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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:03,856 --> 00:01:06,023 "Senator Samuel Foley dead." 2 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:07,942 Died here at Saint Vincent's. 3 00:01:08,152 --> 00:01:11,571 "At the bedside was political sidekick Senator Joseph Paine." 4 00:01:11,780 --> 00:01:12,822 Long distance? 5 00:01:13,031 --> 00:01:16,451 Joseph Paine speaking. I want the governor's residence, Jackson City. 6 00:01:17,244 --> 00:01:20,204 Hello? Oh, Joe! 7 00:01:21,373 --> 00:01:24,250 - Oh, no! - Couldn't have happened at a worse time. 8 00:01:24,460 --> 00:01:27,003 Call Jim Taylor. Tell him I'm on a plane for home. 9 00:01:27,212 --> 00:01:28,921 Yes, Joe, yes. Right away. 10 00:01:29,131 --> 00:01:30,214 What is it? 11 00:01:30,424 --> 00:01:32,341 - Sam Foley's dead. - Great saints! 12 00:01:32,551 --> 00:01:35,845 Of all times, Foley had to go and die on us. 13 00:01:36,054 --> 00:01:38,598 - Who are you calling? - Taylor, my dear. 14 00:01:39,349 --> 00:01:42,185 - What's up, Happy? - Sam Foley died tonight. 15 00:01:42,561 --> 00:01:44,228 That's too bad. 16 00:01:44,438 --> 00:01:47,064 Well, don't get excited. Is Paine coming? 17 00:01:47,274 --> 00:01:50,234 Yes, Jim. Yes, Jim. 18 00:01:50,444 --> 00:01:51,986 Yes, Jim. 19 00:01:52,196 --> 00:01:54,155 He'd drop dead if you ever said no. 20 00:01:54,364 --> 00:01:56,783 No, my dear, this is no time for jokes. 21 00:01:56,992 --> 00:02:01,662 - I've got to appoint a new senator. - The governor will see all committees. 22 00:02:01,872 --> 00:02:05,208 - Tell him I won't wait any longer. - Yes, Mr. Edwards. 23 00:02:05,417 --> 00:02:08,127 Probably got Taylor in there, telling him what to do. 24 00:02:08,337 --> 00:02:10,963 Tell them to wait. I'll see them immediately. 25 00:02:12,341 --> 00:02:15,051 I've got to see those citizens, I can't put them off. 26 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:18,346 They'll want something to say about who takes Foley's place. 27 00:02:18,555 --> 00:02:21,140 - Ten to one they've got a man. - Relax, Happy. 28 00:02:21,350 --> 00:02:22,600 Stop having kittens. 29 00:02:22,810 --> 00:02:24,977 Go and tell Jim Taylor and Joe Paine... 30 00:02:25,187 --> 00:02:27,730 ...I give them one minute to make up their minds. 31 00:02:27,940 --> 00:02:29,482 You go tell Jim Taylor. 32 00:02:29,691 --> 00:02:30,817 I will tell him. 33 00:02:31,026 --> 00:02:34,070 It's high time I told Jim Taylor a thing or two. 34 00:02:35,489 --> 00:02:38,908 If you and Joe gab any longer about this appointment... 35 00:02:39,117 --> 00:02:42,620 ...I'll see those committees. - You'll see them when we're finished. 36 00:02:42,830 --> 00:02:46,541 - Yes, Jim. But hurry, will you? - Yes, we'll hurry. We'll hurry. 37 00:02:48,627 --> 00:02:51,254 That's telling him, Happy, old boy. 38 00:02:52,589 --> 00:02:56,592 Jim, with this Willet Creek Dam coming up... 39 00:02:56,802 --> 00:02:59,053 ...the man who takes Foley's place... 40 00:02:59,263 --> 00:03:02,181 ...can't ask any questions or talk out of turn. 41 00:03:02,391 --> 00:03:05,768 - Got to be absolutely sure. - That's why I say Horace Miller. 42 00:03:05,978 --> 00:03:07,728 He'll take orders all right. 43 00:03:08,438 --> 00:03:11,190 Suppose we don't try to go through with this dam. 44 00:03:11,483 --> 00:03:14,402 Suppose we postpone it until next session of Congress. 45 00:03:14,611 --> 00:03:18,364 - Or drop it altogether. - That'd be a crime, Joe. 46 00:03:19,032 --> 00:03:21,325 After all the work we put in on it? 47 00:03:21,702 --> 00:03:25,997 Getting it buried in this Deficiency Bill as nicely as you please. 48 00:03:26,206 --> 00:03:28,791 Having it approved. It's rolling along. 49 00:03:29,001 --> 00:03:30,877 Like taking candy from a baby. 50 00:03:31,086 --> 00:03:34,547 Is it worth the risk of a scandal, with a new man in the Senate? 51 00:03:34,756 --> 00:03:36,132 Worth the risk? 52 00:03:36,341 --> 00:03:38,384 What's the matter with you? 53 00:03:38,677 --> 00:03:41,387 Where you're concerned, I wouldn't take the slightest risk... 54 00:03:41,597 --> 00:03:44,724 ...especially with your great reputation in the Senate. 55 00:03:45,183 --> 00:03:46,309 Here, look. 56 00:03:46,685 --> 00:03:50,354 Look at the campaign I started for you in all my papers. 57 00:03:51,273 --> 00:03:52,940 A little obscure, isn't it? 58 00:03:53,150 --> 00:03:55,526 I don't know. Maybe. 59 00:03:56,653 --> 00:03:59,363 But after all, you're the logical man from the West... 60 00:03:59,573 --> 00:04:01,324 ...for the national ticket. 61 00:04:01,533 --> 00:04:03,826 At the convention, anything can happen. 62 00:04:04,036 --> 00:04:06,996 Jim, if what you say is possible... 63 00:04:07,205 --> 00:04:09,624 ...why not do as I say and drop things like this dam? 64 00:04:09,833 --> 00:04:11,876 We can't do it, Joe. 65 00:04:12,711 --> 00:04:15,838 We've been quietly buying all the land around that dam... 66 00:04:16,048 --> 00:04:18,466 ...and holding it in dummy names. 67 00:04:18,675 --> 00:04:22,261 If we drop it now, it'll bring about an investigation. 68 00:04:22,554 --> 00:04:25,681 It'll show that we're going to sell it to the state... 69 00:04:25,891 --> 00:04:28,059 ...under phony names. 70 00:04:28,268 --> 00:04:30,144 The smartest thing for us to do... 71 00:04:30,354 --> 00:04:32,271 ...is to push this dam through... 72 00:04:32,481 --> 00:04:34,065 ...and get it over with. 73 00:04:34,566 --> 00:04:37,652 All right, appoint Miller. If you're sure he'll take orders. 74 00:04:37,861 --> 00:04:39,820 Don't worry. He'll take orders. 75 00:04:40,030 --> 00:04:41,072 Come on. 76 00:04:42,991 --> 00:04:45,242 Just a minute. Just one more minute! 77 00:04:45,452 --> 00:04:46,786 We've got your man. 78 00:04:46,995 --> 00:04:48,621 - Horace Miller. - Horace Miller? 79 00:04:48,830 --> 00:04:49,997 A born stooge! 80 00:04:50,207 --> 00:04:52,500 Horace will perform like a trained seal. 81 00:04:52,709 --> 00:04:54,168 What did I tell you? 82 00:04:54,378 --> 00:04:56,587 If I throw a party man like Miller... 83 00:04:56,797 --> 00:04:59,173 For reasons I can't go into, it's got to be him. 84 00:04:59,383 --> 00:05:02,051 Do you understand? Now make out your ticket. 85 00:05:02,260 --> 00:05:03,302 Come on. 86 00:05:03,512 --> 00:05:05,846 But I've got to see those angry committees first. 87 00:05:06,056 --> 00:05:08,057 Work for harmony. Harmony! 88 00:05:08,266 --> 00:05:11,769 In considering candidates who might have the high qualifications... 89 00:05:11,979 --> 00:05:13,396 ...of U.S. senator... 90 00:05:13,605 --> 00:05:16,524 ...one name shone out like a beacon... 91 00:05:16,858 --> 00:05:19,235 ...the Honorable Horace Miller. 92 00:05:20,654 --> 00:05:23,864 - A party man. He's Taylor's stooge! - Please! 93 00:05:24,074 --> 00:05:26,826 New Citizens Committee won't stand for this! 94 00:05:27,411 --> 00:05:30,079 So they named their own candidate, eh? 95 00:05:30,288 --> 00:05:31,330 Who? 96 00:05:31,581 --> 00:05:34,041 - You won't like him. - Come on, who? 97 00:05:34,418 --> 00:05:37,044 - Henry Hill. - Henry Hill, that crackpot? 98 00:05:37,254 --> 00:05:39,171 You should've killed that so fast... 99 00:05:39,381 --> 00:05:40,506 I couldn't. 100 00:05:40,716 --> 00:05:42,633 - Those men were... - Never mind. 101 00:05:42,843 --> 00:05:44,051 You forget about them. 102 00:05:44,261 --> 00:05:46,429 That bunch is out for blood. If I... 103 00:05:46,638 --> 00:05:47,805 I said forget about them. 104 00:05:48,015 --> 00:05:50,683 Horace Miller goes to the Senate, and that settles it. 105 00:05:51,518 --> 00:05:53,728 I won't send Horace Miller. 106 00:05:53,937 --> 00:05:56,522 - You won't? - No, I won't. 107 00:05:57,816 --> 00:06:01,277 I won't let you callously wreck my whole political future. 108 00:06:01,486 --> 00:06:02,528 Your political future? 109 00:06:02,738 --> 00:06:04,655 I bought it for you as a present. 110 00:06:04,865 --> 00:06:07,533 I can grab it back so fast it'll make your head swim. 111 00:06:07,743 --> 00:06:10,536 You've got a nerve to sit and worry about your future... 112 00:06:10,746 --> 00:06:12,455 ...when we're in a spot like this. 113 00:06:12,664 --> 00:06:14,165 The man is Miller. 114 00:06:17,044 --> 00:06:18,794 Hello, Dad. 115 00:06:22,049 --> 00:06:24,216 What's the matter? Is it getting you down? 116 00:06:24,426 --> 00:06:27,386 - Is what getting me down? - You're in a deuce of a pickle. 117 00:06:27,596 --> 00:06:29,430 Looks like Henry Hill or else. 118 00:06:29,639 --> 00:06:32,600 - It's Horace Miller or else. - Peter! 119 00:06:32,809 --> 00:06:37,354 I wouldn't appoint a twerp like Miller, Taylor or no Taylor. 120 00:06:37,564 --> 00:06:39,732 May I ask what Taylor has to do with this? 121 00:06:39,941 --> 00:06:41,817 He's still running the show, ain't he? 122 00:06:42,027 --> 00:06:45,738 I won't have conversation of this sort carried on at dinner. 123 00:06:45,947 --> 00:06:47,907 Why don't you listen to them for a change? 124 00:06:48,116 --> 00:06:51,077 No doubt they can make this appointment for me with ease. 125 00:06:51,286 --> 00:06:53,996 - That's easy. Jefferson Smith. - I beg your pardon? 126 00:06:54,206 --> 00:06:56,707 Jefferson Smith. He's the only senator to have. 127 00:06:56,917 --> 00:06:58,542 He ought to be President. 128 00:06:58,752 --> 00:07:01,003 - I like Jeff Smith. - Me too. 129 00:07:01,213 --> 00:07:03,964 You too? Now everybody's been heard from. 130 00:07:04,216 --> 00:07:07,885 Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know him from a hole in the ground. 131 00:07:08,095 --> 00:07:11,055 - Gosh, head of the Boy Rangers! - Oh, a boy? 132 00:07:11,264 --> 00:07:14,767 No, Dad. Jeff's a man. Jeff Smith. 133 00:07:14,976 --> 00:07:17,228 Biggest expert we got in wild game... 134 00:07:17,437 --> 00:07:20,314 Right now he's the greatest hero we ever had. 135 00:07:20,524 --> 00:07:21,982 It's all over the headlines. 136 00:07:22,192 --> 00:07:25,277 Didn't you see about the forest fire all around Sweetwater? 137 00:07:25,487 --> 00:07:26,737 I did. What about it? 138 00:07:26,947 --> 00:07:29,532 - Jeff put that out himself. - Himself? 139 00:07:29,741 --> 00:07:32,868 - If you really want a senator... - I do not want a senator. 140 00:07:33,078 --> 00:07:36,747 - I do not want any more nonsense. - He's the greatest American we got. 141 00:07:36,957 --> 00:07:39,750 He can tell you what George Washington said, by heart. 142 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,045 - And Stuff has the swellest stuff in it. - What "stuff"? 143 00:07:43,255 --> 00:07:47,133 Boys' Stuff. The name of Jeff's paper. He prints it. Look, here's one. 144 00:07:47,342 --> 00:07:48,968 It's great. Everybody reads it. 145 00:07:49,177 --> 00:07:52,721 All the kids in the state. A million of them. Let me read... 146 00:07:52,931 --> 00:07:55,850 I'm in no mood to listen to childish prattle. 147 00:07:56,059 --> 00:07:58,144 - Prattle? - You're all wet. 148 00:07:58,353 --> 00:07:59,603 You couldn't do better. 149 00:07:59,813 --> 00:08:01,647 - Better than what? - Jeff for senator. 150 00:08:01,857 --> 00:08:04,692 - Emma, if you please! - Want to get out of a pickle, don't you? 151 00:08:04,901 --> 00:08:06,443 Always looking for votes, aren't you? 152 00:08:06,653 --> 00:08:08,737 Here's 50,000 kids, two folks each, and they vote. 153 00:08:08,947 --> 00:08:10,573 If you want to do some good in this state... 154 00:08:10,782 --> 00:08:12,700 If you're ever going to stand up like a man... 155 00:08:12,909 --> 00:08:13,993 That settles it! 156 00:08:14,202 --> 00:08:17,413 I won't be belittled by my own children in my own home. 157 00:08:17,622 --> 00:08:20,124 All my nerves are strained to the breaking point! 158 00:08:20,333 --> 00:08:22,042 - Oh, Shubert. - Henry Hill... 159 00:08:22,252 --> 00:08:23,377 Horace Miller... 160 00:08:23,587 --> 00:08:25,171 Miller? Hill? 161 00:08:25,380 --> 00:08:27,464 Hill? Miller? 162 00:08:29,634 --> 00:08:31,010 Heads, Hill. 163 00:08:31,344 --> 00:08:32,845 Tails, Miller. 164 00:08:54,201 --> 00:08:55,910 That's good enough for me. 165 00:09:19,059 --> 00:09:20,267 Good evening. 166 00:09:20,894 --> 00:09:22,311 Is Jefferson Smith at home? 167 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,480 Won't you step in? 168 00:09:40,538 --> 00:09:43,624 - A Boy Ranger to the U.S. Senate? - Listen. 169 00:09:43,833 --> 00:09:46,460 The simpleton of all times. A big-eyed patriot. 170 00:09:46,670 --> 00:09:48,379 Knows Lincoln and Washington by heart. 171 00:09:48,588 --> 00:09:50,756 Stands at attention in the governor's presence. 172 00:09:50,966 --> 00:09:52,675 Collects stray boys and cats. 173 00:09:52,884 --> 00:09:54,051 He does what? 174 00:09:54,261 --> 00:09:56,303 You know, a perfect man. 175 00:09:56,513 --> 00:09:57,930 Never in politics in his life. 176 00:09:58,139 --> 00:10:01,225 Wouldn't know what it's all about in 2 years, let alone 2 months. 177 00:10:01,434 --> 00:10:02,518 The important thing... 178 00:10:02,727 --> 00:10:04,770 ...this was the genius of the stroke... 179 00:10:04,980 --> 00:10:06,313 ...it means votes. 180 00:10:06,523 --> 00:10:09,984 The hero of 50,000 boys and 100,000 parents. 181 00:10:10,193 --> 00:10:12,569 Look over those congratulations pouring in. 182 00:10:12,779 --> 00:10:14,113 I tell you, gentlemen... 183 00:10:14,322 --> 00:10:16,991 You made this appointment without asking me. 184 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:18,659 When lightning strikes... 185 00:10:18,868 --> 00:10:21,412 - You didn't ask me. - Oh, Jim! 186 00:10:23,999 --> 00:10:25,624 Now wait a minute, Jim. 187 00:10:26,126 --> 00:10:28,252 Happy may have hit on something here. 188 00:10:28,461 --> 00:10:29,670 There, you see? 189 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,050 Do you really think you can handle him in Washington? 190 00:10:35,260 --> 00:10:36,969 Do you think it's all right? 191 00:10:37,178 --> 00:10:38,429 I think it's all right. 192 00:10:38,638 --> 00:10:39,805 A young patriot... 193 00:10:40,015 --> 00:10:41,807 ...recites Lincoln and Jefferson... 194 00:10:42,017 --> 00:10:44,643 ...turned loose in our nation's capitol. 195 00:10:44,853 --> 00:10:48,105 Yeah, I think it's all right. 196 00:10:52,652 --> 00:10:53,736 Chick. 197 00:10:53,945 --> 00:10:57,156 Turn the ballyhoo boys loose. It's the greatest appointment ever made. 198 00:10:57,365 --> 00:11:00,701 - Give a banquet and declare a holiday. - A star-spangled banquet! 199 00:11:08,460 --> 00:11:11,295 And how did your governor confer that honor? 200 00:11:11,504 --> 00:11:15,466 Did he give it to some wealthy citizen, merely to curry favor? 201 00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:17,092 - No! - No! 202 00:11:17,635 --> 00:11:20,262 Did he give it to some unworthy political hireling? 203 00:11:20,472 --> 00:11:21,764 No! 204 00:11:21,973 --> 00:11:24,516 No! What did he do? 205 00:11:24,726 --> 00:11:25,768 He went down... 206 00:11:25,977 --> 00:11:27,269 ...among the people. 207 00:11:27,562 --> 00:11:29,063 And there he found... 208 00:11:31,024 --> 00:11:32,066 ...a nugget. 209 00:11:37,197 --> 00:11:39,740 It is in that spirit that we're here tonight... 210 00:11:39,949 --> 00:11:43,535 ...to acclaim and wish Godspeed to Senator... 211 00:11:44,037 --> 00:11:45,913 ...Jefferson Smith. 212 00:11:57,050 --> 00:11:58,384 Thank you. 213 00:12:02,806 --> 00:12:04,932 I can't help feeling... 214 00:12:05,141 --> 00:12:08,435 ...that there's been a big mistake somehow. 215 00:12:11,439 --> 00:12:13,482 Of course, I never could see... 216 00:12:13,691 --> 00:12:16,860 ...why we needed two senators from this state... 217 00:12:17,070 --> 00:12:20,447 ...when we have a man like Joseph Harrison Paine... 218 00:12:20,657 --> 00:12:21,949 ...representing us. 219 00:12:24,702 --> 00:12:26,203 He doesn't remember me. 220 00:12:26,413 --> 00:12:28,247 He knew my father very well. 221 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:30,124 Clayton Smith. 222 00:12:30,333 --> 00:12:31,375 They... 223 00:12:31,876 --> 00:12:35,379 ...went to school together. They were very good friends. 224 00:12:38,925 --> 00:12:41,176 Just to... sit here with him... 225 00:12:41,386 --> 00:12:43,887 ...is a very great honor for me... 226 00:12:44,097 --> 00:12:48,100 ...because I remember Dad used to tell me that... 227 00:12:48,435 --> 00:12:51,145 ...Joe Paine was the finest man he ever knew. 228 00:12:55,525 --> 00:12:57,151 Go on, get up. Take a bow! 229 00:13:03,032 --> 00:13:07,661 I don't think I'll be much help to you down there in Washington, senator. 230 00:13:08,997 --> 00:13:10,289 I'll do my best. 231 00:13:11,207 --> 00:13:13,333 Although with all my might... 232 00:13:14,544 --> 00:13:16,879 ...I can promise you one thing: 233 00:13:17,672 --> 00:13:20,757 I'll do nothing to disgrace the office of... 234 00:13:20,967 --> 00:13:22,718 ...United States Senate. 235 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:53,832 Senator Jefferson Smith... 236 00:13:54,167 --> 00:13:56,502 ...the Boy Rangers are very proud... 237 00:13:56,711 --> 00:13:58,337 ...to take this opportun... 238 00:13:58,546 --> 00:13:59,880 Occasion! 239 00:14:00,590 --> 00:14:03,759 We are happy to take this opportunity... 240 00:14:04,761 --> 00:14:07,930 - To present... - To resent this... 241 00:14:08,139 --> 00:14:12,059 ...small token of our affection and esteem... 242 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:14,269 ...to the best... - Friend. 243 00:14:14,479 --> 00:14:16,313 Friend! 244 00:14:16,523 --> 00:14:18,565 Heck. It's a briefcase, Jeff. 245 00:14:18,775 --> 00:14:19,816 We all pitched in. 246 00:14:20,026 --> 00:14:22,986 For to carry your laws when you get to Washington. 247 00:14:59,774 --> 00:15:02,693 It isn't much, but if you insist, here's this week's. 248 00:15:02,902 --> 00:15:05,988 Boys' Stuff. Why, printer's ink runs in your veins. 249 00:15:08,324 --> 00:15:09,908 You're just like your father. 250 00:15:10,118 --> 00:15:11,827 - Thank you, sir. - Even to the hat. 251 00:15:12,036 --> 00:15:13,662 Same old dreamer too. 252 00:15:13,871 --> 00:15:15,789 One look at you and I can see him... 253 00:15:15,999 --> 00:15:19,334 ...back at his roll-top desk, hat and all, getting out his paper. 254 00:15:19,544 --> 00:15:23,297 Always kept his hat on so as to be ready to do battle. 255 00:15:23,506 --> 00:15:26,008 Clayton Smith, editor and publisher. 256 00:15:26,217 --> 00:15:28,010 And champion of lost causes. 257 00:15:28,219 --> 00:15:32,222 Dad used to say the only causes worth fighting for were the lost causes. 258 00:15:32,432 --> 00:15:33,849 You don't have to tell me. 259 00:15:34,058 --> 00:15:35,684 We were a team, the two of us. 260 00:15:35,893 --> 00:15:38,520 Struggling editor and the struggling lawyer. 261 00:15:38,730 --> 00:15:41,273 The twin champions of lost causes, they called us. 262 00:15:41,482 --> 00:15:43,859 Ma's told me about it a thousand times. 263 00:15:44,068 --> 00:15:46,445 His last fight was his best, Jeff. 264 00:15:47,071 --> 00:15:49,698 He and his little four-page paper... 265 00:15:49,907 --> 00:15:52,159 ...against that mining syndicate. 266 00:15:52,368 --> 00:15:56,538 All to defend the right of one small miner who stuck to his claim. 267 00:15:57,749 --> 00:15:59,416 They tried everything. 268 00:16:00,168 --> 00:16:01,293 Bribery... 269 00:16:02,086 --> 00:16:03,253 ...intimidation. 270 00:16:04,881 --> 00:16:05,922 And then... 271 00:16:09,886 --> 00:16:13,013 Ma found him slumped over his desk that morning. 272 00:16:13,556 --> 00:16:15,182 Shot in the back. 273 00:16:16,017 --> 00:16:17,392 I was there. 274 00:16:18,061 --> 00:16:19,478 I can see him. 275 00:16:20,271 --> 00:16:22,773 At that old roll-top desk. 276 00:16:23,941 --> 00:16:25,651 Still with his hat on. 277 00:16:29,238 --> 00:16:31,073 Still with his hat on. 278 00:16:32,617 --> 00:16:33,784 I know. 279 00:16:34,952 --> 00:16:36,870 I suppose, Mr. Paine... 280 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,707 ...when a fellow bucks up against a big organization like that... 281 00:16:41,918 --> 00:16:44,711 ...one man by himself can't get very far, can he? 282 00:16:45,797 --> 00:16:47,381 No. 283 00:16:48,466 --> 00:16:49,549 Washington, huh? 284 00:16:49,759 --> 00:16:52,344 Yes, senator, for the fifth time. Washington. 