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Lyman lovers!

2
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Give me a hand! Give me a hand!

3
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Come on, break it up! Hey, break it up!

4
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Push him in.

5
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When it comes to jurisdictional strikes
like this...

6
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...the administration's job is quite clear.

7
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The 0-day cooling off period
will be observed.

8
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And if industry is so hell bent
to invoke Taft-Hartley...

9
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...any support they get from me
will have to get flogged out.

10
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Underline and exclamation point.
How many men involved there?

11
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By next Tuesday, they figure the entire
industry from San Diego to Seattle.

12
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I'm not through yet.

13
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You stick one more thing in me, Horace,
and I'll take up faith healing.

14
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You've been at it an hour.

15
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Your pressure's risen three points
for every letter you've dictated.

16
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Your predecessors would go to the clinic.

17
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My predecessors didn't have a riot
going on outside the White House.

18
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They were at least sufficiently popular
to get their faces on stamps.

19
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"Gallup Poll."

20
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Twenty-nine percent of the people
of the United States approve of what I do.

21
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Twenty-nine percent.

22
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When that thing reaches
stroke proportions, put it out as a bulletin.

23
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It's probably the one thing
that'll make Labor Management...

24
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...and the Pentagon join hands
and declare a national holiday.

25
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When did you have your last vacation?

26
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When I was six months old,
back in Cleveland, Ohio.

27
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I believe it. Don't forget
the CIA appointment at 2:00.

28
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Phone Liberman.
Tell him to meet me here.

29
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Assuming I'll be alive after lunch.

30
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The White House physician makes
no such assumption.

31
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Your blood pressure's up again,
and I don't like it one little bit.

32
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Now this is an order.
Not just medical advice.

33
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You're to go away for at least two weeks.

34
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Two weeks?

35
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And you can have damn few phone calls.

36
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How about a compromise, Horace?
I'll take a quick swim in my pool.

37
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Can I squeeze that in, Paul?

38
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People from West Virginia are waiting for
the crowning of the Rhododendron Queen.

39
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Have the Secretary of the Interior handle it.

40
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How are you, Horace?
What's new in fee splitting?

41
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That's quite a mob scene you got outside.

42
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Why in God's name do
we elect a man president...

43
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...and then try to see how fast
we can kill him?

44
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The Vice-President showed a vast amount
of discretion over valor...

45
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...to go goodwilling when he did.

46
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Pity you didn't join him, Jordie.

47
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I envy Mr. Gianelli his Chianti
and Italian sunshine.

48
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My own diet for the next several days
will be crow and bitters.

49
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- Goodbye, Horace.
- Doctor.

50
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Come on, Ray. You can watch me
do the Lyman crawl.

51
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Thank you.

52
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In a half hour I'm due at a meeting
with the illustrious Senator Prentice.

53
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To hear him tell it,
you're a third-grade idiot with clay arches.

54
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But the Chair of the Joint Chiefs...

55
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...one General James Mattoon Scott,
who'll be in front of the committees...

56
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...he is the reincarnation of Washington
who could walk on that water.

57
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That Gallup Poll shake you up?

58
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Well, let's say I've felt more popular
in my time.

59
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Don't get your nanny up.
You knew there'd be some dislocations.

60
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You can't gear a country's economy
for war for 20 years...

61
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...then slam on the brakes
and expect the transition...

62
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...to go like grease through a goose.

63
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Doesn't work out like that.

64
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Think of how the psychology of the thing
has been screwed up from the outset.

65
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We've been hating the Russians
for a quarter of a century.

66
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Suddenly we sign a treaty saying
in two months...

67
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...they're to dismantle their bombs,
we're to dismantle ours...

68
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...and we all ride to a peaceful glory.

69
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The country will probably live as if peace
were just as big a threat as war.

70
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Damn it, Ray.
We could have had our paradise.

71
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Yes, by God, we could have had
full employment...

72
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...whopping gross national product...

73
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...nice, cushy feeling that we got a bomb
for every one of theirs.

74
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But as sure as God made the State
of Georgia, there'd have come one day...

75
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...when they'd have blown us up,
or we'd have blown them up.

76
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And the good doctor worries
about my blood pressure.

77
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You know who that gentleman is
with the black box?

78
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There are five.

79
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You know that one of them sits
outside my bedroom at night?

80
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You know what he carries in that box?
The codes.

81
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The codes by which I, Jordan Lyman...

82
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...can give the order sending us
into a nuclear war.

83
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Instead of my blood pressure...

84
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...I think Horace should worry
about my sanity.

85
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You want to know something, Jordie?

86
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Riots and unemployment notwithstanding,
you're an exceptionally fine president.

87
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But 25-year friendship aside,
the day may yet come...

88
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...when the name Jordan Lyman
and "sanity" will come out as one word.

89
00:09:15,256 --> 00:09:18,987
Mention that to General James Scott
when he's up in front of you this morning.

90
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I hear you.

91
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And try tea sometime, too, huh?

92
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I'll give it a taste now and then.

93
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I personally visited the President.

94
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I presented him with a documented case
listing the reasons for concern.

95
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Three weeks before the treaty
was ratified...

96
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...three of us sat in this same committee
and urged its re-evaluation.

97
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<i>Only last week in Pravda...</i>

98
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Excuse me, General. Sorry to interrupt.

99
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As I understand it...

100
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...you feel the signing of this pact
has been detrimental to our security.

101
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If my colleague from Georgia
could confine his comments...

102
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...not only to appropriate business
at hand...

103
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...but to observe some of the basic rules
of parliamentary procedure.

104
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In my boorish way, I'm only suggesting
that if you two gentlemen...

105
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...continue to work from a script
with cues and stage directions...

106
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...these proceedings take on all the dignity
of a very bad Gilbert and Sullivan.

107
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Senator, I'd like to hear
what General Scott has to say.

108
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- Thank you.
- So would I.

109
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The audience has spoken, General,
and I beg forgiveness.

110
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I'll make the point again, Senator.

111
00:10:41,008 --> 00:10:44,671
I think signing a nuclear disarmament pact
with the Soviet Union...

112
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...and at worst
an insupportable negligence.

113
00:10:50,551 --> 00:10:54,612
We've stayed alive because we built up
an arsenal and we've kept the peace...

114
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...because we've dealt with an enemy
who knew we would use that arsenal.

115
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Now we're asked to believe
that a piece of paper...

116
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...will take the place of missile sites
and Polaris submarines...

117
00:11:04,332 --> 00:11:08,564
...and that an enemy who hasn't honored
one solemn treaty in its existence...

118
00:11:09,137 --> 00:11:11,935
...will now, for our convenience,
do precisely that.

119
00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:13,698
I have strong doubts.

120
00:11:13,774 --> 00:11:15,298
Hear! That's what I say...

121
00:11:16,277 --> 00:11:19,007
Senator Prentice,
if you would indulge me, sir.

122
00:11:19,580 --> 00:11:22,276
If you would indulge me for a moment, sir.

123
00:11:22,350 --> 00:11:26,047
From the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff I would welcome and respect...

124
00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:30,181
...any judgement having to do specifically
with military considerations...

125
00:11:30,791 --> 00:11:33,692
...but insofar as his political attitudes
are concerned...

126
00:11:33,794 --> 00:11:36,285
...these, I'm sure we could dispense with.

127
00:11:36,497 --> 00:11:39,955
Senator, we're talking about the survival
of the United States.

128
00:11:40,067 --> 00:11:43,195
Is my uniform a disqualification
in that area?

129
00:11:43,371 --> 00:11:46,101
I presume, General,
that an alternative to the treaty...

130
00:11:46,174 --> 00:11:50,941
...that would meet with your approval
would be continuing to build bombs.

131
00:11:51,546 --> 00:11:54,413
Bigger bombs, better bombs, more bombs.

132
00:11:54,815 --> 00:11:58,410
Until at some given instant,
a trigger-happy idiot presses the button...

133
00:11:58,553 --> 00:12:01,386
...and we all go down the drain
waving the American flag.

134
00:12:01,455 --> 00:12:04,618
I'd prefer that to a Pearl Harbor,
when we went down the drain...

135
00:12:04,692 --> 00:12:07,957
I did not address the Senator.
I was talking to the witness.

136
00:12:08,029 --> 00:12:11,089
I'm suggesting there hasn't been
a piece of paper written...

137
00:12:11,165 --> 00:12:14,965
...in the history of mankind that could
serve as a deterrent to a Pearl Harbor.

138
00:12:15,136 --> 00:12:17,604
I wonder why we haven't learned
that lesson by now.

139
00:12:17,672 --> 00:12:20,539
Every 20 years or so we have
to pick ourselves up bleeding...

140
00:12:20,608 --> 00:12:22,337
...and pay for that mistake.

141
00:12:22,410 --> 00:12:23,775
I might add, Senator...

142
00:12:23,844 --> 00:12:27,302
...those mistakes are delivered to us COD
by peace-loving men...

143
00:12:27,381 --> 00:12:30,043
...and bought and paid for
with the lives of other men.

144
00:12:30,117 --> 00:12:31,379
Men in uniform.

145
00:12:33,921 --> 00:12:36,549
Have we ever forgotten to thank you?

146
00:12:36,924 --> 00:12:40,792
I wasn't soliciting your appreciation,
Senator Clark, only your memory.

147
00:12:41,062 --> 00:12:45,089
With all due respect, Senator, might I elicit
one small admission on your part?

148
00:12:45,166 --> 00:12:49,000
That the State of the Union is such
that the current administration...

149
00:12:49,503 --> 00:12:50,834
Thank you.

150
00:13:02,083 --> 00:13:04,677
Well, they listened,
but I'm not sure they heard.

151
00:13:04,752 --> 00:13:09,348
Your testimony was the most effective
defense of a position I've ever heard.

152
00:13:09,423 --> 00:13:12,017
Coming from you, Jiggs,
that's fulsome praise indeed.

153
00:13:12,093 --> 00:13:15,290
That forces me to invite you for a drink,
in the name of gratitude.

154
00:13:15,363 --> 00:13:18,355
In the name of military protocol,
you force me to accept.

155
00:13:18,432 --> 00:13:21,765
- Your first appointment is at 2:00, General.
- Thank you.

156
00:13:24,071 --> 00:13:25,732
Incidentally, Jiggs.

157
00:13:26,474 --> 00:13:29,705
The alert on Sunday, nobody from the Hill.
No congressmen.

158
00:13:30,711 --> 00:13:33,441
This one must be deep and dark,
straight down the line.

159
00:13:33,514 --> 00:13:36,915
I noticed that nobody from Congress
was on the list.

160
00:14:00,808 --> 00:14:03,504
Hello, Colonel. Hot poop
from all around the globe.

161
00:14:03,711 --> 00:14:07,010
All properly decoded in 4.0 fashion,
and respectively submitted...

162
00:14:07,081 --> 00:14:10,414
...by yours truly,
Lieutenant Junior Grade Dorsey Grayson.

163
00:14:10,584 --> 00:14:12,552
Give this one a reading.

164
00:14:13,554 --> 00:14:15,988
"Last call annual Preakness pool."

165
00:14:16,090 --> 00:14:17,887
Top secret code, too.

166
00:14:18,192 --> 00:14:20,717
"$10 already deposited with Murdock.

167
00:14:20,861 --> 00:14:23,193
"Give lengths your pick will win.

168
00:14:23,698 --> 00:14:28,499
"Deadline: 17:00, Saturday.
Post time: 1:00, Sunday, 18 May."

169
00:14:28,636 --> 00:14:30,570
Scott, where'd this come from?

170
00:14:30,638 --> 00:14:33,072
General Scott's aid, you know,
Colonel Murdock.

171
00:14:33,140 --> 00:14:36,132
He gave me that message
at 07:25 this morning.

172
00:14:36,777 --> 00:14:39,541
Did you get that name, Colonel?
General Scott.

173
00:14:39,613 --> 00:14:42,309
Yeah, I'm so disillusioned,
I could sit down and cry.

174
00:14:42,383 --> 00:14:44,749
My hero turns out to be a bookie.

175
00:14:45,586 --> 00:14:47,213
Say, who'd this go to?

176
00:14:47,321 --> 00:14:48,879
Nothing but the cream.

177
00:14:49,890 --> 00:14:52,552
Commander Vandenburg,
Missile Center, California.

178
00:14:52,626 --> 00:14:55,424
Commander...
Strategic Air Command, Omaha.

179
00:14:55,763 --> 00:14:59,164
Vice-Admiral Farley C. Barnswell,
Commanding Sixth League, Gibraltar.

180
00:14:59,233 --> 00:15:00,723
St. Pat, Pearl Harbor and...

181
00:15:00,801 --> 00:15:04,601
...Commander First Airborne Corps Unit,
United States Army, Fort Bragg, sir.

182
00:15:04,672 --> 00:15:06,401
They must have a sure thing.

183
00:15:06,474 --> 00:15:09,409
Colonel, look at this.
Barnswell doesn't think so.

184
00:15:11,645 --> 00:15:15,240
Just proves that sometimes even
an admiral can't cough up $10 for a bet.

185
00:15:26,827 --> 00:15:28,158
Hiya, Jiggs.

186
00:15:31,332 --> 00:15:32,492
How are you, Mutt?

187
00:15:32,566 --> 00:15:34,500
Just fine. Good to see you.

188
00:15:34,568 --> 00:15:36,729
You look great. Where are you stationed?

189
00:15:37,938 --> 00:15:40,839
I haven't given a straight answer to that
in four months.

190
00:15:40,908 --> 00:15:45,140
But with your clearance, you know already.
Hell, you probably got me my orders.

191
00:15:45,212 --> 00:15:46,736
I'm Exec of ECOMCON, Jiggs.

192
00:15:48,616 --> 00:15:49,605
ECOMCON?

193
00:15:49,817 --> 00:15:51,808
Yes. Site Y.

194
00:15:52,353 --> 00:15:55,151
Don't blame me for your orders.
Come on in.

195
00:15:56,791 --> 00:15:58,452
You live at the base at Site Y?

196
00:15:58,526 --> 00:16:00,721
Nobody could live at that hellhole.

197
00:16:00,795 --> 00:16:04,492
It's bad enough when the old man
keeps me there four or five days at a time.

198
00:16:04,565 --> 00:16:06,999
Mabel and I have a house in El Paso.

199
00:16:07,067 --> 00:16:10,935
I'll give you the number. If you ever get
down that way, we can open a bottle.

200
00:16:11,005 --> 00:16:14,941
Listen, I have to go to a party tonight.
If you're free it might be fun for you.

201
00:16:15,009 --> 00:16:17,637
Jiggs, I'd love to but I just can't.

202
00:16:18,245 --> 00:16:19,371
How long will you stay?

203
00:16:19,447 --> 00:16:23,213
Just till the old man briefs Scott.
I think you know him. Colonel Broderick?

204
00:16:24,785 --> 00:16:25,843
Broderick.

205
00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:27,319
Good officer, don't you think?

206
00:16:27,388 --> 00:16:30,448
For certain armies.
The kind that goose step.

207
00:16:33,027 --> 00:16:35,587
You don't find a happy medium
in this man's army.

208
00:16:36,197 --> 00:16:37,562
That's for sure.

209
00:16:38,132 --> 00:16:40,828
Say, how many men are there
in your outfit now?

210
00:16:40,901 --> 00:16:42,493
Are you up to strength yet?

211
00:16:42,570 --> 00:16:44,265
Sure we are. We got the full t.o.

212
00:16:44,338 --> 00:16:48,274
A hundred officers, 3,600 enlisted.
The last of them came in six weeks ago.

213
00:16:48,809 --> 00:16:50,037
You know, it's funny.

214
00:16:50,778 --> 00:16:51,745
What?

215
00:16:53,113 --> 00:16:57,015
We seem to spend more time training
for seizure than for prevention.

216
00:16:57,818 --> 00:17:01,117
Like the Commies already had the stuff
and we had to get it back.

217
00:17:01,188 --> 00:17:02,587
- Colonel Henderson?
- Yes.

218
00:17:02,656 --> 00:17:04,317
Colonel Broderick's waiting for you.

219
00:17:04,391 --> 00:17:07,189
The sergeant at the desk will show you
where to go.

220
00:17:07,261 --> 00:17:09,559
Jiggs, it's wonderful seeing you.

221
00:17:09,630 --> 00:17:12,394
When you get to El Paso,
that's the number. You call.

222
00:17:12,466 --> 00:17:13,797
You bet I will.

223
00:17:14,201 --> 00:17:16,066
And, Mutt, stop growing, will you?

224
00:17:21,375 --> 00:17:25,539
Casey, I hope you didn't discuss
Sunday's alert with Colonel Henderson.

225
00:17:25,613 --> 00:17:28,446
I needn't remind you that it's top secret.

226
00:17:28,616 --> 00:17:31,050
If you needn't remind me,
why do you bring it up?

227
00:17:31,452 --> 00:17:32,885
I see no reason for humor.

228
00:17:32,953 --> 00:17:37,219
I made a note of it, or was it to place a bet
on the Preakness pool with General Scott?

