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So,

Hello. Hi, can I help you?

Yes. You have a reservation for Gloria Beck, Southwest Wine Merchants?

Oh, yes, Miss Beck. Room 727.

You'll be staying with us for two days?

Just long enough to track down a presumptuous cabernet.

I noticed on your staff registry as I came in.

Mark Danning. Does he work here?

Mm -hmm. Our guest relations director.

Do you know Mark?

Yes.

Question is...

Will he know me?

He's back.

Okay. We have one box of replacement keys, invoices, some

folders, and registration cards. Oh, Holly, your dream come true. I'm just

to serve, moaned Capitan.

Until noon, anyway.

Yeah, that's the trouble with these graduate intern programs.

They always just get to know you, and then they ship you off to another part

the hotel.

I've learned so much from you, Megan.

And I want the whole world to know what I've learned from you.

why at this election I enthusiastically support Senator Blake Chaffee.

I am confident that Senator Chaffee will make an outstanding president.

Senator Andrews, your wife's people go back to James Madison.

Now, word is that they want another president in the family.

Well, that's why I'm suggesting they adopt Senator Chaffee.

Then Tom Andrews is definitely out as a presidential candidate.

Who knows?

Every American boy wants to grow up to be president.

What about every American girl, Senator?

Folks, you have just heard a news hawk turn a sly fox into a chauvinist pig.

And that's why we call it the Washington Zoo.

Thank you very much, everyone.

Yes, thank you.

Lovely seeing you all.

We'll see you tomorrow when the Senator makes his speech.

Thanks for coming. Thanks, Tom.

Nice to see you again.

Carly, the Senator's on a very tight schedule. One hour only.

Thanks, Gordy.

Coffee?

Orange juice? Thanks, no.

Well, what does Newswire magazine want to know?

Senator, it is widely rumored that you are in the middle of a long -term

Where did that come from?

A highly placed, unnamed source.

May we go off the record?

Please do.

I hope this isn't a move to gain the women's vote.

Oh, God.

Good morning. Hi.

This one should be an automatic for us.

Iverson Electronic Sales Convention.

We're Iverson Jr.

Iverson Sr.

usually flies out. He's an old friend of Mrs. Cabot's.

And this year we get Junior.

A new guard.

Play it carefully till we know him better.

You must have sent out 50 convention proposals here.

58.

Christine, you got the job. He's off.

Except I've noticed those who stop and smell the roses usually get trampled

behind.

Not here.

We love our rose garden.

Thanks, Peter.

I needed that.

Ron, let's see the dates on the New York City Ballet.

Who's that?

We've got the whole floor?

Whole floor.

Well, let's get the computer printout on this, okay, Ron?

Gloria Beck, Gloria Beck, the wine buyer.

You know, dark, beautiful, serious.

Oh, I'm hooked. When do I get to see this? Your hair is odd.

No time like the present.

I'd never forget her if we'd ever met.

Too bad.

I guess you're not who she remembered.

Public or private thought?

Oh, just the usual other woman questions.

And all the answers are yes.

You will become Mrs. Andrews.

And I will become Mr. President.

Chaffee, this time the party picks you four years from now.

Does the party know you're getting a divorce?

Not yet.

Have you told Gwen?

I will.

When I go back home.

Seems I know more about Gwen's future than she does.

It's rotten.

I mean, Gwen and I have been strangers for years, but I do care about her.

I know.

God, I love you.

What you love, Senator, is me and politics.

And now...

You can write that speech everybody's wanting to hear tomorrow.

Okay.

How badly will the divorce hurt public opinion?

Well, there'll be damage, but nothing we can't fix in four years.

If there's one thing I know how to do well, it's campaign.

I disagree.

There are two things you know how to do well.

I know I'm going to learn so much from you, Miss Francis.

It's Christine.

But I'm not sure what I have to teach is all that exciting.

Are you kidding?

On -the -job training beats anything they taught me in hotel school.

Aunt Victoria thinks you're a terrific diplomat.

Diplomacy is just knowing how to say good dog until you can find a tree.

Isn't he great?

Truly, Christine.

Aunt Victoria never stops talking about both of them.

Mrs. Cabot is a kind woman.

I've always loved her.

I really want her to be proud of me.

She will be.

