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Thank you.
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Morning, son.
Good morning, senator.
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Thank you.
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Taxi!
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Sheraton Rark Hotel.
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Good morning, Senator Danta.
Good morning, Willoughby.
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Hold it.
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Why wasn't I let in on this?
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May I help you?
Dot, Senator Munson.
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Oh, just a moment, senator.
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Good morning, Bobby.
How are you this morning?
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You know how I am
this morning, Mr. Rresident.
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I guess I'm in for it, aren't I?
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That's a hell of a thing to do
without talking to me.
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Bobby, it's been over two weeks
since Shepherd died.
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We couldn't go on forever without
a secretary of state. I had to get it done.
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What was the matter
with the list of men we agreed on?
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No, not one of them can really fill the bill.
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Robert Leffingwell can.
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You know how valuable he's been to me.
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Sure, he's great. But the man's got more
enemies in Congress than anybody.
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He's never played ball with us, not even
the most ordinary, political-courtesy kind.
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Well, maybe that's the reason I want him.
He doesn't waste his time on trifles.
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Mr. Rresident, a United States senator
is not a trifle.
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That's a joke, Bobby.
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Fine. But Leffingwell's no joke.
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And I have to stuff him down
the Senate's throat.
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Now, look, I knew we were running a risk,
but I want him.
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He can give us some creative
statesmanship, and God knows we need it.
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Oh, come on, now.
What's our toughest problem?
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You want me to talk
to Warren Strickland?
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There's no point talking
to the minority leader.
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Our troubles are coming
from our own party.
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Seab Cooley.
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We can work out a deal with old Seab.
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He says we can work out a deal with Seab.
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Who's with you?
Stanley Danta.
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Stan's always right there
on the job, isn't he?
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He's the best whip ever in the Senate.
Tell him I said so.
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He says you're the best whip
we've ever had.
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Tell him the best whip we've ever had
says Seab Cooley will trade for one thing:
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Leffingwell's head.
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What'd he say, Bob?
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That Seab won't trade on this,
and he's right.
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We've licked Cooley before.
We can do it again.
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Then we'd better get at it.
Suppose you start with Tom August.
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When did Tom become a Cooley man?
He isn't. He's not a Leffingwell man either.
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Since he's chair of Foreign Relations
we have to sweeten him up.
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I'll call him in right away.
Good luck, Bobby.
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Oh, boy.
You want off this one?
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I'm with you, Bob.
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There's no doubt
he's made a wild pitch...
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...but I'd like to back him up
all I can right now.
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Sure, I know.
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Hello, Bob, Stan.
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Good morning, senator.
Come on in.
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About 5'8", blond, a little cleft
in the chin, black dress, mink stole.
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Sorry. Didn't see anybody
answer to that description.
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Why don't you get married, Lafe?
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A United States senator should stabilize
with a good, solid marriage.
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If I did, I couldn't get elected.
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It's the unmarried mothers
who put me in office.
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Why don't you stabilize yourself?
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There's a difference between
widowers and bachelors.
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Widowers have more dignity.
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How do you feel about this lollapalooza?
I think the president's nuts to name him.
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But I'll vote for him.
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What about your friend Brig Anderson?
Think he'll jump the whale?
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Leffingwell scuttled his power bill.
Brig won't be influenced by that.
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Not on this.
I'm trying to count a few noses.
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Suppose you give Brig a ring to make sure.
If you like.
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Hello.
Hello, Warren? Good morning. Bob Munson.
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Beating the bushes early, aren't you, Bob?
I have a lot of bushes.
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It's your garden, friend, not ours.
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How many votes against Leffingwell
on your side of the aisle?
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Somewhere between 17 and 20.
That's giving him the benefit of the doubt.
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With the president's right
to name his cabinet?
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Try that line on the members of your
own party. Say, Seab Cooley.
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Hello, Brig? How's the boy?
Right in the middle of breakfast.
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What's on your mind, Lafe?
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Just wondered what you think about
the appointment. Crazy, huh?
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Think so?
Well, it's gonna be a rough one.
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I wouldn't be surprised.
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I thought you might be upset about it.
Why would I be upset?
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The trouble he gave you
on your power bill.
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That's right. He did, didn't he?
You mean it's okay?
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Is that what Bob Munson wants to know?
You got television on your phone?
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Just a second, Lafe.
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You going, baby?
Yeah.
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You still love me?
Yeah.
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How much?
That much.
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Time for her bus, Brig.
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Have a nice time in school today, honey.
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Lafe?
Yeah.
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Look, I'm not grinding
an ax for Leffingwell...
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...but I'm not gonna commit myself
right now either.
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I'd like to wait and hear what he has to say
at the committee hearing.
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Apart from that, I'm just gonna sit back
and watch Seab Cooley light up the sky.
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Had your fire and brimstone
this morning, Seab?
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Yes, sir, Mr. Majority Leader.
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Laced with hot bourbon
and branch water.
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I expect you can see the flames
coming out of my ears.
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Can we have a little talk?
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If you mean about
Mr. Robert A. Leffingwell...
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...it'd be a fruitless conversation.
The president, the party and I...
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...would take it as a favor
if you'd lay off.
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I honor the president, I love my party...
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...and I admire you, Mr. Majority Leader,
except where it crosses with my convictions.
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I believe Mr. Robert A. Leffingwell
will lead us straight to perdition.
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Come on, we know what's eating you.
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Leffingwell made a liar out of you
in a hearing five years ago.
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It's a long time to carry a grudge, Seab.
Maybe for a young fellow like you.
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In my table of time, it happened just
like yesterday. Good day, gentlemen.
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Scares you, doesn't it?
All that 40 years in the Senate.
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Good morning, Seab.
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I was just gonna call your office.
On the run, Fred.
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I know. We've all gotta hop for this one,
but we'll put Leffingwell over.
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Boy, he is it, Bob. He's really it.
He's a great man, a great talent.
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I'm throwing my organization behind this.
You got an organization?
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Are you kidding?
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Eight chapters in eight cities,
my peace organization.
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Who you making peace with?
The Kickapoo Indians?
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You find peace amusing?
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It's just that Stan's on the Indian Affairs
subcommittee, isn't it, Stan?
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I'll be with you in a minute.
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Fred, what do those guys do
besides strew roses in your path?
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Just my brain trust.
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You can't hold a senator's job
by kissing babies...
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...and shaking hands, you know. Bob...
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The hearing will go
to a subcommittee, right?
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I haven't any word from Tom August yet.
I don't know his plan.
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Well, if it does...
I say, if it does, I don't wanna push...
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Whoever's made subcommittee chair
should be pro-Leffingwell, right?
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Possibly.
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Well, I've done my share of the hack work.
I ought to be in line for a spot like this.
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Fred, right now I'm just trying
to get the situation in hand.
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I know, but I wanted
to get my bid in early.
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I've gotta fly to New York for the afternoon
and meet my eastern group.
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Suppose I call you later on?
Yeah. Do that. Call me.
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Van Ackerman's looking for a horse to ride.
He won't get it from me.
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He won't care.
He doesn't belong here, Bob.
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You'll have to cut him off the vine.
He'll fall off.
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Morning, Bess.
Morning, senator. Your calls.
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First, see if you can get me Leffingwell.
Yes, sir.
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Sir, 219 telegrams so far.
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Most of them favorable to Leffingwell.
Good.
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Good morning, senator.
Morning.
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Leffingwell residence.
Senator Munson calling Mr. Leffingwell.
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Senator Munson? Wait a minute.
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Dad, it's Senator Munson on the phone.
What?
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The phone. It's Senator Munson.
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Tell him I've gone out.
Why?
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Because he'll want me to do things
that might obligate me.
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Why do you want me to lie? If you're in,
you're in. If you're out, you're out.
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Son, this is a Washington, D.C.
kind of lie.
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That's when the other person knows you're
lying, and also knows you know he knows.
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Follow?
No.
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Senator Munson will understand.
Okay, if you say so.
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He's not here. He went out.
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Do you know where I might reach him?
No, ma'am.
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He didn't leave a forwarding address.
Oh, I see. Well, thank you.
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I can't reach Mr. Leffingwell, senator.
All right, Bess.
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I'll take these calls down the line.
Yes, sir.
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Wouldn't you think he'd know
we'd know he's dodging us?
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He might become the best
secretary of state we'll ever have.
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Want me to make you one of these?
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Thanks just the same.
It's good.
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Don't you wanna be secretary of state?
Think I should want to?
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Big job.
That's a fact.
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I think you ought to want it.
Why?
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Well, you know. All that trouble,
and war and stuff like that.
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Maybe you could do something about it.
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I'd like to try.
That's the way I'd figure it.
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It's worth a try.
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As you get to the top of the stairway,
look at the painting on the right.
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This painting portrays one of the worst
conflicts of the Mexican War.
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In this painting, it's interesting to note...
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...that Lieutenants Lee and Grant
fought side by side.
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They were classmates at West Roint,
as you know.
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The skylight came from Rhiladelphia.
It was placed there in 1859.
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The medallions in the skylight
are hand-painted.
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They were done by Gibson and Company
and placed there in 1859.
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Good morning, Max.
Miss Harrison, Lady Maudulayne.
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Good morning, Maxwell.
Max, this is Madame Barre.
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Her husband is the new
French ambassador.
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Welcome to the Senate, madame.
Thank you.
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Good morning, Lady Maudulayne.
Good morning.
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Good morning.
Good morning.
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Bob. How are you?
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Good morning, Orrin.
Everything all right?
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Bob, it's going around the Leffingwell
hearing might be set for tomorrow.
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That's rushing things, isn't it?
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As we need a secretary of state,
I wouldn't say it's rushing.
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Senator Strickland, wouldn't you say
that's sudden?
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Senator Munson's party is going to be
strongly divided on Leffingwell.
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Perhaps the senator would push it through
before that division ruptures.
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I wonder if the minority leader is qualified
to speak for the majority party.
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On the right of that aisle is the minority,
and on the left is the majority.
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All of those are left?
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Does America have so many leftists?
Oh, no, darling. It's purely geographical.
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I mean, they're all Republicans or Democrats.
No communists or anything of that sort.
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They do have liberal types,
but they don't necessarily sit on the left...
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...conservatives don't necessarily
sit on the right.
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Boys.
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Bill.
Aaron, nice to see you.
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That man, the one on the dais,
Harley Hudson.
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He's the vice president
of the United States.
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He's very attractive.
Yes, dear. Harley's very sweet.
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He's from one of those
odd little states, isn't he?
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He was governor of Delaware, you mean.
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He's the president of the Senate, Celestine.
But you said he's the vice president.
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It's confusing. We'd call him Lord
High Chamberlain or something sensible.
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It's very sensible. His job,
as vice president of the country...
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...is to preside over the Senate,
which makes him its president.
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Then he's also a senator.
No.
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He presides over the Senate,
but he's not a senator. He can't even vote.
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He can vote in case of a tie.
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The Senate will come to order.
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The chaplain will now offer prayer.
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Our Father, in these days
of stress and strain...
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...when men are called upon
to bear great burdens...
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...give this Senate the strength
and charity...
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...to ascertain of each who would serve
his nation his true nature and purpose...
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...lest through inadvertence
and oversight...
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...there slip into seats of power,
those who would misguide...
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...and mislead this great people.
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Even the parson is getting into
the Leffingwell act.
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Your blessings, O Lord,
and help them to serve in your ways.
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Amen.
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Mr. President.
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Recognize the senior senator
from Michigan.
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I ask unanimous consent that the journal
of yesterday's proceedings be approved.
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Without objection? So ordered.
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Mr. Rresident, I suggest
the absence of a quorum.
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Absence of a quorum suggested.
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Clerk will call the roll.
Mr. Abbott...
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Finish your story. Bob's got the Linotype.
Somebody's bound to pop on Leffingwell.
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Call to the post early, huh?
239
00:18:47,617 --> 00:18:50,411
Better wake up, Senator McCafferty.
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Senator, quorum call.
Opposed, sir. Diametrically opposed.
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00:18:58,086 --> 00:19:00,797
No, no, senator. It's a quorum call.
242
00:19:02,674 --> 00:19:05,593
Mr. Ardell.
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Mr. Ashley.
Here.
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Take over for a few minutes?
Oh, sure.
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00:19:11,307 --> 00:19:13,101
Mr. Bellingham?
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00:19:13,268 --> 00:19:16,896
Mr. Bender of California?
Present.
247
00:19:17,063 --> 00:19:22,235
Bob? Where's Seab?
Oh, he'll make an entrance pretty soon.
248
00:19:22,402 --> 00:19:26,406
Can I help with Leffingwell?
Can't think of a thing. We'll just mark time.
249
00:19:26,573 --> 00:19:29,075
I'll gladly talk to anybody you want me to.
250
00:19:29,242 --> 00:19:31,828
Excuse me.
Tom August came from the White House.
251
00:19:31,995 --> 00:19:34,539
In the cloak room.
Sit in for me.
252
00:19:34,706 --> 00:19:38,501
What's going on, Stan?
Oh, hi, Harley. Looks like a bumpy day.
253
00:19:38,668 --> 00:19:41,462
I was asking Bob if I could do
anything to help.
254
00:19:41,629 --> 00:19:43,131
Filling up, huh?
255
00:19:43,339 --> 00:19:45,717
Funny how they can always
smell gunpowder.
256
00:19:45,884 --> 00:19:47,385
Yeah.
257
00:19:47,552 --> 00:19:52,015
Did I tell you I murdered my wife last night,
buried her under a kumquat bush?
258
00:19:52,181 --> 00:19:55,727
Oh, well... Easy come, easy go.
259
00:19:55,894 --> 00:19:57,896
What? What did you say?
260
00:19:58,062 --> 00:20:03,026
I said I might as well get up there
and let the tourists rubberneck at me.
261
00:20:03,192 --> 00:20:07,280
I'm sorry, Harley.
All right. Forget it. Forget it.
262
00:20:07,572 --> 00:20:09,324
Excuse me.
Sure.
263
00:20:10,074 --> 00:20:13,161
Hello, Bob.
Morning, Tom.
264
00:20:13,661 --> 00:20:16,497
The president wants a closed hearing.
265
00:20:17,123 --> 00:20:18,833
That's impossible.
266
00:20:19,042 --> 00:20:23,004
Cooley would find a way to open it up
if he had to use a can opener.
267
00:20:23,212 --> 00:20:24,964
That's what I told him.
268
00:20:25,131 --> 00:20:28,551
We'll have to name a subcommittee
and let it go at that.
269
00:20:28,718 --> 00:20:33,014
Who do you have in mind to chair it?
I thought Powell Hanson.
270
00:20:33,222 --> 00:20:35,808
It'll look like you're rigging it
for Leffingwell.
271
00:20:35,975 --> 00:20:38,519
Put him on the committee,
but not as chairman.
272
00:20:38,686 --> 00:20:41,731
It's got to be somebody
who can handle Cooley.
273
00:20:41,898 --> 00:20:44,484
What would you think
of Fred Van Ackerman?
274
00:20:44,651 --> 00:20:46,569
Caught you too, huh?
275
00:20:46,736 --> 00:20:49,697
Got me out of bed this morning.
Well?
276
00:20:49,864 --> 00:20:51,699
I don't know.
277
00:20:51,908 --> 00:20:54,118
The man has no tact.
278
00:20:54,285 --> 00:20:56,704
Of course, he could cope with Seab.
279
00:20:57,288 --> 00:21:00,041
So could Brig Anderson over there.
280
00:21:00,249 --> 00:21:02,043
I thought of Brig.
281
00:21:02,210 --> 00:21:05,630
But he's Fred Van Ackerman's junior.
Fred would split a gut.
282
00:21:05,797 --> 00:21:09,425
Let him split. Brig knows
how to be a senator.
283
00:21:09,592 --> 00:21:13,388
All right. Let's tag him and get organized.
284
00:21:16,265 --> 00:21:20,061
Brig, may we interrupt for a moment?
Sure.
285
00:21:20,228 --> 00:21:25,149
Brig, how would you feel about handling
the subcommittee on Leffingwell?
286
00:21:25,316 --> 00:21:27,068
I'd feel fine.
Bob.
287
00:21:27,235 --> 00:21:30,947
Orrin Knox is up on Leffingwell,
and Seab is warming up.
288
00:21:31,114 --> 00:21:33,574
Here we go, gentlemen.
289
00:21:38,121 --> 00:21:41,416
The president must have known
the reaction would be adverse...
290
00:21:41,624 --> 00:21:44,669
...for the name Leffingwell
is synonymous with arrogance...
291
00:21:44,836 --> 00:21:47,296
...and an eggheaded
determination to ignore...
292
00:21:47,463 --> 00:21:50,091
When have you let somebody
else do your dirty work?
293
00:21:50,299 --> 00:21:51,843
You mean Orrin Knox, Bob?
294
00:21:52,010 --> 00:21:56,973
You find Orrin doing somebody else's
dirty work, and that'll be a pretty do.
295
00:21:57,140 --> 00:22:01,936
The office of federal power committee...
This was a complete surprise.
296
00:22:02,103 --> 00:22:03,688
...which he now administrates.
297
00:22:03,855 --> 00:22:07,817
And in each of these, he has,
under the protection of the president...
298
00:22:07,984 --> 00:22:10,945
...gone his own way
without consultation...
299
00:22:11,154 --> 00:22:13,656
...with the appropriate committee
of the Senate.
300
00:22:13,823 --> 00:22:16,034
Mr. President, will the senator yield?
301
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,162
I will yield when I complete
the text of my statement.
302
00:22:19,328 --> 00:22:23,291
Mr. President, I only wish to ask the senator
how long he intends to speak.
303
00:22:23,499 --> 00:22:26,711
Was the senator planning to speak
for about 15 minutes?
304
00:22:26,878 --> 00:22:28,337
Nice try, Robert.
305
00:22:28,504 --> 00:22:33,468
Mr. Rresident, the esteemed majority leader
is trying to trap me into a time limit.
306
00:22:33,676 --> 00:22:36,429
Well, since he has trotted out
this wheezy device...
307
00:22:36,596 --> 00:22:39,640
...he must expect
the usual wheezy answer.
308
00:22:39,849 --> 00:22:43,061
I certainly expect to speak
longer than 15 minutes.
309
00:22:43,227 --> 00:22:46,481
Indeed, I may speak 15 hours.
Attaboy, Orrin.
310
00:22:46,689 --> 00:22:50,443
I might also say that I do not need any
coaching from the sidelines...
311
00:22:50,610 --> 00:22:53,446
...from the esteemed senator
from South Carolina.
312
00:22:53,613 --> 00:22:57,742
I would like to make it plain
that my opinions are my own...
313
00:22:57,909 --> 00:23:02,121
...and they do not reflect those
of the senator from South Carolina.
314
00:23:02,288 --> 00:23:06,000
Now, if I might continue
without interruption.
315
00:23:06,167 --> 00:23:10,129
This nomination is being handled
with an underhanded attempt...
316
00:23:10,338 --> 00:23:14,634
...to press the senator into silence and
railroad this nomination through Senate.
317
00:23:14,801 --> 00:23:18,221
Mr. President,
will the senator yield for a question?
318
00:23:18,387 --> 00:23:22,642
I have no intention of yielding to
the majority leader or the majority whip.
319
00:23:22,809 --> 00:23:25,895
They have no purpose but to block
criticism of Leffingwell.
320
00:23:26,062 --> 00:23:29,732
Will my good friend and colleague,
the distinguished senior senator...
321
00:23:29,899 --> 00:23:32,026
...from Illinois, yield the floor to me?
322
00:23:32,235 --> 00:23:35,988
Under the circumstances, and because
we see eye to eye in this matter...
323
00:23:36,155 --> 00:23:40,993
...I consider it a privilege to yield to the able
and respected senator from South Carolina.
324
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:47,291
Thank you, sir. Mr. Rresident, I must defend
my distinguished colleague from Illinois.
325
00:23:47,458 --> 00:23:50,920
It appears that he is beset
on every side by snarling enemies.
326
00:23:51,087 --> 00:23:56,217
Yet it was his intention only to give voice
to the simple complaint...
327
00:23:56,425 --> 00:23:59,095
...many of us feel on both sides
of the aisle.
328
00:23:59,262 --> 00:24:02,140
An honest revulsion...
329
00:24:02,306 --> 00:24:05,476
...at this nomination the president
has thrown in our teeth.
330
00:24:05,643 --> 00:24:07,937
Mr. President, will this senator yield?