229
00:17:37,291 --> 00:17:39,316
How did you find out about that?

230
00:17:39,927 --> 00:17:43,055
Well, you got Grayson all lathered up
about racehorses.

231
00:17:43,230 --> 00:17:45,562
That kid better learn to keep
his mouth shut.

232
00:17:46,133 --> 00:17:47,828
Don't jump the kid.

233
00:17:48,736 --> 00:17:50,931
How was he to know
the nation's security...

234
00:17:51,005 --> 00:17:53,803
...rests on Admiral Barnswell's
parting with $10?

235
00:17:56,377 --> 00:17:58,777
That was the General's personal business.

236
00:18:00,414 --> 00:18:02,279
What are you getting so hot about?

237
00:18:04,919 --> 00:18:07,547
You're right. It's not important.

238
00:18:18,499 --> 00:18:21,559
Operator, have you got a listing
for ECOMCON?

239
00:18:22,903 --> 00:18:25,371
E-C-O-M-C-O-N.

240
00:18:27,808 --> 00:18:30,299
You don't? Thank you very much.

241
00:18:35,115 --> 00:18:38,243
ECOMCON and horse racing.
What the hell's going on here?

242
00:18:41,255 --> 00:18:44,918
Can you explain why the good General
walks into a Senate hearing...

243
00:18:45,826 --> 00:18:48,522
...like he's St. George
and the administration's a dragon?

244
00:18:48,596 --> 00:18:49,824
Simmer down, Paul.

245
00:18:50,364 --> 00:18:53,231
I mean it. Your boss did everything
but draw a sword.

246
00:18:53,300 --> 00:18:56,133
They asked, he answered.
You guys are getting sensitive.

247
00:18:56,203 --> 00:18:57,966
Little too sensitive if you ask me.

248
00:18:58,038 --> 00:19:00,598
- Good evening, Senator.
- Good evening, Colonel.

249
00:19:00,674 --> 00:19:02,471
It's as simple as this.

250
00:19:02,543 --> 00:19:05,307
The President trusts Russia.
The American people don't.

251
00:19:05,446 --> 00:19:08,643
They don't believe the Russians
will take the bombs apart on July 1...

252
00:19:08,716 --> 00:19:09,705
...and neither do I.

253
00:19:09,783 --> 00:19:13,719
Senator, do you think that the President's
position is so unreasonable?

254
00:19:14,388 --> 00:19:17,414
If Russia reneges or cheats,
we'd find out immediately.

255
00:19:17,491 --> 00:19:21,655
The deal is off. There'd be no danger.
Now, doesn't that make sense?

256
00:19:21,729 --> 00:19:24,163
Let's hear the view of someone
more knowledgeable...

257
00:19:24,231 --> 00:19:27,894
...as to the Soviet Union's capacity
to destroy us. Colonel Casey?

258
00:19:28,636 --> 00:19:30,968
As a military officer,
I steer clear of politics.

259
00:19:31,038 --> 00:19:34,940
Let's forget that you're a military officer.
You also happen to be a citizen.

260
00:19:35,009 --> 00:19:37,375
Well, then I'll have to take the Fifth.

261
00:19:37,811 --> 00:19:40,939
Colonel, do you like the treaty
or don't you?

262
00:19:41,448 --> 00:19:43,348
Oh, Senator. Pardon me.

263
00:19:43,517 --> 00:19:45,644
I want you to meet
the Indian Ambassador's wife.

264
00:19:45,719 --> 00:19:47,880
Just a moment.
We're discussing the treaty.

265
00:19:47,955 --> 00:19:50,651
I want you to hear
the Pentagon's viewpoint.

266
00:19:51,091 --> 00:19:52,422
Go ahead, Colonel.

267
00:19:54,128 --> 00:19:56,323
The treaty isn't viewed very favorably.

268
00:19:56,397 --> 00:19:58,695
Neither are income taxes,
but we pay them.

269
00:19:58,766 --> 00:20:02,258
But you make me think that fruit salad
on your chest is for neutrality...

270
00:20:02,336 --> 00:20:04,327
...evasiveness and fence-straddling.

271
00:20:04,405 --> 00:20:06,566
On the contrary, they're standard awards...

272
00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,438
...for cocktail courage
and dinner-table heroism.

273
00:20:09,677 --> 00:20:11,269
I thought you'd invented them.

274
00:20:12,379 --> 00:20:13,710
Excuse me, Paul.

275
00:20:20,954 --> 00:20:23,388
Ellie. I didn't know you were back in town.

276
00:20:24,625 --> 00:20:26,217
You never looked.

277
00:20:28,595 --> 00:20:30,995
You surprised me tonight, Colonel Casey.

278
00:20:31,632 --> 00:20:34,430
The voice of reason coming out
of a military man?

279
00:20:34,535 --> 00:20:36,196
I've got a lot of hidden talents.

280
00:20:36,270 --> 00:20:41,230
Oh, I suspected that right along.
Ever since my ex-lover introduced us.

281
00:20:42,409 --> 00:20:46,038
And how is the staunch General Scott?
And his lovely wife?

282
00:20:46,413 --> 00:20:47,675
He keeps busy.

283
00:20:47,748 --> 00:20:51,411
So I read. There's a sizeable portion
of the citizenry...

284
00:20:51,485 --> 00:20:54,682
...who says that he's the savior
of the western world.

285
00:20:54,955 --> 00:20:56,752
He does his job, Ellie.

286
00:20:56,990 --> 00:21:01,017
Well, take care of him, Jiggs.
See that he rests on the seventh day.

287
00:21:01,261 --> 00:21:02,421
I'll try.

288
00:21:05,032 --> 00:21:09,492
That marvelous military stoicism.
The iron mask.

289
00:21:10,370 --> 00:21:13,669
Is that for quenching a torch
or washing a wound?

290
00:21:15,275 --> 00:21:18,210
Well, let me put it to you this way,
Jiggs, darling.

291
00:21:18,412 --> 00:21:20,710
What the hell business is it of yours?

292
00:21:22,716 --> 00:21:24,547
- I want that.
- No, you don't.

293
00:21:29,056 --> 00:21:32,958
Now, you listen to me.
Now, what is it? Is it just Scott?

294
00:21:34,461 --> 00:21:36,452
It's Scott. It's that and everything.

295
00:21:38,532 --> 00:21:39,999
It's my whole damned life.

296
00:21:40,667 --> 00:21:43,898
You're not the first dame to ever wind up
on the bottom of the deck.

297
00:21:43,971 --> 00:21:47,304
It happens every day. What matters is
how a person lives with it.

298
00:21:47,374 --> 00:21:49,706
Stop playing the part
of the anguished drunk...

299
00:21:49,777 --> 00:21:53,907
...digging olives out of martinis and
boring everybody with tragic stories.

300
00:21:55,115 --> 00:21:58,812
You know, sober, Ellie, you're a bright,
beautiful dame.

301
00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:00,586
Good to have around.

302
00:22:05,726 --> 00:22:07,353
Will you drive me home, Jiggs?

303
00:22:08,495 --> 00:22:09,860
Whenever you say.

304
00:22:10,998 --> 00:22:12,363
I'll get my coat.

305
00:22:17,104 --> 00:22:19,595
Good night, Stew.
Thank you for a very nice party.

306
00:22:19,673 --> 00:22:22,198
Thanks for coming, Senator.
Pleasure having you.

307
00:22:24,011 --> 00:22:26,445
I hope you forgive
my little outburst tonight.

308
00:22:26,513 --> 00:22:30,381
It's a combination of deep concerns
and dry martinis. A dangerous combo.

309
00:22:30,450 --> 00:22:32,611
I've been reamed by experts, Senator.

310
00:22:32,686 --> 00:22:34,085
Grey Thunderbird.

311
00:22:36,456 --> 00:22:40,085
I was simply trying to get you to say
what I happen to know you believe in.

312
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,492
You work for the one man
who commands confidence...

313
00:22:42,563 --> 00:22:45,225
...and could possibly lead us
out of this mess.

314
00:22:46,066 --> 00:22:47,431
You just remember:

315
00:22:48,135 --> 00:22:51,832
There are plenty of us up on the Hill
who stand right alongside of you.

316
00:22:54,007 --> 00:22:57,272
We've all got to stay on the alert
these days, Casey.

317
00:22:57,344 --> 00:22:58,868
Specially on Sunday, right?

318
00:23:12,759 --> 00:23:13,748
Thank you.

319
00:23:24,838 --> 00:23:26,203
There you are.

320
00:23:26,273 --> 00:23:30,266
Something's come up. I've got to drive out
to Fort Myer to see the General.

321
00:23:30,944 --> 00:23:32,673
May I call a cab for you?

322
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:34,638
No, thank you. I'll manage.

323
00:23:34,715 --> 00:23:37,343
I'm sorry, Ellie, but this is very important.

324
00:23:38,819 --> 00:23:42,448
All right, Jiggs, but just in case
someone forgets to mention it...

325
00:23:42,522 --> 00:23:44,217
...you're a great crutch.

326
00:23:45,325 --> 00:23:48,920
It's too bad you're only available
20 minutes at a time.

327
00:23:49,763 --> 00:23:53,665
You can't tell. Sometimes the country
can spare me for a whole evening.

328
00:23:56,904 --> 00:23:58,895
Give me a rain check, I'll prove it.

329
00:23:59,139 --> 00:24:02,006
Tuck it somewhere safe
where you won't forget it.

330
00:24:02,476 --> 00:24:03,841
Good night, Ellie.

331
00:24:04,878 --> 00:24:06,243
Good night, Jiggs.

332
00:25:26,026 --> 00:25:27,493
- Hi, Jack.
- Hi, Jiggs.

333
00:25:29,329 --> 00:25:31,263
Colonel Broderick's with him.

334
00:25:41,074 --> 00:25:43,065
Well, well, well.

335
00:25:44,711 --> 00:25:48,738
If it isn't my favorite jarhead himself,
Jiggs Casey.

336
00:25:49,282 --> 00:25:52,979
Hello, Broderick. I thought you'd be
in Okinawa, or maybe worse.

337
00:25:53,620 --> 00:25:57,716
Not me, Casey boy, not me.
Still protecting the great unwashed?

338
00:25:58,358 --> 00:26:00,952
I thought you'd be
a civil liberties lawyer by now.

339
00:26:01,028 --> 00:26:03,121
You might make it yet.

340
00:26:05,165 --> 00:26:08,066
By the way, Casey, my boy,
I hear you're doing a fine job...

341
00:26:08,135 --> 00:26:10,399
...as Director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

342
00:26:14,341 --> 00:26:16,275
- Hello, Jiggs.
- Good morning, sir.

343
00:26:17,244 --> 00:26:18,802
How was the party last night?

344
00:26:18,879 --> 00:26:20,710
Well, you missed a good one.

345
00:26:21,415 --> 00:26:22,882
Anyone there I know?

346
00:26:23,083 --> 00:26:27,042
Paul Girard from the White House and
Senator Prentice were the ranking guests.

347
00:26:28,188 --> 00:26:30,418
There must have been a hassle
over the treaty.

348
00:26:30,490 --> 00:26:31,980
There was, sir.

349
00:26:32,959 --> 00:26:35,792
- Prentice uphold our side all right?
- He was pretty candid.

350
00:26:35,862 --> 00:26:38,023
Also quite complimentary about you.

351
00:26:38,899 --> 00:26:41,231
By the way, Ellie Holbrook was there.

352
00:26:42,135 --> 00:26:43,500
Nice seeing her again.

353
00:26:47,274 --> 00:26:49,538
- Let's get on with it, Jiggs.
- Yes, sir.

354
00:26:50,710 --> 00:26:53,372
These are from January's All Red Alert, sir.

355
00:26:54,714 --> 00:26:57,478
Pearl Harbor, 12 minutes
after the threat warning.

356
00:26:57,551 --> 00:27:02,284
Twelve minutes and over 80 percent
of the fleet sitting there like overfed ducks.

357
00:27:03,290 --> 00:27:04,154
Next.

358
00:27:09,096 --> 00:27:11,564
Wright Field, 22 minutes into the alert.

359
00:27:12,065 --> 00:27:14,329
This one really gives me an ache in the gut.

360
00:27:14,401 --> 00:27:18,132
Half of those aircraft aren't even scrambled
let alone off the ground.

361
00:27:21,942 --> 00:27:23,409
Over Mount Thunder.

362
00:27:24,978 --> 00:27:28,175
- The President's in the middle helicopter.
- Right out in the open.

363
00:27:28,248 --> 00:27:30,079
Thirty-four minutes into the alert.

364
00:27:30,150 --> 00:27:34,280
Canned sound indicates possibility
of hostile action by the Soviet Union.

365
00:27:38,925 --> 00:27:40,688
There are 30 more shots, sir.

366
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,126
Each one of them more fouled up
than the others.

367
00:27:44,397 --> 00:27:46,831
Let's hope Sunday's alert
will be different, sir.

368
00:27:47,434 --> 00:27:49,334
It damn well better be.

369
00:27:53,206 --> 00:27:55,436
Wouldn't it help
if you changed your mind...

370
00:27:56,209 --> 00:27:57,870
About what, Jiggs?

371
00:27:58,211 --> 00:28:00,873
Inviting the congressional people
to observe the alert.

372
00:28:03,250 --> 00:28:05,741
It wouldn't hurt us if a congressman
or a senator...

373
00:28:05,819 --> 00:28:08,310
...saw how effectively we can work
when we have to.

374
00:28:08,388 --> 00:28:11,221
Nobody from the Hill is
to know a thing about this.

375
00:28:11,958 --> 00:28:13,118
Yes, sir.

376
00:28:16,463 --> 00:28:17,293
Yes?

377
00:28:17,364 --> 00:28:20,663
<i>9:20, sir. They're waiting for you
in the conference room.</i>

378
00:28:22,169 --> 00:28:25,696
I've even persuaded the President
to come down without the press.

379
00:28:26,173 --> 00:28:27,834
- No newspapermen?
- None.

380
00:28:32,812 --> 00:28:34,609
Get to bed late, sir?

381
00:28:38,718 --> 00:28:42,017
Got to bed too early.
Slept from 8:00 to 8:00. Too much sleep.

382
00:28:44,024 --> 00:28:45,389
I may never wake up.

383
00:28:47,060 --> 00:28:48,721
Stay close, Jiggs.

384
00:28:49,596 --> 00:28:51,723
I'll want to see you after this meeting.

385
00:29:21,595 --> 00:29:24,359
Colonel Murdock said you've heard
about our Preakness pool.

386
00:29:24,431 --> 00:29:25,591
Yes, sir.

387
00:29:25,966 --> 00:29:28,264
I'd appreciate it if you'd keep it to yourself.

388
00:29:28,335 --> 00:29:30,235
All I want is the right horse.

389
00:29:32,706 --> 00:29:37,006
Admiral Barnswell's reply. I'd appreciate it
if you'd keep that in confidence, too.

390
00:29:37,077 --> 00:29:38,339
Of course, sir.

391
00:29:40,580 --> 00:29:42,707
I see the Navy wasn't here today.

392
00:29:43,917 --> 00:29:46,715
Admiral Palmer couldn't make it.
We'll brief him later.

393
00:29:46,786 --> 00:29:50,984
Speaking of the Navy, that reminds me.
That young J.G. In All Service Radio.

394
00:29:51,057 --> 00:29:52,251
Grayson, sir?

395
00:29:52,759 --> 00:29:54,784
He's a bit of a gossip, isn't he?

396
00:29:54,861 --> 00:29:56,294
He means well.

397
00:29:58,398 --> 00:30:01,424
Well, I'm off to New York
and the AVO Convention.

398
00:30:01,501 --> 00:30:04,664
If you get a chance, listen in.
I'd like to know what you think.

399
00:30:04,738 --> 00:30:07,104
- Certainly, sir. Good luck.
- Thank you.

400
00:30:37,203 --> 00:30:39,296
Hey, Colonel, get a load of this.

401
00:30:39,372 --> 00:30:41,067
What is it, Grayson?

402
00:30:42,709 --> 00:30:44,006
A transfer.

403
00:30:44,844 --> 00:30:45,868
Pearl Harbor?

404
00:30:45,945 --> 00:30:49,210
Yes, I think I got some kind
of guardian angel around here.

405
00:30:49,616 --> 00:30:52,483
Good old Pearl Harbor.

406
00:30:52,852 --> 00:30:57,016
By the way, Barnswell was the only one
to poop out of the Chairman's racing form.

407
00:30:57,090 --> 00:30:59,684
All the others came through
with their IOUs.