Oh, I know how famous your clipboard is around here. So I thought since we're

working together... Ta -da!

Okay? Okay.

Well, go.

The word Ivey Sr. used was rambunctious.

A man could call his son a lot worse things than rambunctious. Unfortunately,

he's given to a drastic understatement.

I'm sure we'll get the Iverson Electronic Convention, as usual.

Coffee's ready.

Oh, thank you, Kyle.

Everything else under control, Peter?

Mr. Kupner checked out.

He apologized for missing a late supper.

It's a Wagner exhaustive.

Senator Andrews is there.

Talk is he may go for the White House.

Oh, not this time.

My Washington friends say it's chappy.

Is that sugar?

Kai is conspiring with Dr. Lowry to keep me on my diet. Oh.

Now, tell me about my niece.

Polly? Well, everybody likes her.

She's bright, helpful, creative.

I saw that watching her grow up.

I often wonder when she learned it.

Mrs. Cabot, that's sugar.

Oh, yes, Kai.

Mr. McDermott brought his own. He knows you can't get a grain of the stuff

around here.

Now I see where Hockey gets all the creativity.

Tom, what's more important, the White House or our house?

Now, what's that supposed to mean?

Well, I'm not the subtle type, Tom. I have to say what I feel. Could we really

ever have a home and children while you were running for the presidency?

Of course we could. Not if you live your life on an airline schedule.

It's okay.

Blake Chappie just had a heart attack.

Oh, my God.

I just talked with the senator's people. No way can he make a presidential run.

Well, who else knows about this? Only the party leadership.

The lid's on tight.

Okay.

Now, what does this do to me?

You get first crack at the nomination, if you want it. But it's a crash time

schedule. You have to announce yourself tomorrow, during a speech.

Mr. Iverson, there is no hotel more appropriate for your sales convention

St. Gregory.

I don't know.

With my father stepping down, I want our company to project a more contemporary

image. That means a more contemporary hotel.

Glitz and glass compared to mahogany and marble?

My instinct tells me your executives appreciate the personal touch.

Your advantage, Miss Francis.

I'm most interested in your personal touch.

Why don't we continue this over dinner?

I'm afraid I have plans.

Maybe lunch tomorrow.

Miss Francis, dinner with you might convince me to keep Iverson Electronics

the St. Gregory.

Excuse me.

Miss Francis, you're needed in banquet services right away.

I have to go.

I'll call you later, after you've changed plans.

Anything wrong, Christine?

Just another advanced course in on -the -job training.

Well, I've got a lot of press releases to get ready, whichever way we go.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Tom.

We're real close.

I think Gordon or Grant's ever introducing us.

Well, we'll work it out.

You promised no decision by tomorrow.

This is one you can't table, Senator.

Carly, are you really seriously asking me to turn down the nomination?

I'm asking you to accept me.

I do.

I will, soon.

That's not what you said this morning.

Don't you understand what just happened?

They're offering me the nomination, but I just can't overnight... Change wives.

I know it's not an easy choice, Tom.

I love you.

For the first time in my life, I feel love.

If you'll just wait for me... Can't wait, Tom.

You have a family. You have children. When you want them, they're there for

I need that.

I need a family of my own.

Miss Francis office. This is Roy Iverson Jr.

Is Christine there? Oh, Mr.

Iverson. No, she's not in, but I can take a message.

When do you expect her?

Oh, within the hour. Would you ask her to call me?

It's very important.

Yes, I'll be sure she gets it.

Bye.

Will Mrs. Egan be joining you?

Mrs. Egan?

Well, you reserved a double for Mr. and Mrs. Egan. Will she be joining you?

Oh, yes, yes.

We'll be together.

Later.

Okay, that's room 406.

406.

That is the room you requested.

That's our room?

You left a message. I'm Mark.

Come in.

Do I know you from somewhere?

Well, what do you think?

Well, I think it's a lovely mistake.

But it's still a mistake.

I'm Gloria Beck. I don't make mistakes.

Share a glass of Cabernet with me?

Sure.

You know, I've come a long way to find it.

Full -bodied, marvelous nose, voluptuous,

and almost transcendental finish.

Are you describing the wine or yourself?

Better than dipping French fries in blue cheese dressing. Sure is.

How did you know about that?

Whatever happened to your 61 Chevy?

