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Gin.
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Gin!
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Gin.
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Here's the doc.
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What's the verdict, Doc?
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Can't last
another 24 hours.
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Any chance of us making the
early edition? He'd want to.
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What about some pictures,
last-moment stuff?
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No.
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Good afternoon, Miss
Thorndyke. Your father...
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I heard your verdict,
Dr. Crane.
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That's the daughter. She's
tougher than the old man.
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Get out.
But, Mr. Thorndyke, I...
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Out! Out, I say.
Stupid nurses, doctors.
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Oh.
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How are you feeling, Sam?
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Oh, this blasted thing's
eating my guts away.
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Did you see that editorial
in the Albany paper?
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That fella won't take orders.
Fire him.
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I did.
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That's my girl.
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The White House called
to ask about you.
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He should call.
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If those Republicans hadn't
knifed me,
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he wouldn't be
in the White House.
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I'd be dying there.
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Well, well, well. What else?
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Longstreet called.
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Longstreet? That buzzard.
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Made me an offer
for the papers.
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Willing to keep my name
on the masthead, he says.
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I'll keep it there, Sam. You don't
need Longstreet or anyone else.
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Kay, I used to hate you
for being a girl.
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I always wanted
a son like me.
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But you're bigger
than any son.
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A woman's body with
a man's brains.
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My brains. Use them.
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You'll make the White House,
Kay, one way or another.
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The Republican Party
owe us that. Don't forget it.
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I won't forget it.
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That's my girl.
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Men are weak,
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vain, idealistic.
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Can't stand pain.
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Can't stand pain any longer...
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Sam.
Women are the only realists.
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Until they get sentimental. Don't
you ever get sentimental, Kay.
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I never have.
Yeah.
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Er...
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Goodbye, girl.
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I guess I'll call it a day.
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You're the chief
from herein.
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I'm gonna miss you, Sam.
Yeah, yeah.
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You'll be all right.
You'll be all right.
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Make those heads roll.
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Make those heads roll.
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Don't go in there.
But, Miss...
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Oh, good heavens!
Oh, Doctor!
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Doctor!
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Call the police!
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Congratulations.
Congratulations.
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Fifty-one.
Oh, Doctor.
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Lose your stomach,
Mr. MacManus?
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Mr. Hawkins' office, please.
First door to your right.
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Thank you.
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Hi, Scylla.
Hi, Charybdis.
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Well, if it isn't the
poor man's Drew Pearson.
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Hey, new talent.
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You better go in before
we have a new columnist.
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Wait a minute. Who's in
there with the lion-tamer?
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Team secret. Came in
through the fire escape.
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Tailored?
Mmm-hmm.
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Tailored politician?
Hmm.
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Tailored Republican politician? What else?
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Tailored worried
Republican politician?
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All politicians are
worried today.
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Jim Conover.
Announce me.
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Spike MacManus.
Send him in.
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If I had your number,
I'd call you and tell you
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who's gonna be the next
President of the United States.
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I know. Truman.
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You want the walls to cave in
around here? I'll see you later.
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Hello, boss.
Hello, Jim, what's cooking?
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You'll be. If one word
of my being here gets out.
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Hey, boss,
the freedom of the press.
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If you must grace your column
with my name, it's Conover.
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C-O-N-O-V-E-R.
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You've spelt it "Canover", "Can
opener", everything but Conover.
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Don't squawk, I haven't
spelt it "Conniver" yet.
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Let's skip the jokes.
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Jim, you know the Republican Convention
this year can end in a deadlock.
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I don't know anything.
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My uncle with the two heads does. Spike.
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He tells me they're following
the usual Republican policy:
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The Tafts, Deweys, Stassens,
and Vandenbergs
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may knock each other out of the
running even before the Convention.
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Thus providing a perfect
track for a dark horse.
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Which leaves you,
Mr. Conover,
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a fight manager looking for a
good heavyweight who can punch.
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Jim, I think
I have your man.
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Yeah, you
and everybody else.
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This is Kay Thorndyke,
not everybody else.
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I'm sorry, Kay, it's just that you
have to show me. I'm from Missouri.
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Ha!
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If you were from Missouri,
you'd have a job in Washington.
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Lay off, Spike.
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All right, let's have it, Kay.
Who's your man?
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ltem one: born in Nevada.
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But there's never been
a western president.
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There are Americans
out there, too.
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Item two: self-made, sold newspapers,
worked his way through school.
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Item three: good war record.
Partisaned Lafayette Escadrille WWI,
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decorated by three
governments. Ancient history.
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Item four: started the
two-by-four airplane factory
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and ran it into the biggest
thing in aviation today.
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Look at me
when I'm talking to you.
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First industrialist to introduce
labor-management plant administration.
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He's never even been
threatened with a strike.
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He'd have labor in one pocket, big
business in the other. Are you interested?
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No. What's Horatio Alger
look like?
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Women have been crazy about him all
his life, if that's what you mean.
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Well, that lets me out.
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And men?
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Part owner of a ball club.
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Ever run for office?
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Not even for dog catcher.
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Hates politics.
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Then what's given him
this presidential yen?
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Oh, he hasn't got it yet.
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You're going to
give him that.
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On the newsstands tomorrow.
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"Our planes have wings
but not our ideas."
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You could make him
the next president, Jim.
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Kay, I'm not terribly impressed.
I never am by amateurs.
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But if you and Grant Matthews
happen to be in Washington,
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and knock on my door
to get out of the rain...
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But I have been trying to
make this clear all afternoon.
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I don't want to be President
of the United States.
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Guess the job isn't
big enough for him, boss.
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President. Holy smoke.
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Why, when I was a kid, my
dad took me on a two-day trip
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just to look at
President Taft.
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On a clear day you could see him
for a couple of hundred miles.
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Yeah,
you sure could.
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After he passed, my father
slapped me right across the face.
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When I asked him
what that was for, he said,
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"Just so you'll never forget the day you
saw the President of the United States."
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Well, Mr. Conover, I've listened to
some pretty tall reasons around here
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why I could
run for president.
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Self-made man, friend of labor,
dark horse and all that stuff.
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All very flattering,
I might add.
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But, could I ask you, a professional
politician, to give me one good reason
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why me, Grant Matthews, should run for
the biggest and the best job in the world
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when there are 10,000
other men... Wait a minute.
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Let's understand each other. I'm not
telling you you should be President.
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I was under the impression that
Kay Thorndyke brought you down here
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to sell me on the idea,
not for me to sell you.
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Now let's not get childish, nobody's
trying to sell anybody anything.
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Kay, the man doesn't want the
job, and hundreds of others do.
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We're wasting our time.
That's right, Kay.
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He's right.
We're wasting his time.
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I'm not interested
in politics or politicians.
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And I don't
like airplanes.
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That makes us even.
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Although I could get
to like you, Mr. Conover.
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Mr. Matthews, it's no skin off my
nose, but just for my private files,
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you made a speech in Cleveland that hit
the front pages all over the country.
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Even the New York Times
with that stuff about,
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"Either we pull together
or get pulled apart."
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Every Republican leader
wishes he'd made it.
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So? I'm trying to get
it through my lame brain,
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if you have no interest in politics,
why did you make that speech?
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Oh, now, wait a minute. I can
be interested in the country
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without being interested
in politics.
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That'll surprise Jim Conover.
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I don't care
who it surprises.
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Don't get the idea that I'm not
interested in what's going on.
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I like this country,
Mr. Conover.
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It's been darn good to me.
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I started with a screwdriver
and a monkey wrench
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and two years of high school,
and built the Matthews Aircraft.
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Did you ever fly an airplane? Oh,
no, you don't like airplanes, do you?
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You better not elect me President
then, because I'd make it a law
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for every politician to spend
at least 100 hours in the air.
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This year, most of us are
up in the air all the time.
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Well, the next time you're up
there, Mr. Conover, look down.
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Look down on Pittsburgh,
for example, what do you see?
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Smoke. That's right,
smoke. From the steel mills.
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Miles and miles of
steel mills.
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But you see something else, too, don't you?
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Farms, factories, lumber, mines,
railroads, business, management, labor.
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Not one able to exist alone,
but together, working together
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with courage and imagination.
That makes America.
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That's a great picture
from the air.
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Yeah, but come down to earth and
walk into one of those meetings
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like that one in Cleveland,
and what do you find?
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Farmers, cattlemen, lumbermen,
business, labor, they were all there.
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All working together?
In a pig's eye.
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All scared to death,
all fighting each other.
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Each out for the biggest bite
in the apple.
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Well, there aren't
that many bites in the apple.
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That's what I was
talking about in Cleveland
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and that's why I'm surprised
that you asked me here.
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Why surprised?
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Because you politicians,
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instead of pulling
the country together
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are helping pull it apart,
just to get votes.
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To labor, you promise
higher wages and lower prices.
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To business,
higher prices and lower wages.
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To the rich, you say, "Let's cut
taxes". To the poor, "Soak the rich".
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To the veterans,
cheaper housing.
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To the builders,
uncontrolled prices.
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There's no halo
around my head, Mr. Conover,
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but that's what keeps
men like me out of politics.
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Hurray!
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You didn't ask me to
make this speech, did you?
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You just asked me what I said.
Let that be a lesson to you.
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Mr. Matthews, you've just created
the ideal political platform.
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Drown the politicians.
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Very funny.
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Mr. Matthews, now, if you
really believe those things
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and weren't just spouting
to hear yourself talk,
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you've just given yourself
several reasons to run.
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That's my whole point.
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The only way to correct those
evils is to get into politics.
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Get into the White House where
you can do something about it.
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But, Kay, you just don't
get into the White House,
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millions of people
have to vote for you.
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You're not afraid of the job,
are you?
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What do you mean, I'm afraid?
Of course I'm not afraid
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I'd make
a darn good president.
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What am I saying?
You've got me doing it now.
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I would like to
pause at this moment
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and take a one-man
Gallup poll.
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What chance do you think Mr.
Matthews here really might have, Jim?
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I don't know. Any native-born
American over 35 has a chance.
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Jim, on Tuesday Grant
starts a tour of his plants.
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Everywhere he's going
he's been invited to speak.
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00:12:41,661 --> 00:12:43,492
Wait a minute. I'm going to be
pretty busy, you know.
240
00:12:43,563 --> 00:12:45,588
I've got problems
in all those plants.
241
00:12:45,732 --> 00:12:48,667
Grant, you've got to go along
with us that far. Try it out.
242
00:12:48,735 --> 00:12:50,464
At least you get
a few things off your chest.
243
00:12:50,537 --> 00:12:51,936
Spike, you're going
along with him.
244
00:12:52,005 --> 00:12:54,098
You've been telling everyone
for years how to run a campaign.
245
00:12:54,174 --> 00:12:55,573
Now we'll see
if you can really run one.
246
00:12:55,642 --> 00:12:58,907
Fine, I'll go over to the White House
and tell the Trumans to start packing.
247
00:13:04,551 --> 00:13:06,246
Yes, Norah, what is it?
248
00:13:08,255 --> 00:13:09,415
Norah!
249
00:13:11,258 --> 00:13:13,192
Do you know a man named Mac? Mac who?
250
00:13:13,260 --> 00:13:15,490
He's calling from New York.
He just said to say, "Mac."
251
00:13:15,562 --> 00:13:16,688
Oh, Mac.
252
00:13:17,998 --> 00:13:20,796
Hello? Yes, I've been
waiting to hear from you.
253
00:13:23,336 --> 00:13:26,464
Oh? Oh, wait a minute. I'll
take this call in another room.
254
00:13:26,540 --> 00:13:27,905
I'll hang up
as soon as you're on.
255
00:13:27,974 --> 00:13:29,100
Do you mind?
256
00:13:29,176 --> 00:13:30,666
Might get a little
Drew Pearson blood.
257
00:13:30,744 --> 00:13:32,575
I thought it was agreed
we'd all trust each other.
258
00:13:32,646 --> 00:13:34,546
Only when we're
in the same room.
259
00:13:34,915 --> 00:13:35,939
Jim, I've been
waiting for you...
260
00:13:36,016 --> 00:13:37,813
Just a minute, Congressman.
I've got a call to answer.
261
00:13:38,218 --> 00:13:40,778
I don't get this. If he's
really serious about me
262
00:13:40,854 --> 00:13:42,151
as a possible candidate,
263
00:13:42,222 --> 00:13:44,087
the Republican Party
must be pretty desperate.
264
00:13:44,157 --> 00:13:46,250
The party isn't desperate,
just Conover.
265
00:13:46,326 --> 00:13:48,817
If he doesn't personally select
the Republican candidate this year,
266
00:13:48,895 --> 00:13:52,661
he may as well turn, if you'll
pardon the expression, Democrat.
267
00:13:52,833 --> 00:13:54,733
Are you on?
All right, I'll hang up.
268
00:13:59,406 --> 00:14:02,569
Kay, put that down.
Wait a minute, what?
269
00:14:03,944 --> 00:14:05,844
They've had someone
looking you up.
270
00:14:05,912 --> 00:14:07,436
They picked up some gossip
about you and me.
271
00:14:07,514 --> 00:14:08,640
Uh-oh.
No.
272
00:14:10,016 --> 00:14:12,883
There's been some talk about
Mary. Mary and some major.
273
00:14:12,953 --> 00:14:15,183
Who's Mary?
Mrs. Matthews.
274
00:14:16,189 --> 00:14:17,656
Oh!
275
00:14:18,258 --> 00:14:21,193
A major? What's his name?
I can't...
276
00:14:21,261 --> 00:14:22,558
What does it sound like?
277
00:14:24,431 --> 00:14:25,455
A major!
278
00:14:26,132 --> 00:14:28,464
Did you see what that so
and so wrote about me today?
279
00:14:28,535 --> 00:14:29,797
Well, isn't it true?
280
00:14:31,705 --> 00:14:33,570
Hey, it's 5:00 already.
281
00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:35,801
Spike, you may have trouble
finding a taxi at this hour.
282
00:14:35,876 --> 00:14:37,468
If you want to talk privately,
why don't you say so?
283
00:14:37,544 --> 00:14:38,704
I just did.
284
00:14:39,346 --> 00:14:42,008
Mr. Matthews, you and I might
take time to finish our drinks.
285
00:14:42,082 --> 00:14:43,709
Do you mind,
Miss Thorndyke?
286
00:14:43,783 --> 00:14:46,377
Jim, I want you to know that
Grant and I trust you implicitly.
287
00:14:46,453 --> 00:14:47,613
Thank you.
288
00:14:48,355 --> 00:14:51,347
I'm very happy about this,
Grant. Miss Thorndyke.
289
00:14:53,059 --> 00:14:56,551
You might as well wait, too. That's
what I was going to talk about.
290
00:14:56,630 --> 00:14:58,257
Close the door, Spike.
291
00:14:59,232 --> 00:15:00,859
Do you mind being seated?
292
00:15:02,168 --> 00:15:06,332
Naturally, Mr. Matthews, when your name
first came up, I made some enquiries.
293
00:15:06,473 --> 00:15:08,703
It seems there's been
some talk about you two.
294
00:15:08,775 --> 00:15:12,404
There's been that kind of gossip about
every candidate except Herbert Hoover.
295
00:15:12,479 --> 00:15:15,175
They didn't pull it on Hoover
'cause nobody would've believed it.
296
00:15:16,983 --> 00:15:21,352
There are no grounds for talk. Mr. Matthews
and I are very good friends. Period.
297
00:15:21,554 --> 00:15:24,990
You see, Mr. Matthews, while Miss
Thorndyke happens to be single,
298
00:15:25,125 --> 00:15:27,150
you are a married man,
with two children.
299
00:15:27,227 --> 00:15:31,323
If you consider that
a major... A vital factor.
300
00:15:32,232 --> 00:15:33,597
I guess that ends it.
301
00:15:33,667 --> 00:15:35,498
What's the answer, Jim?
It isn't my problem.
302
00:15:35,568 --> 00:15:37,866
But if it were, you two wouldn't
be seen together from now on.
303
00:15:37,938 --> 00:15:40,566
Now wait... You can't get to first
base against a whispering campaign.
304
00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,301
Could I get a word in here?
305
00:15:42,375 --> 00:15:45,538
Perhaps Kay's friendship means more
to me than all this political...
306
00:15:45,612 --> 00:15:47,443
That's all I wanted
to hear, Grant.
307
00:15:47,514 --> 00:15:49,948
Jim's right. We don't see
each other from now on.
308
00:15:50,016 --> 00:15:51,381
I knew she'd feel
that way about it,
309
00:15:51,451 --> 00:15:53,442
and I'm sure she'll agree
with me on the next step.
310
00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,954
I think Mrs. Matthews should
be down here with her husband.
311
00:15:56,022 --> 00:15:58,456
And I'd like to see her make
this trip with him. Now, Jim.
312
00:15:58,525 --> 00:16:00,186
Brother Conover,
that does it.
313
00:16:00,260 --> 00:16:03,923
You have just ended the shortest
political campaign on record.
314
00:16:04,130 --> 00:16:06,530
If my wife knew that
I was even thinking of myself
315
00:16:06,599 --> 00:16:10,160
as President of these United
States, you just don't know my wife.
316
00:16:10,236 --> 00:16:13,034
She'd call me Nappy every
other minute. "Nappy"?
317
00:16:13,239 --> 00:16:14,968
Nappy. That's short
for Napoleon.
318
00:16:15,108 --> 00:16:17,872
That's what she calls me when I get
a little too big for my britches,
319
00:16:17,944 --> 00:16:20,412
which is quite often.
I know what Grant means.
320
00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,175
The world is full of wives
who devote their time
321
00:16:22,248 --> 00:16:23,408
to clipping
their husbands' wings.
322
00:16:23,483 --> 00:16:25,610
Now Kay, that isn't
quite fair to Mary.
323
00:16:25,685 --> 00:16:28,916
Mr. Conover, I don't want you to get
the wrong impression about my wife.
324
00:16:28,989 --> 00:16:32,083
She's a very attractive woman
and a very bright one.
325
00:16:32,158 --> 00:16:35,093
It's just, you know, a man can
just take so much criticism.
326
00:16:35,862 --> 00:16:38,160
If you become a candidate, you'll
have to take a lot of criticism.
327
00:16:38,231 --> 00:16:41,359
Yeah. Your wife might be good
training for you. Toughen you up.
328
00:16:42,235 --> 00:16:44,499
We've got to kill
this gossip, Mr. Matthews.
329
00:16:44,571 --> 00:16:47,597
The American people want to see a
candidate and his wife campaign together.
330
00:16:47,674 --> 00:16:50,939
It's an American tradition. Otherwise
you can forget the whole thing.
331
00:16:51,011 --> 00:16:53,002
I warned you I had
no talent for politics.
332
00:16:53,079 --> 00:16:55,843
I wouldn't think of using
my wife as a smoke screen.
333
00:16:55,915 --> 00:16:59,248
Would she have to know? In
answer to your question, yes.
334
00:17:00,253 --> 00:17:01,743
That's what I said.
335
00:17:07,260 --> 00:17:10,286
You know, I haven't quite
made up my mind about you.
336
00:17:10,563 --> 00:17:12,360
Mr. Conover, I'm going to
tell you something.
337
00:17:12,432 --> 00:17:14,423
As things now stand,
I'm not too sure
338
00:17:14,501 --> 00:17:16,469
that my wife would go out
and have dinner with me,
339
00:17:16,536 --> 00:17:18,629
much less
make a trip like this.
340
00:17:19,906 --> 00:17:23,842
But I still say, I would've
made a darn good president.
341
00:17:34,287 --> 00:17:35,584
Shall we dance?
342
00:17:39,059 --> 00:17:41,619
Now what?
Senator Fosdick is here.
343
00:17:41,728 --> 00:17:45,391
Ex-Senator Fosdick. Blast, what
does that lame-duck want now?
344
00:17:45,932 --> 00:17:47,923
Lame? The last election
broke both his wings.
345
00:17:48,001 --> 00:17:49,992
Put him somewhere. He may
get elected again sometime.
346
00:17:50,070 --> 00:17:52,095
My room's the only one
that's not full up.
347
00:17:52,172 --> 00:17:53,434
I can be out of mine
in 20 minutes.
348
00:17:53,506 --> 00:17:56,134
No, no, no. Give him a drink,
we'll get him settled later.
349
00:17:56,309 --> 00:17:57,401
Politicians seem to think
350
00:17:57,477 --> 00:17:59,604
there's a law against
paying hotel bills.
351
00:17:59,712 --> 00:18:02,613
Getting back to your wife,
Mr. Matthews, she's over 21.
352
00:18:02,715 --> 00:18:05,343
Don't you think the fairest thing
would be to let her decide herself?
353
00:18:05,418 --> 00:18:06,851
Grant knows what's fair
and what isn't.
354
00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,447
Besides, he has a much more
important call to make. Remember?
355
00:18:10,957 --> 00:18:13,551
My boy's birthday! I should've
phoned long ago. May I use that?
356
00:18:13,626 --> 00:18:14,718
Please.
Thank you.
357
00:18:14,794 --> 00:18:17,194
What's the number here? District
6530. Use the private phone.
358
00:18:17,263 --> 00:18:18,457
This one?
That's right.
359
00:18:18,765 --> 00:18:21,427
This is district 6530.
360
00:18:22,068 --> 00:18:24,263
I'm calling Greatwood,
Long Island.
361
00:18:24,504 --> 00:18:27,337
Yeah, the number is 247.
Please.
362
00:18:27,574 --> 00:18:29,371
The little guy
is eight today.
363
00:18:32,178 --> 00:18:34,009
You'll talk to Mary, Grant.
364
00:18:34,981 --> 00:18:36,471
You want me to?
365
00:18:36,583 --> 00:18:39,108
I want anything that will
get you where you belong.
366
00:18:39,185 --> 00:18:40,812
Invite her to stay here,
of course.
367
00:18:41,988 --> 00:18:43,785
No way for a fellow
to be elected president
368
00:18:43,857 --> 00:18:45,825
without his wife
knowing about it, is there?
369
00:18:45,892 --> 00:18:48,884
Hello? Hello, Swenson.
Hello, Buck, how are you?
370
00:18:49,195 --> 00:18:50,753
Put Mrs. Matthews on.
371
00:18:50,997 --> 00:18:54,489
What's all the noise?
Oh, the birthday party.
372
00:18:56,035 --> 00:18:59,835
Hello? Hello, Joyce!
How are you, sweetheart?
373
00:19:00,140 --> 00:19:02,233
It's my daughter, she's 10.
374
00:19:02,375 --> 00:19:03,467
Hmm.
375
00:19:04,911 --> 00:19:07,744
Hello, Butch, is that
you, son? How are you?
376
00:19:08,248 --> 00:19:09,545
Happy birthday!
377
00:19:11,151 --> 00:19:13,847
Well, uh,
I can't sing it now.
378
00:19:15,688 --> 00:19:20,523
Yeah, Butch. Hello?
Hello, Mary.
379
00:19:21,060 --> 00:19:24,086
Mary, could you get the kids
off the other phone?
380
00:19:25,798 --> 00:19:28,528
Mary, I can't sing it here.
Yeah.
381
00:19:29,068 --> 00:19:30,797
Now don't call me Nappy.
382
00:19:31,371 --> 00:19:32,599
No...
383
00:19:33,173 --> 00:19:36,233
Okay, okay. You'll love this.