408
00:31:23,016 --> 00:31:27,316
<i>Ladies and gentlemen, you have heard me
in my nightly newscasts.</i>

409
00:31:27,687 --> 00:31:29,314
<i>You know where I stand.</i>

410
00:31:29,889 --> 00:31:34,553
<i>I'm not a lover of communists, socialists,
or intellectual bleeding hearts.</i>

411
00:31:35,028 --> 00:31:37,155
<i>I happen to have only one interest...</i>

412
00:31:37,230 --> 00:31:41,724
<i>... and that is symbolized by the red,
white and blue of our glorious flag.</i>

413
00:31:46,206 --> 00:31:48,231
<i>Now I'm going to give you the one man...</i>

414
00:31:48,308 --> 00:31:52,369
<i>... who not only speaks for that flag,
but has fought for it with distinction...</i>

415
00:31:52,445 --> 00:31:54,572
<i>... and now represents it with honor.</i>

416
00:31:55,615 --> 00:31:59,381
<i>Four-star general, winner of
the Congressional Medal of Honor...</i>

417
00:31:59,586 --> 00:32:03,579
<i>... and two Distinguished Service Crosses,
a hero of war...</i>

418
00:32:04,057 --> 00:32:06,548
<i>... a stalwart protector of the peace.</i>

419
00:32:07,227 --> 00:32:08,717
<i>Ladies and gentlemen...</i>

420
00:32:09,129 --> 00:32:14,931
<i>... the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
General James Mattoon Scott!</i>

421
00:32:18,938 --> 00:32:21,930
<i>We want Scott! We want Scott!</i>

422
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,193
<i>Ladies and gentlemen,
members of the American Veterans Order.</i>

423
00:32:53,173 --> 00:32:56,939
<i>I would like to thank Mr. MacPherson
for his most laudatory comments.</i>

424
00:32:57,010 --> 00:32:58,910
<i>You're very generous, Harold.</i>

425
00:32:59,078 --> 00:33:01,239
<i>Perhaps patriotism is old-fashioned.</i>

426
00:33:02,148 --> 00:33:04,639
<i>Perhaps love of country is outdated.</i>

427
00:33:05,485 --> 00:33:10,422
<i>Perhaps even a minute degree of sentiment
to one's motherland is considered pass�.</i>

428
00:33:11,157 --> 00:33:14,183
<i>But God help us,
and God help our country...</i>

429
00:33:14,494 --> 00:33:17,759
<i>... if the cynics, the one-worlders,
the intellectual dilettantes...</i>

430
00:33:17,831 --> 00:33:20,732
<i>... ever persuade us that these things
have passed us by...</i>

431
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,700
<i>... because, ladies and gentlemen...</i>

432
00:33:22,769 --> 00:33:27,570
<i>... patriotism, loyalty, sentiment,
they are the United States of America!</i>

433
00:33:40,753 --> 00:33:44,120
<i>In my lifetime, I have seen 1,000 ways
a man can die.</i>

434
00:33:45,124 --> 00:33:48,958
<i>And I know that in this country,
we have a perverse habit of forgetting...</i>

435
00:33:49,028 --> 00:33:51,553
Operator, would you connect me
with the White House?

436
00:34:32,472 --> 00:34:36,568
The President's expecting you, Colonel.
The study, second door on the right.

437
00:35:00,033 --> 00:35:03,264
All I can tell you, pal,
is this better be damned important.

438
00:35:05,572 --> 00:35:08,473
- How are you, Colonel Casey?
- Mr. President.

439
00:35:08,541 --> 00:35:10,566
- Please, sit down.
- Thank you, sir.

440
00:35:12,512 --> 00:35:14,104
Ever been up here before, Colonel?

441
00:35:14,180 --> 00:35:16,580
No, sir. It's a big room.

442
00:35:17,150 --> 00:35:20,176
Too big for living and too small
for conventions.

443
00:35:20,386 --> 00:35:24,083
- You want a drink, Colonel?
- Yes, sir. Scotch, please.

444
00:35:24,157 --> 00:35:26,284
- Fine. I'll keep you company.
- Thank you.

445
00:35:26,359 --> 00:35:28,623
- How about you, Paul?
- No, no, thanks.

446
00:35:31,998 --> 00:35:35,729
And now, Colonel,
that matter of national security.

447
00:35:42,942 --> 00:35:47,641
Mr. President, have you ever heard
of a military unit known as ECOMCON?

448
00:35:49,382 --> 00:35:50,212
What?

449
00:35:50,283 --> 00:35:53,582
I'm sorry. E-C-O-M-C-O-N. ECOMCON.

450
00:35:55,688 --> 00:35:56,620
No.

451
00:35:58,658 --> 00:36:00,057
What does it mean?

452
00:36:01,227 --> 00:36:02,524
I'm not sure, sir.

453
00:36:04,664 --> 00:36:06,495
In formal military abbreviations...

454
00:36:06,566 --> 00:36:09,933
...it could stand for Emergency
Communications Control, but...

455
00:36:12,939 --> 00:36:15,407
I've never heard anything like that.

456
00:36:15,842 --> 00:36:17,833
- Have you, Paul?
- No, I haven't.

457
00:36:21,147 --> 00:36:23,707
Mr. President, have you ever authorized...

458
00:36:23,783 --> 00:36:28,277
...the formation of any type of secret unit,
regardless of it's name...

459
00:36:28,988 --> 00:36:33,152
...that has something to do with preserving
the security of things like...

460
00:36:33,226 --> 00:36:35,456
...television, telephone or radio?

461
00:36:35,662 --> 00:36:37,095
No, I haven't.

462
00:36:39,499 --> 00:36:42,093
Do you know of
any secret Army installation, sir...

463
00:36:42,168 --> 00:36:44,830
...that's been set up somewhere
near El Paso recently?

464
00:36:44,904 --> 00:36:46,303
The answer is no again.

465
00:36:47,540 --> 00:36:48,529
Why?

466
00:36:49,609 --> 00:36:53,045
Sir, this is something very difficult
for me because...

467
00:36:53,112 --> 00:36:55,979
...it concerns a superior officer
whom I admire and respect.

468
00:36:56,049 --> 00:36:58,210
Let's get on with it, Colonel, huh?

469
00:36:59,218 --> 00:37:00,276
Yes, sir.

470
00:37:04,857 --> 00:37:07,951
Yesterday I learned from a friend of mine,
Colonel Henderson...

471
00:37:08,027 --> 00:37:10,461
...that he's the exec officer of ECOMCON.

472
00:37:12,365 --> 00:37:15,823
His commanding officer is
an Army colonel named John Broderick.

473
00:37:16,235 --> 00:37:19,329
They're both from Signal Corps,
which indicates communications.

474
00:37:19,972 --> 00:37:24,739
They've had 100 officers
and 3,600 men training secretly...

475
00:37:25,044 --> 00:37:28,070
...at a desert base near El Paso
for six weeks or so.

476
00:37:28,948 --> 00:37:32,145
Well, then Henderson said
an odd thing to me, sir.

477
00:37:32,218 --> 00:37:36,245
Something that, well,
I can't shake quite loose of.

478
00:37:37,824 --> 00:37:42,261
He said they were spending more time
training for seizing than for preventing.

479
00:37:43,429 --> 00:37:45,021
Who set up this outfit?

480
00:37:45,531 --> 00:37:48,864
Henderson and Broderick
reported directly to General Scott...

481
00:37:48,935 --> 00:37:51,199
...so, I assume General Scott did, sir.

482
00:37:51,270 --> 00:37:54,831
You assume? You work directly
under General Scott, don't you?

483
00:37:56,109 --> 00:38:00,102
Yes, sir, but, well, I guess I'd been
cut out for some security reason.

484
00:38:02,348 --> 00:38:03,713
Go ahead, Colonel.

485
00:38:08,621 --> 00:38:11,954
Mr. President, this is
General Hardesty's writing.

486
00:38:12,625 --> 00:38:14,855
I know it pretty well.

487
00:38:14,927 --> 00:38:17,953
That paper came from
the Joint Chiefs' meeting room.

488
00:38:18,965 --> 00:38:21,297
I can't make much out of this scrawl.

489
00:38:22,135 --> 00:38:27,038
"Airlift ECOMCON 40 K 212s
at Site Y by 07:00 Sunday.

490
00:38:27,573 --> 00:38:29,632
"Chi, New York, LA, Utah."

491
00:38:30,143 --> 00:38:31,132
K 212s?

492
00:38:31,210 --> 00:38:33,178
Air Force jet transports, sir.

493
00:38:34,647 --> 00:38:35,671
What do you make of it?

494
00:38:35,748 --> 00:38:38,911
They're obviously scheduled to lift
this command out of Site Y...

495
00:38:38,985 --> 00:38:42,182
...that's the base near El Paso,
before the alert, Sunday...

496
00:38:42,255 --> 00:38:45,782
...and take those troops to Chicago, LA,
New York and Utah.

497
00:38:46,092 --> 00:38:47,150
Why Utah?

498
00:38:47,260 --> 00:38:50,491
The phone company has big relay facilities
for its long lines there.

499
00:38:50,563 --> 00:38:52,724
Precisely what are you leading up to?

500
00:38:52,799 --> 00:38:54,994
I'm not certain, Mr. President, but...

501
00:38:57,170 --> 00:39:01,334
Well, let me tell you the other things
that have happened the past two days.

502
00:39:02,241 --> 00:39:05,176
General Scott has a kind of pool
going on the Preakness race...

503
00:39:05,244 --> 00:39:06,768
...which runs on Sunday.

504
00:39:06,846 --> 00:39:09,610
He sent messages to every important
field commander...

505
00:39:09,682 --> 00:39:12,173
...talking about getting their bets
in on time.

506
00:39:12,618 --> 00:39:16,213
Admiral Barnswell was the only one
who sent in a "no bet" message.

507
00:39:17,723 --> 00:39:22,626
Your General Scott's interest in horses
isn't classified, Colonel.

508
00:39:25,598 --> 00:39:29,034
I don't think those messages had anything
to do with horses, sir.

509
00:39:29,101 --> 00:39:30,864
I think it was some kind of code.

510
00:39:31,571 --> 00:39:33,436
That's a fair-sized assumption.

511
00:39:33,506 --> 00:39:36,475
General Scott wanted those messages
kept under wraps.

512
00:39:36,642 --> 00:39:38,132
- Under wraps?
- Yes, sir.

513
00:39:38,211 --> 00:39:41,874
A J.G. Who decoded those messages
is being shipped out to Hawaii.

514
00:39:44,116 --> 00:39:46,243
There are other things, Mr. President.

515
00:39:46,319 --> 00:39:48,879
Last night at a party
at Stewart Dillard's house...

516
00:39:48,955 --> 00:39:50,889
- You were there, Paul.
- Yes.

517
00:39:51,023 --> 00:39:54,322
Senator Prentice indicated to me
a knowledge of the alert.

518
00:39:55,428 --> 00:39:57,794
No one on the Hill is supposed
to know about it.

519
00:39:57,864 --> 00:40:01,061
Senator Prentice knows.
And General Scott knows that he knows.

520
00:40:01,133 --> 00:40:03,158
- That's quite an assumption.
- How do you know?

521
00:40:03,236 --> 00:40:06,330
The General lied.
He said he was in bed last night at 8:00.

522
00:40:06,405 --> 00:40:08,839
I went to his quarters
after the party because...

523
00:40:08,908 --> 00:40:12,309
...I was concerned that Senator Prentice
had found out about the alert.

524
00:40:12,378 --> 00:40:16,872
He wasn't in bed. He was with Prentice
who arrived at his house at 11:45.

525
00:40:17,884 --> 00:40:19,374
And that's all?

526
00:40:20,052 --> 00:40:22,384
Well, Congress recessed yesterday.

527
00:40:22,521 --> 00:40:25,285
Vice-President Gianelli is in Italy
on a goodwill tour.

528
00:40:25,358 --> 00:40:28,020
This Sunday, you'll be
at an underground command post...

529
00:40:28,094 --> 00:40:29,994
...on Mount Thunder, completely alone.

530
00:40:30,062 --> 00:40:32,428
You won't even have press people
in attendance.

531
00:40:32,498 --> 00:40:33,624
That's true.

532
00:40:34,433 --> 00:40:36,731
General Scott asked that I come alone.

533
00:40:37,637 --> 00:40:39,366
All right, Colonel.

534
00:40:40,206 --> 00:40:41,935
Let's sum it up, shall we?

535
00:40:43,809 --> 00:40:45,401
You're suggesting what?

536
00:40:46,646 --> 00:40:49,945
I'm not sure, Mr. President,
just some possibilities...

537
00:40:50,016 --> 00:40:53,747
...what we call "capabilities"
in military intelligence.

538
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,452
You got something against
the English language?

539
00:40:56,956 --> 00:40:57,923
No, sir.

540
00:40:57,990 --> 00:41:00,015
Then speak it plainly if you will.

541
00:41:04,463 --> 00:41:08,263
I'm suggesting there's a military plot
to take over the government.

542
00:41:08,668 --> 00:41:11,159
This may occur sometime
this coming Sunday.

543
00:41:16,208 --> 00:41:19,803
You realize you could be broken out
of the Service for what you've said?

544
00:41:19,879 --> 00:41:23,212
I've thought about the consequences.
I've been a Marine for 18 years.

545
00:41:23,282 --> 00:41:24,715
Comment, Paul?

546
00:41:26,185 --> 00:41:29,313
With all due respect to Jiggs,
it's just incredible...

547
00:41:30,323 --> 00:41:34,191
...that a secret base could've been
constructed without our hearing about it.

548
00:41:34,260 --> 00:41:38,128
Sir, when you think of the people
and the supplies involved...

549
00:41:41,467 --> 00:41:43,662
Frankly, sir, it doesn't seem logical.

550
00:41:43,736 --> 00:41:45,601
It can be checked out, though.

551
00:41:45,671 --> 00:41:49,266
Yes, I'll call Bill Condon
at the Bureau of Budget. Right now.

552
00:41:57,283 --> 00:42:00,844
I know what Scott's attitude is
on the treaty. What's yours?

553
00:42:03,823 --> 00:42:07,691
I agree with General Scott, sir.
I think we're being played for suckers.

554
00:42:08,661 --> 00:42:12,859
I think it's your business. Yours and
the Senate. You did it and they agreed.

555
00:42:14,467 --> 00:42:16,867
I don't see how we in the military
can question it.

556
00:42:16,936 --> 00:42:19,598
I mean, we can question it
but we can't fight it.

557
00:42:23,009 --> 00:42:24,340
We shouldn't, anyway.

558
00:42:26,812 --> 00:42:29,645
- Jiggs? Isn't that what they call you?
- Yes, sir.

559
00:42:32,184 --> 00:42:35,085
So you stand by the Constitution, Jiggs?

560
00:42:37,857 --> 00:42:40,883
I never thought of it just like that,
Mr. President.

561
00:42:41,694 --> 00:42:45,721
But that's what we've got,
and I guess it's worked pretty well so far.

562
00:42:45,865 --> 00:42:48,857
I sure don't want to be the one to say
we ought to change it.

563
00:42:49,101 --> 00:42:50,295
Neither do I.

564
00:42:54,573 --> 00:42:57,542
Do you have any bright ideas
on what else I can do?

565
00:42:58,277 --> 00:43:01,337
No, sir, not a one. I'm just a buck passer.

566
00:43:03,282 --> 00:43:08,845
I remember what Harry Truman said:
"Inside this room, the buck stops."

567
00:43:10,723 --> 00:43:12,588
Thanks for coming to see me, Colonel.

568
00:43:12,658 --> 00:43:13,750
Yes, sir.

569
00:43:15,361 --> 00:43:18,262
I'd appreciate it if you'd call my secretary
in the morning.

570
00:43:18,330 --> 00:43:19,661
Tell her where you'll be.

571
00:43:19,732 --> 00:43:22,599
- Thanks for coming.
- That's all right, sir. It was...

572
00:43:23,335 --> 00:43:24,734
A pleasure, Colonel?

573
00:43:26,138 --> 00:43:28,368
To get it out of my gut, yes, sir.

574
00:43:29,341 --> 00:43:32,208
I don't know whether you believe this,
but I hope I'm wrong.

575
00:43:32,945 --> 00:43:35,937
Colonel, I hope you're wrong, too.

576
00:43:37,583 --> 00:43:39,107
Good night, sir.

577
00:43:47,326 --> 00:43:49,920
- Good night, Jiggs.
- Good night, Paul.

578
00:43:55,801 --> 00:43:56,893
It is, huh?

579
00:43:58,070 --> 00:43:59,594
Okay, Bill. Thank you.

580
00:44:05,077 --> 00:44:08,569
Condon says there's never been
any money cleared for anything called...

581
00:44:08,647 --> 00:44:10,512
...ECOMCON or whatever it is.

582
00:44:12,218 --> 00:44:14,243
So your conclusion is negative?

583
00:44:15,121 --> 00:44:18,989
My conclusion is that my friend,
Colonel Casey...

584
00:44:19,125 --> 00:44:22,117
...is one Marine with a hell
of an imagination.

585
00:44:25,698 --> 00:44:28,929
You know something, Paul?

586
00:44:29,001 --> 00:44:31,231
I'm not about to disregard his story.

587
00:44:31,303 --> 00:44:32,497
But, Mr. President...

588
00:44:32,571 --> 00:44:37,702
Of course, if it's true, we've only got
four full days left before Sunday.

589
00:44:40,079 --> 00:44:42,775
We'll have to come up
with a list of men I can trust.