Are you going to tell me who you are, or are you going to play mystery woman?

Oh, well, there's nothing mysterious about me, Mark.

You know, all you have to know is that I'm friendly.

Beautiful. And very demanding.

Why do I get the feeling of making up for lost time?

Would you like to make love to me?

You're not anybody that I ever knew.

Personality.

Emotions.

Everything about you is unique.

You didn't answer my question.

And wonderful.

Yeah.

They do not disturb.

Goodbye, Marker.

Hey, wait.

But I asked you to handle Iverson carefully.

Now you refuse to return his phone calls?

But I never got a message from Iverson. He insists you did.

Maybe Holly took it?

Let's find out.

If we got a communications problem, I want to know about it.

Holly, did you take a message from Roy Iverson Jr.

today? Yes, I did, Peter.

Well, why didn't you tell me about it?

Well, I put it right there on the spike with your other messages.

I checked the spike.

I don't know how I could have overlooked that.

I'll call him right now.

No, not while he's all horns and rattles. I'll take care of it.

Peter, what can I say?

I'm sorry.

Is there anything I can do to help?

Iverson. Please don't be angry with me until you've heard me out.

Who's this?

Christine Francis.

I'm very sorry I couldn't change things tonight.

But if you give me a chance, I'll make up for it tomorrow.

The personal touch?

The personal touch.

Let's say 11, my sweet, and we can order lunch later.

Bye.

Still working, Holly?

No, I just got up.

Can I buy you a drink here?

Oh, sorry, I've got a date with Senator Andrews, eh?

Maybe later.

I'm afraid not tonight, Holly.

Peter, you still think of me as Mrs. Cabot's young niece, don't you?

Well, you are, aren't you?

Morty, our day on the party machine, huh? Yeah, finally put my heartburn to

for the evening.

Tell me about it, buddy.

Oh, my God.

My heartburn just woke up.

It's the senator's wife.

Excuse me.

Andrews here.

My wife's on the way up.

Shall I leave or hide in the closet? No, no more leaving. I'm going to tell her.

I'm going to tell her tonight.

Be gentle with her, Tom. I know how she's going to feel.

Don't be shocked Peter.

I just want to show you that I've grown up every place.

Except in your mind.

All dressed up and no place to go.

Except home to bed.

Holly, if we'd done what you thought you wanted to do... Peter, it is what I

wanted. It would have ruined everything.

Our relationship, your work here.

Yeah, I guess it was a pretty childish thing to do.

Especially for someone who's trying to prove she's an adult.

Now that's a very adult observation.

Well, who knows?

Maybe I'll get to be a grown -up after all.

For you, sir, the veal with the sorrel sauce.

And shall I keep the chicken Kiev warm until the lady arrives?

No, no, she's here.

Very good, sir.

I thought I should be with you tomorrow when you announce your candidacy.

Gwen. Everything we've worked for for so long is finally happening for you. I

have to tell you something.

Then tell me.

We've always been honest with each other.

Yes, we have.

I'm in love with someone.

Aren't you supposed to say, I'm in love with someone else?

And I don't think I've ever been in love before.

That hurt.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like that.

Carly Knight, isn't it?

Potomac Party Line.

I've known for some time.

Gwen, I'm sorry what I just said about never loving you. That isn't true.

I know we don't have the most passionate marriage.

But we've built something on our friendship.

That's the kind of people we are.

You have a chance to be president.

Don't throw it away on some romantic whim.

Gwen, she gives me life.

That's pretentious bunk.

That's the way I feel.

I see.

And do you feel like going to her now?

I have to get back to work on my speech.

Ah, of course.

The speech everyone's waiting to hear.

Why don't you say, Here stands...

Thomas Andrews, who fell in love and lost his only chance

to become the great man his wife once believed

him to be.

Well, do you remember who Gloria was?

I'm working on her.

I swear if you can get it.

Colin.

I told Gwen about us.

What's the story with the mysterious Mr. Egan? Well, that fellow who ordered two

dinners. And champagne in the bar for two. And flowers for a non -existent

Memphis Egan. I'll check him out.

Well, I think he's harmless, but I'm not running a Bellevue ward here. Eleven o

'clock in his suite?

Yes, Mr. Iverson called to say he was very sorry about yesterday and that this

is strictly business.