331
00:24:08,104 --> 00:24:11,691
I'll not yield, sir, but I will say for you
what you'd say anyway...
332
00:24:11,858 --> 00:24:15,236
...that this is not the time
for personal imputations.
333
00:24:15,403 --> 00:24:17,864
Will that satisfy the senator?
334
00:24:19,073 --> 00:24:21,325
Was there no other man than this...
335
00:24:21,492 --> 00:24:23,995
...this Robert A. Leffingwell?
336
00:24:24,162 --> 00:24:29,542
Is our storehouse of brainpower
so impoverished, that for this office...
337
00:24:29,709 --> 00:24:33,254
...which can affect the destiny
of our nation, of the world...
338
00:24:33,462 --> 00:24:36,507
...there is no other man
but Robert A. Leffingwell?
339
00:24:36,674 --> 00:24:39,886
I find that hard, indeed,
impossible to believe.
340
00:24:40,052 --> 00:24:42,096
Will the distinguished senator yield?
341
00:24:42,263 --> 00:24:43,514
Well, now...
342
00:24:43,681 --> 00:24:46,767
...for my young, handsome...
343
00:24:46,976 --> 00:24:49,812
...and plenipotent colleague,
I will gladly yield.
344
00:24:49,979 --> 00:24:53,357
Looks like Seab's gonna have
roast Lafe Smith for lunch.
345
00:24:54,108 --> 00:24:59,071
Does the senior senator from South Carolina
think he knows more than the president...
346
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:03,117
...about what or who is needed,
in these perilous times...
347
00:25:03,284 --> 00:25:05,912
...in the office of secretary of state?
348
00:25:06,078 --> 00:25:07,580
Yes, senator.
349
00:25:07,788 --> 00:25:11,959
Even one so young and green as
the junior senator from Rhode lsland...
350
00:25:12,126 --> 00:25:15,671
...would have chosen another man.
Wouldn't you say that's the truth?
351
00:25:15,838 --> 00:25:20,843
The senator assumes an infallibility of
knowledge, which denotes a closed mind...
352
00:25:21,010 --> 00:25:23,137
...and an aged crust of prejudice.
353
00:25:23,888 --> 00:25:25,348
Who ate who?
354
00:25:25,514 --> 00:25:27,350
Mr. President...
355
00:25:27,516 --> 00:25:29,977
...we have here an example...
356
00:25:30,144 --> 00:25:34,315
...of the commotion this man,
Leffingwell, can arouse.
357
00:25:34,482 --> 00:25:39,445
Able, sensitive young senators,
taught courtesy at their mothers' knees...
358
00:25:39,612 --> 00:25:43,157
...turn upon their elders and rend them
because of their passions...
359
00:25:43,366 --> 00:25:46,953
...over this disturbing man,
Robert A. Leffingwell.
360
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:53,292
I beseech senators to contemplate
the spectacle we are making of ourselves.
361
00:25:53,459 --> 00:25:55,127
Why?
362
00:25:55,795 --> 00:26:00,007
What is causing this bitterness
of division in our party? Leffingwell.
363
00:26:00,216 --> 00:26:06,555
Who is disrupting the cordial flow
of legislative interchange? Leffingwell.
364
00:26:06,722 --> 00:26:08,724
Who is turning this Senate...
365
00:26:08,891 --> 00:26:12,103
...into a cockpit of angry emotion?
366
00:26:12,270 --> 00:26:13,521
Leffingwell.
367
00:26:13,688 --> 00:26:18,651
I abominate this man Leffingwell.
He is an evil man.
368
00:26:19,193 --> 00:26:24,115
He will pursue a policy of appeasements!
369
00:26:24,282 --> 00:26:28,244
He will weaken the moral fiber
of our great nation.
370
00:26:28,411 --> 00:26:32,248
He will bring destruction to our traditions.
371
00:26:32,415 --> 00:26:35,626
And I beg you, senators, reject him.
372
00:26:35,793 --> 00:26:37,920
Reject him!
373
00:26:42,383 --> 00:26:46,429
Barney, you look wonderful tonight.
Thank you, Mrs. Harrison.
374
00:26:46,929 --> 00:26:51,100
Betty, do you know the senator?
Yes, we've met.
375
00:26:51,267 --> 00:26:54,061
Shall we have a spin around the floor?
376
00:26:58,441 --> 00:26:59,942
Hi, Lafe.
377
00:27:04,488 --> 00:27:07,783
Having fun?
Having a lovely time. Thanks.
378
00:27:19,128 --> 00:27:20,963
Can I get you a drink?
No, thanks.
379
00:27:21,130 --> 00:27:24,884
I will make my government's position
on Mr. Leffingwell very clear.
380
00:27:25,051 --> 00:27:27,345
In some ways, he's excellent.
381
00:27:27,511 --> 00:27:29,513
But in others, not so excellent.
382
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,891
In general, I would say we are for him.
383
00:27:32,058 --> 00:27:34,852
Except when it comes to those
features of character...
384
00:27:35,019 --> 00:27:38,147
...in which we might be disposed
to be against him.
385
00:27:38,314 --> 00:27:42,443
On the whole, that is my government's
position. Yes, exactly.
386
00:27:42,610 --> 00:27:47,615
Yes, the inscrutable East can always
be depended upon to be inscrutable.
387
00:27:48,074 --> 00:27:51,744
Enjoy your dance, darling?
The senator dances beautifully.
388
00:27:51,911 --> 00:27:55,289
Well, Lafe is not exactly
the log-cabin type.
389
00:27:55,498 --> 00:27:58,501
Rowell, the senator is coming
to lunch tomorrow.
390
00:27:58,667 --> 00:28:01,670
We'll be honored. You'll be
our first guest at the embassy.
391
00:28:01,837 --> 00:28:04,799
You're very kind.
Bob, see you a minute?
392
00:28:05,174 --> 00:28:06,967
Will you excuse me?
393
00:28:12,264 --> 00:28:16,018
Didn't see you at dinner, Fred.
I just got here.
394
00:28:16,185 --> 00:28:19,188
Why didn't you take my call
from New York this afternoon?
395
00:28:19,355 --> 00:28:23,609
I didn't want to take your call.
Is that an honest enough answer?
396
00:28:23,776 --> 00:28:26,362
You were reaching
for Brig Anderson all the time?
397
00:28:26,529 --> 00:28:29,782
No. But we weren't reaching
for you, either.
398
00:28:29,949 --> 00:28:32,118
He's in the club, isn't he?
What club?
399
00:28:32,284 --> 00:28:35,496
Don't give me that.
The inner circle, the clique, the club.
400
00:28:35,663 --> 00:28:39,500
Look, Fred, you forced me
to offend you. I'm sorry.
401
00:28:39,667 --> 00:28:43,921
All right. I'm willing to forget it.
I'll still campaign for Leffingwell.
402
00:28:44,088 --> 00:28:47,341
Fine, Fred, but let's not irritate
the situation.
403
00:28:47,508 --> 00:28:52,263
Robert Leffingwell is the difference between
peace and war. I mean to fight for him.
404
00:29:14,535 --> 00:29:19,248
Being exclusive, Harley?
Just escaping for a moment.
405
00:29:19,415 --> 00:29:20,708
From the ladies?
406
00:29:23,210 --> 00:29:27,047
Do you mind if I ask you a question
that a vice president shouldn't ask?
407
00:29:27,214 --> 00:29:30,676
You mean like,
" How's the president's health?"
408
00:29:30,885 --> 00:29:34,180
I haven't seen him in six weeks.
He never calls me in.
409
00:29:34,346 --> 00:29:37,475
I don't think he means to slight you.
He probably does.
410
00:29:37,641 --> 00:29:39,727
But that's not why I'm asking.
411
00:29:40,394 --> 00:29:43,856
Look, I know I'm only Charming Harley,
the housewives' delight.
412
00:29:44,023 --> 00:29:48,736
I know I was only a compromise candidate
for vice president or I wouldn't be here.
413
00:29:48,903 --> 00:29:53,449
I never expected to be president, and I hope
to God I never will be, and I mean that.
414
00:29:53,616 --> 00:29:56,327
But the town's boiling
with rumors about his health.
415
00:29:56,494 --> 00:30:00,122
If they're true, I should at least be told.
416
00:30:00,289 --> 00:30:01,540
All right.
417
00:30:01,707 --> 00:30:04,293
But this is just my own opinion.
418
00:30:04,460 --> 00:30:08,506
I don't think the surgery last year
was successful.
419
00:30:09,423 --> 00:30:12,426
Well, I was once the happy governor
of Delaware...
420
00:30:12,635 --> 00:30:16,722
...counting revenue from corporative setups
and having tea with the du Ronts.
421
00:30:16,889 --> 00:30:20,768
Now...
It hasn't happened yet. Maybe it won't.
422
00:30:20,976 --> 00:30:24,021
Bob, I'm not sure I've got the stuff
to be president.
423
00:30:24,188 --> 00:30:25,773
Has anybody?
424
00:30:25,981 --> 00:30:28,567
Most presidents have to grow up
in the job anyway.
425
00:30:28,734 --> 00:30:32,947
The country could go to hell before
I'd grow big enough to see over the desk.
426
00:30:33,113 --> 00:30:36,909
Humility is not the worst attitude
you could have toward this job.
427
00:30:37,076 --> 00:30:40,079
It's a nice word for the shakes, "humility."
428
00:30:40,246 --> 00:30:45,125
In any case, you're the only vice president
we have, so the Constitution says.
429
00:30:45,417 --> 00:30:49,922
Leffingwell is not only an appeaser,
but a spendthrift to boot.
430
00:30:50,089 --> 00:30:53,384
He can throw more money out
of the back door with a teaspoon...
431
00:30:53,551 --> 00:30:56,345
...than the government can bring in
with a shovel.
432
00:30:56,512 --> 00:31:00,641
He'll stage a giveaway to the communists
that'll make Munich look like a clambake.
433
00:31:00,849 --> 00:31:03,686
What do you pump-order politicians
think the world's like?
434
00:31:03,852 --> 00:31:07,815
Wanna get us bombed out of existence
for some lousy, two-bit country...
435
00:31:08,023 --> 00:31:09,650
...that can't even feed itself?
436
00:31:09,817 --> 00:31:12,861
We have got to think of ourselves,
first and last.
437
00:31:13,028 --> 00:31:16,115
Would the senator yield the floor?
438
00:31:16,407 --> 00:31:19,034
This is no laughing matter to me,
Mrs. Harrison.
439
00:31:19,201 --> 00:31:22,204
Then perhaps this isn't the place
to discuss it.
440
00:31:23,038 --> 00:31:24,957
Excuse me.
441
00:31:27,167 --> 00:31:30,629
I'm terribly sorry, Dolly.
Nonsense, Orrin.
442
00:31:31,046 --> 00:31:35,467
Why, Mr. Leffingwell does cause
excitement, doesn't he?
443
00:33:05,474 --> 00:33:08,227
Is that you, darling?
Hi.
444
00:33:14,525 --> 00:33:17,277
How did it go tonight, darling?
445
00:33:17,444 --> 00:33:21,281
Like any party you give. A smasher.
446
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,703
You're the best there is, pet.
447
00:33:25,869 --> 00:33:29,665
Somebody said once,
a friend of mine, I'm sure...
448
00:33:29,832 --> 00:33:34,962
...that any bitch with a million bucks,
and a big house and a good caterer...
449
00:33:35,129 --> 00:33:38,465
...could be a social success in Washington.
450
00:33:40,342 --> 00:33:42,219
Do you think I'm a bitch?
451
00:33:43,011 --> 00:33:45,556
A perfectly nice one, if you are.
452
00:33:45,973 --> 00:33:49,601
And I'm probably the first man in your life
since your husband died.
453
00:33:49,768 --> 00:33:51,353
That's not a question.
454
00:33:52,146 --> 00:33:54,523
Don't feel obliged to volunteer information.
455
00:33:54,690 --> 00:33:56,400
You are.
456
00:33:57,860 --> 00:34:01,655
How long do you think I'm going to keep up
this backstairs romance?
457
00:34:01,822 --> 00:34:03,532
Front elevator.
458
00:34:03,699 --> 00:34:06,118
Elevator is right. At my age, I need it.
459
00:34:06,285 --> 00:34:09,580
Oh, your age. You're as virile
as a billy goat...
460
00:34:09,747 --> 00:34:13,292
...and make noises
like a wounded spaniel.
461
00:34:13,792 --> 00:34:17,421
No marriage, huh?
And spoil this convenient arrangement?
462
00:34:17,588 --> 00:34:19,506
Don't be silly.
463
00:34:19,673 --> 00:34:22,384
I think you're afraid
I won't get elected next time.
464
00:34:22,551 --> 00:34:25,929
No girl wants to be married to a has-been.
465
00:34:26,263 --> 00:34:29,767
Well, we've got that established.
And I'm sleepy.
466
00:34:29,933 --> 00:34:31,894
Are you sleepy?
467
00:34:46,742 --> 00:34:49,411
Will the committee come to order, please?
468
00:34:49,912 --> 00:34:53,582
I'll ask the witness to take his place
at the witness table.
469
00:34:59,254 --> 00:35:02,549
This hearing of the subcommittee of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
470
00:35:02,758 --> 00:35:07,179
...is being held to consider the president's
nomination of Robert A. Leffingwell...
471
00:35:07,346 --> 00:35:09,556
...for secretary of state.
472
00:35:10,098 --> 00:35:14,228
Mr. Leffingwell, I'm sure you know
all the members of the committee here.
473
00:35:14,394 --> 00:35:17,189
Senator Cooley is not
a member of the subcommittee...
474
00:35:17,356 --> 00:35:20,484
...but the full committee voted
him permission to join us...
475
00:35:20,651 --> 00:35:22,778
...for the purposes of cross-examination.
476
00:35:22,945 --> 00:35:25,906
I welcome Senator Cooley's
participation, Mr. Chairman.
477
00:35:26,073 --> 00:35:30,035
If not wholeheartedly,
certainly without fear.
478
00:35:30,244 --> 00:35:31,411
I commend your courage.
479
00:35:31,620 --> 00:35:35,249
Frankly, the senator
scares the wits out of everybody else.
480
00:35:35,457 --> 00:35:38,460
Would you please stand
and raise your right hand?
481
00:35:39,294 --> 00:35:43,090
Do you swear that the statements
you are about to give this committee...
482
00:35:43,257 --> 00:35:47,511
...will be the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
483
00:35:47,678 --> 00:35:50,264
Yes, sir, I do.
Thank you.
484
00:35:56,103 --> 00:35:58,063
Sorry, Brig.
Not at all, Fred.
485
00:35:58,230 --> 00:36:00,566
I'm particularly interested in this hearing.
486
00:36:00,732 --> 00:36:04,278
I hope Mr. Leffingwell obtains
swift approval from this committee.
487
00:36:04,778 --> 00:36:07,948
I thank the senator for his comments.
488
00:36:08,782 --> 00:36:11,743
Mr. Leffingwell, I'm sure you have
a statement to make...
489
00:36:11,910 --> 00:36:13,996
...before the interrogation begins.
490
00:36:14,162 --> 00:36:18,792
Mr. Chairman, I believe I might serve this
committee best by answering its questions.
491
00:36:18,959 --> 00:36:20,627
As you wish.
492
00:36:20,878 --> 00:36:23,255
Senator Knox, would you like to begin?
493
00:36:23,422 --> 00:36:27,009
Don't you feel we're worth the effort
of an opening statement?
494
00:36:27,175 --> 00:36:29,261
I'm only being practical, senator.
495
00:36:29,428 --> 00:36:32,472
Well, then I too shall be practical,
Mr. Leffingwell.
496
00:36:32,681 --> 00:36:34,641
Are you loyal to the United States?
497
00:36:34,850 --> 00:36:38,145
I don't mind admitting
that I'm loyal to the United States.
498
00:36:39,688 --> 00:36:43,066
But it wasn't an idle question,
Mr. Leffingwell.
499
00:36:43,233 --> 00:36:47,571
I've had some complaints against things
you've said in some of your speeches...
500
00:36:47,738 --> 00:36:50,032
...about our relations
with the communists.
501
00:36:50,198 --> 00:36:52,451
Some go so far as to say
you're not loyal.
502
00:36:52,618 --> 00:36:57,623
There's no foundation for that, senator.
I have a quote from one of your speeches.
503
00:36:58,165 --> 00:37:02,711
"We must not bind ourselves
to outworn principles of the past...
504
00:37:02,878 --> 00:37:08,926
...when we find those principles standing
in the way of affirmative action for peace."
505
00:37:09,343 --> 00:37:12,471
What does that mean?
The past shouldn't lie too heavily...
506
00:37:12,638 --> 00:37:15,557
...upon our present efforts
to achieve world stability.
507
00:37:15,724 --> 00:37:19,102
You say "outworn principles of the past."
508
00:37:19,269 --> 00:37:21,521
Well, what principles
did you have in mind?
509
00:37:21,730 --> 00:37:25,108
I meant more a state of mind.
Perhaps the word "principle"...
510
00:37:25,275 --> 00:37:29,363
...was not a good choice.
Orrin, is that speech you got there...
511
00:37:29,571 --> 00:37:33,200
...about defense mobilization?
No, foreign policy.
512
00:37:33,408 --> 00:37:38,038
Mr. Chairman, the witness is the director
of the Office of Defense Mobilization.
513
00:37:38,246 --> 00:37:41,041
What's he doing making speeches
about foreign policy?
514
00:37:41,249 --> 00:37:45,379
You reckon he was bucking
for the job of secretary of state?
515
00:37:46,380 --> 00:37:50,092
I responded to an invitation
from the Chamber of Commerce of Chicago.
516
00:37:50,258 --> 00:37:53,053
The topic they gave me
to speak on was foreign policy.
517
00:37:53,762 --> 00:37:58,433
I've seen men angling
for high office, Mr. Chairman.
518
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,562
That's the way they do it. They make
speeches. They flaunt themselves.
519
00:38:02,771 --> 00:38:05,983
That's how they do it. Yes, sir.
In fact, Mr. Leffingwell...
520
00:38:06,149 --> 00:38:10,153
...this was only one of a series of speeches
on foreign policy, wasn't it?
521
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,072
Yes, sir, that's true.
522
00:38:13,115 --> 00:38:15,033
He made speeches. So what?
523
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:16,994
We all make speeches.
524
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:21,123
Mr. Leffingwell, you said you merely
meant to suggest a state of mind...
525
00:38:21,289 --> 00:38:22,916
This is a cute committee here.
526
00:38:23,125 --> 00:38:27,254
Do you think it's wrong to suspect
the good faith of the communists...
527
00:38:27,462 --> 00:38:29,548
...after four decades of dishonor?
528
00:38:29,715 --> 00:38:32,759
All things change.
It wouldn't hurt to assume at times...
529
00:38:32,968 --> 00:38:35,178
...a desire for peace from the communists.
530
00:38:35,345 --> 00:38:39,182
On what basis?
These pious, hopeful men, Mr. Chairman.
531
00:38:39,349 --> 00:38:41,601
These wool-gathering optimists.
532
00:38:41,768 --> 00:38:45,564
Mr. Chairman, can't we get along
without this kind of questioning?
533
00:38:45,731 --> 00:38:50,277
At the risk of seeming discourteous to the
distinguished senator from South Carolina...
534
00:38:50,485 --> 00:38:53,780
...I'll remind him he's here
at the sufferance of the committee.
535
00:38:54,322 --> 00:38:59,953
I thank the esteemed chairman
for his courteous chastisement.
536
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:05,584
Mr. Leffingwell, do I understand
you wish to placate the communists?
537
00:39:05,751 --> 00:39:10,130
Not placate. But neither do I want to kill
any chance of agreement before it starts.
538
00:39:10,338 --> 00:39:13,550
In an agreement, what terms
do you think would be valid?
539
00:39:13,884 --> 00:39:16,678
I can't answer that
without given circumstances.
540
00:39:17,137 --> 00:39:21,099
Will the senator yield?
If the senator will be brief.
541
00:39:21,308 --> 00:39:23,727
The senator wouldn't want me
to be too brief...
542
00:39:23,894 --> 00:39:26,396
...where the fate of my country
is concerned.
543
00:39:26,563 --> 00:39:32,819
Why are you afraid to tell us what terms
you'd make with the communists?
544
00:39:33,028 --> 00:39:36,698
I just explained to Senator Knox...
