure don't want to be the one to say
we ought to change it.
563
00:42:38,340 --> 00:42:39,540
Neither do I.
564
00:42:43,820 --> 00:42:46,780
Do you have any bright ideas
on what else I can do?
565
00:42:47,540 --> 00:42:50,580
No, sir, not a one. I'm just a buck passer.
566
00:42:52,540 --> 00:42:58,020
I remember what Harry Truman said:
"Inside this room, the buck stops."
567
00:42:59,940 --> 00:43:01,820
Thanks for coming to see me, Colonel.
568
00:43:01,940 --> 00:43:02,980
Yes, sir.
569
00:43:04,580 --> 00:43:07,540
I'd appreciate it if you'd call my secretary
in the morning.
570
00:43:07,580 --> 00:43:08,940
Tell her where you'll be.
571
00:43:08,980 --> 00:43:11,780
- Thanks for coming.
- That's all right, sir. It was...
572
00:43:12,540 --> 00:43:13,980
A pleasure, Colonel?
573
00:43:15,380 --> 00:43:17,580
To get it out of my gut, yes, sir.
574
00:43:18,580 --> 00:43:21,380
I don't know whether you believe this,
but I hope I'm wrong.
575
00:43:22,180 --> 00:43:25,180
Colonel, I hope you're wrong, too.
576
00:43:26,820 --> 00:43:28,340
Good night, sir.
577
00:43:36,540 --> 00:43:39,140
- Good night, Jiggs.
- Good night, Paul.
578
00:43:44,980 --> 00:43:46,140
It is, huh?
579
00:43:47,260 --> 00:43:48,780
Okay, Bill. Thank you.
580
00:43:54,260 --> 00:43:57,780
Condon says there's never been
any money cleared for anything called...
581
00:43:57,820 --> 00:43:59,740
...ECOMCON or whatever it is.
582
00:44:01,420 --> 00:44:03,420
So your conclusion is negative?
583
00:44:04,340 --> 00:44:08,220
My conclusion is that my friend,
Colonel Casey...
584
00:44:08,340 --> 00:44:11,340
...is one Marine with a hell
of an imagination.
585
00:44:14,940 --> 00:44:18,180
You know something, Paul?
586
00:44:18,180 --> 00:44:20,420
I'm not about to disregard his story.
587
00:44:20,540 --> 00:44:21,740
But, Mr. President...
588
00:44:21,820 --> 00:44:26,940
Of course, if it's true, we've only got
four full days left before Sunday.
589
00:44:29,260 --> 00:44:31,980
We'll have to come up
with a list of men I can trust.
590
00:44:32,020 --> 00:44:36,540
I can't move very far without the head
of the White House Secret Service.
591
00:44:36,540 --> 00:44:39,660
And Chris Todd. He has the best mind
in the government.
592
00:44:40,060 --> 00:44:43,180
And can keep his mouth shut.
And get Ray Clark.
593
00:44:43,540 --> 00:44:48,340
With all due respect to Colonel Casey,
let me give you my unequivocal reaction.
594
00:44:49,260 --> 00:44:53,540
To believe any fraction of it, you have
to believe in this ECOMCON business.
595
00:44:53,620 --> 00:44:57,100
Nobody's heard of it before.
Not you, Mr. President. Not Girard.
596
00:44:57,140 --> 00:44:59,500
Not even Bill Condon
who should've heard of it.
597
00:44:59,580 --> 00:45:01,740
What makes you think it does exist?
598
00:45:01,940 --> 00:45:04,700
We have only, and again,
my apologies, Colonel Casey...
599
00:45:04,700 --> 00:45:06,900
...your conjecture. No supportable facts.
600
00:45:06,980 --> 00:45:10,580
What about the Hardesty note?
That refers to it and to a Site Y.
601
00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:14,100
That could easily mean another place.
These military games.
602
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:19,180
The multiplicity of our secret bases
confuses ourselves more than the Soviets.
603
00:45:21,740 --> 00:45:24,540
Army Intelligence was asked
to run a security check on...
604
00:45:24,540 --> 00:45:26,980
...Colonel Broderick almost two years ago.
605
00:45:27,100 --> 00:45:30,540
There's no question that the man's views
are more than just extreme.
606
00:45:30,580 --> 00:45:32,340
They border on out-and-out fascism!
607
00:45:32,380 --> 00:45:35,300
- Again, that's suspect, but not evidence.
- Exactly.
608
00:45:36,340 --> 00:45:38,100
- Colonel Casey.
- Yes, sir.
609
00:45:39,300 --> 00:45:42,500
What about this communications setup
at Mount Thunder?
610
00:45:43,300 --> 00:45:46,700
Whoever controls it, controls
the communications across the country.
611
00:45:46,740 --> 00:45:49,380
Rubbish. If I went into court
as Scott's counsel...
612
00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:51,500
...l'd move to quash the indictment...
613
00:45:51,500 --> 00:45:53,980
...and we'd be out of the courtroom
in 10 minutes.
614
00:45:54,100 --> 00:45:56,900
I'm only offering presumption of evidence.
615
00:45:58,300 --> 00:46:00,540
The Navy being left out
of the JCS meetings...
616
00:46:00,580 --> 00:46:04,020
...the Hardesty note,
this business of the jet transports...
617
00:46:04,140 --> 00:46:05,900
Forgive me, Mr. President...
618
00:46:06,300 --> 00:46:09,140
...but as for flying troops
to the big cities in an alert...
619
00:46:09,220 --> 00:46:11,620
...that seems to me not only logical
but prudent.
620
00:46:12,100 --> 00:46:15,540
Obviously, if the Russians struck,
we'd need disciplined troops...
621
00:46:15,580 --> 00:46:19,900
...in the metropolitan areas to keep order
and prevent complete breakdown.
622
00:46:20,140 --> 00:46:24,100
And if I may say so, the conversion
of a wagering pool on the Preakness...
623
00:46:24,140 --> 00:46:27,420
...into a code for some sinister plot
to seize the government...
624
00:46:27,540 --> 00:46:32,700
...seems to me suggestive of rather lurid
deductive powers to say the very least.
625
00:46:35,620 --> 00:46:39,900
Mr. Secretary, you saw Scott's
performance on television last night.
626
00:46:40,340 --> 00:46:44,780
That was no apolitical military officer.
That was a dedicated politician.
627
00:46:44,900 --> 00:46:46,980
We've always known that, Senator...
628
00:46:47,020 --> 00:46:50,100
...but that's no proof of this military junta
you're suggesting.
629
00:46:50,100 --> 00:46:51,620
Gentlemen, gentlemen.
630
00:46:54,620 --> 00:46:58,220
We've pretty much exhausted
the information as well as ourselves.
631
00:46:59,940 --> 00:47:03,020
I don't know if the evidence is
as damning as it seems.
632
00:47:03,420 --> 00:47:05,380
I do know it's sufficiently damning...
633
00:47:05,380 --> 00:47:08,940
...to proceed as if there were more
than a few grains of truth in it.
634
00:47:08,980 --> 00:47:12,260
So the following is the plan of procedure:
635
00:47:14,340 --> 00:47:16,980
Chris will stay here to coordinate things.
636
00:47:18,260 --> 00:47:21,700
Art's job is to keep tabs on
the Joint Chiefs that were mentioned.
637
00:47:21,740 --> 00:47:24,260
You'll have to have men available,
men you trust...
638
00:47:24,340 --> 00:47:26,860
...to handle any situation that comes up.
639
00:47:31,540 --> 00:47:33,340
I want you to go to El Paso.
640
00:47:34,900 --> 00:47:37,940
Take the phone number from Colonel Casey
of his friend there.
641
00:47:38,060 --> 00:47:39,780
You're to find that base...
642
00:47:40,340 --> 00:47:43,580
...if it means crawling underground
until you hit a tunnel.
643
00:47:43,780 --> 00:47:46,580
But you're to find that base if it exists.
644
00:47:48,940 --> 00:47:51,460
I don't like sending you down there, Ray.
645
00:47:51,700 --> 00:47:54,780
- Lf there were anyone else I could trust...
- Forget it, Jordie.
646
00:47:54,860 --> 00:47:57,380
Outside of getting parity
for Georgia cotton...
647
00:47:57,460 --> 00:48:01,740
...I haven't accomplished a lot
for this country. Maybe this is my chance.
648
00:48:04,140 --> 00:48:05,460
- Paul?
- Yes, sir.
649
00:48:05,500 --> 00:48:09,060
This is a note you're to take
to Admiral Barnswell in Gibraltar.
650
00:48:09,140 --> 00:48:11,740
I want you to get his reply in writing.
Understand?
651
00:48:11,780 --> 00:48:14,460
In a court of law,
your word wouldn't count for much...
652
00:48:14,540 --> 00:48:16,700
...against that of Barnswell's or Scott's.
653
00:48:16,780 --> 00:48:19,340
Mr. President, it's Wednesday evening.
654
00:48:19,580 --> 00:48:23,180
My feeling is that next week at this time
we'll all be laughing about this.
655
00:48:23,300 --> 00:48:24,860
I hope you're right.
656
00:48:26,860 --> 00:48:28,500
- Colonel Casey?
- Yes, sir.
657
00:48:30,180 --> 00:48:32,780
You'll have the thankless job of informer.
658
00:48:33,980 --> 00:48:36,100
Keep your eye on General Scott.
659
00:48:36,380 --> 00:48:40,300
Keep us informed as to whom he talks to,
whom he hears from, where he goes.
660
00:48:40,380 --> 00:48:42,660
Find out everything you can about him.
661
00:48:43,380 --> 00:48:44,340
Yes, sir.
662
00:48:48,980 --> 00:48:50,740
I think that does it, gentlemen.
663
00:48:51,540 --> 00:48:54,380
It strikes me you're taking
all the necessary steps save one.
664
00:48:54,460 --> 00:48:57,540
Chris, I hope you're quite correct
in your assumption...
665
00:48:57,580 --> 00:49:01,460
...that we're all panicky idiots.
But if you are incorrect in that judgement...
666
00:49:01,500 --> 00:49:04,700
...we're in for a week
of unadulterated nightmare.
667
00:49:29,260 --> 00:49:30,300
Good evening, sir.
668
00:49:31,060 --> 00:49:32,500
Working late, Jiggs?
669
00:49:33,260 --> 00:49:37,300
Just checking out some final touches
so there won't be any foul-ups on the alert.
670
00:49:38,700 --> 00:49:40,300
Some problems in Texas?
671
00:49:42,300 --> 00:49:43,860
No, sir. No problems.
672
00:49:44,860 --> 00:49:46,780
I'm glad everything goes well.
673
00:49:47,780 --> 00:49:50,300
I called you after I got back
from New York.
674
00:49:50,660 --> 00:49:53,460
About 4:00. They said you'd already gone.
675
00:49:53,540 --> 00:49:55,420
Well, as you can see, not so.