285 00:16:52,804 --> 00:16:54,554 I'd better see about my pigeons. 286 00:16:54,764 --> 00:16:56,014 The porter has them. 287 00:16:56,224 --> 00:16:58,183 Just a second. I'd better make sure. 288 00:16:58,685 --> 00:17:01,228 Joe, my head's like a balloon. 289 00:17:01,437 --> 00:17:04,731 Two whole days! I never knew there was so much American history. 290 00:17:04,941 --> 00:17:06,191 They're all right. 291 00:17:06,401 --> 00:17:08,360 That's fine. That ends that crisis. 292 00:17:08,569 --> 00:17:10,028 Come along, senator. 293 00:17:10,238 --> 00:17:11,863 Hello, Father! 294 00:17:12,156 --> 00:17:13,490 - I saw! - He's mine! 295 00:17:13,950 --> 00:17:16,993 Oh, let me get to him. Let me get to him. 296 00:17:17,203 --> 00:17:18,537 Susan, this is... 297 00:17:18,746 --> 00:17:21,456 I don't care to meet him till I get my money. 298 00:17:22,041 --> 00:17:24,126 A dollar each, please, for the milk fund. 299 00:17:24,335 --> 00:17:26,670 - That's $5. - Yes. 300 00:17:31,259 --> 00:17:32,926 You've got $5, haven't you? 301 00:17:33,136 --> 00:17:35,011 Can't seem to find anything except keys. 302 00:17:35,221 --> 00:17:38,098 Jeff, this is my daughter Susan and her friends. 303 00:17:38,307 --> 00:17:40,892 - Not the new senator? - He's marvelous. 304 00:17:41,102 --> 00:17:43,812 - What have you got there, senator? - They're pigeons. 305 00:17:44,021 --> 00:17:47,774 - To carry messages back to Ma. - It's just for fun. 306 00:17:47,984 --> 00:17:51,695 The one that makes it home in the best time I'll enter in the Nationals. 307 00:17:51,904 --> 00:17:53,280 - Joe! - Hello, Chick. 308 00:17:53,489 --> 00:17:55,240 - Hello, Joe. - Carl, how are you? 309 00:17:55,450 --> 00:17:56,700 Glad to see you, Bill. 310 00:17:58,161 --> 00:17:59,619 Jeff, come here. 311 00:17:59,829 --> 00:18:02,456 Meet Cook and Griffith, from State Headquarters. 312 00:18:02,665 --> 00:18:05,876 Great pleasure. You'll do the old state proud. 313 00:18:06,085 --> 00:18:10,130 Welcome. The wildlife here is different from what you're used to. 314 00:18:10,465 --> 00:18:11,840 They wear high heels. 315 00:18:12,675 --> 00:18:14,259 We must see a lot of you... 316 00:18:14,469 --> 00:18:17,971 ...and your little feathered friends. - Thank you very much. 317 00:18:20,057 --> 00:18:22,017 - Come on, Father. - Oh, yeah. 318 00:18:22,226 --> 00:18:23,393 Chick. 319 00:18:23,603 --> 00:18:25,270 I've got him. We'll be along. 320 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:26,521 Good luck, senator. 321 00:18:26,731 --> 00:18:27,773 Goodbye. 322 00:18:29,192 --> 00:18:31,109 Things sure happen fast around here. 323 00:18:31,319 --> 00:18:33,612 You'll have to get yourself out of low gear. 324 00:18:34,822 --> 00:18:36,948 Let's get these bags and livestock. 325 00:18:37,158 --> 00:18:38,200 Okay, Chick. 326 00:18:39,744 --> 00:18:41,119 Look, there it is! 327 00:18:41,329 --> 00:18:42,996 Who? What? 328 00:18:43,456 --> 00:18:44,956 The Capitol dome. 329 00:18:45,166 --> 00:18:46,416 Yes, sir, big as life. 330 00:18:46,626 --> 00:18:48,126 Been there a long time now. 331 00:18:48,336 --> 00:18:49,377 Yes, sir. 332 00:18:49,837 --> 00:18:51,505 This way, senator. 333 00:19:00,932 --> 00:19:03,141 We thought we'd meet him in short pants... 334 00:19:03,351 --> 00:19:04,643 ...with hatchets. 335 00:19:04,852 --> 00:19:05,894 Taxi. 336 00:19:06,270 --> 00:19:08,855 - What's he bringing pigeons for? - What for? 337 00:19:09,315 --> 00:19:11,441 Suppose there's a storm. The lines are down. 338 00:19:11,651 --> 00:19:14,069 How you going to get messages back to Ma? 339 00:19:14,278 --> 00:19:15,529 This way, senator. 340 00:19:15,738 --> 00:19:16,988 Where is he? 341 00:19:17,198 --> 00:19:18,240 Senator? 342 00:19:18,533 --> 00:19:20,158 I told that Cookie to... 343 00:19:20,368 --> 00:19:22,661 Let's find him. Senator! 344 00:19:23,204 --> 00:19:25,205 Senator Smith? 345 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,959 - Positively not in the station. - What happened? 346 00:19:29,210 --> 00:19:30,961 - Did you look in the...? - Yeah. 347 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:33,338 I'll brain that guy. 348 00:19:33,548 --> 00:19:35,382 Call Paine. Call Saunders. 349 00:19:35,591 --> 00:19:37,342 Call the Marines. Call somebody! 350 00:19:38,302 --> 00:19:40,428 Saunders? McGann. 351 00:19:40,638 --> 00:19:43,473 Has Smith showed up at his office there yet? 352 00:19:43,683 --> 00:19:45,517 What do you mean, the slip? What's so funny? 353 00:19:45,726 --> 00:19:48,436 Nothing. Why don't you try a butterfly net? 354 00:19:48,646 --> 00:19:52,440 If he does show up, Paine's waiting at the hotel with newspapermen. 355 00:19:52,650 --> 00:19:54,776 Let him know right away. Understand? 356 00:19:54,986 --> 00:19:58,488 I'll hang a light in the belfry. One if by land and two if by sea. 357 00:20:11,544 --> 00:20:13,461 - Diz? What do you think? - Yeah. 358 00:20:13,671 --> 00:20:16,214 - Daniel Boone's lost. - No. 359 00:20:16,424 --> 00:20:18,800 Lost in the wilds of Washington. 360 00:20:19,510 --> 00:20:22,554 If your boyfriend's going to blaze trails, I'm going to the press club. 361 00:20:22,763 --> 00:20:25,473 He might want us to put on short pants and go hiking. 362 00:20:25,683 --> 00:20:27,517 You wouldn't want to miss the exercise. 363 00:20:27,727 --> 00:20:31,187 When I think of exercise, I lie down until the feeling leaves me. 364 00:20:31,606 --> 00:20:34,232 - Wouldn't it be funny if he was lost? - The Boy Ranger? 365 00:20:34,442 --> 00:20:38,445 Oh, he'll show up. He must have a compass with him. 366 00:20:38,654 --> 00:20:40,655 Where would I go if I were a Boy Ranger? 367 00:20:40,865 --> 00:20:43,033 Boy, am I tired. I'm all in! 368 00:20:43,242 --> 00:20:46,661 Call all the hospitals. And get me a bed while you're at it! 369 00:20:46,871 --> 00:20:49,080 Boss, will you hold this a minute? 370 00:20:49,290 --> 00:20:50,624 Thank you, sir. 371 00:20:52,627 --> 00:20:54,711 Here! Come back here! 372 00:23:42,421 --> 00:23:44,881 - that from these honored dead we take... 373 00:23:45,091 --> 00:23:48,051 ...increased devotion that that cause for which they... 374 00:23:48,260 --> 00:23:52,263 ...gave the last full measure of devotion... 375 00:23:52,473 --> 00:23:54,390 ...that we here highly... 376 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,101 - Resolve. - Resolve... 377 00:23:56,852 --> 00:23:59,521 ...that these dead shall not have died in vain. 378 00:23:59,730 --> 00:24:01,439 That this nation... 379 00:24:01,649 --> 00:24:05,068 ...under God, shall have a new birth of... 380 00:24:05,277 --> 00:24:06,319 Freedom. 381 00:24:06,529 --> 00:24:07,570 Freedom. 382 00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:10,073 And that government, of the people... 383 00:24:10,282 --> 00:24:12,242 ...by the people, for the people... 384 00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:15,245 ...shall not perish from the earth. 385 00:24:21,836 --> 00:24:24,129 Why don't they try the police? 386 00:24:24,338 --> 00:24:25,964 Call out some bloodhounds... 387 00:24:26,173 --> 00:24:27,298 ...or Indian guides. 388 00:24:27,508 --> 00:24:30,718 One place he knows is the Senate office. You stay there and wait. 389 00:24:30,928 --> 00:24:32,262 All right, another half-hour. 390 00:24:32,471 --> 00:24:35,098 Just one half-hour. Goodbye. 391 00:24:36,225 --> 00:24:38,184 Oh, why don't I quit? 392 00:24:38,394 --> 00:24:40,728 Eight to five, little boy blue's plastered. 393 00:24:40,938 --> 00:24:42,856 When Foley died, why didn't I clear out? 394 00:24:43,065 --> 00:24:46,151 How many times have I said I'm fed up with politics and I... 395 00:24:47,027 --> 00:24:49,988 No, I let them talk me into staying. 396 00:24:50,197 --> 00:24:53,825 Secretary to a leader of little squirts. 397 00:24:54,076 --> 00:24:57,453 Why? Because I need the job and a new suit of clothes. 398 00:24:57,663 --> 00:24:59,122 Would you settle for a husband? 399 00:24:59,331 --> 00:25:01,374 I sure would. 400 00:25:03,711 --> 00:25:05,920 You know my old standing offer. 401 00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:09,174 Diz Moore, poet of Washington correspondents. 402 00:25:09,383 --> 00:25:12,385 - Oh, that again. - I'd cherish you... 403 00:25:12,595 --> 00:25:13,928 ...and I'd stay sober. 404 00:25:14,138 --> 00:25:16,890 Diz, you're a wonderful egg. 405 00:25:17,433 --> 00:25:22,187 I don't know, maybe if I saw you once with your hair combed or something... 406 00:25:22,771 --> 00:25:24,772 I don't think even that would do it. 407 00:25:25,566 --> 00:25:28,109 No point in combing my hair for nothing. 408 00:25:28,819 --> 00:25:29,861 "Honorary appointment." 409 00:25:30,070 --> 00:25:34,365 Scratch this and you'll find they need a dope here for a couple of months. 410 00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:36,242 Yes? 411 00:25:37,161 --> 00:25:38,494 Yes! 412 00:25:40,164 --> 00:25:41,247 What do you want? 413 00:25:41,457 --> 00:25:44,042 - Office of Jefferson Smith? - No. 414 00:25:46,128 --> 00:25:47,629 - The man downstairs said... - No! 415 00:25:56,805 --> 00:25:59,599 They sure must have picked the prize dummy... 416 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:01,434 Say, wait a minute! 417 00:26:01,644 --> 00:26:03,853 That wouldn't be Daniel Boone? 418 00:26:05,314 --> 00:26:08,483 - Say, mister, what's your name? - Jefferson Smith. 419 00:26:08,692 --> 00:26:12,445 Oh, yes, please, come right in, Mr. Smith. This way. 420 00:26:12,655 --> 00:26:16,199 Come in. Now, hold everything. Stay there. Now, don't move! 421 00:26:17,284 --> 00:26:19,369 Helen! Get me the Madison. Senator Paine. 422 00:26:19,578 --> 00:26:21,079 Hurry up, will you? 423 00:26:21,914 --> 00:26:24,624 - Is anything the matter? - Oh, no. No. 424 00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:26,042 My dear senator... 425 00:26:26,252 --> 00:26:29,045 ...it may be customary out on the prairie to take leave of people... 426 00:26:29,255 --> 00:26:30,880 ...and not show up for five hours... 427 00:26:31,090 --> 00:26:33,716 I'm very sorry about that, Miss Sau... 428 00:26:33,926 --> 00:26:35,718 You are Miss Saunders, aren't you? 429 00:26:35,928 --> 00:26:38,179 Yes, and this is Mr. Moore, member of the press. 430 00:26:38,389 --> 00:26:41,641 - Mr. Moore, meet the senator. - I'm very happy to know you. 431 00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:44,936 Well, I see you cut your way through that forest. 432 00:26:48,315 --> 00:26:49,649 Senator Paine. We've got him! 433 00:26:49,858 --> 00:26:52,277 Came in on his own power, and he's sober. 434 00:26:52,903 --> 00:26:55,947 Next thing on the schedule, I'll have him over there. 435 00:26:56,156 --> 00:26:58,533 - Now... - I'm awfully sorry. 436 00:26:58,742 --> 00:27:01,661 It wasn't until I was well along on the bus that... 437 00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:03,037 Did you say bus? 438 00:27:03,247 --> 00:27:05,873 It was one of those sightseers, you know? 439 00:27:06,083 --> 00:27:07,333 And... 440 00:27:09,753 --> 00:27:13,006 ...I've never been called absent-minded before... 441 00:27:13,757 --> 00:27:16,426 ...but there it was, all of a sudden. 442 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,595 It was staring at me through the station doors. 443 00:27:19,805 --> 00:27:21,097 There what was? 444 00:27:21,307 --> 00:27:23,599 The dome. The Capitol dome. 445 00:27:24,184 --> 00:27:28,146 As big as life, sparkling away under the old sun out there. 446 00:27:28,731 --> 00:27:29,897 And I... 447 00:27:30,649 --> 00:27:31,941 ...I just... 448 00:27:32,151 --> 00:27:34,319 ...started to go toward it. 449 00:27:34,528 --> 00:27:36,237 There was a bus outside and... 450 00:27:36,447 --> 00:27:38,197 ...I just naturally got aboard. 451 00:27:38,407 --> 00:27:41,451 - Most natural thing in the world. - Yeah. 452 00:27:42,453 --> 00:27:45,246 I don't think I've ever been so thrilled in my whole life. 453 00:27:45,497 --> 00:27:47,665 And that Lincoln Memorial! 454 00:27:48,917 --> 00:27:50,793 Gee whiz! 455 00:27:51,503 --> 00:27:53,963 Why, Mr. Lincoln, there he is. 456 00:27:55,632 --> 00:27:59,594 He's looking right straight at you as you come up those steps. 457 00:28:01,638 --> 00:28:05,266 Just sitting there, like he was waiting for somebody to come along. 458 00:28:05,476 --> 00:28:08,102 Yeah. Well, he's got nothing on me. 459 00:28:08,312 --> 00:28:09,729 Oh, I'm sorry. 460 00:28:10,314 --> 00:28:12,482 If you're ready, we'll go to the hotel. 461 00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:14,817 Senator Paine's waiting for you. 462 00:28:24,870 --> 00:28:26,079 This is my office? 463 00:28:26,288 --> 00:28:28,873 No, you'll have a private office. 464 00:28:29,583 --> 00:28:31,918 - In there. - Private office? 465 00:28:33,587 --> 00:28:34,837 In there? 466 00:28:37,966 --> 00:28:39,384 Right in this door? 467 00:28:45,682 --> 00:28:47,266 All right, now, senator... 468 00:28:47,476 --> 00:28:50,019 - Where is he? Has he gone out again? - No, no. 469 00:28:50,229 --> 00:28:51,646 He's in there. 470 00:28:51,855 --> 00:28:53,147 I'll see you later. 471 00:28:53,357 --> 00:28:56,025 I got to go out and drink this over. 472 00:28:59,071 --> 00:29:00,655 Whose statue's that? 473 00:29:00,864 --> 00:29:02,490 I wouldn't know, in the daytime. 474 00:29:02,699 --> 00:29:04,492 You wouldn't? Oh, look! 475 00:29:04,701 --> 00:29:07,620 Look at the Capitol dome! It's all lighted up. 476 00:29:07,871 --> 00:29:11,791 You better relax, senator. You'll get yourself plum wore out. 477 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,044 Gee whiz! So many things happening all at once. 478 00:29:16,255 --> 00:29:18,714 Miss Saunders, what time does the Senate... 479 00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:20,758 - Convene? - Convene. Convene. What time? 480 00:29:20,968 --> 00:29:23,386 - Twelve noon. - Twelve noon, huh? 481 00:29:23,637 --> 00:29:26,013 Oh, boy, that'll be something! 482 00:29:26,223 --> 00:29:27,849 You know what I better do in the morning? 483 00:29:28,058 --> 00:29:29,642 No, what had you better? 484 00:29:29,852 --> 00:29:32,061 I think I better go out to Mount Vernon. 485 00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:34,439 Be sort of a fine thing to do. 486 00:29:35,274 --> 00:29:38,192 Visit Washington's home before walking into the Senate for the first time. 487 00:29:38,402 --> 00:29:42,572 - Think it's a good idea? - Wonderful! Puts you right in the mood. 488 00:29:43,782 --> 00:29:45,533 What's that? What's that? 489 00:29:47,369 --> 00:29:49,036 Movie houses. 490 00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:53,374 Hi, Saunders. 491 00:29:53,584 --> 00:29:55,376 I'm still asking myself, what is he: 492 00:29:55,586 --> 00:29:58,254 - Animal, vegetable or mineral? - Maybe an oyster. 493 00:29:58,464 --> 00:30:03,050 When I think of myself playing straight for that phony, patriotic chatter. Me! 494 00:30:03,260 --> 00:30:06,596 Carrying bibs for an infant with little flags in his fists. 495 00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:09,182 I can't take it, Diz. I quit. I'm through. 496 00:30:09,391 --> 00:30:12,351 Now take it easy. Simmer down. Here. 497 00:30:12,561 --> 00:30:13,728 Take this. 498 00:30:15,439 --> 00:30:18,191 Know what he's doing tomorrow before taking the Senate seat? 499 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:19,942 Going up to Mount Vernon... 500 00:30:20,152 --> 00:30:23,571 ...to get in the mood. A warm-up. - Who? Your boss? 501 00:30:23,780 --> 00:30:26,491 A nut! I knew there was a story in him. I smelled it! 502 00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:28,284 Go chase an ambulance. 503 00:30:28,494 --> 00:30:31,037 It's meat and drink to me. Let me at him five minutes. 504 00:30:31,246 --> 00:30:33,831 - I'll make it right with you. - What do you mean "right"? 505 00:30:34,041 --> 00:30:36,626 I'll tell you what I'll do. World Series. A pass! 506 00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:39,212 In a month it'll be worth 15 bucks. 507 00:30:39,421 --> 00:30:41,214 - Well! - You're not talking to this guy. 508 00:30:41,423 --> 00:30:43,508 - What do you say? - Nothing. Beat it. 509 00:30:43,717 --> 00:30:45,676 How would your pals like to get in on this? 510 00:30:45,886 --> 00:30:47,345 - Hey, I want a scoop. - Beat it! 511 00:30:47,554 --> 00:30:51,224 That's out. Either it's lots of reporters and tickets, or... 512 00:30:51,433 --> 00:30:54,060 Better call him before I change my mind. 513 00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:56,854 Okay. I'll see you right here. 514 00:30:58,774 --> 00:31:00,066 What are you going to do? 515 00:31:00,275 --> 00:31:03,110 Get my whole fall outfit and quit this job in style. 516 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,197 You've got more sense than to put Nosey on to that guy. 517 00:31:06,406 --> 00:31:10,076 - That's it! - Open your eyes! Open your eyes! 518 00:31:11,161 --> 00:31:12,453 Tell us about yourself. 519 00:31:12,663 --> 00:31:14,830 I hear you got a boys' club, senator. 520 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,457 Any special ax to grind? 521 00:31:16,667 --> 00:31:17,792 - Ax? - You know. 522 00:31:18,001 --> 00:31:20,253 Pet idea. Save the buffaloes, pension bill. 523 00:31:20,462 --> 00:31:23,548 You must have one idea that would be good for the country. 524 00:31:23,757 --> 00:31:25,258 Well, I have got one idea. 525 00:31:25,467 --> 00:31:27,051 That's what we want. 526 00:31:27,261 --> 00:31:29,554 For the last couple years, I've thought it would be... 527 00:31:29,763 --> 00:31:33,432 ...a wonderful idea to have a national boys' camp in our state. 528 00:31:33,642 --> 00:31:35,101 Boys' camp? Sure. Very good! 529 00:31:35,310 --> 00:31:37,687 If we could get poor kids off the streets... 530 00:31:37,896 --> 00:31:40,773 ...out of the cities for a few months in the summer... 531 00:31:40,983 --> 00:31:43,317 ...and let them learn something about nature... 532 00:31:43,527 --> 00:31:44,694 ...American ideals... 533 00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:45,945 Marvelous. 534 00:31:46,154 --> 00:31:47,697 What would it cost the government? 535 00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:49,949 Nothing. Nothing at all. You see... 536 00:31:50,158 --> 00:31:53,202 ...the government just lends us the money for the camp... 537 00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:55,329 ...and then the boys... 538 00:31:55,539 --> 00:31:58,958 ...pay it back by sending pennies, nickels, nothing more than a dime. 539 00:31:59,167 --> 00:32:00,710 That's really something. 540 00:32:00,919 --> 00:32:04,255 Oh, no, no. Government's got enough on its hands already... 541 00:32:04,464 --> 00:32:06,382 The government's putting too much dough... 542 00:32:06,592 --> 00:32:08,092 ...in too many places now, boys. 543 00:32:08,302 --> 00:32:10,219 Well, now, senator, tell me... 544 00:32:10,512 --> 00:32:13,097 ...what do you think of the girls in this town? 545 00:32:13,307 --> 00:32:15,016 Down at the station, four of them... 546 00:32:15,225 --> 00:32:17,643 ...kissed me when I got off the train. 547 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,771 - Were they pretty? - Pretty? 548 00:32:20,981 --> 00:32:22,315 That Miss Susan Paine... 549 00:32:22,524 --> 00:32:24,358 ...is about the prettiest I ever saw. 550 00:32:24,568 --> 00:32:26,861 Senator, you got a good eye! 551 00:32:27,112 --> 00:32:28,738 How about some more pictures? 552 00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:30,323 You're a nature lover... 553 00:32:30,532 --> 00:32:32,033 ...can you handle sign language? 554 00:32:32,242 --> 00:32:33,284 I could manage, if... 555 00:32:33,493 --> 00:32:35,953 What about birdcalls? You know any? 556 00:32:36,163 --> 00:32:38,914 - Can you make a sound like an eagle? - How about a bobwhite? 557 00:32:39,124 --> 00:32:41,167 Here's one. I'm the only one in the state... 558 00:33:07,152 --> 00:33:09,236 His "First 'Whiff' of Washington"? 