You're evading.
545
00:39:36,865 --> 00:39:40,994
We want to know what you intend
to give away to the communists.
546
00:39:41,161 --> 00:39:45,749
I don't intend to give anything away.
Why won't you tell us what your terms are?
547
00:39:45,916 --> 00:39:48,919
Are you ashamed to disclose these terms?
548
00:39:49,086 --> 00:39:51,671
I have nothing to be ashamed of,
and you know it.
549
00:39:51,838 --> 00:39:55,050
He is not responding, Mr. Chairman.
550
00:39:55,217 --> 00:39:58,303
This man is hiding something.
551
00:39:58,470 --> 00:40:01,640
Senator Knox, reclaim the floor.
This is getting us nowhere.
552
00:40:01,807 --> 00:40:06,686
I resent the chair's arbitrary attempt
to silence cross-examination...
553
00:40:06,895 --> 00:40:09,189
...that'll show this man's true intent.
554
00:40:09,356 --> 00:40:13,568
It is common knowledge that no one,
nowhere, and at no time...
555
00:40:13,735 --> 00:40:17,864
...has been able to silence the distinguished
senator from South Carolina.
556
00:40:18,740 --> 00:40:24,579
Well, sir, I might say the chairman's
doing a pretty good job of it right now.
557
00:40:25,997 --> 00:40:30,377
If you feel the witness is hiding something,
would you care to make a formal charge?
558
00:40:30,961 --> 00:40:34,339
Well, now, that'll just upset everybody.
559
00:40:34,506 --> 00:40:37,467
I'll just turn the floor back
to Senator Knox.
560
00:40:37,634 --> 00:40:39,427
No more right now, Mr. Chairman.
561
00:40:40,137 --> 00:40:43,140
Senator Velez?
Mr. Leffingwell...
562
00:40:43,306 --> 00:40:48,228
...what associations did you have when
teaching at the University of Chicago?
563
00:40:48,395 --> 00:40:52,524
The usual campus associations.
Other teachers, students.
564
00:40:52,691 --> 00:40:55,569
I have here a telegram
from someone named Gelman...
565
00:40:55,777 --> 00:40:59,156
...who claims to have known you
at the university.
566
00:40:59,489 --> 00:41:02,200
Do you recognize the name?
567
00:41:02,367 --> 00:41:05,912
I don't think so, but that was quite
a few years ago, senator.
568
00:41:06,079 --> 00:41:10,584
Well, he says you associated
with left-wingers and communists.
569
00:41:10,792 --> 00:41:13,295
Is there anything to that, Mr. Leffingwell?
570
00:41:13,461 --> 00:41:16,089
I'd like to know what
Mr. Gelman means by...
571
00:41:16,256 --> 00:41:20,677
..."left-wingers" or "communists." Those
terms are used carelessly by some people.
572
00:41:20,844 --> 00:41:22,929
Will Mr. Gelman be called to testify?
573
00:41:23,138 --> 00:41:24,973
I'm unable to find Mr. Gelman.
574
00:41:25,140 --> 00:41:29,102
Senator, I don't know what to say,
except the telegram is from some crank.
575
00:41:29,311 --> 00:41:33,315
Senator from Hawaii.
Just a hypothetical question.
576
00:41:33,732 --> 00:41:37,152
If the communists demand
we yield certain strategic positions...
577
00:41:37,319 --> 00:41:40,405
...what would you recommend?
We reject any such demand.
578
00:41:40,572 --> 00:41:42,073
Even if it meant war?
579
00:41:42,616 --> 00:41:48,163
That's an unlikely hypothesis if we retain
our present power of retaliation.
580
00:41:48,330 --> 00:41:50,040
Say it did happen.
581
00:41:50,207 --> 00:41:52,417
Would you recommend
a preventive attack?
582
00:41:52,667 --> 00:41:54,377
Hit the enemy before they hit us?
583
00:41:54,544 --> 00:41:58,965
No, I wouldn't recommend a preventive
attack. I would first try to bargain...
584
00:41:59,132 --> 00:42:02,969
...try to agree to some of their demands
if they'd agree to some of ours.
585
00:42:03,136 --> 00:42:07,265
With the senator's permission, I'd like
to make a little speech to the witness.
586
00:42:07,432 --> 00:42:12,562
Mr. Witness, I'd rather go out of this world
standing on my two hind legs...
587
00:42:12,729 --> 00:42:17,943
...fighting like a man for things I believe in,
than to yield and concede and crawl...
588
00:42:18,109 --> 00:42:21,529
...till there was nothing left
of our freedoms and way of life...
589
00:42:21,696 --> 00:42:26,326
...but a handful of lost dreams
and a fistful of dry dust.
590
00:42:28,495 --> 00:42:33,333
Mr. Chairman, it's mighty comforting
to know that all the folks out there...
591
00:42:33,541 --> 00:42:36,211
...aren't being took in
by this appeasement talk.
592
00:42:37,212 --> 00:42:41,716
Mr. Chairman, a little while ago,
Senator Knox asked me to define...
593
00:42:41,883 --> 00:42:44,511
...what I meant by "outworn principles."
594
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:48,515
Senator Cooley has obliged
with a perfect illustration.
595
00:42:48,723 --> 00:42:52,352
He speaks of standing on his hind legs,
fighting like a man...
596
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:57,607
...as if war were still some rousing charge
up San Juan Hill...
597
00:42:58,066 --> 00:43:01,236
...with flags flying and bugles sounding.
598
00:43:01,861 --> 00:43:05,365
It's this kind of 19th-century notion
I was talking about.
599
00:43:05,573 --> 00:43:11,079
This "don't tread on me,"
"walk softly and carry a big stick"...
600
00:43:11,246 --> 00:43:15,375
..."damn the torpedoes,"
"full speed ahead" state of mind.
601
00:43:15,542 --> 00:43:18,336
Senator Cooley's state of mind.
602
00:43:27,304 --> 00:43:31,433
It seems to me that the senator from
South Carolina was speaking out of pride.
603
00:43:31,599 --> 00:43:36,271
Do you think we should discontinue pride
in our freedoms and our way of life?
604
00:43:36,438 --> 00:43:42,402
I believe it's dangerous to negotiate survival
with pride determining our attitude.
605
00:43:42,610 --> 00:43:45,905
I wonder if there isn't good sense
in what Senator Cooley said.
606
00:43:46,114 --> 00:43:48,742
I wonder if we can't become too equivocal.
607
00:43:48,908 --> 00:43:52,037
I wonder if we can't reason away,
in the name of survival...
608
00:43:52,203 --> 00:43:54,205
...everything worth surviving for.
609
00:43:54,539 --> 00:43:59,336
That's a hard line to walk, but we have
no choice but to try and walk it.
610
00:43:59,627 --> 00:44:02,630
I'm sorry to say we can't always know
where we're going.
611
00:44:02,797 --> 00:44:05,467
As long as we know
where we're not going.
612
00:44:06,051 --> 00:44:08,553
Any questions, Senator Hendershot?
613
00:44:08,887 --> 00:44:12,557
You're what they call an egghead,
aren't you, Mr. Witness?
614
00:44:13,683 --> 00:44:18,355
I'm not only an egghead, senator,
I'm a premeditated egghead.
615
00:44:18,521 --> 00:44:21,274
I set out to become an egghead,
and at this moment...
616
00:44:21,483 --> 00:44:23,610
...I'm in full flower of eggheadedness.
617
00:44:23,777 --> 00:44:26,112
I hope to shed pollen wherever I go.
618
00:44:27,989 --> 00:44:32,035
If there are no objections, we can leave
them laughing while we have lunch.
619
00:44:32,202 --> 00:44:35,205
We'll take it up again at 1:30,
Mr. Leffingwell.
620
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,635
Do you think the committee's
trying to smear you?
621
00:44:48,802 --> 00:44:51,137
They're asking what they feel
they should.
622
00:44:51,346 --> 00:44:53,598
Some questions
have been smear questions.
623
00:44:53,765 --> 00:44:56,476
Right now my main emphasis
is getting lunch.
624
00:44:56,684 --> 00:44:58,812
If he won't answer that question, I will.
625
00:44:59,020 --> 00:45:01,773
The committee is being used
to smear Mr. Leffingwell.
626
00:45:01,940 --> 00:45:05,902
What about that, Mr. Leffingwell?
The senator is entitled to his opinion.
627
00:45:06,069 --> 00:45:07,487
Will you excuse me, please?
628
00:45:07,695 --> 00:45:10,740
You don't like how this hearing
is being conducted, do you?
629
00:45:10,907 --> 00:45:13,827
The chairman should stop
these irresponsible questions.
630
00:45:13,993 --> 00:45:17,539
He doesn't want to.
They're out to crucify Mr. Leffingwell.
631
00:45:17,705 --> 00:45:21,960
Senator, Senator Van Ackerman is accusing
the committee of using smear tactics.
632
00:45:22,127 --> 00:45:23,837
Would you comment on this?
633
00:45:24,045 --> 00:45:28,675
If the senator has any complaints to make,
he should write a letter to his congressman.
634
00:45:28,842 --> 00:45:32,178
Will you give Seab Cooley a free hand?
Oh, come on.
635
00:45:38,059 --> 00:45:41,020
Do you believe war can be avoided,
Mr. Leffingwell?
636
00:45:41,187 --> 00:45:46,484
I believe it must be avoided. But I don't
think we can avoid it by rattling sabers.
637
00:45:47,444 --> 00:45:49,571
That's all, Mr. Chairman.
638
00:45:49,737 --> 00:45:54,200
Now, Mr. Leffingwell, it becomes necessary
to turn you over to the tender mercies...
639
00:45:54,367 --> 00:45:59,456
...of the senator from South Carolina.
I'm girded for the occasion, Mr. Chairman.
640
00:46:00,123 --> 00:46:03,293
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I have no questions, Mr. Chairman.
641
00:46:03,460 --> 00:46:06,754
Then I don't see any reason
why we can't adjourn the hearing.
642
00:46:06,921 --> 00:46:08,423
If there are no objections.
643
00:46:10,091 --> 00:46:15,221
Would the nominee mind staying with us
for just a smidgen longer?
644
00:46:15,763 --> 00:46:20,226
I said I have no questions, Mr. Chairman.
But I have a witness I would like to call.
645
00:46:20,810 --> 00:46:22,353
Call your witness, senator.
646
00:46:22,562 --> 00:46:25,064
Herbert Gelman.
647
00:46:32,363 --> 00:46:36,951
Will the photographers
withdraw to the sidelines, please?
648
00:46:43,500 --> 00:46:46,628
Are you Herbert Gelman?
That's my name.
649
00:46:47,462 --> 00:46:49,714
Raise your right hand, please.
650
00:46:51,090 --> 00:46:54,552
Do you swear the testimony
you are about to give this committee...
651
00:46:54,761 --> 00:46:59,057
...will be the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
652
00:46:59,224 --> 00:47:02,185
Yes, sir, I swear.
Take a seat, please.
653
00:47:06,481 --> 00:47:08,191
Where do you live, Mr. Gelman?
654
00:47:08,358 --> 00:47:13,446
At 2221 Grove Rlace Northeast,
here in Washington.
655
00:47:13,655 --> 00:47:17,492
Your occupation?
I'm a clerk in the Treasury Department.
656
00:47:17,659 --> 00:47:21,329
Did you send this telegram
to Senator Velez?
657
00:47:23,957 --> 00:47:28,253
And, Mr. Gelman, would you mind
speaking just a little bit louder, please?
658
00:47:29,295 --> 00:47:31,631
Yes. Yes.
659
00:47:32,340 --> 00:47:35,510
Why didn't you include your address
so he could contact you?
660
00:47:35,677 --> 00:47:40,139
That was Senator Cooley's idea.
What did Senator Cooley have to do with it?
661
00:47:40,348 --> 00:47:43,768
He suggested that I send
a telegram to Senator Velez.
662
00:47:44,561 --> 00:47:47,313
Is this true, Senator Cooley?
It is, Mr. Chairman.
663
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,942
Why didn't you tell us when
Senator Velez introduced the telegram?
664
00:47:51,109 --> 00:47:54,112
I was just giving the nominee
enough rope to hang himself.
665
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:58,575
I resent being used as a cat's-paw
by the senator from South Carolina.
666
00:47:58,741 --> 00:48:01,661
I apologize to the senator from New Mexico.
667
00:48:01,869 --> 00:48:07,041
The senator will forgive me when he hears
what this new witness has to say.
668
00:48:08,209 --> 00:48:10,878
Do you know Robert Leffingwell,
Mr. Gelman?
669
00:48:11,588 --> 00:48:14,632
Yes, sir.
Intimately?
670
00:48:15,049 --> 00:48:16,634
Well, not intimately.
671
00:48:16,801 --> 00:48:19,178
Well, how? On sight or how?
672
00:48:19,387 --> 00:48:22,181
Well, closer than that.
673
00:48:22,348 --> 00:48:26,352
I worked for the Federal Power Commission
when he was chairman.
674
00:48:26,561 --> 00:48:28,354
In his office?
675
00:48:28,521 --> 00:48:31,232
No, sir, at a subsidiary agency.
676
00:48:31,399 --> 00:48:34,319
But I knew him before then in Chicago.
677
00:48:34,485 --> 00:48:37,238
I was in one of his classes
at the university.
678
00:48:37,405 --> 00:48:39,657
I see. Does he know you?
679
00:48:39,991 --> 00:48:41,200
He ought to.
680
00:48:41,409 --> 00:48:44,370
He fired me from
the Federal Rower Agency.
681
00:48:44,537 --> 00:48:48,207
For what reason were you fired?
He wanted me out of the agency.
682
00:48:48,833 --> 00:48:51,502
I knew too much.
About what?
683
00:48:51,669 --> 00:48:53,379
About him.
684
00:48:53,755 --> 00:48:55,548
What do you know about him?
685
00:48:55,757 --> 00:48:58,176
He's a communist.
686
00:48:58,593 --> 00:49:00,887
The nominee has
a right to cross-examine.
687
00:49:01,054 --> 00:49:05,058
I was about to ask, Mr. Leffingwell,
if you'd like to cross-examine as we go.
688
00:49:05,266 --> 00:49:07,894
Thank you, but I'll wait till he's finished.
689
00:49:08,728 --> 00:49:10,897
Senator Cooley, he's all yours.
690
00:49:13,441 --> 00:49:17,779
Now, sir, Mr. Herbert Gelman.
691
00:49:17,945 --> 00:49:22,241
Will you please tell the committee
how you happened to be here.
692
00:49:22,408 --> 00:49:25,370
I came to you about Mr. Leffingwell.
693
00:49:25,578 --> 00:49:29,832
Now I want you to tell the committee,
and the nation...
694
00:49:29,999 --> 00:49:32,418
...what you told me in my office.
695
00:49:32,585 --> 00:49:34,420
Yes, sir.
696
00:49:35,004 --> 00:49:38,049
When I was going
to the University of Chicago...
697
00:49:38,216 --> 00:49:41,719
...I lived at 2714 Carpenter Street.
698
00:49:42,220 --> 00:49:48,559
I got to know a man, who also had
a room there, named Max Bukowski.
699
00:49:48,726 --> 00:49:52,730
And he...
How do you spell that name, Mr. Gelman?
700
00:49:55,108 --> 00:49:58,277
B-U-K-O-W-S-K-I.
701
00:49:58,569 --> 00:50:00,571
Would you continue, please?
702
00:50:02,031 --> 00:50:04,075
Bukowski invited me...
703
00:50:04,242 --> 00:50:08,830
...to sit in on
political discussions in his room.
704
00:50:08,996 --> 00:50:11,457
I went to several of these discussions...
705
00:50:11,666 --> 00:50:17,547
...before I realized I was getting involved
in a communist cell, and I dropped out.
706
00:50:17,714 --> 00:50:21,259
Who was in this communist cell?
707
00:50:21,426 --> 00:50:23,386
Bukowski was the leader.
708
00:50:23,553 --> 00:50:25,972
There was a man named James Morton.
709
00:50:26,139 --> 00:50:28,558
And then there was
Mr. Robert Leffingwell.
710
00:50:28,725 --> 00:50:31,144
You knew Mr. Leffingwell.
711
00:50:31,310 --> 00:50:35,440
Well, like I said, I was in one
of his classes at the university.
712
00:50:35,606 --> 00:50:41,487
Now I'll ask you to tell the committee
what was discussed at these meetings...
713
00:50:41,696 --> 00:50:45,992
...but I want to tell the committee
that I in no way coached this witness.
714
00:50:46,159 --> 00:50:49,203
The words that he uses
are his own words.
715
00:50:49,370 --> 00:50:50,830
Mr. Gelman.
716
00:50:51,038 --> 00:50:54,292
Max Bukowski was a dogmatic Marxist.
717
00:50:54,459 --> 00:51:00,757
He didn't feel that communism would come
to America without violent revolution.
718
00:51:00,923 --> 00:51:04,761
But James Morton and Mr. Leffingwell
felt that communism...
719
00:51:04,927 --> 00:51:08,848
...would come as a result of the erosion
of our form of government.
720
00:51:09,015 --> 00:51:14,353
I remember James Morton saying
that our principles would become outworn.
721
00:51:14,729 --> 00:51:17,982
Now, it seems to me we've heard
that from somebody else today.
722
00:51:18,149 --> 00:51:20,276
Not mentioning any names, of course.
723
00:51:20,443 --> 00:51:23,196
Brig, we'll want verification
of this man's story.
724
00:51:23,404 --> 00:51:27,325
I thank the senator for pointing that out.
Someone's got to point it out.
725
00:51:27,533 --> 00:51:30,244
I'd advise you to demand verification.
726
00:51:30,661 --> 00:51:33,039
I thank the senator for his advice.
727
00:51:33,247 --> 00:51:36,042
Would the senator care to sit
with the committee?
728
00:51:36,250 --> 00:51:39,003
Are you trying to choke me off, Brig?
729
00:51:39,170 --> 00:51:41,047
Not at all, Fred.
730
00:51:41,255 --> 00:51:42,548
Continue, please.
731
00:51:42,757 --> 00:51:47,887
Now, Mr. Gelman, you told me something
about names in this communist cell.
732
00:51:48,095 --> 00:51:51,224
Yes. Nobody used their right name.
733
00:51:51,432 --> 00:51:54,560
Mr. Leffingwell was called Walker.
734
00:51:54,769 --> 00:51:57,396
Bukowski was called Fitzgerald.
735
00:51:57,563 --> 00:52:01,234
I never learned
James Morton's real name.
736
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,529
And they tried to give me
the name of Andrews.
737
00:52:04,695 --> 00:52:06,531
About that time, I quit.
738
00:52:06,697 --> 00:52:09,325
What happened when you quit?
739
00:52:09,492 --> 00:52:13,037
Mr. Leffingwell failed me in his class
on government administration.
740
00:52:13,246 --> 00:52:17,083
Why didn't you report all this
to the university authorities?
741
00:52:17,291 --> 00:52:20,419
I was afraid.
And you're not afraid now.
742
00:52:20,586 --> 00:52:22,922
Yes, I'm afraid.
743
00:52:23,089 --> 00:52:26,300
But I couldn't stand by
and see a man like Mr. Leffingwell...
744
00:52:26,467 --> 00:52:29,428
...get into a position of power
as secretary of state.
745
00:52:29,637 --> 00:52:34,475
Can you corroborate this, Mr. Gelman?
The man's an eyewitness, under oath.
746
00:52:34,809 --> 00:52:39,605
I'm not lying!
I didn't say you were lying.
747
00:52:40,314 --> 00:52:45,236
Where can we find Max Bukowski
and James Morton?
748
00:52:45,653 --> 00:52:49,282
Bukowski's dead.
I never saw James Morton again.
749
00:52:49,824 --> 00:52:54,954
Maybe Mr. Robert A. Leffingwell
can help us to locate this James Morton.
750
00:52:55,997 --> 00:53:00,126
Would the committee grant me one hour
to prepare an answer to this testimony?
751
00:53:00,293 --> 00:53:03,629
If he can defend himself,
let him do it right now.
752
00:53:05,006 --> 00:53:08,467
The committee will extend
this courtesy to the nominee.
753
00:53:08,676 --> 00:53:11,596
We'll stand recessed until 3:30.
754
00:53:17,685 --> 00:53:21,981
Seab, you don't believe
that tale yourself. Come on.