676
00:49:56,660 --> 00:49:58,140
How was the big city, General?
677
00:49:58,500 --> 00:50:00,260
You know these conventions.
678
00:50:01,100 --> 00:50:03,100
A rat race, luncheons, dinners...
679
00:50:03,460 --> 00:50:06,220
If I ate one more piece of chicken,
I'm afraid...
680
00:50:08,420 --> 00:50:10,020
Did you hear the speech?
681
00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:11,420
Yes, sir.
682
00:50:12,300 --> 00:50:13,020
And?
683
00:50:13,740 --> 00:50:14,900
Lmpressive.
684
00:50:17,500 --> 00:50:20,020
Now, there's a carefully chosen word.
685
00:50:20,700 --> 00:50:23,420
You wouldn't be holding something back,
would you?
686
00:50:25,260 --> 00:50:29,740
That commentator who introduced you,
he struck me as being a little overripe.
687
00:50:30,100 --> 00:50:33,620
He is. But he provides a platform
for stating my position.
688
00:50:34,340 --> 00:50:37,140
I merely use him. I don't have to like him
or trust him.
689
00:50:37,340 --> 00:50:38,260
I see.
690
00:50:39,340 --> 00:50:40,420
Do you see?
691
00:50:44,500 --> 00:50:47,300
This country's in trouble, Jiggs,
deep trouble.
692
00:50:49,460 --> 00:50:51,900
Now, there are two ways
we can handle this.
693
00:50:52,020 --> 00:50:54,020
We can sit here on our duffs and...
694
00:50:54,060 --> 00:50:57,260
...ask for divine guidance and hope for it.
Or we can...
695
00:51:02,100 --> 00:51:03,660
Or we can what, Jiggs?
696
00:51:04,820 --> 00:51:06,220
What would your advice be?
697
00:51:09,820 --> 00:51:13,500
We're a nation of laws, of rules.
698
00:51:14,900 --> 00:51:18,220
We're military men so we've taken an oath
to uphold the Constitution.
699
00:51:18,300 --> 00:51:19,700
The democratic way.
700
00:51:20,900 --> 00:51:22,300
Yes, sir. The democratic way.
701
00:51:22,420 --> 00:51:25,340
Do your duty and, as you put it,
ask for divine guidance.
702
00:51:26,940 --> 00:51:28,220
You're right, Jiggs.
703
00:51:28,300 --> 00:51:30,020
You're absolutely right.
704
00:51:31,460 --> 00:51:35,140
You know, Jiggs, you've been working
too hard on this damned alert.
705
00:51:35,460 --> 00:51:36,740
You look tired.
706
00:51:40,260 --> 00:51:42,620
Why don't you take the rest
of the week off?
707
00:51:42,660 --> 00:51:45,940
Duck down to White Sulphur Springs
and blow yourself to a good time.
708
00:51:46,060 --> 00:51:48,660
I couldn't. There are too many details
on the alert.
709
00:51:48,700 --> 00:51:50,300
Murdock will handle it.
710
00:51:50,500 --> 00:51:52,860
I should be with you at Mount Thunder
on Sunday.
711
00:51:52,940 --> 00:51:54,500
And you will be.
712
00:51:54,620 --> 00:51:58,020
Check back on the job Sunday morning
and we'll pick it up together.
713
00:51:58,100 --> 00:52:00,660
In the meantime,
you've got a three-day pass. Enjoy it.
714
00:52:00,740 --> 00:52:03,700
- When do you think I ought to leave, sir?
- Right now.
715
00:52:03,900 --> 00:52:04,900
Yes, sir.
716
00:52:10,660 --> 00:52:12,260
Have a good time, Jiggs.
717
00:52:13,500 --> 00:52:14,820
Thank you, sir.
718
00:52:29,460 --> 00:52:31,620
Paul Girard get off all right?
719
00:52:31,700 --> 00:52:34,580
Still skeptical, but he's on his way
to Gibraltar.
720
00:52:34,780 --> 00:52:37,620
Some fellows have all the luck.
Me, I get to go to Texas.
721
00:52:37,660 --> 00:52:40,620
It's enough to make a man
want to quit politics.
722
00:52:40,820 --> 00:52:42,620
It's Mutt Henderson's home phone.
723
00:52:42,620 --> 00:52:45,180
... Flight 543 for Dallas and El Paso...
724
00:52:45,220 --> 00:52:48,220
- Well, that's me.
- Good luck, Senator.
725
00:52:50,180 --> 00:52:52,060
Oh, incidentally, Jiggs.
726
00:52:52,580 --> 00:52:55,500
I'm told that a Miss Eleanor Holbrook,
you know her...
727
00:52:56,100 --> 00:52:56,980
Yes.
728
00:52:57,500 --> 00:52:59,700
I'm told she knows more
about General Scott...
729
00:52:59,820 --> 00:53:02,660
...than his wife knows about him
or the Air Force.
730
00:53:02,780 --> 00:53:03,780
Could be.
731
00:53:03,820 --> 00:53:07,380
In fact, she may know enough about him
to put some ammo in our guns.
732
00:53:10,100 --> 00:53:11,580
You catch my meaning?
733
00:53:12,380 --> 00:53:14,820
I'm not sure I want to catch your meaning.
734
00:53:14,820 --> 00:53:16,900
Just because General Scott
booted you out...
735
00:53:17,020 --> 00:53:20,620
...and told you to take a vacation,
that don't mean you'll take a vacation.
736
00:53:20,660 --> 00:53:23,180
I think you should see this Miss Holbrook.
737
00:53:23,500 --> 00:53:25,860
If she's got something on Scott,
we want it.
738
00:53:26,860 --> 00:53:31,100
There are all sorts of ways of protecting
the President of the United States.
739
00:53:34,300 --> 00:53:36,100
Take care of yourself, Senator.
740
00:53:37,700 --> 00:53:39,100
You, too, Colonel.
741
00:53:58,300 --> 00:54:00,220
Isn't that MacPherson, the commentator?
742
00:54:00,300 --> 00:54:01,100
Yes.
743
00:54:02,860 --> 00:54:04,500
That's General Scott's car.
744
00:54:05,100 --> 00:54:08,300
Buddy, you've just been impressed
into the Secret Service.
745
00:56:31,891 --> 00:56:34,359
Harold MacPherson
and General James Scott.
746
00:56:34,427 --> 00:56:35,985
There's a pair to draw to.
747
00:56:46,672 --> 00:56:48,833
Good morning, General.
This is Jordan Lyman.
748
00:56:48,908 --> 00:56:51,240
Good morning.
We're both early birds today.
749
00:56:51,310 --> 00:56:55,576
General, to come right to the point.
I'm not going to participate in the alert.
750
00:56:55,848 --> 00:56:57,372
Frankly, I'm tired out.
751
00:56:57,950 --> 00:57:01,579
I've decided to go to my place at Blue Lake
and fish for a few days.
752
00:57:01,654 --> 00:57:04,521
You'll forgive me, sir,
but I must say I don't like it.
753
00:57:04,590 --> 00:57:07,388
As Commander in Chief,
orders can only be given by you.
754
00:57:07,460 --> 00:57:11,021
Mr. President, I don't think
the Russians will be very impressed...
755
00:57:11,097 --> 00:57:13,964
...by an alert that takes place
while you go fishing.
756
00:57:14,033 --> 00:57:16,900
Suppose you let me be
thejudge of that, General.
757
00:57:17,136 --> 00:57:19,366
I'm afraid my decision is final.
758
00:57:19,438 --> 00:57:21,599
Of course. It's up to you, sir.
759
00:57:23,075 --> 00:57:25,373
When do you expect to go to Blue Lake?
760
00:57:25,511 --> 00:57:27,103
Late Friday, probably.
761
00:57:27,613 --> 00:57:29,877
I envy you. Good luck with the fish.
762
00:57:30,116 --> 00:57:32,880
- Goodbye, General.
- Goodbye, Mr. President.
763
00:57:42,094 --> 00:57:43,322
Hold my calls.
764
00:57:50,603 --> 00:57:52,366
Colonel Broderick, please.
765
00:57:52,672 --> 00:57:54,606
What's that, Mrs. Henderson?
766
00:57:55,174 --> 00:57:58,337
I'm an old friend of his.
I'm real anxious to see him.
767
00:57:59,445 --> 00:58:01,174
Clark, ma'am. Ray Clark.
768
00:58:03,382 --> 00:58:07,148
I know it's restricted,
but I thought perhaps if I could talk to him.
769
00:58:08,454 --> 00:58:09,716
What's that?
770
00:58:09,789 --> 00:58:12,622
I didn't quite hear you.
Would you say that again?
771
00:58:16,095 --> 00:58:19,030
Well, is there any way I could get
a message to him?
772
00:58:25,504 --> 00:58:29,031
Would you be good enough
to just tell him that Ray Clark called?
773
00:58:30,209 --> 00:58:32,336
Thank you very much, Mrs. Henderson.
774
00:58:43,589 --> 00:58:44,715
Fill her up?
775
00:58:45,091 --> 00:58:47,423
No thanks, honey. Just check my oil.
776
00:58:51,163 --> 00:58:52,824
Hey, you mind?
777
00:58:53,165 --> 00:58:56,362
Not at all. Tell me,
could you turn that down some?
778
00:58:56,435 --> 00:58:57,766
Oh, sure, honey.
779
00:58:58,004 --> 00:58:59,835
Hey, Charlie, turn it down.
780
00:59:00,806 --> 00:59:03,639
- Do you rent space in that thing?
- Oh, you.
781
00:59:08,914 --> 00:59:10,279
You want to dance?
782
00:59:10,916 --> 00:59:13,885
No, thank you, honey.
I just had a hernia operation.
783
00:59:16,722 --> 00:59:17,984
You are funny.
784
00:59:20,259 --> 00:59:23,092
I was sort of hoping you were in the Army.
785
00:59:25,264 --> 00:59:26,196
Why?
786
00:59:26,999 --> 00:59:29,832
Charlie heard there was a new base
being put up here.
787
00:59:29,902 --> 00:59:31,767
That's why he bought the place.
788
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:35,964
You see any soldiers?
789
00:59:36,442 --> 00:59:38,467
How long has the base been here?
790
00:59:38,944 --> 00:59:40,002
Who knows?
791
00:59:40,746 --> 00:59:45,012
You know Charlie, he's always decorating
this place. He has a talent for that.
792
00:59:45,551 --> 00:59:48,645
And on Saturday night,
he puts out a huge sign.
793
00:59:48,721 --> 00:59:52,213
It says, "Big Party."
And he doubles his drinks, too.
794
00:59:52,858 --> 00:59:55,019
And I don't water them none, either.
795
00:59:55,294 --> 00:59:57,728
You wonder what the country's coming to.
796
00:59:58,831 --> 01:00:02,767
All those boys sitting up in the desert,
never seeing no girls.
797
01:00:04,570 --> 01:00:06,765
Well, they might as well be in stir.