384
00:19:38,411 --> 00:19:41,244
Happy birthday to you
385
00:19:42,182 --> 00:19:44,548
Happy birthday to you
386
00:19:44,617 --> 00:19:46,881
Truman's gonna get
the musical vote.
387
00:19:47,820 --> 00:19:50,653
Happy birthday, dear Grant
388
00:19:50,957 --> 00:19:53,687
Happy birthday to you
389
00:19:54,761 --> 00:19:57,127
Flat? I was not flat.
390
00:19:58,064 --> 00:20:01,397
Look, Mary,
I'm here in Washington, D.C.,
391
00:20:01,467 --> 00:20:03,367
and I'm going to make
a tour of the plants.
392
00:20:03,436 --> 00:20:05,529
Hello, Butch...
393
00:20:06,172 --> 00:20:09,835
Look, Mary, Mary, it's a
little too tough over the phone.
394
00:20:09,909 --> 00:20:12,935
Could you come down here,
do you suppose? Yeah.
395
00:20:13,012 --> 00:20:14,980
We'll stay with Jim Conover.
396
00:20:15,782 --> 00:20:17,044
Conover!
397
00:20:18,218 --> 00:20:19,310
He's a sort of a ham.
398
00:20:19,419 --> 00:20:21,785
I'll send you the address,
Mary...
399
00:20:22,689 --> 00:20:26,022
Mary, come please, will you?
All right, dear.
400
00:20:26,125 --> 00:20:29,993
Yes, yes, Butch.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
401
00:20:30,330 --> 00:20:33,094
Yes, Joyce. Goodbye, sweetheart. Goodbye.
402
00:20:34,467 --> 00:20:36,196
She's coming?
403
00:20:36,502 --> 00:20:38,766
Yes, yes, heaven help me.
404
00:20:39,973 --> 00:20:42,407
And when she gets here, she's
to be told the whole story.
405
00:20:42,475 --> 00:20:45,069
If she decides to change
her mind and go back home,
406
00:20:45,278 --> 00:20:46,540
nobody is to
interfere with her.
407
00:20:46,613 --> 00:20:48,945
Is that understood?
Funny world.
408
00:20:49,382 --> 00:20:52,078
I want you to be President,
so I go back to New York
409
00:20:52,151 --> 00:20:53,618
and you tour the country
with your wife.
410
00:20:53,686 --> 00:20:55,779
Politics make
strange bedfellows.
411
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,258
Come in.
412
00:21:04,464 --> 00:21:05,692
Hello, Grant.
413
00:21:10,870 --> 00:21:12,667
How's the people's choice?
414
00:21:20,380 --> 00:21:23,042
This fantastic notion had me
thinking about myself so much,
415
00:21:23,116 --> 00:21:24,413
I forgot there were others.
416
00:21:24,484 --> 00:21:27,214
Just talking home on the phone
did that to you?
417
00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,687
Mary and the kids can't be dismissed
with a wave of the mind, Kay.
418
00:21:31,057 --> 00:21:33,958
Still dragging around some of those
little chains, aren't you, Grant?
419
00:21:34,027 --> 00:21:36,655
What chains? Those little
chains of middle-class morality
420
00:21:36,729 --> 00:21:38,560
that've kept big men down,
all through the ages.
421
00:21:38,631 --> 00:21:42,362
Nothing's dragging me down. I just
want everything out in the open.
422
00:21:42,435 --> 00:21:46,030
No more hiding in the dark. No more
playing both ends against the middle.
423
00:21:46,105 --> 00:21:49,097
And no White House.
No, Kay, no White House.
424
00:21:49,942 --> 00:21:51,739
Sounded like a pipe dream,
anyway.
425
00:21:51,844 --> 00:21:54,904
No pipe dream to me, Grant.
I believe in you.
426
00:21:58,685 --> 00:21:59,913
I know you do, Kay.
427
00:22:01,254 --> 00:22:03,552
And I know just what
you've meant to me.
428
00:22:04,023 --> 00:22:06,355
But...
But, sit down.
429
00:22:08,961 --> 00:22:11,691
Look, Grant.
Don't you suppose I knew
430
00:22:11,764 --> 00:22:14,426
what was going to happen to
me if you ran for president?
431
00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:16,263
Don't you suppose I knew
there had to be a Mary
432
00:22:16,336 --> 00:22:18,133
if there was going to be
any White House?
433
00:22:18,204 --> 00:22:19,831
Your knowing it
doesn't make it easier.
434
00:22:19,906 --> 00:22:21,567
Have I asked for it
any easier?
435
00:22:21,641 --> 00:22:23,768
I'm the corner of this triangle
that'll take the beating.
436
00:22:23,843 --> 00:22:26,835
I'm not going to let you take
that beating. Yes, you are!
437
00:22:27,780 --> 00:22:30,248
Go after the biggest
and the best there is.
438
00:22:30,316 --> 00:22:32,181
You'll make
a great president.
439
00:22:32,652 --> 00:22:35,644
And if somebody suffers,
if I suffer, so what?
440
00:22:36,022 --> 00:22:39,685
As my father used to say, "Life is
war, don't count the casualties."
441
00:22:41,627 --> 00:22:45,961
Look, Grant, I think I know
you. And I know I love you.
442
00:22:46,933 --> 00:22:48,867
If you're in the White House,
I'll be in the White House,
443
00:22:48,935 --> 00:22:51,062
whether I'm in New York
or on the Moon.
444
00:22:51,637 --> 00:22:53,332
You're a great gal, Kay.
445
00:22:56,409 --> 00:22:57,569
Come in.
446
00:22:58,945 --> 00:23:02,244
Oh? Conference? I'll be back.
No, no, no, come on in, Jim.
447
00:23:03,149 --> 00:23:05,583
I think I'll go down and inspect
the plumbing at the White House.
448
00:23:05,651 --> 00:23:07,050
I'll see you later.
449
00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:10,021
There's a mighty big man, Jim. Yes.
450
00:23:10,089 --> 00:23:12,580
Mighty big man,
with a mighty small chance.
451
00:23:12,658 --> 00:23:13,716
Oh?
452
00:23:13,793 --> 00:23:16,956
Kay, do you mind if I let
my hair down? It's your hair.
453
00:23:17,029 --> 00:23:19,395
Look, with no Roosevelt
to run against,
454
00:23:19,465 --> 00:23:21,365
it's green pastures again
for Republicans.
455
00:23:21,434 --> 00:23:24,198
So I dig up enough money to
rent this house for two years
456
00:23:24,270 --> 00:23:26,431
and think I'll angle myself
back into politics.
457
00:23:26,506 --> 00:23:30,306
Do I get a bid from Dewey, Taft, Vandenberg,
and Stassen to manage their campaigns?
458
00:23:30,376 --> 00:23:31,638
I do not.
459
00:23:31,778 --> 00:23:34,269
Harding-gang stink
is still on me, they say.
460
00:23:34,347 --> 00:23:37,111
So this house becomes a boarding
house for political has-beens
461
00:23:37,183 --> 00:23:38,673
who can't get on
any bandwagon,
462
00:23:38,751 --> 00:23:40,480
and you come along with
your airplane builder.
463
00:23:40,553 --> 00:23:42,145
And me, the best political
brain in this country
464
00:23:42,221 --> 00:23:43,381
outside of Jim Farley,
465
00:23:43,456 --> 00:23:46,118
I'm now nursing a rank amateur
like Grant Matthews.
466
00:23:46,192 --> 00:23:49,218
A mixed up guy who sees ideals out of
one eye and ambition out of the other.
467
00:23:49,295 --> 00:23:51,422
A guy who hates politicians,
you heard him.
468
00:23:51,597 --> 00:23:53,929
A guy with a busted-up home
that'll be poison at the polls.
469
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,058
Jim.
470
00:23:55,868 --> 00:23:59,065
Wouldn't you like to become
Chairman in the Republican Party?
471
00:23:59,138 --> 00:24:00,833
I'd give my right arm
up to here
472
00:24:00,907 --> 00:24:02,807
to become Chairman of
the Republican...
473
00:24:02,875 --> 00:24:04,706
Say, are you making
commitments for him?
474
00:24:04,811 --> 00:24:07,371
Get that hair back up again.
What's the matter with you?
475
00:24:07,447 --> 00:24:10,541
You getting old or something?
Keep that stomach in, chin up.
476
00:24:10,616 --> 00:24:12,516
Why do you think
I brought Grant to you?
477
00:24:12,585 --> 00:24:15,110
Because I know you're the
best politician in the country.
478
00:24:15,188 --> 00:24:19,147
Kay, a stubborn rank amateur.
Wilke was a stubborn rank amateur.
479
00:24:19,492 --> 00:24:21,756
Get that political brain
of yours working.
480
00:24:21,961 --> 00:24:23,428
This is the year
of the dark horse.
481
00:24:23,496 --> 00:24:25,430
The best we could go
into that convention
482
00:24:25,498 --> 00:24:27,261
with would be a small
handful of delegates.
483
00:24:27,333 --> 00:24:28,891
Communists have taken over
whole countries
484
00:24:28,968 --> 00:24:30,492
with a small
handful of delegates.
485
00:24:30,570 --> 00:24:32,538
This guy worries me. The
way he shoots his mouth off.
486
00:24:32,605 --> 00:24:34,266
He'll make enemies.
487
00:24:34,407 --> 00:24:36,238
I'm sending Spike along
for just that.
488
00:24:36,309 --> 00:24:39,472
Spike? I need Spike like
I need a hole in the head.
489
00:24:40,279 --> 00:24:43,407
Jim, The Thorndyke Press
needs a new vice president,
490
00:24:43,483 --> 00:24:45,951
a sort of silent partner to
advise on political matters.
491
00:24:46,018 --> 00:24:47,918
Good salary, expense account
that might include
492
00:24:47,987 --> 00:24:50,217
a four-year lease
on this house.
493
00:24:51,257 --> 00:24:53,817
Win or lose?
Win or lose.
494
00:24:54,193 --> 00:24:56,058
Well, the dark horse is
getting whiter.
495
00:24:57,330 --> 00:25:00,595
Kay, just so I don't stumble
over things in the dark,
496
00:25:01,968 --> 00:25:04,266
what's your stake in all this?
I want nothing.
497
00:25:04,337 --> 00:25:06,999
No. People who want nothing
worry me. The price isn't right.
498
00:25:07,073 --> 00:25:09,439
You know, I know about your
father and the Republican Party.
499
00:25:09,509 --> 00:25:10,976
You also know that
they've given me
500
00:25:11,043 --> 00:25:12,943
the beautiful brush-off
ever since.
501
00:25:13,112 --> 00:25:14,579
On occasions
they've even seen fit
502
00:25:14,647 --> 00:25:16,842
to describe the support
of my newspapers
503
00:25:16,916 --> 00:25:18,645
as the "kiss of death".
504
00:25:18,718 --> 00:25:21,915
I thought if I could present the
country and the Republican Party
505
00:25:21,988 --> 00:25:24,479
with the next President
of the United States,
506
00:25:24,590 --> 00:25:29,220
it would give me more than a little
pleasure to see certain heads roll.
507
00:25:30,129 --> 00:25:32,120
If they're the same heads
I'm thinking about...
508
00:25:32,198 --> 00:25:33,256
They are.
509
00:25:33,366 --> 00:25:35,266
Let's put this thing over,
Jim.
510
00:25:35,334 --> 00:25:36,631
He's the ideal man.
511
00:25:36,702 --> 00:25:38,670
He's the rare combination
of sincerity
512
00:25:38,738 --> 00:25:40,763
and drive that the common herd
will go for.
513
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,468
They think he's one of them.
He thinks he's one of them.
514
00:25:43,543 --> 00:25:45,807
But is he the kind of man we
can handle? Will he play ball?
515
00:25:45,878 --> 00:25:47,277
He's in love with me, Jim.
516
00:25:47,346 --> 00:25:50,838
You can lead a dark horse to water with
that love stuff, but can you make him drink?
517
00:25:50,917 --> 00:25:52,885
A moment ago,
you very shrewdly observed
518
00:25:52,952 --> 00:25:54,476
that Grant saw ideals
out of one eye
519
00:25:54,554 --> 00:25:57,318
and ambition out of the
other. You were dead right.
520
00:25:57,523 --> 00:26:00,720
But wait till that presidential
bug really bites him.
521
00:26:00,993 --> 00:26:03,791
Wait till he sees the White
House out of both eyes.
522
00:26:03,963 --> 00:26:05,430
Then he'll drink.
523
00:26:05,498 --> 00:26:06,897
And so will I.
524
00:26:17,643 --> 00:26:18,803
The White House.
525
00:26:18,878 --> 00:26:22,837
My, my, hallowed ground.
Just think.
526
00:26:22,949 --> 00:26:27,682
All of the presidents since Adams
have occupied that noble edifice.
527
00:26:29,121 --> 00:26:30,645
Needs painting.
528
00:26:31,757 --> 00:26:34,851
I beg your pardon?
I say, it needs painting.
529
00:26:35,494 --> 00:26:37,052
Needs painting?
530
00:26:37,430 --> 00:26:40,729
Sir, you're the kind
who'd whitewash the dawn.
531
00:26:41,167 --> 00:26:44,102
What colors would you add
to a desert sunset
532
00:26:44,170 --> 00:26:47,970
or to the cool green of the
sea, or the blue of the sky?
533
00:26:48,608 --> 00:26:51,509
Does the goddess of
liberty need make-up?
534
00:26:52,812 --> 00:26:56,578
Do you know who lives
in this historic mansion?
535
00:26:57,717 --> 00:26:58,775
Yeah.
536
00:26:59,285 --> 00:27:03,449
The spirit of all those who fought
for human dignity lives there.
537
00:27:04,390 --> 00:27:07,325
Moses, Buddha, Confucius,
538
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,027
Christ, Paul, Saint Francis,
539
00:27:11,397 --> 00:27:15,299
Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon,
Joan of Arc,
540
00:27:15,868 --> 00:27:18,996
Martin Luther, Plato, Homer,
541
00:27:19,372 --> 00:27:22,205
Dante, Shakespeare,
Michelangelo,
542
00:27:22,808 --> 00:27:25,402
Pasteur, Newton, Galileo,
543
00:27:25,745 --> 00:27:29,579
Edison, Franklin, Lincoln,
Washington, Jefferson,
544
00:27:29,682 --> 00:27:32,810
Crispus Attucks,
Lafayette, Garibaldi,
545
00:27:33,252 --> 00:27:35,186
Bolivar, Kosciusko.
546
00:27:35,254 --> 00:27:37,882
The martyrs, the saints,
and the poets.
547
00:27:37,957 --> 00:27:40,118
Civilizations past
and present.
548
00:27:40,192 --> 00:27:41,318
Man's whole history.
549
00:27:41,394 --> 00:27:43,919
His evolution from worm
to animal to Einstein,
550
00:27:44,030 --> 00:27:45,691
his long search for God,
551
00:27:45,765 --> 00:27:48,029
all those things live
in that noble dwelling,
552
00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:50,500
but I still say
it needs painting.
553
00:27:54,573 --> 00:27:58,532
Sir, may I buy you
a glass of beer?
554
00:27:58,611 --> 00:28:00,169
With pleasure.
555
00:28:07,620 --> 00:28:10,555
Could you bring my bags in
for me? Thank you.
556
00:28:19,865 --> 00:28:22,333
Check with Leith before you
print that one. The rest of...
557
00:28:22,401 --> 00:28:25,393
Jess, no more good stuff from
now on, just the cheap stuff.
558
00:28:25,471 --> 00:28:27,564
If that's a long-distance call,
you'll pay for it yourself.
559
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,235
Mr. Conover, Mr. Conover, Mrs. Matthews
is here. Mrs. Matthews? Already?
560
00:28:31,310 --> 00:28:34,245
Jim, don't faint now, but what
if she won't make this trip?
561
00:28:34,313 --> 00:28:35,837
She's got to make it.
562
00:28:36,082 --> 00:28:37,447
Jess, the good stuff for
Mrs. Matthews
563
00:28:37,516 --> 00:28:39,541
and put a bottle of
champagne on ice. Yes, sir.
564
00:28:39,618 --> 00:28:41,779
Where'll I put her? Put her
in Mr. Matthews' bedroom.
565
00:28:41,954 --> 00:28:44,650
Take care of her bag. Remember
that phone call's on your own.
566
00:28:44,990 --> 00:28:47,356
I'll mail everything in
from now on. Right.
567
00:28:59,105 --> 00:29:02,404
I hope it doesn't inconvenience
you, my flying down tonight.
568
00:29:02,475 --> 00:29:05,239
I'm delighted, I'm only sorry
you didn't get here earlier.
569
00:29:05,311 --> 00:29:08,747
Spike, this is Mrs. Matthews.
Mr. MacManus.
570
00:29:08,881 --> 00:29:11,509
Oh, the writer?
How do you do, Mr. MacManus?
571
00:29:11,584 --> 00:29:14,451
And you're very beautiful. How are
you, Mrs. Matthews? I'll take this.
572
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:15,680
Where's my husband got to?
573
00:29:15,755 --> 00:29:18,121
A politician's smoke-filled
room's got too much for him.
574
00:29:18,190 --> 00:29:21,318
Oh, you're that Mr. Conover.
I'm afraid I am.
575
00:29:21,393 --> 00:29:23,725
Grant went for a walk. He
didn't expect you until tomorrow.
576
00:29:23,796 --> 00:29:25,320
I sent him a wire.
577
00:29:26,098 --> 00:29:28,658
The fact is, Mr. Conover, I
was so excited about this trip,
578
00:29:28,734 --> 00:29:30,224
I couldn't bear to wait.
579
00:29:30,436 --> 00:29:31,994
Oh, is this my room?
580
00:29:32,071 --> 00:29:34,130
No, this is Grant's room.
I'm getting you another.
581
00:29:34,206 --> 00:29:36,674
Leave the bags here a minute.
You're moving Senator Fosdick.
582
00:29:36,742 --> 00:29:37,902
Again?
583
00:29:37,977 --> 00:29:41,105
Put him in the south
bedroom with Mr. Godfrey.
584
00:29:41,180 --> 00:29:42,977
But the Commissioner's
in there with Mr. Godfrey.
585
00:29:43,048 --> 00:29:44,174
Commissioner?
586
00:29:44,450 --> 00:29:47,578
He can have the pool table.
That's nonsense.
587
00:29:47,686 --> 00:29:50,120
Don't move Senator Fosdick.
Grant and I can stay here.
588
00:29:50,189 --> 00:29:51,349
Here?
589
00:29:51,423 --> 00:29:54,187
It's all right.
We're really married.
590
00:29:55,127 --> 00:29:57,220
Unless the rest of the Senate
is in here with Grant.
591
00:29:57,296 --> 00:30:00,026
No, no, he's in sole
possession. Good, I'll stay here.
592
00:30:00,232 --> 00:30:04,430
After all, Senator Fosdick was an
isolationist. I think he should be isolated.
593
00:30:04,503 --> 00:30:07,404
Shall I unpack for you, ma'am?
Don't bother. I'll do it later.
594
00:30:07,473 --> 00:30:08,531
This is very pleasant.
595
00:30:08,607 --> 00:30:10,074
Now I can boast that
I've really been
596
00:30:10,142 --> 00:30:11,632
behind the scenes
in Washington.
597
00:30:11,710 --> 00:30:13,234
You certainly can.
598
00:30:13,312 --> 00:30:16,748
The Republican Party has been
behind the scenes for 15 years.
599
00:30:16,816 --> 00:30:18,010
But that's over now.
600
00:30:18,083 --> 00:30:19,675
We've won Congress
and there'll be a change
601
00:30:19,752 --> 00:30:21,913
in the White House
after the next election.
602
00:30:21,987 --> 00:30:23,545
Has Mr. Truman
heard about this?
603
00:30:27,126 --> 00:30:28,457
I'm gonna like you.
604
00:30:28,527 --> 00:30:29,994
I'm a good Republican.
605
00:30:30,062 --> 00:30:32,690
The voters do control the lease
on the White House, don't they?
606
00:30:32,765 --> 00:30:34,255
Not just the Republican Party.
607
00:30:34,333 --> 00:30:36,597
Your husband's been lecturing
me along the same lines.
608
00:30:36,669 --> 00:30:38,261
Then I'd better
change the subject.
609
00:30:38,337 --> 00:30:41,932
Grant can be very outspoken.
But not by anybody I know.
610
00:30:42,141 --> 00:30:45,770
May I fix you a drink? I'm a very
inexpensive guest. I don't drink.
611
00:30:45,978 --> 00:30:47,775
You'll make history
in this house.
612
00:30:48,214 --> 00:30:51,240
Has she moved in there?
She's established a beachhead.
613
00:30:51,317 --> 00:30:53,717
Tell Jim it's all right
to convince the world
614
00:30:53,786 --> 00:30:55,276
there's nothing between me
and Mr. Matthews,
615
00:30:55,354 --> 00:30:57,618
but not to bother convincing
Mrs. Matthews.
616
00:30:57,690 --> 00:30:59,180
I thought that was the idea.
617
00:30:59,258 --> 00:31:02,125
Don't be naive, Spike. I want her
against me. I want her fighting for him.
618
00:31:02,194 --> 00:31:05,686
That way she'll do everything
possible to get him elected.
619
00:31:07,633 --> 00:31:08,827
Women.
620
00:31:09,268 --> 00:31:11,133
Goodbye, Mr. MacManus.
621
00:31:12,938 --> 00:31:14,166
Goodbye.
622
00:31:14,940 --> 00:31:16,202
Bye.
623
00:31:16,508 --> 00:31:17,873
Oh, thank you.
624
00:31:23,649 --> 00:31:26,641
Mrs. Matthews, I have a great
admiration for your husband.
625
00:31:29,622 --> 00:31:32,386
Look at that.
What did you say?
626
00:31:32,491 --> 00:31:34,482
I say, I have a great
admiration for your husband.
627
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,028
I'm many years ahead of
you on that, Mr. Conover.
628
00:31:37,096 --> 00:31:39,724
The whole country will feel as
we do after hearing the speeches
629
00:31:39,798 --> 00:31:41,095
he's going to make
on this trip.
630
00:31:41,166 --> 00:31:43,760
Speeches? Is he gonna make
speeches? Yes, in several places.
631
00:31:43,836 --> 00:31:46,304
Oh, dear, I should've packed my earmuffs.
632
00:31:46,505 --> 00:31:48,166
I didn't mean that
the way it sounded.
633
00:31:48,274 --> 00:31:49,935
Grant makes
a very good speech,
634
00:31:50,009 --> 00:31:52,239
but public appearances
for me...
635
00:31:52,511 --> 00:31:53,842
Would it be considered
bad form,
636
00:31:53,913 --> 00:31:55,403
if I just stayed
quietly at the hotel
637
00:31:55,481 --> 00:31:57,312
and listened to him
over the radio?
638
00:31:57,383 --> 00:31:59,214
I'm afraid it would. It would
defeat the whole purpose.
639
00:31:59,285 --> 00:32:00,616
Purpose? What purpose?
640
00:32:00,686 --> 00:32:02,950
For a man who may become
a political figure,
641
00:32:03,022 --> 00:32:05,582
people like to know his wife,
like to see what she looks like,
642
00:32:05,658 --> 00:32:08,889
and most important of all, they
like to see the two of them together.