590
00:44:42,848 --> 00:44:47,251
<i>I can't move very far without the head
of the White House Secret Service.</i>

591
00:44:47,319 --> 00:44:50,482
<i>And Chris Todd. He has the best mind
in the government.</i>

592
00:44:50,823 --> 00:44:53,951
<i>And can keep his mouth shut.
And get Ray Clark.</i>

593
00:44:54,326 --> 00:44:59,093
With all due respect to Colonel Casey,
let me give you my unequivocal reaction.

594
00:44:59,999 --> 00:45:04,299
To believe any fraction of it, you have
to believe in this ECOMCON business.

595
00:45:04,370 --> 00:45:07,828
Nobody's heard of it before.
Not you, Mr. President. Not Girard.

596
00:45:07,907 --> 00:45:10,273
Not even Bill Condon
who should've heard of it.

597
00:45:10,342 --> 00:45:12,503
What makes you think it does exist?

598
00:45:12,678 --> 00:45:15,374
We have only, and again,
my apologies, Colonel Casey...

599
00:45:15,447 --> 00:45:17,677
...your conjecture. No supportable facts.

600
00:45:17,750 --> 00:45:21,345
What about the Hardesty note?
That refers to it and to a Site Y.

601
00:45:21,420 --> 00:45:24,821
That could easily mean another place.
These military games.

602
00:45:25,224 --> 00:45:29,957
The multiplicity of our secret bases
confuses ourselves more than the Soviets.

603
00:45:32,498 --> 00:45:35,296
Army Intelligence was asked
to run a security check on...

604
00:45:35,367 --> 00:45:37,733
...Colonel Broderick almost two years ago.

605
00:45:37,803 --> 00:45:41,295
There's no question that the man's views
are more than just extreme.

606
00:45:41,373 --> 00:45:43,102
They border on out-and-out fascism!

607
00:45:43,175 --> 00:45:46,042
- Again, that's suspect, but not evidence.
- Exactly.

608
00:45:47,112 --> 00:45:48,841
- Colonel Casey.
- Yes, sir.

609
00:45:50,082 --> 00:45:53,210
What about this communications setup
at Mount Thunder?

610
00:45:54,019 --> 00:45:57,420
Whoever controls it, controls
the communications across the country.

611
00:45:57,489 --> 00:46:00,151
Rubbish. If I went into court
as Scott's counsel...

612
00:46:00,226 --> 00:46:02,194
...l'd move to quash the indictment...

613
00:46:02,261 --> 00:46:04,752
...and we'd be out of the courtroom
in 10 minutes.

614
00:46:04,830 --> 00:46:07,663
I'm only offering presumption of evidence.

615
00:46:08,968 --> 00:46:11,300
The Navy being left out
of the JCS meetings...

616
00:46:11,370 --> 00:46:14,828
...the Hardesty note,
this business of the jet transports...

617
00:46:14,907 --> 00:46:16,636
Forgive me, Mr. President...

618
00:46:17,042 --> 00:46:19,909
...but as for flying troops
to the big cities in an alert...

619
00:46:19,979 --> 00:46:22,413
...that seems to me not only logical
but prudent.

620
00:46:22,815 --> 00:46:26,307
Obviously, if the Russians struck,
we'd need disciplined troops...

621
00:46:26,385 --> 00:46:30,685
...in the metropolitan areas to keep order
and prevent complete breakdown.

622
00:46:30,956 --> 00:46:34,858
And if I may say so, the conversion
of a wagering pool on the Preakness...

623
00:46:34,927 --> 00:46:38,226
...into a code for some sinister plot
to seize the government...

624
00:46:38,297 --> 00:46:43,428
...seems to me suggestive of rather lurid
deductive powers to say the very least.

625
00:46:46,372 --> 00:46:50,672
Mr. Secretary, you saw Scott's
performance on television last night.

626
00:46:51,110 --> 00:46:55,604
That was no apolitical military officer.
That was a dedicated politician.

627
00:46:55,681 --> 00:46:57,740
We've always known that, Senator...

628
00:46:57,816 --> 00:47:00,808
...but that's no proof of this military junta
you're suggesting.

629
00:47:00,886 --> 00:47:02,410
Gentlemen, gentlemen.

630
00:47:05,424 --> 00:47:09,019
We've pretty much exhausted
the information as well as ourselves.

631
00:47:10,696 --> 00:47:13,790
I don't know if the evidence is
as damning as it seems.

632
00:47:14,233 --> 00:47:16,133
I do know it's sufficiently damning...

633
00:47:16,201 --> 00:47:19,693
...to proceed as if there were more
than a few grains of truth in it.

634
00:47:19,772 --> 00:47:23,037
So the following is the plan of procedure:

635
00:47:25,110 --> 00:47:27,738
Chris will stay here to coordinate things.

636
00:47:29,014 --> 00:47:32,450
Art's job is to keep tabs on
the Joint Chiefs that were mentioned.

637
00:47:32,518 --> 00:47:35,043
You'll have to have men available,
men you trust...

638
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,611
...to handle any situation that comes up.

639
00:47:42,361 --> 00:47:44,158
I want you to go to El Paso.

640
00:47:45,664 --> 00:47:48,724
Take the phone number from Colonel Casey
of his friend there.

641
00:47:48,801 --> 00:47:50,530
You're to find that base...

642
00:47:51,136 --> 00:47:54,333
...if it means crawling underground
until you hit a tunnel.

643
00:47:54,540 --> 00:47:57,338
But you're to find that base if it exists.

644
00:47:59,745 --> 00:48:02,213
I don't like sending you down there, Ray.

645
00:48:02,481 --> 00:48:05,541
- Lf there were anyone else I could trust...
- Forget it, Jordie.

646
00:48:05,617 --> 00:48:08,142
Outside of getting parity
for Georgia cotton...

647
00:48:08,220 --> 00:48:12,554
...I haven't accomplished a lot
for this country. Maybe this is my chance.

648
00:48:14,893 --> 00:48:16,190
- Paul?
- Yes, sir.

649
00:48:16,261 --> 00:48:19,822
This is a note you're to take
to Admiral Barnswell in Gibraltar.

650
00:48:19,898 --> 00:48:22,492
I want you to get his reply in writing.
Understand?

651
00:48:22,568 --> 00:48:25,230
In a court of law,
your word wouldn't count for much...

652
00:48:25,304 --> 00:48:27,465
...against that of Barnswell's or Scott's.

653
00:48:27,539 --> 00:48:30,099
Mr. President, it's Wednesday evening.

654
00:48:30,376 --> 00:48:34,005
My feeling is that next week at this time
we'll all be laughing about this.

655
00:48:34,079 --> 00:48:35,569
I hope you're right.

656
00:48:37,583 --> 00:48:39,278
- Colonel Casey?
- Yes, sir.

657
00:48:40,986 --> 00:48:43,546
You'll have the thankless job of informer.

658
00:48:44,790 --> 00:48:46,849
Keep your eye on General Scott.

659
00:48:47,159 --> 00:48:51,061
Keep us informed as to whom he talks to,
whom he hears from, where he goes.

660
00:48:51,130 --> 00:48:53,428
Find out everything you can about him.

661
00:48:54,133 --> 00:48:55,122
Yes, sir.

662
00:48:59,738 --> 00:49:01,501
I think that does it, gentlemen.

663
00:49:02,341 --> 00:49:05,174
It strikes me you're taking
all the necessary steps save one.

664
00:49:05,244 --> 00:49:08,304
Chris, I hope you're quite correct
in your assumption...

665
00:49:08,380 --> 00:49:12,214
...that we're all panicky idiots.
But if you are incorrect in that judgement...

666
00:49:12,284 --> 00:49:15,481
...we're in for a week
of unadulterated nightmare.

667
00:49:39,978 --> 00:49:41,070
Good evening, sir.

668
00:49:41,814 --> 00:49:43,304
Working late, Jiggs?

669
00:49:44,016 --> 00:49:48,043
Just checking out some final touches
so there won't be any foul-ups on the alert.

670
00:49:49,455 --> 00:49:51,047
Some problems in Texas?

671
00:49:53,058 --> 00:49:54,616
No, sir. No problems.

672
00:49:55,594 --> 00:49:57,528
I'm glad everything goes well.

673
00:49:58,530 --> 00:50:01,055
I called you after I got back
from New York.

674
00:50:01,433 --> 00:50:04,231
About 4:00. They said you'd already gone.

675
00:50:04,303 --> 00:50:06,168
Well, as you can see, not so.

676
00:50:07,372 --> 00:50:08,964
How was the big city, General?

677
00:50:09,274 --> 00:50:11,037
You know these conventions.

678
00:50:11,877 --> 00:50:13,868
A rat race, luncheons, dinners...

679
00:50:14,246 --> 00:50:16,942
If I ate one more piece of chicken,
I'm afraid...

680
00:50:19,151 --> 00:50:20,743
Did you hear the speech?

681
00:50:21,253 --> 00:50:22,151
Yes, sir.

682
00:50:23,088 --> 00:50:23,747
And?

683
00:50:24,490 --> 00:50:25,650
Lmpressive.

684
00:50:28,260 --> 00:50:30,728
Now, there's a carefully chosen word.

685
00:50:31,463 --> 00:50:34,193
You wouldn't be holding something back,
would you?

686
00:50:36,034 --> 00:50:40,528
That commentator who introduced you,
he struck me as being a little overripe.

687
00:50:40,839 --> 00:50:44,366
He is. But he provides a platform
for stating my position.

688
00:50:45,110 --> 00:50:47,943
I merely use him. I don't have to like him
or trust him.

689
00:50:48,113 --> 00:50:49,045
I see.

690
00:50:50,115 --> 00:50:51,207
Do you see?

691
00:50:55,287 --> 00:50:58,051
This country's in trouble, Jiggs,
deep trouble.

692
00:51:00,192 --> 00:51:02,660
Now, there are two ways
we can handle this.

693
00:51:02,728 --> 00:51:04,753
We can sit here on our duffs and...

694
00:51:04,830 --> 00:51:08,027
...ask for divine guidance and hope for it.
Or we can...

695
00:51:12,871 --> 00:51:14,429
Or we can what, Jiggs?

696
00:51:15,574 --> 00:51:16,973
What would your advice be?

697
00:51:20,579 --> 00:51:24,276
We're a nation of laws, of rules.

698
00:51:25,684 --> 00:51:28,983
We're military men so we've taken an oath
to uphold the Constitution.

699
00:51:29,054 --> 00:51:30,487
The democratic way.

700
00:51:31,723 --> 00:51:33,088
Yes, sir. The democratic way.

701
00:51:33,158 --> 00:51:36,093
Do your duty and, as you put it,
ask for divine guidance.

702
00:51:37,729 --> 00:51:38,991
You're right, Jiggs.

703
00:51:39,064 --> 00:51:40,793
You're absolutely right.

704
00:51:42,234 --> 00:51:45,897
You know, Jiggs, you've been working
too hard on this damned alert.

705
00:51:46,204 --> 00:51:47,501
You look tired.

706
00:51:51,009 --> 00:51:53,375
Why don't you take the rest
of the week off?

707
00:51:53,445 --> 00:51:56,710
Duck down to White Sulphur Springs
and blow yourself to a good time.

708
00:51:56,782 --> 00:51:59,410
I couldn't. There are too many details
on the alert.

709
00:51:59,484 --> 00:52:01,111
Murdock will handle it.

710
00:52:01,253 --> 00:52:03,619
I should be with you at Mount Thunder
on Sunday.

711
00:52:03,689 --> 00:52:05,281
And you will be.

712
00:52:05,357 --> 00:52:08,793
Check back on the job Sunday morning
and we'll pick it up together.

713
00:52:08,860 --> 00:52:11,420
In the meantime,
you've got a three-day pass. Enjoy it.

714
00:52:11,496 --> 00:52:14,465
- When do you think I ought to leave, sir?
- Right now.

715
00:52:14,666 --> 00:52:15,655
Yes, sir.

716
00:52:21,373 --> 00:52:23,034
Have a good time, Jiggs.

717
00:52:24,276 --> 00:52:25,607
Thank you, sir.

718
00:52:40,225 --> 00:52:42,386
Paul Girard get off all right?

719
00:52:42,461 --> 00:52:45,362
Still skeptical, but he's on his way
to Gibraltar.

720
00:52:45,497 --> 00:52:48,364
Some fellows have all the luck.
Me, I get to go to Texas.

721
00:52:48,433 --> 00:52:51,334
It's enough to make a man
want to quit politics.

722
00:52:51,536 --> 00:52:53,333
It's Mutt Henderson's home phone.

723
00:52:53,405 --> 00:52:55,896
<i>... Flight 543 for Dallas and El Paso...</i>

724
00:52:55,974 --> 00:52:59,000
- Well, that's me.
- Good luck, Senator.

725
00:53:00,946 --> 00:53:02,811
Oh, incidentally, Jiggs.

726
00:53:03,315 --> 00:53:06,250
I'm told that a Miss Eleanor Holbrook,
you know her...

727
00:53:06,885 --> 00:53:07,749
Yes.

728
00:53:08,253 --> 00:53:10,517
I'm told she knows more
about General Scott...

729
00:53:10,589 --> 00:53:13,422
...than his wife knows about him
or the Air Force.

730
00:53:13,492 --> 00:53:14,516
Could be.

731
00:53:14,593 --> 00:53:18,154
In fact, she may know enough about him
to put some ammo in our guns.

732
00:53:20,866 --> 00:53:22,356
You catch my meaning?

733
00:53:23,168 --> 00:53:25,534
I'm not sure I want to catch your meaning.

734
00:53:25,604 --> 00:53:27,663
Just because General Scott
booted you out...

735
00:53:27,739 --> 00:53:31,368
...and told you to take a vacation,
that don't mean you'll take a vacation.

736
00:53:31,443 --> 00:53:33,934
I think you should see this Miss Holbrook.

737
00:53:34,279 --> 00:53:36,679
If she's got something on Scott,
we want it.

738
00:53:37,616 --> 00:53:41,848
There are all sorts of ways of protecting
the President of the United States.

739
00:53:45,057 --> 00:53:46,888
Take care of yourself, Senator.

740
00:53:48,527 --> 00:53:49,858
You, too, Colonel.

741
00:54:08,029 --> 00:54:09,929
Isn't that MacPherson, the commentator?

742
00:54:11,997 --> 00:54:12,827
Yes.

743
00:54:14,566 --> 00:54:16,261
That's General Scott's car.

744
00:54:16,869 --> 00:54:20,100
Buddy, you've just been impressed
into the Secret Service.

745
00:56:44,209 --> 00:56:46,677
Harold MacPherson
and General James Scott.

746
00:56:46,745 --> 00:56:48,303
There's a pair to draw to.

747
00:56:58,990 --> 00:57:01,151
Good morning, General.
This is Jordan Lyman.

748
00:57:01,226 --> 00:57:03,558
<i>Good morning.
We're both early birds today.</i>

749
00:57:03,628 --> 00:57:07,894
General, to come right to the point.
I'm not going to participate in the alert.

750
00:57:08,166 --> 00:57:09,690
<i>Frankly, I'm tired out.</i>

751
00:57:10,268 --> 00:57:13,897
<i>I've decided to go to my place at Blue Lake
and fish for a few days.</i>

752
00:57:13,972 --> 00:57:16,839
You'll forgive me, sir,
but I must say I don't like it.

753
00:57:16,908 --> 00:57:19,706
As Commander in Chief,
orders can only be given by you.

754
00:57:19,778 --> 00:57:23,339
Mr. President, I don't think
the Russians will be very impressed...

755
00:57:23,415 --> 00:57:26,282
...by an alert that takes place
while you go fishing.

756
00:57:26,351 --> 00:57:29,218
<i>Suppose you let me be
thejudge of that, General.</i>

757
00:57:29,454 --> 00:57:31,684
<i>I'm afraid my decision is final.</i>

758
00:57:31,756 --> 00:57:33,917
Of course. It's up to you, sir.

759
00:57:35,393 --> 00:57:37,691
<i>When do you expect to go to Blue Lake?</i>

760
00:57:37,829 --> 00:57:39,421
Late Friday, probably.

761
00:57:39,931 --> 00:57:42,195
<i>I envy you. Good luck with the fish.</i>

762
00:57:42,434 --> 00:57:45,198
<i>- Goodbye, General.
- Goodbye, Mr. President.</i>

763
00:57:54,412 --> 00:57:55,640
Hold my calls.

764
00:58:02,921 --> 00:58:04,684
Colonel Broderick, please.

765
00:58:04,990 --> 00:58:06,924
What's that, Mrs. Henderson?

766
00:58:07,492 --> 00:58:10,655
I'm an old friend of his.
I'm real anxious to see him.

767
00:58:11,763 --> 00:58:13,492
Clark, ma'am. Ray Clark.

768
00:58:15,700 --> 00:58:19,466
I know it's restricted,
but I thought perhaps if I could talk to him.

769
00:58:20,772 --> 00:58:22,034
What's that?

770
00:58:22,107 --> 00:58:24,940
I didn't quite hear you.
Would you say that again?