He's got some charts that he does not want to lug around.

Okay. 11 o 'clock, Iverson Street.

Do me a favor.

If I'm not out by 11 .30, send in the Marines to get me.

I'm sorry if I got you into trouble yesterday.

Maybe we could just get started.

Chris, I knew you'd be a quick study.

A real quick study.

Mr. Iverson, stop it.

What is it?

What the hell gave you the idea that I was up here for this?

Chris, come here.

Lady,

I don't like being played for a fool.

Nor do I, Mr.

Iverson.

You walk out that door, sweetheart. You better find yourself a damn good

retraining program.

Swear, Iverson Jr., I want to speak to Mrs. Cabot.

Now.

This is a very serious accusation.

But that's all it is, an accusation.

Christine, you understand, I have to ask you this.

You never offered sexual favors to Mr.

Iverson in return for his company's business.

No.

Not him, not anyone, ever.

He insists that you called him.

He called me.

Holly took the call.

Is that true, Holly?

Yes.

The first time I met him was yesterday.

He made some rude advances.

Remember, Holly?

I remember.

Puts me in a very delicate position with Ivy Sr.

Well, his father told you himself his son was rambunctious. But he is his son,

Peter.

One always makes allowances for family, even in the face of an unpleasant truth.

His father has to be told, even if it costs us the Iverson business.

And an old friendship.

But you're right.

Christine, I'm sorry you've had such a terrible experience.

Mrs. Cabot, thank you for believing me.

I guess I'll get back to work.

Why don't you take the rest of the day off?

Oh, by all means.

Thank you.

I'll go back with you.

Aunt Victoria?

Yes, Holly.

I'll see you later.

Wait a minute, Holly.

What's the matter?

I can't.

Holly.

I didn't want to say anything.

Holly, tell me this instant what this is all about.

I lied to protect Christine.

She's the one that called Iverson. She made the proposition. I heard everything

she said to you.

May I come in, Carly?

Uh, sure.

Want to sit down?

He says he loves you.

I love him.

How much, Carly?

Only enough to keep him or enough to let him go?

Back to you?

That's not my idea of striking the Liberty Bell.

I don't have him, and I never will, but he should be president.

He's trained for it all his life. I don't want to hurt you, Gwen, but I can

him love.

Don't you know love isn't enough for some?

If he decides not to run, someday he'll hate you for it.

If he's a man who can be president, he's a man who can make a decision.

There's another answer.

Nothing has to change between you.

I can look the other way.

I need more than the key to the back door of the White House.

The key to the front door?

Should he make you his press secretary?

Can't you see I'm just trying to hold on to some small part of him? Then what

does that make me?

What do you know, Carly?

I know what I am, but I know I'd never sell part of the man I love.

I'm sorry, Gwen. I shouldn't have said that.

I hoped it would never come to this. I really did.

Glorietta?

It is you.

Well, now you know.

Glorietta Beckenbush.

Basic chemistry.

I changed the name a little. In the profile, a lot. By at least a hundred

pounds.

You were the senior superlative, and I was the fat, ugly lab partner.

Outside the lab, you never gave me a second look.

Well, unless you wanted advice on how to date one of my pretty girlfriends.

So yesterday was a little revenge for old time's sake?

Okay, maybe I do deserve to have my sins catch up with me.

But you know, Gloria DeBeckenbush was sweet, even if she was a little chubby.

This new Gloria seems to be no better than the way I used to be.

The way of the world, Mark.

Use before you can be used.

I don't believe that, Gloria.

I never believed that.

But I'm glad you got it together.

Good luck, Gloria.

Iverson was right about one thing.

He said I'd never work here again.

I'm not going to play these games.

Come on, Christine. This is only temporary.

Is it?

You're the woman who rode the bus all the way out here from Oklahoma City. Now

you're quitting because a conniving kid scuffs a little dirt on you? I thought

you had a little more grit than that.

Damn it, Peter.

I could stand up to anything Holly or Iverson throw at me.

But I will not beg Mrs. Cabot to believe me. She wants to believe you, but

Holly's her niece.

There's a procedure that has to be followed.

Procedure? Yeah.

I'm packing my bags and you want to follow some procedure?

Thanks a lot.

I hope you don't mind.

Oh, no, please, please.

