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Well then, you can afford to take

a hiatus from all this money-makin,

come serve your president.

I don't think you need an attorney,

old friend.

I think you need a magician.

A magician?

Yes. Someone who can make

a small corner of

Southeast Asia disappear.

President Kennedy

did not lose South Vietnam

and I'm not gonna lose South Vietnam.

I kept all these people on,

they assured me,

told me to stick it out.

Now, that little sonovabitch Bobby

is just hovering

to swoop down and reclaim the mantle

if I fail.

He'll hang me from my left ball,

Goldwater hang me from my right.

That is complete nonsense.

You humiliated Goldwater

in the election.

The entire Right wing is in disarray,

Bobby is a freshman Senator

with no record.

His brother was a no record

Senator too, wasn't he,

when he came out of no where?

Daddy?

Would you like some desert

or are you on your diet?

Oh, now, now, you save some

for me if it's good.

How about you, Mr. Clifford?

No, thank you.

No, he's not gettin anything tonight.

Now, Jack Kennedy put sixteen

thousand advisers in there,

I put in another eight.

We've got twentyfour thousand men

teachin them people how to shoot

and fly planes.

We've got patrols

and covert operations,

we've got an alphabet

soup of aid programs,

a lot of which I'd like

to have right here

and none of it's workin

because with all this coup sh*t

it's like buildin bricks

with no mortar down there,

there's nothin real to hang it all on.

Now, Ho Chi Minh knows this

and he's gonna keep his people

attackin until there's nothin left.

Now, if we call it quits

and continue as we are,

South Vietnam, maybe

the whole of Southeast

Asia goes communist.

Eh-eh, now even George

all admits that.

Everybody else thinks we aught

to up the ante.

Bombing?

Look at this.

A bunch of sheds,

just outside on the water.

And they call that a military target.

There's school right up the street,

Poles built it for em.

Hell, Clark, I could build em a

thousand damn schools.

I'd like you to start to follow

the situation down there,

read some of these reports

they keep throwin at me.

Eh, I just don't know what to believe

any more biggest damn mess.

And bein on the outside

you could take a fresh look.

I'll do everything I can to help.

Yeah, except come work for me.

Hey, what about the Supreme Court,

what if a seat opens up?

I'm an advocate, I'm not a judge.

Hell, Clark, you're a hick lawyer

from Missouri.

Well, I may be a hick lawyer

from Missouri,

But as you yourself pointed out

I haven't made

Missouri wages for a long, long time.

You know,

I ran sayin I was for peace,

now sure as hell,

they're tellin me I gotta do

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