559 00:33:11,573 --> 00:33:12,865 Do I actually see this? 560 00:33:13,075 --> 00:33:14,992 What is it? 561 00:33:17,037 --> 00:33:20,039 - Did you want to see me? - What's this I hear about your quitting? 562 00:33:20,248 --> 00:33:22,958 - I'm not a nurse. - Stop being funny. 563 00:33:23,168 --> 00:33:26,337 - How'd this happen? - I haven't the slightest idea. 564 00:33:26,546 --> 00:33:29,548 - Yes, you have. How'd it happen? - I merely took him home. 565 00:33:29,758 --> 00:33:32,551 I didn't tuck him in. That's McGann's job. 566 00:33:32,761 --> 00:33:36,013 McGann just phoned. Smith's gone again. Do you know where? 567 00:33:36,223 --> 00:33:39,183 He went to Mount Vernon to give himself a patriotic address. 568 00:33:39,393 --> 00:33:40,643 That's fine. 569 00:33:40,852 --> 00:33:43,145 Now you go back to Smith's office... 570 00:33:43,355 --> 00:33:45,398 ...and get him to the Senate by 12:00. 571 00:33:45,607 --> 00:33:47,441 Senator, I wasn't given a brain... 572 00:33:47,651 --> 00:33:51,028 ...just to tell a Boy Ranger the time. - Don't be a fool. 573 00:33:51,238 --> 00:33:52,488 If certain things happen... 574 00:33:52,698 --> 00:33:55,449 ...you'll get one of the biggest jobs in Washington. 575 00:33:55,659 --> 00:33:59,370 When I came here, my eyes were big blue question marks. 576 00:33:59,579 --> 00:34:01,414 Now they're big green dollar marks. 577 00:34:01,623 --> 00:34:02,707 Smart girl, eh? 578 00:34:03,125 --> 00:34:05,960 Finish this job properly and you'll get a bonus. 579 00:34:06,169 --> 00:34:07,545 I mean, keep Smith away... 580 00:34:07,754 --> 00:34:10,339 ...from anything that smacks of politics. 581 00:34:11,091 --> 00:34:13,259 Including Willet Creek Dam? 582 00:34:15,095 --> 00:34:16,637 Including Willet Creek Dam. 583 00:34:16,847 --> 00:34:18,597 Now go back to your work. 584 00:34:24,479 --> 00:34:26,147 This is it, senator. 585 00:34:26,356 --> 00:34:28,899 - The United States Senate. - Come on. 586 00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:33,904 Mr. Carson, Senator Smith. 587 00:34:34,114 --> 00:34:35,948 - How do you do? - How do you do, senator? 588 00:34:36,158 --> 00:34:38,576 - Page! Glad to see you. - Thank you. 589 00:34:38,785 --> 00:34:42,246 - Show Senator Smith to his seat. - Yes, sir. Right this way, sir. 590 00:34:42,456 --> 00:34:43,956 Well, goodbye. 591 00:34:44,624 --> 00:34:46,041 - Wish me luck. - Sure. 592 00:34:46,251 --> 00:34:47,460 - Bye. - Bye. 593 00:35:14,404 --> 00:35:15,654 So that's the boy wonder? 594 00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:18,365 I don't know what the Senate's coming to. 595 00:35:20,786 --> 00:35:21,994 - Hi, Diz. - Hello, Saunders. 596 00:35:22,204 --> 00:35:24,079 - Daryl, Sweeney. - Hi, Saunders. 597 00:35:24,289 --> 00:35:26,290 I see you got Daniel Boone in all right. 598 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:28,042 Daniel in the lion's den. 599 00:35:28,251 --> 00:35:31,462 Nice job you and the ambulance chasers did in the papers this morning. 600 00:35:31,671 --> 00:35:32,880 - Did you like it? - Great. 601 00:35:35,967 --> 00:35:37,176 Here you are, Senator. 602 00:35:37,385 --> 00:35:38,719 Not a bad desk, either. 603 00:35:38,929 --> 00:35:40,846 Daniel Webster used to use it. 604 00:35:41,056 --> 00:35:42,389 Daniel Webster sat here? 605 00:35:42,599 --> 00:35:43,682 Holy mackerel! 606 00:35:43,934 --> 00:35:47,144 Give you something to shoot at, if you figure on doing any talking. 607 00:35:47,354 --> 00:35:50,981 - I'm just going to sit and listen. - That's the way to get re-elected. 608 00:35:51,191 --> 00:35:53,442 This is the calendar for the day. 609 00:35:53,693 --> 00:35:55,778 You'll find this and a manual, in here. 610 00:35:55,987 --> 00:35:58,322 Anything else you want, just snap for a page. 611 00:35:58,532 --> 00:36:01,325 - Where's the majority leader? - Majority leader? 612 00:36:01,535 --> 00:36:04,203 Right over there. Senator Agnew. 613 00:36:04,996 --> 00:36:07,081 That's Senator Barnes, the minority leader. 614 00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:08,582 Where's the press gallery? 615 00:36:08,792 --> 00:36:11,210 There, above the vice president's chair. 616 00:36:11,419 --> 00:36:14,255 Those in the front row represent the big news services. 617 00:36:14,464 --> 00:36:15,506 What's up there? 618 00:36:15,715 --> 00:36:17,550 That's for guides and sightseers... 619 00:36:17,759 --> 00:36:20,803 ...who come in for five minutes at a time to rest their feet. 620 00:36:21,388 --> 00:36:24,056 That section is reserved for the senators' friends. 621 00:36:24,432 --> 00:36:27,351 Front row, the empty one, is for the President and his guests. 622 00:36:27,561 --> 00:36:28,727 I see. 623 00:36:28,937 --> 00:36:31,313 Over the clock is the diplomatic section. 624 00:36:34,401 --> 00:36:37,194 They and the pageboys are the only real class we have here. 625 00:36:37,404 --> 00:36:40,155 - Thanks so much. - I'll take your hat to the cloakroom. 626 00:36:40,365 --> 00:36:42,199 I'd like to give you a Boy Ranger button. 627 00:36:42,409 --> 00:36:43,492 Swell! 628 00:36:43,702 --> 00:36:45,202 - What's your name? - Richard Jones. 629 00:36:45,412 --> 00:36:46,662 Thanks ever so much. 630 00:36:46,872 --> 00:36:49,707 Good luck, senator. Keep your left up. 631 00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:53,252 - See you in the White House, Joe. - You're not kidding! 632 00:36:53,962 --> 00:36:55,087 - Jeff. - Hello, senator. 633 00:36:55,297 --> 00:36:57,590 - I was in committee. - That's all right, sir. 634 00:36:57,799 --> 00:36:59,842 I see you had a little publicity. 635 00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:02,761 Have you got your credentials? 636 00:37:03,889 --> 00:37:05,806 Miss Saunders gave them to me. 637 00:37:06,141 --> 00:37:07,182 Is that right? 638 00:37:09,227 --> 00:37:10,352 That's fine. 639 00:37:10,562 --> 00:37:12,438 When the vice president calls you... 640 00:37:12,647 --> 00:37:15,065 ...I'll meet you in the center aisle. - Center aisle. 641 00:37:15,275 --> 00:37:16,317 Good luck. 642 00:37:16,526 --> 00:37:19,069 This is Daniel Webster's desk. Did you know that? 643 00:37:19,321 --> 00:37:20,654 He won't mind. 644 00:37:38,173 --> 00:37:39,673 Well. 645 00:37:51,227 --> 00:37:53,020 The Senate will come to order. 646 00:37:53,229 --> 00:37:55,147 Chaplain will pray. 647 00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:58,651 Oh, God, our Heavenly Father... 648 00:37:58,860 --> 00:38:00,152 ...in these critical days... 649 00:38:00,362 --> 00:38:04,198 ...when our beloved country labors with such grave problems... 650 00:38:04,407 --> 00:38:05,699 ...look upon us... 651 00:38:05,909 --> 00:38:09,328 ...and give us the strength to be just and merciful... 652 00:38:09,537 --> 00:38:11,497 ...so we may best serve our people... 653 00:38:11,706 --> 00:38:13,832 ...and our fellow men everywhere. 654 00:38:14,042 --> 00:38:15,626 Amen. 655 00:38:24,219 --> 00:38:25,594 - Clerk will read... - Mr. President... 656 00:38:25,804 --> 00:38:29,515 ...I ask unanimous consent the reading of the journal be dispensed with. 657 00:38:29,724 --> 00:38:31,058 Is there objection? 658 00:38:31,810 --> 00:38:33,060 Journal stands approved. 659 00:38:33,269 --> 00:38:34,561 Mr. President. 660 00:38:34,771 --> 00:38:37,690 - I suggest the absence of a quorum. - Clerk will call the roll. 661 00:38:37,899 --> 00:38:39,692 - Mr. Agnew. - Here. 662 00:38:39,901 --> 00:38:40,943 - Mr. Albert. - Here. 663 00:38:41,152 --> 00:38:42,361 - Mr. Alfred. - Here. 664 00:38:43,113 --> 00:38:46,824 88 senators have answered to their names, all as present. 665 00:38:47,033 --> 00:38:48,701 - Mr. President. - Senator Paine. 666 00:38:48,910 --> 00:38:51,704 I present the credentials of Honorable Jefferson Smith... 667 00:38:51,913 --> 00:38:54,748 ...who has just been appointed by the governor of my state. 668 00:38:54,958 --> 00:38:56,542 The designate is present. 669 00:38:56,751 --> 00:38:59,545 I ask that the oath of office be administered at this time. 670 00:38:59,754 --> 00:39:02,131 The senator designate will present himself. 671 00:39:02,590 --> 00:39:04,550 The oath will be administered. 672 00:39:21,735 --> 00:39:23,360 Mr. President... 673 00:39:23,570 --> 00:39:25,112 ...I rise to a question of order. 674 00:39:25,321 --> 00:39:27,906 - Here it comes. - I seek to ascertain if the gentleman... 675 00:39:28,116 --> 00:39:32,578 ...about to be sworn in is aware of the responsibilities of his office. 676 00:39:32,787 --> 00:39:34,997 I refer to his shameless performance... 677 00:39:35,206 --> 00:39:36,290 ...for the newspapers. 678 00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:38,625 A versatile performance, I grant you... 679 00:39:38,835 --> 00:39:41,587 ...and one that his party, no doubt, will applaud. 680 00:39:43,631 --> 00:39:45,090 But one that brings his rank... 681 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:47,301 ...to the level of a sideshow entertainer... 682 00:39:47,510 --> 00:39:50,262 ...and reflects on the sincerity, if not the sanity... 683 00:39:50,472 --> 00:39:53,015 ...of the highest body of lawmakers in the land. 684 00:39:53,224 --> 00:39:56,351 I seek to learn if this is the gentleman's conception... 685 00:39:56,561 --> 00:39:58,979 ...of the nature of his office. - I don't understand. 686 00:39:59,189 --> 00:40:02,858 The designate has no voice here until taking the oath of office. 687 00:40:03,068 --> 00:40:05,319 Mr. President, I will answer the gentleman. 688 00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:07,946 My colleague was innocent in this matter. 689 00:40:08,156 --> 00:40:09,656 He was completely misquoted. 690 00:40:09,866 --> 00:40:13,327 I know Jefferson Smith, and I will personally vouch for him. 691 00:40:13,536 --> 00:40:17,122 He has the greatest respect for his office and for these gentleman. 692 00:40:17,332 --> 00:40:18,832 Mr. President. 693 00:40:19,292 --> 00:40:22,878 The swearing in of the senator designate is the order of business. 694 00:40:23,088 --> 00:40:25,339 The gentleman will raise his right hand. 695 00:40:25,548 --> 00:40:26,757 Do you swear to support... 696 00:40:26,966 --> 00:40:29,843 ...and defend the Constitution of the United States... 697 00:40:30,053 --> 00:40:32,721 ...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... 698 00:40:32,931 --> 00:40:36,558 ...and that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same? 699 00:40:36,768 --> 00:40:38,894 That you take this obligation freely... 700 00:40:39,104 --> 00:40:42,064 ...without mental reservation or purpose of evasion... 701 00:40:42,273 --> 00:40:47,194 ...and that you will faithfully discharge the duties of this office... 702 00:40:47,612 --> 00:40:49,279 ...so help you God? 703 00:40:49,781 --> 00:40:51,031 I do. 704 00:40:51,741 --> 00:40:54,118 Senator, you can talk all you want to now. 705 00:40:57,413 --> 00:41:00,082 Meet the majority leader. He'll be a good friend to you. 706 00:41:00,291 --> 00:41:01,416 How do you do, sir? 707 00:41:01,626 --> 00:41:04,169 Any friend of Joe's is a friend of mine. 708 00:41:04,379 --> 00:41:07,548 Don't worry about the others, they're just senators. 709 00:41:09,259 --> 00:41:11,135 - Mr. President. - Senator MacPherson. 710 00:41:11,427 --> 00:41:14,096 The shameless way the Deficiency Bill has been delayed... 711 00:41:14,305 --> 00:41:16,098 ...is nothing short of criminal. 712 00:41:16,307 --> 00:41:20,394 Government agencies are in desperate need of these funds. 713 00:41:20,603 --> 00:41:24,606 The prime business of this body is the immediate passage... 714 00:42:04,522 --> 00:42:07,816 - Hello, Nosey. Who let you in here? - Why aren't you chasing ambulances? 715 00:42:08,026 --> 00:42:10,986 Smith's punching everybody he meets. I just got away. 716 00:42:11,571 --> 00:42:13,322 Tarzan! 717 00:42:22,540 --> 00:42:24,333 Boys, meet Senator Smith. 718 00:42:26,002 --> 00:42:27,711 You act like something's on your mind. 719 00:42:27,921 --> 00:42:29,755 Why don't you tell the people the truth? 720 00:42:29,964 --> 00:42:31,590 - The truth? - He wants the truth! 721 00:42:31,799 --> 00:42:33,008 The man wants the truth. 722 00:42:33,218 --> 00:42:35,219 "'What is the truth? ' said jesting Pilate... 723 00:42:35,428 --> 00:42:37,137 ...and would not stay for an answer." 724 00:42:37,347 --> 00:42:39,431 How do you want it? Dished out or in a bottle? 725 00:42:39,766 --> 00:42:42,100 People pick up their papers, and what do they read? 726 00:42:42,310 --> 00:42:46,521 This morning they read that a clown arrived in Washington... 727 00:42:46,731 --> 00:42:49,274 ...parading like a member of the Senate. 728 00:42:52,028 --> 00:42:55,572 If you thought as much about being honest as you do about being smart... 729 00:42:55,782 --> 00:42:58,784 We're the only ones who can be honest in what we tell the voters. 730 00:42:58,993 --> 00:43:02,412 We don't have to be re-elected, like politicians. 731 00:43:02,622 --> 00:43:05,874 We tell them when phonies and crackpots come here to make their laws. 732 00:43:06,084 --> 00:43:08,210 If you want the truth, why are you in the Senate? 733 00:43:08,419 --> 00:43:10,879 What do you know about making laws? Or what the people need? 734 00:43:11,089 --> 00:43:13,632 - I don't pretend to know. - Then what are you doing in the Senate? 735 00:43:13,841 --> 00:43:16,885 What's he doing? Why, honorary appointment! 736 00:43:17,762 --> 00:43:21,890 When the country needs men who know and have courage as it never did before. 737 00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:25,185 He's going to decorate a chair and get honored. 738 00:43:25,395 --> 00:43:28,814 But he'll vote! Just like his colleague tells him to. 739 00:43:29,023 --> 00:43:31,733 Like a Christmas tiger, he'll nod his head and vote... 740 00:43:31,943 --> 00:43:34,319 ..."Yes!" 741 00:43:34,529 --> 00:43:36,154 You're not a senator. 742 00:43:36,364 --> 00:43:39,866 You're an honorary stooge. You ought to be shown up. 743 00:43:40,076 --> 00:43:44,079 - Have a drink, senator? - It'll taste better than the truth. 744 00:43:53,214 --> 00:43:54,381 Hey, senator. 745 00:43:55,758 --> 00:43:57,009 Don't let it get you down. 746 00:43:57,218 --> 00:44:00,095 A hundred years from now, nobody'll know the difference. 747 00:44:00,972 --> 00:44:02,723 The point is, sir, they're right. 748 00:44:02,932 --> 00:44:05,517 I'm just sitting in the Senate, decorating a chair. 749 00:44:05,727 --> 00:44:09,896 If I'm going to vote, I ought to study the bills that are coming up. 750 00:44:10,106 --> 00:44:11,315 The bills? 751 00:44:11,524 --> 00:44:15,944 Yes, sir. Otherwise, I'm just a Christmas tiger, like they said. 752 00:44:16,154 --> 00:44:20,449 These bills are put together by legal minds after long study. 753 00:44:20,658 --> 00:44:24,328 I can't understand half of them myself, and I was a lawyer. 754 00:44:24,537 --> 00:44:28,373 Come on. Forget it. When the time comes, I'll advise you how to vote. 755 00:44:28,583 --> 00:44:30,459 I know you will. That's the point. 756 00:44:30,668 --> 00:44:32,711 There's no reason for me to be here. 757 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:37,549 Didn't you say something about wanting to create a national boys' camp? 758 00:44:37,759 --> 00:44:40,260 - You were in earnest, weren't you? - Yes, I was. 759 00:44:40,470 --> 00:44:42,596 Why don't you do it? There's a job for you. 760 00:44:42,805 --> 00:44:44,931 Get a bill started. Present it to Congress. 761 00:44:45,141 --> 00:44:46,558 It will be great experience. 762 00:44:46,768 --> 00:44:50,145 Senator Paine, I've been aching to mention it to you. 763 00:44:50,355 --> 00:44:53,940 If I could do that one thing while I'm here, I'd feel... 764 00:44:54,150 --> 00:44:56,610 What's to stop you? Saunders will help you. 765 00:44:56,819 --> 00:44:58,820 Well, I'll do it. I will! 766 00:44:59,030 --> 00:45:01,573 I knew if anyone could help me, you could. 767 00:45:01,783 --> 00:45:04,409 Thank you again for your time. Good night. 768 00:45:04,619 --> 00:45:06,286 Where are you running off to? 769 00:45:06,496 --> 00:45:08,872 I'm anxious to get back to the office. 770 00:45:12,085 --> 00:45:13,919 The man on the front page! 771 00:45:14,128 --> 00:45:17,255 - He just dropped in for a minute. - How do you do, senator? 772 00:45:17,465 --> 00:45:18,924 How do you do, Miss Paine? 773 00:45:19,133 --> 00:45:20,425 I'm on my way to the office. 774 00:45:20,635 --> 00:45:22,302 - How are the pigeons? - They're fine. 775 00:45:22,512 --> 00:45:24,137 I miss the dear little things. 776 00:45:24,347 --> 00:45:27,099 I released one this morning with a letter. 777 00:45:27,308 --> 00:45:31,144 He flew right straight up in the air to get his bearings. 778 00:45:31,354 --> 00:45:35,440 He went around the Capitol dome, then headed west, like a bat out of... 779 00:45:35,650 --> 00:45:37,359 Just like a rifle shot. 780 00:45:37,568 --> 00:45:39,778 I suppose by about this time... 781 00:45:39,987 --> 00:45:42,030 ...he's probably over Kentucky. 782 00:45:42,240 --> 00:45:43,990 Isn't that wonderful, Father? 783 00:45:44,492 --> 00:45:46,493 And was the letter to your girl? 784 00:45:47,161 --> 00:45:50,205 No, I don't have a girl. 785 00:45:50,415 --> 00:45:52,249 Don't you think I'd better hold this for you? 786 00:45:52,458 --> 00:45:54,334 No, I think I'd better go. 787 00:45:54,544 --> 00:45:55,961 Good night. 788 00:45:58,464 --> 00:46:00,590 Doggone! 789 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,175 It's all right, sir. 790 00:46:02,385 --> 00:46:04,928 That's all right, my boy. Don't bother. 791 00:46:11,769 --> 00:46:13,311 Gee, I'm sorry. 792 00:46:13,521 --> 00:46:15,605 - Good night. - Good night, Jeff. 793 00:46:15,815 --> 00:46:17,399 Good night. 794 00:46:28,202 --> 00:46:29,369 Oh, Father! 795 00:46:30,037 --> 00:46:33,123 - Dear me! - At the expense of some of the furniture... 796 00:46:33,332 --> 00:46:36,418 ...you've made another conquest. - Not old Honest Abe! 797 00:46:36,627 --> 00:46:38,837 And with Honest Abe's ideals. 798 00:46:39,797 --> 00:46:42,299 A rare man these days, Susan. 799 00:46:44,051 --> 00:46:46,803 - We're going ahead with it. - Ahead with what? 800 00:46:47,013 --> 00:46:50,098 My bill for a national boys' camp. Where's my briefcase? 801 00:46:50,308 --> 00:46:53,185 Do I understand that you're going to present a bill? 802 00:46:53,394 --> 00:46:55,353 Senator Paine and I decided... 803 00:46:55,563 --> 00:46:57,105 Senator Paine decided with you? 804 00:46:57,315 --> 00:46:59,524 I should have been the one to think of it. 805 00:46:59,734 --> 00:47:03,820 My dear senator, have you the faintest idea how to get a bill passed? 806 00:47:04,030 --> 00:47:06,031 No. You're going to help me. 807 00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:07,532 If I were triplets I could. 808 00:47:07,742 --> 00:47:09,743 Senator Paine said you'd help me. 809 00:47:09,952 --> 00:47:11,453 What do we have to have? 810 00:47:11,662 --> 00:47:13,371 Look, do you mind... 811 00:47:13,581 --> 00:47:16,333 ...if I give you a rough idea what you're up against? 812 00:47:16,542 --> 00:47:17,709 No, go ahead. 813 00:47:18,586 --> 00:47:22,672 Well, a senator has a bill in mind, like your camp, right? 814 00:47:22,882 --> 00:47:24,466 - Right. - Fine. What does he do? 815 00:47:24,675 --> 00:47:26,384 He has to sit down and write it. 816 00:47:26,594 --> 00:47:28,929 The why, when, where, how and everything else. 817 00:47:29,138 --> 00:47:31,640 - That takes time. - But this one is so simple. 818 00:47:31,849 --> 00:47:33,433 Oh, I see. This one's simple. 819 00:47:33,643 --> 00:47:35,769 - And with your help... - Oh, I'm helping. 820 00:47:35,978 --> 00:47:40,607 Simple, and I'm helping, so we knock it off in record time, say three or four days. 821 00:47:40,816 --> 00:47:42,317 Oh, a day. 822 00:47:42,527 --> 00:47:44,694 - A day? - Yes, just tonight. 823 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,865 Tonight. I don't want to complain... 824 00:47:49,075 --> 00:47:52,744 ...but in civilized countries there's an institution called "dinner." 825 00:47:52,954 --> 00:47:55,163 I'm sort of hungry myself. 