755
00:53:22,148 --> 00:53:24,066
Anyway, I'm rocking the boat.
756
00:53:24,233 --> 00:53:26,819
He's going to cut Gelman up
four ways from Sunday.
757
00:53:26,986 --> 00:53:30,615
And I'm going to pick off just enough votes
to push him into office.
758
00:53:30,781 --> 00:53:32,575
What about that, you old buzzard?
759
00:53:32,742 --> 00:53:37,663
Us old buzzards can see a mouse dying
from 10,000 feet up.
760
00:53:37,872 --> 00:53:41,000
Us old buzzards have
the sharpest eyes in creation.
761
00:53:41,167 --> 00:53:45,463
Right now, I'm studying the terrain.
762
00:54:21,499 --> 00:54:22,833
Thank you.
763
00:54:26,420 --> 00:54:30,424
Led by questions from Senator Brigham
Anderson, the witness flatly stated...
764
00:54:30,591 --> 00:54:32,885
...that Robert Leffingwell
was a communist.
765
00:54:33,052 --> 00:54:36,514
He claimed he had once been
in a communist cell with Leffingwell.
766
00:54:36,681 --> 00:54:38,849
Leff, how are you? Come in.
767
00:54:39,016 --> 00:54:41,102
Daddy, George is hiding my new record.
768
00:54:41,268 --> 00:54:45,314
I haven't even seen her old album.
He has seen it. He's got it, Daddy.
769
00:54:45,481 --> 00:54:48,275
Kids, go in there and behave
or I'm gonna tell Mother.
770
00:54:48,442 --> 00:54:50,778
Leffingwell seemed to be
as flabbergasted...
771
00:54:50,945 --> 00:54:54,532
Leff, I've been watching
the whole awful business on television.
772
00:54:56,325 --> 00:54:58,619
Sit down.
Hardiman...
773
00:54:58,786 --> 00:55:02,206
...when I go back to the hearing,
I'll tell them the whole story.
774
00:55:02,373 --> 00:55:04,917
Chicago, Gelman, everything.
775
00:55:05,251 --> 00:55:09,547
You're bound to come into it.
Might be better if you're there with me.
776
00:55:09,714 --> 00:55:12,091
We can make them understand
how it really was.
777
00:55:12,299 --> 00:55:14,385
Make who understand?
778
00:55:14,593 --> 00:55:18,931
Who would even want to understand?
We've got nothing to lose by trying.
779
00:55:19,098 --> 00:55:21,559
Nothing to lose?
I'm under oath, Hardiman.
780
00:55:21,726 --> 00:55:24,812
I know you're under oath,
but wait a minute here.
781
00:55:25,688 --> 00:55:27,898
I've got a family to feed.
782
00:55:28,065 --> 00:55:32,945
Leff, look, if we do what you want,
we'll not only be through in government...
783
00:55:33,112 --> 00:55:35,573
...we'll never even get
a job teaching again.
784
00:55:35,781 --> 00:55:39,702
You know what happens when
these red-baiting newspapers get the scent.
785
00:55:40,161 --> 00:55:44,373
I know that, but what can I do?
Withdraw. Don't go back to the hearing.
786
00:55:44,582 --> 00:55:47,084
That would be the worst
admission of guilt.
787
00:55:47,293 --> 00:55:51,047
There'd be a Senate investigation
in 24 hours. We'd be in the same spot.
788
00:55:53,132 --> 00:55:54,508
All right.
789
00:55:54,675 --> 00:55:57,636
Tell me this:
What do you owe these politicians?
790
00:55:57,803 --> 00:55:59,138
Nothing.
791
00:55:59,305 --> 00:56:04,226
They let that old megalomaniac Cooley bring
a half-witted clerk to testify against you.
792
00:56:04,393 --> 00:56:09,440
I know you're a man of principle. I admire
you for it, but it's no time to go by the book.
793
00:56:09,607 --> 00:56:11,984
I don't know.
You have to. You're putting...
794
00:56:12,193 --> 00:56:14,779
...your head on a chopping block
and mine with it.
795
00:56:15,529 --> 00:56:18,324
Look, you talk about being under oath.
796
00:56:18,491 --> 00:56:22,495
What about Gelman?
His testimony was shot with lies.
797
00:56:22,661 --> 00:56:26,248
He was never in one of your classes
at the university.
798
00:56:29,877 --> 00:56:33,172
Destroy him. It's easy for you, Leff.
799
00:56:33,506 --> 00:56:36,967
Will the chair please administer the oath
to Mr. Lewis Newborne...
800
00:56:37,176 --> 00:56:39,136
...of the Federal Rower Commission.
801
00:56:39,345 --> 00:56:42,181
Would you stand and raise
your right hand, please?
802
00:56:44,183 --> 00:56:47,603
Do you swear the testimony
you're about to give this committee...
803
00:56:47,770 --> 00:56:51,190
...will be the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth?
804
00:56:51,357 --> 00:56:53,484
I do.
Thank you. You may be seated.
805
00:56:53,692 --> 00:56:57,404
First, Mr. Chairman, let me say
that I do know Herbert Gelman.
806
00:56:58,155 --> 00:57:01,659
Looks like we might've smoked us out
a possum, Mr. Chairman.
807
00:57:01,867 --> 00:57:05,704
Afraid there'll be no possum stew
in the old Cooley pot tonight, senator.
808
00:57:05,871 --> 00:57:09,416
I realized I knew Herbert Gelman
only after I'd heard his testimony.
809
00:57:09,583 --> 00:57:11,752
May I question Mr. Gelman?
By all means.
810
00:57:11,919 --> 00:57:13,420
Mr. Gelman.
811
00:57:13,587 --> 00:57:16,382
Before being detached
from the Rower Commission...
812
00:57:16,549 --> 00:57:21,220
...you'd been ill a long while, correct?
I was in a tuberculosis sanitarium.
813
00:57:21,387 --> 00:57:24,598
Tuberculosis sanitarium?
You know that, Mr. Leffingwell.
814
00:57:25,224 --> 00:57:27,685
You fired me when I tried
to come back to work.
815
00:57:27,852 --> 00:57:31,188
Can you tell us the name
of this tuberculosis sanitarium?
816
00:57:31,564 --> 00:57:35,025
The name?
Yes, the name. It had a name, didn't it?
817
00:57:35,901 --> 00:57:38,654
The name. I can't think of the name.
818
00:57:38,821 --> 00:57:41,198
It was in the country, in Maryland.
819
00:57:41,365 --> 00:57:43,576
Mr. Newborne, do you know
Herbert Gelman?
820
00:57:43,742 --> 00:57:47,705
Oh, yes. I was his immediate superior
in the Federal Rower Agency.
821
00:57:47,872 --> 00:57:50,875
Tell the committee the true cause
of Mr. Gelman's illness.
822
00:57:51,083 --> 00:57:57,256
It wasn't tuberculosis. Herbert...
Mr. Gelman had a mental breakdown.
823
00:57:57,423 --> 00:58:01,427
And the sanitarium was the Elm Grove
Rest Home right outside of Baltimore.
824
00:58:01,594 --> 00:58:03,679
What happened
when he came back to work?
825
00:58:03,846 --> 00:58:08,309
He seemed, well, kind of shaky.
He couldn't seem to get a hold of the job.
826
00:58:08,475 --> 00:58:12,396
I went to Mr. Leffingwell, and I told him
that I wanted to let Gelman go.
827
00:58:12,563 --> 00:58:15,566
Mr. Leffingwell said he'd try
and find him another job.
828
00:58:15,774 --> 00:58:20,946
A few days later, on Mr. Leffingwell's
instructions, I discharged Gelman...
829
00:58:21,113 --> 00:58:24,742
...and recommended that he apply
to the Department of the Treasury.
830
00:58:24,909 --> 00:58:28,412
He made an application,
and he went to work over there.
831
00:58:28,579 --> 00:58:32,458
This, Mr. Chairman, is the sum total
of my knowledge of Herbert Gelman...
832
00:58:32,625 --> 00:58:35,461
...except I telephoned
the University of Chicago...
833
00:58:35,628 --> 00:58:38,297
...to find out if he'd ever been
a student of mine.
834
00:58:38,464 --> 00:58:41,592
The registrar said Gelman
had been at the university...
835
00:58:41,759 --> 00:58:44,803
...but there was no record
of his attending my classes.
836
00:58:44,970 --> 00:58:48,849
This will be confirmed by telegram
from the registrar to the committee.
837
00:58:49,016 --> 00:58:51,727
What do you have to say
to this, Mr. Gelman?
838
00:58:52,144 --> 00:58:53,979
I thought...
839
00:58:54,396 --> 00:59:00,027
I thought it was my duty as a citizen
to come here, expose Mr. Leffingwell.
840
00:59:00,194 --> 00:59:05,157
You will receive another telegram. This one
from the city planning office of Chicago.
841
00:59:05,324 --> 00:59:08,494
Seems this address,
2714 Carpenter Street...
842
00:59:08,661 --> 00:59:13,916
...where this communist cell practiced its
mumbo jumbo, according to Mr. Gelman...
843
00:59:14,083 --> 00:59:17,378
This address has been a fire station
for more than 50 years.
844
00:59:21,548 --> 00:59:24,802
Did you have a mental breakdown,
Mr. Gelman?
845
00:59:28,555 --> 00:59:33,060
Do you still insist you were fired by Mr.
Leffingwell because you knew too much?
846
00:59:34,561 --> 00:59:39,024
I didn't know that he got me the job
in the Treasury Department.
847
00:59:39,316 --> 00:59:43,654
Could you have been mistaken about being
in his classes in the university?
848
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,198
I don't know.
849
00:59:46,865 --> 00:59:50,703
And what about 2714 Carpenter Street?
850
00:59:52,538 --> 00:59:57,459
Well, it might not be the right number.
851
00:59:57,626 --> 00:59:59,670
I may not remember for sure.
852
01:00:00,045 --> 01:00:02,756
Rerhaps you don't remember
other things for sure.
853
01:00:04,049 --> 01:00:07,886
Well, if I did, would anybody believe me?
854
01:00:11,849 --> 01:00:14,184
I think we can let this witness go.
855
01:00:14,351 --> 01:00:16,478
Thank you, Mr. Gelman.
856
01:00:17,646 --> 01:00:20,399
I said you could go, Mr. Gelman.
857
01:00:28,032 --> 01:00:31,076
This committee owes you an apology,
Mr. Leffingwell.
858
01:00:31,243 --> 01:00:34,038
Perhaps Senator Cooley
would like to join us in that?
859
01:00:34,371 --> 01:00:36,373
I'm not joining anybody in anything.
860
01:00:36,582 --> 01:00:40,919
Senator Cooley wants a transcript of this
hearing at the earliest possible moment.
861
01:00:41,712 --> 01:00:46,800
The committee owes me no apology, Mr.
Chairman, nor do they owe me approval.
862
01:00:46,967 --> 01:00:52,431
Win, lose, or draw I shall continue to serve
my country when and wherever I can.
863
01:01:34,890 --> 01:01:37,768
Good afternoon.
Yes, sir?
864
01:01:37,935 --> 01:01:42,439
Why, I'd surely be obliged if I could see
the employment record...
865
01:01:42,606 --> 01:01:44,149
...of Mr. Herbert Gelman.
866
01:01:44,316 --> 01:01:47,778
I'm sorry, sir, but employment records
are privileged information.
867
01:01:47,986 --> 01:01:51,824
You might say that I am privileged.
I'm Senator Cooley.
868
01:01:51,990 --> 01:01:55,828
You're a mighty pretty gal,
yes, ma'am. Mighty pretty.
869
01:01:55,994 --> 01:02:00,666
I'm not entirely sure in which section
of this building Mr. Gelman works.
870
01:02:02,209 --> 01:02:04,294
Mr. Leffingwell.
871
01:02:04,461 --> 01:02:07,089
Well, Leff.
872
01:02:07,381 --> 01:02:09,967
Congratulations.
I appreciate your arranging...
873
01:02:10,134 --> 01:02:12,678
...to see me so quickly.
I know how busy you are.
874
01:02:12,845 --> 01:02:16,098
Glad you called.
I wanted to see you. Sit down.
875
01:02:16,557 --> 01:02:19,518
Bobby thinks the committee
will go four-to-one in your favor.
876
01:02:19,685 --> 01:02:22,688
He has enough votes sewed up
to get you through on the floor.
877
01:02:22,855 --> 01:02:26,567
So it looks like you're in.
How'd you like a drink, Mr. Secretary?
878
01:02:26,733 --> 01:02:29,903
Mr. Rresident, I'm not in,
and I'm not going to be in.
879
01:02:30,070 --> 01:02:32,531
Yes, sir.
What are you talking about?
880
01:02:32,698 --> 01:02:34,908
Yes, sir.
Nothing! Sorry.
881
01:02:35,075 --> 01:02:39,538
Mr. Rresident, I want you
to withdraw my nomination.
882
01:02:40,414 --> 01:02:42,416
I lied at the hearing.
883
01:03:00,559 --> 01:03:03,187
I knew Herbert Gelman.
I knew him in Chicago.
884
01:03:03,353 --> 01:03:05,772
I knew him at those meetings.
885
01:03:05,939 --> 01:03:08,734
They were communist meetings,
Mr. Rresident.
886
01:03:08,901 --> 01:03:12,696
I was never a party member,
but I was young, looking for a cause.
887
01:03:12,863 --> 01:03:16,658
Didn't take long to discover
that wasn't it, and I dropped out.
888
01:03:17,117 --> 01:03:20,662
Please believe that,
Mr. President. It's true.
889
01:03:24,458 --> 01:03:27,544
But I am guilty of one bad error.
890
01:03:27,711 --> 01:03:31,548
I gave Herbert Gelman a job
to keep him from talking.
891
01:03:32,090 --> 01:03:37,054
When I saw Gelman in the courtroom, I knew
Cooley had me set up for the witch-hunters.
892
01:03:37,262 --> 01:03:40,224
I wish I could tell you I'm sorry I lied.
893
01:03:40,432 --> 01:03:43,352
I'm only sorry I had to lie.
894
01:03:44,436 --> 01:03:46,939
Anybody else know you lied?
895
01:03:47,105 --> 01:03:49,733
One person. Hardiman Fletcher.
896
01:03:50,359 --> 01:03:53,946
Fletcher of the Treasury Department?
Yes.
897
01:04:00,035 --> 01:04:01,745
Will he talk?
898
01:04:01,912 --> 01:04:04,540
No. Fletcher was the third man
in Chicago.
899
01:04:04,706 --> 01:04:07,167
He was James Morton.
900
01:04:35,946 --> 01:04:38,824
Hello, senator.
Well, Mr. Fletcher...
901
01:04:38,991 --> 01:04:43,537
...I surely do appreciate you keeping
this little rendezvous.
902
01:04:43,829 --> 01:04:46,039
Who are we hiding from,
senator, and why?
903
01:04:46,206 --> 01:04:51,503
I thought us meeting by this fine old
monument might have a salutary effect...
904
01:04:51,670 --> 01:04:55,591
...on our conversation. It was George
Washington who couldn't tell a lie...
905
01:04:55,757 --> 01:04:57,384
...wasn't it, Mr. Fletcher?
906
01:04:57,551 --> 01:05:02,264
I sometimes forget my schoolboy history.
Shall we take a little walk?
907
01:05:05,017 --> 01:05:09,438
A thought came to me, Mr. Fletcher.
Not like a bolt from the blue.
908
01:05:09,605 --> 01:05:12,983
More insinuating,
like a soft breeze off the river.
909
01:05:13,150 --> 01:05:19,197
I thought, "Why did Robert A. Leffingwell
have Herbert Gelman...
910
01:05:19,364 --> 01:05:22,826
...apply to the Treasury Department
for a job?
911
01:05:22,993 --> 01:05:26,204
Why didn't he send him
through civil service for a job?"
912
01:05:26,371 --> 01:05:29,458
Are you asking me a question?
Not yet, Mr. Fletcher.
913
01:05:29,625 --> 01:05:34,713
I gallivanted over to
the Treasury Department this afternoon...
914
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:37,716
...and I sort of looked up
Herbert Gelman's record.
915
01:05:37,883 --> 01:05:41,845
And I discovered that you approved
Herbert's application.
916
01:05:42,012 --> 01:05:43,722
Personally approved it.
917
01:05:43,930 --> 01:05:47,851
Senator, get to the point.
The point is, I was gonna give you a break.
918
01:05:48,018 --> 01:05:51,063
Looks like you see fit to turn down
my Southern generosity.
919
01:05:51,229 --> 01:05:55,067
Senator Cooley, I'm a loyal citizen. I...
I didn't say you weren't.
920
01:05:55,233 --> 01:06:01,073
But I might have to start an investigation
to prove you're loyal, Mr. Fletcher.
921
01:06:01,239 --> 01:06:04,117
Mr. James Morton.
922
01:06:13,752 --> 01:06:15,587
What is this...
923
01:06:15,754 --> 01:06:18,382
...break you were gonna give me?
Simple.
924
01:06:18,548 --> 01:06:24,054
Make a telephone call to Brigham Anderson,
offer him a small confession...
925
01:06:24,262 --> 01:06:29,393
...not mentioning I had anything to do with
it, just made out of your own conscience.
926
01:06:29,559 --> 01:06:31,144
What happens then?
927
01:06:31,311 --> 01:06:35,190
Natural course will be followed
to protect the president and our party.
928
01:06:35,357 --> 01:06:38,151
Your confidence won't be betrayed,
Mr. Fletcher.
929
01:06:38,318 --> 01:06:42,072
And you'll have done a noble duty, sir.
Yes, sir, noble.
930
01:06:50,997 --> 01:06:54,459
Senator Knox?
Oh, thank you.
931
01:06:57,879 --> 01:07:02,217
Senators, looks like
we won't be voting today.
932
01:07:02,384 --> 01:07:05,011
It's from Brig. He's postponed it.
933
01:07:05,178 --> 01:07:06,972
For what reason?
934
01:07:07,514 --> 01:07:09,015
He doesn't say.
935
01:07:09,766 --> 01:07:12,060
Are you sure it was Fletcher
who called you?
936
01:07:12,227 --> 01:07:13,729
I made sure.
937
01:07:13,895 --> 01:07:15,772
I called him back at his home.
938
01:07:15,939 --> 01:07:17,899
Has he told this to anyone but you?
939
01:07:18,066 --> 01:07:19,609
He said not.
940
01:07:19,776 --> 01:07:22,529
Why in hell did he open
up this can of beans?
941
01:07:22,696 --> 01:07:24,823
He felt he should do the right thing.
942
01:07:24,990 --> 01:07:27,617
Nuts. He's protecting himself.
943
01:07:29,786 --> 01:07:32,497
Bess, get through to the
president at Camp David.
944
01:07:32,664 --> 01:07:34,541
Tell his secretary I want him next.
945
01:07:34,708 --> 01:07:37,502
I don't care who's ahead of me.
The queen of England.
946
01:07:38,503 --> 01:07:43,675
And it is not enough that the subcommittee
has permitted a great man to be smeared.
947
01:07:43,842 --> 01:07:49,306
Now the chairman of that subcommittee
is deliberately blocking the committee vote.
948
01:07:49,473 --> 01:07:53,852
It's one more thing to add to the most
unfair hearing in the history of the Senate.
949
01:07:54,019 --> 01:07:56,229
Sir, will the senator
yield for a question?
950
01:07:56,396 --> 01:08:00,025
Will the senator yield for a question?
I'll yield to the senator.
951
01:08:00,192 --> 01:08:03,695
Mr. Rresident, I admit I'm not
a supporter of Mr. Leffingwell...
952
01:08:03,862 --> 01:08:07,699
...but I watched the hearing on TV,
and it seemed eminently fair to me.
953
01:08:07,866 --> 01:08:13,205
Mr. Rresident, I'm sorry if the senator was
not perceptive enough to grasp the obvious.
954
01:08:13,371 --> 01:08:15,874
I am telling the Senate
exactly what happened.
955
01:08:16,041 --> 01:08:20,086
As much as I appreciate hearing about
the senator's particular view...
956
01:08:20,253 --> 01:08:24,716
...I must say I will need more substantial
proof than the senator's own description.
957
01:08:24,883 --> 01:08:27,052
Sir, is the senator calling me a liar?
958
01:08:27,219 --> 01:08:29,513
The record must stand as is,
Mr. President.
959
01:08:29,679 --> 01:08:32,808
How the senator interprets that
is his problem, not mine.