798
01:00:07,306 --> 01:00:09,274
How far is the base from here?
799
01:00:09,942 --> 01:00:12,172
About 50 miles or so.
800
01:00:13,179 --> 01:00:17,343
You hear the planes coming in and out
all the time, but don't see any pilots.
801
01:00:17,750 --> 01:00:20,583
Not so much as one single pilot.
802
01:00:22,121 --> 01:00:24,988
What's the matter?
Don't they drink in the Air Force?
803
01:00:26,792 --> 01:00:28,521
How would I get in there?
804
01:00:29,061 --> 01:00:32,588
Oh, lots of luck.
You can't even see the place.
805
01:00:32,698 --> 01:00:36,134
There's just a road over leading to the left
and then nothing.
806
01:00:37,536 --> 01:00:39,902
I was telling Charlie.
807
01:00:39,972 --> 01:00:44,875
We ought to drive up there sometime
with a couple of kegs of beer for the boys...
808
01:00:44,944 --> 01:00:48,710
...and tell them where it's from.
You know, leave cards or something.
809
01:02:45,431 --> 01:02:49,231
I'm glad we can offer you some real
Mediterranean weather, Mr. Girard.
810
01:02:49,301 --> 01:02:50,529
Thank you, Admiral.
811
01:02:50,603 --> 01:02:53,265
Instead of that dirty stuff they have
in the Atlantic.
812
01:02:53,672 --> 01:02:55,606
- Care for a cigar?
- No, thanks.
813
01:02:58,544 --> 01:03:02,173
Admiral, I understand you're not much
of a betting man.
814
01:03:03,282 --> 01:03:04,977
That depends on the game.
815
01:03:06,585 --> 01:03:09,850
What is your pleasure?
Poker, roulette, what?
816
01:03:09,922 --> 01:03:13,221
No, those are house games.
I don't much care for the odds.
817
01:03:14,260 --> 01:03:15,693
What about horse racing?
818
01:03:15,761 --> 01:03:20,095
On occasion. Depends on the race,
sometimes the weather.
819
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:24,961
- And the horse does make the difference.
- Well, that's true.
820
01:03:25,371 --> 01:03:27,100
What about the Preakness?
821
01:03:29,441 --> 01:03:31,568
Have you got anything good going there?
822
01:03:35,948 --> 01:03:38,007
I only bet on sure things.
823
01:03:40,953 --> 01:03:45,219
You're a very lucky sailor.
That's exactly what I've got for you.
824
01:03:45,324 --> 01:03:46,450
A sure thing.
825
01:03:46,859 --> 01:03:48,690
What is the bet, Mr. Girard?
826
01:03:48,994 --> 01:03:53,158
There are members of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff who are involved in treason.
827
01:03:53,232 --> 01:03:55,757
We know who they are,
and the essence of the plan.
828
01:03:55,834 --> 01:03:59,235
And from you,
I want a signed statement indicating...
829
01:03:59,405 --> 01:04:03,967
...when you first heard of this operation
and your complicity in this entire matter.
830
01:04:10,549 --> 01:04:12,540
Frankly, I wish I had more time.
831
01:04:13,285 --> 01:04:15,116
I wish you did, too, Admiral.
832
01:04:19,925 --> 01:04:21,654
Unfortunately, you don't.
833
01:04:28,425 --> 01:04:29,414
Jiggs.
834
01:04:29,493 --> 01:04:32,724
I'm looking for a very pretty girl
named Eleanor Holbrook.
835
01:04:33,030 --> 01:04:34,019
Come in.
836
01:04:34,264 --> 01:04:35,322
Thank you.
837
01:04:37,100 --> 01:04:38,965
You're a long way from the barracks.
838
01:04:39,036 --> 01:04:40,833
I was in the neighborhood.
839
01:04:41,138 --> 01:04:42,105
A fact?
840
01:04:42,773 --> 01:04:46,038
A lie. I just thought the country
could spare me for an evening.
841
01:04:46,109 --> 01:04:48,600
- I wondered how you were.
- I'm fine, Jiggs.
842
01:04:49,212 --> 01:04:51,840
- Would you like a martini?
- That sounds great.
843
01:04:59,389 --> 01:05:00,447
Very nice.
844
01:05:02,192 --> 01:05:03,853
Yes, that's right.
845
01:05:04,461 --> 01:05:07,430
- You've never been here before.
- No, not even close.
846
01:05:07,998 --> 01:05:09,056
Thank you.
847
01:05:10,567 --> 01:05:12,228
What is it, Jiggs?
848
01:05:13,070 --> 01:05:15,095
You have something on your mind.
849
01:05:15,439 --> 01:05:18,408
Well, hasn't your mother
ever told you about Marines?
850
01:05:18,608 --> 01:05:20,633
Well, I know all about this Marine.
851
01:05:20,710 --> 01:05:23,201
Never a wasted moment
or a thrown-away day.
852
01:05:24,314 --> 01:05:26,578
What do you want?
853
01:05:26,650 --> 01:05:28,208
Well, you invited me.
854
01:05:28,318 --> 01:05:31,253
Remember? A rain check handed out
the night of the party.
855
01:05:31,588 --> 01:05:33,920
Oh, yes. Good for one visit, anytime.
856
01:05:34,458 --> 01:05:35,686
Here I am.
857
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:38,923
What shall we talk about?
858
01:05:38,995 --> 01:05:42,795
Nuclear disarmament, high cost of living,
ladies' fashions?
859
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:49,261
Or should we fall back on the familiar item
of conversation, gentleman Jim Scott?
860
01:05:52,109 --> 01:05:56,341
Well, this must come as a shock to you,
but I lock up the office now and then.
861
01:05:57,280 --> 01:05:58,838
You're a beautiful woman.
862
01:05:59,249 --> 01:06:02,707
Don't tell me after all this time
you're making a pass, Jiggs.
863
01:06:05,188 --> 01:06:07,349
The window's open.
You could always scream.
864
01:06:23,006 --> 01:06:24,701
Is this when I scream?
865
01:06:26,376 --> 01:06:27,604
You want to scream?
866
01:06:30,780 --> 01:06:32,577
That's a rather unfair question.
867
01:06:34,618 --> 01:06:36,449
I'm a little vulnerable now.
868
01:06:38,788 --> 01:06:42,315
Particularly when it concerns an old friend
I happen to like.
869
01:06:58,175 --> 01:06:59,472
Do me a favor.
870
01:07:02,179 --> 01:07:04,511
Don't complicate my life right now.
871
01:07:05,849 --> 01:07:07,874
I just got over a very bad burn.
872
01:07:17,194 --> 01:07:19,628
Would you like another martini?
873
01:07:19,696 --> 01:07:21,459
Perhaps we should talk about...
874
01:07:33,710 --> 01:07:36,941
It's funny. It doesn't feel like an iron mask.
875
01:07:38,114 --> 01:07:39,706
You're a fraud, Jiggs.
876
01:07:41,084 --> 01:07:43,143
Hey, how about dinner someplace?
877
01:07:43,486 --> 01:07:46,751
You might even talk me into wheeling you
around a dance floor.
878
01:07:47,924 --> 01:07:52,384
No. I'll fix something for us here.
Did you know that I'm a swinging cook?
879
01:07:52,929 --> 01:07:55,124
Sounds like I've got myself a good deal.
880
01:07:56,132 --> 01:07:58,600
You might have, Jiggs. A very good deal.
881
01:08:00,270 --> 01:08:02,170
I'll make you two promises:
882
01:08:02,872 --> 01:08:06,467
A very good steak, medium rare,
and the truth, which is very rare.
883
01:08:50,353 --> 01:08:51,820
And it's in writing?
884
01:08:53,356 --> 01:08:55,688
Thank God. Now when can you get back?
885
01:08:58,495 --> 01:09:03,262
Trans Ocean, Flight 42 out of Madrid.
886
01:09:04,367 --> 01:09:06,995
Good. I'll see you for breakfast.
887
01:09:35,632 --> 01:09:37,657
Someone I knew 1,000 years ago.
888
01:09:38,468 --> 01:09:40,936
It's funny, I can't even remember his name.
889
01:09:41,004 --> 01:09:44,997
Scott, James Mattoon Scott,
General in the United States Air Force.
890
01:09:45,909 --> 01:09:47,399
Doesn't ring a bell.
891
01:09:47,711 --> 01:09:51,169
Why does a girl keep a photograph
of a man she doesn't even remember?
892
01:09:53,683 --> 01:09:55,048
I can't imagine.
893
01:10:04,094 --> 01:10:06,619
That's an easy way to get rid of a ghost.
894
01:10:07,464 --> 01:10:09,056
It works wonders.
895
01:10:11,701 --> 01:10:13,134
No symptoms remaining?
896
01:10:13,203 --> 01:10:15,068
None that I'm aware of.
897
01:10:15,939 --> 01:10:19,204
If I find that I'm kidding myself,
I know where to go for help.
898
01:10:21,945 --> 01:10:23,378
There's an easy test.
899
01:10:26,049 --> 01:10:29,485
Bring it out in the open, look at it,
talk about it, see if it hurts.
900
01:10:30,353 --> 01:10:32,878
I don't know what's to be gained
by hurting...
901
01:10:35,558 --> 01:10:37,389
...but if you think it's right...
902
01:10:38,528 --> 01:10:40,189
I think it's right.
903
01:10:41,798 --> 01:10:43,425
I was in love with him.
904
01:10:46,369 --> 01:10:47,427
I found...
905
01:10:49,105 --> 01:10:51,005
...excitement in his strength.
906
01:10:54,210 --> 01:10:56,440
I didn't mind about the backstreet angle...
907
01:10:58,948 --> 01:11:02,714
...sneaking time together,
stolen moments from his wife.
908
01:11:05,488 --> 01:11:07,956
Eleanor Holbrook, the emancipated woman.
909
01:11:17,434 --> 01:11:18,423
Go on.
910
01:11:19,002 --> 01:11:21,596
I don't know. I don't know
when it changed.
911
01:11:26,876 --> 01:11:31,336
But I began to realize
that he really never felt anything.
912
01:11:34,617 --> 01:11:36,312
Each move was calculated.
913
01:11:38,955 --> 01:11:41,253
He's a very careful man, your general.
914
01:11:43,393 --> 01:11:45,918
I don't believe he ever took a chance
in his life...
915
01:11:45,995 --> 01:11:49,487
...or ever really felt anything,
any real emotion.
916
01:11:55,839 --> 01:11:58,967
He was so sure of me
that he could even write letters.
917
01:12:00,877 --> 01:12:03,971
A careful man doesn't incriminate himself
in writing.
918
01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:05,975
That's where you're wrong.
919
01:12:07,917 --> 01:12:10,408
If he's sure enough, he can do anything...
920
01:12:11,688 --> 01:12:13,553
...anything to amuse himself.
921
01:12:18,428 --> 01:12:19,554
I kept them.