826 00:47:55,373 --> 00:48:00,293 Couldn't we have some stuff brought in on trays, like big executives? 827 00:48:00,503 --> 00:48:01,836 Oh, sure. 828 00:48:02,046 --> 00:48:04,923 Dinner comes in on trays. 829 00:48:05,132 --> 00:48:06,424 We light into this... 830 00:48:06,634 --> 00:48:08,969 And we finish the bill before morning. 831 00:48:09,178 --> 00:48:10,220 It's dawn. 832 00:48:10,429 --> 00:48:13,848 - Your bill is ready. You introduce it. - How? 833 00:48:14,058 --> 00:48:17,477 You get to your feet, take a breath, and start spouting. 834 00:48:17,687 --> 00:48:21,606 Not too loud. A couple of the senators might want to sleep. 835 00:48:21,816 --> 00:48:23,984 A curly-headed pageboy takes it to the desk... 836 00:48:24,193 --> 00:48:27,529 ...where a clerk reads it, refers it to a committee... 837 00:48:27,738 --> 00:48:29,656 - Committee, huh? Why? - Committee. 838 00:48:30,992 --> 00:48:35,287 Committees. Small groups of senators have to sift a bill down... 839 00:48:35,496 --> 00:48:37,706 ...study it, and report to the Senate. 840 00:48:37,915 --> 00:48:39,749 Can't take a bill nobody ever heard of... 841 00:48:39,959 --> 00:48:42,544 ...and discuss it among 96 men. Where would you get? 842 00:48:42,753 --> 00:48:43,837 I see that. 843 00:48:44,547 --> 00:48:46,756 Good. Now, where are we? 844 00:48:46,966 --> 00:48:48,425 Some committee's got it. 845 00:48:48,634 --> 00:48:50,594 Days are going by, senator. 846 00:48:50,803 --> 00:48:52,596 Days, weeks! 847 00:48:53,556 --> 00:48:55,640 Finally, they think it's quite a bill. 848 00:48:55,850 --> 00:48:58,268 It goes to the House of Representatives for a vote... 849 00:48:58,477 --> 00:49:01,021 ...but waits its turn on the calendar. - Calendar? 850 00:49:01,230 --> 00:49:02,856 That's the order of business. 851 00:49:03,065 --> 00:49:05,108 Your bill has to stand back in line... 852 00:49:05,318 --> 00:49:07,944 ...unless the steering committee... - What's that? 853 00:49:08,154 --> 00:49:09,904 Steering committee? 854 00:49:12,908 --> 00:49:15,285 Do you really think we're getting anywhere? 855 00:49:15,494 --> 00:49:17,370 Tell me, what's the steering committee? 856 00:49:17,663 --> 00:49:19,497 Committee of the majority party leaders. 857 00:49:19,707 --> 00:49:23,126 They decide when a bill is important enough to be at the head of the list. 858 00:49:23,336 --> 00:49:24,544 Well, this is. 859 00:49:24,754 --> 00:49:26,713 Pardon me. This is. 860 00:49:27,798 --> 00:49:29,549 - Where are we now? - Over in the House. 861 00:49:29,759 --> 00:49:30,884 Oh, yeah. House. 862 00:49:31,093 --> 00:49:34,220 More amendments, more changes, and the bill goes back to the Senate. 863 00:49:34,430 --> 00:49:37,515 The Senate doesn't like what the House did; they make more changes. 864 00:49:37,725 --> 00:49:40,185 The House doesn't like those changes. Stymied. 865 00:49:40,394 --> 00:49:41,436 So? 866 00:49:41,646 --> 00:49:43,855 So they appoint men from each House to go into a huddle... 867 00:49:44,065 --> 00:49:45,982 ...called a conference, and they battle it out. 868 00:49:46,192 --> 00:49:49,694 Finally, if your bill is still alive after all this vivisection... 869 00:49:49,904 --> 00:49:51,738 ...it comes to a vote. 870 00:49:52,531 --> 00:49:55,867 Yes, sir! The big day finally arrives... 871 00:49:56,077 --> 00:49:57,577 ...and Congress adjourns. 872 00:50:01,415 --> 00:50:03,166 Catching on, senator? 873 00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:08,922 Shall we start right away or order dinner first? 874 00:50:09,131 --> 00:50:11,424 - Pardon me? - I said, shall we start... 875 00:50:11,634 --> 00:50:12,759 Oh, sure. 876 00:50:12,968 --> 00:50:14,219 Why not? 877 00:50:14,428 --> 00:50:16,846 Do you mind if I take the time to go get a pencil? 878 00:50:17,056 --> 00:50:19,599 - Go right ahead! - Thank you very much. 879 00:50:19,809 --> 00:50:22,185 Go right ahead. And lots of paper too. 880 00:50:22,395 --> 00:50:23,728 Now, the... Doggone it! 881 00:50:23,729 --> 00:50:24,688 Now, the... Doggone it! 882 00:50:24,897 --> 00:50:27,982 Ever have so much to say about something, you just couldn't say it? 883 00:50:28,192 --> 00:50:30,777 - Try sitting down. - I did. I got right back up. 884 00:50:31,445 --> 00:50:33,154 Let's get down to particulars. 885 00:50:33,364 --> 00:50:35,073 How big is this thing? Where is it? 886 00:50:35,282 --> 00:50:36,866 How many boys will it accommodate? 887 00:50:37,076 --> 00:50:39,077 You've got to have all that in it, you know? 888 00:50:39,286 --> 00:50:41,121 Yeah. And something else, Miss Saunders. 889 00:50:41,330 --> 00:50:45,625 The spirit of it. The idea. 890 00:50:45,835 --> 00:50:47,502 How do you say it? 891 00:50:50,172 --> 00:50:52,382 - That's what's got to be in it. - What? 892 00:50:52,591 --> 00:50:53,842 The Capitol dome. 893 00:50:54,802 --> 00:50:55,844 On paper? 894 00:50:56,053 --> 00:50:58,805 I want to make that come to life for every boy in this land. 895 00:50:59,014 --> 00:51:01,641 Yes, and all lighted up like that too. 896 00:51:02,435 --> 00:51:05,770 You see, boys forget what their country means... 897 00:51:05,980 --> 00:51:08,732 ...by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. 898 00:51:08,941 --> 00:51:11,609 They get to be men and forget even more. 899 00:51:12,653 --> 00:51:16,489 Liberty is too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. 900 00:51:17,074 --> 00:51:21,077 Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say... 901 00:51:21,287 --> 00:51:22,829 ...I'm free... 902 00:51:23,706 --> 00:51:25,415 ...to think and to speak. 903 00:51:25,833 --> 00:51:28,126 My ancestors couldn't. I can... 904 00:51:28,919 --> 00:51:30,587 ...and my children will. 905 00:51:32,173 --> 00:51:34,674 Boys ought to grow up remembering that. 906 00:51:35,342 --> 00:51:38,636 And that steering committee, they've got to see it like that. 907 00:51:38,846 --> 00:51:41,973 I know Senator Paine will do all he can to help me, because... 908 00:51:42,183 --> 00:51:44,184 He's a wonderful man, isn't he? 909 00:51:44,769 --> 00:51:47,937 - He knew my father real well. - He did? 910 00:51:48,147 --> 00:51:52,442 We need a lot more like him. His kind of character, his ideals. 911 00:51:52,651 --> 00:51:54,903 Let's get on with this. 912 00:51:55,112 --> 00:51:57,822 - Oh, yes. - This camp's out in your state? 913 00:51:58,032 --> 00:52:01,534 About 200 of the most beautiful acres that ever were. 914 00:52:01,744 --> 00:52:03,870 - Ever been out in that country? - No. 915 00:52:04,079 --> 00:52:07,540 I've been over every single foot of it. You have to see it yourself. 916 00:52:07,750 --> 00:52:11,961 I don't know. The prairies, and wind leaning on the tall grass... 917 00:52:12,171 --> 00:52:14,047 ...lazy streams down in the meadows... 918 00:52:14,256 --> 00:52:16,966 ...angry little midgets of water up in the mountains. 919 00:52:17,176 --> 00:52:20,303 Cattle moving down the slope, against the sun. 920 00:52:20,513 --> 00:52:22,055 Campfires... 921 00:52:22,264 --> 00:52:24,224 ...and snowdrifts... 922 00:52:25,267 --> 00:52:28,770 Everybody ought to have some of that, sometime in his life. 923 00:52:28,979 --> 00:52:30,647 My dad had the right idea. 924 00:52:30,981 --> 00:52:32,732 He had it all worked out. 925 00:52:33,025 --> 00:52:34,943 He used to say to me, "Son... 926 00:52:35,152 --> 00:52:37,612 ...don't miss the wonders that surround you. 927 00:52:37,905 --> 00:52:41,741 Because every tree, every rock, every anthill, every star... 928 00:52:41,951 --> 00:52:44,452 ...is filled with the wonders of nature." 929 00:52:45,704 --> 00:52:47,247 He used to say to me: 930 00:52:47,456 --> 00:52:50,416 "Did you ever notice how grateful you are to see daylight... 931 00:52:50,626 --> 00:52:53,586 ...after coming through a long, dark tunnel?" 932 00:52:54,547 --> 00:52:58,049 "Well," he'd say, "always try to see life around you... 933 00:52:58,259 --> 00:53:00,260 ...as if you just came out of a tunnel." 934 00:53:04,598 --> 00:53:06,099 Where did you come from? 935 00:53:06,851 --> 00:53:09,310 I guess I've always lived in a tunnel. 936 00:53:09,854 --> 00:53:10,895 You mean here? 937 00:53:11,438 --> 00:53:13,231 Baltimore. Pure city dweller. 938 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:14,858 Have you always had to work? 939 00:53:15,067 --> 00:53:16,651 Since I was about 16. 940 00:53:16,861 --> 00:53:19,904 Sixteen? I take it your parents couldn't... 941 00:53:20,114 --> 00:53:21,447 No, Father was a doctor. 942 00:53:21,657 --> 00:53:24,075 He thought more of ethics than he did of collections. 943 00:53:24,285 --> 00:53:26,870 Speaks well for Father, but it wasn't so... 944 00:53:27,371 --> 00:53:29,789 Now, look, we'd better get back to this. 945 00:53:30,207 --> 00:53:31,499 Hasn't been easy, has it? 946 00:53:31,709 --> 00:53:32,834 No complaints. 947 00:53:33,502 --> 00:53:35,920 For a woman, you've done awfully well. 948 00:53:36,505 --> 00:53:38,089 Have I? 949 00:53:39,300 --> 00:53:43,595 I've never known anyone as capable and intelligent... 950 00:53:46,599 --> 00:53:49,934 I don't know where I'd be in this bill if it wasn't for your help. 951 00:53:51,061 --> 00:53:53,187 I don't know where you are with it. 952 00:53:53,397 --> 00:53:55,523 Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Now. 953 00:53:55,733 --> 00:53:58,109 Gee whiz, we've got to get going with this. 954 00:53:58,319 --> 00:54:00,194 All right, now, let's see. 955 00:54:02,031 --> 00:54:05,116 Everybody calls you just plain "Saunders." Why can't I? 956 00:54:05,326 --> 00:54:07,535 - Go right ahead. - Saunders. 957 00:54:07,745 --> 00:54:09,120 That's much better. 958 00:54:09,330 --> 00:54:11,706 "Hello, Saunders." "Good morning, Saunders." 959 00:54:13,083 --> 00:54:16,210 - "How's the bill coming, Saunders?" - Terrible, thank you. 960 00:54:16,420 --> 00:54:19,297 Anyway, I got that "Saunders" business straightened out. 961 00:54:19,506 --> 00:54:21,883 All right, now! I... 962 00:54:22,092 --> 00:54:23,676 What's your first name? 963 00:54:24,053 --> 00:54:25,094 Why? 964 00:54:25,721 --> 00:54:27,722 Everybody calls you just "Saunders." 965 00:54:27,932 --> 00:54:29,682 I also answer to whistles. 966 00:54:29,892 --> 00:54:31,100 You've got a first name? 967 00:54:31,310 --> 00:54:33,895 Yes, but we just better forget about it. 968 00:54:34,104 --> 00:54:35,605 All right, all right. 969 00:54:36,941 --> 00:54:38,900 I was just curious. 970 00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:42,779 A picture popped into my mind of a pump without a handle or something. 971 00:54:45,115 --> 00:54:47,116 Of course, I know what it is. Violet. 972 00:54:47,910 --> 00:54:50,453 - No, it isn't. - Abigail? 973 00:54:50,663 --> 00:54:52,497 - No. - Letitia? 974 00:54:52,706 --> 00:54:54,540 - No. - Lena? 975 00:54:54,750 --> 00:54:56,834 - No. Now, stop it. - You might as well tell me. 976 00:54:57,044 --> 00:54:59,796 - I've got a lot more. - All right. You win. 977 00:55:00,005 --> 00:55:01,047 It's Clarissa. 978 00:55:01,632 --> 00:55:02,840 Clarissa. 979 00:55:07,554 --> 00:55:09,514 All right, Saunders, let's go! 980 00:55:11,517 --> 00:55:14,102 Now, Susan's an awfully pretty name, isn't it? 981 00:55:14,311 --> 00:55:17,480 Susan? Susan Paine? Oh, it's beautiful. 982 00:55:18,482 --> 00:55:20,108 She's a beautiful woman, isn't she? 983 00:55:20,317 --> 00:55:25,405 Isn't she a beautiful girl? I think she's about the most beautiful... 984 00:55:26,615 --> 00:55:29,617 We've got to get started on this, or we'll never get it finished. 985 00:55:29,827 --> 00:55:32,870 Get set, because I'm going to talk much faster than you can write. 986 00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:34,414 - Okay. You ready? - Yup. 987 00:55:34,623 --> 00:55:37,792 The location of this camp. About 200 acres... 988 00:55:38,002 --> 00:55:40,211 ...situated in Ambrose County, Terry Canyon. 989 00:55:40,421 --> 00:55:43,006 Running a quarter mile on either side of Willet Creek. 990 00:55:44,174 --> 00:55:46,634 - What? - Willet Creek. W-l-L-L-E-T. 991 00:55:46,844 --> 00:55:49,012 - It's a little stream. - In Terry Canyon? 992 00:55:49,221 --> 00:55:52,640 - You don't know it, do you? - No. 993 00:55:52,850 --> 00:55:55,226 You've never been there, you said. 994 00:55:55,436 --> 00:55:58,855 You've discussed this with Senator Paine, haven't you? 995 00:55:59,064 --> 00:56:00,732 No, no. Why? 996 00:56:00,941 --> 00:56:02,817 Nothing. It doesn't matter. 997 00:56:03,027 --> 00:56:05,653 There's no reason to talk it over with him. 998 00:56:05,863 --> 00:56:09,073 "A quarter of a mile on either side of Willet Creek." 999 00:56:09,283 --> 00:56:13,494 And the land to be bought by the contribution of the boys... 1000 00:56:13,704 --> 00:56:17,040 ...the money to be loaned to us by the United States. 1001 00:56:18,876 --> 00:56:21,753 Excuse me. Pardon me. 1002 00:56:24,506 --> 00:56:26,591 What did you get me out of bed for? 1003 00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:28,634 Sit tight. The show's about to commence. 1004 00:56:28,844 --> 00:56:31,763 - Mind telling me what's going on? - Certainly. 1005 00:56:31,972 --> 00:56:34,640 There's the principal actor in our little play. 1006 00:56:34,850 --> 00:56:37,393 "Don Quixote" Smith, Man With Bill. 1007 00:56:37,603 --> 00:56:39,854 - Here, one of the supporting characters. - Who? 1008 00:56:40,064 --> 00:56:42,315 That gorilla in man's clothing, McGann. 1009 00:56:42,524 --> 00:56:44,233 - You mean Puss-in-Boots? - Yeah. 1010 00:56:44,443 --> 00:56:45,985 Mostly Puss. 1011 00:56:47,529 --> 00:56:50,823 Another prominent character in our play, the Silver Knight. 1012 00:56:51,033 --> 00:56:52,533 Soul of honor on a tightrope. 1013 00:56:52,743 --> 00:56:54,869 You wouldn't be a little goofy, would you? 1014 00:56:55,079 --> 00:56:59,415 Diz, Don Quixote will stand up in a minute and speak two important words... 1015 00:56:59,625 --> 00:57:00,708 ..."Willet Creek." 1016 00:57:00,918 --> 00:57:03,669 Then the Silver Knight will fall off his tightrope... 1017 00:57:03,879 --> 00:57:06,547 ...and "Puss" will jump out of his boots. 1018 00:57:07,382 --> 00:57:08,883 It is so ordered. 1019 00:57:10,135 --> 00:57:11,552 Introduction of new bills... 1020 00:57:11,762 --> 00:57:13,346 ...and joint resolutions. 1021 00:57:14,556 --> 00:57:16,265 Mr. President! 1022 00:57:24,566 --> 00:57:29,695 The chair recognizes the rather strong-lunged junior senator... 1023 00:57:29,905 --> 00:57:32,073 ...Mr. Smith. 1024 00:57:32,699 --> 00:57:34,117 I'm sorry. I have a bill... 1025 00:57:34,326 --> 00:57:36,327 You may speak a little louder. 1026 00:57:36,537 --> 00:57:38,329 But not too loud. 1027 00:57:41,750 --> 00:57:43,251 I have a bill to propose. 1028 00:57:48,215 --> 00:57:49,757 Order, gentlemen. 1029 00:57:50,384 --> 00:57:53,719 Our junior senator is about to make a speech. 1030 00:57:59,143 --> 00:58:00,601 You may proceed. 1031 00:58:07,151 --> 00:58:11,404 "Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives... 1032 00:58:12,322 --> 00:58:14,824 ...that there be appropriated as a loan... 1033 00:58:15,033 --> 00:58:19,203 ...a sum sufficient to create a national boys' camp... 1034 00:58:19,454 --> 00:58:22,290 ...to be paid back to the U.S. Treasury... 1035 00:58:22,499 --> 00:58:25,168 ...by contributions from boys of America. 1036 00:58:26,086 --> 00:58:27,211 This camp... 1037 00:58:27,421 --> 00:58:30,464 ...to be situated on land at and adjacent to... 1038 00:58:30,674 --> 00:58:33,384 ...the headwaters of a stream known as Willet Creek... 1039 00:58:33,594 --> 00:58:35,553 ...in Terry Canyon... 1040 00:58:37,681 --> 00:58:41,851 ...for the purpose of bringing together boys of all walks of life... 1041 00:58:42,644 --> 00:58:45,563 ...from various parts of the country. 1042 00:58:46,190 --> 00:58:49,984 Boys of all creeds, kinds and positions. 1043 00:58:50,194 --> 00:58:55,072 To educate them in American ideals and to promote mutual understanding. 1044 00:58:55,282 --> 00:58:57,658 To bring about a healthful life... 1045 00:58:57,868 --> 00:59:00,786 ...to the youth of this great and beautiful land." 1046 00:59:43,497 --> 00:59:47,124 Our senator will make a good orator when his voice stops changing. 1047 00:59:50,337 --> 00:59:54,340 I'm getting leery of him. We call him dumb, but he keeps getting in our hair. 1048 00:59:54,549 --> 00:59:58,636 When he finds out a dam is going up where he wants his boys' camp... 1049 00:59:58,845 --> 01:00:01,097 ...he's going to ask questions. 1050 01:00:01,306 --> 01:00:03,391 Be quiet. I'm trying to think. 1051 01:00:04,476 --> 01:00:06,644 This Deficiency Bill will be read tomorrow. 1052 01:00:06,853 --> 01:00:07,895 Tomorrow? 1053 01:00:08,105 --> 01:00:11,565 He'll hear that section on the Willet Dam. He can't be there. 1054 01:00:11,775 --> 01:00:15,695 I'll take him to see monuments, even if I have to hit him on the head with one. 1055 01:00:15,904 --> 01:00:16,988 That won't work. 1056 01:00:17,197 --> 01:00:19,282 This boy's honest, not stupid. 1057 01:00:20,325 --> 01:00:21,784 Susan. 1058 01:00:22,619 --> 01:00:25,621 My daughter won't carry out assignments like that for anybody. 1059 01:00:40,137 --> 01:00:41,679 - Excuse me. - Beg pardon. 1060 01:00:43,098 --> 01:00:46,434 Senator! If you let me handle your publicity... 1061 01:00:48,061 --> 01:00:49,979 Down, everybody! 1062 01:00:56,403 --> 01:00:57,653 Who are those people? 1063 01:00:57,946 --> 01:00:59,947 Phonies, office seekers, cranks. 1064 01:01:00,157 --> 01:01:01,949 "Get my son in or out of West Point..." 1065 01:01:02,159 --> 01:01:06,620 This machine creates a fever 10 miles away. It'll make you a fortune. 1066 01:01:07,205 --> 01:01:08,748 Long-distance fevers. 1067 01:01:08,957 --> 01:01:11,751 A woman wrote a song to replace "The Star-Spangled Banner." 1068 01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:13,544 - Want to hear it? - Not today. 1069 01:01:13,754 --> 01:01:16,756 I feel like a house afire. Even went to see Mr. Lincoln. 1070 01:01:16,965 --> 01:01:18,674 - How did I do? - Great. 1071 01:01:18,884 --> 01:01:21,510 My heart was right up to here all the time. 1072 01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:24,013 - What do you think Paine thought? - Tickled pink. 1073 01:01:24,222 --> 01:01:25,723 Oh, boy! I hope so. 1074 01:01:26,767 --> 01:01:29,894 - What's all this? - From boys who read about your camp. 1075 01:01:30,103 --> 01:01:31,729 Already? All these letter... 1076 01:01:31,938 --> 01:01:35,066 Those are only local. Wait till they start pouring in from all over. 1077 01:01:35,275 --> 01:01:39,528 You mean... I'd better open one up. Let's see what they say here. 1078 01:01:41,365 --> 01:01:43,991 Look, there's money. Let me see. 1079 01:01:45,619 --> 01:01:47,119 "Dear Senator Smith... 1080 01:01:47,329 --> 01:01:50,539 ...I'd like to come to camp. I shine shoes at the station. 1081 01:01:50,749 --> 01:01:54,377 Here's 9 cents." Isn't that wonderful? 1082 01:01:54,586 --> 01:01:58,297 And he signs it, "Yours truly, Stinky Moore." 1083 01:01:58,507 --> 01:02:00,132 Isn't that marvelous? 1084 01:02:00,342 --> 01:02:04,678 If there's money in each one of these, what will we do with it? 1085 01:02:05,263 --> 01:02:06,972 A bank! That's perfect. 1086 01:02:07,182 --> 01:02:11,519 You can see how important this bill will be. Is there any paper? 1087 01:02:11,728 --> 01:02:13,187 Second drawer. 1088 01:02:13,438 --> 01:02:15,981 That's fine. I'll be pretty busy tonight. 1089 01:02:16,191 --> 01:02:19,235 - Not another bill? - Oh, no. 1090 01:02:19,444 --> 01:02:21,737 Letters. I'm busting with news! 1091 01:02:21,947 --> 01:02:23,739 I introduced a bill. Me, Jeff Smith! 1092 01:02:23,949 --> 01:02:25,449 I spoke in the Senate! 1093 01:02:25,659 --> 01:02:29,161 - Want to dictate them? - The letters? I couldn't talk letters. 1094 01:02:29,371 --> 01:02:31,580 I'll sit here and scratch them down. 1095 01:02:31,790 --> 01:02:33,541 And say... 1096 01:02:33,875 --> 01:02:36,377 ...I'm going to tell Ma all about you. 1097 01:02:36,586 --> 01:02:41,215 And if I tell it right, you'll get the best jar of preserves you ever tasted. 1098 01:02:41,425 --> 01:02:44,135 - Thank you very much. - Oh, and Saunders. 