771
00:58:28,413 --> 00:58:31,348
Well, is there any way I could get
a message to him?

772
00:58:37,822 --> 00:58:41,349
Would you be good enough
to just tell him that Ray Clark called?

773
00:58:42,527 --> 00:58:44,654
Thank you very much, Mrs. Henderson.

774
00:58:55,907 --> 00:58:57,033
Fill her up?

775
00:58:57,409 --> 00:58:59,741
No thanks, honey. Just check my oil.

776
00:59:03,481 --> 00:59:05,142
Hey, you mind?

777
00:59:05,483 --> 00:59:08,680
Not at all. Tell me,
could you turn that down some?

778
00:59:08,753 --> 00:59:10,084
Oh, sure, honey.

779
00:59:10,322 --> 00:59:12,153
Hey, Charlie, turn it down.

780
00:59:13,124 --> 00:59:15,957
- Do you rent space in that thing?
- Oh, you.

781
00:59:21,232 --> 00:59:22,597
You want to dance?

782
00:59:23,234 --> 00:59:26,203
No, thank you, honey.
I just had a hernia operation.

783
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:30,302
You are funny.

784
00:59:32,577 --> 00:59:35,410
I was sort of hoping you were in the Army.

785
00:59:37,582 --> 00:59:38,514
Why?

786
00:59:39,317 --> 00:59:42,150
Charlie heard there was a new base
being put up here.

787
00:59:42,220 --> 00:59:44,085
That's why he bought the place.

788
00:59:46,758 --> 00:59:48,282
You see any soldiers?

789
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:50,785
How long has the base been here?

790
00:59:51,262 --> 00:59:52,320
Who knows?

791
00:59:53,064 --> 00:59:57,330
You know Charlie, he's always decorating
this place. He has a talent for that.

792
00:59:57,869 --> 01:00:00,963
And on Saturday night,
he puts out a huge sign.

793
01:00:01,039 --> 01:00:04,531
It says, "Big Party."
And he doubles his drinks, too.

794
01:00:05,176 --> 01:00:07,337
And I don't water them none, either.

795
01:00:07,612 --> 01:00:10,046
You wonder what the country's coming to.

796
01:00:11,149 --> 01:00:15,085
All those boys sitting up in the desert,
never seeing no girls.

797
01:00:16,888 --> 01:00:19,083
Well, they might as well be in stir.

798
01:00:19,624 --> 01:00:21,592
How far is the base from here?

799
01:00:22,260 --> 01:00:24,490
About 50 miles or so.

800
01:00:25,497 --> 01:00:29,661
You hear the planes coming in and out
all the time, but don't see any pilots.

801
01:00:30,068 --> 01:00:32,901
Not so much as one single pilot.

802
01:00:34,439 --> 01:00:37,306
What's the matter?
Don't they drink in the Air Force?

803
01:00:39,110 --> 01:00:40,839
How would I get in there?

804
01:00:41,379 --> 01:00:44,906
Oh, lots of luck.
You can't even see the place.

805
01:00:45,016 --> 01:00:48,452
There's just a road over leading to the left
and then nothing.

806
01:00:49,854 --> 01:00:52,220
I was telling Charlie.

807
01:00:52,290 --> 01:00:57,193
We ought to drive up there sometime
with a couple of kegs of beer for the boys...

808
01:00:57,262 --> 01:01:01,028
...and tell them where it's from.
You know, leave cards or something.

809
01:02:57,749 --> 01:03:01,549
I'm glad we can offer you some real
Mediterranean weather, Mr. Girard.

810
01:03:01,619 --> 01:03:02,847
Thank you, Admiral.

811
01:03:02,921 --> 01:03:05,583
Instead of that dirty stuff they have
in the Atlantic.

812
01:03:05,990 --> 01:03:07,924
- Care for a cigar?
- No, thanks.

813
01:03:10,862 --> 01:03:14,491
Admiral, I understand you're not much
of a betting man.

814
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:17,295
That depends on the game.

815
01:03:18,903 --> 01:03:22,168
What is your pleasure?
Poker, roulette, what?

816
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:25,539
No, those are house games.
I don't much care for the odds.

817
01:03:26,578 --> 01:03:28,011
What about horse racing?

818
01:03:28,079 --> 01:03:32,413
On occasion. Depends on the race,
sometimes the weather.

819
01:03:33,718 --> 01:03:37,279
- And the horse does make the difference.
- Well, that's true.

820
01:03:37,689 --> 01:03:39,418
What about the Preakness?

821
01:03:41,759 --> 01:03:43,886
Have you got anything good going there?

822
01:03:48,266 --> 01:03:50,325
I only bet on sure things.

823
01:03:53,271 --> 01:03:57,537
You're a very lucky sailor.
That's exactly what I've got for you.

824
01:03:57,642 --> 01:03:58,768
A sure thing.

825
01:03:59,177 --> 01:04:01,008
What is the bet, Mr. Girard?

826
01:04:01,312 --> 01:04:05,476
There are members of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff who are involved in treason.

827
01:04:05,550 --> 01:04:08,075
We know who they are,
and the essence of the plan.

828
01:04:08,152 --> 01:04:11,553
And from you,
I want a signed statement indicating...

829
01:04:11,723 --> 01:04:16,285
...when you first heard of this operation
and your complicity in this entire matter.

830
01:04:22,867 --> 01:04:24,858
Frankly, I wish I had more time.

831
01:04:25,603 --> 01:04:27,434
I wish you did, too, Admiral.

832
01:04:32,243 --> 01:04:33,972
Unfortunately, you don't.

833
01:04:40,743 --> 01:04:41,732
Jiggs.

834
01:04:41,811 --> 01:04:45,042
I'm looking for a very pretty girl
named Eleanor Holbrook.

835
01:04:45,348 --> 01:04:46,337
Come in.

836
01:04:46,582 --> 01:04:47,640
Thank you.

837
01:04:49,418 --> 01:04:51,283
You're a long way from the barracks.

838
01:04:51,354 --> 01:04:53,151
I was in the neighborhood.

839
01:04:53,456 --> 01:04:54,423
A fact?

840
01:04:55,091 --> 01:04:58,356
A lie. I just thought the country
could spare me for an evening.

841
01:04:58,427 --> 01:05:00,918
- I wondered how you were.
- I'm fine, Jiggs.

842
01:05:01,530 --> 01:05:04,158
- Would you like a martini?
- That sounds great.

843
01:05:11,707 --> 01:05:12,765
Very nice.

844
01:05:14,510 --> 01:05:16,171
Yes, that's right.

845
01:05:16,779 --> 01:05:19,748
- You've never been here before.
- No, not even close.

846
01:05:20,316 --> 01:05:21,374
Thank you.

847
01:05:22,885 --> 01:05:24,546
What is it, Jiggs?

848
01:05:25,388 --> 01:05:27,413
You have something on your mind.

849
01:05:27,757 --> 01:05:30,726
Well, hasn't your mother
ever told you about Marines?

850
01:05:30,926 --> 01:05:32,951
Well, I know all about this Marine.

851
01:05:33,028 --> 01:05:35,519
Never a wasted moment
or a thrown-away day.

852
01:05:36,632 --> 01:05:38,896
What do you want?

853
01:05:38,968 --> 01:05:40,526
Well, you invited me.

854
01:05:40,636 --> 01:05:43,571
Remember? A rain check handed out
the night of the party.

855
01:05:43,906 --> 01:05:46,238
Oh, yes. Good for one visit, anytime.

856
01:05:46,776 --> 01:05:48,004
Here I am.

857
01:05:49,478 --> 01:05:51,241
What shall we talk about?

858
01:05:51,313 --> 01:05:55,113
Nuclear disarmament, high cost of living,
ladies' fashions?

859
01:05:56,118 --> 01:06:01,579
Or should we fall back on the familiar item
of conversation, gentleman Jim Scott?

860
01:06:04,427 --> 01:06:08,659
Well, this must come as a shock to you,
but I lock up the office now and then.

861
01:06:09,598 --> 01:06:11,156
You're a beautiful woman.

862
01:06:11,567 --> 01:06:15,025
Don't tell me after all this time
you're making a pass, Jiggs.

863
01:06:17,506 --> 01:06:19,667
The window's open.
You could always scream.

864
01:06:35,324 --> 01:06:37,019
Is this when I scream?

865
01:06:38,694 --> 01:06:39,922
You want to scream?

866
01:06:43,098 --> 01:06:44,895
That's a rather unfair question.

867
01:06:46,936 --> 01:06:48,767
I'm a little vulnerable now.

868
01:06:51,106 --> 01:06:54,633
Particularly when it concerns an old friend
I happen to like.

869
01:07:10,493 --> 01:07:11,790
Do me a favor.

870
01:07:14,497 --> 01:07:16,829
Don't complicate my life right now.

871
01:07:18,167 --> 01:07:20,192
I just got over a very bad burn.

872
01:07:29,512 --> 01:07:31,946
Would you like another martini?

873
01:07:32,014 --> 01:07:33,777
Perhaps we should talk about...

874
01:07:46,028 --> 01:07:49,259
It's funny. It doesn't feel like an iron mask.

875
01:07:50,432 --> 01:07:52,024
You're a fraud, Jiggs.

876
01:07:53,402 --> 01:07:55,461
Hey, how about dinner someplace?

877
01:07:55,804 --> 01:07:59,069
You might even talk me into wheeling you
around a dance floor.

878
01:08:00,242 --> 01:08:04,702
No. I'll fix something for us here.
Did you know that I'm a swinging cook?

879
01:08:05,247 --> 01:08:07,442
Sounds like I've got myself a good deal.

880
01:08:08,450 --> 01:08:10,918
You might have, Jiggs. A very good deal.

881
01:08:12,588 --> 01:08:14,488
I'll make you two promises:

882
01:08:15,190 --> 01:08:18,785
A very good steak, medium rare,
and the truth, which is very rare.

883
01:09:02,671 --> 01:09:04,138
And it's in writing?

884
01:09:05,674 --> 01:09:08,006
Thank God. Now when can you get back?

885
01:09:10,813 --> 01:09:15,580
Trans Ocean, Flight 42 out of Madrid.

886
01:09:16,685 --> 01:09:19,313
Good. I'll see you for breakfast.

887
01:09:47,950 --> 01:09:49,975
Someone I knew 1,000 years ago.

888
01:09:50,786 --> 01:09:53,254
It's funny, I can't even remember his name.

889
01:09:53,322 --> 01:09:57,315
Scott, James Mattoon Scott,
General in the United States Air Force.

890
01:09:58,227 --> 01:09:59,717
Doesn't ring a bell.

891
01:10:00,029 --> 01:10:03,487
Why does a girl keep a photograph
of a man she doesn't even remember?

892
01:10:06,001 --> 01:10:07,366
I can't imagine.

893
01:10:16,412 --> 01:10:18,937
That's an easy way to get rid of a ghost.

894
01:10:19,782 --> 01:10:21,374
It works wonders.

895
01:10:24,019 --> 01:10:25,452
No symptoms remaining?

896
01:10:25,521 --> 01:10:27,386
None that I'm aware of.

897
01:10:28,257 --> 01:10:31,522
If I find that I'm kidding myself,
I know where to go for help.

898
01:10:34,263 --> 01:10:35,696
There's an easy test.

899
01:10:38,367 --> 01:10:41,803
Bring it out in the open, look at it,
talk about it, see if it hurts.

900
01:10:42,671 --> 01:10:45,196
I don't know what's to be gained
by hurting...

901
01:10:47,876 --> 01:10:49,707
...but if you think it's right...

902
01:10:50,846 --> 01:10:52,507
I think it's right.

903
01:10:54,116 --> 01:10:55,743
I was in love with him.

904
01:10:58,687 --> 01:10:59,745
I found...

905
01:11:01,423 --> 01:11:03,323
...excitement in his strength.

906
01:11:06,528 --> 01:11:08,758
I didn't mind about the backstreet angle...

907
01:11:11,266 --> 01:11:15,032
...sneaking time together,
stolen moments from his wife.

908
01:11:17,806 --> 01:11:20,274
Eleanor Holbrook, the emancipated woman.

909
01:11:29,752 --> 01:11:30,741
Go on.

910
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:33,914
I don't know. I don't know
when it changed.

911
01:11:39,194 --> 01:11:43,654
But I began to realize
that he really never felt anything.

912
01:11:46,935 --> 01:11:48,630
Each move was calculated.

913
01:11:51,273 --> 01:11:53,571
He's a very careful man, your general.

914
01:11:55,711 --> 01:11:58,236
I don't believe he ever took a chance
in his life...

915
01:11:58,313 --> 01:12:01,805
...or ever really felt anything,
any real emotion.

916
01:12:08,157 --> 01:12:11,285
He was so sure of me
that he could even write letters.

917
01:12:13,195 --> 01:12:16,289
A careful man doesn't incriminate himself
in writing.

918
01:12:16,598 --> 01:12:18,293
That's where you're wrong.

919
01:12:20,235 --> 01:12:22,726
If he's sure enough, he can do anything...

920
01:12:24,006 --> 01:12:25,871
...anything to amuse himself.

921
01:12:30,746 --> 01:12:31,872
I kept them.

922
01:12:33,215 --> 01:12:37,117
I told myself that I'd use them
against him for revenge.

923
01:12:40,455 --> 01:12:41,820
At least, Jiggs...

924
01:12:43,158 --> 01:12:45,285
...he was right about me in that respect.

925
01:12:46,195 --> 01:12:48,356
I was pretty low, but not that low.

926
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:52,861
Is that what you wanted?

927
01:12:54,436 --> 01:12:56,427
Does that prove anything to you?

928
01:12:57,005 --> 01:12:59,269
- I'm sorry, Ellie.
- No.

929
01:13:00,442 --> 01:13:02,876
You said to bring it out in the open.
Now it is.

930
01:13:02,945 --> 01:13:05,277
- We go from here, all right?
- Sure.

931
01:13:08,517 --> 01:13:11,748
I'll go and repair the damages
and get back to that steak.

932
01:13:12,788 --> 01:13:14,050
Don't go away.

933
01:13:43,051 --> 01:13:45,212
You know, it's a funny thing, Jiggs.

934
01:13:46,355 --> 01:13:48,016
I'm not surprised at Scott.

935
01:13:50,092 --> 01:13:52,060
But do you know what does cut?

936
01:13:52,461 --> 01:13:55,555
The fact that he sent you.
And the fact that you came.

937
01:13:57,699 --> 01:14:00,395
I need these, Ellie.
The reason doesn't matter.

938
01:14:00,469 --> 01:14:04,030
And trying to soften me up
with a little preliminary lovemaking...

939
01:14:04,206 --> 01:14:05,673
That was dirty pool, Jiggs.

940
01:14:05,741 --> 01:14:10,235
You didn't come here to salvage me.
You came here to salvage his good name.

941
01:14:10,312 --> 01:14:13,406
If I could tell you why I had to do this,
you'd understand.

942
01:14:14,283 --> 01:14:16,717
I was a stupid, impressionable female...

943
01:14:17,352 --> 01:14:21,015
...who let an Air Force general use her
like his personal airplane.

944
01:14:21,189 --> 01:14:24,215
I don't rate any applause, God knows.
But you...

945
01:14:26,862 --> 01:14:30,389
Scott didn't want to dirty his hands
collecting those letters...

946
01:14:31,500 --> 01:14:35,095
...but Colonel Casey is always ready
to clean up the General's privy.

947
01:15:23,986 --> 01:15:27,319
The man on the right, that's Murdock,
General Scott's aide.

948
01:15:28,056 --> 01:15:31,924
On the left, that's Colonel Broderick.
He commands the base at Site Y.

949
01:15:33,261 --> 01:15:35,354
I don't know who the other man is.

950
01:15:35,831 --> 01:15:38,026
So the rabbit laid bait for the fox.

951
01:15:39,334 --> 01:15:42,462
If I'd gone up to Blue Lake,
they'd have tried to kidnap me.

952
01:15:42,537 --> 01:15:44,004
I have no doubt of that at all.

953
01:15:44,072 --> 01:15:47,098
I'll make the following admission,
Colonel Casey.

954
01:15:47,175 --> 01:15:50,702
Any doubts I may have had have been
properly placed in the wastebasket.

955
01:15:50,779 --> 01:15:52,144
Good man, Chris.

956
01:15:53,849 --> 01:15:56,079
Your group did a great job
this morning, Art.

957
01:15:56,151 --> 01:15:58,278
- It's appreciated.
- Thank you, sir.

958
01:15:58,353 --> 01:16:01,322
I can bring out another point
that's made in that film.

959
01:16:01,390 --> 01:16:04,848
Scott had to dispatch Colonel Broderick
all the way from El Paso...

960
01:16:04,926 --> 01:16:07,451
...on a job that any investigator
could've done.

961
01:16:07,529 --> 01:16:11,295
This must mean, in terms of numbers,
he's no better off than we are.

962
01:16:11,366 --> 01:16:13,163
That's good solid evidence, right there.