960
01:08:32,974 --> 01:08:37,354
Mr. President, the senator from Kansas
is welcome to take advantage of her sex.
961
01:08:37,521 --> 01:08:39,356
Oh, Fred, come off it.
962
01:08:40,148 --> 01:08:41,942
You think it's funny?
963
01:08:42,108 --> 01:08:44,611
You think the world thinks it's funny?
964
01:08:44,778 --> 01:08:49,825
The world thinks it's funny that we're trying
to smear a man who believes in peace?
965
01:08:49,991 --> 01:08:52,953
Do you think the people of this
country think it's funny?
966
01:08:53,119 --> 01:08:55,914
Does the senator from Utah
think it's funny?
967
01:08:56,081 --> 01:08:59,459
Will the senator from Utah tell us
why he is blocking the vote?
968
01:08:59,626 --> 01:09:04,089
I'll tell you. He's assassinating the character
and reputation of Robert Leffingwell!
969
01:09:04,256 --> 01:09:07,133
The senator asks me a question
and answers it himself.
970
01:09:07,300 --> 01:09:10,554
I prefer to make my own
reply, Mr. President.
971
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:13,807
As chairman of the subcommittee,
I seek only to do my duty.
972
01:09:13,974 --> 01:09:19,187
And that I will do despite the hysterical
tantrums of the senator from Wyoming.
973
01:09:19,354 --> 01:09:23,567
The senator is frightening no one
except the children in the visitors' gallery.
974
01:09:23,733 --> 01:09:26,945
I'm not too sure the senator
from Utah can't be frightened.
975
01:09:27,112 --> 01:09:31,032
There are ways to frighten any man,
even the senator from Utah.
976
01:09:31,199 --> 01:09:35,912
Every man has his Achilles...
The chair is tolerant, as everybody knows.
977
01:09:36,079 --> 01:09:38,790
But there'll be no threats
made in this chamber.
978
01:09:38,957 --> 01:09:41,918
What happened to Harley?
I don't know.
979
01:09:42,085 --> 01:09:43,879
I apologize to the chair.
980
01:09:44,045 --> 01:09:46,923
In my anxiety for a great cause,
I was carried away.
981
01:09:47,090 --> 01:09:49,801
Will the chair hear a motion?
Make your motion.
982
01:09:50,135 --> 01:09:53,471
I move that the Committee on
Foreign Relations be discharged...
983
01:09:53,638 --> 01:09:56,975
...from consideration of the nominee
for secretary of state...
984
01:09:57,142 --> 01:10:00,103
...and that the Senate vote on
Robert Leffingwell now.
985
01:10:00,812 --> 01:10:03,648
Did he clear this with you?
He did not.
986
01:10:03,815 --> 01:10:07,068
Bob, I can't let this pass.
I'm gonna have to open up.
987
01:10:07,235 --> 01:10:09,237
I'll try and stop it.
988
01:10:09,529 --> 01:10:13,325
Make Van Ackerman withdraw the motion.
Tell him we haven't enough votes.
989
01:10:13,491 --> 01:10:17,162
Mr. President.
The senior senator from Michigan.
990
01:10:17,662 --> 01:10:19,456
Mr. President...
991
01:10:19,623 --> 01:10:23,793
...it would certainly be a dramatic
affirmation of the nominee...
992
01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:26,838
...if we were to bypass
the regular procedures...
993
01:10:27,005 --> 01:10:29,716
...of the Senate
and vote him into office now...
994
01:10:29,883 --> 01:10:32,552
I won't withdraw.
He should make a motion himself.
995
01:10:32,719 --> 01:10:37,307
The balance of power in our government,
as created by the Constitution...
996
01:10:37,515 --> 01:10:42,395
...is the most brilliant device for the
protection of liberty conceived by free men...
997
01:10:42,562 --> 01:10:46,316
We're not ready for this, Fred.
Don't you understand?
998
01:10:46,483 --> 01:10:47,901
I'm ready for it.
999
01:10:48,068 --> 01:10:53,448
That none can become absolute has made
this government the miracle of the ages.
1000
01:10:53,615 --> 01:10:55,533
We must always guard this balance...
1001
01:10:55,700 --> 01:10:59,913
...so this great dream of liberty within
discipline, which is America, will die.
1002
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:02,540
I tell you, we haven't got the votes.
1003
01:11:02,707 --> 01:11:05,669
You'll get him beat before we
get him out of committee.
1004
01:11:05,835 --> 01:11:09,214
Citizens of this republic
for almost two centuries.
1005
01:11:09,381 --> 01:11:15,303
Now Senator Van Ackerman's motion
proposes to ride over those procedures.
1006
01:11:15,470 --> 01:11:19,849
Though I hope for the eventual
confirmation of the nominee...
1007
01:11:20,016 --> 01:11:22,394
...I ask that this motion be defeated.
1008
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:25,355
It won't hurt Mr. Leffingwell
if he isn't confirmed...
1009
01:11:25,522 --> 01:11:28,441
...by sundown today
or even sundown tomorrow.
1010
01:11:28,608 --> 01:11:33,196
But it might hurt us most grievously
if we do what suits us...
1011
01:11:33,405 --> 01:11:37,659
...in the heat and passion
of the passing moment.
1012
01:11:39,077 --> 01:11:41,287
Is there a request for the yeas and nays?
1013
01:11:41,454 --> 01:11:43,707
Square-head Anderson can't block this.
1014
01:11:43,873 --> 01:11:47,961
Senators, do I hear a request for the
yeas and nays? A quorum, maybe?
1015
01:11:48,128 --> 01:11:51,423
What got your tongue today?
You're usually shaking the rafters.
1016
01:11:51,589 --> 01:11:57,929
It's my day for sunning myself, Mr. Majority
Leader, like an old bullfrog on a lily pad.
1017
01:11:58,096 --> 01:12:01,725
You've got to withdraw.
Does anybody want to say anything at all?
1018
01:12:01,891 --> 01:12:05,937
Mr. Rresident.
Saved by the senator from Wyoming.
1019
01:12:06,354 --> 01:12:12,527
Mr. Rresident, I have decided to heed the
wisdom of the esteemed majority leader...
1020
01:12:12,694 --> 01:12:15,655
...who has pointed out
the danger in my motion.
1021
01:12:15,822 --> 01:12:19,409
I would not wish to abuse
this citadel of freedom.
1022
01:12:19,617 --> 01:12:25,081
I will instead humble myself
before my peers and withdraw the...
1023
01:12:25,248 --> 01:12:28,585
This news about Leffingwell
hit the president pretty hard.
1024
01:12:28,752 --> 01:12:31,629
He put a lot of faith in him.
I'm sorry.
1025
01:12:31,796 --> 01:12:35,300
He's coming to the correspondents'
banquet tonight. You going?
1026
01:12:35,467 --> 01:12:36,718
I plan to.
1027
01:12:36,885 --> 01:12:40,764
He'd like to see you, Brig.
Would you come up to my place afterwards?
1028
01:12:40,930 --> 01:12:45,268
What can I tell him I haven't told you?
All he has to do is withdraw the man.
1029
01:12:45,435 --> 01:12:46,853
Did I eat crow nicely, Bob?
1030
01:12:47,020 --> 01:12:49,898
Yeah, you did fine, Fred.
Thanks for your cooperation.
1031
01:12:50,065 --> 01:12:52,233
Is Brig cooperating?
1032
01:13:01,993 --> 01:13:06,331
Any time old Brig isn't cooperating,
I might be able to change his mind.
1033
01:13:06,498 --> 01:13:08,041
Just let me know.
1034
01:13:08,208 --> 01:13:11,044
Get off my back, Fred.
1035
01:13:24,099 --> 01:13:26,392
Bob, see you a minute?
1036
01:13:26,559 --> 01:13:28,686
Okay for after the banquet, Brig?
1037
01:13:28,853 --> 01:13:30,939
Sure, all right.
1038
01:13:32,357 --> 01:13:34,943
I said you made a mistake
with him. He's trouble.
1039
01:13:35,110 --> 01:13:39,364
Fred, will you please butt out of this?
You're not doing Leffingwell any good.
1040
01:13:39,531 --> 01:13:43,868
Okay, but if you want Brig whipped
into line, I've got the whip on file.
1041
01:13:44,035 --> 01:13:47,288
I'm sure we can manage
without your file.
1042
01:13:47,497 --> 01:13:52,502
Gentlemen, tonight is the one night
in the year when we're honor-bound...
1043
01:13:52,710 --> 01:13:54,921
...not to be reporters.
1044
01:13:55,088 --> 01:13:56,923
Our guests may speak freely...
1045
01:13:57,090 --> 01:14:02,554
...and not have to read a hundred versions
of what they said in the morning papers.
1046
01:14:02,720 --> 01:14:08,685
So with that assurance, I give you
the president of the United States.
1047
01:14:25,869 --> 01:14:30,832
Fellow members of the White House
Correspondents' Association...
1048
01:14:31,499 --> 01:14:35,420
...the man says there are
no reporters present tonight...
1049
01:14:35,587 --> 01:14:40,091
...but I'm going to exercise the privilege
given me by my gold membership card...
1050
01:14:40,258 --> 01:14:42,635
...and reverse that traditional ruling.
1051
01:14:43,219 --> 01:14:46,472
Tonight, gentlemen,
there are reporters present.
1052
01:14:46,764 --> 01:14:49,767
So get out your pencils.
We'll write ourselves a story.
1053
01:14:49,934 --> 01:14:52,437
This planned?
Not by me.
1054
01:14:52,604 --> 01:14:57,942
I see down there at table number three
the senior senator from South Carolina.
1055
01:14:58,610 --> 01:15:00,695
Hello, Seab.
1056
01:15:01,613 --> 01:15:04,324
And over there at table seven...
1057
01:15:04,490 --> 01:15:08,369
...I see the senator from Utah,
Brigham Anderson.
1058
01:15:08,536 --> 01:15:10,455
Hi, Brigham.
1059
01:15:11,164 --> 01:15:12,999
I said, hi, Brigham.
1060
01:15:17,170 --> 01:15:20,298
Now, a few days ago,
the president of the United States...
1061
01:15:20,465 --> 01:15:23,259
...nominated a man
for secretary of state...
1062
01:15:23,426 --> 01:15:26,095
...who the president thinks
is a pretty good man...
1063
01:15:26,262 --> 01:15:29,682
...and he wants that man
confirmed by the Senate.
1064
01:15:29,849 --> 01:15:34,229
But the senior senator from
South Carolina, for reasons of his own...
1065
01:15:34,395 --> 01:15:38,775
...and those reasons are never
like anybody else's reasons...
1066
01:15:39,984 --> 01:15:42,320
...the senator's opposed to my nominee.
1067
01:15:42,487 --> 01:15:45,323
Well, everybody expected that.
1068
01:15:45,490 --> 01:15:48,952
We'd all be disappointed
if Seab hadn't reared back...
1069
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:53,248
...and huffed and puffed,
and tried to blow the house down.
1070
01:15:54,791 --> 01:15:57,919
But now comes
Senator Brigham Anderson...
1071
01:15:58,086 --> 01:16:01,673
...who nobody suspected
of being a big, bad wolf.
1072
01:16:02,298 --> 01:16:07,053
And he goes Seab Cooley one better by
trying to dig a tunnel under the house.
1073
01:16:08,846 --> 01:16:14,519
This is your story, fellow members of the
White House Correspondents' Association.
1074
01:16:14,811 --> 01:16:18,481
The president is standing by his nominee.
1075
01:16:18,815 --> 01:16:23,987
Despite Seab Cooley's windstorms
and Brigham Anderson's tunneling...
1076
01:16:24,195 --> 01:16:30,576
...you can tell the readers the president
hasn't changed his mind about his nominee.
1077
01:16:30,743 --> 01:16:34,831
He's going to fight for that
confirmation no matter what.
1078
01:16:54,559 --> 01:16:56,185
What are you clapping for?
1079
01:16:56,352 --> 01:16:59,522
I can afford to be charitable, sir.
1080
01:17:19,792 --> 01:17:21,669
Mr. President.
1081
01:17:24,714 --> 01:17:27,008
Sore at me, Brigham?
1082
01:17:27,175 --> 01:17:29,886
Frankly, I'm puzzled, Mr. President.
1083
01:17:30,053 --> 01:17:34,057
There's coffee and brandy here if you want.
I'll go down to the banquet room.
1084
01:17:34,265 --> 01:17:39,270
If it's okay, I'd rather have you stay.
What's the matter, Brigham?
1085
01:17:39,437 --> 01:17:41,356
You think you need a witness?
1086
01:17:41,522 --> 01:17:43,149
I'm not sure, Mr. President.
1087
01:17:43,316 --> 01:17:45,610
You'd better stay, Bobby.
Sit down.
1088
01:17:46,069 --> 01:17:49,405
I have a feeling I might need
some help with this young man.
1089
01:17:49,864 --> 01:17:53,826
Of course you know I'm grateful,
the way you put the lid on this matter.
1090
01:17:54,452 --> 01:17:56,621
I didn't get that impression tonight.
1091
01:17:56,788 --> 01:18:02,001
Well, a president has to stand up for a man
he sends down to Senate. You know that.
1092
01:18:02,418 --> 01:18:06,672
It seems to me, the sooner you withdraw
him, the sooner this will blow over.
1093
01:18:06,839 --> 01:18:08,466
I still want him, Brigham.
1094
01:18:08,633 --> 01:18:13,096
If we open this up, he won't be confirmed.
I'm sure Senator Munson told you that.
1095
01:18:13,262 --> 01:18:17,392
If we don't open it up, we've got enough
votes committed to put him through.
1096
01:18:17,558 --> 01:18:20,269
I've gone as far as I can
with this, Mr. Rresident.
1097
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:25,108
I think the circumstances might
permit you to go a little further.
1098
01:18:25,274 --> 01:18:28,778
You don't seriously believe
Leffingwell's a communist, do you?
1099
01:18:28,986 --> 01:18:31,697
Whether he is or not, he lied under oath.
1100
01:18:32,156 --> 01:18:35,034
Aren't you interested in why he lied?
1101
01:18:35,660 --> 01:18:41,040
Well, I'm not completely unsympathetic,
but I just think that...
1102
01:18:41,207 --> 01:18:43,626
You think he should let himself
be ruined...
1103
01:18:43,793 --> 01:18:47,380
...just because he flirted with
communism a long time ago?
1104
01:18:47,547 --> 01:18:49,966
My point is he should've
told the committee...
1105
01:18:50,133 --> 01:18:52,885
...he had flirted with communism
instead of lying.
1106
01:18:53,052 --> 01:18:56,848
Well, maybe there's nothing in your
young life you'd like to conceal...
1107
01:18:57,014 --> 01:18:59,267
...but we're not all of us that fortunate.
1108
01:18:59,434 --> 01:19:04,147
We have to make the best of our mistakes.
That's all Leffingwell has done.
1109
01:19:04,313 --> 01:19:09,485
As the leader of our party, I'm asking you.
Let me judge the man.
1110
01:19:09,861 --> 01:19:14,198
Mr. Rresident, I don't want
to wreck his life.
1111
01:19:14,365 --> 01:19:17,869
I don't want to deprive you
of his services in some other office.
1112
01:19:18,035 --> 01:19:21,497
But in this case, his confirmation
as secretary of state...
1113
01:19:21,706 --> 01:19:24,083
...I am bound by my duty
to my committee.
1114
01:19:24,250 --> 01:19:26,586
You also owe a duty to your party.
1115
01:19:26,752 --> 01:19:29,672
I can't subvert the purpose
of a Senate committee.
1116
01:19:30,131 --> 01:19:33,509
You don't think Cooley subverted
the purpose of the committee?
1117
01:19:33,676 --> 01:19:36,971
He's used his little forum
in a personal vendetta.
1118
01:19:37,138 --> 01:19:41,267
Mr. Rresident, I'm sorry, but your
arguments won't wash with me.
1119
01:19:43,144 --> 01:19:46,481
My prestige is riding on this nomination.
1120
01:19:46,647 --> 01:19:51,402
Rrestige of this country, Senator Anderson.
By God, that ought to wash.
1121
01:19:51,569 --> 01:19:54,155
Or don't you know we're in trouble
in the world...
1122
01:19:54,322 --> 01:19:56,949
...outside that little
subcommittee of yours?
1123
01:19:57,408 --> 01:20:00,244
Yes, sir, I know our prestige will suffer...
1124
01:20:00,411 --> 01:20:05,541
...but it will suffer a lot more if I have to
show up your nominee as a barefaced liar.
1125
01:20:05,708 --> 01:20:09,879
If you won't withdraw him, I'll reopen
and call Hardiman Fletcher as a witness.
1126
01:20:10,046 --> 01:20:13,925
Then do it. Do what you like.
I won't withdraw.
1127
01:20:19,597 --> 01:20:22,725
Good night, Bobby.
Good night, Mr. Rresident.
1128
01:20:26,646 --> 01:20:28,814
He has a case, Brig.
1129
01:20:29,315 --> 01:20:33,027
You can't always cut it black or white.
Not in these times.
1130
01:20:33,194 --> 01:20:35,905
But this is black and white.
1131
01:20:36,614 --> 01:20:41,035
I just don't understand you. You make a
great speech about the balance of power...
1132
01:20:41,202 --> 01:20:43,621
...then you ignore your responsibility...
1133
01:20:43,788 --> 01:20:47,750
...and want me to rubber-stamp this
nomination just to please the president.
1134
01:20:48,584 --> 01:20:51,087
I guess it is inconsistent...
1135
01:20:51,295 --> 01:20:55,758
...but I've come a long way with him, ever
since we were green congressmen together.
1136
01:20:55,925 --> 01:20:59,554
He's pulled us through
six hard years of crisis.
1137
01:20:59,845 --> 01:21:02,765
He's tired, Brig, and he's ill.
1138
01:21:02,932 --> 01:21:04,684
I love the man.
1139
01:21:05,309 --> 01:21:08,437
I guess I can stretch
my responsibility a little.
1140
01:21:08,646 --> 01:21:10,273
Love to help him.
1141
01:21:10,481 --> 01:21:13,442
I'm sorry, but mine won't stretch.
1142
01:21:14,277 --> 01:21:19,574
All right. Give him a few days to save face,
and then we'll put up another nominee.
1143
01:21:19,740 --> 01:21:22,326
That isn't what the president said.
1144
01:21:22,493 --> 01:21:25,121
He'll bend if he has to.
1145
01:21:25,329 --> 01:21:27,957
And I guess he has to.
1146
01:23:18,776 --> 01:23:20,444
Brig?
1147
01:23:22,238 --> 01:23:24,740
Did I wake you? I'm sorry.
1148
01:23:25,241 --> 01:23:26,909
I was waiting for you.
1149
01:23:27,076 --> 01:23:29,578
This was a night, Mrs. Anderson.
1150
01:23:29,787 --> 01:23:35,626
Your husband had a knockdown-and-dragout
with the president of the United States.
1151
01:23:35,793 --> 01:23:39,422
Oh, Brig.
It's all right. I won.
1152
01:23:40,172 --> 01:23:42,675
I had a very strange phone call, Brig.
1153
01:23:43,467 --> 01:23:45,386
Strange? Well, who was it?
1154
01:23:45,553 --> 01:23:47,096
I don't know. A man.
1155
01:23:47,263 --> 01:23:50,433
He said that before you go on
with the Leffingwell matter...
1156
01:23:50,599 --> 01:23:53,227
...you ought to remember
what happened in Hawaii.
1157
01:23:53,394 --> 01:23:55,438
Then he hung up.
1158
01:23:55,980 --> 01:23:58,691
What happened in Hawaii, Brig?
1159
01:24:00,109 --> 01:24:02,027
What was the voice like?
1160
01:24:02,194 --> 01:24:07,283
It was crawly. He made it sound like
he knew some kind of nasty secret.
1161
01:24:07,491 --> 01:24:12,079
I've been on the front pages the past few
days. We're bound to get crackpot calls.
1162
01:24:12,246 --> 01:24:14,999
Just hang up if you get any more.
1163
01:24:15,499 --> 01:24:18,461
Are you sure you're doing
the right thing, Brig?
1164
01:24:18,627 --> 01:24:21,839
Yes, darling, I'm sure.
Don't worry about it.
1165
01:24:22,506 --> 01:24:25,009
What did he mean about Hawaii?