1099 01:02:44,886 --> 01:02:48,222 Gee whiz, I forgot to thank you. 1100 01:02:48,432 --> 01:02:51,308 - Don't mention it. - No, no. 1101 01:02:52,269 --> 01:02:54,895 Without you, I couldn't have, I mean... 1102 01:02:58,817 --> 01:03:00,317 Hello? 1103 01:03:00,902 --> 01:03:01,986 Who? 1104 01:03:02,195 --> 01:03:03,237 Susan Paine. 1105 01:03:03,822 --> 01:03:06,866 How do you do? Yes, I can talk. Go right ahead. 1106 01:03:07,075 --> 01:03:09,952 I'm sorry to bother you, but you've got to help me. 1107 01:03:10,162 --> 01:03:13,330 I'm elected to snatch Mr. Smith from the Senate tomorrow. 1108 01:03:17,502 --> 01:03:18,544 You're what? 1109 01:03:18,753 --> 01:03:22,465 I'm to turn my glamour on for him. You sympathize, don't you? 1110 01:03:22,716 --> 01:03:23,799 Awkward, isn't it? 1111 01:03:24,009 --> 01:03:26,969 Take him out and buy him a suit of clothes that fits... 1112 01:03:27,179 --> 01:03:29,388 ...and a hat that he can hang on to. 1113 01:03:29,598 --> 01:03:32,683 And a manicure and a haircut wouldn't do any harm. 1114 01:03:32,893 --> 01:03:36,479 As one woman to another, I hate to ask you to do this, but... 1115 01:03:36,688 --> 01:03:38,606 As one woman to another, of course. 1116 01:03:38,815 --> 01:03:39,940 Thanks, and... 1117 01:03:40,150 --> 01:03:41,400 Just a minute. 1118 01:03:42,110 --> 01:03:43,444 Miss Paine. 1119 01:03:45,447 --> 01:03:46,906 Susan Paine? 1120 01:03:48,617 --> 01:03:50,868 - She wants to talk to me? - Yeah. 1121 01:03:51,119 --> 01:03:52,495 What does she? 1122 01:03:54,498 --> 01:03:55,998 Holy mackerel. 1123 01:03:57,042 --> 01:03:58,501 Hello? 1124 01:03:59,377 --> 01:04:02,379 Hello, Miss Paine. How are you? 1125 01:04:02,589 --> 01:04:04,298 Yes. 1126 01:04:04,966 --> 01:04:06,008 Fine. 1127 01:04:08,053 --> 01:04:09,428 What? 1128 01:04:13,058 --> 01:04:14,683 What? Escort you? 1129 01:04:17,938 --> 01:04:19,355 Yes. 1130 01:04:19,981 --> 01:04:22,274 I'd be delighted. 1131 01:04:22,484 --> 01:04:23,984 Yeah, all right. 1132 01:04:24,653 --> 01:04:25,986 Reception for a princess? 1133 01:04:26,613 --> 01:04:29,698 She wants me to... Goodbye, Miss Paine. 1134 01:04:30,492 --> 01:04:31,659 Goodbye. 1135 01:04:31,868 --> 01:04:34,370 What do you know? A reception for a princess. 1136 01:04:34,579 --> 01:04:36,789 - Can you imagine? - Get your hat. 1137 01:04:36,998 --> 01:04:40,084 We have a lot of shopping to do before tomorrow. 1138 01:04:41,711 --> 01:04:43,170 Where are your bitters? 1139 01:04:43,380 --> 01:04:46,340 In the thing there. Behind the thing. 1140 01:04:46,550 --> 01:04:49,635 I don't mind who gets licked in a fair fight. 1141 01:04:51,763 --> 01:04:54,640 It's these clouts below the belt I can't take. 1142 01:04:54,849 --> 01:04:59,144 Siccing that horrible dame on him when he's goofy about her. 1143 01:05:00,188 --> 01:05:02,273 - What dame? - Paine. 1144 01:05:05,151 --> 01:05:06,485 Better be nice to her. 1145 01:05:06,695 --> 01:05:09,238 Her dad's the party choice for the White House. 1146 01:05:09,447 --> 01:05:12,324 She may be the next First Lady of the land. 1147 01:05:12,951 --> 01:05:16,745 Imagine reading "My Day" by Susan "Paine-In-The-Neck." 1148 01:05:17,622 --> 01:05:21,083 He isn't going to be hurt enough. She has to twist a knife in him too. 1149 01:05:21,293 --> 01:05:22,918 The regal jackass. 1150 01:05:23,128 --> 01:05:25,337 "I'll turn my glamour on him," she says. 1151 01:05:25,547 --> 01:05:26,630 What's it to you? 1152 01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:28,591 Nothing. I'm just saying... 1153 01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:30,426 Then stop worrying. 1154 01:05:30,635 --> 01:05:33,304 I told you, the dopes will inherit the earth. 1155 01:05:33,513 --> 01:05:38,017 I wonder if this Don Quixote hasn't got the jump on all of us. 1156 01:05:38,310 --> 01:05:41,854 If it isn't a curse to go through life wised up like you and me. 1157 01:05:42,063 --> 01:05:46,275 If you're going to wonder, let's go down and do it over a steak. 1158 01:05:46,735 --> 01:05:49,403 Come on, snap out of it. Drink up! 1159 01:05:49,613 --> 01:05:51,447 Here's to bigger and better dopes. 1160 01:05:52,365 --> 01:05:54,366 And to Don Quixote. 1161 01:05:55,702 --> 01:05:57,202 Do you know how I felt? 1162 01:05:57,412 --> 01:05:59,330 How did you feel? Quick. 1163 01:06:00,123 --> 01:06:02,166 I felt just like a mother. 1164 01:06:03,001 --> 01:06:06,629 Sending her kid off to school for the first time. 1165 01:06:07,547 --> 01:06:12,426 Watching the little fellow toddling off in his best bib and tucker. 1166 01:06:13,011 --> 01:06:15,929 Hoping he can stand up to the other kids. 1167 01:06:20,935 --> 01:06:23,020 Say, who started this? 1168 01:06:24,856 --> 01:06:27,107 I'm just waiting for a streetcar. 1169 01:06:28,026 --> 01:06:29,777 Well, cut it out, see? 1170 01:06:31,363 --> 01:06:32,613 Who cares, anyway? 1171 01:06:34,032 --> 01:06:35,282 I apologize. 1172 01:06:35,492 --> 01:06:36,575 All right, then. 1173 01:06:38,703 --> 01:06:42,247 After all, what's it to me? So they drop him out of a balloon. 1174 01:06:42,457 --> 01:06:44,875 All I care is, I don't want to be around. 1175 01:06:45,085 --> 01:06:47,670 I'm squeamish, see? That's what I am. 1176 01:06:49,839 --> 01:06:51,256 No, sir. 1177 01:06:51,466 --> 01:06:54,343 I don't have to take it. I won't be party to murder. 1178 01:06:54,552 --> 01:06:56,470 I'm going to quit. I'm through. 1179 01:06:56,680 --> 01:06:59,056 Again? It's a good idea. 1180 01:07:08,650 --> 01:07:11,485 - Diz? - Yeah. 1181 01:07:11,695 --> 01:07:13,612 Let's get married. 1182 01:07:13,905 --> 01:07:15,656 It's a good idea. 1183 01:07:16,282 --> 01:07:18,575 - When? - Anytime. 1184 01:07:19,411 --> 01:07:21,495 - Tonight? - Okay. 1185 01:07:21,705 --> 01:07:23,497 You don't mind? 1186 01:07:23,707 --> 01:07:25,124 I'd cherish you. 1187 01:07:28,044 --> 01:07:29,503 You're a good egg, Diz. 1188 01:07:29,713 --> 01:07:30,963 I know. 1189 01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:34,216 Maybe we could clear out of this town. 1190 01:07:34,426 --> 01:07:36,593 Get to feel like people. 1191 01:07:38,096 --> 01:07:40,764 Live like we just got out of a tunnel. 1192 01:07:41,474 --> 01:07:44,101 - Tunnel? - A tunnel. 1193 01:07:45,353 --> 01:07:47,813 You've never seen prairie grass... 1194 01:07:48,022 --> 01:07:51,358 ...with the wind leaning on it, have you, Diz? 1195 01:07:51,568 --> 01:07:54,319 Does the wind get tired out there? 1196 01:07:56,448 --> 01:07:58,907 Or angry little mountain streams... 1197 01:08:00,118 --> 01:08:03,871 ...or the sun moving against the cattle? 1198 01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:07,458 You've never seen anything like that, have you, Diz? 1199 01:08:08,334 --> 01:08:11,003 - Have you? - No. 1200 01:08:14,382 --> 01:08:16,800 Do we have to? 1201 01:08:17,719 --> 01:08:19,928 I can't think of anything more sappy. 1202 01:08:20,138 --> 01:08:22,222 Okay, then let's get going. 1203 01:08:22,432 --> 01:08:23,849 Where? 1204 01:08:24,517 --> 01:08:25,934 We're getting married. 1205 01:08:26,144 --> 01:08:28,061 Oh, yes, that's right. 1206 01:08:29,814 --> 01:08:33,942 In case you don't know, I want to give you a chance to back out. 1207 01:08:34,152 --> 01:08:36,904 - What? - My first name's Clarissa. 1208 01:08:37,113 --> 01:08:38,739 I know. It's okay. 1209 01:08:39,824 --> 01:08:42,951 Don't say "okay." Say you think it's beautiful. 1210 01:08:43,161 --> 01:08:44,953 Okay. I mean... 1211 01:08:45,163 --> 01:08:49,082 You don't know any name offhand that you like better, do you? 1212 01:08:49,292 --> 01:08:50,626 Not offhand. 1213 01:08:50,835 --> 01:08:53,086 Nothing like "Susan" or anything? 1214 01:08:53,296 --> 01:08:55,047 Susan? 1215 01:08:56,925 --> 01:08:58,509 I won't take it, see? 1216 01:08:58,885 --> 01:09:00,928 I won't be party to murder, see? 1217 01:09:01,137 --> 01:09:05,724 Steering a poor dope up blind alleys for that Taylor mob is low enough... 1218 01:09:05,934 --> 01:09:08,602 ...but helping that dame cut him in little bits... 1219 01:09:08,812 --> 01:09:11,814 ...nobody's going to make me do that! No, sir. 1220 01:09:12,023 --> 01:09:13,190 You said it. 1221 01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:16,318 I'm going to get out of there right now. Right now. 1222 01:09:16,528 --> 01:09:19,321 Bonus or no bonus. I'm clearing out. 1223 01:09:19,531 --> 01:09:22,741 Everything I own. My extra hat, everything. 1224 01:09:22,951 --> 01:09:26,411 - Wait a minute. We're getting married! - Right now, everything. 1225 01:09:26,621 --> 01:09:28,205 See you later. 1226 01:09:34,921 --> 01:09:37,840 Saunders? Saunders? 1227 01:09:44,222 --> 01:09:45,389 What do you want? 1228 01:09:45,598 --> 01:09:48,058 - You should have been there. - I know. 1229 01:09:48,268 --> 01:09:51,186 It was a wonderful party, and your suit went over big... 1230 01:09:51,396 --> 01:09:53,146 ...and she looked beautiful. 1231 01:09:53,398 --> 01:09:55,107 And when you left she said: 1232 01:09:55,316 --> 01:09:56,984 "Thank you, Mr. Smith." 1233 01:09:57,193 --> 01:10:01,446 But it was the way she said it. You nearly fell through the floor. 1234 01:10:01,656 --> 01:10:02,865 Horseradish. 1235 01:10:11,749 --> 01:10:15,127 What are you looking at? You didn't think I was a lady, did you? 1236 01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:17,129 A lady wouldn't work for this outfit. 1237 01:10:17,338 --> 01:10:19,965 Even I can't take it anymore. I quit. 1238 01:10:20,174 --> 01:10:22,175 There's a lot I can't take. 1239 01:10:22,385 --> 01:10:24,177 Can't take a simple... 1240 01:10:27,390 --> 01:10:29,433 Why don't you go home? 1241 01:10:29,767 --> 01:10:33,520 Tell your little streams about your camp and the land of the free. 1242 01:10:33,730 --> 01:10:36,899 This is no place for you. You're halfway decent. 1243 01:10:37,108 --> 01:10:38,275 Now go home! 1244 01:10:38,818 --> 01:10:41,194 That's all I wanted to tell you. 1245 01:10:42,113 --> 01:10:44,072 Meet the man I'm going to marry. 1246 01:10:46,784 --> 01:10:48,160 That's me. 1247 01:10:49,829 --> 01:10:52,706 Say something. Don't just stand there like a... 1248 01:10:54,542 --> 01:10:55,876 Wait a minute. 1249 01:10:56,127 --> 01:10:58,337 Why don't I do this right? 1250 01:10:58,838 --> 01:11:02,299 So you want to be a senator? Build a camp on Willet Creek? 1251 01:11:02,508 --> 01:11:05,093 See this? Deficiency Bill. 1252 01:11:05,303 --> 01:11:09,306 Section 40. A dam going up where you think your camp will be. 1253 01:11:09,515 --> 01:11:11,725 Ever hear of it? No. 1254 01:11:11,935 --> 01:11:15,312 They read about it in the Senate today, but you weren't supposed to hear. 1255 01:11:15,521 --> 01:11:17,981 That's why that ritzy dame took you in tow. 1256 01:11:18,191 --> 01:11:22,486 That's why they sent you here. You don't know a dam from a bathtub. 1257 01:11:22,695 --> 01:11:24,696 Go ahead. Be a senator. 1258 01:11:24,906 --> 01:11:27,824 Try and mess up Mr. Taylor's little graft. 1259 01:11:28,034 --> 01:11:29,576 But if you can't... 1260 01:11:29,786 --> 01:11:32,746 ...and you can't in 9 million years... 1261 01:11:33,373 --> 01:11:37,417 Go home! Don't stay around here making people feel sorry for you. 1262 01:11:38,878 --> 01:11:40,212 Come on, Diz. 1263 01:11:45,593 --> 01:11:47,177 Hey! This way. 1264 01:11:51,182 --> 01:11:54,559 Come on, kid. We'll dig up a preacher. 1265 01:11:55,895 --> 01:11:57,688 We're going to get married. 1266 01:11:58,648 --> 01:12:00,524 Oh, yeah. 1267 01:12:04,612 --> 01:12:06,446 Okay. 1268 01:12:06,990 --> 01:12:08,907 Come on, I'll take you home. 1269 01:12:17,375 --> 01:12:21,253 There are 100 other places in the state that really need the water. 1270 01:12:21,462 --> 01:12:25,465 Kenneth Allen owns some land there. He didn't mention a dam. 1271 01:12:25,675 --> 01:12:28,802 There's something wrong here. I know there is. 1272 01:12:29,012 --> 01:12:31,972 I won't vote on it till I get some questions answered. 1273 01:12:32,181 --> 01:12:34,641 - Jeff, you're fighting windmills. - I am? 1274 01:12:34,851 --> 01:12:38,478 Trying to understand everything about a project that took two years to set up. 1275 01:12:38,688 --> 01:12:42,149 - The reasons, the benefits. - The benefits? Who is Taylor? 1276 01:12:42,525 --> 01:12:44,735 - What? - What's he got to do with this? 1277 01:12:44,944 --> 01:12:47,696 What makes you think he's got anything to do with it? 1278 01:12:47,947 --> 01:12:51,199 I've heard that this is all his idea to get graft. 1279 01:12:53,870 --> 01:12:55,746 Do you know what you're saying? 1280 01:12:55,955 --> 01:12:59,750 You're accusing me of framing a bill for one individual's benefit. 1281 01:12:59,959 --> 01:13:02,878 Of helping to put through a scheme for graft. 1282 01:13:03,796 --> 01:13:05,005 Long distance? 1283 01:13:05,214 --> 01:13:07,424 Get me James Taylor, Jackson City. 1284 01:13:07,717 --> 01:13:10,218 Boy Ranger, eh? Answer to a prayer? Manna from heaven. 1285 01:13:10,428 --> 01:13:12,220 Didn't even know how to tell time. 1286 01:13:12,430 --> 01:13:14,556 Will you tell me exactly what he's done? 1287 01:13:14,766 --> 01:13:17,642 He's about to blow the machine to smithereens, and you with it. 1288 01:13:17,852 --> 01:13:19,519 Me, Jim? How? 1289 01:13:19,729 --> 01:13:21,605 You wouldn't understand that. 1290 01:13:21,814 --> 01:13:25,025 Listen to me, Mr. Ten-Thumbs, I'm on my way to Washington. 1291 01:13:25,234 --> 01:13:29,905 No matter what happens, I'm all ready for that Boy Ranger of yours. 1292 01:13:30,114 --> 01:13:32,199 Take your instructions from Ken Allen. 1293 01:13:32,408 --> 01:13:34,785 I wouldn't trust you to lick a stamp. 1294 01:13:34,994 --> 01:13:37,621 Use your high office to help Alan get things done. 1295 01:13:37,830 --> 01:13:40,040 - Do you understand? - Yes, Jim. 1296 01:13:40,249 --> 01:13:42,042 I doubt it. Come on, Alan. 1297 01:13:42,251 --> 01:13:46,546 I haven't been able to show him a single monument. Not even one that high. 1298 01:13:46,756 --> 01:13:50,008 No, he's been on our tail. You've got to keep this guy off of us. 1299 01:13:50,218 --> 01:13:54,221 Ever since he found out we represent the Creek, he's been running us ragged. 1300 01:13:54,430 --> 01:13:57,933 I told you I'd handle him. I object to you coming here like this. 1301 01:13:58,142 --> 01:13:59,851 You proved how you can handle him. 1302 01:14:00,061 --> 01:14:02,646 You're the one that started him writing bills. 1303 01:14:03,356 --> 01:14:04,481 Chick, let him in. 1304 01:14:04,690 --> 01:14:08,610 - You didn't ask Smith here? - What do you think? 1305 01:14:08,820 --> 01:14:12,572 Don't open that door. Jim, you can't do this. 1306 01:14:13,241 --> 01:14:14,741 Let him in, Chick. 1307 01:14:15,076 --> 01:14:16,618 All right, Jim. 1308 01:14:16,828 --> 01:14:18,286 You can count me out. 1309 01:14:21,666 --> 01:14:24,167 Good morning, senator. Come right in. 1310 01:14:30,383 --> 01:14:32,634 What did you mean, count you out? 1311 01:14:32,885 --> 01:14:35,804 You can't come here and pull that steamroller stuff. 1312 01:14:36,013 --> 01:14:37,764 Your methods won't do here. 1313 01:14:37,974 --> 01:14:40,559 He's a senator. However it happened, he's a senator. 1314 01:14:40,768 --> 01:14:41,977 This is Washington. 1315 01:14:42,186 --> 01:14:45,856 Steamroller stuff? My methods don't go in Washington? 1316 01:14:46,065 --> 01:14:47,482 They've done well by you. 1317 01:14:47,692 --> 01:14:51,403 That's beside the point. This boy's different. He's honest. 1318 01:14:51,612 --> 01:14:54,072 He thinks the world of me. We can't do it! 1319 01:14:54,282 --> 01:14:58,034 What am I supposed to do? Stand around and let that drooling infant... 1320 01:14:58,244 --> 01:15:01,872 ...wrap that Willet Creek Dam appropriation around my neck? 1321 01:15:02,081 --> 01:15:03,540 Not me. 1322 01:15:04,709 --> 01:15:07,085 Either he falls in line with us... 1323 01:15:07,295 --> 01:15:11,047 ...or I'll break him so wide open they'll never find the pieces. 1324 01:15:11,257 --> 01:15:13,967 Jim, I won't stand for it. 1325 01:15:14,177 --> 01:15:15,719 You won't stand for it? 1326 01:15:15,928 --> 01:15:19,014 I don't want any part of crucifying this boy. 1327 01:15:20,433 --> 01:15:21,641 I see. 1328 01:15:22,226 --> 01:15:27,647 Our steamroller methods are too hard for your sensitive soul. Is that it? 1329 01:15:28,107 --> 01:15:31,109 The Silver Knight is getting too big for us. 1330 01:15:32,612 --> 01:15:35,572 My methods have been all right for the past 20 years. 1331 01:15:35,781 --> 01:15:38,450 Since I picked you out of a flyspecked hole-in-the-wall... 1332 01:15:38,659 --> 01:15:40,785 ...and blew you up to look like a senator. 1333 01:15:40,995 --> 01:15:42,829 And now you can't stand it? 1334 01:15:43,039 --> 01:15:45,415 Maybe you don't have to stand it. 1335 01:15:45,625 --> 01:15:48,793 Maybe we can fix it so you and the boy can go home together. 1336 01:15:49,003 --> 01:15:52,797 - You don't have to... - It's all right, it's all right. 1337 01:15:54,133 --> 01:15:58,261 Seems a shame, though, to part company like this after all these years. 1338 01:15:58,471 --> 01:16:02,474 Especially now, with a national convention coming up. 1339 01:16:03,851 --> 01:16:06,603 Joe, I put everything I have behind you. 1340 01:16:06,812 --> 01:16:08,897 And so did all of our friends. 1341 01:16:10,149 --> 01:16:11,775 I guess we'll survive. 1342 01:16:12,151 --> 01:16:15,737 We'll just find somebody else who's got a little more sense. 1343 01:16:15,947 --> 01:16:20,659 In the meantime, you go in and explain to Mr. Smith about Willet Dam. 1344 01:16:20,868 --> 01:16:23,286 It's your bill. It's your reputation. 1345 01:16:23,496 --> 01:16:26,039 If he can't find enough facts to break you with... 1346 01:16:26,249 --> 01:16:29,334 ...send him to me. I'll give him a couple of good ones. 1347 01:16:29,669 --> 01:16:33,630 I'm taking the next plane home. So long. 1348 01:16:36,717 --> 01:16:38,760 - Jim. - Yeah? 1349 01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:42,055 Come here, will you? 1350 01:16:51,732 --> 01:16:53,900 It's just that I like the kid. 1351 01:16:54,735 --> 01:16:57,070 I don't want to see you get too rough on him. 1352 01:16:58,698 --> 01:17:00,824 I'm glad you came to your senses. 1353 01:17:01,033 --> 01:17:03,576 You had me scared there for a minute. 1354 01:17:03,786 --> 01:17:07,497 Go back to your office. I'll call you when I get through with Smith. 1355 01:17:08,416 --> 01:17:09,833 Okay. 1356 01:17:20,386 --> 01:17:22,554 "The Silver Knight." 1357 01:17:28,686 --> 01:17:29,853 Hello, senator. 1358 01:17:30,062 --> 01:17:33,231 I was just passing through. I thought I'd like to meet you. 1359 01:17:33,441 --> 01:17:35,817 Sit down. You met all the boys here, I suppose. 1360 01:17:36,027 --> 01:17:38,778 They say you've been on your toes since you got here. 1361 01:17:38,988 --> 01:17:40,488 That's fine. 1362 01:17:41,282 --> 01:17:44,326 You know, some people told me that you were dumb. 1363 01:17:44,535 --> 01:17:46,036 I think you're smart. 1364 01:17:46,245 --> 01:17:48,663 You're smart enough to understand a situation... 1365 01:17:48,873 --> 01:17:51,082 ...when it's explained to you. - Like what? 1366 01:17:51,292 --> 01:17:52,959 Well, for instance... 1367 01:17:53,169 --> 01:17:54,961 ...building a dam on Willet Creek. 1368 01:17:55,171 --> 01:17:57,172 Just what's your interest in this? 1369 01:17:57,381 --> 01:17:58,798 What's my interest? 1370 01:18:00,843 --> 01:18:04,054 Anything that benefits the state is mighty important to me. 1371 01:18:04,263 --> 01:18:07,724 Owning a lot of its industry, newspapers and other odds and ends. 1372 01:18:07,933 --> 01:18:11,770 If I felt you had the welfare of the state at heart like I have... 1373 01:18:11,979 --> 01:18:15,398 ...I'd say you were a man to watch. 1374 01:18:15,608 --> 01:18:18,401 Now, what do you like? Business? 1375 01:18:18,611 --> 01:18:22,530 If you do, you can pick any job in the state and go to the top. 1376 01:18:22,740 --> 01:18:24,491 Or politics. 1377 01:18:24,700 --> 01:18:28,787 If you like being senator, there's no reason why you can't come back... 1378 01:18:28,996 --> 01:18:31,081 ...and stay there as long as you want. 1379 01:18:31,290 --> 01:18:33,124 If you're smart. 