922
01:12:20,897 --> 01:12:24,799
I told myself that I'd use them
against him for revenge.
923
01:12:28,137 --> 01:12:29,502
At least, Jiggs...
924
01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:32,967
...he was right about me in that respect.
925
01:12:33,877 --> 01:12:36,038
I was pretty low, but not that low.
926
01:12:38,882 --> 01:12:40,543
Is that what you wanted?
927
01:12:42,118 --> 01:12:44,109
Does that prove anything to you?
928
01:12:44,687 --> 01:12:46,951
- I'm sorry, Ellie.
- No.
929
01:12:48,124 --> 01:12:50,558
You said to bring it out in the open.
Now it is.
930
01:12:50,627 --> 01:12:52,959
- We go from here, all right?
- Sure.
931
01:12:56,199 --> 01:12:59,430
I'll go and repair the damages
and get back to that steak.
932
01:13:00,470 --> 01:13:01,732
Don't go away.
933
01:13:30,733 --> 01:13:32,894
You know, it's a funny thing, Jiggs.
934
01:13:34,037 --> 01:13:35,698
I'm not surprised at Scott.
935
01:13:37,774 --> 01:13:39,742
But do you know what does cut?
936
01:13:40,143 --> 01:13:43,237
The fact that he sent you.
And the fact that you came.
937
01:13:45,381 --> 01:13:48,077
I need these, Ellie.
The reason doesn't matter.
938
01:13:48,151 --> 01:13:51,712
And trying to soften me up
with a little preliminary lovemaking...
939
01:13:51,888 --> 01:13:53,355
That was dirty pool, Jiggs.
940
01:13:53,423 --> 01:13:57,917
You didn't come here to salvage me.
You came here to salvage his good name.
941
01:13:57,994 --> 01:14:01,088
If I could tell you why I had to do this,
you'd understand.
942
01:14:01,965 --> 01:14:04,399
I was a stupid, impressionable female...
943
01:14:05,034 --> 01:14:08,697
...who let an Air Force general use her
like his personal airplane.
944
01:14:08,871 --> 01:14:11,897
I don't rate any applause, God knows.
But you...
945
01:14:14,544 --> 01:14:18,071
Scott didn't want to dirty his hands
collecting those letters...
946
01:14:19,182 --> 01:14:22,777
...but Colonel Casey is always ready
to clean up the General's privy.
947
01:15:11,668 --> 01:15:15,001
The man on the right, that's Murdock,
General Scott's aide.
948
01:15:15,738 --> 01:15:19,606
On the left, that's Colonel Broderick.
He commands the base at Site Y.
949
01:15:20,943 --> 01:15:23,036
I don't know who the other man is.
950
01:15:23,513 --> 01:15:25,708
So the rabbit laid bait for the fox.
951
01:15:27,016 --> 01:15:30,144
If I'd gone up to Blue Lake,
they'd have tried to kidnap me.
952
01:15:30,219 --> 01:15:31,686
I have no doubt of that at all.
953
01:15:31,754 --> 01:15:34,780
I'll make the following admission,
Colonel Casey.
954
01:15:34,857 --> 01:15:38,384
Any doubts I may have had have been
properly placed in the wastebasket.
955
01:15:38,461 --> 01:15:39,826
Good man, Chris.
956
01:15:41,531 --> 01:15:43,761
Your group did a great job
this morning, Art.
957
01:15:43,833 --> 01:15:45,960
- It's appreciated.
- Thank you, sir.
958
01:15:46,035 --> 01:15:49,004
I can bring out another point
that's made in that film.
959
01:15:49,072 --> 01:15:52,530
Scott had to dispatch Colonel Broderick
all the way from El Paso...
960
01:15:52,608 --> 01:15:55,133
...on a job that any investigator
could've done.
961
01:15:55,211 --> 01:15:58,977
This must mean, in terms of numbers,
he's no better off than we are.
962
01:15:59,048 --> 01:16:00,845
That's good solid evidence, right there.
963
01:16:00,917 --> 01:16:04,216
And gentlemen,
Paul Girard should be here very shortly.
964
01:16:05,288 --> 01:16:08,257
This stuff you unearthed, Colonel Casey,
is dynamite.
965
01:16:08,891 --> 01:16:12,156
Very revealing of General Scott's
extracurricular love life.
966
01:16:13,996 --> 01:16:16,590
Any taste of victory we have
in our mouths...
967
01:16:16,666 --> 01:16:19,260
...is due in no small measure
to your efforts.
968
01:16:19,836 --> 01:16:23,203
The taste I've got in my mouth,
Mr. Secretary, is unmentionable.
969
01:16:23,272 --> 01:16:25,433
I can understand that feeling, Colonel.
970
01:16:25,508 --> 01:16:28,170
But when you deal with a jackal
like your general...
971
01:16:28,244 --> 01:16:30,235
This is a full Air Force general.
972
01:16:30,313 --> 01:16:32,907
Six times wounded.
Wearing half the medals he deserves.
973
01:16:32,982 --> 01:16:34,449
Whatever he is, he's no jackal.
974
01:16:34,517 --> 01:16:36,781
My God, the sensitivity of our warriors.
975
01:16:36,853 --> 01:16:38,320
Did I step on your old school tie?
976
01:16:38,387 --> 01:16:39,945
You're just like a lot of civilians.
977
01:16:40,022 --> 01:16:42,923
After every armistice you want
to put us away in mothballs.
978
01:16:42,992 --> 01:16:45,586
When it comes to dying,
you want to put us in a uniform!
979
01:16:45,661 --> 01:16:46,923
That's enough!
980
01:16:47,330 --> 01:16:48,319
Please.
981
01:16:48,865 --> 01:16:50,560
I'm sorry, sir.
982
01:16:51,234 --> 01:16:53,896
You have every right to resent
what you were forced to do.
983
01:16:53,970 --> 01:16:55,995
It was a dirty, thankless job.
984
01:16:56,305 --> 01:16:58,899
Its necessity doesn't make it
more palatable.
985
01:16:58,975 --> 01:17:02,433
I appreciate how you feel,
and deeply appreciate what you've done.
986
01:17:02,512 --> 01:17:05,845
I could never bring myself to use
any of this against Scott.
987
01:17:05,915 --> 01:17:07,940
Suppose it comes down to bare knuckles.
988
01:17:08,017 --> 01:17:10,679
Chris, I'm not prepared
to answer that just now.
989
01:17:10,753 --> 01:17:12,584
Thank God, I don't have to.
990
01:17:13,289 --> 01:17:16,122
For the first time,
I'd say we were on top of it.
991
01:17:16,192 --> 01:17:17,454
Mr. President.
992
01:17:22,632 --> 01:17:24,122
Paul Girard is dead.
993
01:17:27,436 --> 01:17:28,733
Oh, my God!
994
01:17:28,905 --> 01:17:32,204
His plane crashed in the mountains
outside of Madrid.
995
01:17:32,708 --> 01:17:34,039
Any effects?
996
01:17:36,913 --> 01:17:39,746
The wreckage was strewn out
for a couple of miles.
997
01:17:39,816 --> 01:17:41,784
Nothing left of anybody.
998
01:18:15,251 --> 01:18:17,947
You've got to give out
some kind of statement.
999
01:18:19,655 --> 01:18:22,089
- Can I draft one for you?
- What?
1000
01:18:23,860 --> 01:18:25,327
About his being away.
1001
01:18:29,665 --> 01:18:32,862
Say he was abroad on a vacation.
Don't say any more than that.
1002
01:18:38,241 --> 01:18:41,642
I've had two close friends in my life.
I mean, really close.
1003
01:18:44,380 --> 01:18:45,847
One was Paul Girard.
1004
01:18:48,851 --> 01:18:50,478
The other is Ray Clark.
1005
01:18:52,021 --> 01:18:54,387
One of them helped me become president.
1006
01:18:56,225 --> 01:18:59,217
This one helped me to remain president.
1007
01:19:01,464 --> 01:19:03,455
I've cost Paul Girard his life.
1008
01:19:06,102 --> 01:19:08,764
What about Ray Clark? Where is he?
1009
01:19:11,207 --> 01:19:12,902
Where in God's name is he?
1010
01:19:13,809 --> 01:19:16,505
Now look here, Prentice.
Don't you jolly me, boy.
1011
01:19:16,579 --> 01:19:20,606
I'm 24 hours stuck in this oven.
You heard me right, boy.
1012
01:19:22,752 --> 01:19:26,688
When I get out of here, you better be ready
with a long list of answers.
1013
01:19:27,757 --> 01:19:30,783
You heard me right, boy.
You heard me right.
1014
01:19:34,630 --> 01:19:35,824
Yes, Senator.
1015
01:19:36,699 --> 01:19:37,996
I agree, sir.
1016
01:19:39,769 --> 01:19:41,361
By all means, Senator.
1017
01:19:42,271 --> 01:19:43,533
Very well, sir.
1018
01:19:47,777 --> 01:19:52,305
Prentice assures me your committee
was notified of the existence of this base.
1019
01:19:52,715 --> 01:19:55,582
You were vacationing someplace
off in Georgia...
1020
01:19:55,685 --> 01:19:58,153
...getting a change of scene or something.
1021
01:19:58,421 --> 01:20:02,380
You better get yourself a change of story
because that don't cut any ice.
1022
01:20:02,792 --> 01:20:06,523
I've been doing no vacationing
since Congress has been in session.
1023
01:20:06,829 --> 01:20:10,287
There is no record of any ECOMCON base...
1024
01:20:10,599 --> 01:20:12,624
...or any designation like it.
1025
01:20:17,073 --> 01:20:20,474
Why don't you have yourself a drink
and finish your dinner?
1026
01:20:21,510 --> 01:20:24,707
I'll show you around our base
a little later on.
1027
01:20:24,780 --> 01:20:26,372
We're mighty proud of it.
1028
01:20:26,449 --> 01:20:28,314
I'd like to take that tour right now.
1029
01:20:28,384 --> 01:20:31,512
That won't be possible, Senator,
that won't be possible.
1030
01:20:31,921 --> 01:20:35,322
But I'll see you later.
We'll look around when it's cooler.
1031
01:21:25,374 --> 01:21:26,534
Jordie, boy.
1032
01:21:28,210 --> 01:21:30,906
Right now, short of
a Confederate miracle...
1033
01:21:33,215 --> 01:21:37,049
...you're going to be walking in a parade
with both your legs cut off.
1034
01:21:40,523 --> 01:21:44,118
I'm not going to make matters worse
by getting drunk on the job.
1035
01:22:00,643 --> 01:22:03,578
Keep on working.
I will talk with the Consul.
1036
01:22:06,549 --> 01:22:09,177
- Are you the American Consul?
- Yes, I'm from the embassy.
1037
01:22:09,251 --> 01:22:11,412
- I'm Captain Ortega.
- Henry Whitney.
1038
01:22:12,054 --> 01:22:15,581
We are collecting the effects,
but there really isn't very much.