One of life's guilty pleasures, drinking champagne cocktails in the afternoon.

Would you care to join us?

Oh, no, thanks. I'm fine.

So how are you both doing?

You work with the hotel, don't you?

Well, I suppose I owe you some sort of an explanation for my rather

odd behavior.

No, no, law's broken.

You see, my wife and I, we spent our honeymoon here at the St. Gregory 30

ago. This week.

I promised her that...

We would come back here and we would do the same things that we did then.

Eat the same foods, drink the same fine wines, dance to the...

Margaret

didn't make it this year.

I lost her a month ago.

I'm sorry.

But I'm keeping my promise to her.

I know that she is here with me.

Somehow.

I can feel her. Mr. Egan.

The St. Gregory is proud to have you both.

Mark, I'm sorry.

You didn't deserve that.

You were a nice guy in high school, and you're a nice guy now.

I was an insensitive drunk.

Um, my wine seminar isn't until nine o 'clock.

Would you like to have dinner with an old lab partner?

Chemistry is my life.

And we, we can show the world our determination to oppose naked aggression

wherever we find it, but at the same time show compassion for our own poor

needy here at home.

That, my friends, is where I intended to end my speech today.

But unfortunately for you, no such luck.

There has been speculation that I might seek higher office.

Well, today, I arrived at a decision.

A decision...

I wish to share with you.

Peter, I'm really sorry about Christine.

I know it's hard for you to believe, but she really did make that call.

I just never dreamed she'd lose her job.

I don't know how you'll ever replace her.

If there's anything I can do... That's what you're after, isn't it?

Christine's job.

Well... I do have the education and background.

You're lying about Christine.

Victoria's back from a meeting with the mayor.

I've asked for a meeting of my own.

Remember what she said.

One makes allowances for family, even in the face of truth.

People think that politics is just a matter of the left and the right

each other.

But the real enemy is that jungle in the middle, that jungle made up of know

-nothings, made up of people without ideas, of opportunists always chasing

latest opinion polls.

And that is why today I humbly

offer myself as candidate.

For the office of Presidents of the United States.

Now, exactly what is this about?

Victoria, I believe Holly's lying about Christine's call to Iverson.

Holly, did you forget to tell me something?

I didn't forget anything yet, Victoria.

Then, Peter, I think you'd better start talking.

Well, our new computer phone system clocks the exact time of any call

anywhere in the hotel.

The call to Iverson's suite was at 8 .15.

Christine, at that time, was meeting with the banquet services people.

Well, then who made the call?

Tell her, Holly.

Holly?

You made the call, didn't you?

You told Iverson you were Christine.

Holly, I want the truth.

He's just lying to protect Christina, Victoria.

I know their relationship goes way beyond professional or... Stop it!

Be very careful about what you say next.

You have to do things like this if you're going to get ahead.

Peter, I want Christine back on staff immediately.

Okay.

Holly, if you don't know what you've done, you are a contemptible,

unfeeling, selfish child.

You know, the only question is whether you've abandoned the principles I've

tried to teach you.

Or whether you never bothered to learn them.

Go home, Holly.

Please leave my hotel.

You look pretty good out there, Senator.

You wrote me a fine speech.

I try to hit just that right balance between humility, confidence, and...

Regret.

Why did you make me do it?

I don't understand you, Carly.

Yeah, well, I understand you, Tom. One morning you rolled over and you looked

me and thought that if it wasn't for you, girl, I could have been president.

We never would have survived that.

I won't insult you by denying that.

But I am sorry I made such a mess of things.

I hurt Gwen, and now I hurt you.

I'm a big girl, Tom.

As for you and Gwen, well, who knows?

Sometimes a fire just starts right up again.

I love you.

I always will.

Terribly sad that Holly didn't grow up to be the young woman I hope she'd be.

It's partly her family's fault, partly mine.

Holly made her own decisions.

You're not responsible for them.

Where will she go now?

Back to her father, probably. If she can drag my brother away from his

commodities house for longer than lunch.

Well, worse things will go wrong.

I think we'll all survive.

Shall we drink to that?

And to the new computer phone system.

Funny, I don't remember you authorizing funds for that.

I didn't.

We don't have one, do we, Peter?

No, we don't.

Why, Christine, I do believe your mouth is open.