1380 01:18:33,334 --> 01:18:35,627 Now, you take the boys here, or Joe Paine. 1381 01:18:35,836 --> 01:18:37,420 They're doing all right. 1382 01:18:37,630 --> 01:18:39,381 They don't have to worry about... 1383 01:18:39,590 --> 01:18:41,674 ...being re-elected or anything else. 1384 01:18:41,884 --> 01:18:44,803 They're smart. They take my advice. 1385 01:18:46,263 --> 01:18:49,015 You tell these men and Senator Paine what to do? 1386 01:18:49,225 --> 01:18:50,392 Why, yes. 1387 01:18:50,601 --> 01:18:53,728 Joe Paine has been taking my advice for the past 20 years. 1388 01:18:56,148 --> 01:18:57,607 You're a liar. 1389 01:19:06,992 --> 01:19:08,785 I've got to see Senator Paine. 1390 01:19:08,994 --> 01:19:10,703 Senator Paine is out of town. 1391 01:19:10,913 --> 01:19:12,914 Out of town? He couldn't be. 1392 01:19:17,086 --> 01:19:18,711 Hello, Jeff. Come in. 1393 01:19:19,588 --> 01:19:22,215 Well, did you have a talk with Taylor? 1394 01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:24,884 He said he's told you what to do for 20 years. 1395 01:19:25,094 --> 01:19:26,970 I called him a liar. 1396 01:19:27,805 --> 01:19:29,681 Come over here and sit down. 1397 01:19:29,890 --> 01:19:31,933 I don't feel like sitting down. 1398 01:19:32,309 --> 01:19:34,269 Oh, I know how you feel. 1399 01:19:35,771 --> 01:19:38,231 I was hoping you'd be spared all this. 1400 01:19:38,899 --> 01:19:40,733 I was hoping that you would... 1401 01:19:40,943 --> 01:19:44,154 ...see the sights, absorb some history, and go back to your boys. 1402 01:19:44,363 --> 01:19:47,907 You've been living in a boy's world. For heaven's sake, stay there. 1403 01:19:48,117 --> 01:19:49,242 This is a man's world. 1404 01:19:49,452 --> 01:19:51,286 It's brutal, and you've no place in it. 1405 01:19:51,495 --> 01:19:55,248 You'll only get hurt. Take my advice. Forget Taylor and what he said. 1406 01:19:55,458 --> 01:19:57,375 Forget you ever heard of Willet Creek Dam. 1407 01:19:57,585 --> 01:19:59,752 But you still haven't answered me, sir. 1408 01:19:59,962 --> 01:20:04,174 Can a man like Taylor tell you and those other men what to do? 1409 01:20:04,383 --> 01:20:08,052 Now, listen, Jeff, please... 1410 01:20:08,262 --> 01:20:10,138 ...and try to understand. 1411 01:20:10,347 --> 01:20:13,141 I know it's tough to run head-on into facts. 1412 01:20:13,350 --> 01:20:16,728 This is a man's world, and you got to check your ideals... 1413 01:20:16,937 --> 01:20:19,522 ...outside the door, like you do your rubbers. 1414 01:20:19,815 --> 01:20:23,485 Now, 30 years ago I had your ideals. 1415 01:20:24,445 --> 01:20:25,737 I was you. 1416 01:20:26,113 --> 01:20:29,699 I had to make the same decision you were asked to make today. 1417 01:20:29,909 --> 01:20:31,201 And I made it. 1418 01:20:32,328 --> 01:20:34,662 I compromised. Yes. 1419 01:20:34,872 --> 01:20:39,792 So I could sit in that Senate and serve the people in 1000 honest ways. 1420 01:20:40,336 --> 01:20:42,045 You got to face facts. 1421 01:20:42,463 --> 01:20:44,380 I've served our state well, haven't I? 1422 01:20:44,590 --> 01:20:48,176 We have the lowest unemployment and the highest federal grants. 1423 01:20:48,802 --> 01:20:50,595 But I've had to compromise. 1424 01:20:50,804 --> 01:20:53,431 I've had to play ball. You can't count on people voting. 1425 01:20:53,641 --> 01:20:56,017 Half the time they don't vote, anyway. 1426 01:20:56,227 --> 01:21:00,104 That's how states and empires have been built since time began, understand? 1427 01:21:04,318 --> 01:21:06,319 Well, Jeff. 1428 01:21:06,529 --> 01:21:09,572 You can take my word for it. That's how things are. 1429 01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:14,994 Now, I've told you all this because... 1430 01:21:15,913 --> 01:21:18,122 ...I've grown very fond of you. 1431 01:21:18,749 --> 01:21:21,751 About like a son, in fact. 1432 01:21:21,961 --> 01:21:24,504 And I don't want to see you get hurt. 1433 01:21:25,506 --> 01:21:30,385 When that Deficiency Bill comes up tomorrow, don't say a word. 1434 01:21:30,594 --> 01:21:33,846 Great powers are behind it, who'll destroy you before you start. 1435 01:21:34,056 --> 01:21:35,557 For your own sake... 1436 01:21:36,058 --> 01:21:39,060 ...and for the sake of my friendship with your father... 1437 01:21:39,270 --> 01:21:40,979 ...please... 1438 01:21:41,188 --> 01:21:43,398 ...don't say a word. 1439 01:21:50,823 --> 01:21:53,408 Owing to the urgency of the Deficiency Bill... 1440 01:21:53,617 --> 01:21:55,827 ...there is a unanimous consent agreement... 1441 01:21:56,036 --> 01:21:59,330 ...that no one will speak more than once or longer than five minutes... 1442 01:21:59,540 --> 01:22:01,916 ...on any section of the bill. 1443 01:22:02,209 --> 01:22:04,127 Clerk will read. 1444 01:22:04,878 --> 01:22:09,132 "The bill for deficiency appropriations for the fiscal year, Section One. 1445 01:22:09,341 --> 01:22:10,592 On emergency relief: 1446 01:22:10,801 --> 01:22:13,303 To create and erect public improvements on rivers... 1447 01:22:13,512 --> 01:22:15,972 ...harbors and roadways, $150 billion. 1448 01:22:16,682 --> 01:22:20,768 Section 40: An appropriation to divert and impound Willet Creek... 1449 01:22:20,978 --> 01:22:23,688 ...to the natural basin of Terry Canyon, $5 million." 1450 01:22:23,897 --> 01:22:25,273 Mr. President? 1451 01:22:25,482 --> 01:22:28,109 Senator Smith desires to be heard on Section 40? 1452 01:22:28,319 --> 01:22:29,485 I do, sir. 1453 01:22:29,695 --> 01:22:32,280 The senator understands he's limited to five minutes? 1454 01:22:32,489 --> 01:22:33,906 Yes, sir. 1455 01:22:34,116 --> 01:22:35,533 You may proceed, sir. 1456 01:22:36,744 --> 01:22:40,163 Mr. President, this section of the bill, this dam on Willet Creek... 1457 01:22:40,372 --> 01:22:42,290 ...is nothing but... - Mr. President. 1458 01:22:42,499 --> 01:22:45,251 Does Senator Smith wish to yield to his colleague? 1459 01:22:46,712 --> 01:22:49,297 - Why, yes, sir. - You may proceed, senator. 1460 01:22:49,506 --> 01:22:50,757 Mr. President... 1461 01:22:50,966 --> 01:22:53,343 ...I have risen to a difficult task... 1462 01:22:53,552 --> 01:22:56,346 ...to say from evidence that has come to my attention... 1463 01:22:56,555 --> 01:22:59,557 ...I consider Senator Smith unworthy to address this body. 1464 01:23:01,644 --> 01:23:04,520 - You boys go out and get the senators. - Yes, sir. 1465 01:23:05,814 --> 01:23:08,191 Something going on inside, come on. 1466 01:23:12,112 --> 01:23:15,323 The senator will suspend until order is restored. 1467 01:23:15,866 --> 01:23:18,493 All senators are wanted on the floor, please. 1468 01:23:23,832 --> 01:23:25,875 - What's going on? - I don't know. 1469 01:23:38,347 --> 01:23:39,514 You may proceed. 1470 01:23:39,723 --> 01:23:40,973 I refer to the bill... 1471 01:23:41,183 --> 01:23:44,936 ...he has introduced for the creation of a national boys' camp. 1472 01:23:45,145 --> 01:23:48,231 He named a portion of land to be dedicated to that purpose... 1473 01:23:48,440 --> 01:23:52,485 ...and to be bought by contributions from boys all over America. 1474 01:23:52,695 --> 01:23:53,778 Senators... 1475 01:23:54,488 --> 01:23:59,158 ...I have evidence to prove my colleague owns the land described in his bill. 1476 01:24:04,039 --> 01:24:06,791 He bought it the day after his appointment to the Senate... 1477 01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:08,042 ...and is holding it... 1478 01:24:08,252 --> 01:24:11,671 ...using his privileged office for his own personal profit! 1479 01:24:18,095 --> 01:24:19,721 Boy Ranger had a wreck. 1480 01:24:19,930 --> 01:24:21,431 This doesn't make sense. 1481 01:24:23,392 --> 01:24:24,767 Accordingly... 1482 01:24:24,977 --> 01:24:26,477 ...I offer a resolution... 1483 01:24:26,687 --> 01:24:29,856 ...an inquiry by the Committee of Privileges and Elections... 1484 01:24:30,065 --> 01:24:33,651 ...as to the fitness of my colleague to continue to sit in this chamber. 1485 01:24:34,528 --> 01:24:36,612 Mr. President, I... 1486 01:24:40,325 --> 01:24:41,492 Order! 1487 01:24:42,327 --> 01:24:45,371 Chairman, clear the galleries unless order is restored. 1488 01:24:49,918 --> 01:24:52,670 Flash! Ranger senator branded by colleague. 1489 01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:55,131 Flash! Paine brings charges to expel Smith. 1490 01:24:55,340 --> 01:24:57,508 - Where's Saunders? - She'll have the lowdown. 1491 01:24:57,718 --> 01:25:00,470 I wish I knew. She left town in that jalopy of hers. 1492 01:25:00,679 --> 01:25:05,057 Paine accuses Smith of introducing a boys' camp built for his own profit. 1493 01:25:05,267 --> 01:25:06,517 Give me a cigarette. 1494 01:25:06,727 --> 01:25:09,520 Paine's asked for a hearing before the Committee. 1495 01:25:12,524 --> 01:25:14,609 Well, frankly, my dear senators... 1496 01:25:14,818 --> 01:25:17,737 ...the morning that Mr. Allen burst into my office... 1497 01:25:17,946 --> 01:25:21,657 ...bringing proof that Smith had the deed to that campsite... 1498 01:25:21,867 --> 01:25:23,117 ...I was dumbfounded! 1499 01:25:23,327 --> 01:25:26,996 Pardon me, what did you do when this was brought to your attention? 1500 01:25:27,206 --> 01:25:30,041 I consulted with the head of the Department of Records... 1501 01:25:30,250 --> 01:25:31,709 ...Mr. Arthur Kim. 1502 01:25:32,085 --> 01:25:35,046 Mr. Kim, do you remember recording such a deed? 1503 01:25:35,255 --> 01:25:39,509 Yes. On the date set forth here, Mr. Allen came before me... 1504 01:25:39,718 --> 01:25:41,093 ...to record this deed... 1505 01:25:41,303 --> 01:25:44,472 ...setting over 200 acres in the name of Jefferson Smith. 1506 01:25:44,681 --> 01:25:47,558 How long have you known Senator Smith, Mr. Allen? 1507 01:25:47,768 --> 01:25:49,685 Oh, a good many years. 1508 01:25:49,895 --> 01:25:54,106 He used my land by Willet Creek every summer for his Boy Rangers. 1509 01:25:54,316 --> 01:25:57,693 Seemed like a mighty nice fellow. One day he made a proposition. 1510 01:25:57,903 --> 01:26:01,322 Said he had a chance to sell that land for at least $500 an acre. 1511 01:26:01,532 --> 01:26:04,909 I'd be glad to get 25 for it. So we set it up like this: 1512 01:26:05,118 --> 01:26:07,995 I deeded him the land, and he gave me a contract... 1513 01:26:08,205 --> 01:26:10,706 ...guaranteeing me half, if he made the sale. 1514 01:26:10,916 --> 01:26:14,544 Mind you now, the whole thing sounded fishy at the time. 1515 01:26:14,753 --> 01:26:18,214 That contract you mentioned, have you got that document? 1516 01:26:18,423 --> 01:26:20,716 That land wouldn't be in his name if I didn't. 1517 01:26:20,926 --> 01:26:23,052 Yes, sir. Signed and delivered. 1518 01:26:23,262 --> 01:26:26,472 - I never signed any such contract! - He certainly did! 1519 01:26:26,682 --> 01:26:28,140 Just a moment, please. 1520 01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:36,107 After a long study of this signature, it is my professional opinion... 1521 01:26:36,316 --> 01:26:40,027 ...that it is definitely in Jefferson Smith's own handwriting. 1522 01:26:40,237 --> 01:26:42,113 As an expert on handwriting... 1523 01:26:42,322 --> 01:26:46,701 ...I'd say the name of Jefferson Smith on this contract has been forged. 1524 01:26:46,910 --> 01:26:50,788 I would stake my whole 20 years professional career... 1525 01:26:50,998 --> 01:26:54,250 ...on the fact that this is not a forgery... 1526 01:26:54,459 --> 01:26:58,087 ...but is Mr. Smith's own signature. 1527 01:26:58,297 --> 01:27:00,673 This is a very painful duty for me. 1528 01:27:00,883 --> 01:27:02,925 This boy's the son of my very best friend. 1529 01:27:03,135 --> 01:27:06,053 I sponsored him in the Senate. I helped frame his bill. 1530 01:27:06,263 --> 01:27:08,848 When he presented it, I went to congratulate him... 1531 01:27:09,057 --> 01:27:11,434 ...but pointed out a dam was already going up... 1532 01:27:11,643 --> 01:27:14,186 ...on the very site he'd chosen for his camp. 1533 01:27:14,396 --> 01:27:16,981 There are other good campsites nearby... 1534 01:27:17,190 --> 01:27:19,150 ...so I suggested he choose another. 1535 01:27:19,443 --> 01:27:20,693 He became furious. 1536 01:27:20,903 --> 01:27:22,612 He said, "Move the dam." 1537 01:27:22,821 --> 01:27:25,823 I was amazed at his violent reaction. I couldn't understand. 1538 01:27:26,033 --> 01:27:30,077 Until the evidence came to me that he owned those very 200 acres. 1539 01:27:30,287 --> 01:27:31,412 And as you have heard... 1540 01:27:31,622 --> 01:27:34,790 ...had carefully laid plans to make an enormous profit... 1541 01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:39,837 ...out of the nickels and dimes scraped together by the boys of this country. 1542 01:27:40,172 --> 01:27:41,339 Faced with that... 1543 01:27:42,424 --> 01:27:45,217 ...regardless of my personal feelings for the boy... 1544 01:27:45,427 --> 01:27:49,055 ...my sense of duty told me his expulsion from the Senate... 1545 01:27:49,264 --> 01:27:51,098 ...was the only possible answer. 1546 01:27:51,308 --> 01:27:53,351 Beautiful, that Taylor machine. 1547 01:27:57,773 --> 01:27:59,440 Senator Smith, please. 1548 01:28:03,528 --> 01:28:05,029 Will you take the chair, please? 1549 01:28:16,708 --> 01:28:20,211 The Committee is ready to hear you now, Senator Smith. 1550 01:28:28,303 --> 01:28:29,887 Keep your seats, gentlemen! 1551 01:28:30,138 --> 01:28:32,098 Committee is not adjourned yet. 1552 01:28:32,307 --> 01:28:34,183 Quiet! Please! 1553 01:28:37,354 --> 01:28:41,565 That Ranger never knew what struck him when Jim Taylor opened up on him. 1554 01:28:41,775 --> 01:28:43,859 Which one of you girls wants this? 1555 01:28:47,197 --> 01:28:49,198 - Do you want it? - Oh, yes. 1556 01:30:29,633 --> 01:30:32,134 You know, I had a hunch I'd find you here... 1557 01:30:32,344 --> 01:30:33,969 ...when you weren't anyplace else. 1558 01:30:37,974 --> 01:30:39,266 How've you been, Saunders? 1559 01:30:39,476 --> 01:30:40,684 Oh, all right. 1560 01:30:41,770 --> 01:30:43,229 Your husband. How's he? 1561 01:30:43,438 --> 01:30:45,022 My...? Oh. 1562 01:30:45,232 --> 01:30:47,149 Old Diz. We're not married. 1563 01:30:51,905 --> 01:30:55,574 Good thing I got back just when I did. You know what I found waiting for me? 1564 01:30:55,784 --> 01:30:58,953 - No. - Jar of preserves from your mother. 1565 01:30:59,162 --> 01:31:00,246 Oh, you did? 1566 01:31:01,832 --> 01:31:03,415 What was it, strawberry? 1567 01:31:04,793 --> 01:31:06,544 That's the best kind. 1568 01:31:06,878 --> 01:31:08,629 Well, I... 1569 01:31:08,922 --> 01:31:11,882 I see by the papers you certainly got to be a senator. 1570 01:31:13,844 --> 01:31:16,637 You sure had the right idea about me, Saunders. 1571 01:31:16,847 --> 01:31:20,933 You told me to go back home and keep filling those kids full of hooey. 1572 01:31:22,561 --> 01:31:25,312 Just a simple guy, you said, still wet behind the ears... 1573 01:31:25,522 --> 01:31:28,315 ...lot of junk about American ideals. 1574 01:31:28,900 --> 01:31:31,569 That's certainly a lot of junk, all right. 1575 01:31:31,778 --> 01:31:34,697 - Now look, senator... - I don't know... 1576 01:31:35,115 --> 01:31:37,366 ...this is a whole new world to me. 1577 01:31:39,661 --> 01:31:41,495 What are you going to believe in... 1578 01:31:42,581 --> 01:31:46,000 ...when a man like Senator Joseph Paine gets up and swears... 1579 01:31:46,209 --> 01:31:49,670 ...that I've been robbing kids of nickels and dimes? 1580 01:31:50,630 --> 01:31:53,674 A man I've admired and worshiped all my life. 1581 01:31:53,884 --> 01:31:55,134 I don't know. 1582 01:31:55,802 --> 01:31:57,428 A lot of fancy words in this town. 1583 01:31:57,637 --> 01:32:00,431 Some of them are carved in stone, some of them... 1584 01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:02,933 Guess the Taylors and Paines put them up there... 1585 01:32:03,143 --> 01:32:04,894 ...so suckers like me can read them. 1586 01:32:05,562 --> 01:32:08,314 Then when you find out what men actually do... 1587 01:32:08,857 --> 01:32:11,442 Well, I'm getting out of this town so fast... 1588 01:32:11,651 --> 01:32:15,571 ...away from all the words and the monuments and the whole rotten show. 1589 01:32:16,448 --> 01:32:17,573 I see. 1590 01:32:18,992 --> 01:32:21,577 When you get home, what will you tell those kids? 1591 01:32:21,786 --> 01:32:23,954 Well, I'll tell them the truth. 1592 01:32:24,164 --> 01:32:26,665 Might as well find it out now as later. 1593 01:32:28,001 --> 01:32:30,252 I don't think they'll believe you. 1594 01:32:30,962 --> 01:32:34,423 They're liable to look up at you with hurt faces and say: 1595 01:32:34,633 --> 01:32:36,884 "Jeff, what did you do? Quit? 1596 01:32:37,093 --> 01:32:38,844 Didn't you do something about it?" 1597 01:32:39,346 --> 01:32:42,014 Well, what do you expect me to do? 1598 01:32:42,224 --> 01:32:44,266 An honorary stooge like me against... 1599 01:32:44,476 --> 01:32:48,145 ...the Taylors and Paines and machines and lies. 1600 01:32:48,521 --> 01:32:51,482 Your friend Mr. Lincoln had his Taylors and Paines. 1601 01:32:51,691 --> 01:32:55,527 So did every other man who tried to lift his thought up off the ground. 1602 01:32:55,737 --> 01:32:59,281 Odds against them didn't stop them, they were fools that way. 1603 01:32:59,491 --> 01:33:01,617 All the good that ever came into this world... 1604 01:33:01,826 --> 01:33:04,578 ...came from fools with faith like that. You know that. 1605 01:33:05,163 --> 01:33:08,332 You can't quit now. Not you. 1606 01:33:08,667 --> 01:33:10,918 They aren't all Taylors and Paines in Washington. 1607 01:33:11,127 --> 01:33:14,255 That kind just throw big shadows, that's all. 1608 01:33:14,756 --> 01:33:18,384 You didn't just have faith in Paine, or any other living man. 1609 01:33:18,593 --> 01:33:20,719 You had faith in something bigger. 1610 01:33:20,929 --> 01:33:24,765 You had plain, decent, everyday common rightness... 1611 01:33:24,975 --> 01:33:27,810 ...and this country could use some of that. 1612 01:33:28,561 --> 01:33:32,064 So could the whole cockeyed world. A lot of it. 1613 01:33:33,066 --> 01:33:34,858 Remember the first day you got here? 1614 01:33:35,068 --> 01:33:36,777 Remember what you said about Mr. Lincoln? 1615 01:33:36,987 --> 01:33:39,822 That he was waiting for someone to come along? 1616 01:33:40,031 --> 01:33:41,073 You were right. 1617 01:33:41,283 --> 01:33:45,619 He was waiting for a man who could see his job and sail into it. 1618 01:33:45,829 --> 01:33:49,498 Who could tear into the Taylors and root them out into the open. 1619 01:33:49,708 --> 01:33:51,959 I think he was waiting for you. 1620 01:33:52,168 --> 01:33:55,212 He knows you can do it. So do I. 1621 01:33:55,422 --> 01:33:57,047 What? Do what, Saunders? 1622 01:33:57,257 --> 01:34:00,551 You make up your mind you won't quit, and I'll tell you what. 1623 01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:03,095 Been thinking about it all the way back here. 1624 01:34:03,305 --> 01:34:07,641 It's a 40-foot dive into a tub of water, but I think you can do it. 1625 01:34:14,941 --> 01:34:16,734 Clarissa... 1626 01:34:16,985 --> 01:34:18,402 ...where can we get a drink? 1627 01:34:18,611 --> 01:34:19,778 Now you're talking. 1628 01:34:19,988 --> 01:34:22,323 Come on over to my place. 1629 01:34:34,377 --> 01:34:34,501 Mr. Dearborn. 1630 01:34:34,502 --> 01:34:36,045 Mr. Dearborn. 1631 01:34:36,254 --> 01:34:37,755 Mr. Dernell. 1632 01:34:37,964 --> 01:34:39,798 - Mr. Dwight. - Here. 1633 01:34:40,008 --> 01:34:41,884 They're going to expel Smith today, eh? 1634 01:34:42,093 --> 01:34:44,178 Where are the drums? Where's the guillotine? 1635 01:34:44,387 --> 01:34:45,721 In fact, where's Smith? 1636 01:34:45,930 --> 01:34:48,557 Hasn't stopped running since he left the Committee. 1637 01:34:48,767 --> 01:34:49,850 - Mr. Singleton. - Here. 1638 01:34:50,060 --> 01:34:52,311 - Mr. Smith. - Here! 1639 01:35:00,904 --> 01:35:02,071 That guy's batty. 1640 01:35:02,280 --> 01:35:04,782 The clerk will continue with the roll call. 1641 01:35:06,326 --> 01:35:08,494 - Mr. Williams. - Here comes Saunders. 1642 01:35:15,126 --> 01:35:17,252 Is this some of your shenanigan? 