Seven Days in May
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(0.00 / 0 votes)full employment...
...whopping gross national product...
...nice, cushy feeling that we got a bomb
for every one of theirs.
But as sure as God made the State
of Georgia, there'd have come one day...
...when they'd have blown us up,
or we'd have blown them up.
And the good doctor worries
about my blood pressure.
You know who that gentleman is
with the black box?
There are five.
You know that one of them sits
outside my bedroom at night?
You know what he carries in that box?
The codes.
The codes by which I, Jordan Lyman...
...can give the order sending us
into a nuclear war.
Instead of my blood pressure...
...I think Horace should worry
about my sanity.
You want to know something, Jordie?
Riots and unemployment notwithstanding,
you're an exceptionally fine president.
But 25-year friendship aside,
the day may yet come...
...when the name Jordan Lyman
and "sanity" will come out as one word.
Mention that to General James Scott
when he's up in front of you this morning.
I hear you.
And try tea sometime, too, huh?
I'll give it a taste now and then.
I personally visited the President.
I presented him with a documented case
listing the reasons for concern.
was ratified...
...three of us sat in this same committee
and urged its re-evaluation.
Only last week in Pravda...
Excuse me, General. Sorry to interrupt.
As I understand it...
...you feel the signing of this pact
has been detrimental to our security.
If my colleague from Georgia
could confine his comments...
...not only to appropriate business
at hand...
...but to observe some of the basic rules
of parliamentary procedure.
In my boorish way, I'm only suggesting
that if you two gentlemen...
...continue to work from a script
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