1039
01:22:17,026 --> 01:22:21,690
As I told them over the phone, there were
only two American nationals on board.
1040
01:22:21,831 --> 01:22:24,994
Mrs. Agnes Buchanan
from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1041
01:22:25,568 --> 01:22:29,402
And a Mr. Paul Girard.
His destination was Washington.
1042
01:22:30,172 --> 01:22:32,868
There was no address
on the passenger manifest.
1043
01:22:54,597 --> 01:22:57,327
Did you find any effects of the Americans?
Anything at all?
1044
01:22:57,399 --> 01:22:59,094
Nothing yet, se�or.
1045
01:23:15,317 --> 01:23:16,682
Senator Clark?
1046
01:23:17,753 --> 01:23:18,617
Yeah.
1047
01:23:24,894 --> 01:23:27,590
I'm Colonel Henderson,
Colonel Broderick's adjutant.
1048
01:23:27,663 --> 01:23:31,326
I didn't think Colonel Broderick
had an adjutant, just a bartender.
1049
01:23:31,867 --> 01:23:33,459
I don't understand, sir.
1050
01:23:33,536 --> 01:23:36,562
Well, it's just that you're so hospitable
around here.
1051
01:23:37,540 --> 01:23:40,270
I got a message yesterday
that you'd call my home.
1052
01:23:40,342 --> 01:23:44,176
I didn't connect you with the message
until I found out you were here.
1053
01:23:44,313 --> 01:23:47,180
I'm sorry about your having
to stay in your room.
1054
01:23:47,249 --> 01:23:50,548
Frankly, I don't understand it,
but the orders were quite specific.
1055
01:23:50,619 --> 01:23:52,314
I'll just have to live with it.
1056
01:23:52,388 --> 01:23:56,620
As to the call, I was really phoning
for a mutual friend of ours, Jiggs Casey.
1057
01:23:57,526 --> 01:23:58,686
Mutt, isn't it?
1058
01:23:59,528 --> 01:24:01,792
That's what they call me.
How do you know Jiggs?
1059
01:24:01,864 --> 01:24:04,628
He has been up before our committee
a number of times...
1060
01:24:04,700 --> 01:24:07,430
...and he's done some favors for me
on occasion.
1061
01:24:10,973 --> 01:24:12,565
Could I get you a drink?
1062
01:24:12,641 --> 01:24:14,700
Those part of your orders, Colonel?
1063
01:24:15,444 --> 01:24:16,604
I don't understand.
1064
01:24:16,679 --> 01:24:18,408
To get me snoggered?
1065
01:24:18,914 --> 01:24:20,142
No, sir. I just...
1066
01:24:20,216 --> 01:24:22,980
These bottles have been coming in
every hour on the hour.
1067
01:24:23,052 --> 01:24:25,179
Doesn't that seem a little odd to you?
1068
01:24:25,621 --> 01:24:28,488
I mean, keeping me cooped up in here
with a flow of bourbon!
1069
01:24:28,557 --> 01:24:30,923
- I don't know what you're saying.
- What do you know?
1070
01:24:30,993 --> 01:24:32,119
About what?
1071
01:24:32,194 --> 01:24:34,355
Would you sit down and hear me out?
1072
01:24:35,631 --> 01:24:36,655
I guess so.
1073
01:24:39,935 --> 01:24:42,301
I want to preface this
with an assurance to you.
1074
01:24:42,371 --> 01:24:46,535
My mind is sound, even though I've been
cooped up here for a day and a night.
1075
01:24:48,744 --> 01:24:50,507
Do you trust Jiggs Casey?
1076
01:24:50,579 --> 01:24:52,979
You name it, he can have it, sir. Why?
1077
01:24:54,350 --> 01:24:56,580
If he told you something,
would you believe him?
1078
01:24:56,652 --> 01:24:58,017
I would, indeed.
1079
01:24:58,354 --> 01:25:00,584
All right, then. Check this one out.
1080
01:25:03,759 --> 01:25:06,387
When you told Jiggs about ECOMCON
last Monday...
1081
01:25:07,363 --> 01:25:09,297
...he'd never heard of it before.
1082
01:25:10,566 --> 01:25:11,590
That's funny.
1083
01:25:13,035 --> 01:25:15,230
There was a moment, just one moment.
1084
01:25:16,972 --> 01:25:19,566
How did you know about
my seeing Jiggs on Monday?
1085
01:25:19,642 --> 01:25:22,270
He told me.
He told some other people, too.
1086
01:25:22,478 --> 01:25:24,378
He'd never heard of it before.
1087
01:25:24,747 --> 01:25:29,684
After you left, Jiggs went over
all the JCS orders for the last year.
1088
01:25:30,519 --> 01:25:33,386
There was no record of ECOMCON
or anything like it.
1089
01:25:33,455 --> 01:25:37,414
Impossible. Colonel Broderick goes to
Washington all the time to brief the brass.
1090
01:25:37,493 --> 01:25:38,926
Not all of the brass.
1091
01:25:39,628 --> 01:25:42,756
Not President Lyman, not me.
A very selective briefing.
1092
01:25:43,766 --> 01:25:45,495
All you've got to know is this:
1093
01:25:46,568 --> 01:25:50,698
The government of the United States is
at the top of the Washington Monument...
1094
01:25:50,939 --> 01:25:54,466
...tipping right and left, ready to fall
and break up on the pavement.
1095
01:25:54,543 --> 01:25:56,704
Just a handful of men can prevent that.
1096
01:25:57,112 --> 01:25:58,773
And you're one of them.
1097
01:25:59,515 --> 01:26:01,039
Now you listen to me, Mutt.
1098
01:26:05,554 --> 01:26:08,318
I'll tell you the damnedest story
you ever heard.
1099
01:26:10,225 --> 01:26:14,662
You're relieved. I'm taking the civilian
in my custody. Go back to the barracks.
1100
01:26:14,730 --> 01:26:15,958
Senator Clark.
1101
01:26:27,643 --> 01:26:28,769
Post 10.
1102
01:26:30,979 --> 01:26:32,503
Give me Colonel Broderick's office.
1103
01:27:32,541 --> 01:27:35,977
I'm sorry, but I have orders that the civilian
is not to leave the base.
1104
01:27:36,044 --> 01:27:39,878
I'm countermanding those orders,
and escorting the civilian into town.
1105
01:27:40,549 --> 01:27:43,245
Sir, I don't know.
Colonel Broderick said that...
1106
01:27:46,955 --> 01:27:48,388
Throw the keys over here.
1107
01:27:48,457 --> 01:27:51,722
Eject that cartridge belt,
and throw it down on the ground.
1108
01:28:15,751 --> 01:28:18,311
You stay put right here.
I'll phone the White House.
1109
01:28:18,554 --> 01:28:22,888
When this is over, you can take off
your girdle and have yourself a good cry.
1110
01:28:23,325 --> 01:28:26,192
Say, have you got a dime
to stop a revolution with?
1111
01:29:17,279 --> 01:29:21,841
Ma'am, did you see a real tall soldier
with a funny hat waiting right here?
1112
01:29:22,518 --> 01:29:23,382
No.
1113
01:29:51,747 --> 01:29:53,942
Could your men have been mistaken, Art?
1114
01:29:54,583 --> 01:29:57,780
Not a chance, sir.
The gate guard was too positive.
1115
01:29:57,853 --> 01:29:59,377
It was Henderson all right.
1116
01:29:59,454 --> 01:30:02,252
Brought into the Fort Myer stockade,
10:30 this morning.
1117
01:30:02,324 --> 01:30:06,260
Rode in the back of an Army sedan
under guard. Now held incommunicado.
1118
01:30:07,863 --> 01:30:09,831
Okay, Arthur. Thank you.
1119
01:30:11,600 --> 01:30:13,090
At least he's alive.
1120
01:30:14,269 --> 01:30:15,861
Admiral Barnswell, sir.
1121
01:30:22,678 --> 01:30:24,908
Admiral Barnswell, this is the President.
1122
01:30:27,616 --> 01:30:30,517
Well, sir, he came aboard a few days ago...
1123
01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:36,152
...he passed on your personal greetings,
and that's about the size of it, sir.
1124
01:30:40,762 --> 01:30:44,664
Frankly, no, Mr. President.
He gave me nothing to sign.
1125
01:30:48,470 --> 01:30:52,566
I'm sorry, sir. I can only recount to you
the situation as it occurred.
1126
01:30:53,375 --> 01:30:54,933
I signed no paper.
1127
01:30:55,844 --> 01:30:57,573
He took nothing with him.
1128
01:31:02,384 --> 01:31:05,842
Well, if anything happens
to revitalize your memory, Admiral...
1129
01:31:06,521 --> 01:31:08,546
...l'd appreciate a phone call.
1130
01:31:19,568 --> 01:31:21,866
It's now 2:20 on a Saturday afternoon.
1131
01:31:23,972 --> 01:31:26,133
At 2:20 tomorrow afternoon...
1132
01:31:27,309 --> 01:31:30,506
...somebody will have thrown a switch
at Mount Thunder...
1133
01:31:31,446 --> 01:31:35,041
...General James Scott will be
on all three television networks...
1134
01:31:35,851 --> 01:31:40,151
...explaining to the United States people
why this crucifixion is an act of faith.
1135
01:31:42,224 --> 01:31:44,920
What would you call this?
Sponge-throwing time?
1136
01:31:44,993 --> 01:31:47,553
Mr. President, what are you waiting for?
1137
01:31:48,196 --> 01:31:51,723
Fire Scott, Hardesty, Dieffenbach, Riley.
1138
01:31:52,701 --> 01:31:56,330
Sedition, pure and simple.
Close down Mount Thunder.
1139
01:31:56,605 --> 01:31:58,266
Declare a state of martial law.
1140
01:31:58,340 --> 01:32:01,036
And then where do I stand?
A lunatic. A paranoiac.
1141
01:32:01,209 --> 01:32:03,609
A screaming wild man
with nothing to back him up...
1142
01:32:03,679 --> 01:32:06,079
...because his proof is scattered
over a mountain...
1143
01:32:06,148 --> 01:32:11,051
...disappeared in an airport, or it's all part
of delirium tremens of a dipso senator.
1144
01:32:16,458 --> 01:32:19,359
Would you allow me to strike
that last idiotic remark?
1145
01:32:20,328 --> 01:32:23,820
There's no need, Jordie.
It's just what the Congress would say.
1146
01:32:24,966 --> 01:32:27,264
But you do have one last alternative.
1147
01:32:27,836 --> 01:32:28,928
And that is?
1148
01:32:31,773 --> 01:32:34,765
To use these letters
that Casey got from the girl.
1149
01:32:37,846 --> 01:32:42,874
When you get to the bottom of the barrel,
where we are now, you use expedients.
1150
01:32:44,853 --> 01:32:46,184
Hit the network cutoff.
1151
01:32:46,254 --> 01:32:47,585
Network cutoff.