1166
01:24:25,217 --> 01:24:27,553
I was stationed there
when I was in the Army.
1167
01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:30,681
I don't see what that
has to do with Leffingwell.
1168
01:24:30,848 --> 01:24:33,893
Just some crackpot, darling, that's all.
1169
01:24:45,988 --> 01:24:49,158
Hello?
Did you speak to your husband?
1170
01:24:49,325 --> 01:24:52,328
What do you want? Who are you?
We're serious about this.
1171
01:24:52,536 --> 01:24:54,955
You call here one...
Hello!
1172
01:24:55,122 --> 01:24:56,665
Hello?
1173
01:25:00,169 --> 01:25:03,464
I told you to hang up on those calls.
Brig, I'm frightened.
1174
01:25:03,631 --> 01:25:07,676
Now, look, there is nothing to be
frightened of, Ellen. Nothing!
1175
01:25:08,594 --> 01:25:11,180
Come on, let's have some breakfast.
1176
01:25:12,556 --> 01:25:17,144
The senator handling the inland waterways
bill can't be present this afternoon.
1177
01:25:17,311 --> 01:25:19,563
If the senator from Michigan will agree...
1178
01:25:19,730 --> 01:25:23,859
...I would like to ask that nothing
be put ahead of this bill.
1179
01:25:24,068 --> 01:25:26,612
Since the afternoon is
an extremely busy one...
1180
01:25:26,779 --> 01:25:28,948
When is the president going to withdraw?
1181
01:25:29,114 --> 01:25:33,410
You can't hurry him, Brig. After all,
we don't run that end of the avenue.
1182
01:25:33,661 --> 01:25:36,914
I am very glad to accommodate
the senator, Mr. Rresident.
1183
01:25:37,081 --> 01:25:39,625
I move we stand in recess
until noon tomorrow.
1184
01:25:39,792 --> 01:25:42,711
Without objection, so ordered.
1185
01:25:42,878 --> 01:25:44,088
Have you seen him?
1186
01:25:44,255 --> 01:25:48,050
He's on a destroyer at Chesapeake Bay
for the naval boat race.
1187
01:25:48,217 --> 01:25:52,096
Come on, don't look so worried.
After all, you won your point last night.
1188
01:25:52,263 --> 01:25:54,139
Have a cup of coffee with me.
1189
01:25:54,306 --> 01:25:56,308
No, thanks.
1190
01:26:11,323 --> 01:26:14,451
Early recess, senator?
1191
01:26:15,452 --> 01:26:16,704
Hello, Seab.
1192
01:26:16,871 --> 01:26:20,082
A man can live like a mole
in the halls of that old capitol.
1193
01:26:20,291 --> 01:26:24,587
Me, I just sit out here for a while
most every day, winter or summer.
1194
01:26:24,753 --> 01:26:29,008
You look like you've got
the burden, son. Sit down.
1195
01:26:34,138 --> 01:26:38,684
You got them treed, haven't you? Look
out they don't shinny down on top of you.
1196
01:26:38,851 --> 01:26:42,646
You're dealing with devious
men, senator. Yes, sir.
1197
01:26:42,813 --> 01:26:47,151
Devious, powerful men.
1198
01:26:47,443 --> 01:26:52,448
Hardiman Fletcher took a plane
to Europe this afternoon.
1199
01:26:52,656 --> 01:26:55,200
A mission for the president.
1200
01:26:55,367 --> 01:26:59,955
Gonna make a study
of world currency problems.
1201
01:27:01,790 --> 01:27:03,334
You know that?
1202
01:27:03,500 --> 01:27:06,629
Well, it'll be in the papers
tomorrow morning.
1203
01:27:08,547 --> 01:27:12,301
Where do you come into this, Seab?
Well...
1204
01:27:12,635 --> 01:27:18,515
...let's just say you've got a friend.
A powerful, devious friend.
1205
01:27:18,849 --> 01:27:20,559
Thanks.
1206
01:27:21,477 --> 01:27:23,854
Thanks. I might need him.
1207
01:27:34,281 --> 01:27:36,325
Bob.
Hi, Brig.
1208
01:27:36,533 --> 01:27:39,662
Change your mind?
I just wanna verify something.
1209
01:27:39,870 --> 01:27:41,789
Something about Hardiman Fletcher.
1210
01:27:41,956 --> 01:27:44,583
Well, what about Hardiman Fletcher?
1211
01:27:45,709 --> 01:27:47,836
Is this an act?
1212
01:27:49,380 --> 01:27:52,967
I don't know what you're talking about.
Go now.
1213
01:27:59,390 --> 01:28:02,393
I give you my word,
I don't know anything about it.
1214
01:28:02,559 --> 01:28:05,771
I don't understand why
the president did this.
1215
01:28:06,105 --> 01:28:11,026
All I can think of is he's making sure
you won't jump the gun until he's ready.
1216
01:28:20,744 --> 01:28:22,413
Hello.
1217
01:28:23,580 --> 01:28:25,040
Oh, yes, he's here.
1218
01:28:25,249 --> 01:28:26,709
Who is this?
1219
01:28:26,917 --> 01:28:28,752
Just a minute, please.
1220
01:28:31,463 --> 01:28:33,215
Oh, Brig, there's a call for you.
1221
01:28:33,382 --> 01:28:35,759
For me?
Yeah. It's your clerk.
1222
01:28:42,975 --> 01:28:46,103
Hello.
Hello. Senator Anderson?
1223
01:28:46,270 --> 01:28:48,397
Who is this?
Well, it's not your clerk.
1224
01:28:48,605 --> 01:28:52,943
Don't hang up, senator. You'll be interested
in this. We have the stuff on Hawaii.
1225
01:28:53,110 --> 01:28:56,655
If you don't want us to use it,
you'll get out of Leffingwell's way.
1226
01:28:56,822 --> 01:28:59,450
This is no joke, senator. We'll use it.
1227
01:28:59,616 --> 01:29:02,202
Use what? What? I don ' I know what...
1228
01:29:02,369 --> 01:29:06,290
It's a photograph, senator. And a letter.
1229
01:29:24,224 --> 01:29:27,186
Listen, I won ' I be scared off. I mean it.
1230
01:29:27,352 --> 01:29:30,647
I won ' I carry this anymore.
I'll go to Senate and tell it all!
1231
01:29:30,814 --> 01:29:33,567
Take it easy. What's the matter?
He withdraws!
1232
01:29:33,734 --> 01:29:38,489
I don't mean tomorrow! I don't mean next
week! Today, you understand? Today!
1233
01:29:39,281 --> 01:29:40,783
Brig.
1234
01:29:49,458 --> 01:29:51,752
Will you come in, Miss Foster?
1235
01:29:58,258 --> 01:30:03,347
There was a man about five or six weeks
ago. His name was Raymond Shaff.
1236
01:30:03,514 --> 01:30:07,518
"Ray," he probably said. I didn't want to
talk to him. Do you remember?
1237
01:30:07,684 --> 01:30:11,438
Yes. He called several times.
He also came to the office.
1238
01:30:11,605 --> 01:30:14,525
Did he leave a number?
I think so.
1239
01:30:31,083 --> 01:30:32,668
Senator?
1240
01:30:32,835 --> 01:30:34,586
Yes, Miss Foster?
1241
01:30:34,753 --> 01:30:39,466
I have no telephone number, but I
have an address in New York City.
1242
01:30:39,633 --> 01:30:43,679
Thank you. Would you just
put it on my desk, please?
1243
01:31:22,634 --> 01:31:25,721
Then why send Fletcher away?
I had nothing to do with it.
1244
01:31:25,888 --> 01:31:28,557
I haven't talked to the president
since the hearing.
1245
01:31:28,765 --> 01:31:33,729
You expect me to believe you don't know
whether he's going to withdraw you or not?
1246
01:31:33,896 --> 01:31:39,276
Senator, I've put myself at his disposal.
I'm waiting for him to tell me what to do.
1247
01:31:39,443 --> 01:31:41,695
Well, I won't wait.
I don't need Fletcher.
1248
01:31:41,862 --> 01:31:45,115
I'll convene the hearing
and you won't lie this time.
1249
01:31:45,699 --> 01:31:47,326
You can't do that, senator.
1250
01:31:47,492 --> 01:31:48,785
I've got to do it!
1251
01:31:48,952 --> 01:31:52,414
Why? What does a day matter?
Or two? You have the whip hand.
1252
01:31:52,956 --> 01:31:54,291
I'm giving you a chance.
1253
01:31:54,458 --> 01:31:57,794
Call the press, announce your
withdrawal. Forget the president.
1254
01:31:57,961 --> 01:31:59,671
I've given the president my word.
1255
01:31:59,838 --> 01:32:03,091
Your word is not exactly
the coin of the realm.
1256
01:32:04,301 --> 01:32:09,223
No, maybe it isn't, thanks to your
committee. But I still place a value on it.
1257
01:32:09,640 --> 01:32:13,268
And there's nothing more to be said.
Good afternoon, senator.
1258
01:32:31,578 --> 01:32:33,956
Did you hear all of that, Johnny?
1259
01:32:35,749 --> 01:32:37,668
Did you understand it?
1260
01:32:45,342 --> 01:32:48,220
Well, I don't exactly know
how to explain it, Johnny.
1261
01:32:48,387 --> 01:32:51,598
Okay.
No. Wait a minute.
1262
01:32:55,519 --> 01:32:57,771
I could tell you the truth.
1263
01:32:59,064 --> 01:33:00,607
All right.
1264
01:33:07,698 --> 01:33:09,741
Sit down, Johnny.
1265
01:33:14,579 --> 01:33:15,831
Brig?
1266
01:33:16,707 --> 01:33:19,126
I'd like to talk to you, please.
1267
01:33:28,260 --> 01:33:29,761
I had another call, Brig.
1268
01:33:29,928 --> 01:33:32,264
Yes, I took the call.
1269
01:33:32,556 --> 01:33:37,519
When did I become the little woman who's
supposed to sit at home and know nothing?
1270
01:33:37,811 --> 01:33:41,690
Brig, I've campaigned with you.
I've worked for you.
1271
01:33:41,857 --> 01:33:44,026
I know politics isn't all...
1272
01:33:44,234 --> 01:33:46,236
...love thy neighbor and friendship.
1273
01:33:46,403 --> 01:33:48,405
I know how cruel it can be.
1274
01:33:48,905 --> 01:33:51,199
There's trouble. I want to know what it is.
1275
01:33:51,366 --> 01:33:55,037
Rlease, Daddy, you promised
to play with me.
1276
01:33:55,579 --> 01:33:56,872
In a minute, Pidge.
1277
01:33:57,039 --> 01:33:59,791
Do you know someone named Ray?
1278
01:34:02,586 --> 01:34:05,213
Please, Daddy.
1279
01:34:05,589 --> 01:34:08,008
Please, Pidge.
1280
01:34:08,175 --> 01:34:10,135
Go back in the garden.
1281
01:34:10,302 --> 01:34:12,679
Daddy will be there in a minute.
1282
01:34:16,141 --> 01:34:20,687
He said to tell you
that they had bought Ray.
1283
01:34:21,271 --> 01:34:23,398
What does that mean?
1284
01:34:25,275 --> 01:34:26,610
I don't know.
1285
01:34:26,777 --> 01:34:29,237
You must know.
1286
01:34:30,489 --> 01:34:33,909
Will you please just leave this to me?
1287
01:34:34,076 --> 01:34:37,537
But it's coming into my
home on that telephone.
1288
01:34:37,704 --> 01:34:41,958
They're calling me, Brig. They're trying to
force you to do something through me.
1289
01:34:42,125 --> 01:34:44,669
Now, you've got to tell me what it is.
1290
01:34:44,836 --> 01:34:47,964
You're getting all hysterical about nothing.
1291
01:34:48,131 --> 01:34:53,512
Now, I don't know what those phone calls
are about, but I'm trying to find out.
1292
01:34:54,638 --> 01:34:58,892
For the first time in our lives,
you're not telling me the truth.
1293
01:34:59,643 --> 01:35:02,270
That awful creature on the telephone.
1294
01:35:02,479 --> 01:35:06,149
He knows what he's talking about.
He's not making something up.
1295
01:35:06,316 --> 01:35:10,737
Something will happen if you don't do what
he wants, and you must prepare me for it.
1296
01:35:10,904 --> 01:35:13,949
Ellen, please, don't press me.
1297
01:35:15,158 --> 01:35:17,577
I've got to have time to work this out.
1298
01:35:17,744 --> 01:35:19,830
Why can't I help you?
1299
01:35:19,996 --> 01:35:22,040
What do you think I live for?
1300
01:35:22,207 --> 01:35:25,502
You're my whole life, you and Ridge.
There isn't anything else.
1301
01:35:25,669 --> 01:35:28,088
I know that. I know that.
1302
01:35:29,297 --> 01:35:33,969
If they're threatening you through me,
it can only mean one thing.
1303
01:35:34,136 --> 01:35:36,555
It's about a woman, isn't it?
1304
01:35:37,097 --> 01:35:39,808
Is that why you're afraid to tell me?
1305
01:35:40,976 --> 01:35:44,354
I know I'm not everything
a wife should be.
1306
01:35:45,188 --> 01:35:48,316
I know we haven't had
an exciting marriage.
1307
01:35:48,859 --> 01:35:50,986
It's my fault.
1308
01:35:51,903 --> 01:35:56,199
Darling, nothing in the whole world
is your fault.
1309
01:35:56,450 --> 01:36:01,746
This is something from a long time ago.
Before I even knew you.
1310
01:36:03,915 --> 01:36:06,001
If I could only...
1311
01:36:07,377 --> 01:36:11,840
Tell me, Brig, tell me.
I can't.
1312
01:36:15,093 --> 01:36:18,096
Then you'd better do
what these people want.
1313
01:36:18,597 --> 01:36:21,183
It doesn't seem so very much.
1314
01:36:21,391 --> 01:36:24,352
Not if it means that our whole...
1315
01:36:24,644 --> 01:36:28,064
If I do what they want,
everything that I have tried to be...
1316
01:36:28,231 --> 01:36:33,862
...everything that I have tried to stand for in
my life would be just thrown away. No.
1317
01:36:35,614 --> 01:36:39,326
Brig, I can't wait
for a mountain to fall on me.
1318
01:36:39,493 --> 01:36:41,995
I can't be that brave.
1319
01:36:42,913 --> 01:36:45,457
I'll take Pidge and leave.
1320
01:36:46,583 --> 01:36:50,003
Shall I do that?
Shall I take Ridge and go?
1321
01:36:53,423 --> 01:36:55,675
What do you expect me to do?
1322
01:36:55,842 --> 01:37:01,473
All I want to do is stand beside you,
and you give me no place to stand.
1323
01:37:04,309 --> 01:37:07,938
I want you to wait.
Wait for just a little while.
1324
01:37:08,104 --> 01:37:13,610
If I can't stop these people, then I'll
tell you all there is to tell, everything.
1325
01:37:13,777 --> 01:37:18,698
Then you can decide.
But wait. Please wait.
1326
01:37:19,366 --> 01:37:21,576
And if you do stop them?
1327
01:37:22,410 --> 01:37:25,580
I'll ask you to try and forget
this ever happened.
1328
01:37:27,374 --> 01:37:30,669
Oh, I couldn't leave you.
1329
01:37:31,461 --> 01:37:35,131
No matter what happens,
I couldn't leave you.
1330
01:37:35,465 --> 01:37:37,717
Hurry up, Daddy.
1331
01:37:38,093 --> 01:37:41,137
Hurry up, Daddy. It's getting dark.
1332
01:37:44,849 --> 01:37:48,478
Oh, go and help her with the silly fish.
1333
01:37:50,814 --> 01:37:53,441
I have to do something about dinner.
1334
01:38:00,657 --> 01:38:02,993
Where is Daddy going?
1335
01:38:03,868 --> 01:38:07,622
Have you any luggage, senator?
No. No luggage.
1336
01:38:07,789 --> 01:38:12,085
Hold flight 338. VIR.
Senator Anderson.
1337
01:38:12,252 --> 01:38:14,879
Gate 11, sir.
Thank you.
1338
01:38:20,594 --> 01:38:25,557
And Brig was more determined than ever the
president should withdraw Mr. Leffingwell.
1339
01:38:26,391 --> 01:38:29,644
Then these telephone calls
began to come.
1340
01:38:29,853 --> 01:38:33,356
I don't know what else to tell you, Lafe.
I know I'm meddling.
1341
01:38:33,523 --> 01:38:37,861
I know Brig will be angry and embarrassed
if he finds out I talked to you.
1342
01:38:38,028 --> 01:38:39,988
Maybe he won't have to know.
1343
01:38:40,363 --> 01:38:43,700
I said some things to him
I shouldn't have said.
1344
01:38:43,867 --> 01:38:47,037
He was desperate when he left.
Really desperate, Lafe.
1345
01:38:47,203 --> 01:38:50,498
He might be protecting someone else.
Had you thought of that?
1346
01:38:51,082 --> 01:38:55,712
Yes, that might be it.
That's like Brig.
1347
01:38:55,879 --> 01:38:57,631
I'll tell you what.
1348
01:38:58,256 --> 01:39:02,052
When he comes home, tell him
to call me at Dolly Harrison's.
1349
01:39:02,218 --> 01:39:05,555
I'll get around and find out
what it's all about.
1350
01:39:05,722 --> 01:39:07,641
Now, you stop worrying.
1351
01:39:07,807 --> 01:39:10,727
I'm sorry to bother you, Lafe.
I'm glad you did.
1352
01:39:10,894 --> 01:39:12,979
What's a friend for?
1353
01:39:25,241 --> 01:39:28,578
This must be Lafe. Excuse me.
1354
01:39:32,582 --> 01:39:35,335
Senator, we were just
about to begin without you.
1355
01:39:35,502 --> 01:39:37,796
I'm sorry, Dolly.
It was unavoidable.
1356
01:39:37,962 --> 01:39:39,923
I'm sure she must have been.
1357
01:39:40,090 --> 01:39:44,678
Oh, Dolly. Could you get Bob
to drift out here for a minute?
1358
01:39:44,844 --> 01:39:48,640
Oh, we are serious, aren't we? Of course.
1359
01:39:54,688 --> 01:39:56,690
Hello, lover.
1360
01:39:57,607 --> 01:40:01,653
Bob, I know about the argument
between Brig and the president.
1361
01:40:01,820 --> 01:40:03,488
How?
His wife.
1362
01:40:03,655 --> 01:40:07,909
Now I know why I never married again.
No, no. She's scared.
1363
01:40:08,702 --> 01:40:11,579
Bob. Brig's got a blackmailer on his tail.
1364
01:40:11,746 --> 01:40:13,123
Blackmailer?
1365
01:40:13,289 --> 01:40:15,917
You know anything about it?
Are you joking?
1366
01:40:16,126 --> 01:40:17,836
It's about Leffingwell.
1367
01:40:18,002 --> 01:40:19,754
Thought maybe you had some ideas.
1368
01:40:19,921 --> 01:40:21,673
Where is Brig?
1369
01:40:22,298 --> 01:40:24,926
I've been looking for him.
That's why I'm late.
1370
01:40:25,093 --> 01:40:28,972
Blackmail. Are you sure
his wife isn't exaggerating?
1371
01:40:29,305 --> 01:40:31,057
I don't believe so.
1372
01:40:31,683 --> 01:40:33,309
Well?
1373
01:40:34,477 --> 01:40:37,021
Yes, I might have some idea.
1374
01:40:37,188 --> 01:40:40,900
Why in the devil didn't he come to me
with this or to you? Somebody?
1375
01:40:41,067 --> 01:40:45,280
Did you leave word for him to call here?
His wife or office will tell him.
1376
01:41:18,480 --> 01:41:20,982
Yes?
Ray?
1377
01:41:21,191 --> 01:41:22,525
Who is it?
1378
01:41:23,401 --> 01:41:25,528
Is this Raymond Shaff?
1379
01:41:27,864 --> 01:41:29,491
Hello.
1380
01:41:45,840 --> 01:41:47,300
You want Ray?
Yes, please.
1381
01:41:47,467 --> 01:41:50,804
He doesn't live here, you know.
He left this apartment number.
1382
01:41:50,970 --> 01:41:54,307
I'm a friend of Ray's. Are you a friend?
Where can I find him?
1383
01:41:54,474 --> 01:41:55,975
Won't you sit down, please?