643
00:32:08,961 --> 00:32:09,950
Oh.
644
00:32:10,429 --> 00:32:11,657
I see.
645
00:32:13,032 --> 00:32:15,762
That explains Grant's inviting
me to make this trip with him.
646
00:32:15,834 --> 00:32:17,802
No, no, no,
Grant wants you to go along.
647
00:32:17,870 --> 00:32:19,531
These public appearances,
they're my idea.
648
00:32:19,605 --> 00:32:21,869
Just an old politician's habit
of cashing in on an opportunity.
649
00:32:21,941 --> 00:32:24,102
It all fits a little
too neatly, Mr. Conover.
650
00:32:24,310 --> 00:32:27,541
I don't know whether you know,
or perhaps you do,
651
00:32:27,613 --> 00:32:30,138
that Grant and I haven't
been very close recently.
652
00:32:30,349 --> 00:32:32,408
Wouldn't you prefer to
create a contrary impression?
653
00:32:32,484 --> 00:32:33,746
Then you do know.
654
00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:36,349
Let's be open about this,
Mr. Conover.
655
00:32:36,422 --> 00:32:39,357
These public appearances that
Grant and I are going to make,
656
00:32:39,425 --> 00:32:41,052
are they designed
to kill off any talk
657
00:32:41,126 --> 00:32:42,889
about my husband
and Kay Thorndyke?
658
00:32:42,962 --> 00:32:45,123
There's that kind of talk
about every important man.
659
00:32:45,197 --> 00:32:46,755
If there are any rumors
about your husband,
660
00:32:46,832 --> 00:32:48,561
this would be a good chance
to kill them. You see...
661
00:32:48,634 --> 00:32:50,363
No, may I use your telephone?
662
00:32:50,436 --> 00:32:52,404
Certainly. On the night table.
Thank you.
663
00:32:52,471 --> 00:32:55,565
I want to get back to New
York tonight, if I can.
664
00:32:56,742 --> 00:32:58,903
Airport...
Executive 2345.
665
00:32:58,978 --> 00:33:00,343
Thank you.
666
00:33:07,486 --> 00:33:08,885
Mrs. Matthews?
667
00:33:08,954 --> 00:33:11,889
I think any man who has a chance to
become President of the United States
668
00:33:11,957 --> 00:33:13,822
deserves that chance.
669
00:33:17,229 --> 00:33:19,595
President of
the United States?
670
00:33:19,732 --> 00:33:22,963
Yes. Don't you think
he'd make a good president?
671
00:33:24,503 --> 00:33:25,902
Yes, I do.
672
00:33:27,406 --> 00:33:29,101
A fine president.
673
00:33:29,241 --> 00:33:32,369
Then you see how this goes
beyond personal considerations.
674
00:33:32,711 --> 00:33:34,906
We can't think of this just
in terms of you and Grant.
675
00:33:34,980 --> 00:33:36,538
And Kay Thorndyke.
676
00:33:36,615 --> 00:33:38,708
And Kay Thorndyke. I'm sure
you'll go along with this.
677
00:33:38,784 --> 00:33:40,183
You're a good citizen.
678
00:33:40,252 --> 00:33:43,244
Right now, Mr. Conover, I'm
not feeling like a good citizen.
679
00:33:43,322 --> 00:33:44,516
I'm feeling like a woman.
680
00:33:44,590 --> 00:33:48,082
All right, as a woman, then. As
a woman, no, I resent being used.
681
00:33:48,327 --> 00:33:52,320
This evening has been quite a kick
in the teeth to me, Mr. Conover.
682
00:33:52,531 --> 00:33:54,192
I was hoping that
683
00:33:54,299 --> 00:33:57,200
Grant's call meant
no more Miss Thorndyke.
684
00:33:57,736 --> 00:33:59,704
It'd be fine
to kill these rumors.
685
00:33:59,772 --> 00:34:02,138
It'd be even finer
to kill Kay Thorndyke.
686
00:34:02,207 --> 00:34:05,005
Let's think of this in terms of the
country. That's what I've had to do.
687
00:34:05,077 --> 00:34:08,706
Frankly, your husband is not the
answer to a politician's dream.
688
00:34:08,781 --> 00:34:11,306
I've been wondering why any
political party should choose Grant,
689
00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:12,748
knowing the things
he stands for.
690
00:34:12,818 --> 00:34:14,115
I want the country
to make the choice,
691
00:34:14,186 --> 00:34:16,154
and I know the choice
they'll make.
692
00:34:16,388 --> 00:34:19,118
Take my word. Your husband
is a pretty big man.
693
00:34:19,191 --> 00:34:21,182
There's no argument
about that.
694
00:34:21,393 --> 00:34:23,827
I know he's a big man.
You know he's a big man.
695
00:34:23,896 --> 00:34:26,990
My bad days are when
he knows he's a big man.
696
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,194
You don't suppose
there's any way
697
00:34:29,268 --> 00:34:30,667
of Grant's being
elected president
698
00:34:30,736 --> 00:34:32,704
and keeping it
a secret from him, do you?
699
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,164
It wasn't as funny
as all that.
700
00:34:36,241 --> 00:34:38,539
Yes, it was. Your husband asked
me almost the same question.
701
00:34:38,610 --> 00:34:40,237
He wondered if
he could be elected
702
00:34:40,312 --> 00:34:42,109
without a wife
knowing about it.
703
00:34:42,181 --> 00:34:43,512
Poor Grant.
704
00:34:43,582 --> 00:34:46,142
Is he speaking in Seattle?
Yes. Why?
705
00:34:46,819 --> 00:34:48,650
We were married in Seattle.
706
00:34:49,254 --> 00:34:50,778
When I think of him
speaking there
707
00:34:50,856 --> 00:34:52,380
as a candidate
for president...
708
00:34:52,458 --> 00:34:55,256
He's not speaking now as a
candidate. That's a deep, dark secret.
709
00:34:55,327 --> 00:34:58,319
The whole idea of this trip
is to create the demand.
710
00:34:58,697 --> 00:34:59,789
Oh.
711
00:34:59,898 --> 00:35:02,128
That clears up something
you just said.
712
00:35:02,201 --> 00:35:05,568
He's to be your choice first,
then the people's choice.
713
00:35:05,871 --> 00:35:08,362
Well, I'm a citizen.
I have the right to a choice.
714
00:35:08,607 --> 00:35:10,541
Long distance calling,
Mr. Conover.
715
00:35:10,609 --> 00:35:11,803
Thank you, Norah.
May I take it here?
716
00:35:11,877 --> 00:35:15,472
Am I in the way? Not at all.
This will take just a minute.
717
00:35:15,781 --> 00:35:16,907
Hello.
718
00:35:16,982 --> 00:35:18,609
Yes. How are you?
719
00:35:18,984 --> 00:35:22,078
Yes, I'm sorry, too, Joe. You
should have carried that district.
720
00:35:22,154 --> 00:35:25,487
Advice? My advice is to change
your whole campaign this year.
721
00:35:25,757 --> 00:35:28,521
How many Poles have you
got down there? That many?
722
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,523
Tell them not to believe
what they read in the papers.
723
00:35:30,596 --> 00:35:33,190
Tell them we love Poland and we're
going to lend them a lot of money.
724
00:35:33,265 --> 00:35:35,790
Oh, they don't feel
that way about it?
725
00:35:36,301 --> 00:35:39,634
Well, tell them Poland won't
get one red cent out of us.
726
00:35:40,038 --> 00:35:42,598
The Democrats have
beaten us to that?
727
00:35:43,108 --> 00:35:44,336
Well, promise them
something else.
728
00:35:44,409 --> 00:35:46,343
They must want something,
just promise them!
729
00:35:46,512 --> 00:35:49,504
You swing that district and they'll
have to give you that Veterans' Hospital.
730
00:35:49,581 --> 00:35:51,048
Otherwise, no dice.
731
00:35:51,683 --> 00:35:53,583
Call any time. Thanks.
732
00:35:54,620 --> 00:35:55,780
Sorry for the interruption.
733
00:35:55,854 --> 00:35:59,312
I'm grateful for it. It gave
me a chance to change my mind.
734
00:35:59,424 --> 00:36:01,324
I'll make this trip
with Grant.
735
00:36:01,426 --> 00:36:02,893
Well, that's fine.
736
00:36:02,961 --> 00:36:04,690
That pleases me very much.
737
00:36:04,763 --> 00:36:07,755
That's our first big
campaign contribution.
738
00:36:08,267 --> 00:36:12,226
To you, my dear, the loveliest
plank in your husband's platform.
739
00:36:12,337 --> 00:36:15,067
That's a heck of a thing
to call a woman.
740
00:36:15,207 --> 00:36:17,038
Still, you did say loveliest.
741
00:36:17,109 --> 00:36:18,974
Think of any more words like
that, don't repress them.
742
00:36:19,044 --> 00:36:21,740
Don't tell me you'd fall for
a politician's sweet syrup.
743
00:36:21,813 --> 00:36:24,839
Mister, you're looking at
a mighty dry waffle.
744
00:36:25,751 --> 00:36:26,775
I don't know.
745
00:36:26,852 --> 00:36:28,547
This trip may kill
more than one rumor.
746
00:36:28,620 --> 00:36:30,281
Is there someone
I don't know about?
747
00:36:30,355 --> 00:36:32,755
There have been some rumors
about you.
748
00:36:33,425 --> 00:36:34,517
About me?
749
00:36:34,593 --> 00:36:37,061
Hmm. About you
and a certain major.
750
00:36:37,329 --> 00:36:39,820
That's wonderful. That's the
best news I've heard in weeks.
751
00:36:39,898 --> 00:36:41,593
Does Grant know?
Not as far as I know.
752
00:36:41,667 --> 00:36:43,794
You're going to tell him, aren't you? No.
753
00:36:43,869 --> 00:36:46,497
I deserve something out of all
this. I was hoping he'd told you.
754
00:36:46,572 --> 00:36:49,302
No, I have a little
intelligence service of my own.
755
00:36:49,374 --> 00:36:53,333
I wish Grant had. The places I've
dragged that poor, nice major,
756
00:36:53,412 --> 00:36:56,245
just in the hopes
that Grant would see us.
757
00:36:56,515 --> 00:36:58,380
I'm beginning to feel
like a new woman.
758
00:36:58,450 --> 00:37:01,317
I think I'll put a new face
on the new woman.
759
00:37:01,687 --> 00:37:05,817
And I feel like a new man and I
think I'll give the new man a drink.
760
00:37:06,792 --> 00:37:09,192
How about it?
We have even champagne here.
761
00:37:09,261 --> 00:37:12,992
Don't ever tempt me that way.
The results can be disastrous.
762
00:37:13,065 --> 00:37:14,123
No!
763
00:37:14,199 --> 00:37:15,666
Has Grant told you
we haven't seen each other
764
00:37:15,734 --> 00:37:16,894
in nearly four months?
765
00:37:16,969 --> 00:37:20,530
No. Our last encounter
was something to remember.
766
00:37:20,839 --> 00:37:22,966
Kay has quite a technique
with husbands.
767
00:37:23,041 --> 00:37:24,508
Other women's, that is.
768
00:37:24,676 --> 00:37:26,439
She's a great builder-upper.
769
00:37:26,511 --> 00:37:29,036
Grant was getting the
inflation treatment that night.
770
00:37:29,314 --> 00:37:31,373
Which, by the way,
he doesn't mind at all.
771
00:37:31,450 --> 00:37:34,647
So, I inflated myself a little,
too, starting with martinis.
772
00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:35,778
And told her off.
773
00:37:35,854 --> 00:37:37,287
Off and out of my house.
774
00:37:37,356 --> 00:37:39,688
I played right into her hands.
I acted like a fishwife.
775
00:37:39,758 --> 00:37:41,749
It's the olive in the
martinis. That's what does this.
776
00:37:41,827 --> 00:37:44,625
No, things were simmering
before that.
777
00:37:44,696 --> 00:37:46,926
Grant needs a lot of room
to stretch in.
778
00:37:46,999 --> 00:37:50,526
He likes to get up on those mountain
tops and slap the hurricanes down.
779
00:37:50,602 --> 00:37:52,001
He can do it, too.
780
00:37:52,170 --> 00:37:54,195
He began to feel that
I was sort of small potatoes
781
00:37:54,273 --> 00:37:55,797
and holding him back.
782
00:37:55,974 --> 00:37:57,236
I was, I guess.
783
00:37:57,309 --> 00:38:00,642
I'm a sort of a cozy
corner person, Mr. Conover.
784
00:38:00,912 --> 00:38:03,073
I like those quiet valleys.
785
00:38:05,751 --> 00:38:07,981
I'm afraid I even have a
weakness for small potatoes.
786
00:38:08,053 --> 00:38:10,920
I've got two wonderful ones
at home. Yes, happy birthday.
787
00:38:10,989 --> 00:38:13,958
There we were. Grant had
a bad case of the mountains
788
00:38:14,026 --> 00:38:15,823
and I became stubborn
about small potatoes,
789
00:38:15,894 --> 00:38:18,522
and she stepped into the picture
as the beautiful mountain guide.
790
00:38:18,597 --> 00:38:20,861
Now I have no way of knowing
how far things have gone.
791
00:38:20,932 --> 00:38:22,058
How do you mean?
792
00:38:22,134 --> 00:38:24,102
There are three stages
in a man's,
793
00:38:24,169 --> 00:38:26,330
whatever you want to call it,
to Kay Thorndyke.
794
00:38:26,405 --> 00:38:28,737
First he follows her
with his eyes,
795
00:38:28,807 --> 00:38:31,241
then with his feet,
then on his knees.
796
00:38:31,310 --> 00:38:33,835
My trouble is, I don't know
whether Grant is still in stage two
797
00:38:33,912 --> 00:38:35,436
or if the boat has sailed.
798
00:38:36,214 --> 00:38:37,272
Jim.
799
00:38:38,550 --> 00:38:40,814
Mary gets in tonight. I got
this telegram downstairs...
800
00:38:40,886 --> 00:38:42,148
Hello, Grant.
801
00:38:43,021 --> 00:38:44,352
Mary.
802
00:38:44,723 --> 00:38:46,850
I didn't expect you
until tomorrow.
803
00:38:46,925 --> 00:38:48,392
I couldn't bear to wait.
I'd have met you.
804
00:38:48,460 --> 00:38:50,655
How are you?
Fine. You look fine.
805
00:38:50,729 --> 00:38:53,095
I'm certainly glad you came. I've
got a lot of things to tell you.
806
00:38:53,165 --> 00:38:56,498
Have you got a room set up for
her yet? I'm in here with you.
807
00:38:56,702 --> 00:38:57,862
In here?
808
00:38:58,603 --> 00:39:00,833
Mr. Conover, Governor
Dunn has just arrived.
809
00:39:00,906 --> 00:39:03,739
Ex-Governor. That old windbag
didn't even carry his own county.
810
00:39:03,809 --> 00:39:05,743
Where am I going to
put him? He snores, too.
811
00:39:05,811 --> 00:39:08,041
That's an occupational
disease of governors.
812
00:39:08,180 --> 00:39:11,513
Grant, I couldn't wait. I told
Mrs. Matthews all about it.
813
00:39:15,153 --> 00:39:17,678
Well, I'm awfully glad
you came.
814
00:39:18,457 --> 00:39:19,981
I said that, didn't I?
815
00:39:20,058 --> 00:39:23,721
How are the kids?
Fine. Anxious to see you.
816
00:39:23,862 --> 00:39:25,261
Same here.
817
00:39:27,165 --> 00:39:29,895
Why don't you laugh?
You should. Why, Grant?
818
00:39:31,436 --> 00:39:33,165
I've just been for a walk.
819
00:39:33,305 --> 00:39:35,466
You know,
it's a funny thing, Mary,
820
00:39:35,607 --> 00:39:39,304
I've been in Washington a thousand
times in the past few years,
821
00:39:39,411 --> 00:39:41,971
but I never really saw it
until today.
822
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,446
It isn't a city.
It's an atmosphere.
823
00:39:44,516 --> 00:39:46,507
It's alive with giants.
824
00:39:47,452 --> 00:39:52,480
Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln, Adams. Giants, Mary.
825
00:39:53,492 --> 00:39:55,255
I'm not in their league.
826
00:39:55,327 --> 00:39:59,093
I'm for you, Grant. I think
you'd make a wonderful president.
827
00:40:01,466 --> 00:40:05,266
Do you really mean that? I've
never meant anything more.
828
00:40:08,206 --> 00:40:11,004
That's the nicest thing
you could've said.
829
00:40:11,109 --> 00:40:13,634
It isn't only that you've
got the brains for it.
830
00:40:13,712 --> 00:40:15,202
The important thing
to me, Grant,
831
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,840
is that you've always
tried to be honest.
832
00:40:17,949 --> 00:40:19,314
Tried to be?
833
00:40:19,384 --> 00:40:21,443
You've cut some corners
here and there,
834
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,181
just to get where
you wanted to.
835
00:40:23,255 --> 00:40:26,520
But I will say, you've always had
the decency to be unhappy about it.
836
00:40:26,591 --> 00:40:27,785
Yeah, with a little help
from you.
837
00:40:27,859 --> 00:40:30,225
And don't call me Nappy.
Yes, Nappy.
838
00:40:30,295 --> 00:40:34,061
I want you to know, Mary, that
I felt a little bit of a heel,
839
00:40:34,232 --> 00:40:36,996
asking you to make this trip
at all under the circumstances.
840
00:40:37,068 --> 00:40:39,764
I told Conover that it was entirely
up to you, that I wouldn't...
841
00:40:39,838 --> 00:40:43,865
It's all right, Grant.
I made the decision myself.
842
00:40:45,377 --> 00:40:48,744
You know, Mary, you deserve
something better than me.
843
00:40:50,715 --> 00:40:53,548
Well, I guess,
I'd better get out of these.
844
00:40:57,289 --> 00:41:00,019
I'd better see Jim about
getting me another room.
845
00:41:00,091 --> 00:41:02,889
Haven't you heard? Even
the pool table's booked.
846
00:41:02,961 --> 00:41:05,759
I guess I can find a room
in a hotel, all right.
847
00:41:05,831 --> 00:41:07,321
In Washington?
848
00:41:10,936 --> 00:41:12,403
Grant? Grant!
849
00:41:12,471 --> 00:41:13,665
Huh?
850
00:41:14,673 --> 00:41:17,164
We should call
the kids tomorrow.
851
00:41:17,876 --> 00:41:21,039
Yes, yes. Well, I'll call
them around dinnertime,
852
00:41:21,112 --> 00:41:23,137
then I can talk
to both of them.
853
00:41:23,548 --> 00:41:26,381
I had Buck pack some of
your fishing things.
854
00:41:27,085 --> 00:41:28,575
Oh, wonderful.
855
00:41:28,653 --> 00:41:31,520
Thought maybe when we were
in Seattle... Yeah, fine.
856
00:41:31,590 --> 00:41:34,354
Might be able to run up to
Victoria for a couple of days.
857
00:41:34,426 --> 00:41:36,394
We haven't been there
since our...
858
00:41:36,461 --> 00:41:38,452
Not since our honeymoon.
859
00:41:40,432 --> 00:41:42,127
No. That's right.
860
00:41:43,635 --> 00:41:47,298
Which of the plants are we
going to first? Minneapolis.
861
00:41:48,273 --> 00:41:50,207
What are you
speaking about there?
862
00:41:50,275 --> 00:41:54,234
I'm not going to speak there.
That's Stassen territory.
863
00:41:54,312 --> 00:41:57,406
Conover thought I might
just stir up trouble. Uh-huh.
864
00:41:57,482 --> 00:41:59,746
Good politics, I suppose.
865
00:41:59,818 --> 00:42:02,218
What other decisions
does Conover make for you?
866
00:42:02,287 --> 00:42:05,882
Wait a minute, Mary. I made that
decision. I'm making all the decisions.
867
00:42:05,957 --> 00:42:08,289
I've told Conover
exactly where I stand.
868
00:42:08,393 --> 00:42:11,226
See, the American people today
face too many problems... Grant.
869
00:42:11,296 --> 00:42:12,354
Huh.
870
00:42:12,430 --> 00:42:14,455
Take it easy.
I'm going to vote for you.
871
00:42:14,533 --> 00:42:17,696
No, wait a minute. I want to
straighten you out on this thing, too.
872
00:42:21,540 --> 00:42:22,666
Yes?
873
00:42:23,174 --> 00:42:26,439
Could I turn the bed down
now? Yes, indeed. You may.
874
00:42:26,511 --> 00:42:29,378
When you're ready for breakfast
just press that buzzer,
875
00:42:29,447 --> 00:42:30,505
I'll have it right up.
876
00:42:30,582 --> 00:42:31,606
Thank you.
877
00:42:31,683 --> 00:42:33,947
I've got a pretty
tough day tomorrow.
878
00:42:34,152 --> 00:42:36,177
I'm sorry to be
so late with this.
879
00:42:36,254 --> 00:42:38,279
It's all right. I'll help
you with it. Thank you.
880
00:42:38,356 --> 00:42:40,187
Just as I started up,
we got another guest.
881
00:42:40,258 --> 00:42:42,419
Gracious!
Where did you put him?
882
00:42:42,494 --> 00:42:44,359
He's on a cot
in Mr. Conover's room.
883
00:42:44,429 --> 00:42:45,953
That makes me
feel very guilty.
884
00:42:46,031 --> 00:42:47,555
Don't you worry,
Mrs. Matthews.
885
00:42:47,632 --> 00:42:49,623
A cot's good enough
for most of them.
886
00:42:49,801 --> 00:42:51,894
They just come down here to get
something out of Mr. Conover.
887
00:42:51,970 --> 00:42:55,497
Why, Norah! Not the
people we put in this room.
888
00:42:56,274 --> 00:42:58,572
This room is for
special guests.
889
00:42:58,977 --> 00:43:02,003
We even had a Democrat
in this bed one night.
890
00:43:02,113 --> 00:43:04,513
Oh, dear. I wish you hadn't
told me that.
891
00:43:04,583 --> 00:43:06,983
He wasn't
a Roosevelt Democrat.
892
00:43:10,155 --> 00:43:12,487
Did he leave these
as a souvenir?
893
00:43:13,191 --> 00:43:16,820
How did those get in here? That Miss
Thorndyke hunted all over for those.
894
00:43:16,895 --> 00:43:19,989
Miss Thorndyke? Yes, she forgot
them when she left tonight.
895
00:43:20,065 --> 00:43:21,828
I know what it is
to be without glasses.
896
00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:23,629
I'll mail them
right back to her.
897
00:43:23,702 --> 00:43:25,260
You wouldn't know her
address, would you, ma'am?
898
00:43:25,337 --> 00:43:28,306
Are you sure these are
Miss Thorndyke's? Yes.
899
00:43:28,740 --> 00:43:31,231
They're them
Chinese kind. See?
900
00:43:31,943 --> 00:43:35,936
What some women won't do,
won't they? Yes, won't they?
901
00:43:36,381 --> 00:43:38,849
Mr. Matthews
will know the address.
902
00:43:41,119 --> 00:43:42,984
Grant, can you
come out here a minute?
903
00:43:43,054 --> 00:43:44,521
Norah needs some information.
904
00:43:44,589 --> 00:43:46,887
Yeah, sure.