1643 01:35:17,796 --> 01:35:20,464 - What's the matter? - Pray, Diz, if you know how. 1644 01:35:20,673 --> 01:35:24,093 Did you have anything to do with bringing that guy in here? 1645 01:35:24,302 --> 01:35:26,345 Are you crazy? 1646 01:35:28,181 --> 01:35:30,891 Ninety senators have answered to their names. 1647 01:35:31,101 --> 01:35:32,768 Quorum is present. 1648 01:35:32,977 --> 01:35:34,895 Proceeding now to the regular order. 1649 01:35:46,991 --> 01:35:49,785 - Mr. President. - Senator MacPherson. 1650 01:35:49,994 --> 01:35:53,372 I desire to call up the report of the Committee... 1651 01:35:53,581 --> 01:35:56,792 ...on the expulsion of Jefferson Smith. 1652 01:36:00,004 --> 01:36:01,755 Clerk will read the report. 1653 01:36:02,590 --> 01:36:04,633 "The Committee on Privileges and Elections reports... 1654 01:36:04,843 --> 01:36:07,261 ...it appears to the satisfaction of the Committee... 1655 01:36:07,470 --> 01:36:09,513 ...after hearing a number of witnesses... 1656 01:36:09,722 --> 01:36:11,932 ...that justice requires that Smith... 1657 01:36:12,142 --> 01:36:14,393 ...no longer continue a member of this body. 1658 01:36:14,978 --> 01:36:18,647 They report this resolution with recommendation that the same do pass. 1659 01:36:18,857 --> 01:36:23,152 Resolved: That Jefferson Smith be expelled from his seat in the Senate." 1660 01:36:28,283 --> 01:36:29,783 Mr. President. 1661 01:36:29,993 --> 01:36:32,578 I move for the immediate adoption of the resolution. 1662 01:36:32,787 --> 01:36:34,371 - Now. - Mr. President! 1663 01:36:34,581 --> 01:36:36,748 - I addressed the chair first. - I have the floor. 1664 01:36:36,958 --> 01:36:38,834 I'm asking for a roll call on the passage... 1665 01:36:39,043 --> 01:36:40,878 ...of the resolution without further delay. 1666 01:36:41,087 --> 01:36:43,964 The senator can have nothing to say that would not... 1667 01:36:45,508 --> 01:36:48,760 However, Senator Smith is still a member of this body... 1668 01:36:48,970 --> 01:36:52,264 ...and has an equal claim on the attention of this chair. 1669 01:36:52,474 --> 01:36:55,726 - You were about to recognize me. - That was merely your impression. 1670 01:36:55,935 --> 01:36:57,269 Let him speak! 1671 01:37:02,233 --> 01:37:04,067 Before proceeding further... 1672 01:37:04,277 --> 01:37:08,530 ...I remind the visitors in the gallery they are here as our guests... 1673 01:37:08,740 --> 01:37:10,657 ...and should conduct themselves as such. 1674 01:37:10,867 --> 01:37:13,911 And I might add that their sentiments in no way will affect... 1675 01:37:14,120 --> 01:37:16,413 ...the judgment of this chair. 1676 01:37:22,086 --> 01:37:23,670 The chair recognizes... 1677 01:37:25,757 --> 01:37:27,132 ...Senator Smith. 1678 01:37:29,802 --> 01:37:32,304 - Thank you, sir. - Diz, here we go. 1679 01:37:32,889 --> 01:37:36,725 I guess the gentlemen are in a tall hurry to get me out of here. 1680 01:37:37,310 --> 01:37:40,354 The way the evidence is piled up against me, I can't blame them much. 1681 01:37:40,563 --> 01:37:43,524 And I'm willing to go when they vote it that way... 1682 01:37:43,733 --> 01:37:46,610 ...but before that happens, I've got a few things to say. 1683 01:37:46,819 --> 01:37:49,947 I tried to say them once before and I got stopped colder than a mackerel. 1684 01:37:50,156 --> 01:37:52,074 I'd like to get them said this time. 1685 01:37:52,283 --> 01:37:54,868 I'm not going to leave until I do get them said. 1686 01:37:55,078 --> 01:37:56,578 Will the senator yield? 1687 01:37:56,788 --> 01:37:59,456 - Senator yields? - No, sir, I'm afraid not! 1688 01:38:00,208 --> 01:38:01,333 No, sir. 1689 01:38:01,793 --> 01:38:05,629 I yielded the floor once before, and I was practically never heard of again. 1690 01:38:05,838 --> 01:38:07,130 No, sir. 1691 01:38:07,674 --> 01:38:10,801 And we might as well all get together on this "yielding" business... 1692 01:38:11,010 --> 01:38:12,427 ...right off the bat now. 1693 01:38:15,223 --> 01:38:17,808 I had some good coaching last night, and I find... 1694 01:38:18,017 --> 01:38:21,853 ...that if I yield only for a question, point of order or personal privilege... 1695 01:38:22,063 --> 01:38:25,065 ...that I can hold this floor almost until doomsday. 1696 01:38:25,275 --> 01:38:29,278 In other words, I've got a piece to speak and blow hot or cold, I'm going to speak it. 1697 01:38:29,487 --> 01:38:30,737 Will the senator yield? 1698 01:38:30,947 --> 01:38:32,656 - Will Senator Smith yield? - Yield how? 1699 01:38:32,865 --> 01:38:34,783 - Will he yield for a question? - All right. 1700 01:38:34,993 --> 01:38:38,579 I wish to ask my junior colleague, this piece he intends to speak... 1701 01:38:38,788 --> 01:38:41,915 ...does it concern Section 40 of that bill, the dam on Willet Creek? 1702 01:38:42,125 --> 01:38:45,043 Every aspect of this matter, everything... 1703 01:38:45,253 --> 01:38:47,421 ...was dealt with in committee. - Mr. President? 1704 01:38:47,630 --> 01:38:51,383 I ask my distinguished colleague, has he one scrap of evidence to add now... 1705 01:38:51,593 --> 01:38:54,094 ...to the defense he did not give at that same hearing? 1706 01:38:54,304 --> 01:38:57,889 - I have no defense against forged papers! - The committee ruled otherwise! 1707 01:38:58,099 --> 01:39:00,934 The gentleman stands guilty as charged. 1708 01:39:01,144 --> 01:39:02,853 I believe I speak for every member... 1709 01:39:03,062 --> 01:39:06,732 ...when I say that no one cares to hear what a man of his condemned character... 1710 01:39:06,941 --> 01:39:10,527 ...has to say about any section of any legislation before this House! 1711 01:39:10,737 --> 01:39:12,988 - Order, order, gentleman! - Mr. President... 1712 01:39:13,197 --> 01:39:16,867 ...I stand guilty as framed because Section 40 is graft. 1713 01:39:17,076 --> 01:39:19,536 And I was ready to say so. I was ready to tell you... 1714 01:39:19,746 --> 01:39:22,247 ...that a certain man in my state, Mr. James Taylor... 1715 01:39:22,457 --> 01:39:24,875 ...wanted to put through this dam for his own profit. 1716 01:39:25,084 --> 01:39:28,045 A man who controls a political machine... 1717 01:39:28,254 --> 01:39:30,756 ...and controls everything else in my state. 1718 01:39:30,965 --> 01:39:33,258 A man even powerful enough to control congressmen. 1719 01:39:33,468 --> 01:39:36,136 I saw three of them in his room the day I went to see him. 1720 01:39:36,346 --> 01:39:38,555 - Will the senator yield? - I will not yield! 1721 01:39:42,226 --> 01:39:44,311 This same man, James Taylor, came down here... 1722 01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:47,481 ...and offered me a seat in this Senate for the next 20 years... 1723 01:39:47,690 --> 01:39:51,360 ...if I voted for a dam that he knew and I knew was a fraud... 1724 01:39:51,569 --> 01:39:54,071 ...but if I dared to open my mouth against that dam... 1725 01:39:54,280 --> 01:39:55,864 ...he promised to break me in two. 1726 01:39:56,074 --> 01:39:58,742 I got up here and I started to open my mouth... 1727 01:39:58,951 --> 01:40:01,328 ...and the long and powerful arm of Mr. Taylor... 1728 01:40:01,537 --> 01:40:05,165 ...reached into this sacred chamber and grabbed me by the scruff of the neck... 1729 01:40:05,375 --> 01:40:07,626 - Mr. President, a point of order. - Mr. President? 1730 01:40:07,835 --> 01:40:09,252 Senator Paine will state it. 1731 01:40:09,462 --> 01:40:11,630 It was I who rose in this chamber to accuse him. 1732 01:40:11,839 --> 01:40:14,758 He's saying that I was carrying out criminal orders on falsified evidence. 1733 01:40:14,967 --> 01:40:17,928 He has imputed to me conduct unworthy a senator, and I demand... 1734 01:40:18,137 --> 01:40:19,930 ...that he yield the floor. 1735 01:40:20,139 --> 01:40:23,100 I did not say that Senator Paine was one of the congressmen in that room! 1736 01:40:23,309 --> 01:40:24,351 I was in that room! 1737 01:40:26,270 --> 01:40:29,314 Order, gentlemen. Order, gentlemen. 1738 01:40:29,524 --> 01:40:31,233 I accuse this man. 1739 01:40:31,442 --> 01:40:34,027 By his tone, by his careful denials... 1740 01:40:34,237 --> 01:40:37,447 ...he is trying to plant damaging impressions on my conduct. 1741 01:40:37,657 --> 01:40:39,700 I'll tell you why we were in that room. 1742 01:40:39,909 --> 01:40:42,703 Because Mr. Taylor, a respected citizen of our state... 1743 01:40:42,912 --> 01:40:45,080 ...had brought with him the evidence against this man... 1744 01:40:45,289 --> 01:40:47,124 ...and we were urging him to resign. 1745 01:40:47,333 --> 01:40:51,086 Why? To avoid bringing disgrace upon a clean and honorable state. 1746 01:40:51,295 --> 01:40:53,672 - But he refused! - Mr. President... 1747 01:40:53,881 --> 01:40:56,007 There is only one answer to a man like him. 1748 01:40:56,217 --> 01:40:59,928 The truth, which I rose and gave to this body. 1749 01:41:00,138 --> 01:41:01,596 Mr. President... 1750 01:41:01,806 --> 01:41:04,975 ...he is trying to blackmail this Senate as he tried to blackmail me. 1751 01:41:05,184 --> 01:41:08,645 To prevent his expulsion, he'll even try to hold up this Deficiency Bill... 1752 01:41:08,855 --> 01:41:11,690 ...vital to the country, which must be passed immediately! 1753 01:41:11,899 --> 01:41:13,734 Have I the floor? 1754 01:41:14,026 --> 01:41:17,070 I have lost all patience with this brazen character. 1755 01:41:17,280 --> 01:41:19,948 I apologize to this body for his appointment. 1756 01:41:20,158 --> 01:41:23,660 I regret I ever knew him. I'm sick of this contemptible young man. 1757 01:41:23,870 --> 01:41:26,913 And I refuse to stay here and listen to him any longer. 1758 01:41:27,123 --> 01:41:30,041 I hope every member of this body feels as I do. 1759 01:41:30,251 --> 01:41:32,419 Get off the floor! Yield the floor! 1760 01:41:34,422 --> 01:41:38,717 Gentlemen! Gentlemen, please address the chair! 1761 01:41:38,926 --> 01:41:41,595 Mr. President, what does the gentleman want of this body? 1762 01:41:41,804 --> 01:41:42,971 I'll tell you, sir! 1763 01:41:43,181 --> 01:41:45,557 I want a chance to talk to people who'll believe me. 1764 01:41:45,767 --> 01:41:48,435 The people of my state, they know me and they know Mr. Taylor. 1765 01:41:48,644 --> 01:41:50,604 When they hear my story, they'll rise up... 1766 01:41:50,813 --> 01:41:53,398 ...and kick Taylor's machine to kingdom come. 1767 01:41:53,608 --> 01:41:56,067 I want one week to go back there and bring you proof. 1768 01:41:56,277 --> 01:41:58,528 In the meantime, I want this Senate's promise... 1769 01:41:58,738 --> 01:42:01,656 ...that I won't be expelled and this bill will not be passed. 1770 01:42:01,866 --> 01:42:03,700 - Will the senator yield? - For a question. 1771 01:42:03,910 --> 01:42:07,412 Has the gentleman the effrontery to stand, convicted and in disgrace... 1772 01:42:07,622 --> 01:42:09,998 ...and try to force postponement of the Deficiency Bill? 1773 01:42:10,208 --> 01:42:11,833 - For one week. - Mr. President! 1774 01:42:12,043 --> 01:42:13,710 I appeal to the senator. 1775 01:42:13,920 --> 01:42:17,214 Is he fully aware that this bill has been months in both Houses... 1776 01:42:17,423 --> 01:42:19,090 ...delayed and delayed? 1777 01:42:19,300 --> 01:42:21,218 Millions will be without food and shelter. 1778 01:42:21,427 --> 01:42:24,971 - Public works will be at a standstill! - Will we keep relief from the country? 1779 01:42:25,181 --> 01:42:28,475 The people of my state need relief from crooked men riding their backs! 1780 01:42:28,684 --> 01:42:30,352 Mr. President, if the Senate yields... 1781 01:42:30,561 --> 01:42:33,438 ...to this sort to blackmail, it'll become a laughingstock. 1782 01:42:33,648 --> 01:42:35,816 It is an insult to this body to have to listen. 1783 01:42:36,025 --> 01:42:38,068 An insult to our colleague, Senator Paine. 1784 01:42:38,277 --> 01:42:40,445 I, for one, will follow the senator's example... 1785 01:42:40,655 --> 01:42:44,449 ...and refuse to remain in this chamber as long as that man holds the floor! 1786 01:42:55,294 --> 01:42:56,878 Order, gentlemen! 1787 01:42:58,256 --> 01:43:01,925 I guess I'll have to speak to the people of my state from right here! 1788 01:43:03,511 --> 01:43:04,553 I'll tell you... 1789 01:43:04,762 --> 01:43:07,097 ...wild horses won't drag me off this floor until those... 1790 01:43:07,306 --> 01:43:10,642 ...people have heard everything I've got to say, if it takes all winter! 1791 01:43:16,816 --> 01:43:18,441 Filibuster! 1792 01:43:32,415 --> 01:43:34,958 Well, Mr. President, we seem to be alone. 1793 01:43:37,169 --> 01:43:40,505 I'm not complaining for social reason, it's just... 1794 01:43:40,715 --> 01:43:44,801 I think it'd be a pity if these gentlemen missed any of this. And... 1795 01:43:59,442 --> 01:44:02,402 I call the chair's attention to... 1796 01:44:04,113 --> 01:44:07,782 ...to Rule Five of the Standing Rules of the Senate. 1797 01:44:07,992 --> 01:44:10,160 Section... Section Three. 1798 01:44:10,369 --> 01:44:12,913 "If it shall be found that a quorum is not present... 1799 01:44:13,122 --> 01:44:15,749 ...a majority of the senators present..." 1800 01:44:16,459 --> 01:44:18,084 And that looks like me. 1801 01:44:21,088 --> 01:44:24,424 "...may direct the sergeant at arms to request, and if necessary... 1802 01:44:24,634 --> 01:44:27,636 ...compel the attendance of the absent senators." 1803 01:44:28,429 --> 01:44:30,764 Well, Mr. President, I so direct. 1804 01:44:35,436 --> 01:44:38,480 The absence of a quorum being suggested. 1805 01:44:39,815 --> 01:44:41,983 - Bring the call to quorum. - Call to quorum. 1806 01:44:43,152 --> 01:44:46,237 There's no hurry, Mr. President. I got plenty of time. 1807 01:44:50,451 --> 01:44:53,161 Quorum call! Call to quorum! 1808 01:45:00,795 --> 01:45:02,796 All senators wanted on the floor! 1809 01:45:05,800 --> 01:45:07,717 Clerk will call the roll. 1810 01:45:07,927 --> 01:45:09,928 - Mr. Agnew. - Here. 1811 01:45:10,137 --> 01:45:11,596 Mr. Albert. 1812 01:45:11,806 --> 01:45:12,931 Mr. Alfred. 1813 01:45:13,140 --> 01:45:14,724 - Mr. Ashman. - Here. 1814 01:45:15,309 --> 01:45:18,812 Joe, get this! Smith got the floor and is holding it. 1815 01:45:19,021 --> 01:45:22,148 - Just as they were about to kick him out! - He did it, Diz. It's wonderful! 1816 01:45:22,358 --> 01:45:23,775 It was terrific! 1817 01:45:23,985 --> 01:45:27,237 A filibuster! This is the miracle I wanted. What a yarn! 1818 01:45:27,446 --> 01:45:29,614 Get everything he says back to that home state. 1819 01:45:29,824 --> 01:45:32,951 - It's a pleasure! - They're going to hear this in Patagonia. 1820 01:45:33,160 --> 01:45:35,787 In protest, the whole Senate body walked out! 1821 01:45:35,997 --> 01:45:37,789 Not that straight stuff. Kick it up. 1822 01:45:37,999 --> 01:45:39,958 Get on his side. Fight for him, understand? 1823 01:45:40,167 --> 01:45:41,668 You love this monkey, don't you? 1824 01:45:41,877 --> 01:45:44,879 What do you think? Now go to work. Do as I tell you. 1825 01:45:45,172 --> 01:45:47,966 Take this: This is the most titanic battle of modern times. 1826 01:45:48,175 --> 01:45:50,635 A David without even a slingshot rises to battle... 1827 01:45:50,845 --> 01:45:52,846 ...against the mighty Goliath, the Taylor machine... 1828 01:45:53,055 --> 01:45:55,223 ...allegedly crooked inside and out. 1829 01:45:55,433 --> 01:45:58,268 Yeah. For my money you can cut out the "allegedly." 1830 01:45:58,477 --> 01:46:00,228 We're bringing everybody up from headquarters. 1831 01:46:00,438 --> 01:46:03,398 Where are they? Come on, get these telegraphs moving! 1832 01:46:04,900 --> 01:46:06,609 - You get Hendricks? - They're looking for him. 1833 01:46:06,819 --> 01:46:08,319 "They're looking for him." An editor. 1834 01:46:08,529 --> 01:46:10,280 Why isn't he at his desk, where he belongs? 1835 01:46:10,489 --> 01:46:12,657 Don't you think you better get back to that Senate? 1836 01:46:12,867 --> 01:46:14,701 The boy's talking to that state. 1837 01:46:14,910 --> 01:46:16,995 If he can raise public opinion against us... 1838 01:46:17,204 --> 01:46:19,039 He'll never get started. 1839 01:46:19,248 --> 01:46:22,667 I'll make public opinion within 5 hours. I've done it all my life. 1840 01:46:22,877 --> 01:46:24,878 I'll blacken this punk so... 1841 01:46:25,463 --> 01:46:26,921 Leave public opinion to me. 1842 01:46:27,131 --> 01:46:30,675 Now, go back into the Senate and keep those senators lined up. 1843 01:46:30,885 --> 01:46:33,595 I hit him from the floor with everything I knew. 1844 01:46:35,097 --> 01:46:37,182 I haven't got the stomach for it anymore. 1845 01:46:37,391 --> 01:46:41,853 If he convinces those senators, you might as well blow your brains out. 1846 01:46:42,063 --> 01:46:43,271 This is the works, Joe! 1847 01:46:43,481 --> 01:46:45,982 Either we're out of business or we're bigger than ever. 1848 01:46:46,192 --> 01:46:49,778 We can't stop at anything until we smash this yokel... 1849 01:46:49,987 --> 01:46:52,697 - Hendricks on the phone. - Go back to the Senate, will you? 1850 01:46:52,907 --> 01:46:55,533 Hello, Hendricks. Well, the chips are down. 1851 01:46:55,743 --> 01:46:59,496 Keep everything that Smith says, or any other pro-Smith stuff... 1852 01:46:59,705 --> 01:47:01,956 ...out of all our newspapers. Understand? 1853 01:47:02,166 --> 01:47:04,751 And all the others you can line up in the state. 1854 01:47:05,961 --> 01:47:09,881 Those broken-down opposition papers, who won't play ball with us... 1855 01:47:10,091 --> 01:47:12,759 ...I want you to tie up for 24 hours. 1856 01:47:13,552 --> 01:47:16,971 Stall their deliveries. Push them off the street. I don't care! 1857 01:47:17,181 --> 01:47:19,557 Bury them for 24 hours. That'll give me plenty of time. 1858 01:47:19,767 --> 01:47:22,727 And you defend the machine. Hit this guy! 1859 01:47:22,937 --> 01:47:26,189 The usual thing. Criminal, and blocking a relief bill... 1860 01:47:26,398 --> 01:47:27,899 ...and starving the people. 1861 01:47:28,109 --> 01:47:30,360 Joe, will you get back into that Senate? 1862 01:47:33,197 --> 01:47:35,198 And Hendricks, get the hoi polloi excited. 1863 01:47:35,407 --> 01:47:38,451 Have them send protest letters, wires, anything you like. 1864 01:47:38,661 --> 01:47:41,746 Buy every minute you can of every radio station in the state... 1865 01:47:41,956 --> 01:47:43,873 ...and keep them spouting against Smith. 1866 01:47:44,083 --> 01:47:45,750 I don't care what it costs. Pay out. 1867 01:47:45,960 --> 01:47:47,752 Get moving. Get the whole state moving! 1868 01:47:53,384 --> 01:47:56,261 This filibuster is a cowardly attempt to turn your attention... 1869 01:47:56,470 --> 01:47:59,180 ...from the true facts which are beyond question. 1870 01:47:59,390 --> 01:48:02,392 Jefferson Smith was caught red-handed, stealing from boys. 1871 01:48:02,601 --> 01:48:05,186 Relief will be stopped. Men thrown out of jobs. 1872 01:48:15,406 --> 01:48:18,575 - I've seen filibustering, but... - Smith can't go on. It's ridiculous. 1873 01:48:18,784 --> 01:48:20,869 We've got to get him off the floor. 1874 01:48:21,078 --> 01:48:24,581 As long as Mr. Smith holds that floor legitimately... 1875 01:48:24,790 --> 01:48:26,499 ...he's going to continue to hold it. 1876 01:48:26,709 --> 01:48:29,127 If you ask me, that fellow's making sense. 1877 01:48:29,336 --> 01:48:32,005 Sense? You call blackmail sense, Henry? 1878 01:48:32,214 --> 01:48:34,841 Joe, I didn't like this boy from the beginning. 1879 01:48:35,050 --> 01:48:36,801 But we feel that no man who wasn't sincere... 1880 01:48:37,011 --> 01:48:39,053 ...could fight like this against these odds. 1881 01:48:39,263 --> 01:48:41,097 I'm very glad to know that, Martin. 1882 01:48:41,307 --> 01:48:44,726 After 20 years, I'm very glad to know you'd take his word against mine. 1883 01:48:44,935 --> 01:48:46,853 Yes, that's what it means! 1884 01:48:47,062 --> 01:48:49,022 If he's that much right, then I'm wrong. 1885 01:48:49,231 --> 01:48:51,608 Joe, can't we work out some deal... 1886 01:48:51,817 --> 01:48:55,028 ...to pull that Willet Dam out and let the Deficiency Bill go through? 1887 01:48:55,237 --> 01:48:56,905 It isn't a question of Willet Dam. 1888 01:48:57,114 --> 01:48:59,324 It's a question of my honor and reputation. 