963
01:16:13,235 --> 01:16:16,534
And gentlemen,
Paul Girard should be here very shortly.

964
01:16:17,606 --> 01:16:20,575
This stuff you unearthed, Colonel Casey,
is dynamite.

965
01:16:21,209 --> 01:16:24,474
Very revealing of General Scott's
extracurricular love life.

966
01:16:26,314 --> 01:16:28,908
Any taste of victory we have
in our mouths...

967
01:16:28,984 --> 01:16:31,578
...is due in no small measure
to your efforts.

968
01:16:32,154 --> 01:16:35,521
The taste I've got in my mouth,
Mr. Secretary, is unmentionable.

969
01:16:35,590 --> 01:16:37,751
I can understand that feeling, Colonel.

970
01:16:37,826 --> 01:16:40,488
But when you deal with a jackal
like your general...

971
01:16:40,562 --> 01:16:42,553
This is a full Air Force general.

972
01:16:42,631 --> 01:16:45,225
Six times wounded.
Wearing half the medals he deserves.

973
01:16:45,300 --> 01:16:46,767
Whatever he is, he's no jackal.

974
01:16:46,835 --> 01:16:49,099
My God, the sensitivity of our warriors.

975
01:16:49,171 --> 01:16:50,638
Did I step on your old school tie?

976
01:16:50,705 --> 01:16:52,263
You're just like a lot of civilians.

977
01:16:52,340 --> 01:16:55,241
After every armistice you want
to put us away in mothballs.

978
01:16:55,310 --> 01:16:57,904
When it comes to dying,
you want to put us in a uniform!

979
01:16:57,979 --> 01:16:59,241
That's enough!

980
01:16:59,648 --> 01:17:00,637
Please.

981
01:17:01,183 --> 01:17:02,878
I'm sorry, sir.

982
01:17:03,552 --> 01:17:06,214
You have every right to resent
what you were forced to do.

983
01:17:06,288 --> 01:17:08,313
It was a dirty, thankless job.

984
01:17:08,623 --> 01:17:11,217
Its necessity doesn't make it
more palatable.

985
01:17:11,293 --> 01:17:14,751
I appreciate how you feel,
and deeply appreciate what you've done.

986
01:17:14,830 --> 01:17:18,163
I could never bring myself to use
any of this against Scott.

987
01:17:18,233 --> 01:17:20,258
Suppose it comes down to bare knuckles.

988
01:17:20,335 --> 01:17:22,997
Chris, I'm not prepared
to answer that just now.

989
01:17:23,071 --> 01:17:24,902
Thank God, I don't have to.

990
01:17:25,607 --> 01:17:28,440
For the first time,
I'd say we were on top of it.

991
01:17:28,510 --> 01:17:29,772
Mr. President.

992
01:17:34,950 --> 01:17:36,440
Paul Girard is dead.

993
01:17:39,754 --> 01:17:41,051
Oh, my God!

994
01:17:41,223 --> 01:17:44,522
His plane crashed in the mountains
outside of Madrid.

995
01:17:45,026 --> 01:17:46,357
Any effects?

996
01:17:49,231 --> 01:17:52,064
The wreckage was strewn out
for a couple of miles.

997
01:17:52,134 --> 01:17:54,102
Nothing left of anybody.

998
01:18:27,569 --> 01:18:30,265
You've got to give out
some kind of statement.

999
01:18:31,973 --> 01:18:34,407
- Can I draft one for you?
- What?

1000
01:18:36,178 --> 01:18:37,645
About his being away.

1001
01:18:41,983 --> 01:18:45,180
Say he was abroad on a vacation.
Don't say any more than that.

1002
01:18:50,559 --> 01:18:53,960
I've had two close friends in my life.
I mean, really close.

1003
01:18:56,698 --> 01:18:58,165
One was Paul Girard.

1004
01:19:01,169 --> 01:19:02,796
The other is Ray Clark.

1005
01:19:04,339 --> 01:19:06,705
One of them helped me become president.

1006
01:19:08,543 --> 01:19:11,535
This one helped me to remain president.

1007
01:19:13,782 --> 01:19:15,773
I've cost Paul Girard his life.

1008
01:19:18,420 --> 01:19:21,082
What about Ray Clark? Where is he?

1009
01:19:23,525 --> 01:19:25,220
Where in God's name is he?

1010
01:19:26,127 --> 01:19:28,823
Now look here, Prentice.
Don't you jolly me, boy.

1011
01:19:28,897 --> 01:19:32,924
I'm 24 hours stuck in this oven.
You heard me right, boy.

1012
01:19:35,070 --> 01:19:39,006
When I get out of here, you better be ready
with a long list of answers.

1013
01:19:40,075 --> 01:19:43,101
You heard me right, boy.
You heard me right.

1014
01:19:46,948 --> 01:19:48,142
Yes, Senator.

1015
01:19:49,017 --> 01:19:50,314
I agree, sir.

1016
01:19:52,087 --> 01:19:53,679
By all means, Senator.

1017
01:19:54,589 --> 01:19:55,851
Very well, sir.

1018
01:20:00,095 --> 01:20:04,623
Prentice assures me your committee
was notified of the existence of this base.

1019
01:20:05,033 --> 01:20:07,900
You were vacationing someplace
off in Georgia...

1020
01:20:08,003 --> 01:20:10,471
...getting a change of scene or something.

1021
01:20:10,739 --> 01:20:14,698
You better get yourself a change of story
because that don't cut any ice.

1022
01:20:15,110 --> 01:20:18,841
I've been doing no vacationing
since Congress has been in session.

1023
01:20:19,147 --> 01:20:22,605
There is no record of any ECOMCON base...

1024
01:20:22,917 --> 01:20:24,942
...or any designation like it.

1025
01:20:29,391 --> 01:20:32,792
Why don't you have yourself a drink
and finish your dinner?

1026
01:20:33,828 --> 01:20:37,025
I'll show you around our base
a little later on.

1027
01:20:37,098 --> 01:20:38,690
We're mighty proud of it.

1028
01:20:38,767 --> 01:20:40,632
I'd like to take that tour right now.

1029
01:20:40,702 --> 01:20:43,830
That won't be possible, Senator,
that won't be possible.

1030
01:20:44,239 --> 01:20:47,640
But I'll see you later.
We'll look around when it's cooler.

1031
01:21:37,692 --> 01:21:38,852
Jordie, boy.

1032
01:21:40,528 --> 01:21:43,224
Right now, short of
a Confederate miracle...

1033
01:21:45,533 --> 01:21:49,367
...you're going to be walking in a parade
with both your legs cut off.

1034
01:21:52,841 --> 01:21:56,436
I'm not going to make matters worse
by getting drunk on the job.

1035
01:22:12,961 --> 01:22:15,896
<i>Keep on working.
I will talk with the Consul.</i>

1036
01:22:18,867 --> 01:22:21,495
- Are you the American Consul?
- Yes, I'm from the embassy.

1037
01:22:21,569 --> 01:22:23,730
- I'm Captain Ortega.
- Henry Whitney.

1038
01:22:24,372 --> 01:22:27,899
We are collecting the effects,
but there really isn't very much.

1039
01:22:29,344 --> 01:22:34,008
As I told them over the phone, there were
only two American nationals on board.

1040
01:22:34,149 --> 01:22:37,312
Mrs. Agnes Buchanan
from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1041
01:22:37,886 --> 01:22:41,720
And a Mr. Paul Girard.
His destination was Washington.

1042
01:22:42,490 --> 01:22:45,186
There was no address
on the passenger manifest.

1043
01:23:06,915 --> 01:23:09,645
Did you find any effects of the Americans?
Anything at all?

1044
01:23:09,717 --> 01:23:11,412
<i>Nothing yet, se�or.</i>

1045
01:23:27,635 --> 01:23:29,000
Senator Clark?

1046
01:23:30,071 --> 01:23:30,935
Yeah.

1047
01:23:37,212 --> 01:23:39,908
I'm Colonel Henderson,
Colonel Broderick's adjutant.

1048
01:23:39,981 --> 01:23:43,644
I didn't think Colonel Broderick
had an adjutant, just a bartender.

1049
01:23:44,185 --> 01:23:45,777
I don't understand, sir.

1050
01:23:45,854 --> 01:23:48,880
Well, it's just that you're so hospitable
around here.

1051
01:23:49,858 --> 01:23:52,588
I got a message yesterday
that you'd call my home.

1052
01:23:52,660 --> 01:23:56,494
I didn't connect you with the message
until I found out you were here.

1053
01:23:56,631 --> 01:23:59,498
I'm sorry about your having
to stay in your room.

1054
01:23:59,567 --> 01:24:02,866
Frankly, I don't understand it,
but the orders were quite specific.

1055
01:24:02,937 --> 01:24:04,632
I'll just have to live with it.

1056
01:24:04,706 --> 01:24:08,938
As to the call, I was really phoning
for a mutual friend of ours, Jiggs Casey.

1057
01:24:09,844 --> 01:24:11,004
Mutt, isn't it?

1058
01:24:11,846 --> 01:24:14,110
That's what they call me.
How do you know Jiggs?

1059
01:24:14,182 --> 01:24:16,946
He has been up before our committee
a number of times...

1060
01:24:17,018 --> 01:24:19,748
...and he's done some favors for me
on occasion.

1061
01:24:23,291 --> 01:24:24,883
Could I get you a drink?

1062
01:24:24,959 --> 01:24:27,018
Those part of your orders, Colonel?

1063
01:24:27,762 --> 01:24:28,922
I don't understand.

1064
01:24:28,997 --> 01:24:30,726
To get me snoggered?

1065
01:24:31,232 --> 01:24:32,460
No, sir. I just...

1066
01:24:32,534 --> 01:24:35,298
These bottles have been coming in
every hour on the hour.

1067
01:24:35,370 --> 01:24:37,497
Doesn't that seem a little odd to you?

1068
01:24:37,939 --> 01:24:40,806
I mean, keeping me cooped up in here
with a flow of bourbon!

1069
01:24:40,875 --> 01:24:43,241
- I don't know what you're saying.
- What do you know?

1070
01:24:43,311 --> 01:24:44,437
About what?

1071
01:24:44,512 --> 01:24:46,673
Would you sit down and hear me out?

1072
01:24:47,949 --> 01:24:48,973
I guess so.

1073
01:24:52,253 --> 01:24:54,619
I want to preface this
with an assurance to you.

1074
01:24:54,689 --> 01:24:58,853
My mind is sound, even though I've been
cooped up here for a day and a night.

1075
01:25:01,062 --> 01:25:02,825
Do you trust Jiggs Casey?

1076
01:25:02,897 --> 01:25:05,297
You name it, he can have it, sir. Why?

1077
01:25:06,668 --> 01:25:08,898
If he told you something,
would you believe him?

1078
01:25:08,970 --> 01:25:10,335
I would, indeed.

1079
01:25:10,672 --> 01:25:12,902
All right, then. Check this one out.

1080
01:25:16,077 --> 01:25:18,705
When you told Jiggs about ECOMCON
last Monday...

1081
01:25:19,681 --> 01:25:21,615
...he'd never heard of it before.

1082
01:25:22,884 --> 01:25:23,908
That's funny.

1083
01:25:25,353 --> 01:25:27,548
There was a moment, just one moment.

1084
01:25:29,290 --> 01:25:31,884
How did you know about
my seeing Jiggs on Monday?

1085
01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:34,588
He told me.
He told some other people, too.

1086
01:25:34,796 --> 01:25:36,696
He'd never heard of it before.

1087
01:25:37,065 --> 01:25:42,002
After you left, Jiggs went over
all the JCS orders for the last year.

1088
01:25:42,837 --> 01:25:45,704
There was no record of ECOMCON
or anything like it.

1089
01:25:45,773 --> 01:25:49,732
Impossible. Colonel Broderick goes to
Washington all the time to brief the brass.

1090
01:25:49,811 --> 01:25:51,244
Not all of the brass.

1091
01:25:51,946 --> 01:25:55,074
Not President Lyman, not me.
A very selective briefing.

1092
01:25:56,084 --> 01:25:57,813
All you've got to know is this:

1093
01:25:58,886 --> 01:26:03,016
The government of the United States is
at the top of the Washington Monument...

1094
01:26:03,257 --> 01:26:06,784
...tipping right and left, ready to fall
and break up on the pavement.

1095
01:26:06,861 --> 01:26:09,022
Just a handful of men can prevent that.

1096
01:26:09,430 --> 01:26:11,091
And you're one of them.

1097
01:26:11,833 --> 01:26:13,357
Now you listen to me, Mutt.

1098
01:26:17,872 --> 01:26:20,636
I'll tell you the damnedest story
you ever heard.

1099
01:26:22,543 --> 01:26:26,980
You're relieved. I'm taking the civilian
in my custody. Go back to the barracks.

1100
01:26:27,048 --> 01:26:28,276
Senator Clark.

1101
01:26:39,961 --> 01:26:41,087
Post 10.

1102
01:26:43,297 --> 01:26:44,821
Give me Colonel Broderick's office.

1103
01:27:44,859 --> 01:27:48,295
I'm sorry, but I have orders that the civilian
is not to leave the base.

1104
01:27:48,362 --> 01:27:52,196
I'm countermanding those orders,
and escorting the civilian into town.

1105
01:27:52,867 --> 01:27:55,563
Sir, I don't know.
Colonel Broderick said that...

1106
01:27:59,273 --> 01:28:00,706
Throw the keys over here.

1107
01:28:00,775 --> 01:28:04,040
Eject that cartridge belt,
and throw it down on the ground.

1108
01:28:28,069 --> 01:28:30,629
You stay put right here.
I'll phone the White House.

1109
01:28:30,872 --> 01:28:35,206
When this is over, you can take off
your girdle and have yourself a good cry.

1110
01:28:35,643 --> 01:28:38,510
Say, have you got a dime
to stop a revolution with?

1111
01:29:29,597 --> 01:29:34,159
Ma'am, did you see a real tall soldier
with a funny hat waiting right here?

1112
01:29:34,836 --> 01:29:35,700
No.

1113
01:30:04,065 --> 01:30:06,260
Could your men have been mistaken, Art?

1114
01:30:06,901 --> 01:30:10,098
<i>Not a chance, sir.
The gate guard was too positive.</i>

1115
01:30:10,171 --> 01:30:11,695
<i>It was Henderson all right.</i>

1116
01:30:11,772 --> 01:30:14,570
<i>Brought into the Fort Myer stockade,
10:30 this morning.</i>

1117
01:30:14,642 --> 01:30:18,578
<i>Rode in the back of an Army sedan
under guard. Now held incommunicado.</i>

1118
01:30:20,181 --> 01:30:22,149
Okay, Arthur. Thank you.

1119
01:30:23,918 --> 01:30:25,408
At least he's alive.

1120
01:30:26,587 --> 01:30:28,179
Admiral Barnswell, sir.

1121
01:30:34,996 --> 01:30:37,226
Admiral Barnswell, this is the President.

1122
01:30:39,934 --> 01:30:42,835
Well, sir, he came aboard a few days ago...

1123
01:30:44,238 --> 01:30:48,470
...he passed on your personal greetings,
and that's about the size of it, sir.

1124
01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:56,982
Frankly, no, Mr. President.
He gave me nothing to sign.

1125
01:31:00,788 --> 01:31:04,884
I'm sorry, sir. I can only recount to you
the situation as it occurred.

1126
01:31:05,693 --> 01:31:07,251
I signed no paper.

1127
01:31:08,162 --> 01:31:09,891
He took nothing with him.

1128
01:31:14,702 --> 01:31:18,160
Well, if anything happens
to revitalize your memory, Admiral...

1129
01:31:18,839 --> 01:31:20,864
...l'd appreciate a phone call.

1130
01:31:31,886 --> 01:31:34,184
It's now 2:20 on a Saturday afternoon.

1131
01:31:36,290 --> 01:31:38,451
At 2:20 tomorrow afternoon...

1132
01:31:39,627 --> 01:31:42,824
...somebody will have thrown a switch
at Mount Thunder...

1133
01:31:43,764 --> 01:31:47,359
...General James Scott will be
on all three television networks...

1134
01:31:48,169 --> 01:31:52,469
...explaining to the United States people
why this crucifixion is an act of faith.

1135
01:31:54,542 --> 01:31:57,238
What would you call this?
Sponge-throwing time?

1136
01:31:57,311 --> 01:31:59,871
Mr. President, what are you waiting for?

1137
01:32:00,514 --> 01:32:04,041
Fire Scott, Hardesty, Dieffenbach, Riley.

1138
01:32:05,019 --> 01:32:08,648
Sedition, pure and simple.
Close down Mount Thunder.

1139
01:32:08,923 --> 01:32:10,584
Declare a state of martial law.

1140
01:32:10,658 --> 01:32:13,354
And then where do I stand?
A lunatic. A paranoiac.

1141
01:32:13,527 --> 01:32:15,927
A screaming wild man
with nothing to back him up...

1142
01:32:15,997 --> 01:32:18,397
...because his proof is scattered
over a mountain...

1143
01:32:18,466 --> 01:32:23,369
...disappeared in an airport, or it's all part
of delirium tremens of a dipso senator.