1152
01:32:48,390 --> 01:32:49,379
Good.
1153
01:32:50,192 --> 01:32:52,057
Now, one more time. Position A.
1154
01:32:52,461 --> 01:32:53,894
Site G. Pope Field.
1155
01:32:59,134 --> 01:33:01,534
- Position B.
- ECOMCON force. Site Y.
1156
01:33:04,539 --> 01:33:07,235
- Position C.
- Site X. Mount Thunder, C.P.
1157
01:33:07,476 --> 01:33:08,773
Good, good.
1158
01:33:24,659 --> 01:33:25,648
Let's hear it.
1159
01:33:25,727 --> 01:33:27,661
Barney Rutkowski, Air Defense.
1160
01:33:27,929 --> 01:33:32,161
He's screaming bloody murder about those
12 troop carriers dispatched to El Paso.
1161
01:33:32,300 --> 01:33:35,895
Says they're checked for El Paso
and then lost on the radar screen.
1162
01:33:35,971 --> 01:33:38,462
Wants to know where they went and why.
1163
01:33:38,540 --> 01:33:42,533
He also wants to know why 30 more
are at Bragg with the same destination.
1164
01:33:42,778 --> 01:33:46,270
- What did you tell him?
- I told him it was classified and to forget it.
1165
01:33:46,348 --> 01:33:47,906
Well, that ought to do it.
1166
01:33:49,918 --> 01:33:53,285
He's a hard-nosed book player
with a radar screen at his bed.
1167
01:33:53,755 --> 01:33:58,124
If I know him, he's not going to stop here.
He'll go right up to the President.
1168
01:33:59,528 --> 01:34:00,859
Go ahead, Barney.
1169
01:34:01,129 --> 01:34:04,656
One of my controllers was watching
a flight of troop carriers Wednesday...
1170
01:34:04,733 --> 01:34:06,064
... heading for El Paso.
1171
01:34:06,134 --> 01:34:09,365
They turned northwest
and dropped off our radar screens.
1172
01:34:09,538 --> 01:34:12,132
We tried to find out about it
through channels...
1173
01:34:12,207 --> 01:34:14,232
... and all we get is the big stall.
1174
01:34:14,342 --> 01:34:17,209
There's some kind of a secret base
out there...
1175
01:34:17,279 --> 01:34:19,907
... and I think I should have been
notified of it.
1176
01:34:20,649 --> 01:34:21,877
Keep going, General.
1177
01:34:22,017 --> 01:34:26,977
Thirty more transports were due at this
classified place at 7:00 a.m. Tomorrow.
1178
01:34:27,455 --> 01:34:30,322
Now I learn it's been moved up
to 23:00 tonight.
1179
01:34:38,767 --> 01:34:40,894
I want all those aircraft grounded.
1180
01:34:41,703 --> 01:34:44,467
You're to give the order
that they're to stand down.
1181
01:34:44,539 --> 01:34:48,771
That's been authorized by the President,
can be verified by calling the White House.
1182
01:34:48,844 --> 01:34:50,334
Do you understand that?
1183
01:34:50,412 --> 01:34:51,811
I guess I do, sir.
1184
01:34:52,347 --> 01:34:53,678
I want you available.
1185
01:34:53,748 --> 01:34:56,148
Phone in and let this office know
where you are.
1186
01:34:56,218 --> 01:34:57,378
Yes, sir.
1187
01:35:00,488 --> 01:35:03,082
The next step should be
to your liking, Chris.
1188
01:35:03,992 --> 01:35:05,391
- Esther?
- Yes, sir.
1189
01:35:05,660 --> 01:35:07,127
Call the Pentagon.
1190
01:35:07,696 --> 01:35:10,096
Tell General Scott
I want to see him right away.
1191
01:35:10,165 --> 01:35:12,963
I think it's time we faced the enemy,
Mr. President.
1192
01:35:13,735 --> 01:35:15,168
He's not the enemy.
1193
01:35:15,570 --> 01:35:17,265
Scott, the Joint Chiefs...
1194
01:35:18,006 --> 01:35:22,443
...even the very emotional, very illogical
lunatic fringe, they're not the enemy.
1195
01:35:23,044 --> 01:35:24,511
The enemy is an age.
1196
01:35:25,480 --> 01:35:26,708
A nuclear age.
1197
01:35:28,283 --> 01:35:31,411
It happens to have killed man's faith
in his ability...
1198
01:35:32,821 --> 01:35:35,016
...to influence what happens to him.
1199
01:35:35,423 --> 01:35:38,722
And out of this comes a sickness.
A sickness of frustration.
1200
01:35:39,561 --> 01:35:42,189
A feeling of impotence,
helplessness, weakness.
1201
01:35:43,465 --> 01:35:46,400
And from this, this desperation...
1202
01:35:47,669 --> 01:35:50,604
...we look for a champion
in red, white and blue.
1203
01:35:50,872 --> 01:35:53,272
Every now and then
a man on a white horse rides by...
1204
01:35:53,341 --> 01:35:56,777
...and we appoint him to be
our personal god for the duration.
1205
01:35:57,612 --> 01:36:02,311
For some men it was a Senator McCarthy.
For others it was a General Walker.
1206
01:36:04,119 --> 01:36:05,984
Now it's a General Scott.
1207
01:36:32,213 --> 01:36:34,613
- Yes?
- General Scott is here, sir.
1208
01:36:37,919 --> 01:36:39,682
Send him in, please.
1209
01:36:46,861 --> 01:36:48,886
Good evening, Mr. President.
1210
01:36:48,964 --> 01:36:50,397
Sit down, General.
1211
01:37:00,075 --> 01:37:02,976
I'm glad you decided to call off
that fishing trip.
1212
01:37:03,945 --> 01:37:05,378
Don't bother about that.
1213
01:37:08,416 --> 01:37:10,145
We don't need it tonight.
1214
01:37:12,153 --> 01:37:14,621
We aren't going to have an alert tomorrow.
1215
01:37:16,624 --> 01:37:20,185
I beg your pardon, Mr. President.
You wish the alert cancelled?
1216
01:37:20,328 --> 01:37:22,558
I do. I intend to cancel it.
1217
01:37:24,299 --> 01:37:25,561
May I ask why?
1218
01:37:26,634 --> 01:37:31,230
Certain facts have come to my attention.
I won't waste time detailing them all now.
1219
01:37:31,506 --> 01:37:34,475
I'll simply say that
I want your resignation tonight...
1220
01:37:35,210 --> 01:37:38,737
...and those of Generals Hardesty,
Riley and Dieffenbach as well.
1221
01:37:45,086 --> 01:37:48,715
Either you are joking,
or you have taken leave of your senses.
1222
01:37:48,790 --> 01:37:52,886
I know of no reason why I should remove
my name from the active list voluntarily.
1223
01:37:52,961 --> 01:37:55,486
Or, for that matter,
any of the other Joint Chiefs.
1224
01:37:55,563 --> 01:37:57,929
You could give me the reasons, General.
1225
01:37:58,533 --> 01:38:01,468
But if you want me to itemize them,
I shall be glad to do so.
1226
01:38:01,536 --> 01:38:02,525
Please do.
1227
01:38:02,704 --> 01:38:04,865
You have used, without my authority...
1228
01:38:05,807 --> 01:38:09,265
...substantial sums from
the Joint Chiefs' Contingency Fund...
1229
01:38:09,778 --> 01:38:13,805
...to establish a base, and train
a special unit of troops whose purpose...
1230
01:38:13,882 --> 01:38:17,147
...and even whose existence,
was kept secret from me...
1231
01:38:17,752 --> 01:38:21,449
...from officials of the Bureau of the Budget
and members of the Congress.
1232
01:38:21,523 --> 01:38:22,956
And the name of the unit?
1233
01:38:23,024 --> 01:38:24,389
You know that unit.
1234
01:38:24,959 --> 01:38:27,086
It's designation is ECOMCON.
1235
01:38:29,964 --> 01:38:32,626
I'm afraid your memory fails you,
Mr. President.
1236
01:38:32,700 --> 01:38:35,931
You gave me verbal authorization
for the base and the unit.
1237
01:38:36,337 --> 01:38:38,567
As I recall, we covered many items
that day.
1238
01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:40,665
Perhaps you didn't pay much attention.
1239
01:38:40,742 --> 01:38:43,210
I assumed you'd inform
the Director of the Budget.
1240
01:38:43,278 --> 01:38:45,769
What was the date of that meeting,
General?
1241
01:38:45,847 --> 01:38:50,750
I can't recall exactly, but it was right here
in this office. Last November, I believe.
1242
01:38:50,819 --> 01:38:53,287
You have a record of the date and subject?
1243
01:38:53,822 --> 01:38:56,689
Certainly, Mr. President, in my office.
1244
01:38:57,725 --> 01:39:00,626
If you want,
I'll get it from the Pentagon now.
1245
01:39:00,695 --> 01:39:03,027
That won't be necessary, General.
1246
01:39:03,098 --> 01:39:04,622
No, it won't be necessary.
1247
01:39:04,999 --> 01:39:08,435
Colonel Murdock, my aide, is outside.
He sat in on the meeting.
1248
01:39:09,170 --> 01:39:12,936
He will substantiate my memorandum
as to the date and the discussion.
1249
01:39:13,041 --> 01:39:16,477
- I'll ask him in.
- That won't be necessary either, General.
1250
01:39:18,012 --> 01:39:21,607
You kept a member of the US Senate
forcibly detained at this base...
1251
01:39:21,683 --> 01:39:23,116
...and he will so testify.
1252
01:39:23,184 --> 01:39:24,173
That would be?
1253
01:39:24,252 --> 01:39:28,018
That would be Senator Raymond Clark,
the senior senator from Georgia.
1254
01:39:28,723 --> 01:39:31,886
I wasn't aware that Senator Clark
had ever visited the base.
1255
01:39:31,960 --> 01:39:34,360
He will also testify as to the collusion...
1256
01:39:35,163 --> 01:39:38,690
...between the commander of the base
and Senator Prentice of California...
1257
01:39:38,766 --> 01:39:42,862
...who with yourself and a handful of others
knew of the existence of the base.
1258
01:39:50,578 --> 01:39:51,806
Any other charges?
1259
01:39:52,046 --> 01:39:54,514
Would you like them
in chronological order?
1260
01:39:55,483 --> 01:39:58,680
The selection of a commanding officer
for a secret base...
1261
01:39:58,753 --> 01:40:01,813
...who is openly contemptuous
of civilian authority...
1262
01:40:02,090 --> 01:40:05,924
...and who's made statements that come
close to violation of the sedition laws.
1263
01:40:06,060 --> 01:40:10,497
I never discuss politics with my officers,
but I do demand the highest competence.
1264
01:40:11,099 --> 01:40:14,500
Colonel Broderick is an excellent officer
with a fine combat record.
1265
01:40:14,569 --> 01:40:17,231
And an interesting travel record,
you might add.