1384
01:41:56,142 --> 01:41:59,562
Do you know where I can find Ray?
Rlease, sit.
1385
01:42:01,481 --> 01:42:04,400
I'm making some tea.
Would you like some tea?
1386
01:42:04,567 --> 01:42:06,236
Thanks just the same.
1387
01:42:08,404 --> 01:42:12,534
My name is Manuel. I didn't get your name.
Do you know where I can reach Ray?
1388
01:42:12,700 --> 01:42:15,537
I'd appreciate it.
I said, I didn't get your name.
1389
01:42:15,703 --> 01:42:17,247
Anderson.
1390
01:42:17,914 --> 01:42:19,916
Where are you from, Mr. Anderson?
1391
01:42:20,083 --> 01:42:24,045
Well, if it's any help, I'm from out
of town. Utah. I knew Ray in the Army.
1392
01:42:24,254 --> 01:42:27,048
Oh, Utah. Way out West.
1393
01:42:27,215 --> 01:42:29,551
Mormons, and "This is the place"
and all that.
1394
01:42:29,717 --> 01:42:32,971
Mr. Manuel, if you don't mind,
I'm in kind of a hurry.
1395
01:42:33,263 --> 01:42:37,350
I have kind of a mail and answering service
here for friends like Ray.
1396
01:42:37,517 --> 01:42:39,143
Nothing big.
1397
01:42:40,979 --> 01:42:43,606
Confidential, you understand.
1398
01:42:46,943 --> 01:42:48,319
See?
1399
01:42:48,486 --> 01:42:51,614
Oh, yes. Yes, I see.
1400
01:42:52,115 --> 01:42:55,285
Will this do?
Oh, anything. Just put it there.
1401
01:42:55,451 --> 01:42:57,954
Would you like to meet Ray here?
1402
01:42:58,121 --> 01:43:00,707
Can't you give me his address
or phone number?
1403
01:43:00,874 --> 01:43:03,459
It's convenient here. It's quiet.
1404
01:43:03,751 --> 01:43:04,961
Cream or lemon?
1405
01:43:05,128 --> 01:43:08,298
Mr. Manuel, do you know
where Ray is or don't you?
1406
01:43:08,464 --> 01:43:10,592
Oh, it's like that.
1407
01:43:10,758 --> 01:43:13,636
Urgent, sudden, PDQ.
1408
01:43:15,305 --> 01:43:17,473
Won't you sit down, please?
1409
01:43:18,808 --> 01:43:20,977
Yes, it's urgent.
1410
01:43:22,061 --> 01:43:24,105
I think he'll be at 602.
1411
01:43:24,981 --> 01:43:27,609
It's a big night at 602.
602 what?
1412
01:43:27,775 --> 01:43:29,444
The club, 602.
1413
01:43:30,278 --> 01:43:32,113
I'll give you the address.
1414
01:43:34,616 --> 01:43:36,701
You can come back here with Ray.
1415
01:43:37,619 --> 01:43:39,287
I mean, you've paid.
1416
01:44:30,630 --> 01:44:32,882
Well, come on in.
1417
01:44:33,049 --> 01:44:35,176
Don't just stand there.
1418
01:44:40,723 --> 01:44:43,184
Hey, don't run off.
1419
01:44:48,815 --> 01:44:50,358
Ray?
1420
01:44:50,775 --> 01:44:52,694
Ray! You're with me.
1421
01:44:55,863 --> 01:44:57,240
Brig?
1422
01:45:00,702 --> 01:45:02,412
Wait a moment, Brig.
Taxi!
1423
01:45:02,578 --> 01:45:04,622
Let me explain. Brig, wait a moment.
1424
01:45:04,789 --> 01:45:06,290
Taxi!
Brig...
1425
01:45:06,749 --> 01:45:09,377
I needed money, Brig.
Well, you wouldn't see me.
1426
01:45:09,585 --> 01:45:11,462
I kept calling. I was drunk.
1427
01:45:11,629 --> 01:45:13,339
Newark Airport!
1428
01:45:13,548 --> 01:45:15,508
Drive, will you? Drive!
1429
01:45:50,376 --> 01:45:52,837
Please fasten your seat belt, senator.
1430
01:46:22,325 --> 01:46:23,993
You mind, Brig?
1431
01:46:25,328 --> 01:46:28,206
Harley. Sure. I didn't see you.
1432
01:46:28,372 --> 01:46:32,293
If you'd rather sleep...
No, no, no. Sit there.
1433
01:46:33,920 --> 01:46:37,048
What time do we get to old Foggy Bottom?
About midnight.
1434
01:46:37,465 --> 01:46:41,636
What? What were you doing
in New York, making a speech?
1435
01:46:41,844 --> 01:46:43,971
PTA convention. You?
1436
01:46:44,180 --> 01:46:46,641
Business. Just business.
1437
01:46:48,392 --> 01:46:50,144
Are you going to give in?
1438
01:46:50,978 --> 01:46:52,855
On Leffingwell, I mean.
1439
01:46:53,314 --> 01:46:55,483
I know what you mean.
1440
01:46:55,650 --> 01:46:59,112
What do you know about it?
Well, I can't say I know anything.
1441
01:46:59,278 --> 01:47:02,990
I'm not included in very much,
either by the senators or the president.
1442
01:47:03,199 --> 01:47:06,327
But that doesn't prevent me
from doing a little guesswork.
1443
01:47:06,536 --> 01:47:09,747
You're being pushed and pushed hard,
aren't you, Brig?
1444
01:47:11,207 --> 01:47:15,044
Why are you going it alone?
That's what I don't understand.
1445
01:47:18,297 --> 01:47:22,218
Some character once said that being
vice president isn't exactly a crime.
1446
01:47:22,385 --> 01:47:24,303
They can't put you in jail for it.
1447
01:47:24,470 --> 01:47:29,308
But it is a sort of a disgrace,
like living in a mansion with no furniture.
1448
01:47:29,475 --> 01:47:32,812
If you don't mind traveling
in such impoverished company...
1449
01:47:32,979 --> 01:47:35,439
...I might be able to help you.
1450
01:47:35,606 --> 01:47:39,986
I've suddenly gotten the feeling you're the
most underestimated man in Washington...
1451
01:47:40,153 --> 01:47:41,863
Anything I can do, Brig.
1452
01:47:44,282 --> 01:47:46,367
Maybe you're right. Maybe if...
1453
01:47:46,576 --> 01:47:48,035
Go ahead.
1454
01:47:48,202 --> 01:47:52,498
Ladies and gentlemen, we are approaching
an area of possible turbulence.
1455
01:47:52,665 --> 01:47:55,710
Please fasten your seat belts. Thank you.
1456
01:47:56,919 --> 01:47:58,546
Brig?
1457
01:47:59,172 --> 01:48:00,882
Forget it, Harley.
1458
01:48:01,090 --> 01:48:03,718
Please forget it.
1459
01:48:18,816 --> 01:48:21,861
Well, looks like rain. I'll run you home.
1460
01:48:22,028 --> 01:48:25,406
Come on, hop in.
What? Oh, no. No, thanks, Harley.
1461
01:48:25,573 --> 01:48:27,575
I've got my car over here.
1462
01:48:27,742 --> 01:48:29,243
Brig?
1463
01:48:29,702 --> 01:48:31,704
Do you feel all right?
1464
01:48:33,664 --> 01:48:35,416
Good night, Harley.
1465
01:48:53,559 --> 01:48:55,394
Good evening, senator.
1466
01:48:56,187 --> 01:48:59,398
Hi, Mike.
Senator Smith was around looking for you.
1467
01:48:59,565 --> 01:49:02,318
He said you can get him
at Mrs. Harrison's.
1468
01:49:04,278 --> 01:49:05,821
Thanks.
1469
01:49:06,989 --> 01:49:09,742
But the elevators are running, senator.
1470
01:53:58,072 --> 01:53:59,740
Senator.
1471
01:54:02,618 --> 01:54:04,578
You in there, senator?
1472
01:54:07,998 --> 01:54:09,917
It's Mike, senator.
1473
01:54:14,630 --> 01:54:16,590
Ace queen bets three.
1474
01:54:16,757 --> 01:54:18,759
Dear me.
I may be forced to drop out.
1475
01:54:18,968 --> 01:54:21,804
Is that how the British
played their cards at Waterloo?
1476
01:54:21,971 --> 01:54:25,849
No, but it served us well at Dunkirk.
Different hands, of course.
1477
01:54:26,684 --> 01:54:28,310
Out.
No good.
1478
01:54:28,477 --> 01:54:30,062
Nope.
1479
01:54:30,521 --> 01:54:34,483
Running a sandy, Seabright?
No. I'm running a possum.
1480
01:54:34,650 --> 01:54:36,986
It looks like I've got him nearly treed.
1481
01:54:37,152 --> 01:54:39,572
Senator Smith,
you're wanted on the telephone.
1482
01:54:39,738 --> 01:54:41,991
Thank you. Excuse me.
1483
01:54:42,157 --> 01:54:44,368
Closed.
All right?
1484
01:54:44,535 --> 01:54:46,495
Wheel and deal, madam.
1485
01:54:50,833 --> 01:54:54,086
Still a possible flush. Rair of sevens.
1486
01:54:54,253 --> 01:54:55,796
Jack to me.
1487
01:54:59,174 --> 01:55:00,676
Is that Brig?
1488
01:55:02,720 --> 01:55:04,305
What's the matter?
1489
01:55:06,015 --> 01:55:07,808
He's dead.
1490
01:55:08,517 --> 01:55:09,977
Brig?
1491
01:55:10,144 --> 01:55:11,645
In his office.
1492
01:55:11,854 --> 01:55:13,063
He cut his throat.
1493
01:55:13,230 --> 01:55:16,817
Are you two at it again?
We're on the last hand.
1494
01:55:25,451 --> 01:55:27,119
Sorry, everyone.
1495
01:55:27,328 --> 01:55:30,247
We just got word Brig Anderson's dead.
What?
1496
01:55:30,414 --> 01:55:31,957
Oh, Bobby.
1497
01:55:32,124 --> 01:55:35,669
Stan, will you get Harley and meet Lafe
and me at the Anderson home?
1498
01:55:35,878 --> 01:55:38,130
I know he'd like to be there.
Of course.
1499
01:55:38,297 --> 01:55:40,007
How did it happen?
1500
01:55:40,549 --> 01:55:42,760
It looks like he killed himself.
1501
01:55:55,856 --> 01:55:57,816
No, I don't know.
1502
01:55:58,817 --> 01:56:02,029
He was good, and kind and honest.
1503
01:56:02,905 --> 01:56:06,200
I don't know what it was
they were trying to use against him.
1504
01:56:07,034 --> 01:56:10,162
But whatever it was,
they can't use it anymore.
1505
01:56:10,621 --> 01:56:12,873
So it doesn't matter, does it?
1506
01:56:13,666 --> 01:56:16,335
Did Brig have any idea about...
1507
01:56:16,752 --> 01:56:19,296
...who might be behind all this?
1508
01:56:19,463 --> 01:56:21,090
No.
1509
01:56:22,132 --> 01:56:23,717
No.
1510
01:56:25,177 --> 01:56:26,970
Excuse me.
1511
01:56:27,471 --> 01:56:29,765
Please excuse me!
1512
01:56:31,809 --> 01:56:34,478
I know Van Ackerman's behind it.
1513
01:56:34,645 --> 01:56:37,523
What I don't know, is he alone in it?
1514
01:56:37,690 --> 01:56:40,567
If he is alone in it,
it becomes a Senate matter...
1515
01:56:40,734 --> 01:56:43,404
...for the Senate to handle
in its own way.
1516
01:56:43,612 --> 01:56:45,948
And if Van Ackerman isn't alone?
1517
01:56:54,998 --> 01:56:59,169
Is that what they think of me on the Hill?
Is that what you think of me, Bobby?
1518
01:56:59,336 --> 01:57:03,424
No, I don't. But Harley here
might like a straighter answer than that.
1519
01:57:03,966 --> 01:57:07,428
As God is my witness, Harley,
I know nothing of it.
1520
01:57:07,594 --> 01:57:10,764
What about Leffingwell?
There will still be a suspicion...
1521
01:57:10,973 --> 01:57:15,602
...in some quarters that you're involved in
Brig's death. Better withdraw Leffingwell.
1522
01:57:15,811 --> 01:57:20,065
The president is always suspect by some
because people are suspicious of power.
1523
01:57:20,232 --> 01:57:22,401
I can't be guided by that.
1524
01:57:23,152 --> 01:57:26,196
I'm sorry about Brig Anderson.
Don't misunderstand me.
1525
01:57:26,363 --> 01:57:28,574
I wish he were alive and happy.
1526
01:57:28,741 --> 01:57:33,162
But he's dead, morning's coming,
and I still need a secretary of state.
1527
01:57:33,328 --> 01:57:35,539
The situation hasn't changed.
1528
01:57:35,706 --> 01:57:39,001
Except now you could bring
Leffingwell to the floor for a vote.
1529
01:57:39,168 --> 01:57:42,171
You've got the votes committed,
Bobby, use them.
1530
01:57:43,172 --> 01:57:46,049
Well, Harley, what are you looking
so shocked about?
1531
01:57:46,216 --> 01:57:50,262
You think in my place, you'd feel
any differently about this than I do?
1532
01:57:50,429 --> 01:57:52,931
I don't know, Mr. President.
1533
01:57:53,098 --> 01:57:57,644
But the last night I saw Brig Anderson,
I saw a man in terrible pain.
1534
01:57:57,853 --> 01:58:03,484
I wonder if Leffingwell
or any one man is worth all of this.
1535
01:58:03,692 --> 01:58:05,527
Wondering doesn't run a government.
1536
01:58:05,694 --> 01:58:07,529
Good night, Harley.
1537
01:58:08,197 --> 01:58:10,199
Good night, Mr. Rresident.
1538
01:58:12,201 --> 01:58:14,703
Good night, Mr. Rresident.
1539
01:58:17,039 --> 01:58:18,749
Bobby.
1540
01:58:18,916 --> 01:58:20,667
Yes, sir?
1541
01:58:21,668 --> 01:58:24,838
I do want to confirm
a suspicion to you.
1542
01:58:25,172 --> 01:58:28,967
Maybe it will help you understand
why I want Leffingwell so badly.
1543
01:58:29,134 --> 01:58:30,761
I understand.
1544
01:58:30,928 --> 01:58:35,933
I'm going fast. There's nothing left
inside here that's working anymore.
1545
01:58:37,559 --> 01:58:42,397
Leffingwell can take a firm grip on
everything I've built up in foreign policy.
1546
01:58:42,564 --> 01:58:45,400
Not let it all fall to pieces.
1547
01:58:45,567 --> 01:58:48,278
Harley can't. You know he can't.
1548
01:58:48,445 --> 01:58:52,616
No, I don't know that. Why don't you
bring him in and give him some help?
1549
01:58:52,783 --> 01:58:55,786
I haven't any time to run
a school for presidents.
1550
01:58:55,994 --> 01:58:58,330
I haven't any time for anything.
1551
01:59:02,584 --> 01:59:05,504
I guess I've been wrong
in many, many things.
1552
01:59:05,671 --> 01:59:09,132
I don't suppose history
will have much good to say of me.
1553
01:59:09,299 --> 01:59:11,301
I can't dwell on that.
1554
01:59:11,468 --> 01:59:13,804
I've done my best.
1555
01:59:14,555 --> 01:59:17,474
You're one of the great presidents, Russ.
1556
01:59:19,726 --> 01:59:23,397
Well, if you think so,
that's almost as good as history.
1557
01:59:23,981 --> 01:59:25,732
Bye, Bobby.
1558
01:59:26,149 --> 01:59:28,735
Good night, Mr. Rresident.
1559
02:00:18,869 --> 02:00:20,329
Thank you.
1560
02:00:36,428 --> 02:00:39,640
Anything there?
Yes, sir.
1561
02:00:39,848 --> 02:00:41,475
Thank you.
1562
02:00:47,856 --> 02:00:49,524
Don't you ever go to bed, Seab?
1563
02:00:49,691 --> 02:00:53,028
Sleep's a waste of precious time
for old folks.
1564
02:00:54,029 --> 02:00:56,323
I have a feeling
you've been waiting for me.
1565
02:00:56,490 --> 02:00:58,283
Mr. Majority Leader...
1566
02:00:58,450 --> 02:01:01,787
...tomorrow I'm gonna raise the dome...
1567
02:01:01,954 --> 02:01:05,624
...off the capitol building.
That old dome won't sit right again...
1568
02:01:05,791 --> 02:01:10,212
...when I get through speaking my piece.
I know all about James Morton.
1569
02:01:14,925 --> 02:01:17,219
How long have you known
about James Morton?
1570
02:01:17,386 --> 02:01:20,889
That's not important.
The important thing is, I know about him.
1571
02:01:22,557 --> 02:01:25,978
I said, how long, Seab?
There's nothing more to say.
1572
02:01:27,145 --> 02:01:31,358
You forced Fletcher to call Brig.
I was trying to do the best for everybody.
1573
02:01:31,566 --> 02:01:36,530
I'll tell you what you were doing. You were
amusing yourself watching us all squirm.
1574
02:01:36,697 --> 02:01:40,742
Laughing while a dying president
put up a fight for a man he believes in.
1575
02:01:40,909 --> 02:01:44,579
In the Senate, you kept quiet
while Brigham Anderson carried the load.
1576
02:01:44,746 --> 02:01:47,416
You were playing
for the right moment to rise up...
1577
02:01:47,582 --> 02:01:50,210
...and turn on the mighty wrath
of Seab Cooley.
1578
02:01:50,419 --> 02:01:53,046
All right, Seab, you've got it.
1579
02:01:53,255 --> 02:01:56,049
The biggest moment you'll ever have.
1580
02:01:56,216 --> 02:01:59,928
Brig Anderson gave it to you
with a dull razor blade.
1581
02:02:02,055 --> 02:02:03,849
Will you wait?
1582
02:02:04,016 --> 02:02:07,060
I'll make you a deal, Mr. Majority Leader.
1583
02:02:07,227 --> 02:02:10,939
Turn your votes loose,
and I'll keep my mouth shut.
1584
02:02:11,106 --> 02:02:14,609
Even if that man is confirmed,
I'll keep my mouth shut.
1585
02:02:14,776 --> 02:02:16,528
You call that a deal?
1586
02:02:16,695 --> 02:02:20,282
I call it extortion.
I meant it as a favor.
1587
02:02:20,449 --> 02:02:23,952
Thanks. I can do without your favors.
1588
02:02:25,787 --> 02:02:28,749
The subcommittee, under the
chairmanship of Senator Anderson...
1589
02:02:28,915 --> 02:02:31,418
...has reported favorably
to the full committee.
1590
02:02:31,585 --> 02:02:33,962
And the full committee vote
is as follows:
1591
02:02:34,129 --> 02:02:39,593
Eight votes for recommendation,
five votes opposed, one abstention.
1592
02:02:39,760 --> 02:02:42,429
By this vote, the Committee
on Foreign Relations...
1593
02:02:42,596 --> 02:02:47,434
...recommends that Robert A. Leffingwell
be confirmed for secretary of state.
1594
02:02:47,601 --> 02:02:50,103
I return the floor
to the senator from Michigan.
1595
02:02:50,270 --> 02:02:52,647
I move the Senate
now advise and consent...
1596
02:02:52,814 --> 02:02:56,526
...to the nomination of Robert A. Leffingwell
for secretary of state.
1597
02:02:56,693 --> 02:02:59,654
The question is, will the Senate
advise and consent...
1598
02:02:59,821 --> 02:03:03,658
...to the nomination of Robert A. Leffingwell
for secretary of state?
1599
02:03:03,825 --> 02:03:07,287
The senator from South Carolina
has apprised me of his intention...
1600
02:03:07,496 --> 02:03:08,955
...to speak on this motion.
1601
02:03:09,164 --> 02:03:13,543
The chair now recognizes the senior senator
from South Carolina.
1602
02:03:17,506 --> 02:03:22,135
Mr. President, there is some opinion
harbored here...
1603
02:03:22,302 --> 02:03:27,224
...that my opposition to Mr. Leffingwell
has been a matter of vindictiveness.
1604
02:03:27,390 --> 02:03:32,020
Mr. Rresident, I'm afraid
that's true to some degree...
1605
02:03:32,187 --> 02:03:37,275
...and for this, I humbly apologize...