I'll be right out.
905
00:43:48,026 --> 00:43:50,460
Yeah, Norah,
what can I do for you?
906
00:43:50,528 --> 00:43:51,654
Miss Thorndyke
left her glasses.
907
00:43:51,730 --> 00:43:54,824
I just wanted to know where
to mail them back to her.
908
00:43:56,835 --> 00:43:59,861
1276 Park Avenue. Would you
like me to write it down for you?
909
00:43:59,938 --> 00:44:02,236
No, I can remember it.
1276.
910
00:44:02,307 --> 00:44:03,740
76, that's the year
of the Revolution,
911
00:44:03,808 --> 00:44:06,902
and 12, that's for
the 12 Commandments.
912
00:44:08,279 --> 00:44:09,507
Well...
913
00:44:10,448 --> 00:44:12,712
Goodnight.
Goodnight.
914
00:44:16,254 --> 00:44:18,222
Now how do you suppose
those got in here?
915
00:44:18,289 --> 00:44:19,449
Why did she leave?
916
00:44:19,524 --> 00:44:22,391
We could all have had a
lovely weekend here together.
917
00:45:07,172 --> 00:45:09,504
Mary, what do you think
you're doing?
918
00:45:09,808 --> 00:45:12,902
Mary, stop that nonsense
and make up this bed again.
919
00:45:13,378 --> 00:45:16,677
Now hang it all. Look here, I'm
not going to have you do this.
920
00:45:16,748 --> 00:45:18,978
You wouldn't get one wink of
sleep down there on the floor,
921
00:45:19,050 --> 00:45:21,541
and I wouldn't sleep, lying
up here worrying about you.
922
00:45:21,619 --> 00:45:23,382
Goodnight, Mr. President.
923
00:45:31,996 --> 00:45:34,760
You mean Mr. Vice President,
don't you?
924
00:45:43,208 --> 00:45:45,403
Look. We put this bird across,
and you know what it means to us.
925
00:45:45,477 --> 00:45:47,445
We got to work fast but we've
got to be smart about it.
926
00:45:47,512 --> 00:45:49,776
Here's a list of guys
who might play ball.
927
00:45:49,848 --> 00:45:51,475
Er, Bluckner.
You feel out Bluckner.
928
00:45:51,549 --> 00:45:53,983
He's committed to Dewey.
Go on to the second ballot.
929
00:45:54,052 --> 00:45:55,713
He'd back Stalin if it'd cut
the Governor's throat.
930
00:45:55,787 --> 00:45:57,277
There's your
long-distance call.
931
00:45:57,355 --> 00:45:58,982
You work on that angle,
will you?
932
00:45:59,057 --> 00:46:01,548
Hello, J.L. Is your group
committed yet?
933
00:46:01,626 --> 00:46:03,787
Now quit worrying, I've got
the man, but I'm not ready
934
00:46:03,862 --> 00:46:04,954
to announce his name yet.
935
00:46:05,029 --> 00:46:07,964
He's brand new.
Hates politicians. What?
936
00:46:08,032 --> 00:46:11,524
For those few measly Arizona
delegates? I should say not.
937
00:46:11,603 --> 00:46:13,070
Okay, you'll hear from me.
938
00:46:13,138 --> 00:46:15,572
How about Trenley?
No, you can't trust Trenley.
939
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:17,471
You can't trust Trenley?
What do you think, Senator?
940
00:46:17,542 --> 00:46:20,238
I don't trust Trenley and I don't
like the smell of this. Why not?
941
00:46:20,311 --> 00:46:22,541
I don't like anything that
starts with The Thorndyke Press.
942
00:46:22,614 --> 00:46:25,276
Those three papers in your state
can ensure your re-election.
943
00:46:25,350 --> 00:46:28,080
I'll have to take my chances
on that, Jim. Goodnight.
944
00:46:29,053 --> 00:46:31,180
How did he get in here?
He's honest.
945
00:46:31,256 --> 00:46:34,282
Let's forget about him. What
about Sylvester in Philadelphia?
946
00:46:34,359 --> 00:46:35,485
Fine.
Good man.
947
00:46:38,863 --> 00:46:40,524
What's so funny?
948
00:46:41,132 --> 00:46:44,260
I was just wondering how the
floors are in the White House.
949
00:46:44,803 --> 00:46:47,670
I'll take the floor there.
I know my place.
950
00:46:50,975 --> 00:46:52,203
Grant?
951
00:46:53,311 --> 00:46:55,745
Are you still in stage two
952
00:46:56,481 --> 00:46:58,813
or have you made
stage three now?
953
00:46:59,384 --> 00:47:01,045
What do you mean?
954
00:47:02,220 --> 00:47:03,619
Never mind.
955
00:47:05,723 --> 00:47:07,486
Do you want a divorce?
956
00:47:10,461 --> 00:47:11,723
Do you?
957
00:47:14,566 --> 00:47:16,932
That's not fair.
I asked you first.
958
00:47:25,176 --> 00:47:28,111
The world thinks
I'm a very successful man.
959
00:47:28,179 --> 00:47:30,238
Rich, influential, happy.
960
00:47:32,250 --> 00:47:34,548
You know better,
don't you, Mary?
961
00:47:34,986 --> 00:47:37,978
You know that I'm neither
happy nor successful,
962
00:47:38,656 --> 00:47:41,284
not as a man, a husband,
or a father.
963
00:47:42,961 --> 00:47:45,225
You want to know
something else?
964
00:47:45,296 --> 00:47:48,322
I'm glad I'm down here on the
floor. It's where I belong.
965
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,361
I knew that tonight when
we started to talk about
966
00:47:51,436 --> 00:47:53,370
going back to Victoria.
967
00:47:56,207 --> 00:47:57,299
Mary, you won't believe this,
968
00:47:57,375 --> 00:47:59,468
but I don't know how
those glasses got in here,
969
00:47:59,544 --> 00:48:01,341
but I'm glad you found them.
970
00:48:03,014 --> 00:48:05,278
I started to tell you, it was
Kay who brought me down here,
971
00:48:05,350 --> 00:48:08,615
but I lost my nerve. I guess I
was afraid it would send you home.
972
00:48:16,928 --> 00:48:21,160
"There are moments in the life of
every man when he glimpses the eternal."
973
00:48:22,300 --> 00:48:24,461
You read that to me, remember?
974
00:48:27,105 --> 00:48:29,198
I've had moments
like that, Mary.
975
00:48:29,307 --> 00:48:30,706
A couple of them.
976
00:48:30,975 --> 00:48:33,000
When I was up
in a plane alone.
977
00:48:34,145 --> 00:48:37,376
Moments when the earth and
the sky and the plane and me
978
00:48:37,448 --> 00:48:41,316
all seemed to fuse together into
something that would live forever.
979
00:48:43,121 --> 00:48:45,749
And I had a moment
like that today, Mary,
980
00:48:46,391 --> 00:48:48,985
when I was alone
with all those great men.
981
00:48:50,361 --> 00:48:52,921
They were happy men, Mary.
Do you know why?
982
00:48:53,364 --> 00:48:54,854
They had a cause.
983
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,230
They had a cause
they could die for.
984
00:48:58,336 --> 00:49:00,031
Some of them did.
985
00:49:01,306 --> 00:49:03,171
I have no cause, Mary.
986
00:49:05,310 --> 00:49:07,073
Beating your competitors.
987
00:49:08,613 --> 00:49:10,478
No cause to die for.
988
00:49:11,115 --> 00:49:13,606
Really isn't very much
to live for.
989
00:49:14,886 --> 00:49:17,446
Always me first
and everybody else second.
990
00:49:18,389 --> 00:49:20,721
But, way down deep
in my gizzard, I...
991
00:49:22,427 --> 00:49:23,917
Maybe this trip,
992
00:49:24,495 --> 00:49:27,293
maybe this whole absurd idea
of Conover's...
993
00:49:30,068 --> 00:49:31,467
Well, anyway,
994
00:49:32,370 --> 00:49:35,271
I'm going to stay on the floor
through the whole trip.
995
00:49:36,407 --> 00:49:38,398
And maybe when it's all over,
996
00:49:42,213 --> 00:49:43,237
well,
997
00:49:44,182 --> 00:49:45,342
one way or another,
998
00:49:45,416 --> 00:49:48,647
everything should be clean
and honest between us, right?
999
00:49:50,722 --> 00:49:53,953
Well, you've answered
one question.
1000
00:49:54,225 --> 00:49:55,556
What?
1001
00:49:55,827 --> 00:49:58,193
You're still not
in stage three.
1002
00:50:14,879 --> 00:50:17,074
There, mon cher
monsignor Matthews,
1003
00:50:17,148 --> 00:50:19,946
is something to gladden the heart
of every citizen west of the Rockies.
1004
00:50:20,018 --> 00:50:21,918
What is it?
The Seattle speech.
1005
00:50:21,986 --> 00:50:23,817
A masterpiece of rhetoric,
if I do say so.
1006
00:50:23,888 --> 00:50:25,947
Who's going to make it?
You are, of course.
1007
00:50:26,024 --> 00:50:29,187
Really? I thought maybe they set up
a change and you were the candidate.
1008
00:50:29,260 --> 00:50:31,319
No, I'm saving myself
for '52.
1009
00:50:31,396 --> 00:50:33,728
Well, you better
save the speech, too.
1010
00:50:33,798 --> 00:50:35,231
How do you like that?
1011
00:50:35,299 --> 00:50:37,460
What do I do? Just sit around
here with egg on my face?
1012
00:50:37,535 --> 00:50:40,163
I'm the expert that keeps you
from climbing out on limbs.
1013
00:50:40,238 --> 00:50:42,103
That's where
the big red apples are.
1014
00:50:42,173 --> 00:50:43,765
Where?
Out on the limbs.
1015
00:50:44,642 --> 00:50:46,542
Mama.
All right,
1016
00:50:46,611 --> 00:50:48,704
all right, if you don't want
to be President.
1017
00:50:48,780 --> 00:50:52,045
You just line up the babies for me
to kiss, son, and I'll be a cinch.
1018
00:50:52,116 --> 00:50:54,983
That reminds me, do I
know any babies in Seattle?
1019
00:51:02,126 --> 00:51:04,458
Hey, boss, we got company.
Huh?
1020
00:51:04,996 --> 00:51:06,725
Who?
Joe and Rusty!
1021
00:51:07,131 --> 00:51:09,031
Joe Crandall, manager
of our Cleveland plant.
1022
00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:11,261
He's a wonderful guy.
Just flew up to see us.
1023
00:51:20,344 --> 00:51:22,005
He's hooked onto us!
Rusty at the controls.
1024
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:23,809
Joe and Rusty! Here's
where I make some money.
1025
00:51:23,881 --> 00:51:26,907
I'm going to take over. You're
not going to fly this thing.
1026
00:51:26,984 --> 00:51:30,078
You got to learn sometime, come
on, shove over there. Shove over.
1027
00:51:32,824 --> 00:51:36,191
Aren't you going to stop him? I
suggest you better strap yourself in.
1028
00:51:36,260 --> 00:51:38,660
What for?
Just do what Mama tells you.
1029
00:51:38,729 --> 00:51:40,629
If you have any loose teeth,
hang on to them,
1030
00:51:40,698 --> 00:51:43,565
Rusty's our chief test pilot.
He and Grant like to play.
1031
00:51:43,835 --> 00:51:45,735
I'm not going to
like this.
1032
00:51:46,237 --> 00:51:47,499
Look at those guys.
1033
00:51:47,572 --> 00:51:49,699
Kind of close.
They came up to play.
1034
00:51:49,807 --> 00:51:51,468
What do we got up here?
3210.
1035
00:51:54,846 --> 00:51:55,904
Oh!
1036
00:51:56,547 --> 00:51:57,980
I got it.
Okay.
1037
00:51:58,749 --> 00:52:00,740
How you doing, Rusty?
Hi, boss.
1038
00:52:00,818 --> 00:52:02,843
I'm testing the new
plane-to-plane radio.
1039
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:05,115
It's coming along fine.
What's the matter with you?
1040
00:52:05,189 --> 00:52:07,123
You getting scared?
Can't get any closer?
1041
00:52:07,191 --> 00:52:08,852
Hey, boss,
can you still fly?
1042
00:52:08,926 --> 00:52:11,121
I can pat your ears
down anytime.
1043
00:52:11,329 --> 00:52:12,626
You got any dough?
1044
00:52:12,697 --> 00:52:13,823
I'm loaded.
1045
00:52:13,898 --> 00:52:15,456
A buck I lose you.
1046
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:17,693
Put your money
where your mouth is, brother.
1047
00:52:17,768 --> 00:52:18,860
Okay, you're on.
1048
00:52:18,936 --> 00:52:20,927
Hey, you're hooked up?
Yes.
1049
00:52:21,005 --> 00:52:22,267
Hang on!
1050
00:52:36,387 --> 00:52:38,082
Mary, what's he doing?
1051
00:52:44,629 --> 00:52:47,223
You better stay away from me,
I'll cut your tail off.
1052
00:52:59,010 --> 00:53:00,773
Hello? Where is he?
1053
00:53:01,312 --> 00:53:02,506
There he is.
1054
00:53:12,757 --> 00:53:14,987
If your husband
must have a hobby,
1055
00:53:15,059 --> 00:53:17,857
why can't he play the piano,
like any normal president?
1056
00:53:19,997 --> 00:53:21,862
Come on, Rusty,
do something!
1057
00:53:51,896 --> 00:53:53,124
Uh-oh, a loop.
1058
00:54:30,501 --> 00:54:33,026
What's the matter,
Spike, can't you take it?
1059
00:54:35,906 --> 00:54:38,636
Kid, you're in a rut. You're
running out of stunts, aren't you?
1060
00:54:45,016 --> 00:54:46,574
Boss, you're not going
to spin this thing?
1061
00:54:46,684 --> 00:54:48,208
Why not? I built it.
1062
00:54:59,530 --> 00:55:01,930
Hope the wings stay on.
So do I.
1063
00:55:06,904 --> 00:55:08,462
Did they stay on?
1064
00:55:08,639 --> 00:55:09,901
I'm afraid to look.
1065
00:55:13,177 --> 00:55:14,439
Not bad for an old man.
1066
00:55:14,512 --> 00:55:16,104
Never mind the
"old man" stuff.
1067
00:55:16,747 --> 00:55:18,840
That's a buck
you owe me.
1068
00:55:19,150 --> 00:55:20,344
We're over the airfield.
1069
00:55:20,418 --> 00:55:22,409
Five more says
I beat you down.
1070
00:55:22,687 --> 00:55:24,314
Make it 10
and you've got a deal.
1071
00:55:24,388 --> 00:55:25,946
Get your money ready.
1072
00:55:26,457 --> 00:55:27,981
I'll take half of it.
1073
00:55:30,328 --> 00:55:31,625
What's going...
1074
00:55:31,896 --> 00:55:32,920
Hey.
1075
00:55:36,500 --> 00:55:39,697
Why, the son of a gun
pulled a jump on me.
1076
00:55:41,706 --> 00:55:43,003
Take it over.
1077
00:55:43,074 --> 00:55:44,735
Get me right over it.
1078
00:55:46,077 --> 00:55:49,308
Grant! Boy, am I glad
to see you.
1079
00:55:50,648 --> 00:55:51,910
Sit down, pal.
1080
00:55:52,216 --> 00:55:53,478
What do you
think of that?
1081
00:55:53,551 --> 00:55:55,348
Say, that was swell fun.
1082
00:55:55,419 --> 00:55:57,250
Enjoyed every minute of it.
1083
00:55:57,621 --> 00:56:00,249
Grant, don't you think it...
What do you think of that, fella?
1084
00:56:00,324 --> 00:56:01,757
I got a
$10 bet with him.
1085
00:56:01,826 --> 00:56:03,919
Yeah, but don't you think... Now, what?
1086
00:56:08,699 --> 00:56:10,257
Coming over.
1087
00:56:10,401 --> 00:56:12,460
Cut down that left engine.
1088
00:56:13,771 --> 00:56:15,636
Give my love to Conover.
1089
00:56:15,706 --> 00:56:16,832
Grant!
1090
00:56:19,176 --> 00:56:20,609
Mary, he fell out!
1091
00:56:21,579 --> 00:56:24,480
Did you happen to notice
was he wearing a parachute?
1092
00:56:24,982 --> 00:56:26,643
Parachute?
1093
00:56:38,362 --> 00:56:40,557
You mean he did that for $10?
1094
00:56:41,565 --> 00:56:42,964
Did it open?
1095
00:56:45,736 --> 00:56:46,930
Did it open?
1096
00:56:48,739 --> 00:56:50,104
Did it open?
1097
00:56:50,508 --> 00:56:51,839
Yeah, it opened.
1098
00:56:55,413 --> 00:56:57,881
We're a cinch to get
the screwball vote.
1099
00:57:11,295 --> 00:57:13,525
Well, well. The fourth
estate, what goes? Another war?
1100
00:57:13,597 --> 00:57:16,293
Hi, Jim, stuffed any
ballot boxes lately?
1101
00:57:16,367 --> 00:57:18,164
You're to go right in,
Mr. Conover.
1102
00:57:18,235 --> 00:57:20,362
Could it be we're in politics, gentlemen?
1103
00:57:20,571 --> 00:57:21,833
Looks that way.
1104
00:57:23,140 --> 00:57:24,437
What's the convention
out there?
1105
00:57:24,508 --> 00:57:25,805
My editors.
I had them fly in.
1106
00:57:25,876 --> 00:57:28,436
But some of them recognized
me. Don't worry, Jim,
1107
00:57:28,512 --> 00:57:29,911
we're in business.
1108
00:57:31,215 --> 00:57:33,740
"'Public response
to my line of guff astounding.
1109
00:57:33,818 --> 00:57:36,616
"'lf I throw my hat in rings, does
my head go with it?' Grant Matthews."
1110
00:57:36,687 --> 00:57:38,552
Well, the bug's beginning
to bite, huh?
1111
00:57:38,622 --> 00:57:40,817
You're so right. Now,
we can really go to work.
1112
00:57:40,891 --> 00:57:42,620
My reports on him
have been terrific.
1113
00:57:42,693 --> 00:57:43,853
What've you heard?
Nothing.
1114
00:57:43,928 --> 00:57:45,395
Goes over with the mob,
no doubt about that.
1115
00:57:45,463 --> 00:57:47,192
Who told you that? Made a
big hit in the Northwest.
1116
00:57:47,264 --> 00:57:49,960
Los Angeles was fine, too. Of
course, that's a push-over town.
1117
00:57:50,034 --> 00:57:52,332
It's the Mid-West that...
I know.
1118
00:57:52,403 --> 00:57:54,530
He's in Wichita this noon,
big labor rally.
1119
00:57:54,605 --> 00:57:56,072
Detroit tonight.
Big business banquet.
1120
00:57:56,140 --> 00:57:57,835
That's it.
Got my fingers crossed.
1121
00:57:57,908 --> 00:57:59,500
If he gets by those two,
we are in business.
1122
00:57:59,577 --> 00:58:01,568
How do your political friends
feel about him?
1123
00:58:01,645 --> 00:58:02,942
Well, now,
1124
00:58:04,181 --> 00:58:06,012
that's what I want to
talk to you about.
1125
00:58:06,083 --> 00:58:07,948
Ed Lauterback wants in.
1126
00:58:08,486 --> 00:58:10,613
Well? Wanted to see if
you'd stand for Lauterback.
1127
00:58:10,688 --> 00:58:12,383
We'll stand for anyone
if they've got delegates.
1128
00:58:12,456 --> 00:58:13,821
Even Bill Hardy?
1129
00:58:14,425 --> 00:58:16,325
You're dragging them out from
under the rocks, aren't you?
1130
00:58:16,393 --> 00:58:18,554
Those are the ones who do
the work, the hungry ones.
1131
00:58:18,629 --> 00:58:20,597
Okay, Jim, Bill Hardy, too. Good.
1132
00:58:20,798 --> 00:58:22,857
Send them in, Helen.
Yes, ma'am.
1133
00:58:23,033 --> 00:58:25,024
Would you come over here, Jim? Hmm.
1134
00:58:25,102 --> 00:58:27,730
Good morning, Miss Thorndyke. Good morning.
1135
00:58:27,805 --> 00:58:29,670
Sorry to have kept
you gentlemen waiting.
1136
00:58:29,740 --> 00:58:31,970
You know Mr. Conover,
our new political advisor?
1137
00:58:32,076 --> 00:58:33,634
Gentlemen.
1138
00:58:34,778 --> 00:58:38,942
First of all, I'd like to thank you
all for the very fine job you've done.
1139
00:58:39,617 --> 00:58:42,279
You haven't always followed
my advice in the past.
1140
00:58:42,386 --> 00:58:46,720
You've been very lenient, considering
your boss is a woman and still under 60.
1141
00:58:47,224 --> 00:58:49,715
I've asked you all
to come here today
1142
00:58:50,227 --> 00:58:51,785
because in this matter,
at least,
1143
00:58:51,896 --> 00:58:54,626
there can be no deviation
from my instructions.
1144
00:58:54,999 --> 00:58:57,832
I want the Republican
Convention deadlocked.
1145
00:58:59,570 --> 00:59:01,299
Who are we working for,
the Democrats?
1146
00:59:01,405 --> 00:59:03,066
You're working for
The Thorndyke Press
1147
00:59:03,140 --> 00:59:05,233
and The Thorndyke Press
will have its own candidate.
1148
00:59:05,309 --> 00:59:07,834
That's why that Convention
must be deadlocked.
1149
00:59:07,945 --> 00:59:08,969
And it won't be
1150
00:59:09,079 --> 00:59:11,445
unless the leading candidates
are so sore at each other
1151
00:59:11,515 --> 00:59:13,380
that they won't combine
forces. Is that clear?
1152
00:59:13,884 --> 00:59:17,877
I want Dewey sore at Taft, Taft sore at
Vandenberg, Vandenberg sore at Stassen
1153
00:59:17,955 --> 00:59:20,355
and all of them sore
at Eisenhower and MacArthur!
1154
00:59:20,791 --> 00:59:24,124
Use their wives, their kids, their
Aunt Marthas, but get them sore.
1155
00:59:24,194 --> 00:59:25,525
Dig up anything you can.
1156
00:59:25,629 --> 00:59:26,960
And if you can't dig it up...
1157
00:59:27,031 --> 00:59:29,693
Chief, I've got nothing
against your candidate.
1158
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:31,427
We all know who it is.
1159
00:59:31,535 --> 00:59:34,629
And I'll work for him in any
way that I legitimately can.
1160
00:59:34,772 --> 00:59:36,763
But that's as far as I can go.
1161
00:59:36,941 --> 00:59:38,272
Mr. Bradbury,
1162
00:59:38,542 --> 00:59:41,136
would you feel happier working
for some other newspaper?
1163
00:59:42,212 --> 00:59:44,703
Yes, I think I would.
1164
00:59:45,149 --> 00:59:47,140
I think that can
be arranged.
1165
00:59:51,522 --> 00:59:52,716
Anyone else?
1166
00:59:52,990 --> 00:59:54,014
Now is the time.
1167
00:59:54,124 --> 00:59:57,321
On this issue, I'm quite
prepared to replace all of you.