1889 01:48:59,533 --> 01:49:03,620 The integrity of the Committee, the integrity of the Senate itself. 1890 01:49:03,829 --> 01:49:05,914 If you want to throw out Section 40, go ahead. 1891 01:49:06,123 --> 01:49:09,125 - I'll resign. - Now, wait a minute, Joe. 1892 01:49:09,335 --> 01:49:11,002 This is a lot of nonsense. 1893 01:49:11,212 --> 01:49:13,671 Joe's right. A deal is impossible. 1894 01:49:13,881 --> 01:49:15,340 We've got to go on with this. 1895 01:49:15,549 --> 01:49:17,425 Break him, keep him talking. 1896 01:49:17,635 --> 01:49:20,762 No relief. Maintain a quorum in relays. 1897 01:49:20,971 --> 01:49:23,264 - Is that how you feel, John? - I agree with you. 1898 01:49:23,474 --> 01:49:25,058 It's time to relieve the floor. 1899 01:49:25,267 --> 01:49:28,102 How a man that green knows as much as he does... 1900 01:49:28,312 --> 01:49:29,479 Can't go on much longer. 1901 01:49:29,688 --> 01:49:33,233 "...that they're entitled by their creator with certain inalienable rights. 1902 01:49:33,442 --> 01:49:36,319 And that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of..." 1903 01:49:39,406 --> 01:49:41,824 Well, looks like the night shift's coming on. 1904 01:49:44,828 --> 01:49:48,248 Senator will please suspend until order is restored. 1905 01:49:56,757 --> 01:49:58,424 This is H.V. Coltenborn speaking. 1906 01:49:58,634 --> 01:50:01,427 Half of official Washington is here to see democracy's finest show... 1907 01:50:01,637 --> 01:50:04,430 ...the filibuster: The right to talk your head off. 1908 01:50:04,640 --> 01:50:07,767 The American privilege of free speech in its most dramatic form. 1909 01:50:07,977 --> 01:50:09,936 The least man in that chamber... 1910 01:50:10,145 --> 01:50:12,563 ...once he gets and holds that floor, by the rules... 1911 01:50:12,773 --> 01:50:15,775 ...can hold it and talk as long as he can stand on his feet. 1912 01:50:15,985 --> 01:50:18,778 Providing always that he does not sit down... 1913 01:50:18,988 --> 01:50:22,156 ...and that he does not leave the chamber or stop talking. 1914 01:50:22,366 --> 01:50:23,658 The galleries are packed. 1915 01:50:23,867 --> 01:50:27,287 In the diplomatic gallery are the envoys of two dictator powers. 1916 01:50:27,496 --> 01:50:30,123 They have come here to see what they can't see at home... 1917 01:50:30,332 --> 01:50:31,791 ...democracy in action. 1918 01:50:32,835 --> 01:50:34,836 "...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... 1919 01:50:35,045 --> 01:50:38,256 ...and to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men... 1920 01:50:38,465 --> 01:50:41,467 ...deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... 1921 01:50:41,677 --> 01:50:45,471 ...that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends... 1922 01:50:45,681 --> 01:50:49,225 ...it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it." 1923 01:50:49,685 --> 01:50:51,019 How am I doing? 1924 01:50:54,356 --> 01:50:56,691 - Quit stalling and move! - Clark, Jim. 1925 01:50:56,900 --> 01:50:58,651 - Oh, Clark... - Mr. Taylor? 1926 01:50:58,861 --> 01:51:00,069 Yes, wait a minute. 1927 01:51:00,279 --> 01:51:01,863 Phone Senator Paine about it. 1928 01:51:02,072 --> 01:51:05,325 This is Jim Taylor in Washington. About this Smith filibuster. 1929 01:51:05,534 --> 01:51:09,454 Newspapers in the Southwest must realize that this bill he's trying to block... 1930 01:51:09,663 --> 01:51:11,331 ...will affect your section as well as any. 1931 01:51:11,540 --> 01:51:13,333 It's the patriotic duty of every newspaper... 1932 01:51:13,542 --> 01:51:14,876 Wait a minute. Yes? 1933 01:51:15,085 --> 01:51:16,461 - Jackson City calling. - Hold them! 1934 01:51:16,670 --> 01:51:19,422 We've got to keep hammering at this man until we smash him! 1935 01:51:20,466 --> 01:51:23,760 I get a great kick out of that part of the Declaration of Independence. 1936 01:51:24,219 --> 01:51:27,388 You're not going to have a country that can make these rules work... 1937 01:51:27,598 --> 01:51:30,683 ...if you haven't got men that have learned to tell human rights... 1938 01:51:30,893 --> 01:51:32,477 ...from a punch in the nose. 1939 01:51:37,149 --> 01:51:38,649 That's good for a headline. 1940 01:51:38,859 --> 01:51:41,235 It's a funny thing about men, you know. 1941 01:51:41,445 --> 01:51:43,321 They all start life being boys. 1942 01:51:44,907 --> 01:51:47,617 I wouldn't be surprised if these senators were boys once. 1943 01:51:47,826 --> 01:51:49,952 That's why it seemed like a good idea... 1944 01:51:50,162 --> 01:51:51,913 ...to get the boys out of crowded cities... 1945 01:51:52,122 --> 01:51:54,874 ...and stuffy basements for a couple of months out of the year... 1946 01:51:55,084 --> 01:51:57,627 ...and build their bodies and minds for a man-sized job... 1947 01:51:57,836 --> 01:52:00,588 ...because they're going to be behind these desks someday. 1948 01:52:01,673 --> 01:52:04,759 It seemed like a good idea, getting boys from all over the country. 1949 01:52:04,968 --> 01:52:08,471 Boys of all nationalities and ways of living. 1950 01:52:08,680 --> 01:52:10,223 Getting them together... 1951 01:52:10,432 --> 01:52:13,142 ...let them find out what makes different people tick. 1952 01:52:13,352 --> 01:52:16,479 Because I wouldn't give you 2 cents for all your rules... 1953 01:52:16,688 --> 01:52:21,109 ...if behind them they didn't have a little ordinary everyday kindness... 1954 01:52:21,318 --> 01:52:25,071 ...and a little looking out for the other fellow too. 1955 01:52:33,372 --> 01:52:35,832 That's pretty important, all that. 1956 01:52:37,501 --> 01:52:40,378 It's just the blood and bone and sinew of this democracy... 1957 01:52:40,587 --> 01:52:43,589 ...that some great men handed down to the human race, that's all! 1958 01:52:43,799 --> 01:52:47,009 But if you've got to build a dam where that boys' camp ought to be... 1959 01:52:47,219 --> 01:52:51,556 ...to pay off some political army, that's a different thing. Oh, no! 1960 01:52:51,765 --> 01:52:55,059 If you think I'm going back and tell those boys in my state: 1961 01:52:55,269 --> 01:52:57,145 "Fellows, forget about it. 1962 01:52:57,354 --> 01:53:01,232 All I've been telling you about the land you live in is a lot of hooey. 1963 01:53:01,442 --> 01:53:05,695 This isn't your country. It belongs to a lot of James Taylors." No, not me. 1964 01:53:05,904 --> 01:53:09,282 Anybody here that thinks I'd do that, they got another thing coming! 1965 01:53:18,667 --> 01:53:21,586 I just wanted to find out if you still had faces. 1966 01:53:28,218 --> 01:53:30,470 Oh, I'm sorry, gentlemen. 1967 01:53:31,889 --> 01:53:35,933 I know I'm being disrespectful to this honorable body. 1968 01:53:36,143 --> 01:53:40,396 A guy like me should never be allowed to get in here in the first place. 1969 01:53:40,606 --> 01:53:44,942 And I hate to stand here and try your patience like this, but I... 1970 01:53:45,152 --> 01:53:47,862 Either I'm dead right or I'm crazy! 1971 01:53:48,071 --> 01:53:51,365 You wouldn't care to put that to a vote, would you, senator? 1972 01:53:53,660 --> 01:53:56,412 - Will the senator yield for a question? - I yield. 1973 01:53:56,622 --> 01:53:59,332 In view of the gentlemen's touching concern for the senators... 1974 01:53:59,541 --> 01:54:02,335 ...and the fact that he's been talking for 7 and one half hours... 1975 01:54:02,544 --> 01:54:04,587 ...and must be very, very tired... 1976 01:54:04,796 --> 01:54:07,131 ...would he permit a motion to recess until the morning... 1977 01:54:07,341 --> 01:54:11,719 ...at which time he may better continue with his profound babblings. 1978 01:54:11,929 --> 01:54:13,554 No. No, don't! 1979 01:54:17,017 --> 01:54:18,059 Ask him! 1980 01:54:25,859 --> 01:54:28,611 Mr. President, what happens in the morning... 1981 01:54:28,820 --> 01:54:30,279 ...I mean, about my... 1982 01:54:30,489 --> 01:54:33,616 ...having this floor to go on with my "babblings"? 1983 01:54:33,825 --> 01:54:36,619 If the senator permits this motion for a recess... 1984 01:54:36,828 --> 01:54:40,331 ...he won't have the floor in the morning to babble with or anything else... 1985 01:54:40,541 --> 01:54:44,293 ...unless he is recognized first by this chair. 1986 01:54:52,052 --> 01:54:54,095 As I was saying, gentlemen... 1987 01:54:54,930 --> 01:54:56,973 ...I'm either dead right or I'm crazy... 1988 01:54:57,182 --> 01:54:59,016 ...and I feel fine. 1989 01:54:59,226 --> 01:55:01,978 - What have you got, Dick? - From Miss Saunders. 1990 01:55:28,422 --> 01:55:30,423 Is the senator yielding the floor? 1991 01:55:32,593 --> 01:55:35,886 Yield? Oh, no. Oh, no! 1992 01:55:36,096 --> 01:55:38,389 I feel fine! 1993 01:55:40,475 --> 01:55:43,436 The Constitution of the United States. 1994 01:55:49,776 --> 01:55:52,445 Page one, top left-hand corner. 1995 01:55:52,904 --> 01:55:56,532 "We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union..." 1996 01:55:56,742 --> 01:55:58,618 Yeah? Well, buy it or wreck it! 1997 01:55:59,202 --> 01:56:02,663 - Brady's column too? Holy smokes! - What's the matter? 1998 01:56:02,873 --> 01:56:05,124 This is murder, you got to call him off. 1999 01:56:05,334 --> 01:56:07,293 - He's getting nowhere. - What are you talking about? 2000 01:56:07,502 --> 01:56:09,837 Not one word of what he says is being printed in that state. 2001 01:56:10,047 --> 01:56:11,255 Oh, no! 2002 01:56:11,465 --> 01:56:13,758 Taylor has practically every paper in the state lined up... 2003 01:56:13,967 --> 01:56:15,551 ...and he's feeding them doctored-up junk! 2004 01:56:15,761 --> 01:56:18,846 - One man muzzling a whole state? - And how! 2005 01:56:19,097 --> 01:56:21,182 Freedom of the press! 2006 01:56:23,101 --> 01:56:25,311 Wait a minute! I've got an idea! 2007 01:56:26,605 --> 01:56:29,607 Jeff has a paper there, Boy Stuff, right? 2008 01:56:30,108 --> 01:56:31,525 - Terrific! - Look. 2009 01:56:31,735 --> 01:56:34,487 They aren't letting what Jeff says get printed in the state. 2010 01:56:34,696 --> 01:56:36,781 If I give you a raft over the phone now... 2011 01:56:36,990 --> 01:56:38,783 Write me a front-page raft, Diz. 2012 01:56:38,992 --> 01:56:40,451 Can you print it out... 2013 01:56:40,661 --> 01:56:42,953 ...and spread a billion copies of it? 2014 01:56:43,163 --> 01:56:44,455 Swell! 2015 01:56:44,665 --> 01:56:46,499 Get ready to take it down, will you, Mrs. Smith? 2016 01:56:46,792 --> 01:56:47,958 All right. 2017 01:56:48,168 --> 01:56:51,003 Boys, everything about Jeff. Get pencils and paper, quick! 2018 01:56:52,589 --> 01:56:54,048 All right, here we go! 2019 01:56:54,257 --> 01:56:58,010 - All ready, Clarissa. - She called me Clarissa! 2020 01:56:58,679 --> 01:57:00,554 Okay, Ma! 2021 01:57:01,556 --> 01:57:03,724 "Jeff Tells Truth. 2022 01:57:04,101 --> 01:57:05,476 Shows Up Taylor." 2023 01:57:05,686 --> 01:57:08,312 I want the whole morning edition. Push him off the floor! 2024 01:57:08,522 --> 01:57:10,523 Start your campaign for protests. Wired! 2025 01:57:10,732 --> 01:57:14,110 "Willet Dam is a fraud to line the pockets of the Taylor machine." 2026 01:57:14,319 --> 01:57:17,071 Here's your front-page editorial. Wait! 2027 01:57:17,280 --> 01:57:20,449 "A convicted thief representing you holds the floor of the United States Senate." 2028 01:57:20,659 --> 01:57:22,243 All right, boys. Hurry up! 2029 01:57:22,452 --> 01:57:24,704 She said rush! Get cracking now! 2030 01:57:33,839 --> 01:57:35,965 Come on! Bring on the paper! 2031 01:58:14,254 --> 01:58:17,673 "...charity wanteth not itself... 2032 01:58:18,258 --> 01:58:19,800 ...is not propped up... 2033 01:58:22,512 --> 01:58:25,639 ...and now abideth faith... 2034 01:58:25,849 --> 01:58:28,934 ...hope, charity... 2035 01:58:29,144 --> 01:58:30,728 ...these three. 2036 01:58:32,898 --> 01:58:35,733 The greatest of these is charity." 2037 01:59:18,026 --> 01:59:19,068 Read about Jeff. 2038 01:59:19,277 --> 01:59:21,654 Boy's Stuffcirculars. Peddled by 9 million kids. 2039 01:59:21,863 --> 01:59:25,282 What are you standing there for? Get the boys out! Kill it! 2040 01:59:28,537 --> 01:59:29,954 BOY RANGERS 2041 01:59:39,339 --> 01:59:41,507 Get these papers out of here. 2042 01:59:47,138 --> 01:59:49,974 Read all about it! Jeff Smith lies in Senate! 2043 02:00:04,489 --> 02:00:05,531 Wire Congress! 2044 02:00:10,745 --> 02:00:14,540 Are we going to let a man like Jeff throw mud at a man like Joe Paine? 2045 02:00:16,459 --> 02:00:17,751 Are you for Joe Paine? 2046 02:00:21,339 --> 02:00:23,257 Hurray for Jeff Smith! 2047 02:00:38,690 --> 02:00:40,608 Children hurt all over the city. 2048 02:00:40,817 --> 02:00:41,901 Tell Jeff to stop! 2049 02:00:42,110 --> 02:00:44,528 Yes. Yes, all right. 2050 02:00:44,738 --> 02:00:46,780 Yes. Goodbye. 2051 02:00:48,700 --> 02:00:52,161 "Senator Smith has now talked for 23 hours and 16 minutes. 2052 02:00:52,370 --> 02:00:55,122 The most unusual and spectacular thing in the Senate annuls. 2053 02:00:55,332 --> 02:00:58,542 One lone and simple American holding the greatest floor in the land. 2054 02:00:58,752 --> 02:01:01,587 What he lacked in experience, he's made up in fight. 2055 02:01:01,796 --> 02:01:04,298 But those tired Boy Ranger legs are buckling. 2056 02:01:04,507 --> 02:01:06,258 Bleary-eyed, voice gone. 2057 02:01:06,468 --> 02:01:09,261 He can't go on much longer. And all official Washington... 2058 02:01:09,471 --> 02:01:11,347 ...is here to be in on the kill." 2059 02:01:12,265 --> 02:01:14,725 There's no compromise with truth. 2060 02:01:14,935 --> 02:01:18,103 That's all I got up on this floor to say. 2061 02:01:18,313 --> 02:01:19,813 When was it? 2062 02:01:20,732 --> 02:01:21,982 A year ago, it seems like. 2063 02:01:22,192 --> 02:01:24,777 Terrible things are happening. I've got to stop him. 2064 02:01:24,986 --> 02:01:26,946 They're listening to him. Anything might happen now. 2065 02:01:27,155 --> 02:01:30,574 Just get up off the ground. That's all I ask. 2066 02:01:30,784 --> 02:01:34,078 Get up there with that lady that's on top of this Capitol dome. 2067 02:01:34,287 --> 02:01:36,413 That lady that stands for liberty. 2068 02:01:37,248 --> 02:01:40,376 Look at this country through her eyes if you want to see something. 2069 02:01:41,711 --> 02:01:43,671 But you won't just see scenery. 2070 02:01:43,880 --> 02:01:46,674 You'll see the whole parade of what man's carved out for himself... 2071 02:01:46,883 --> 02:01:48,926 ...after centuries of fighting. 2072 02:01:49,386 --> 02:01:52,096 Fighting for something better than just jungle law. 2073 02:01:52,430 --> 02:01:56,225 Fighting so he can stand on his own two feet, free and decent... 2074 02:01:56,434 --> 02:01:57,893 ...like he was created. 2075 02:01:58,103 --> 02:02:00,854 No matter what his race, color or creed. 2076 02:02:03,191 --> 02:02:04,775 That's what you'd see. 2077 02:02:06,069 --> 02:02:08,237 There's no place out there for graft... 2078 02:02:08,446 --> 02:02:10,280 ...or greed or lies... 2079 02:02:10,490 --> 02:02:13,200 ...or compromise with human liberties. 2080 02:02:13,410 --> 02:02:16,829 If that's what the grownups have done with this world... 2081 02:02:17,038 --> 02:02:18,998 ...we better get those boys' camps started fast... 2082 02:02:19,207 --> 02:02:21,250 ...and see what the kids can do. 2083 02:02:22,085 --> 02:02:23,919 It's not too late. 2084 02:02:24,421 --> 02:02:27,214 Because this country is bigger than the Taylors... 2085 02:02:27,424 --> 02:02:29,550 ...or you or me or anything else! 2086 02:02:31,344 --> 02:02:34,221 Great principles don't get lost once they come to light. 2087 02:02:34,431 --> 02:02:36,390 They're right here! 2088 02:02:36,599 --> 02:02:39,059 You just have to see them again. 2089 02:02:42,439 --> 02:02:45,774 Mr. President. Will the senator yield for a question? 2090 02:02:46,317 --> 02:02:48,235 Will Senator Smith yield to his colleague? 2091 02:02:48,445 --> 02:02:50,696 Yes, I yield for a question. 2092 02:02:50,905 --> 02:02:54,408 The senator has said he is speaking to the people of his state. 2093 02:02:54,617 --> 02:02:57,578 He has been waiting, as he so fancifully puts it... 2094 02:02:57,787 --> 02:03:00,247 ...for them to come marching here in droves. 2095 02:03:00,498 --> 02:03:03,625 Would the gentlemen be interested in what those people have to say? 2096 02:03:03,835 --> 02:03:05,419 Here it comes. 2097 02:03:05,628 --> 02:03:07,337 Yes, sir, you bet I would. 2098 02:03:08,840 --> 02:03:11,675 Mr. President. Have I permission to bring in... 2099 02:03:11,885 --> 02:03:13,927 ...evidence of the response of my state? 2100 02:03:14,137 --> 02:03:15,888 Is there objection? 2101 02:03:17,140 --> 02:03:19,224 - You may proceed, senator. - Pageboys! 2102 02:03:19,434 --> 02:03:21,185 Come on, boys, on your feet. 2103 02:03:55,220 --> 02:03:58,806 I can't stand it. I can't stand to see him hurt like this. 2104 02:03:59,015 --> 02:04:00,474 Public opinion made to order. 2105 02:04:00,683 --> 02:04:02,309 Taylor-made. 2106 02:04:02,519 --> 02:04:06,313 There it is. There's the gentleman's answer. 2107 02:04:06,523 --> 02:04:08,899 Telegrams. 50,000 of them... 2108 02:04:09,109 --> 02:04:10,651 ...demanding that he yield this floor. 2109 02:04:10,860 --> 02:04:12,402 I invite the Senate to read them. 2110 02:04:12,654 --> 02:04:14,363 I invite my colleague to read them. 2111 02:04:14,572 --> 02:04:17,366 The people's answer to Mr. Jefferson Smith. 2112 02:05:01,327 --> 02:05:03,245 Stop, Jeff! Stop! 2113 02:05:48,208 --> 02:05:51,710 I guess this is just another lost cause, Mr. Paine. 2114 02:05:56,925 --> 02:06:00,219 All you people don't know about lost causes. 2115 02:06:00,845 --> 02:06:02,387 Mr. Paine does. 2116 02:06:04,557 --> 02:06:08,060 He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for. 2117 02:06:08,561 --> 02:06:10,646 He fought for them once. 2118 02:06:11,147 --> 02:06:14,733 For the only reason that any man ever fights for them. 2119 02:06:17,987 --> 02:06:21,406 Because of just one plain, simple rule: 2120 02:06:22,242 --> 02:06:23,408 Love thy neighbor. 2121 02:06:25,203 --> 02:06:27,371 In this world today full of hatred... 2122 02:06:27,580 --> 02:06:30,749 ...a man who knows that one rule has a great trust. 2123 02:06:30,959 --> 02:06:33,585 You know that rule, Mr. Paine. 2124 02:06:34,170 --> 02:06:37,297 And I loved you for it, just as my father did. 2125 02:06:37,548 --> 02:06:40,968 And you know you fight for lost causes harder than for any others. 2126 02:06:41,511 --> 02:06:43,762 Yes, you even die for them. 2127 02:06:45,515 --> 02:06:48,100 Like a man we both knew, Mr. Paine. 2128 02:06:51,312 --> 02:06:53,105 You think I'm licked. 2129 02:06:55,358 --> 02:06:56,775 You all think I'm licked! 2130 02:06:58,653 --> 02:07:00,570 Well, I'm not licked! 2131 02:07:00,780 --> 02:07:03,865 I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause! 2132 02:07:04,075 --> 02:07:07,661 Even if this room gets filled with lies like these... 2133 02:07:08,496 --> 02:07:12,958 ...and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place. 2134 02:07:14,127 --> 02:07:16,295 Somebody will listen to me. 2135 02:07:24,679 --> 02:07:26,179 Oh, Jeff! 2136 02:07:39,819 --> 02:07:42,070 He's okay. He just fainted. 2137 02:07:45,241 --> 02:07:47,075 Okay. 2138 02:07:54,000 --> 02:07:55,625 - Let me go! - What's the matter, Joe? 2139 02:07:55,835 --> 02:07:58,086 I'm not fit to be a senator! I'm not fit to live! 2140 02:07:58,296 --> 02:08:01,173 Expel me! Expel me, not him! 2141 02:08:01,382 --> 02:08:04,843 Willy Taylor's a fraud! It's a crime against the people who sent me here. 2142 02:08:05,053 --> 02:08:07,554 I committed it! Every word that boy said is the truth! 2143 02:08:07,764 --> 02:08:09,765 Every word about Taylor and me and graft... 2144 02:08:09,974 --> 02:08:12,309 ...and the rotten political corruption in my state! 2145 02:08:12,518 --> 02:08:14,978 Every word of it is true! I'm not fit for office! 2146 02:08:15,188 --> 02:08:17,189 I'm not fit for any place of honor or trust! 2147 02:08:17,398 --> 02:08:19,274 Expel me, not that boy! 2148 02:08:28,451 --> 02:08:30,285 We did it! We did it! 2149 02:08:34,874 --> 02:08:37,000 Order gentlemen! Please! 2150 02:08:46,761 --> 02:08:49,596 - He did it! - Let go of me! 163570