1266
01:40:17,305 --> 01:40:21,742
What was he doing on a motor boat
cruising around my island at Blue Lake?
1267
01:40:21,809 --> 01:40:25,506
Don't tell me that's my imagination
because I've got him on film.
1268
01:40:25,580 --> 01:40:29,983
What about the kidnapping and detention
of Colonel Henderson at the airport today?
1269
01:40:30,051 --> 01:40:31,814
I know about that case.
1270
01:40:31,886 --> 01:40:34,980
Colonel Henderson struck an enlisted man
and left his post.
1271
01:40:35,056 --> 01:40:37,320
He's now being held for disciplinary action.
1272
01:40:37,458 --> 01:40:41,360
Incommunicado, you might add.
So that he doesn't tell what he knows.
1273
01:40:42,797 --> 01:40:45,823
And then there are the wagering activities
of yours, General...
1274
01:40:45,900 --> 01:40:48,266
...particularly a betting pool
on the Preakness.
1275
01:40:48,336 --> 01:40:50,167
Come now, Mr. President.
1276
01:40:50,705 --> 01:40:54,266
Or perhaps more aptly classified,
your personal and private code.
1277
01:40:55,109 --> 01:40:57,805
It covers your plan
for the military overthrow...
1278
01:40:57,879 --> 01:41:00,006
...of the United States Government.
1279
01:41:00,415 --> 01:41:03,646
I presume, Mr. President,
you're prepared to back up that charge.
1280
01:41:03,885 --> 01:41:06,979
I am prepared to brand you
for what you are, General.
1281
01:41:07,922 --> 01:41:11,323
A strutting egoist
with a Napoleonic power complex.
1282
01:41:12,193 --> 01:41:13,956
And an out-and-out traitor!
1283
01:41:15,396 --> 01:41:17,887
I know you think
I'm a weak sister, General...
1284
01:41:18,299 --> 01:41:22,030
...but when it comes to my oath of office
and defending the Constitution...
1285
01:41:22,103 --> 01:41:23,297
I know how to salute a flag.
1286
01:41:23,371 --> 01:41:26,238
You don't know the democratic processes
it represents.
1287
01:41:26,307 --> 01:41:28,969
Don't you presume to take on that job,
Mr. President...
1288
01:41:29,043 --> 01:41:30,943
...because you're not qualified.
1289
01:41:31,012 --> 01:41:34,209
Your action in the past year
has bordered on criminal negligence.
1290
01:41:34,282 --> 01:41:38,184
The treaty with the Russians is a violation
of any concept of security.
1291
01:41:38,253 --> 01:41:42,087
You're not a weak sister, Mr. President.
You're a criminally weak sister.
1292
01:41:44,092 --> 01:41:47,994
If you will talk about your oath of office,
I'm here to tell you face to face:
1293
01:41:48,062 --> 01:41:50,929
You violated that oath by stripping
the country's muscles...
1294
01:41:50,999 --> 01:41:53,433
...when you played upon the fear
of the people...
1295
01:41:53,501 --> 01:41:57,096
...and told them they could remove
that fear by the stroke of a pen.
1296
01:41:57,171 --> 01:42:01,198
Then when this nation rejected you
and began militantly to oppose you...
1297
01:42:01,609 --> 01:42:05,136
...you violated that oath by not resigning
and turning the country over...
1298
01:42:05,213 --> 01:42:07,704
...to someone who'd represent the people.
1299
01:42:07,782 --> 01:42:11,149
And that would be
General James Mattoon Scott, wouldn't it?
1300
01:42:14,355 --> 01:42:17,586
I don't know whether to laugh
at such megalomania, or simply cry.
1301
01:42:17,659 --> 01:42:22,153
James Mattoon Scott hasn't the slightest
interest in his own glorification...
1302
01:42:22,497 --> 01:42:25,523
...but he does have a concern
about the survival of this country.
1303
01:42:25,600 --> 01:42:27,659
Then, by God, run for office!
1304
01:42:28,336 --> 01:42:32,295
You have a such a fervid, passionate,
evangelical affection for your country.
1305
01:42:32,373 --> 01:42:34,500
Why in God's name don't you have faith...
1306
01:42:34,575 --> 01:42:37,510
...in the system of government
you're so hell-bent to protect?
1307
01:42:37,578 --> 01:42:40,809
You say I've duped the people.
I've bilked them. I've misled them.
1308
01:42:40,882 --> 01:42:43,350
I've stripped them naked
and made them defenseless.
1309
01:42:43,418 --> 01:42:45,818
You accuse me of having lost their faith...
1310
01:42:45,887 --> 01:42:49,345
...and deliberately and criminally
shut my ears to the national voice?
1311
01:42:49,424 --> 01:42:50,721
I do.
1312
01:42:52,660 --> 01:42:54,821
Where the hell have you heard that voice?
1313
01:42:54,896 --> 01:42:56,227
In freight elevators?
1314
01:42:56,297 --> 01:42:59,130
In dark alleys? In secret places
in the dead of night?
1315
01:42:59,634 --> 01:43:02,933
How did that voice seep into a locked room
full of conspirators?
1316
01:43:03,004 --> 01:43:06,872
That's not where you hear the voice
of the people. Not in this republic.
1317
01:43:06,941 --> 01:43:09,466
You want to defend
the United States of America?
1318
01:43:09,544 --> 01:43:13,344
Then defend it with the tools it supplies
you with, it's Constitution.
1319
01:43:13,414 --> 01:43:16,042
You ask for a mandate, General,
from a ballot box.
1320
01:43:16,117 --> 01:43:19,780
You don't steal it after midnight
when the country has it's back turned.
1321
01:43:19,854 --> 01:43:21,845
Are you serious, Mr. President?
1322
01:43:23,124 --> 01:43:25,092
Are you honest-to-God serious?
1323
01:43:27,895 --> 01:43:29,726
I could walk out of here tonight...
1324
01:43:29,797 --> 01:43:32,425
...and offer myself as candidate
for the presidency...
1325
01:43:32,500 --> 01:43:34,559
...and by tomorrow, I'd be at that desk...
1326
01:43:34,635 --> 01:43:37,103
...with precisely the mandate
you hold so dear.
1327
01:43:37,171 --> 01:43:40,402
And what's more, you know it, I know it,
and the country knows it.
1328
01:43:40,475 --> 01:43:44,070
Don't say I'd have seized an office
tomorrow without the benefit of support.
1329
01:43:44,145 --> 01:43:48,206
If you had the guts to call for a show
of hands, you'd be on an airplane to Ohio.
1330
01:43:48,282 --> 01:43:50,477
You can ask for and get
your show of hands.
1331
01:43:50,551 --> 01:43:52,951
Wait a year and nine months
for an election.
1332
01:43:53,020 --> 01:43:57,184
By then, I don't think there'll be
an electorate, let alone an election.
1333
01:43:57,525 --> 01:44:01,621
I think we'll be sitting in our own rubble.
A minimum of 100 million dead.
1334
01:44:02,096 --> 01:44:04,223
And on the gravestone we can carve:
1335
01:44:04,298 --> 01:44:07,699
"They died for Jordan Lyman's
concept of peace."
1336
01:44:27,355 --> 01:44:29,346
Did it ever occur to you that...
1337
01:44:29,924 --> 01:44:32,518
...if you took over this government
by force...
1338
01:44:33,428 --> 01:44:37,091
...you wouldn't have to wait
a year and nine months for the funeral?
1339
01:44:37,598 --> 01:44:41,830
If the Soviet Union saw our government
taken over by a military dictatorship...
1340
01:44:43,271 --> 01:44:45,967
...how long would it take them
to break the treaty?
1341
01:44:46,040 --> 01:44:47,701
Possibly even attack us?
1342
01:44:49,243 --> 01:44:52,440
I think perhaps a question of days,
perhaps hours...
1343
01:44:53,448 --> 01:44:54,881
...certainly weeks.
1344
01:44:58,219 --> 01:45:02,087
I want your resignation, General.
I want it tonight. I'm expecting it.
1345
01:45:02,290 --> 01:45:06,659
Along with the other members of the Joint
Chiefs who are involved in this treason.
1346
01:45:07,495 --> 01:45:09,725
I'll tell you quite unequivocally...
1347
01:45:10,264 --> 01:45:13,062
...l'll not tell the reason
for your resignation.
1348
01:45:13,401 --> 01:45:17,098
If that were ever made public,
this country would go down the drain.
1349
01:45:17,839 --> 01:45:20,569
- Will you resign, General?
- I will not resign.
1350
01:45:22,076 --> 01:45:24,442
I can demand your resignation,
as you well know.
1351
01:45:24,512 --> 01:45:27,037
Demand and be damned.
I will not resign voluntarily.
1352
01:45:27,114 --> 01:45:28,604
Nor will any of the others.
1353
01:45:28,683 --> 01:45:31,345
But what I will do is take this issue
to the people.
1354
01:45:31,419 --> 01:45:33,011
I'll demand a public platform.
1355
01:45:33,588 --> 01:45:36,648
Then we'll see which one of us
the United States will follow.
1356
01:45:44,232 --> 01:45:45,563
Anything else...
1357
01:45:47,869 --> 01:45:48,927
...Mr. President?
1358
01:45:54,609 --> 01:45:57,134
I've called a press conference
for tomorrow.
1359
01:45:59,480 --> 01:46:02,745
I'll announce that I've asked for
all of your resignations.
1360
01:46:04,151 --> 01:46:05,743
I'll use as a reason...
1361
01:46:15,530 --> 01:46:17,589
...our differences over the treaty.
1362
01:46:18,165 --> 01:46:21,032
Without proof,
you couldn't possibly say otherwise.
1363
01:46:21,135 --> 01:46:23,035
You simply wouldn't dare.
1364
01:46:23,571 --> 01:46:24,936
I'm going to fight you.
1365
01:47:22,396 --> 01:47:25,593
I'm sorry, Jiggs.
Return them to Miss Holbrook.
1366
01:48:01,202 --> 01:48:04,171
This will be delivered at:00 tonight
on all major networks.
1367
01:48:04,238 --> 01:48:06,297
I'll be taping it in one hour.
1368
01:48:07,808 --> 01:48:09,400
This is strong stuff, General.
1369
01:48:09,477 --> 01:48:10,910
Thank you, General.
1370
01:48:13,214 --> 01:48:18,151
Are you sure that he won't use this
press conference to make any accusations?
1371
01:48:18,653 --> 01:48:23,147
He'll use this press conference to support
a position that is totally indefensible.
1372
01:48:25,726 --> 01:48:29,719
General, if he accuses us of sedition,
whether he has the proof or not...
1373
01:48:31,432 --> 01:48:33,093
...this could be a sticky business.
1374
01:48:33,167 --> 01:48:34,896
Jordan Lyman is finished...
1375
01:48:35,269 --> 01:48:39,399
...no matter what he says during his press
conference, no matter what he does after.