1168
00:59:57,795 --> 01:00:00,525
Miss Thorndyke, you're mad.
You're as mad as your father.
1169
01:00:00,631 --> 01:00:02,462
You can accept
my resignation right now.
1170
01:00:02,533 --> 01:00:04,728
That goes for me. That's
exactly the way I feel.
1171
01:00:04,802 --> 01:00:06,269
All right, get out,
all of you.
1172
01:00:06,337 --> 01:00:08,897
Editors like you
are a dime a dozen.
1173
01:00:11,342 --> 01:00:13,936
Yes? It's for Mr. Conover, Wichita calling.
1174
01:00:14,011 --> 01:00:17,003
That'll be Brander. I had
him fly out to hear Grant.
1175
01:00:17,181 --> 01:00:18,307
Hello J.B., how are you?
1176
01:00:20,317 --> 01:00:23,445
Wait a minute,
there must be some mistake.
1177
01:00:23,554 --> 01:00:26,114
Take my word for it,
everything'll be all right.
1178
01:00:26,223 --> 01:00:27,986
J.B., now, wait a minute.
1179
01:00:28,058 --> 01:00:29,252
He hung up.
What happened?
1180
01:00:29,326 --> 01:00:30,418
I don't know.
According to Brander,
1181
01:00:30,494 --> 01:00:31,722
Grant's blown his top
on labor.
1182
01:00:33,030 --> 01:00:35,931
Yes? Mr. MacManus from Wichita.
1183
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,195
Spike, what happened? Grant
just lost the labor vote.
1184
01:00:38,268 --> 01:00:40,133
I sent you along
to prevent just that.
1185
01:00:40,337 --> 01:00:42,737
I couldn't help it.
He's gotten away from me.
1186
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:44,603
You're a great
campaign manager.
1187
01:00:44,708 --> 01:00:46,938
Didn't you look at
that speech before he made it?
1188
01:00:47,044 --> 01:00:48,602
No, and I'll tell you why.
1189
01:00:48,712 --> 01:00:50,873
I touted him off
that labor stuff in Denver.
1190
01:00:50,948 --> 01:00:54,145
She knew he'd change his mind, and
started throwing those harpoons into him.
1191
01:00:54,218 --> 01:00:55,583
You mean, his wife?
1192
01:00:55,653 --> 01:00:57,348
I don't mean his Aunt Tilly.
1193
01:00:57,521 --> 01:00:59,614
You sent the wrong dame
on this trip, that's all.
1194
01:00:59,790 --> 01:01:01,314
And I talked him
into taking her along.
1195
01:01:01,392 --> 01:01:03,292
What's he talking about
in Detroit tonight?
1196
01:01:03,394 --> 01:01:05,624
How would I know?
I lost my Ouija board.
1197
01:01:05,763 --> 01:01:07,958
I told you we couldn't trust
him. He's believing his own stuff.
1198
01:01:08,032 --> 01:01:10,193
If he blows his top
on business, like on labor,
1199
01:01:10,267 --> 01:01:12,258
well, I'll blow mine.
That woman's got to him.
1200
01:01:12,536 --> 01:01:15,096
She's been feeding him that "to
thine own self be true" diet.
1201
01:01:15,205 --> 01:01:16,968
Get out to Detroit
as fast as you can.
1202
01:01:17,074 --> 01:01:19,804
Spike, Jim's flying out.
Book Cadillac Hotel.
1203
01:01:27,985 --> 01:01:29,213
Got it?
1204
01:01:35,359 --> 01:01:37,350
I'm very sorry boys,
we're way behind schedule.
1205
01:01:37,494 --> 01:01:39,621
You can see Mr. Matthews
after his speech tonight.
1206
01:01:41,432 --> 01:01:43,992
You need a shave, don't you?
My feet.
1207
01:01:44,301 --> 01:01:46,826
My ears.
Those police sirens.
1208
01:01:46,937 --> 01:01:50,134
No more motorcycle escorts,
Spike. We might kill somebody.
1209
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:52,265
I'll arrange that for you
on the way to the banquet.
1210
01:01:52,342 --> 01:01:54,742
Where do you want these?
Mary, pick your room.
1211
01:01:54,812 --> 01:01:56,143
Wonderful country.
1212
01:01:56,246 --> 01:01:59,579
You have to take the police
along to break the speed laws.
1213
01:01:59,683 --> 01:02:01,514
This is a nice room.
You can put those in there.
1214
01:02:01,585 --> 01:02:04,145
This is 2419.
Send up a barber right away.
1215
01:02:04,388 --> 01:02:06,049
Mary, look at these.
1216
01:02:06,990 --> 01:02:08,321
Those can wait.
1217
01:02:08,425 --> 01:02:10,325
In one hour, you're on
the air, coast to coast.
1218
01:02:10,427 --> 01:02:13,453
You have to eat, dress, shave, and
interview most of Detroit in the meantime.
1219
01:02:13,530 --> 01:02:15,896
Oh, these are wonderful,
Grant.
1220
01:02:15,966 --> 01:02:17,763
All about the Wichita speech.
1221
01:02:17,835 --> 01:02:20,429
Yeah. You never had
anything like this before.
1222
01:02:20,604 --> 01:02:22,799
What do you want to eat?
Anything but chicken.
1223
01:02:22,940 --> 01:02:25,033
Yeah, look, pinfeathers.
1224
01:02:25,209 --> 01:02:26,403
Hello, Room Service?
1225
01:02:26,477 --> 01:02:29,674
Hey, babe, what's with the service?
You'll get your box of candy.
1226
01:02:31,915 --> 01:02:34,645
Here's somebody who
didn't like it. Who's that?
1227
01:02:35,252 --> 01:02:37,743
Executive Secretary,
Local 301.
1228
01:02:38,188 --> 01:02:40,349
I turned on the radiator,
opened the window.
1229
01:02:40,424 --> 01:02:41,857
Oh, all right, thank you.
1230
01:02:41,925 --> 01:02:44,689
Hello? Room Service?
Thank you.
1231
01:02:45,028 --> 01:02:47,758
This is 2419, will you rush up
three hamburgers, please?
1232
01:02:47,865 --> 01:02:49,662
Wait a minute. Onions?
1233
01:02:49,733 --> 01:02:51,496
Onions? No!
1234
01:02:51,869 --> 01:02:53,166
One with onions.
Two without.
1235
01:02:53,237 --> 01:02:55,671
Grant, who's Madman Muntz?
1236
01:02:55,839 --> 01:02:57,534
Don't you know?
Uh-uh.
1237
01:02:58,976 --> 01:03:01,638
I'm expecting a lot of people
for Mr. Matthews.
1238
01:03:01,712 --> 01:03:05,478
Will you shoot them up to 24th floor,
Parlor B and tell them to wait? Right.
1239
01:03:05,549 --> 01:03:06,709
Want a barber?
1240
01:03:06,917 --> 01:03:08,578
Not at the moment.
Yes!
1241
01:03:08,752 --> 01:03:10,242
Oh, for Mr. Matthews.
1242
01:03:10,354 --> 01:03:11,946
Come in.
Good evening.
1243
01:03:12,055 --> 01:03:14,114
Good evening. Good evening.
Mary did you see this?
1244
01:03:14,224 --> 01:03:16,419
"Matthews is obvious presidential
timber", you read that?
1245
01:03:16,527 --> 01:03:17,585
Mr. Matthews.
1246
01:03:17,694 --> 01:03:19,924
I knew that Wichita speech
would ring the bell.
1247
01:03:20,030 --> 01:03:21,998
Yeah, the kid here
tried to talk me out of it.
1248
01:03:22,466 --> 01:03:23,558
Dream on, Macduff.
1249
01:03:23,700 --> 01:03:25,827
I told you not to be afraid
of shooting the works.
1250
01:03:25,903 --> 01:03:27,302
That's how they want
to hear you talk.
1251
01:03:27,371 --> 01:03:30,169
Wait 'til you hear me on industry
tonight, I'm really going to let loose.
1252
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:33,573
Grant, let's not stop. Let's keep
going. Let's do it all over again.
1253
01:03:35,245 --> 01:03:36,974
You want to know something?
1254
01:03:38,649 --> 01:03:40,879
I think this trip's
agreed with you.
1255
01:03:41,251 --> 01:03:44,118
You have no right to look so
pretty, a woman of your age.
1256
01:03:44,221 --> 01:03:45,279
Oh, Grant.
1257
01:03:45,389 --> 01:03:47,380
When you were standing
at the airport in Denver,
1258
01:03:47,457 --> 01:03:49,152
I had the strangest sensation.
1259
01:03:49,259 --> 01:03:51,159
What sensation?
Mr. Matthews,
1260
01:03:51,261 --> 01:03:53,092
I represent 800 members
1261
01:03:53,163 --> 01:03:55,222
of the League for
the Abolition of Taxation.
1262
01:03:55,799 --> 01:03:59,496
The Government should earn its
own money. Like the rest of us.
1263
01:03:59,636 --> 01:04:00,830
Abolish taxation.
1264
01:04:00,938 --> 01:04:04,430
Thank you... There is no
justice in this great...
1265
01:04:05,642 --> 01:04:07,803
Looks a little like
your brother Dick.
1266
01:04:15,018 --> 01:04:16,986
Go on, Grant.
Hmm?
1267
01:04:18,689 --> 01:04:19,986
What sensation?
1268
01:04:20,524 --> 01:04:24,358
Oh, well, you were standing there
at the airport in the moonlight.
1269
01:04:24,772 --> 01:04:27,536
And the wind from the
propeller was blowing your hair.
1270
01:04:27,608 --> 01:04:30,543
And your dress... Will
I get your other bags now?
1271
01:04:31,713 --> 01:04:33,874
Yes, now, just go.
1272
01:04:39,821 --> 01:04:42,187
Go on, Grant.
Hmm?
1273
01:04:43,391 --> 01:04:45,450
Go on with
what you were saying.
1274
01:04:45,893 --> 01:04:47,485
Where was I?
Looking at her
1275
01:04:47,562 --> 01:04:50,087
with the wind blowing her
dress, mannaggia, I'America!
1276
01:04:50,164 --> 01:04:53,258
Well, that's the end of that.
I should have married a barber.
1277
01:04:53,334 --> 01:04:54,392
Mary.
1278
01:04:57,305 --> 01:04:58,636
Mary, what I was
going to say...
1279
01:04:58,706 --> 01:05:00,867
Hey, you should be getting
dressed. There are people coming...
1280
01:05:00,942 --> 01:05:03,308
I love you, Spike, but
sometimes I wish you'd drop dead.
1281
01:05:03,378 --> 01:05:04,902
Too late for apologies.
1282
01:05:06,681 --> 01:05:08,512
I could sleep for a week.
1283
01:05:08,583 --> 01:05:11,245
"Matthews
obvious presidential."
1284
01:05:11,319 --> 01:05:13,287
That's no solution.
1285
01:05:13,454 --> 01:05:15,479
I beg your pardon?
That's no solution.
1286
01:05:15,590 --> 01:05:18,354
What's that?
You, make a new presidente.
1287
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:22,095
You got a better solution?
My wife, she got.
1288
01:05:22,196 --> 01:05:23,527
Your wife?
Sure.
1289
01:05:23,631 --> 01:05:25,690
Last night she say, "Pasqua,
1290
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:27,597
"all of the men
and all of the governments
1291
01:05:27,668 --> 01:05:29,932
"in all of the world
should be put in jail".
1292
01:05:30,004 --> 01:05:32,837
I said, "Maria, what for
you talk like a Communist"?
1293
01:05:32,940 --> 01:05:34,771
She's, like, "Shut up!
1294
01:05:34,976 --> 01:05:36,944
"Do you know why
we got no peace?
1295
01:05:37,011 --> 01:05:39,377
"Because we got no woman
in the government".
1296
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:42,381
She said, "Put two roosters
together. What happens?
1297
01:05:42,483 --> 01:05:44,713
"Roosters got no brains,
they fight.
1298
01:05:45,053 --> 01:05:47,544
"Put 15 roosters together,
what happens?
1299
01:05:47,688 --> 01:05:49,087
"15 fight,
1300
01:05:49,157 --> 01:05:52,649
"but put 15 hens together
what do you got?
1301
01:05:52,727 --> 01:05:54,024
"15 eggs".
1302
01:05:54,228 --> 01:05:55,820
"Fight in the Congress",
she say,
1303
01:05:55,897 --> 01:05:56,955
"fight in London,
1304
01:05:57,031 --> 01:05:59,556
"fight in France, fight here,
fight there. Why?
1305
01:05:59,734 --> 01:06:01,531
"No hens in the government"!
1306
01:06:01,636 --> 01:06:04,867
So you want to become a
president? That's no solution.
1307
01:06:05,073 --> 01:06:06,199
Your wife.
1308
01:06:06,374 --> 01:06:09,571
That's a solution.
1309
01:06:10,211 --> 01:06:11,644
Mannaggia!
1310
01:06:24,892 --> 01:06:25,916
Grant.
1311
01:06:27,028 --> 01:06:28,495
Yoo-hoo.
1312
01:06:30,331 --> 01:06:31,730
Mr. Candidate?
1313
01:06:33,768 --> 01:06:36,362
Mr. President?
Yes?
1314
01:06:36,938 --> 01:06:38,200
That got him.
1315
01:06:40,241 --> 01:06:42,175
I just had the darndest dream.
1316
01:06:42,243 --> 01:06:44,040
All candidates
have that dream.
1317
01:06:44,112 --> 01:06:46,580
On your toes, Matthews.
That man is here.
1318
01:06:46,914 --> 01:06:49,246
Jim! Hello, Jim!
What are you doing here?
1319
01:06:49,317 --> 01:06:51,842
Hello, Grant. I thought I'd come
and bring you up to date on things.
1320
01:06:51,919 --> 01:06:53,910
Take my wife's solution.
His wife's what?
1321
01:06:53,988 --> 01:06:55,819
He thinks Mary
should run for president.
1322
01:06:55,890 --> 01:06:58,723
Oh, that's silly. No woman
could ever run for president.
1323
01:06:58,793 --> 01:07:00,954
She'd have to admit
she was over 35.
1324
01:07:01,028 --> 01:07:03,656
Politics certainly agrees with
you, Grant. You're looking very fit.
1325
01:07:03,731 --> 01:07:05,528
I'm feeling very fit.
And I mean very fit.
1326
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:07,465
Oh, dear, I wonder
if anything will fit.
1327
01:07:07,568 --> 01:07:09,195
You don't have much time
with Grant, Jim.
1328
01:07:09,270 --> 01:07:10,259
I've got people lined up
for him to see.
1329
01:07:10,338 --> 01:07:11,396
Due any minute.
1330
01:07:11,472 --> 01:07:13,099
Want to read some of these?
1331
01:07:16,277 --> 01:07:19,246
Grant, what are you
talking about here tonight?
1332
01:07:19,313 --> 01:07:22,214
This is the last speech, Jim, it's
got a little bit of everything.
1333
01:07:22,283 --> 01:07:25,218
Anything controversial? Not
for anyone who agrees with him.
1334
01:07:25,286 --> 01:07:26,446
You've got to get
dressed, Grant. Yeah, yeah.
1335
01:07:26,554 --> 01:07:29,819
While you're dressing, have you got a
copy of the speech I could glance at?
1336
01:07:29,924 --> 01:07:32,688
Well, it really isn't a speech.
I'm just going to talk from notes.
1337
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:35,661
I turned off the radio. And you
put up the window, that's fine, son.
1338
01:07:35,730 --> 01:07:38,927
Good night and thank you. You'd make a
good secretary of the Treasury. Good night.
1339
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:41,764
Say, if you really want to read
something, Jim, read this editorial.
1340
01:07:41,836 --> 01:07:43,360
And all those telegrams.
1341
01:07:43,437 --> 01:07:44,563
All of these?
1342
01:07:44,639 --> 01:07:46,402
They're just from people.
1343
01:07:47,675 --> 01:07:48,767
Just from people?
1344
01:07:48,943 --> 01:07:52,140
Yeah, you didn't find any of them
signed State Chairman, did you?
1345
01:07:52,246 --> 01:07:54,009
Grant, you're going
to be late.
1346
01:07:54,115 --> 01:07:57,573
You know after I'm President,
you're going to have to quit shoving.
1347
01:07:59,921 --> 01:08:03,015
See what I mean? I told you,
you sent the wrong dame along.
1348
01:08:03,124 --> 01:08:04,489
Yeah, it's a crime.
1349
01:08:04,592 --> 01:08:07,083
Boys in the Northwest, and
along the coast were behind him.
1350
01:08:07,161 --> 01:08:08,856
Then they had to stick out
his chin in Wichita.
1351
01:08:08,963 --> 01:08:11,124
How much damage has he
done? We may have lost labor.
1352
01:08:11,199 --> 01:08:12,962
I must've had 30 calls
after that last speech.
1353
01:08:13,034 --> 01:08:14,729
In New York,
Kay'll straighten him out.
1354
01:08:14,802 --> 01:08:16,292
She's got
the Indian sign on him.
1355
01:08:16,370 --> 01:08:19,168
But that doesn't fix us up for
tonight. What're you afraid of tonight?
1356
01:08:20,374 --> 01:08:22,467
I don't know.
Only she's too doggone happy.
1357
01:08:22,543 --> 01:08:25,444
I think it's a good sign,
Jim coming down here.
1358
01:08:25,513 --> 01:08:27,504
Afraid somebody else will get
his place on the bandwagon.
1359
01:08:27,582 --> 01:08:29,812
Yeah, don't tell him what
you're talking about tonight.
1360
01:08:29,884 --> 01:08:31,249
Why not?
I don't know,
1361
01:08:31,352 --> 01:08:34,253
I don't like Jim turning up
all of a sudden like this.
1362
01:08:35,223 --> 01:08:36,918
Don't
underestimate this guy, Jim.
1363
01:08:37,024 --> 01:08:38,958
People don't just come up
and shake hands with him.
1364
01:08:39,026 --> 01:08:40,516
They're up there
with a light in their eyes.
1365
01:08:40,595 --> 01:08:43,530
If he gets away from us, you may be
heading a "Stop Matthews" movement.
1366
01:08:43,598 --> 01:08:44,656
I don't want to stop him.
1367
01:08:44,732 --> 01:08:47,929
I know this Convention's gonna be a
rat race. I think we can nominate him.
1368
01:08:48,002 --> 01:08:49,264
If we can keep him in line.
1369
01:08:49,370 --> 01:08:51,167
Well, now I've got some
good news for you.
1370
01:08:51,239 --> 01:08:53,707
The guy's vulnerable, Jim.
He's got the bug.
1371
01:08:53,774 --> 01:08:55,264
How bad's he got it?
1372
01:08:55,509 --> 01:08:57,875
He's seeing himself
on statues already.
1373
01:08:57,945 --> 01:09:00,072
Then I think we'd better
tell him the facts of life.
1374
01:09:00,147 --> 01:09:01,842
Yeah, you do that, Jim.
1375
01:09:02,183 --> 01:09:03,207
Dinner!
1376
01:09:06,687 --> 01:09:08,587
Spike, you just
sang a symphony.
1377
01:09:08,689 --> 01:09:10,589
Grant, leave your
hall door open, will you?
1378
01:09:10,658 --> 01:09:11,750
I got a lot of people
coming in.
1379
01:09:11,826 --> 01:09:12,884
Okay.
1380
01:09:13,394 --> 01:09:14,520
Oh, you can eat mine, Jim.
1381
01:09:14,595 --> 01:09:16,460
Okay, here we go with the
first bunch of patriots.
1382
01:09:16,530 --> 01:09:18,521
Remind Grant
they've got votes.
1383
01:09:18,599 --> 01:09:21,397
Spike does take the nobility
out of a crusade, doesn't he?
1384
01:09:21,469 --> 01:09:23,801
Am I supposed to be noble?
On my salary?
1385
01:09:24,138 --> 01:09:27,005
Mary, I can't go to this banquet
tonight, it might start talk.
1386
01:09:27,074 --> 01:09:29,440
What is the boy orator
giving out with tonight?
1387
01:09:29,777 --> 01:09:31,574
I have a much better idea.
1388
01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:34,240
Hello. Hello,
1389
01:09:34,315 --> 01:09:37,648
would you have a radio sent
up to 2419 right away?
1390
01:09:37,785 --> 01:09:39,309
Thank you very much.
1391
01:09:39,587 --> 01:09:43,318
You better be good tonight,
Grant, Jim will be listening in.
1392
01:09:43,724 --> 01:09:46,158
Say, are you Grant Matthews?
Yeah.
1393
01:09:46,460 --> 01:09:48,291
Let me
shake your hand.
1394
01:09:48,496 --> 01:09:49,963
Your speech was swell.
1395
01:09:50,064 --> 01:09:51,793
The best I ever read.
What's your name?
1396
01:09:51,899 --> 01:09:53,491
Emil. Emil Breakesby.
1397
01:09:53,601 --> 01:09:55,228
I'm glad you're with us.
Been here long?
1398
01:09:55,303 --> 01:09:57,863
Yeah, long time, I inherited
the job from my father
1399
01:09:57,938 --> 01:09:58,927
at the old Cadillac.
1400
01:09:59,140 --> 01:10:00,801
Married?
Yeah, four kids.
1401
01:10:00,908 --> 01:10:03,240
Kind of expensive these
days. Yes, it is. Yes, it is.
1402
01:10:03,311 --> 01:10:04,642
You're right about that.
1403
01:10:04,745 --> 01:10:06,804
Give it to them tonight,
Mr. Matthews.
1404
01:10:06,914 --> 01:10:08,313
All right, Emil, I will.
1405
01:10:08,416 --> 01:10:11,112
Hey, Grant, if you want to
rehearse that, try it out on me.
1406
01:10:11,185 --> 01:10:13,176
Well, I'll give you
the start of it.
1407
01:10:13,321 --> 01:10:16,449
"Ladies and members of the
Industrial Council of Detroit.
1408
01:10:16,524 --> 01:10:18,355
"What is the biggest
single question
1409
01:10:18,426 --> 01:10:20,621
"facing the American public
today?"
1410
01:10:20,695 --> 01:10:22,162
Who's with onions?
1411
01:10:25,499 --> 01:10:27,364
I guess I'm with onions.
1412
01:10:28,536 --> 01:10:30,299
Grant, your public is waiting.
1413
01:10:30,371 --> 01:10:33,340
My hamburger is waiting.
Hamburgers don't vote.
1414
01:10:34,175 --> 01:10:35,335
These are dairy farmers.
1415
01:10:35,443 --> 01:10:37,673
Just a little talk, cows,
butter, American cheese.
1416
01:10:37,778 --> 01:10:39,541
What do I know
about American cheese?
1417
01:10:39,647 --> 01:10:42,172
Walk this way and meet
three perfect specimens.
1418
01:10:42,283 --> 01:10:44,649
And remember, Grant,
they've got votes.
1419
01:10:47,455 --> 01:10:49,286
Now I'll set them up
in the other alley.
1420
01:10:49,357 --> 01:10:51,655
Well, Jim,
what's the State of the Union?
1421
01:10:51,726 --> 01:10:53,318
What are your reports
on Grant?
1422
01:10:53,394 --> 01:10:55,453
First, let me give you
my reports on you.
1423
01:10:55,529 --> 01:10:57,997
You've done a great job.
I want to congratulate you.