1144
01:32:28,776 --> 01:32:31,677
Would you allow me to strike
that last idiotic remark?

1145
01:32:32,646 --> 01:32:36,138
There's no need, Jordie.
It's just what the Congress would say.

1146
01:32:37,284 --> 01:32:39,582
But you do have one last alternative.

1147
01:32:40,154 --> 01:32:41,246
And that is?

1148
01:32:44,091 --> 01:32:47,083
To use these letters
that Casey got from the girl.

1149
01:32:50,164 --> 01:32:55,192
When you get to the bottom of the barrel,
where we are now, you use expedients.

1150
01:32:57,171 --> 01:32:58,502
Hit the network cutoff.

1151
01:32:58,572 --> 01:32:59,903
Network cutoff.

1152
01:33:00,708 --> 01:33:01,697
Good.

1153
01:33:02,510 --> 01:33:04,375
Now, one more time. Position A.

1154
01:33:04,779 --> 01:33:06,212
Site G. Pope Field.

1155
01:33:11,452 --> 01:33:13,852
- Position B.
- ECOMCON force. Site Y.

1156
01:33:16,857 --> 01:33:19,553
- Position C.
- Site X. Mount Thunder, C.P.

1157
01:33:19,794 --> 01:33:21,091
Good, good.

1158
01:33:36,977 --> 01:33:37,966
Let's hear it.

1159
01:33:38,045 --> 01:33:39,979
Barney Rutkowski, Air Defense.

1160
01:33:40,247 --> 01:33:44,479
He's screaming bloody murder about those
12 troop carriers dispatched to El Paso.

1161
01:33:44,618 --> 01:33:48,213
Says they're checked for El Paso
and then lost on the radar screen.

1162
01:33:48,289 --> 01:33:50,780
Wants to know where they went and why.

1163
01:33:50,858 --> 01:33:54,851
He also wants to know why 30 more
are at Bragg with the same destination.

1164
01:33:55,096 --> 01:33:58,588
- What did you tell him?
- I told him it was classified and to forget it.

1165
01:33:58,666 --> 01:34:00,224
Well, that ought to do it.

1166
01:34:02,236 --> 01:34:05,603
He's a hard-nosed book player
with a radar screen at his bed.

1167
01:34:06,073 --> 01:34:10,442
If I know him, he's not going to stop here.
He'll go right up to the President.

1168
01:34:11,846 --> 01:34:13,177
Go ahead, Barney.

1169
01:34:13,447 --> 01:34:16,974
<i>One of my controllers was watching
a flight of troop carriers Wednesday...</i>

1170
01:34:17,051 --> 01:34:18,382
<i>... heading for El Paso.</i>

1171
01:34:18,452 --> 01:34:21,683
<i>They turned northwest
and dropped off our radar screens.</i>

1172
01:34:21,856 --> 01:34:24,450
<i>We tried to find out about it
through channels...</i>

1173
01:34:24,525 --> 01:34:26,550
<i>... and all we get is the big stall.</i>

1174
01:34:26,660 --> 01:34:29,527
<i>There's some kind of a secret base
out there...</i>

1175
01:34:29,597 --> 01:34:32,225
<i>... and I think I should have been
notified of it.</i>

1176
01:34:32,967 --> 01:34:34,195
Keep going, General.

1177
01:34:34,335 --> 01:34:39,295
<i>Thirty more transports were due at this
classified place at 7:00 a.m. Tomorrow.</i>

1178
01:34:39,773 --> 01:34:42,640
<i>Now I learn it's been moved up
to 23:00 tonight.</i>

1179
01:34:51,085 --> 01:34:53,212
I want all those aircraft grounded.

1180
01:34:54,021 --> 01:34:56,785
You're to give the order
that they're to stand down.

1181
01:34:56,857 --> 01:35:01,089
That's been authorized by the President,
can be verified by calling the White House.

1182
01:35:01,162 --> 01:35:02,652
Do you understand that?

1183
01:35:02,730 --> 01:35:04,129
<i>I guess I do, sir.</i>

1184
01:35:04,665 --> 01:35:05,996
I want you available.

1185
01:35:06,066 --> 01:35:08,466
Phone in and let this office know
where you are.

1186
01:35:08,536 --> 01:35:09,696
<i>Yes, sir.</i>

1187
01:35:12,806 --> 01:35:15,400
The next step should be
to your liking, Chris.

1188
01:35:16,310 --> 01:35:17,709
<i>- Esther?
- Yes, sir.</i>

1189
01:35:17,978 --> 01:35:19,445
Call the Pentagon.

1190
01:35:20,014 --> 01:35:22,414
Tell General Scott
I want to see him right away.

1191
01:35:22,483 --> 01:35:25,281
I think it's time we faced the enemy,
Mr. President.

1192
01:35:26,053 --> 01:35:27,486
He's not the enemy.

1193
01:35:27,888 --> 01:35:29,583
Scott, the Joint Chiefs...

1194
01:35:30,324 --> 01:35:34,761
...even the very emotional, very illogical
lunatic fringe, they're not the enemy.

1195
01:35:35,362 --> 01:35:36,829
The enemy is an age.

1196
01:35:37,798 --> 01:35:39,026
A nuclear age.

1197
01:35:40,601 --> 01:35:43,729
It happens to have killed man's faith
in his ability...

1198
01:35:45,139 --> 01:35:47,334
...to influence what happens to him.

1199
01:35:47,741 --> 01:35:51,040
And out of this comes a sickness.
A sickness of frustration.

1200
01:35:51,879 --> 01:35:54,507
A feeling of impotence,
helplessness, weakness.

1201
01:35:55,783 --> 01:35:58,718
And from this, this desperation...

1202
01:35:59,987 --> 01:36:02,922
...we look for a champion
in red, white and blue.

1203
01:36:03,190 --> 01:36:05,590
Every now and then
a man on a white horse rides by...

1204
01:36:05,659 --> 01:36:09,095
...and we appoint him to be
our personal god for the duration.

1205
01:36:09,930 --> 01:36:14,629
For some men it was a Senator McCarthy.
For others it was a General Walker.

1206
01:36:16,437 --> 01:36:18,302
Now it's a General Scott.

1207
01:36:44,531 --> 01:36:46,931
<i>- Yes?
- General Scott is here, sir.</i>

1208
01:36:50,237 --> 01:36:52,000
Send him in, please.

1209
01:36:59,179 --> 01:37:01,204
Good evening, Mr. President.

1210
01:37:01,282 --> 01:37:02,715
Sit down, General.

1211
01:37:12,393 --> 01:37:15,294
I'm glad you decided to call off
that fishing trip.

1212
01:37:16,263 --> 01:37:17,696
Don't bother about that.

1213
01:37:20,734 --> 01:37:22,463
We don't need it tonight.

1214
01:37:24,471 --> 01:37:26,939
We aren't going to have an alert tomorrow.

1215
01:37:28,942 --> 01:37:32,503
I beg your pardon, Mr. President.
You wish the alert cancelled?

1216
01:37:32,646 --> 01:37:34,876
I do. I intend to cancel it.

1217
01:37:36,617 --> 01:37:37,879
May I ask why?

1218
01:37:38,952 --> 01:37:43,548
Certain facts have come to my attention.
I won't waste time detailing them all now.

1219
01:37:43,824 --> 01:37:46,793
I'll simply say that
I want your resignation tonight...

1220
01:37:47,528 --> 01:37:51,055
...and those of Generals Hardesty,
Riley and Dieffenbach as well.

1221
01:37:57,404 --> 01:38:01,033
Either you are joking,
or you have taken leave of your senses.

1222
01:38:01,108 --> 01:38:05,204
I know of no reason why I should remove
my name from the active list voluntarily.

1223
01:38:05,279 --> 01:38:07,804
Or, for that matter,
any of the other Joint Chiefs.

1224
01:38:07,881 --> 01:38:10,247
You could give me the reasons, General.

1225
01:38:10,851 --> 01:38:13,786
But if you want me to itemize them,
I shall be glad to do so.

1226
01:38:13,854 --> 01:38:14,843
Please do.

1227
01:38:15,022 --> 01:38:17,183
You have used, without my authority...

1228
01:38:18,125 --> 01:38:21,583
...substantial sums from
the Joint Chiefs' Contingency Fund...

1229
01:38:22,096 --> 01:38:26,123
...to establish a base, and train
a special unit of troops whose purpose...

1230
01:38:26,200 --> 01:38:29,465
...and even whose existence,
was kept secret from me...

1231
01:38:30,070 --> 01:38:33,767
...from officials of the Bureau of the Budget
and members of the Congress.

1232
01:38:33,841 --> 01:38:35,274
And the name of the unit?

1233
01:38:35,342 --> 01:38:36,707
You know that unit.

1234
01:38:37,277 --> 01:38:39,404
It's designation is ECOMCON.

1235
01:38:42,282 --> 01:38:44,944
I'm afraid your memory fails you,
Mr. President.

1236
01:38:45,018 --> 01:38:48,249
You gave me verbal authorization
for the base and the unit.

1237
01:38:48,655 --> 01:38:50,885
As I recall, we covered many items
that day.

1238
01:38:50,958 --> 01:38:52,983
Perhaps you didn't pay much attention.

1239
01:38:53,060 --> 01:38:55,528
I assumed you'd inform
the Director of the Budget.

1240
01:38:55,596 --> 01:38:58,087
What was the date of that meeting,
General?

1241
01:38:58,165 --> 01:39:03,068
I can't recall exactly, but it was right here
in this office. Last November, I believe.

1242
01:39:03,137 --> 01:39:05,605
You have a record of the date and subject?

1243
01:39:06,140 --> 01:39:09,007
Certainly, Mr. President, in my office.

1244
01:39:10,043 --> 01:39:12,944
If you want,
I'll get it from the Pentagon now.

1245
01:39:13,013 --> 01:39:15,345
That won't be necessary, General.

1246
01:39:15,416 --> 01:39:16,940
No, it won't be necessary.

1247
01:39:17,317 --> 01:39:20,753
Colonel Murdock, my aide, is outside.
He sat in on the meeting.

1248
01:39:21,488 --> 01:39:25,254
He will substantiate my memorandum
as to the date and the discussion.

1249
01:39:25,359 --> 01:39:28,795
- I'll ask him in.
- That won't be necessary either, General.

1250
01:39:30,330 --> 01:39:33,925
You kept a member of the US Senate
forcibly detained at this base...

1251
01:39:34,001 --> 01:39:35,434
...and he will so testify.

1252
01:39:35,502 --> 01:39:36,491
That would be?

1253
01:39:36,570 --> 01:39:40,336
That would be Senator Raymond Clark,
the senior senator from Georgia.

1254
01:39:41,041 --> 01:39:44,204
I wasn't aware that Senator Clark
had ever visited the base.

1255
01:39:44,278 --> 01:39:46,678
He will also testify as to the collusion...

1256
01:39:47,481 --> 01:39:51,008
...between the commander of the base
and Senator Prentice of California...

1257
01:39:51,084 --> 01:39:55,180
...who with yourself and a handful of others
knew of the existence of the base.

1258
01:40:02,896 --> 01:40:04,124
Any other charges?

1259
01:40:04,364 --> 01:40:06,832
Would you like them
in chronological order?

1260
01:40:07,801 --> 01:40:10,998
The selection of a commanding officer
for a secret base...

1261
01:40:11,071 --> 01:40:14,131
...who is openly contemptuous
of civilian authority...

1262
01:40:14,408 --> 01:40:18,242
...and who's made statements that come
close to violation of the sedition laws.

1263
01:40:18,378 --> 01:40:22,815
I never discuss politics with my officers,
but I do demand the highest competence.

1264
01:40:23,417 --> 01:40:26,818
Colonel Broderick is an excellent officer
with a fine combat record.

1265
01:40:26,887 --> 01:40:29,549
And an interesting travel record,
you might add.

1266
01:40:29,623 --> 01:40:34,060
What was he doing on a motor boat
cruising around my island at Blue Lake?

1267
01:40:34,127 --> 01:40:37,824
Don't tell me that's my imagination
because I've got him on film.

1268
01:40:37,898 --> 01:40:42,301
What about the kidnapping and detention
of Colonel Henderson at the airport today?

1269
01:40:42,369 --> 01:40:44,132
I know about that case.

1270
01:40:44,204 --> 01:40:47,298
Colonel Henderson struck an enlisted man
and left his post.

1271
01:40:47,374 --> 01:40:49,638
He's now being held for disciplinary action.

1272
01:40:49,776 --> 01:40:53,678
Incommunicado, you might add.
So that he doesn't tell what he knows.

1273
01:40:55,115 --> 01:40:58,141
And then there are the wagering activities
of yours, General...

1274
01:40:58,218 --> 01:41:00,584
...particularly a betting pool
on the Preakness.

1275
01:41:00,654 --> 01:41:02,485
Come now, Mr. President.

1276
01:41:03,023 --> 01:41:06,584
Or perhaps more aptly classified,
your personal and private code.

1277
01:41:07,427 --> 01:41:10,123
It covers your plan
for the military overthrow...

1278
01:41:10,197 --> 01:41:12,324
...of the United States Government.

1279
01:41:12,733 --> 01:41:15,964
I presume, Mr. President,
you're prepared to back up that charge.

1280
01:41:16,203 --> 01:41:19,297
I am prepared to brand you
for what you are, General.

1281
01:41:20,240 --> 01:41:23,641
A strutting egoist
with a Napoleonic power complex.

1282
01:41:24,511 --> 01:41:26,274
And an out-and-out traitor!

1283
01:41:27,714 --> 01:41:30,205
I know you think
I'm a weak sister, General...

1284
01:41:30,617 --> 01:41:34,348
...but when it comes to my oath of office
and defending the Constitution...

1285
01:41:34,421 --> 01:41:35,615
I know how to salute a flag.

1286
01:41:35,689 --> 01:41:38,556
You don't know the democratic processes
it represents.

1287
01:41:38,625 --> 01:41:41,287
Don't you presume to take on that job,
Mr. President...

1288
01:41:41,361 --> 01:41:43,261
...because you're not qualified.

1289
01:41:43,330 --> 01:41:46,527
Your action in the past year
has bordered on criminal negligence.

1290
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:50,502
The treaty with the Russians is a violation
of any concept of security.

1291
01:41:50,571 --> 01:41:54,405
You're not a weak sister, Mr. President.
You're a criminally weak sister.

1292
01:41:56,410 --> 01:42:00,312
If you will talk about your oath of office,
I'm here to tell you face to face:

1293
01:42:00,380 --> 01:42:03,247
You violated that oath by stripping
the country's muscles...

1294
01:42:03,317 --> 01:42:05,751
...when you played upon the fear
of the people...

1295
01:42:05,819 --> 01:42:09,414
...and told them they could remove
that fear by the stroke of a pen.

1296
01:42:09,489 --> 01:42:13,516
Then when this nation rejected you
and began militantly to oppose you...

1297
01:42:13,927 --> 01:42:17,454
...you violated that oath by not resigning
and turning the country over...

1298
01:42:17,531 --> 01:42:20,022
...to someone who'd represent the people.

1299
01:42:20,100 --> 01:42:23,467
And that would be
General James Mattoon Scott, wouldn't it?

1300
01:42:26,673 --> 01:42:29,904
I don't know whether to laugh
at such megalomania, or simply cry.

1301
01:42:29,977 --> 01:42:34,471
James Mattoon Scott hasn't the slightest
interest in his own glorification...

1302
01:42:34,815 --> 01:42:37,841
...but he does have a concern
about the survival of this country.

1303
01:42:37,918 --> 01:42:39,977
Then, by God, run for office!

1304
01:42:40,654 --> 01:42:44,613
You have a such a fervid, passionate,
evangelical affection for your country.

1305
01:42:44,691 --> 01:42:46,818
Why in God's name don't you have faith...

1306
01:42:46,893 --> 01:42:49,828
...in the system of government
you're so hell-bent to protect?

1307
01:42:49,896 --> 01:42:53,127
You say I've duped the people.
I've bilked them. I've misled them.

1308
01:42:53,200 --> 01:42:55,668
I've stripped them naked
and made them defenseless.

1309
01:42:55,736 --> 01:42:58,136
You accuse me of having lost their faith...

1310
01:42:58,205 --> 01:43:01,663
...and deliberately and criminally
shut my ears to the national voice?

1311
01:43:01,742 --> 01:43:03,039
I do.

1312
01:43:04,978 --> 01:43:07,139
Where the hell have you heard that voice?

1313
01:43:07,214 --> 01:43:08,545
In freight elevators?

1314
01:43:08,615 --> 01:43:11,448
In dark alleys? In secret places
in the dead of night?

1315
01:43:11,952 --> 01:43:15,251
How did that voice seep into a locked room
full of conspirators?

1316
01:43:15,322 --> 01:43:19,190
That's not where you hear the voice
of the people. Not in this republic.

1317
01:43:19,259 --> 01:43:21,784
You want to defend
the United States of America?

