Air Force One Page #6

MARSHALL:

I might still have a few chips left.

SHEPHERD:

* We could always

put you in a duck blind with a twelve

gauge. The second amendment types'll

love that.

MARSHALL:

This is a crime bill, Shep. Killing

a couple ducks won't get it through

committee. Besides, Shep, I told

you... I don't shoot babies and I

don't kiss guns.

SHEPHERD:

Other way around, sir.

MARSHALL:

(realizing what he

said)

Right... Christ I'm tired. Do me a

favor and keep me away from the press.

Marshall's watch alarm beeps and he automatically reaches

into his breast pocket, pulls out a medicine vial and downs

two pills with a coffee chaser.

On the T.V.

LARRY KING (T.V.)

... and your reaction to the

President's trip to Moscow. Good or

bad?

Shepherd turns up the volume.

SHEPHERD:

This is the part I wanted you to

see.

REP. DANFORTH (T.V.)

Criminal. One of our boys died in

Marshall's little publicity stunt

and for what? So we could claim

victory over another country's

problems instead of our own? And

now he's got the nerve to prance

around Moscow gloating, while that

poor boy's family is left to bury

him. If I were Marshall, I'd be

ashamed of myself.

LARRY KING:

There you have it. Harsh words for

the President from Michael Danforth,

the Speaker of the House.

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