1424
01:10:58,065 --> 01:11:01,159
I'd like to admit something. I've
enjoyed it, every minute of it.
1425
01:11:01,402 --> 01:11:03,563
Jim, Grant's got something.
1426
01:11:03,738 --> 01:11:05,330
Don't try to
take it away from him.
1427
01:11:05,406 --> 01:11:08,842
When he's just cockeyed drunk with
sincerity, people can't resist him.
1428
01:11:08,909 --> 01:11:10,376
Sounds as though
you couldn't either.
1429
01:11:10,478 --> 01:11:13,003
Oh, no. The state of our union
is strictly political.
1430
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:15,014
I thought I saw Grant throw
you a look or two tonight
1431
01:11:15,082 --> 01:11:17,346
that wasn't
entirely political.
1432
01:11:17,418 --> 01:11:19,147
You're a bachelor,
aren't you, Jim?
1433
01:11:19,220 --> 01:11:20,585
Theoretically. Why?
1434
01:11:20,688 --> 01:11:24,215
Well, if you were married, you'd know that
there were little things that sort of...
1435
01:11:24,291 --> 01:11:25,451
Well, for instance,
1436
01:11:25,526 --> 01:11:29,587
when Grant found out once that the
girls at school used to call me Maizie.
1437
01:11:29,663 --> 01:11:31,028
He knew I hated it.
1438
01:11:31,098 --> 01:11:34,431
So sometimes, he used to call
me Maizie just to tease me.
1439
01:11:34,535 --> 01:11:37,231
Well, Maizie doesn't
live here anymore.
1440
01:11:37,538 --> 01:11:40,029
Another thing, he always
hated to hear me swear.
1441
01:11:40,107 --> 01:11:42,166
Whenever I let go with
something, he used to
1442
01:11:42,243 --> 01:11:44,143
smack me on my sitter, hard.
1443
01:11:44,412 --> 01:11:47,745
I've done a lot of swearing
on this trip. And no smacks?
1444
01:11:47,882 --> 01:11:49,577
It's a small request,
1445
01:11:49,750 --> 01:11:52,947
but I'd give anything for one
good smack on my south end.
1446
01:11:53,053 --> 01:11:56,147
I certainly wish that I could
do something about that.
1447
01:11:57,024 --> 01:11:59,049
Well, how's
the farmers' choice?
1448
01:11:59,293 --> 01:12:02,262
Say, after the beautiful things
I've just said about cows,
1449
01:12:02,463 --> 01:12:04,590
I certainly feel guilty
eating this hamburger.
1450
01:12:04,698 --> 01:12:07,030
It's like eating
one's dearest friend.
1451
01:12:07,568 --> 01:12:10,935
Back to the pasture. Wipe off your
feet and come in to meet the A.F. of L.
1452
01:12:11,038 --> 01:12:13,438
You give me time to eat!
Yeah, let him eat.
1453
01:12:13,541 --> 01:12:16,704
This is a crisis. I have to know
you're holding the A.F. of L. in there
1454
01:12:16,777 --> 01:12:18,677
while I sneak the C.I.O.
into the other bedroom.
1455
01:12:18,746 --> 01:12:21,044
Well, put them both in the same
room, and I'll talk to them.
1456
01:12:21,115 --> 01:12:22,707
Little boy blue,
haven't you heard?
1457
01:12:22,783 --> 01:12:25,513
They ain't keeping
steady company anymore.
1458
01:12:25,586 --> 01:12:27,053
I'm serious about that.
1459
01:12:27,121 --> 01:12:29,487
You tell those fellows in
there the C.I.O. are coming in,
1460
01:12:29,590 --> 01:12:32,058
then I'll come in and talk to
both of them at the same time.
1461
01:12:32,126 --> 01:12:33,252
You're just
asking for trouble.
1462
01:12:33,327 --> 01:12:34,885
I don't mind you having
your head in the clouds
1463
01:12:34,962 --> 01:12:36,930
but I wish you'd keep
your feet in the voting booth.
1464
01:12:36,997 --> 01:12:40,330
Those men are the kind who are
responsible for the wildcat strikes.
1465
01:12:40,434 --> 01:12:42,834
If I can make them see something
bigger than their own jobs
1466
01:12:42,903 --> 01:12:44,165
as head of their own locals
1467
01:12:44,238 --> 01:12:46,263
and what power they get
from that... There may be...
1468
01:12:46,340 --> 01:12:47,637
You shut up!
Keep out of this.
1469
01:12:47,741 --> 01:12:49,265
That's one of the things
I came to talk about.
1470
01:12:49,343 --> 01:12:51,675
Your Wichita speech killed off
most of the labor leaders.
1471
01:12:51,779 --> 01:12:53,474
I know, 'cause I talked to them. Why?
1472
01:12:53,581 --> 01:12:55,173
What did I say to them?
1473
01:12:55,282 --> 01:12:57,773
I just said when the members
stop running the unions,
1474
01:12:57,852 --> 01:12:59,410
the unions
start running the members.
1475
01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:01,385
Good heavens, Jim,
I'm for labor!
1476
01:13:01,455 --> 01:13:04,424
Sure. Everybody's for labor. That's
like saying you're against sin.
1477
01:13:04,492 --> 01:13:06,153
The labor leaders don't
think you're for them.
1478
01:13:06,260 --> 01:13:09,991
Not after that crack that they're
responsible for the Taft-Hartley Law.
1479
01:13:10,097 --> 01:13:13,533
No dice. They're even mad they're
in the same hotel together.
1480
01:13:13,634 --> 01:13:14,692
That makes me mad.
1481
01:13:14,802 --> 01:13:17,430
Watch out for the little guy
they call "Mac".
1482
01:13:19,006 --> 01:13:21,031
Now for some
counter-espionage.
1483
01:13:22,209 --> 01:13:25,042
Jim, how can you
say that Grant offended labor?
1484
01:13:25,179 --> 01:13:28,444
That Wichita audience was
full of cheering union men.
1485
01:13:28,816 --> 01:13:31,649
Union members might cheer, but it's
the leaders that swing the delegates
1486
01:13:31,719 --> 01:13:32,777
and they're sore.
1487
01:13:32,853 --> 01:13:35,151
Don't you want Grant
to be a good president?
1488
01:13:35,256 --> 01:13:37,451
Mary, a good president
is one who gets elected.
1489
01:13:39,326 --> 01:13:40,793
The Eastern Front's ready.
1490
01:13:41,428 --> 01:13:44,522
C.I.O. still in there? And
in what I call an ugly mood.
1491
01:13:44,765 --> 01:13:47,996
Jim, turn your back.
This way, gentlemen.
1492
01:14:05,286 --> 01:14:08,016
You know, Grant might be able
to unite the United Nations.
1493
01:14:10,457 --> 01:14:11,924
Open up, in there!
1494
01:14:12,726 --> 01:14:15,456
Open up there! Where is
that Grant Matthews guy?
1495
01:14:16,196 --> 01:14:17,561
Who're you?
My name is...
1496
01:14:17,631 --> 01:14:18,859
My name is Sam Parrish,
1497
01:14:18,933 --> 01:14:21,629
Chairman of Banquet Committee,
bosom friend of Grant...
1498
01:14:21,735 --> 01:14:23,134
Mary!
Sam.
1499
01:14:24,738 --> 01:14:27,571
Bless your heart.
You're just as pretty as ever.
1500
01:14:28,442 --> 01:14:30,103
I could eat you with a spoon.
1501
01:14:30,210 --> 01:14:32,440
Why, Jim Conover, you
old son of a gun. Hi, Sam.
1502
01:14:32,546 --> 01:14:34,309
What're you doing here?
Take it easy.
1503
01:14:34,415 --> 01:14:36,178
You're the only man in
Detroit who knows I am here.
1504
01:14:36,250 --> 01:14:37,911
Can't you wait outside?
Excuse me.
1505
01:14:37,985 --> 01:14:39,953
What's going on
here, anyway?
1506
01:14:40,054 --> 01:14:42,386
Say, darn it,
I might've known.
1507
01:14:42,456 --> 01:14:43,548
Jim, you're psychic.
1508
01:14:43,624 --> 01:14:46,218
I was primed to come to
Washington to sell you the idea
1509
01:14:46,293 --> 01:14:49,194
we need a businessman like Grant in
the White House. You beat me to it.
1510
01:14:49,263 --> 01:14:51,663
Where is Grant? That's
a date, and bring cash.
1511
01:14:51,732 --> 01:14:53,597
Sam.
Grant!
1512
01:14:53,667 --> 01:14:56,500
When the walls started to
shake, I knew you were here.
1513
01:14:56,604 --> 01:14:58,970
Still alive? Yeah, I'm
still alive. So are they.
1514
01:14:59,039 --> 01:15:01,200
Matter of fact,
the A.F. of L. just invited
1515
01:15:01,275 --> 01:15:02,537
the C.I.O.
to have a glass of beer.
1516
01:15:02,610 --> 01:15:04,077
Under whose jurisdiction?
1517
01:15:04,144 --> 01:15:05,702
The Midtown Bar and Grill.
1518
01:15:08,949 --> 01:15:11,247
You got everything ready
for tonight, Sam?
1519
01:15:11,318 --> 01:15:13,786
Ready? Why, there'll be more money
per square inch at that banquet
1520
01:15:13,854 --> 01:15:14,946
than there is in the Mint.
1521
01:15:15,022 --> 01:15:17,183
Mary, you go right home
and start packing.
1522
01:15:17,291 --> 01:15:19,486
You're moving
into the White House.
1523
01:15:19,793 --> 01:15:21,852
I never was so happy
in my life.
1524
01:15:21,996 --> 01:15:23,793
Looks like our turn's
come again.
1525
01:15:23,864 --> 01:15:26,924
Wait till you hear my speech
tonight. You may not be so happy.
1526
01:15:27,001 --> 01:15:28,127
What do you mean
by that?
1527
01:15:28,202 --> 01:15:29,760
Last time
I was in New York,
1528
01:15:29,837 --> 01:15:33,364
Grant and I had a knock-down, drag-out
fight about tax reduction and inflation.
1529
01:15:33,474 --> 01:15:37,001
Is that what you're talking about
tonight? Grant talks like a radical.
1530
01:15:37,111 --> 01:15:40,274
But any man who's made as much money
as he has is a good sound American.
1531
01:15:40,347 --> 01:15:42,042
Well, see you later, fella.
1532
01:15:42,149 --> 01:15:45,141
Tell you what. Take another
good sock at labor tonight,
1533
01:15:45,219 --> 01:15:46,982
you'll make a real hit.
1534
01:15:47,054 --> 01:15:50,285
Doggone it, Mary. I'll be
telling people I knew you when.
1535
01:15:50,357 --> 01:15:51,688
Who're you?
Well, my name...
1536
01:15:51,792 --> 01:15:53,953
Let me out of here.
1537
01:15:54,161 --> 01:15:56,789
Hey, wait,
going down? Mary.
1538
01:15:59,867 --> 01:16:02,301
Spike, don't you dare
do that.
1539
01:16:02,369 --> 01:16:05,702
All right, I can starve. But
that's the way to make communists.
1540
01:16:11,245 --> 01:16:13,839
I wonder what
a hot hamburger tastes like.
1541
01:16:13,914 --> 01:16:16,474
Grant, you expect me to
run your campaign for you?
1542
01:16:16,550 --> 01:16:19,678
Have I any choice in that?
You certainly have.
1543
01:16:19,753 --> 01:16:21,243
But if I'm to stay
in the picture,
1544
01:16:21,655 --> 01:16:25,284
I want to know what you're planning to
say here tonight. I have a right to know.
1545
01:16:25,359 --> 01:16:26,519
Why, Jim, you can know.
1546
01:16:26,593 --> 01:16:29,892
I'm going to tell them that they
do a lot of yapping about communism
1547
01:16:29,997 --> 01:16:33,160
but as long as they think about high
profits instead of high production,
1548
01:16:33,233 --> 01:16:34,666
they're playing
the communists' game.
1549
01:16:34,735 --> 01:16:36,760
High production is the way
to kill high prices.
1550
01:16:36,870 --> 01:16:40,169
They want high prices.
High prices mean inflation.
1551
01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:42,572
Inflation today
means depression tomorrow.
1552
01:16:42,676 --> 01:16:44,667
And a depression
in these United States
1553
01:16:44,745 --> 01:16:47,111
is exactly the ace card
Moscow is waiting to draw.
1554
01:16:47,214 --> 01:16:50,081
They don't want to hear these
things. They're gonna hear them.
1555
01:16:50,184 --> 01:16:52,880
They're gonna hear that capitalism
itself is being challenged.
1556
01:16:52,953 --> 01:16:55,114
If it doesn't survive, it's
because men like themselves
1557
01:16:55,222 --> 01:16:57,122
haven't the guts or
imagination to make it survive.
1558
01:16:57,224 --> 01:16:59,715
You can't talk to that crowd
this way. You'll antagonize them.
1559
01:16:59,793 --> 01:17:01,954
All right. So what?
So I'll antagonize them.
1560
01:17:02,062 --> 01:17:04,895
I yelled my head off about
labor and its responsibilities.
1561
01:17:04,965 --> 01:17:07,399
I'm going to lay it right on
the line for industry, too.
1562
01:17:07,468 --> 01:17:08,696
Now, look here, Jim,
1563
01:17:08,869 --> 01:17:10,393
you know just as well as I do
1564
01:17:10,471 --> 01:17:12,530
that there are men at that
banquet who'll be rooting
1565
01:17:12,606 --> 01:17:15,598
for a depression, just so they
can slap labor's ears back.
1566
01:17:15,709 --> 01:17:19,770
And I suppose you have a few well-chosen
words to say about tax reduction.
1567
01:17:20,647 --> 01:17:22,581
You better not worry so much
about tax reduction
1568
01:17:22,649 --> 01:17:25,948
until we accomplish some of the
things we have to accomplish.
1569
01:17:26,754 --> 01:17:30,190
I'm going to tell them that the
wealthiest nation in the world is a failure
1570
01:17:30,257 --> 01:17:32,623
unless it's also the
healthiest nation in the world.
1571
01:17:32,726 --> 01:17:35,456
That means the highest medical
care for the lowest income groups.
1572
01:17:35,562 --> 01:17:37,393
And that goes
for housing, too.
1573
01:17:37,865 --> 01:17:40,026
One thing this nation
is not rich enough to afford
1574
01:17:40,100 --> 01:17:42,000
is not having
a roof over our heads.
1575
01:17:42,736 --> 01:17:46,137
And I'm going to tell them that the
American Dream is not making money.
1576
01:17:46,206 --> 01:17:48,367
It is the well-being and
the freedom of the individual
1577
01:17:48,442 --> 01:17:49,568
throughout the world
1578
01:17:49,643 --> 01:17:51,770
from Patagonia to Detroit.
1579
01:17:52,279 --> 01:17:55,806
We can't be an island of
plenty in a world of starvation.
1580
01:17:56,316 --> 01:18:00,252
We have to send food,
clothing, machinery, and money
1581
01:18:00,654 --> 01:18:03,817
to the bitter, impoverished
people of the world.
1582
01:18:04,124 --> 01:18:06,524
Try to recreate
their self-respect.
1583
01:18:07,027 --> 01:18:10,190
Give them the desire again
for individual freedom.
1584
01:18:10,297 --> 01:18:14,324
And I'm gonna tell them that as long
as dictatorships remain in the world,
1585
01:18:14,434 --> 01:18:16,425
we better remain well-armed.
1586
01:18:16,503 --> 01:18:19,563
Because the next time, we're not
going to get two years to get ready.
1587
01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:21,938
They're gonna
jump us overnight.
1588
01:18:22,476 --> 01:18:25,445
And I'm gonna tell them that
there's only one government
1589
01:18:25,512 --> 01:18:28,675
which is capable of handling
the atomic control,
1590
01:18:29,149 --> 01:18:34,348
world disarmament, world employment,
world peace, and that's a world government.
1591
01:18:35,322 --> 01:18:38,814
The people of 13 states started
the United States of America.
1592
01:18:39,393 --> 01:18:40,951
I think the people
of that many nations
1593
01:18:41,028 --> 01:18:43,826
are now ready to start
a United States of the World.
1594
01:18:43,897 --> 01:18:45,558
With or without Russia.
1595
01:18:45,666 --> 01:18:48,829
And I mean a "United" States
of the World.
1596
01:18:48,902 --> 01:18:50,733
With one Bill of Rights.
1597
01:18:50,838 --> 01:18:52,806
One international law.
1598
01:18:52,873 --> 01:18:56,707
One international currency.
One international citizenship.
1599
01:18:57,477 --> 01:18:59,945
And, I'm going to tell them
that the brotherhood of man
1600
01:19:00,013 --> 01:19:02,811
is not just an idealist dream,
1601
01:19:02,883 --> 01:19:06,216
but a practical necessity
if man is going to survive.
1602
01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:08,311
And I'm...
Where're you going?
1603
01:19:08,388 --> 01:19:11,084
I'm going out to get pie-eyed,
then I'm going back to Washington.
1604
01:19:11,191 --> 01:19:12,488
You're walking out on me?
1605
01:19:12,559 --> 01:19:15,494
If you're going to climb out on a limb
like that and saw it off behind you.
1606
01:19:15,562 --> 01:19:16,790
Let me remind you.
1607
01:19:16,864 --> 01:19:20,095
Up to now, you haven't got one
pledged delegate to that Convention.
1608
01:19:20,167 --> 01:19:22,067
You know how many you need
to be nominated?
1609
01:19:22,202 --> 01:19:24,762
About 550.
Think that over.
1610
01:19:24,872 --> 01:19:26,339
You've already
scared off big labor
1611
01:19:26,406 --> 01:19:28,601
and if you scare off big
business, you're a dead duck.
1612
01:19:28,709 --> 01:19:31,200
They've got to know where I stand.
I told you that at the start.
1613
01:19:31,278 --> 01:19:34,042
I've got to be on record,
nomination or no nomination.
1614
01:19:34,114 --> 01:19:37,174
All right, but not here! Not tonight.
Not when you're on a radio hook-up.
1615
01:19:37,251 --> 01:19:39,549
Give it sometime when you're
out in Nebraska or Oklahoma.
1616
01:19:39,620 --> 01:19:42,612
It's for you, Jim.
I'll go air out Parlor B.
1617
01:19:42,990 --> 01:19:45,015
Hello. Oh.
Hello, how are you?
1618
01:19:45,592 --> 01:19:46,650
Where are you?
1619
01:19:46,860 --> 01:19:48,919
Fine, I'll come up
to your room.
1620
01:19:49,096 --> 01:19:51,792
Excuse me a minute.
Grant, I'll be right back.
1621
01:19:54,201 --> 01:19:56,101
I just wanted to tell you
the gang in the kitchen
1622
01:19:56,169 --> 01:19:57,727
are all listening in tonight,
Mr. Matthews.
1623
01:19:57,804 --> 01:19:59,931
Oh, oh, fine.
Fine, Emil, you do that.
1624
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:03,942
Down there they say you're not just
another one of those politicians.
1625
01:20:04,244 --> 01:20:07,577
You're not, are you, Mr.
Matthews? No, I'm not.
1626
01:20:07,648 --> 01:20:10,708
I knew it. Give it to them tonight,
Mr. Matthews. Give it to them.
1627
01:20:14,655 --> 01:20:17,920
I'm sorry Jim got a line on what
you're going to say here tonight.
1628
01:20:17,991 --> 01:20:20,721
So am I. I was all pepped up
about that speech tonight.
1629
01:20:20,794 --> 01:20:21,920
You're not gonna change it?
1630
01:20:21,995 --> 01:20:23,860
I don't know.
Jim's only argument is
1631
01:20:23,931 --> 01:20:26,161
that this isn't the place
to say it. I've...
1632
01:20:26,233 --> 01:20:28,895
Do you think he's right? It
isn't whether Jim's right or not.
1633
01:20:28,969 --> 01:20:31,961
It's just that there is no
such thing as a little garlic.
1634
01:20:32,339 --> 01:20:34,500
You haven't
answered my question.
1635
01:20:34,608 --> 01:20:38,339
Grant, do you remember what made the biggest
impression on that audience in Wichita?
1636
01:20:38,445 --> 01:20:40,640
It was when you said
the real wealth of the world
1637
01:20:40,747 --> 01:20:43,409
is not in coal or iron
or bank accounts.
1638
01:20:43,483 --> 01:20:46,077
It's in principle,
integrity, honesty.
1639
01:20:46,153 --> 01:20:49,179
Plain, ordinary,
garden-variety honesty.
1640
01:20:49,356 --> 01:20:51,256
Do you remember that?
1641
01:20:52,159 --> 01:20:54,218
Well, should I change it,
or should I not?
1642
01:20:54,294 --> 01:20:58,128
No, the world needs honest men
today, more than it needs presidents.
1643
01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:02,428
Okay, let's go.
Come on, let's go...
1644
01:21:02,502 --> 01:21:05,096
Hold it a minute, Grant.
About your speech tonight.
1645
01:21:05,172 --> 01:21:07,197
Some of the smartest boys
in Washington got together
1646
01:21:07,274 --> 01:21:11,108
and prepared something for you to
say. They know what they're doing.
1647
01:21:12,479 --> 01:21:14,970
"The palsied hand
of bureaucratic control
1648
01:21:15,048 --> 01:21:16,811
"must be removed
from the throttle of..."
1649
01:21:16,883 --> 01:21:19,113
What is this? A gag?
No. Why?
1650
01:21:19,486 --> 01:21:22,649
"Industry is not a felon. It
can no longer be treated as one.
1651
01:21:22,723 --> 01:21:24,748
"The binding shackles
of government..."
1652
01:21:24,891 --> 01:21:28,224
Why, this is double-talk. What
you were planning was trouble-talk.
1653
01:21:28,295 --> 01:21:30,456
Confound it, man! Don't
you want to be president?
1654
01:21:30,530 --> 01:21:32,964
Yes, I want to be president.
Let me get you nominated!
1655
01:21:33,033 --> 01:21:34,864
How about letting the
people get him nominated?
1656
01:21:34,968 --> 01:21:37,129
The people have darn little
to say about the nominations.
1657
01:21:37,204 --> 01:21:38,728
You both lived in this
country all of your lives.
1658
01:21:38,805 --> 01:21:40,568
It's time you get that
through your heads.
1659
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:41,800
You're not nominated
by the people,
1660
01:21:41,875 --> 01:21:43,536
you're nominated
by the politicians.
1661
01:21:43,610 --> 01:21:47,068
Why? Because the people are too
darn lazy to vote in the primaries.
1662
01:21:47,147 --> 01:21:48,478
Well, politicians
aren't lazy.
1663
01:21:48,548 --> 01:21:49,947
I'll put Grant
in the White House,
1664
01:21:50,017 --> 01:21:51,507
if you and he
give me half a chance.
1665
01:21:51,585 --> 01:21:52,779
Use your head, Grant.
1666
01:21:52,853 --> 01:21:55,151
We've got to bring you into that
Convention without any enemies.
1667
01:21:55,222 --> 01:21:56,314
That's the whole strategy.
1668
01:21:56,390 --> 01:21:58,324
Nomination
or no nomination, Jim,
1669
01:21:58,392 --> 01:22:01,122
they've got to know where I
stand before they vote for me.