1606
02:03:37,442 --> 02:03:38,902
...to this chamber...
1607
02:03:39,611 --> 02:03:43,907
...and to the man in the White House,
who, with good intentions for this nation...
1608
02:03:44,074 --> 02:03:46,576
...sent the nominee down to us.
1609
02:03:47,577 --> 02:03:52,040
I don't expect this apology
to wash away my sins...
1610
02:03:52,707 --> 02:03:56,378
...but I hope that it will,
in some way, reestablish me...
1611
02:03:56,545 --> 02:03:59,673
...as a senator in the eyes
of my colleagues...
1612
02:03:59,840 --> 02:04:04,010
...rather than as the flannel-mouthed
old curmudgeon...
1613
02:04:04,219 --> 02:04:08,473
...I seem to have become in my
waning years, and so much for that.
1614
02:04:08,640 --> 02:04:10,475
Mr. President...
1615
02:04:11,476 --> 02:04:15,313
...I shall still oppose Mr. Leffingwell...
1616
02:04:15,480 --> 02:04:18,024
...but without vindictiveness.
1617
02:04:18,900 --> 02:04:23,697
His voice is not the voice
I wanna hear speak for America.
1618
02:04:24,281 --> 02:04:28,326
It is, to me, an alien voice.
1619
02:04:28,827 --> 02:04:31,872
Rerhaps it's the new voice
of my country.
1620
02:04:32,038 --> 02:04:36,793
These old ears aren't tuned
to these new sounds, I know.
1621
02:04:37,544 --> 02:04:42,090
I don't understand much
that Mr. Leffingwell says.
1622
02:04:42,841 --> 02:04:48,597
I don't understand
how principles of dignity...
1623
02:04:48,763 --> 02:04:51,433
...can become outworn...
1624
02:04:51,600 --> 02:04:56,771
...or how this nation
can be represented without pride.
1625
02:04:56,938 --> 02:04:59,441
I don't understand these things.
1626
02:04:59,608 --> 02:05:04,738
Of course, I am what I am,
feel as I feel.
1627
02:05:04,946 --> 02:05:07,782
I'm gonna vote against confirmation...
1628
02:05:07,949 --> 02:05:09,492
...yet...
1629
02:05:09,951 --> 02:05:14,873
...I ask no man to follow me in this.
1630
02:05:20,795 --> 02:05:22,422
Mr. President.
1631
02:05:22,631 --> 02:05:25,884
Recognize the senior senator
from Michigan.
1632
02:05:26,343 --> 02:05:30,680
The senior senator from South Carolina...
1633
02:05:30,847 --> 02:05:35,477
...has just eaten
a rather large order of crow.
1634
02:05:35,644 --> 02:05:40,023
Strangely enough,
he makes the dish seem palatable.
1635
02:05:40,190 --> 02:05:44,152
He makes us all want to sit
at his table.
1636
02:05:44,653 --> 02:05:47,280
He calls himself a curmudgeon.
1637
02:05:47,447 --> 02:05:50,450
Well, I hope the day never comes...
1638
02:05:50,659 --> 02:05:53,787
...when there is not at least one
curmudgeon in this body...
1639
02:05:53,954 --> 02:05:57,832
...to goad us in the right direction.
1640
02:05:57,999 --> 02:06:01,378
I can't agree with him
about Mr. Leffingwell.
1641
02:06:01,544 --> 02:06:05,674
I don't interpret Mr. Leffingwell
in the same way. I don't hear an alien voice.
1642
02:06:05,840 --> 02:06:09,469
To me, it sounds realistic.
And more than that...
1643
02:06:09,678 --> 02:06:13,807
...I have great respect for the judgment
of our chief executive.
1644
02:06:14,015 --> 02:06:16,434
I'll vote for the nominee.
1645
02:06:16,935 --> 02:06:21,648
But there are tragic circumstances
surrounding this nomination...
1646
02:06:21,815 --> 02:06:25,402
...which takes it out of the usual business
and sets it deeply...
1647
02:06:25,568 --> 02:06:28,196
...into the conscience of each senator.
1648
02:06:28,947 --> 02:06:32,993
For this reason, I now wish
to release all pledges made to me.
1649
02:06:33,368 --> 02:06:36,079
Mr. President, will the senator yield?
I will not.
1650
02:06:36,246 --> 02:06:39,541
All pledges made to me
are free to vote as they will.
1651
02:06:39,708 --> 02:06:44,170
What kind of a double-cross is this?
The senator from Michigan has the floor.
1652
02:06:44,337 --> 02:06:46,840
Mr. President, I ask for a quorum.
I protest!
1653
02:06:47,007 --> 02:06:51,469
A quorum call precludes any speeches
from the floor until the call is finished.
1654
02:06:51,636 --> 02:06:53,096
Mr. Clerk?
1655
02:06:53,305 --> 02:06:56,182
Mr. Abbott.
Present.
1656
02:06:56,349 --> 02:06:59,394
Mrs. Adams.
Present.
1657
02:06:59,561 --> 02:07:02,856
Mr. Andrews.
Here.
1658
02:07:03,064 --> 02:07:05,317
Well, Seab.
Well, Bob.
1659
02:07:05,483 --> 02:07:09,529
I'll beat you anyway.
That, sir, is a question.
1660
02:07:09,696 --> 02:07:13,158
Mr. Caulfield.
Here.
1661
02:07:13,616 --> 02:07:17,704
It is impossible to predict the outcome
because there was no time to poll...
1662
02:07:17,871 --> 02:07:21,207
...the individual members of the Senate,
who will now decide...
1663
02:07:21,374 --> 02:07:25,378
...free of political commitments,
guided only by their own conviction...
1664
02:07:25,587 --> 02:07:29,257
...how to vote on the question
of Leffingwell's confirmation.
1665
02:07:29,424 --> 02:07:32,427
Senator Anderson 's
mysterious suicide will...
1666
02:07:32,594 --> 02:07:34,888
Wells, Simpson, Lansing.
1667
02:07:35,055 --> 02:07:36,556
Mr. Randall.
1668
02:07:36,723 --> 02:07:40,101
Kanaho abstained in the committee vote,
but he'll vote with Seab.
1669
02:07:40,268 --> 02:07:42,354
Strike him off.
Goodman, strike him off.
1670
02:07:42,520 --> 02:07:44,981
Mr. Toland.
Present.
1671
02:07:46,024 --> 02:07:48,360
Mr. Topper.
Here.
1672
02:07:49,069 --> 02:07:52,447
Mr. Van Ackerman.
Here and waiting!
1673
02:07:52,614 --> 02:07:55,575
Mr. Young.
Present.
1674
02:07:55,784 --> 02:07:57,744
Mr. Zeffenbach.
Here.
1675
02:07:57,952 --> 02:07:59,371
Call the absentees.
1676
02:08:00,789 --> 02:08:02,582
Mr. Courtney.
1677
02:08:03,083 --> 02:08:04,751
Mr. Fickett.
1678
02:08:04,918 --> 02:08:06,795
Mr. Fields.
1679
02:08:07,712 --> 02:08:09,547
Mr. Granville.
1680
02:08:09,714 --> 02:08:11,257
Mr. Larkins.
1681
02:08:11,466 --> 02:08:16,054
Thank you. From Strickland.
Seven minority votes for Leffingwell.
1682
02:08:16,221 --> 02:08:20,767
A 42 majority, seven minority. Forty-nine.
Well, we've still got a chance to win.
1683
02:08:20,934 --> 02:08:24,813
Rrior to the quorum, the Foreign Relations
Committee reported favorably...
1684
02:08:24,979 --> 02:08:28,566
...on the nomination of
Robert A. Leffingwell for secretary of state.
1685
02:08:28,733 --> 02:08:32,237
The senator from Michigan
moved the Senate advise and consent...
1686
02:08:32,404 --> 02:08:34,406
...to that nomination.
Mr. Rresident.
1687
02:08:34,572 --> 02:08:38,326
I did not relinquish the floor when I asked
for a quorum, Mr. Rresident.
1688
02:08:38,493 --> 02:08:41,287
The senior senator from Michigan
still has the floor.
1689
02:08:41,454 --> 02:08:44,040
The senator can't hold
the floor in silence.
1690
02:08:44,207 --> 02:08:46,918
With the chair's permission,
I shall be very brief.
1691
02:08:47,085 --> 02:08:49,671
The chair gladly gives permission
to be brief.
1692
02:08:49,838 --> 02:08:51,840
I ask for the yeas and nays.
1693
02:08:52,006 --> 02:08:56,177
Yeas and nays have been requested.
Is there a sufficient number?
1694
02:08:56,344 --> 02:08:58,721
I demand recognition, Mr. President!
1695
02:08:59,347 --> 02:09:01,433
You can't close to me!
1696
02:09:01,599 --> 02:09:03,643
Question!
Question!
1697
02:09:04,561 --> 02:09:07,981
Both sides of the aisle
are loudly demanding an immediate vote...
1698
02:09:08,148 --> 02:09:10,567
...on the question
whether or not to consent...
1699
02:09:10,733 --> 02:09:14,696
...to the president's nomination
of Leffingwell as secretary of state.
1700
02:09:14,863 --> 02:09:18,408
Plainly, both parties are repudiating
Van Ackerman's tactics.
1701
02:09:18,575 --> 02:09:23,329
He is still putting up a fight to regain the
floor before the question is put to a vote.
1702
02:09:24,372 --> 02:09:26,583
This is conspiracy!
1703
02:09:26,749 --> 02:09:29,711
The chair is conspiring to stop debate!
1704
02:09:29,878 --> 02:09:34,007
The chair is violating the rules of the
Senate! I will not be bullied this way!
1705
02:09:34,215 --> 02:09:37,802
There is a sufficient show of hands.
Yeas and nays have been ordered.
1706
02:09:37,969 --> 02:09:41,264
The clerk will call the roll.
Mr. Abbott.
1707
02:09:41,431 --> 02:09:44,017
Yes.
Mrs. Adams.
1708
02:09:44,225 --> 02:09:48,605
What are you and Harley trying to pull?
You can't gag me. I'll get an investigation.
1709
02:09:48,771 --> 02:09:50,857
I don't think you'd want that.
1710
02:09:51,024 --> 02:09:55,570
We're on to it, Fred.
What are you talking about? On to what?
1711
02:09:55,737 --> 02:09:57,822
We tolerate about anything here.
1712
02:09:57,989 --> 02:10:02,035
Rrejudice, Atticism,
demagoguery, anything.
1713
02:10:02,243 --> 02:10:04,871
That's what the Senate's for,
to tolerate freedom.
1714
02:10:05,747 --> 02:10:07,540
But you've dishonored us.
1715
02:10:07,749 --> 02:10:10,502
Mr. Bender of California.
1716
02:10:10,668 --> 02:10:14,339
What I did was for the good
of the country.
1717
02:10:14,506 --> 02:10:20,220
Fortunately, our country always manages
to survive patriots like you.
1718
02:10:20,386 --> 02:10:23,389
We could introduce a resolution
to censure and expel you.
1719
02:10:23,556 --> 02:10:27,852
But we don't want Brig Anderson's
tired old sin made public.
1720
02:10:28,019 --> 02:10:29,771
Whatever it was.
1721
02:10:29,938 --> 02:10:34,067
So we let you stay, if you want to.
If you want to.
1722
02:10:34,275 --> 02:10:36,069
Mr. Bronson.
1723
02:10:36,945 --> 02:10:38,530
No.
1724
02:10:38,988 --> 02:10:41,574
Mr. Caulfield.
1725
02:10:41,741 --> 02:10:43,243
Yes.
1726
02:10:43,451 --> 02:10:45,870
Mr. Satinas.
Yes!
1727
02:10:47,664 --> 02:10:50,083
Mr. Chambers.
1728
02:10:50,250 --> 02:10:51,709
Yes.
1729
02:10:51,876 --> 02:10:55,797
Mr. Chatsworth.
Yes.
1730
02:10:56,381 --> 02:10:59,300
Mr. Cook.
Yes.
1731
02:10:59,842 --> 02:11:02,387
Mr. Cooley.
No.
1732
02:11:03,596 --> 02:11:06,891
Mr. Cunningham.
No.
1733
02:11:07,517 --> 02:11:10,937
Mr. Curry.
Yes.
1734
02:11:11,771 --> 02:11:14,107
Mr. Dahl.
1735
02:11:14,274 --> 02:11:15,775
No.
1736
02:11:16,192 --> 02:11:19,487
Mr. Daniels.
Yes.
1737
02:11:19,654 --> 02:11:24,200
Maybe we should've waited for his vote.
Now we only have a margin of two.
1738
02:11:24,367 --> 02:11:26,619
Slipped up there, didn't we?
Mr. Danta.
1739
02:11:26,828 --> 02:11:28,454
Yes.
1740
02:11:28,997 --> 02:11:33,126
So far, the vote is running about even,
and it is still impossible to predict...
1741
02:11:33,293 --> 02:11:34,502
...the final outcome.
1742
02:11:35,128 --> 02:11:37,672
No.
Mr. Eaves.
1743
02:11:37,839 --> 02:11:40,633
Somebody better wake up McCafferty.
We need his vote.
1744
02:11:40,800 --> 02:11:44,429
Mr. Evans.
McCafferty's asleep again.
1745
02:11:44,596 --> 02:11:48,308
Mr. Everett.
Wake up McCafferty. We need his vote.
1746
02:11:48,516 --> 02:11:51,311
Mr. Farmer.
Wake up McCafferty. We need his vote.
1747
02:11:52,186 --> 02:11:53,896
Awaken the senator.
1748
02:11:54,439 --> 02:11:56,899
Yes.
Mr. Frank.
1749
02:11:57,066 --> 02:12:01,154
Opposed, sir. I'm opposed.
No, no, senator, not yet.
1750
02:12:02,322 --> 02:12:04,866
And I believe that you're not opposed.
1751
02:12:05,116 --> 02:12:07,160
Mr. Jollie.
No.
1752
02:12:07,368 --> 02:12:11,623
During the last few minutes,
Leffingwell's chances have improved...
1753
02:12:11,789 --> 02:12:16,377
...and it seems more than likely
he will be confirmed by a small margin...
1754
02:12:16,544 --> 02:12:18,921
...of maybe one or two votes.
1755
02:12:19,088 --> 02:12:23,843
Of course, in case of a tie, we can definitely
count on the vice president...
1756
02:12:24,052 --> 02:12:28,181
...to use his decisive vote
in favor of the nominee.
1757
02:12:28,389 --> 02:12:30,892
Harley has always gone along...
Mr. Rresident!
1758
02:12:31,059 --> 02:12:34,604
...with the majority leader's policies.
Call Dr. Slater. Hurry.
1759
02:12:34,896 --> 02:12:38,399
Mr. Smith of Oregon.
Yes.
1760
02:12:38,566 --> 02:12:41,361
Mr. Smith of Rhode lsland.
1761
02:12:45,948 --> 02:12:48,910
Mr. Smith of Rhode lsland.
1762
02:12:49,744 --> 02:12:51,704
No.
What the...?
1763
02:12:51,871 --> 02:12:53,081
That ties it.
1764
02:12:53,247 --> 02:12:57,377
Haven't had so much fun
since the cayenne pepper hit the fan.
1765
02:12:57,585 --> 02:13:00,171
Mr. Snyder.
Yes.
1766
02:13:00,338 --> 02:13:02,757
Mr. Sorensen.
Yes.
1767
02:13:02,924 --> 02:13:05,343
Mr. Strickland.
No.
1768
02:13:05,510 --> 02:13:08,012
Mr. Sundberg.
No.
1769
02:13:08,179 --> 02:13:11,265
Mr. Swanson.
Harley, we're coming in deadlocked.
1770
02:13:11,432 --> 02:13:13,518
You'll have to make it good.
Okay.
1771
02:13:13,685 --> 02:13:15,228
Mr. Tate.
1772
02:13:16,521 --> 02:13:17,980
Yes.
1773
02:13:19,816 --> 02:13:22,610
Mr. Teller.
No.
1774
02:13:22,777 --> 02:13:25,363
Mr. Temple.
No.
1775
02:13:25,530 --> 02:13:28,032
Mr. Thacker.
Yes.
1776
02:13:28,199 --> 02:13:30,660
Mr. Thompson.
No.
1777
02:13:30,827 --> 02:13:33,454
Mr. Timothy.
Yes.
1778
02:13:34,080 --> 02:13:38,418
The third painting by Colonel Trumbull
is the surrender of Lord Cornwallis...
1779
02:13:38,584 --> 02:13:40,169
...at Yorktown, Virginia.
1780
02:13:40,336 --> 02:13:44,924
Major O'Hara in the red coat in the
foreground delivered his sword for him.
1781
02:13:45,133 --> 02:13:48,636
Washington wouldn't accept the sword
from anyone beneath his rank.
1782
02:13:48,970 --> 02:13:51,681
Mr. Toland.
Yes.
1783
02:13:51,848 --> 02:13:54,642
Mr. Thule.
No.
1784
02:14:10,700 --> 02:14:13,077
Yes.
Mr. Topper.
1785
02:14:13,244 --> 02:14:16,289
Yes.
Mr. Tracy of New Jersey.
1786
02:14:16,456 --> 02:14:19,125
No.
Mr. Tracy of Washington.
1787
02:14:19,292 --> 02:14:21,335
No.
Mr. Vandergrift.
1788
02:14:21,502 --> 02:14:23,546
Yes.
Mr. Vassar.
1789
02:14:23,713 --> 02:14:25,882
No.
Mr. Welch.
1790
02:14:26,048 --> 02:14:28,509
Yes.
Mr. Wells.
1791
02:14:28,676 --> 02:14:30,803
Yes.
Mr. Whitman.
1792
02:14:30,970 --> 02:14:33,514
No.
Mr. Williams.
1793
02:14:33,681 --> 02:14:36,267
No.
Mr. Wilson.
1794
02:14:36,434 --> 02:14:38,728
Yes.
Mr. Woodworth.
1795
02:14:38,895 --> 02:14:41,022
No.
Mr. Yost.
1796
02:14:41,189 --> 02:14:42,190
Yes.
1797
02:14:42,356 --> 02:14:44,150
Mr. Young.
No.
1798
02:14:44,317 --> 02:14:46,235
Mr. Zeffenbach.
Yes.
1799
02:14:50,698 --> 02:14:54,410
The vote is tied at 47 to 47.
1800
02:14:58,581 --> 02:15:02,335
The vice president will not exercise
his constitutional privilege...
1801
02:15:02,502 --> 02:15:06,881
...to break this tie with an affirmative vote.
The motion to advise and consent...
1802
02:15:07,048 --> 02:15:12,011
...to the nomination of Robert A. Leffingwell
for secretary of state stands defeated.
1803
02:15:12,178 --> 02:15:13,971
Sit down.
Mind your own business!
1804
02:15:14,138 --> 02:15:16,641
Something's happened. Sit down.
1805
02:15:22,939 --> 02:15:26,067
It has fallen to me
to make a sad announcement.
1806
02:15:26,234 --> 02:15:28,736
The president died a few minutes ago.
1807
02:15:31,030 --> 02:15:35,535
Will the senior senator from South Carolina,
as president pro tempore of the Senate...
1808
02:15:35,743 --> 02:15:37,912
...please assume the chair.
1809
02:15:47,755 --> 02:15:50,299
Good luck, sir.
Thank you.
1810
02:16:02,603 --> 02:16:05,606
About the vote, Bob, I'm sorry.
1811
02:16:05,773 --> 02:16:09,193
I'd prefer to name
my own secretary of state.
1812
02:16:09,360 --> 02:16:12,280
All right, Harley, Mr. Rresident.
1813
02:16:12,446 --> 02:16:15,908
I'll see what I can do for him.
Thank you.
1814
02:16:24,792 --> 02:16:27,712
Mr. President.
Recognize the senior senator...
1815
02:16:27,879 --> 02:16:29,422
...from Michigan.
1816
02:16:31,799 --> 02:16:33,384
Senators...
1817
02:16:33,926 --> 02:16:36,220
...a great leader is dead.
1818
02:16:37,138 --> 02:16:39,599
A bitter loss for our country...
1819
02:16:39,765 --> 02:16:43,102
...a bitter personal loss for all of us here.
1820
02:16:44,562 --> 02:16:47,857
I move we adjourn out of respect
until further notice.
1821
02:16:48,024 --> 02:16:50,234
So ordered.157443
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