1318
01:43:21,862 --> 01:43:25,662
Then defend it with the tools it supplies
you with, it's Constitution.

1319
01:43:25,732 --> 01:43:28,360
You ask for a mandate, General,
from a ballot box.

1320
01:43:28,435 --> 01:43:32,098
You don't steal it after midnight
when the country has it's back turned.

1321
01:43:32,172 --> 01:43:34,163
Are you serious, Mr. President?

1322
01:43:35,442 --> 01:43:37,410
Are you honest-to-God serious?

1323
01:43:40,213 --> 01:43:42,044
I could walk out of here tonight...

1324
01:43:42,115 --> 01:43:44,743
...and offer myself as candidate
for the presidency...

1325
01:43:44,818 --> 01:43:46,877
...and by tomorrow, I'd be at that desk...

1326
01:43:46,953 --> 01:43:49,421
...with precisely the mandate
you hold so dear.

1327
01:43:49,489 --> 01:43:52,720
And what's more, you know it, I know it,
and the country knows it.

1328
01:43:52,793 --> 01:43:56,388
Don't say I'd have seized an office
tomorrow without the benefit of support.

1329
01:43:56,463 --> 01:44:00,524
If you had the guts to call for a show
of hands, you'd be on an airplane to Ohio.

1330
01:44:00,600 --> 01:44:02,795
You can ask for and get
your show of hands.

1331
01:44:02,869 --> 01:44:05,269
Wait a year and nine months
for an election.

1332
01:44:05,338 --> 01:44:09,502
By then, I don't think there'll be
an electorate, let alone an election.

1333
01:44:09,843 --> 01:44:13,939
I think we'll be sitting in our own rubble.
A minimum of 100 million dead.

1334
01:44:14,414 --> 01:44:16,541
And on the gravestone we can carve:

1335
01:44:16,616 --> 01:44:20,017
"They died for Jordan Lyman's
concept of peace."

1336
01:44:39,673 --> 01:44:41,664
Did it ever occur to you that...

1337
01:44:42,242 --> 01:44:44,836
...if you took over this government
by force...

1338
01:44:45,746 --> 01:44:49,409
...you wouldn't have to wait
a year and nine months for the funeral?

1339
01:44:49,916 --> 01:44:54,148
If the Soviet Union saw our government
taken over by a military dictatorship...

1340
01:44:55,589 --> 01:44:58,285
...how long would it take them
to break the treaty?

1341
01:44:58,358 --> 01:45:00,019
Possibly even attack us?

1342
01:45:01,561 --> 01:45:04,758
I think perhaps a question of days,
perhaps hours...

1343
01:45:05,766 --> 01:45:07,199
...certainly weeks.

1344
01:45:10,537 --> 01:45:14,405
I want your resignation, General.
I want it tonight. I'm expecting it.

1345
01:45:14,608 --> 01:45:18,977
Along with the other members of the Joint
Chiefs who are involved in this treason.

1346
01:45:19,813 --> 01:45:22,043
I'll tell you quite unequivocally...

1347
01:45:22,582 --> 01:45:25,380
...l'll not tell the reason
for your resignation.

1348
01:45:25,719 --> 01:45:29,416
If that were ever made public,
this country would go down the drain.

1349
01:45:30,157 --> 01:45:32,887
- Will you resign, General?
- I will not resign.

1350
01:45:34,394 --> 01:45:36,760
I can demand your resignation,
as you well know.

1351
01:45:36,830 --> 01:45:39,355
Demand and be damned.
I will not resign voluntarily.

1352
01:45:39,432 --> 01:45:40,922
Nor will any of the others.

1353
01:45:41,001 --> 01:45:43,663
But what I will do is take this issue
to the people.

1354
01:45:43,737 --> 01:45:45,329
I'll demand a public platform.

1355
01:45:45,906 --> 01:45:48,966
Then we'll see which one of us
the United States will follow.

1356
01:45:56,550 --> 01:45:57,881
Anything else...

1357
01:46:00,187 --> 01:46:01,245
...Mr. President?

1358
01:46:06,927 --> 01:46:09,452
I've called a press conference
for tomorrow.

1359
01:46:11,798 --> 01:46:15,063
I'll announce that I've asked for
all of your resignations.

1360
01:46:16,469 --> 01:46:18,061
I'll use as a reason...

1361
01:46:27,848 --> 01:46:29,907
...our differences over the treaty.

1362
01:46:30,483 --> 01:46:33,350
Without proof,
you couldn't possibly say otherwise.

1363
01:46:33,453 --> 01:46:35,353
You simply wouldn't dare.

1364
01:46:35,889 --> 01:46:37,254
I'm going to fight you.

1365
01:47:34,714 --> 01:47:37,911
I'm sorry, Jiggs.
Return them to Miss Holbrook.

1366
01:48:13,520 --> 01:48:16,489
This will be delivered at:00 tonight
on all major networks.

1367
01:48:16,556 --> 01:48:18,615
I'll be taping it in one hour.

1368
01:48:20,126 --> 01:48:21,718
This is strong stuff, General.

1369
01:48:21,795 --> 01:48:23,228
Thank you, General.

1370
01:48:25,532 --> 01:48:30,469
Are you sure that he won't use this
press conference to make any accusations?

1371
01:48:30,971 --> 01:48:35,465
He'll use this press conference to support
a position that is totally indefensible.

1372
01:48:38,044 --> 01:48:42,037
General, if he accuses us of sedition,
whether he has the proof or not...

1373
01:48:43,750 --> 01:48:45,411
...this could be a sticky business.

1374
01:48:45,485 --> 01:48:47,214
Jordan Lyman is finished...

1375
01:48:47,587 --> 01:48:51,717
...no matter what he says during his press
conference, no matter what he does after.

1376
01:48:51,825 --> 01:48:56,285
An educated guess is that within a week
there'll be a move for impeachment.

1377
01:48:56,363 --> 01:48:57,591
That's it, gentlemen.

1378
01:48:57,664 --> 01:49:01,293
You're welcome to stay here and watch
on television. I'll be at the studio.

1379
01:49:01,368 --> 01:49:04,394
Colonel Murdock will be in touch with me
if I'm needed.

1380
01:49:04,471 --> 01:49:05,460
Good day.

1381
01:49:24,758 --> 01:49:28,023
<i>Ladies and gentlemen,
the President of the United States.</i>

1382
01:49:37,737 --> 01:49:39,705
<i>All right, gentlemen. Let's begin.</i>

1383
01:49:40,974 --> 01:49:44,137
<i>The Gallup Poll of last week
indicated what appears to be...</i>

1384
01:49:44,210 --> 01:49:47,771
<i>... a very universal rejection
of your entire political philosophy.</i>

1385
01:49:47,847 --> 01:49:51,874
<i>The nuclear treaty with the Soviets.
Would you comment on that?</i>

1386
01:49:51,951 --> 01:49:54,385
<i>Insofar as the treaty is concerned...</i>

1387
01:49:55,188 --> 01:49:59,284
<i>... my reasons for asking that it be ratified
have been stated and re-stated.</i>

1388
01:50:00,727 --> 01:50:03,195
<i>We have reached a point on this earth...</i>

1389
01:50:08,835 --> 01:50:11,030
<i>Excuse mejust a moment, gentlemen.</i>

1390
01:50:18,411 --> 01:50:20,436
Jordie, you better talk to this fellow.

1391
01:50:20,513 --> 01:50:23,038
This is Henry Whitney
from our embassy in Madrid.

1392
01:50:23,116 --> 01:50:24,640
He brought this.

1393
01:50:33,726 --> 01:50:37,162
I'm the only one who's read that paper.
Nobody knows I'm here.

1394
01:50:39,132 --> 01:50:41,623
Delay the press conference for a half hour.

1395
01:50:42,402 --> 01:50:46,839
You are never to disclose or even hint at
the existence of this paper, Mr. Whitney.

1396
01:50:46,906 --> 01:50:48,806
I emphasize the word "never."

1397
01:50:48,875 --> 01:50:51,241
- Ray, have this Photostatted.
- Yes, sir.

1398
01:50:52,178 --> 01:50:55,477
Colonel Casey, see that Scott
and the others get copies right away.

1399
01:50:55,548 --> 01:50:56,537
Yes, sir.

1400
01:51:17,070 --> 01:51:19,834
That's a signed statement
from Admiral Barnswell.

1401
01:51:24,344 --> 01:51:27,939
You're a night crawler, Colonel.
A peddler. You sell information.

1402
01:51:28,515 --> 01:51:31,609
Are you sufficiently up on your Bible
to know who Judas was?

1403
01:51:34,487 --> 01:51:37,718
I suggest you read that letter, sir.
It's from the President.

1404
01:51:37,790 --> 01:51:39,382
I asked you a question.

1405
01:51:41,861 --> 01:51:43,692
Are you ordering me to answer, sir?

1406
01:51:43,763 --> 01:51:44,627
I am.

1407
01:51:48,134 --> 01:51:49,897
Yes, I know who Judas was.

1408
01:51:51,304 --> 01:51:53,704
He was a man I worked for and admired...

1409
01:51:53,940 --> 01:51:56,568
...until he disgraced the four stars
on his uniform.

1410
01:52:06,753 --> 01:52:09,119
<i>Mr. President, for the past 48 hours...</i>

1411
01:52:09,522 --> 01:52:13,856
<i>... there has been considerable scuttlebutt
concerning the Joint Chiefs of Staff.</i>

1412
01:52:14,127 --> 01:52:18,530
<i>There have been rumors that there is to be
some sort of mass resignation.</i>

1413
01:52:19,065 --> 01:52:21,431
<i>Would you care to comment on that, sir?</i>

1414
01:52:22,101 --> 01:52:26,504
<i>I'll answer that, but I'd like to preface
with a few other comments.</i>

1415
01:52:28,141 --> 01:52:29,472
<i>In a democracy...</i>

1416
01:52:30,710 --> 01:52:34,874
<i>... once the president and the Senate,
as responsible authorities...</i>

1417
01:52:35,782 --> 01:52:39,218
<i>... make a decision, then debate
and opposition among the military...</i>

1418
01:52:39,385 --> 01:52:43,253
<i>... who have opposed this treaty
from the outset, must come to an end.</i>

1419
01:52:45,225 --> 01:52:46,817
<i>This is the way in war.</i>

1420
01:52:47,393 --> 01:52:51,159
<i>So it also must be in the councils
of government here in Washington.</i>

1421
01:52:51,564 --> 01:52:53,156
<i>I have had no choice...</i>

1422
01:52:53,766 --> 01:52:57,793
<i>... but to ask for the resignation
of General James Scott.</i>

1423
01:52:59,706 --> 01:53:04,405
<i>At the same time, I have asked
for the resignations of three other officers:</i>

1424
01:53:05,411 --> 01:53:08,039
<i>General Hardesty and
General Dieffenbach...</i>

1425
01:53:08,248 --> 01:53:10,716
<i>... the Chiefs of Staff
of the Air Force and Army...</i>

1426
01:53:10,783 --> 01:53:13,809
<i>... and General Riley,
Commandant of the Marine Corps.</i>

1427
01:53:16,389 --> 01:53:19,381
Yes, I've already heard. He told me so.

1428
01:53:23,663 --> 01:53:25,460
General, I'll be right out.

1429
01:53:33,139 --> 01:53:35,073
General, all hell's broken loose.

1430
01:53:35,908 --> 01:53:39,708
General, he's asked them to resign.
Hardesty, Dieffenbach, Riley and yourself.

1431
01:53:39,779 --> 01:53:41,747
Riley called here. He tried to reach you.

1432
01:53:41,814 --> 01:53:44,044
Somehow Lyman got a hold
of Barnswell's statement.

1433
01:53:44,117 --> 01:53:46,483
It implicated all of us.
Names, dates, the works.

1434
01:53:46,552 --> 01:53:48,452
Jim, what are we going to do?

1435
01:53:48,588 --> 01:53:51,216
When do we tape?
You got my speech, didn't you?

1436
01:53:51,291 --> 01:53:55,455
Yes, but when this came out minutes ago,
the five network vice-presidents called me.

1437
01:53:55,528 --> 01:53:57,519
Do I get on the air or don't I?

1438
01:53:57,597 --> 01:54:01,795
We've gone along with you all the way,
but for God's sake, we're in jeopardy now.

1439
01:54:01,868 --> 01:54:03,733
The last thing we want is publicity.

1440
01:54:03,803 --> 01:54:05,202
Shut up, Prentice.

1441
01:54:05,538 --> 01:54:06,527
Harold?

1442
01:54:06,706 --> 01:54:08,799
General, it's out of my hands now.

1443
01:54:11,077 --> 01:54:12,271
What will you do?

1444
01:54:12,345 --> 01:54:15,075
Go to Mount Thunder and cut in
on the television networks.

1445
01:54:15,148 --> 01:54:17,742
- He's asked for your...
- He won't get them!

1446
01:54:17,817 --> 01:54:21,184
Dieffenbach, Riley and Hardesty are made
of sterner stuff than you.

1447
01:54:21,254 --> 01:54:23,313
- General, be realistic.
- Go to hell!

1448
01:54:26,592 --> 01:54:29,152
<i>I can comment on that to this extent.</i>

1449
01:54:30,229 --> 01:54:35,360
<i>Americans, traditionally and historically,
have given vent to their views.</i>

1450
01:54:36,536 --> 01:54:39,369
<i>On the day that this government
does anything arbitrarily...</i>

1451
01:54:39,439 --> 01:54:42,237
<i>... to stifle those views,
it will have to change form.</i>

1452
01:54:42,308 --> 01:54:44,173
<i>It will cease to be a democracy.</i>

1453
01:54:44,410 --> 01:54:47,846
<i>And I can state quite frankly
that this day will not come.</i>

1454
01:54:55,621 --> 01:54:58,522
<i>Gentlemen, the papersjust handed me...</i>

1455
01:54:59,659 --> 01:55:01,126
<i>... are the resignations...</i>

1456
01:55:01,527 --> 01:55:04,189
<i>... of Generals Hardesty, Riley,
and Dieffenbach.</i>

1457
01:55:05,832 --> 01:55:07,390
<i>I'll repeat that, gentlemen.</i>

1458
01:55:07,467 --> 01:55:12,370
<i>These three officers havejust officially
tendered their resignations.</i>

1459
01:55:12,972 --> 01:55:16,339
<i>Their statements will be made public
after this conference.</i>

1460
01:55:16,576 --> 01:55:18,976
<i>Before we have any further questions...</i>

1461
01:55:19,812 --> 01:55:22,110
<i>... may I insert these comments?</i>

1462
01:55:22,615 --> 01:55:26,642
<i>The point of this treaty, as I've reiterated
on a number of occasions...</i>

1463
01:55:26,919 --> 01:55:29,114
<i>... is that in every true sense...</i>

1464
01:55:29,222 --> 01:55:33,283
<i>... we force ourselves gradually
to step away from an offensive posture.</i>

1465
01:55:35,561 --> 01:55:36,858
I'm sorry, sir.

1466
01:55:38,498 --> 01:55:39,760
Where to, sir?

1467
01:55:44,937 --> 01:55:45,869
Sir?

1468
01:55:51,177 --> 01:55:52,405
Take me home.

1469
01:55:59,585 --> 01:56:01,815
Your General's just been shot down.

1470
01:56:02,855 --> 01:56:03,787
Yes.

1471
01:56:08,094 --> 01:56:09,686
Were those the bullets?

1472
01:56:11,764 --> 01:56:14,096
They might have been, but they weren't.

1473
01:56:19,472 --> 01:56:21,337
- Ellie.
- Yes?

1474
01:56:23,509 --> 01:56:24,908
Another rain check?

1475
01:56:28,114 --> 01:56:30,810
Tuck it somewhere safe,
where you won't forget.

1476
01:56:35,188 --> 01:56:38,419
There has been abroad in this land
in recent months...

1477
01:56:38,491 --> 01:56:42,450
...a whisper that we have somehow
lost our greatness...

1478
01:56:43,663 --> 01:56:46,894
...that we do not have the strength
to win without war...

1479
01:56:47,967 --> 01:56:50,435
...the struggles for liberty
throughout the world.

1480
01:56:51,337 --> 01:56:52,804
This is slander...

1481
01:56:54,040 --> 01:56:56,201
...because our country is strong...

1482
01:56:56,476 --> 01:56:58,637
...strong enough to be a peacemaker.

1483
01:56:59,245 --> 01:57:01,941
It is proud. Proud enough to be patient.

1484
01:57:02,949 --> 01:57:06,578
The whisperers, the detractors,
the violent men are wrong.

1485
01:57:07,753 --> 01:57:12,656
We will remain strong and proud,
peaceful and patient...

1486
01:57:13,893 --> 01:57:16,555
...and we will see a day
when on this earth...

1487
01:57:16,896 --> 01:57:20,696
...all men will walk out
of the long tunnels of tyranny...

1488
01:57:22,301 --> 01:57:24,667
...into the bright sunshine of freedom.

1489
01:57:30,109 --> 01:57:34,443
<i>Ladies and gentlemen, that was
the President of the United States.</i>