1670
01:22:01,194 --> 01:22:02,218
Grant.
1671
01:22:04,531 --> 01:22:07,329
I hate to do this to you, Grant,
but there's one more delegation.
1672
01:22:07,401 --> 01:22:09,266
Oh, no. Tell them I've left.
You can't do that.
1673
01:22:09,369 --> 01:22:12,065
They'll see you on your way
out. These are important VIPs.
1674
01:22:12,172 --> 01:22:14,504
We're the guests of honor.
Yeah, I'll cut it short.
1675
01:22:14,574 --> 01:22:17,338
I'll go out and strew
the path with flowers.
1676
01:22:19,279 --> 01:22:21,747
Mary, I want
to tell you right now,
1677
01:22:21,848 --> 01:22:23,440
if Grant blasts
that group tonight,
1678
01:22:23,550 --> 01:22:25,745
he'll be blasting himself out of
any chance for the White House.
1679
01:22:25,819 --> 01:22:27,286
He's got to take
professional advice.
1680
01:22:27,354 --> 01:22:30,221
Jim, let him alone. He's just trying
to tell the truth as he sees it.
1681
01:22:30,290 --> 01:22:32,190
It doesn't matter whether
he becomes president or not.
1682
01:22:32,259 --> 01:22:33,590
Doesn't matter?
No, not that much.
1683
01:22:33,693 --> 01:22:35,285
I know that man
and I love that man.
1684
01:22:35,395 --> 01:22:38,193
And I tell you, if you get him
to compromise, you'll destroy him.
1685
01:22:38,265 --> 01:22:41,598
Compromise will eat into him like a
worm. He won't be Grant Matthews anymore.
1686
01:22:41,701 --> 01:22:44,067
I hate to be blunt,
but as a political advisor,
1687
01:22:44,137 --> 01:22:45,661
you are a wonderful
wife and mother.
1688
01:22:45,739 --> 01:22:48,037
And as a wife and mother,
I'd like to tell you
1689
01:22:48,108 --> 01:22:50,338
that Grant doesn't need
politicians like you.
1690
01:22:50,410 --> 01:22:52,640
You're trying to
make him believe that he does
1691
01:22:52,746 --> 01:22:54,373
so that you can ride in
on his coattails.
1692
01:22:54,448 --> 01:22:56,575
I know where you stand, Jim.
1693
01:22:56,650 --> 01:22:58,709
You and Kay Thorndyke
1694
01:22:58,785 --> 01:23:00,116
and Emil, the waiter here.
1695
01:23:00,220 --> 01:23:03,280
The man who elects the presidents.
He knows where you stand, too.
1696
01:23:03,356 --> 01:23:05,790
He can smell a compromise
a mile off. Come in.
1697
01:23:05,859 --> 01:23:07,417
Let him alone.
Just let him tell the truth.
1698
01:23:07,494 --> 01:23:09,860
You got an honest man. You
don't know how lucky you are.
1699
01:23:09,963 --> 01:23:11,931
I got your radio. Had to
steal it from another room.
1700
01:23:11,998 --> 01:23:13,329
Yes, plug it in please.
1701
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:15,732
Everybody wanted a radio tonight. So?
1702
01:23:15,802 --> 01:23:19,135
A big broadcast from Hollywood.
Bob Hope and Jack Benny.
1703
01:23:19,339 --> 01:23:20,772
All set.
The elevator's waiting.
1704
01:23:20,841 --> 01:23:23,639
Fix your tie, Grant.
Listen in, Jim.
1705
01:23:29,182 --> 01:23:31,446
My bag, my bag. My...
What's that in your hand?
1706
01:23:31,518 --> 01:23:33,076
Oh, that's my bag.
1707
01:23:44,698 --> 01:23:47,531
May as well sit in here and
be comfortable. I have a radio.
1708
01:23:55,041 --> 01:23:57,305
Dare I listen?
You can listen.
1709
01:23:57,944 --> 01:24:00,003
Are you sure? You were
only with him a few minutes.
1710
01:24:00,113 --> 01:24:01,512
And Mary's had weeks, I know.
1711
01:24:01,615 --> 01:24:05,016
It wasn't hard, Jim. All I did was to
tell him the things he wanted to hear.
1712
01:24:05,118 --> 01:24:08,281
But there is one question on his
mind you'd better have the answer for.
1713
01:24:08,355 --> 01:24:09,447
What's that?
1714
01:24:09,523 --> 01:24:11,787
He's beginning to wonder
if there's any difference
1715
01:24:11,858 --> 01:24:13,655
between the Democratic party
and the Republican party.
1716
01:24:13,727 --> 01:24:16,525
That's a fine question for a
presidential candidate to ask.
1717
01:24:16,630 --> 01:24:20,191
There's all the difference in the
world. They're in and we're out.
1718
01:24:28,842 --> 01:24:31,003
Well, this is more like it.
1719
01:24:31,077 --> 01:24:33,170
These telegrams
aren't just from people.
1720
01:24:33,246 --> 01:24:34,508
You see what that speech did?
1721
01:24:34,581 --> 01:24:36,071
Boy, happy days
are here again.
1722
01:24:36,183 --> 01:24:38,549
Hey, Brock from Missouri
and Tenebaum, Colorado.
1723
01:24:38,652 --> 01:24:41,143
Those birds don't send telegrams
unless they're fishing for bids.
1724
01:24:41,221 --> 01:24:44,213
I thought they were Dewey men.
Not now. Hey, look at this.
1725
01:24:44,324 --> 01:24:46,155
Ed Lauterback wants
to talk turkey.
1726
01:24:46,226 --> 01:24:49,354
That puts the farm block on our team.
Thirty delegates, if it means one.
1727
01:24:49,429 --> 01:24:52,330
Look here, Mary. Two state
and seven county chairmen.
1728
01:24:52,399 --> 01:24:54,196
Not just from people.
1729
01:24:54,267 --> 01:24:56,963
I don't want to hear anymore
about that speech last night.
1730
01:24:57,070 --> 01:24:59,630
These telegrams prove that Jim is
right. He knows what he's doing.
1731
01:24:59,739 --> 01:25:00,899
He's a professional.
1732
01:25:00,974 --> 01:25:03,340
And I don't want to hear that
Henry Clay routine either.
1733
01:25:03,410 --> 01:25:06,106
He wound up being neither
right nor president.
1734
01:25:06,279 --> 01:25:08,543
Emil, the waiter,
was listening in.
1735
01:25:08,648 --> 01:25:11,116
I can imagine
the look on his face.
1736
01:25:12,619 --> 01:25:15,281
Mary. Mary, you should
have faith in me.
1737
01:25:15,922 --> 01:25:17,549
I want to be president.
1738
01:25:17,624 --> 01:25:20,593
I know this country.
I know it inside out.
1739
01:25:20,660 --> 01:25:22,787
I know all of
its simmering hates.
1740
01:25:22,896 --> 01:25:25,421
I know the petty warfare
undermining our unity.
1741
01:25:25,498 --> 01:25:27,329
And I think I know
what causes it.
1742
01:25:27,434 --> 01:25:29,902
It's fear.
It's nothing but fear.
1743
01:25:29,970 --> 01:25:32,063
Fear of the future.
Fear of the world.
1744
01:25:32,138 --> 01:25:34,698
Fear of communism.
Fear of going broke.
1745
01:25:34,774 --> 01:25:36,742
Why didn't you make
that speech last night?
1746
01:25:36,810 --> 01:25:38,744
Because I want the nomination.
1747
01:25:38,812 --> 01:25:41,406
If I have to soft soap a few
idiots like Sam Parrish to get it,
1748
01:25:41,481 --> 01:25:42,948
I'll soft soap them.
1749
01:25:43,016 --> 01:25:45,576
After I'm elected, if you think
I'm going off the deep end,
1750
01:25:45,652 --> 01:25:46,914
come and tell me.
1751
01:25:46,987 --> 01:25:49,581
I'll listen to you.
But until then, lay off.
1752
01:25:49,656 --> 01:25:51,123
There's not going
to be any then.
1753
01:25:51,191 --> 01:25:53,318
Up until last night,
you had something to say.
1754
01:25:53,426 --> 01:25:56,293
You had courage. You had a
chance. The people were for you.
1755
01:25:56,363 --> 01:25:59,594
But not anymore. You've
changed and they'll know it.
1756
01:25:59,666 --> 01:26:01,258
I haven't changed.
1757
01:26:01,334 --> 01:26:03,495
Hey, boss,
we got company again.
1758
01:26:04,304 --> 01:26:05,328
Uh-oh.
1759
01:26:06,206 --> 01:26:09,664
James, you are about to become
an older and wiser man.
1760
01:26:10,277 --> 01:26:12,541
Ask Grant
if he's too old to fly.
1761
01:26:12,646 --> 01:26:15,308
Hey, boss, Rusty wants to know
if you're too old to fly.
1762
01:26:15,382 --> 01:26:19,011
You tell Rusty I'm busy. And tell
him if he knows what's good for him,
1763
01:26:19,085 --> 01:26:21,918
he'll get down to that plant
and get busy himself.
1764
01:26:23,857 --> 01:26:25,722
Scram, fellas. The chill's on.
1765
01:26:26,993 --> 01:26:28,017
Uh-oh.
1766
01:26:31,698 --> 01:26:34,428
I amaze myself.
But I'm disappointed.
1767
01:26:35,001 --> 01:26:38,368
Okay, Jim, I've made my decision.
From now on, it's your show.
1768
01:26:38,438 --> 01:26:40,167
I'll talk turkey
with Lauterback.
1769
01:26:40,240 --> 01:26:41,332
I'll play ball with anybody
1770
01:26:41,408 --> 01:26:43,171
who'll help me get the
nomination. Is that clear?
1771
01:26:43,243 --> 01:26:45,575
And money's no object. I'll
spend $1 million if I have to.
1772
01:26:45,679 --> 01:26:47,112
Grant, watch us go
from here.
1773
01:26:47,213 --> 01:26:48,475
Where's Lauterback, in Washington? Yeah.
1774
01:26:48,548 --> 01:26:49,845
Get him on that phone.
1775
01:26:49,916 --> 01:26:52,885
Ed, you know Grant will never fight
the farm block. It's too powerful.
1776
01:26:52,952 --> 01:26:54,544
I don't
beat about the bush, Jim.
1777
01:26:54,621 --> 01:26:57,454
I'm anti Cuban sugar,
anti Mexican cotton,
1778
01:26:57,557 --> 01:27:00,458
anti Argentine beef,
anti Canadian wheat,
1779
01:27:00,527 --> 01:27:02,188
anti free-trade of any kind.
1780
01:27:02,262 --> 01:27:03,889
Are you for anything?
1781
01:27:03,963 --> 01:27:07,057
Yes, I'm for Ed Lauterback,
same as you're for...
1782
01:27:07,133 --> 01:27:09,192
Grant Matthews.
Yes.
1783
01:27:09,269 --> 01:27:11,464
How many delegates can
you deliver? Deliver?
1784
01:27:11,571 --> 01:27:13,801
None. I only influence.
1785
01:27:13,907 --> 01:27:16,432
Well, how many can you
influence? Perhaps none.
1786
01:27:16,543 --> 01:27:18,306
Let's have it, Ed.
What do want to nick us for?
1787
01:27:18,411 --> 01:27:20,276
I name the Secretary
of Agriculture.
1788
01:27:20,380 --> 01:27:21,904
You have delusions
of grandeur.
1789
01:27:21,981 --> 01:27:23,573
You want my support?
And we'll pay for it.
1790
01:27:23,650 --> 01:27:25,914
You can approve the appointment,
but you can't make it.
1791
01:27:25,985 --> 01:27:28,419
Good enough. Right of vetoes, good enough.
1792
01:27:34,928 --> 01:27:38,125
Have you talked to Bill Green,
Phil Murray, or John L. Lewis?
1793
01:27:38,198 --> 01:27:39,597
We're talking to you now.
1794
01:27:39,666 --> 01:27:42,260
Which isn't easy because I
don't like you, Bill Hardy.
1795
01:27:42,335 --> 01:27:43,359
That's mutual.
1796
01:27:43,470 --> 01:27:46,496
Who cares who likes who?
How many men in your union?
1797
01:27:46,606 --> 01:27:49,837
700,000 in my locals,
scattered over four states.
1798
01:27:49,943 --> 01:27:51,376
Pivotal states.
1799
01:27:51,478 --> 01:27:53,844
And they vote
in the primaries.
1800
01:27:53,947 --> 01:27:55,642
Can you work out a deal
with Jim?
1801
01:27:55,715 --> 01:27:58,275
I can always make a deal
with Jim. Well, work it out.
1802
01:28:02,555 --> 01:28:05,388
Can you deliver delegates from
the foreign-born sections?
1803
01:28:05,492 --> 01:28:07,983
Let me handle things
and I can.
1804
01:28:08,061 --> 01:28:10,552
These people
never vote for anything.
1805
01:28:10,663 --> 01:28:12,153
They vote against something.
1806
01:28:12,232 --> 01:28:15,395
They've carried hatreds around
for centuries.
1807
01:28:15,502 --> 01:28:18,164
The trick is to play
on these hatreds,
1808
01:28:18,238 --> 01:28:20,638
one nationality
against the other,
1809
01:28:20,707 --> 01:28:22,072
keep them voting as blocks.
1810
01:28:22,175 --> 01:28:24,905
We know how you do it. You're a
powerful woman. What's your price?
1811
01:28:25,011 --> 01:28:27,343
Patronage. Lots of patronage.
1812
01:28:27,414 --> 01:28:30,713
I dish it out to my friends.
That's my price.
1813
01:28:30,817 --> 01:28:32,580
To Republicans or Democrats.
1814
01:28:32,685 --> 01:28:34,880
I need a little air. You work
it out with her, will you?
1815
01:28:34,988 --> 01:28:37,047
Yeah, I could do
with a little ozone, too.
1816
01:28:46,266 --> 01:28:49,099
Those are the posters and these
are the ads for the broadcast.
1817
01:28:49,202 --> 01:28:50,499
They'll be in 30 newspapers.
1818
01:28:50,570 --> 01:28:52,970
It'll be the biggest send off
any candidate ever had.
1819
01:28:53,039 --> 01:28:55,667
Radio, television, newsreels,
the press, the works.
1820
01:28:55,742 --> 01:28:57,266
No use having dough
and not spending it.
1821
01:28:57,377 --> 01:28:59,902
Excellent idea, doing
it all from his own home.
1822
01:29:00,013 --> 01:29:01,674
A fireside chat
from the next president.
1823
01:29:01,748 --> 01:29:03,682
To say nothing of the next
president's wife and kids.
1824
01:29:03,750 --> 01:29:05,274
No one'll top us for corn.
1825
01:29:05,351 --> 01:29:08,582
Where does this Thorndyke
dame fit in the picture?
1826
01:29:08,888 --> 01:29:10,219
What do you mean by that?
1827
01:29:10,290 --> 01:29:13,123
Let's not start kidding each
other, there's a rumor around...
1828
01:29:13,226 --> 01:29:15,217
Ridiculous, an old wives' tale. What rumor?
1829
01:29:15,295 --> 01:29:17,422
Kay Thorndyke and Matthews.
I've heard it twice.
1830
01:29:17,530 --> 01:29:19,964
Bill, I'm surprised at you
spreading a foul story like that.
1831
01:29:20,066 --> 01:29:23,001
I'm spreading nothing. But I want
to be sure there's nothing to spread.
1832
01:29:23,069 --> 01:29:24,900
Now, look, everything's
got to be kosher.
1833
01:29:24,971 --> 01:29:26,302
I thought he was a family man.
1834
01:29:26,372 --> 01:29:28,670
There's nothing to it.
Believe me. Would I lie to you?
1835
01:29:28,741 --> 01:29:30,265
Yeah, would he lie to you?
1836
01:29:30,343 --> 01:29:32,140
Don't make me
answer that question.
1837
01:29:32,278 --> 01:29:34,576
I tell you, Kay Thorndyke
is a friend of the family.
1838
01:29:34,647 --> 01:29:36,581
She and Mrs. Matthews
are just like that.
1839
01:29:36,649 --> 01:29:39,117
Will she be at the broadcast?
Why,
1840
01:29:39,219 --> 01:29:41,847
of course, she will. Mrs.
Matthews has already invited her.
1841
01:29:41,921 --> 01:29:44,788
Well, I'll be glad to see her
there. I've never met Miss Thorndyke.
1842
01:29:47,560 --> 01:29:50,586
Let's get back to this campaign.
I've got some work to do here.
1843
01:29:57,904 --> 01:30:00,566
Is Mrs. Matthews in?
Spike MacManus.
1844
01:30:01,074 --> 01:30:03,304
Oh, you're Spike.
Come on in.
1845
01:30:07,747 --> 01:30:10,477
Buck Swenson,
I'm the butler around here.
1846
01:30:10,750 --> 01:30:12,274
Excuse my appearance.
1847
01:30:13,119 --> 01:30:15,019
This happens every Saturday.
1848
01:30:15,121 --> 01:30:17,521
The kids and their packages
for Europe.
1849
01:30:19,125 --> 01:30:21,787
You're quite
a heavy contributor, I see.
1850
01:30:21,861 --> 01:30:23,453
Yeah. Sir, you'd better
hang on to this,
1851
01:30:23,530 --> 01:30:25,760
if you don't want some
Belgian farmer wearing it.
1852
01:30:25,832 --> 01:30:27,197
I'll call Mrs. Matthews.
1853
01:30:29,002 --> 01:30:31,300
I was just going upstairs
to get my swimming trunks on.
1854
01:30:31,371 --> 01:30:33,566
Let the kids
swipe my pants later on.
1855
01:30:35,108 --> 01:30:37,975
Hi. Hi, what's going on out there?
1856
01:30:38,378 --> 01:30:40,471
Operation Bread Basket,
they call it.
1857
01:30:40,547 --> 01:30:42,139
While you're busy
feeding the world,
1858
01:30:42,215 --> 01:30:43,705
would there be a loose
cup of coffee for me?
1859
01:30:43,783 --> 01:30:46,115
I've been up three nights
running working on that broadcast.
1860
01:30:46,185 --> 01:30:48,050
You look as if you could
stand something stronger.
1861
01:30:48,154 --> 01:30:49,712
Lady, you twisted my arm.
1862
01:30:49,822 --> 01:30:51,289
Say, who was that character
who let me in?
1863
01:30:51,357 --> 01:30:55,259
Buck? He's the world's worst
butler and the world's nicest guy.
1864
01:30:55,328 --> 01:30:57,489
He was Grant's
first grease monkey.
1865
01:30:57,564 --> 01:31:00,397
Grant used to try to fire him,
but he gave that up years ago.
1866
01:31:00,533 --> 01:31:01,966
Speaking of characters,
1867
01:31:02,035 --> 01:31:03,662
how's Mr. Conover and company?
1868
01:31:03,736 --> 01:31:04,964
Oh, just straight, please.
1869
01:31:05,038 --> 01:31:07,734
Oh, he's busy making friends
and influencing delegates.
1870
01:31:07,840 --> 01:31:09,501
And I might add,
delivering some.
1871
01:31:09,576 --> 01:31:13,034
I don't believe that. You can't
deliver the votes of a free people.
1872
01:31:13,146 --> 01:31:16,047
Mary, in Conover's eyes, the
lazy people, ignorant people,
1873
01:31:16,115 --> 01:31:18,083
and prejudiced people
are not free.
1874
01:31:18,151 --> 01:31:21,416
Spike, are all politicians
like Conover? No.
1875
01:31:21,521 --> 01:31:24,319
Thank heavens,
he almost makes me a Democrat.
1876
01:31:24,390 --> 01:31:27,416
That wouldn't help you any. The
Democrats have their Conovers, too.
1877
01:31:27,493 --> 01:31:28,858
In spades.
1878
01:31:29,395 --> 01:31:32,091
Here's to us wise guys
with all the answers.
1879
01:31:32,899 --> 01:31:35,026
All right, wise guy,
give me one answer.
1880
01:31:35,101 --> 01:31:37,035
What changed Grant in Detroit?
1881
01:31:37,103 --> 01:31:39,537
Detroit,
that's so many hotels...
1882
01:31:39,606 --> 01:31:43,167
Spike, please, what made Grant
change that speech at the last minute?
1883
01:31:43,242 --> 01:31:45,767
Oh, Mary, wouldn't you rather
hear how someday I'm going to buy
1884
01:31:45,845 --> 01:31:47,676
a country newspaper
and yell my head off?
1885
01:31:47,747 --> 01:31:51,114
95% of the newspapers are in
small towns. That's America, lady.
1886
01:31:51,184 --> 01:31:53,379
That's where the real
freedom of the press is. Yeah.
1887
01:31:53,453 --> 01:31:56,547
All right, Spike. What really
made you leave the tobacco smoke,
1888
01:31:56,623 --> 01:31:58,682
this fine sunny day?
1889
01:31:59,292 --> 01:32:01,123
Mary, a crisis hath arisen.
1890
01:32:01,260 --> 01:32:03,125
A crisis, that's good.
What about?
1891
01:32:03,229 --> 01:32:05,026
The big broadcast.
Oh.
1892
01:32:05,131 --> 01:32:09,067
There's a story going around Republican
headquarters and Democratic headquarters
1893
01:32:09,135 --> 01:32:11,399
about you getting plastered
one night and throwing
1894
01:32:11,471 --> 01:32:12,904
Kay Thorndyke
out of your house.
1895
01:32:12,972 --> 01:32:14,030
Yeah.
1896
01:32:14,474 --> 01:32:18,410
If it isn't nipped in the bud, Grant's
political goose might be cooked.
1897
01:32:18,578 --> 01:32:21,274
Well, that's a true story. What
am I supposed to do about it?
1898
01:32:21,381 --> 01:32:23,349
It isn't true, and the
only way you can prove it
1899
01:32:23,416 --> 01:32:25,577
is to invite Kay here
to the broadcast.
1900
01:32:26,052 --> 01:32:27,485
Here to my house?
1901
01:32:27,553 --> 01:32:30,420
Be photographed with her. Make it
clear that she's a friend of the family.
1902
01:32:30,490 --> 01:32:32,754
Not just of Grant's.
Has Grant heard about this?
1903
01:32:32,825 --> 01:32:35,123
No, he doesn't know anything
about it. This is Conover's idea.
1904
01:32:35,194 --> 01:32:36,718
And sounds like him, if you...
Mom!
1905
01:32:36,796 --> 01:32:39,230
Yeah?
Mom, we need more bubblegum.
1906
01:32:39,298 --> 01:32:41,493
Bubblegum?
Goes in every package.
1907
01:32:41,601 --> 01:32:43,796
This is my daughter, Joyce.
Spike, Mr. MacManus.
1908
01:32:43,903 --> 01:32:46,770
Hi. Hi, you don't have
any bubblegum, do you?
1909
01:32:46,839 --> 01:32:47,931
Not on me, no.
1910
01:32:48,007 --> 01:32:50,168
Run and ask Buck.
I think he got some yesterday.
1911
01:32:50,243 --> 01:32:52,871
Buck!
Mom!
1912
01:32:52,945 --> 01:32:54,435
Mom!
Yeah.
1913
01:32:54,547 --> 01:32:56,037
We're stuck.
1914
01:32:56,115 --> 01:32:57,844
We haven't got any more
comic books.