1376
01:48:39,507 --> 01:48:43,967
An educated guess is that within a week
there'll be a move for impeachment.
1377
01:48:44,045 --> 01:48:45,273
That's it, gentlemen.
1378
01:48:45,346 --> 01:48:48,975
You're welcome to stay here and watch
on television. I'll be at the studio.
1379
01:48:49,050 --> 01:48:52,076
Colonel Murdock will be in touch with me
if I'm needed.
1380
01:48:52,153 --> 01:48:53,142
Good day.
1381
01:49:12,440 --> 01:49:15,705
Ladies and gentlemen,
the President of the United States.
1382
01:49:25,419 --> 01:49:27,387
All right, gentlemen. Let's begin.
1383
01:49:28,656 --> 01:49:31,819
The Gallup Poll of last week
indicated what appears to be...
1384
01:49:31,892 --> 01:49:35,453
... a very universal rejection
of your entire political philosophy.
1385
01:49:35,529 --> 01:49:39,556
The nuclear treaty with the Soviets.
Would you comment on that?
1386
01:49:39,633 --> 01:49:42,067
Insofar as the treaty is concerned...
1387
01:49:42,870 --> 01:49:46,966
... my reasons for asking that it be ratified
have been stated and re-stated.
1388
01:49:48,409 --> 01:49:50,877
We have reached a point on this earth...
1389
01:49:56,517 --> 01:49:58,712
Excuse mejust a moment, gentlemen.
1390
01:50:06,093 --> 01:50:08,118
Jordie, you better talk to this fellow.
1391
01:50:08,195 --> 01:50:10,720
This is Henry Whitney
from our embassy in Madrid.
1392
01:50:10,798 --> 01:50:12,322
He brought this.
1393
01:50:21,408 --> 01:50:24,844
I'm the only one who's read that paper.
Nobody knows I'm here.
1394
01:50:26,814 --> 01:50:29,305
Delay the press conference for a half hour.
1395
01:50:30,084 --> 01:50:34,521
You are never to disclose or even hint at
the existence of this paper, Mr. Whitney.
1396
01:50:34,588 --> 01:50:36,488
I emphasize the word "never."
1397
01:50:36,557 --> 01:50:38,923
- Ray, have this Photostatted.
- Yes, sir.
1398
01:50:39,860 --> 01:50:43,159
Colonel Casey, see that Scott
and the others get copies right away.
1399
01:50:43,230 --> 01:50:44,219
Yes, sir.
1400
01:51:04,752 --> 01:51:07,516
That's a signed statement
from Admiral Barnswell.
1401
01:51:12,026 --> 01:51:15,621
You're a night crawler, Colonel.
A peddler. You sell information.
1402
01:51:16,197 --> 01:51:19,291
Are you sufficiently up on your Bible
to know who Judas was?
1403
01:51:22,169 --> 01:51:25,400
I suggest you read that letter, sir.
It's from the President.
1404
01:51:25,472 --> 01:51:27,064
I asked you a question.
1405
01:51:29,543 --> 01:51:31,374
Are you ordering me to answer, sir?
1406
01:51:31,445 --> 01:51:32,309
I am.
1407
01:51:35,816 --> 01:51:37,579
Yes, I know who Judas was.
1408
01:51:38,986 --> 01:51:41,386
He was a man I worked for and admired...
1409
01:51:41,622 --> 01:51:44,250
...until he disgraced the four stars
on his uniform.
1410
01:51:54,435 --> 01:51:56,801
Mr. President, for the past 48 hours...
1411
01:51:57,204 --> 01:52:01,538
... there has been considerable scuttlebutt
concerning the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1412
01:52:01,809 --> 01:52:06,212
There have been rumors that there is to be
some sort of mass resignation.
1413
01:52:06,747 --> 01:52:09,113
Would you care to comment on that, sir?
1414
01:52:09,783 --> 01:52:14,186
I'll answer that, but I'd like to preface
with a few other comments.
1415
01:52:15,823 --> 01:52:17,154
In a democracy...
1416
01:52:18,392 --> 01:52:22,556
... once the president and the Senate,
as responsible authorities...
1417
01:52:23,464 --> 01:52:26,900
... make a decision, then debate
and opposition among the military...
1418
01:52:27,067 --> 01:52:30,935
... who have opposed this treaty
from the outset, must come to an end.
1419
01:52:32,907 --> 01:52:34,499
This is the way in war.
1420
01:52:35,075 --> 01:52:38,841
So it also must be in the councils
of government here in Washington.
1421
01:52:39,246 --> 01:52:40,838
I have had no choice...
1422
01:52:41,448 --> 01:52:45,475
... but to ask for the resignation
of General James Scott.
1423
01:52:47,388 --> 01:52:52,087
At the same time, I have asked
for the resignations of three other officers:
1424
01:52:53,093 --> 01:52:55,721
General Hardesty and
General Dieffenbach...
1425
01:52:55,930 --> 01:52:58,398
... the Chiefs of Staff
of the Air Force and Army...
1426
01:52:58,465 --> 01:53:01,491
... and General Riley,
Commandant of the Marine Corps.
1427
01:53:04,071 --> 01:53:07,063
Yes, I've already heard. He told me so.
1428
01:53:11,345 --> 01:53:13,142
General, I'll be right out.
1429
01:53:20,821 --> 01:53:22,755
General, all hell's broken loose.
1430
01:53:23,590 --> 01:53:27,390
General, he's asked them to resign.
Hardesty, Dieffenbach, Riley and yourself.
1431
01:53:27,461 --> 01:53:29,429
Riley called here. He tried to reach you.
1432
01:53:29,496 --> 01:53:31,726
Somehow Lyman got a hold
of Barnswell's statement.
1433
01:53:31,799 --> 01:53:34,165
It implicated all of us.
Names, dates, the works.
1434
01:53:34,234 --> 01:53:36,134
Jim, what are we going to do?
1435
01:53:36,270 --> 01:53:38,898
When do we tape?
You got my speech, didn't you?
1436
01:53:38,973 --> 01:53:43,137
Yes, but when this came out minutes ago,
the five network vice-presidents called me.
1437
01:53:43,210 --> 01:53:45,201
Do I get on the air or don't I?
1438
01:53:45,279 --> 01:53:49,477
We've gone along with you all the way,
but for God's sake, we're in jeopardy now.
1439
01:53:49,550 --> 01:53:51,415
The last thing we want is publicity.
1440
01:53:51,485 --> 01:53:52,884
Shut up, Prentice.
1441
01:53:53,220 --> 01:53:54,209
Harold?
1442
01:53:54,388 --> 01:53:56,481
General, it's out of my hands now.
1443
01:53:58,759 --> 01:53:59,953
What will you do?
1444
01:54:00,027 --> 01:54:02,757
Go to Mount Thunder and cut in
on the television networks.
1445
01:54:02,830 --> 01:54:05,424
- He's asked for your...
- He won't get them!
1446
01:54:05,499 --> 01:54:08,866
Dieffenbach, Riley and Hardesty are made
of sterner stuff than you.
1447
01:54:08,936 --> 01:54:10,995
- General, be realistic.
- Go to hell!
1448
01:54:14,274 --> 01:54:16,834
I can comment on that to this extent.
1449
01:54:17,911 --> 01:54:23,042
Americans, traditionally and historically,
have given vent to their views.
1450
01:54:24,218 --> 01:54:27,051
On the day that this government
does anything arbitrarily...
1451
01:54:27,121 --> 01:54:29,919
... to stifle those views,
it will have to change form.
1452
01:54:29,990 --> 01:54:31,855
It will cease to be a democracy.
1453
01:54:32,092 --> 01:54:35,528
And I can state quite frankly
that this day will not come.
1454
01:54:43,303 --> 01:54:46,204
Gentlemen, the papersjust handed me...
1455
01:54:47,341 --> 01:54:48,808
... are the resignations...
1456
01:54:49,209 --> 01:54:51,871
... of Generals Hardesty, Riley,
and Dieffenbach.
1457
01:54:53,514 --> 01:54:55,072
I'll repeat that, gentlemen.
1458
01:54:55,149 --> 01:55:00,052
These three officers havejust officially
tendered their resignations.
1459
01:55:00,654 --> 01:55:04,021
Their statements will be made public
after this conference.
1460
01:55:04,258 --> 01:55:06,658
Before we have any further questions...
1461
01:55:07,494 --> 01:55:09,792
... may I insert these comments?
1462
01:55:10,297 --> 01:55:14,324
The point of this treaty, as I've reiterated
on a number of occasions...
1463
01:55:14,601 --> 01:55:16,796
... is that in every true sense...
1464
01:55:16,904 --> 01:55:20,965
... we force ourselves gradually
to step away from an offensive posture.
1465
01:55:23,243 --> 01:55:24,540
I'm sorry, sir.
1466
01:55:26,180 --> 01:55:27,442
Where to, sir?
1467
01:55:32,619 --> 01:55:33,551
Sir?
1468
01:55:38,859 --> 01:55:40,087
Take me home.
1469
01:55:47,267 --> 01:55:49,497
Your General's just been shot down.
1470
01:55:50,537 --> 01:55:51,469
Yes.
1471
01:55:55,776 --> 01:55:57,368
Were those the bullets?
1472
01:55:59,446 --> 01:56:01,778
They might have been, but they weren't.
1473
01:56:07,154 --> 01:56:09,019
- Ellie.
- Yes?
1474
01:56:11,191 --> 01:56:12,590
Another rain check?
1475
01:56:15,796 --> 01:56:18,492
Tuck it somewhere safe,
where you won't forget.
1476
01:56:22,870 --> 01:56:26,101
There has been abroad in this land
in recent months...
1477
01:56:26,173 --> 01:56:30,132
...a whisper that we have somehow
lost our greatness...
1478
01:56:31,345 --> 01:56:34,576
...that we do not have the strength
to win without war...
1479
01:56:35,649 --> 01:56:38,117
...the struggles for liberty
throughout the world.
1480
01:56:39,019 --> 01:56:40,486
This is slander...
1481
01:56:41,722 --> 01:56:43,883
...because our country is strong...
1482
01:56:44,158 --> 01:56:46,319
...strong enough to be a peacemaker.
1483
01:56:46,927 --> 01:56:49,623
It is proud. Proud enough to be patient.
1484
01:56:50,631 --> 01:56:54,260
The whisperers, the detractors,
the violent men are wrong.
1485
01:56:55,435 --> 01:57:00,338
We will remain strong and proud,
peaceful and patient...
1486
01:57:01,575 --> 01:57:04,237
...and we will see a day
when on this earth...
1487
01:57:04,578 --> 01:57:08,378
...all men will walk out
of the long tunnels of tyranny...
1488
01:57:09,983 --> 01:57:12,349
...into the bright sunshine of freedom.
1489
01:57:17,791 --> 01:57:22,125
Ladies and gentlemen, that was
the President of the United States.