1915
01:32:57,950 --> 01:33:01,078
Comic books? They go in every package, too.
1916
01:33:01,154 --> 01:33:03,418
This is Mr. MacManus, Grant.
Hi.
1917
01:33:03,489 --> 01:33:05,616
You haven't got any comic books, have you?
1918
01:33:05,692 --> 01:33:08,661
Of course, he hasn't. He is a
very distinguished newspaper man.
1919
01:33:08,728 --> 01:33:11,595
Oh, I don't know.
I have my hidden vices.
1920
01:33:11,864 --> 01:33:14,526
Oh boy,
I haven't read this one.
1921
01:33:14,634 --> 01:33:15,931
Okay, scram.
1922
01:33:16,602 --> 01:33:19,662
They're pretty swell kids.
Yeah, they're pretty swell kids.
1923
01:33:19,772 --> 01:33:21,296
You can tell Conover no.
1924
01:33:21,374 --> 01:33:24,969
This may be a stable to the dark
horse, but it's still home to me.
1925
01:33:25,044 --> 01:33:27,979
Besides, I think Kay would be
more comfortable in a kennel.
1926
01:33:28,047 --> 01:33:30,242
Then you won't let her come.
I certainly won't.
1927
01:33:30,316 --> 01:33:32,876
I agreed to let Conover have
this house for the broadcast.
1928
01:33:32,952 --> 01:33:35,113
I agreed to say
whatever he wanted me to say.
1929
01:33:35,188 --> 01:33:36,985
I even agreed to let him
use the kids.
1930
01:33:37,056 --> 01:33:40,753
Even though I don't believe that gang
of parasites could elect a rat catcher.
1931
01:33:40,827 --> 01:33:42,954
Even though I know
they're killing Grant.
1932
01:33:43,029 --> 01:33:45,463
Slicing him up sliver by
sliver until there's nothing.
1933
01:33:45,531 --> 01:33:48,830
And now they want me to invite that
woman to this house and pose with her?
1934
01:33:48,901 --> 01:33:51,131
Not me. They're not going
to slice me up, too.
1935
01:33:51,204 --> 01:33:55,197
Besides which, that particular day
happens to be my wedding anniversary.
1936
01:33:55,308 --> 01:33:56,332
Ouch.
1937
01:33:57,443 --> 01:33:59,468
You can tell Mr. Conover no.
1938
01:34:00,213 --> 01:34:02,841
Okay.
No is what I'll tell him.
1939
01:34:05,017 --> 01:34:06,917
And my apologies, lady.
1940
01:34:13,926 --> 01:34:16,554
I only do that to people
I like very much.
1941
01:34:25,705 --> 01:34:27,036
Spike!
1942
01:34:37,316 --> 01:34:38,749
Hello, boss. Come on in.
1943
01:34:38,818 --> 01:34:41,116
Where's Mary? She's
upstairs, dressing the kids.
1944
01:34:41,220 --> 01:34:44,246
I've got my fingers crossed for
tonight. I can handle her. And Grant?
1945
01:34:44,323 --> 01:34:47,554
He's making an appearance over at
the local Matthews For President Club.
1946
01:34:47,627 --> 01:34:49,094
The boys from Life
went along with him.
1947
01:34:49,162 --> 01:34:51,756
Come on in, I want to show you something.
1948
01:34:53,800 --> 01:34:55,563
Well, how do you like it?
1949
01:34:57,637 --> 01:34:59,662
Radio, 200 stations
coast to coast.
1950
01:34:59,772 --> 01:35:03,173
Televisions, two cameras, complete
coverage for the whole Eastern Seaboard.
1951
01:35:03,276 --> 01:35:06,507
The Four Blue Notes Quartet. They
came out with Grant's campaign song.
1952
01:35:06,612 --> 01:35:08,512
The club band
and the local yokels,
1953
01:35:08,581 --> 01:35:10,208
all the trimmings
including the press.
1954
01:35:10,283 --> 01:35:11,716
Wonderful. Really wonderful.
1955
01:35:11,784 --> 01:35:14,810
I could've gotten a bigger turnout for
someone who didn't want to be president.
1956
01:35:14,887 --> 01:35:18,015
Blink, what about the Matthews speech?
I think there's been some changes.
1957
01:35:18,090 --> 01:35:20,615
Everybody in there has made
at least three changes already.
1958
01:35:20,693 --> 01:35:22,320
Hasn't this Matthews
any mind of his own?
1959
01:35:22,395 --> 01:35:24,420
Blink Moran, the Network
producer, Miss Thorndyke.
1960
01:35:24,497 --> 01:35:25,589
How do you do?
Is anything wrong?
1961
01:35:25,665 --> 01:35:27,132
Don't mind Blink,
he's got ulcers.
1962
01:35:27,200 --> 01:35:30,397
You listen to politicians night
after night. You'll have ulcers, too.
1963
01:35:30,469 --> 01:35:31,902
Mr. Matthews
is no politician.
1964
01:35:31,971 --> 01:35:34,201
I've read this lady,
he is for my dough.
1965
01:35:34,273 --> 01:35:37,106
In the library, I think
we can be among friends.
1966
01:35:38,144 --> 01:35:40,476
Coca Cola.
Well, speak of the devil.
1967
01:35:40,713 --> 01:35:43,511
Am I glad to see you, I was
afraid you were going to be late.
1968
01:35:43,583 --> 01:35:45,483
Not tonight, Jim. I've
waited too long for this.
1969
01:35:45,551 --> 01:35:48,213
Bill Hardy's waiting to meet
you. Bill Hardy, Miss Thorndyke.
1970
01:35:48,287 --> 01:35:50,755
How do you do?
Nobody told me not to dress.
1971
01:35:50,823 --> 01:35:53,121
Why, Mr. Hardy, you and I
are going to stand out.
1972
01:35:53,292 --> 01:35:56,455
It was sheer wizardry, the angle
you used on those Boston Irish.
1973
01:35:56,529 --> 01:35:57,518
Thanks.
1974
01:35:57,597 --> 01:35:59,064
Martini for her. Very dry.
1975
01:35:59,131 --> 01:36:00,792
Does Mary know she's here?
She invited her.
1976
01:36:00,867 --> 01:36:02,528
Have you ever been in a hurricane? No.
1977
01:36:02,602 --> 01:36:04,035
You will be.
1978
01:36:05,004 --> 01:36:06,494
Double whammy on her.
1979
01:36:06,572 --> 01:36:08,096
And, Mr. Hardy,
with you on our team,
1980
01:36:08,174 --> 01:36:10,438
nobody can accuse us of
being Wall Street, can they?
1981
01:36:10,509 --> 01:36:11,533
No.
1982
01:36:11,644 --> 01:36:13,805
The Judge and Mrs. Alexandar
are coming here tonight.
1983
01:36:13,880 --> 01:36:15,108
Do you know
how to mix a Sazerac?
1984
01:36:15,181 --> 01:36:16,239
Sazerac?
1985
01:36:16,315 --> 01:36:18,180
Yeah,
it's a absinthe and...
1986
01:36:18,251 --> 01:36:20,651
It's a form of suicide
but don't sample one
1987
01:36:20,720 --> 01:36:22,278
because it will light up
your vest buttons.
1988
01:36:22,355 --> 01:36:24,380
That's all she drinks,
and drinks.
1989
01:36:24,490 --> 01:36:26,685
The Judge
takes straight bourbon.
1990
01:36:26,926 --> 01:36:29,121
Spike, don't think I'm
forgetting your contribution
1991
01:36:29,328 --> 01:36:30,852
to this great moment.
1992
01:36:35,001 --> 01:36:37,765
Secretary of the Treasury,
that's all I ask.
1993
01:36:37,904 --> 01:36:40,372
Nobody's gonna get sore
about this Matthew's speech.
1994
01:36:40,439 --> 01:36:41,963
He's for everything
except sin.
1995
01:36:42,041 --> 01:36:43,599
He must be bowlegged
from straddling.
1996
01:36:43,676 --> 01:36:46,839
Couple of months ago, he made some
good speeches. What happened to him?
1997
01:36:46,913 --> 01:36:48,881
Spike!
Here he is now.
1998
01:36:48,948 --> 01:36:49,937
Spike.
1999
01:36:50,216 --> 01:36:51,240
Spike.
2000
01:36:51,851 --> 01:36:53,978
Later, boys. We'll get
that later. Hello, boss.
2001
01:36:54,053 --> 01:36:56,578
Everything all right? Fine,
biggest news since V.J. Day.
2002
01:36:56,689 --> 01:36:58,213
Did you get the speech timed?
2003
01:36:58,291 --> 01:37:00,088
Time's all right.
What kind of a crack is that?
2004
01:37:00,159 --> 01:37:01,990
That's a joke. Come on.
2005
01:37:02,295 --> 01:37:03,762
What happened? Got that
before-the-big-game...
2006
01:37:03,863 --> 01:37:06,388
No, I'm all right. Just want
to be sure there's no slip-ups.
2007
01:37:06,465 --> 01:37:08,899
How's the audience? They were
cold. I couldn't warm them up.
2008
01:37:08,968 --> 01:37:10,629
You know a man's
never a hero...
2009
01:37:10,736 --> 01:37:12,795
Yeah, in his own home town.
Is everybody here?
2010
01:37:12,905 --> 01:37:14,896
Yeah, in the library.
Sam Parrish is on his way.
2011
01:37:14,974 --> 01:37:17,101
The Judge and Lulubelle
are due any minute.
2012
01:37:17,176 --> 01:37:18,734
They like to be sure
the bar's open.
2013
01:37:18,811 --> 01:37:20,301
Yeah, I'll be right down.
2014
01:37:20,413 --> 01:37:22,540
Hi, Dad. Want to hear
our radio speech?
2015
01:37:22,615 --> 01:37:25,243
Mom just helped.
What's the idea of this getup?
2016
01:37:25,318 --> 01:37:27,718
Our band. It's on the show.
Whose idea was that?
2017
01:37:27,787 --> 01:37:30,620
Yours, Grant.
Oh. Oh, Hello, Mary.
2018
01:37:30,823 --> 01:37:34,384
Keep out from underfoot, don't
be getting in people's hair.
2019
01:37:34,460 --> 01:37:38,260
Mary, I want you to know I realize this
is not going to be too easy for you.
2020
01:37:38,331 --> 01:37:40,322
And you're nice to do it
for me, and I appreciate it.
2021
01:37:40,399 --> 01:37:42,765
Nonsense, Grant, I hope it's
everything you want it to be.
2022
01:37:42,835 --> 01:37:45,599
Oh, I almost forgot.
These are for tonight.
2023
01:37:51,610 --> 01:37:53,339
I didn't think
he even remembered.
2024
01:37:53,412 --> 01:37:56,745
Remembered the what?
Oh, the anniversary.
2025
01:38:00,619 --> 01:38:02,143
My error.
2026
01:38:03,255 --> 01:38:05,689
Larranagas. It's the only kind
Jim Conover smokes.
2027
01:38:05,791 --> 01:38:06,849
Is she here?
Yeah.
2028
01:38:06,959 --> 01:38:08,449
Where is she?
In the library.
2029
01:38:08,527 --> 01:38:10,188
Well, here we go.
2030
01:38:10,296 --> 01:38:11,490
You know something, Spike?
What?
2031
01:38:11,597 --> 01:38:14,828
To quote your friend Conover, I'd give
my right arm up to here for a drink.
2032
01:38:14,934 --> 01:38:16,299
Oh, no, Mary, please.
Not tonight.
2033
01:38:16,369 --> 01:38:18,997
If there's one thing we don't
want, it's too much frankness.
2034
01:38:19,105 --> 01:38:20,538
All right, Spike.
I'll be good.
2035
01:38:20,639 --> 01:38:22,664
Hey, Mom, you look swell.
2036
01:38:23,642 --> 01:38:25,007
Thank you.
2037
01:38:26,512 --> 01:38:27,945
Oh, my carpet.
2038
01:38:29,315 --> 01:38:31,408
Now, I'd like
to propose a toast.
2039
01:38:31,484 --> 01:38:35,420
To the lovely lady who picked Grant
out of the pile in the first place.
2040
01:38:35,488 --> 01:38:37,012
Thank you, Jim.
2041
01:38:42,695 --> 01:38:45,323
Hello, Mary.
It was nice of you to ask me.
2042
01:38:45,431 --> 01:38:48,594
Hello, Kay. You're just in
time for a cocktail. Thank you.
2043
01:38:48,667 --> 01:38:50,157
You're looking
very pretty tonight.
2044
01:38:50,269 --> 01:38:52,965
Mary is going to be the best-looking
first lady we've ever had.
2045
01:38:53,039 --> 01:38:54,973
Let's get a nice picture
there. Shall we?
2046
01:38:55,374 --> 01:38:56,966
I'm sorry I wasn't here
to welcome you.
2047
01:38:57,043 --> 01:38:59,637
Face this way. This is the
first broadcast my children...
2048
01:38:59,712 --> 01:39:01,373
Big smile, that's right.
Shoot it.
2049
01:39:01,480 --> 01:39:02,538
That's good.
2050
01:39:02,648 --> 01:39:04,980
...broadcast my children have
ever been on. They're very excited.
2051
01:39:05,051 --> 01:39:06,177
Mary, Bill Hardy.
2052
01:39:06,285 --> 01:39:07,513
Mr. Hardy the labor man.
2053
01:39:07,620 --> 01:39:09,645
How do you do?
Nobody told me not to dress.
2054
01:39:09,722 --> 01:39:12,816
I am glad you did dress. Men are
much too lazy today about dress.
2055
01:39:12,892 --> 01:39:14,655
Ed Lauterback.
The farm expert.
2056
01:39:14,727 --> 01:39:17,491
How do you do? Your husband
talks well but you're prettier.
2057
01:39:17,563 --> 01:39:19,531
Thank you very much
Mrs. Draper, Mrs. Matthews.
2058
01:39:19,632 --> 01:39:23,295
Mrs. Matthews, you should be seen
more in public with your children.
2059
01:39:23,369 --> 01:39:25,394
Foreigners like children.
2060
01:39:25,838 --> 01:39:27,362
Doesn't everybody?
2061
01:39:27,440 --> 01:39:30,170
Grace, let's not get started
on politics right away.
2062
01:39:30,242 --> 01:39:32,142
You're in for
a very bad evening.
2063
01:39:32,211 --> 01:39:34,645
No, politics is new to me,
but I'm very interested.
2064
01:39:34,713 --> 01:39:37,807
You've got the "very" in the wrong
place, Mary. Interested but very new.
2065
01:39:37,883 --> 01:39:39,145
Jim means I haven't...
2066
01:39:39,218 --> 01:39:41,516
Thank you. He means I haven't
lost my amateur standing.
2067
01:39:41,587 --> 01:39:44,055
You're learning, I hope.
That's a dangerous hope.
2068
01:39:44,156 --> 01:39:46,056
You politicians have
stayed professionals
2069
01:39:46,158 --> 01:39:48,820
only because the voters
have remained amateurs.
2070
01:39:48,894 --> 01:39:50,156
Anybody home?
2071
01:39:50,229 --> 01:39:52,754
Hello, Judge. I am Spike
MacManus, remember me?
2072
01:39:52,865 --> 01:39:55,857
Indeed I do. It's a great
pleasure seeing you again, sir.
2073
01:39:55,935 --> 01:39:57,869
This is Mrs. Alexandar.
How do you do?
2074
01:39:57,937 --> 01:39:59,768
Mrs. Matthews,
Judge and Mrs. Alexandar.
2075
01:39:59,872 --> 01:40:01,669
An honor to be here,
Mrs. Matthews.
2076
01:40:01,740 --> 01:40:05,403
It's my duty to sentence your husband
to four years in the White House.
2077
01:40:05,511 --> 01:40:09,572
And I think I can safely promise the
votes of at least five Southern states.
2078
01:40:09,682 --> 01:40:12,947
In the election? I said
"Southern states", ma'am.
2079
01:40:13,052 --> 01:40:15,919
In the Republican Party, we
count only in the convention,
2080
01:40:16,021 --> 01:40:18,512
which reminds me:
when I was a small boy...
2081
01:40:18,591 --> 01:40:19,956
Well, I'll see you later,
Judge.
2082
01:40:20,025 --> 01:40:22,459
It has been a pleasure
seeing you again.
2083
01:40:22,528 --> 01:40:23,927
Who is he?
2084
01:40:24,230 --> 01:40:26,562
He is a newspaper man,
a friend of my husband's.
2085
01:40:26,632 --> 01:40:28,429
Bourbon for you, sir?
You read my mind.
2086
01:40:28,534 --> 01:40:30,365
I bet he can't
read my mind.
2087
01:40:30,469 --> 01:40:32,198
Sazerac, I believe.
2088
01:40:32,271 --> 01:40:35,604
Lulubelle, your reputation
is getting too well-known.
2089
01:40:36,609 --> 01:40:38,907
You know how to make a Sazerac? I think so.
2090
01:40:38,978 --> 01:40:41,640
If he only thinks so, Jeff,
you better make that Sazerac.
2091
01:40:41,747 --> 01:40:43,237
Yes, indeed, sugar pie.
2092
01:40:43,315 --> 01:40:44,907
That's my job.
2093
01:40:44,984 --> 01:40:48,044
I'm especially glad you were able
to come tonight, Mrs. Alexandar.
2094
01:40:48,120 --> 01:40:49,587
Won't everyone sit down?
2095
01:40:49,655 --> 01:40:52,681
I'm afraid we women
are going to be outnumbered.
2096
01:40:53,058 --> 01:40:55,458
When I go out with the
Judge's Republican friends,
2097
01:40:55,561 --> 01:40:57,290
I am always outnumbered.
2098
01:40:57,396 --> 01:40:59,728
I make it a point to
tell my hostess right off
2099
01:40:59,798 --> 01:41:02,392
that while Jeff's a
Republican, I am a Democrat.
2100
01:41:02,468 --> 01:41:04,561
But you can speak freely.
2101
01:41:04,637 --> 01:41:07,731
You Republicans can't say
anything about the Administration
2102
01:41:07,806 --> 01:41:10,741
mean enough for us Democrats down South.
2103
01:41:13,512 --> 01:41:15,844
Would you like
a little martini?
2104
01:41:20,786 --> 01:41:21,878
Mmm-mmm.
2105
01:41:21,954 --> 01:41:23,444
Just an idea.
2106
01:41:24,290 --> 01:41:25,882
Hello, Grant.
Where've you been?
2107
01:41:25,958 --> 01:41:27,789
Hello, everybody.
I am sorry, I am late.
2108
01:41:27,860 --> 01:41:29,919
You been rehearsing
your speeches? Hello, Bill.
2109
01:41:29,995 --> 01:41:33,192
Nobody told me not to dress.
On you it looks good.
2110
01:41:33,299 --> 01:41:35,164
Well, Judge.
Grant?
2111
01:41:35,267 --> 01:41:36,859
You're not going
to drink that thing, are you?
2112
01:41:36,969 --> 01:41:38,994
You're in the program, you
know. Mary, you should know...
2113
01:41:39,104 --> 01:41:40,469
Grant, this is
Mrs. Alexandar.
2114
01:41:40,539 --> 01:41:42,166
Hello, Mrs. Alexandar.
Mr. Matthews.
2115
01:41:42,274 --> 01:41:43,764
Handsome, isn't he?
2116
01:41:43,842 --> 01:41:46,834
You're the first good reason I've
ever seen for voting Republican.
2117
01:41:46,946 --> 01:41:48,470
I told your wife
I was a Democrat.
2118
01:41:48,547 --> 01:41:50,174
I understand
they're a necessary evil.
2119
01:41:50,282 --> 01:41:53,445
Well, you know us Southerners,
we vote Democratic down home
2120
01:41:53,519 --> 01:41:56,682
but we've got an awfully good
Republican record in Congress.
2121
01:41:56,789 --> 01:41:57,881
One minute to go.
2122
01:41:57,990 --> 01:41:59,548
Is Sam Parrish here yet?
No.
2123
01:41:59,658 --> 01:42:02,024
Why isn't he? What's the
matter? Can't you do your job?
2124
01:42:02,127 --> 01:42:04,288
Something's got to be said
about the South tonight.
2125
01:42:04,363 --> 01:42:07,560
You take Richmond...
Do I have to take it again?
2126
01:42:08,400 --> 01:42:09,560
Jeff?
Yes.
2127
01:42:09,668 --> 01:42:11,659
This is the best Sazerac
I've ever had.
2128
01:42:11,737 --> 01:42:15,400
Fix me another one, honey,
right away. All right.
2129
01:42:16,008 --> 01:42:18,135
Hello, Kay.
Ready to go?
2130
01:42:18,711 --> 01:42:21,805
Destination White House. Yeah,
well, we can hope, can't we?
2131
01:42:21,880 --> 01:42:24,815
How many people listening
tonight? Between 15 and 20 million.
2132
01:42:24,883 --> 01:42:26,441
Is that all?
Well, it's enough.
2133
01:42:29,989 --> 01:42:32,514
Stand by, everybody.
Twenty seconds.
2134
01:42:36,895 --> 01:42:38,590
Tell them 20 seconds.
2135
01:42:39,231 --> 01:42:40,425
Twenty seconds.
2136
01:42:40,532 --> 01:42:44,024
All right, everybody. Now on
your toes. Nothing must go wrong.
2137
01:42:44,103 --> 01:42:46,196
Good luck, Grant.
Thank you.
2138
01:42:46,272 --> 01:42:47,830
Good luck, Grant.
2139
01:42:51,844 --> 01:42:53,778
Hold it. Five seconds.
2140
01:43:02,921 --> 01:43:05,651
Ladies and gentlemen,
we invite you to history.
2141
01:43:37,790 --> 01:43:40,759
Ladies and gentlemen, this
is a paid political broadcast.
2142
01:43:40,859 --> 01:43:43,919
Paid for, not by any political
group or organization,
2143
01:43:44,029 --> 01:43:46,122
but by thousands
of public spirited citizens
2144
01:43:46,231 --> 01:43:48,927
who have taken this method
of insuring that their voice,
2145
01:43:49,034 --> 01:43:51,093
the voice of the people
shall be heard.
2146
01:43:51,203 --> 01:43:54,263
Jeff, honey, if I've got to
listen to speeches,
2147
01:43:54,373 --> 01:43:56,933
you better fix me
another Sazerac right away.
2148
01:43:57,042 --> 01:43:58,566
Yes, honey.
2149
01:43:58,811 --> 01:44:00,574
...in factories, in schools.
2150
01:44:00,646 --> 01:44:03,638
Voicing his opinions of the
problems besetting our nation
2151
01:44:03,749 --> 01:44:06,741
and frankly outlining his
ideas of how they should be met.
2152
01:44:06,819 --> 01:44:08,946
No politician, this,
selling a bill of goods,
2153
01:44:09,054 --> 01:44:10,715
no candidate for any office,
2154
01:44:10,789 --> 01:44:15,749
instead a private citizen fulfilling
what he saw as the duty of a citizen.
2155
01:44:15,828 --> 01:44:19,992
The result: a stirring
demonstration of democracy in action.
2156
01:44:20,332 --> 01:44:23,392
All over the country
spontaneously, unsponsored,
2157
01:44:23,469 --> 01:44:26,961
hundreds of Matthews for President
Clubs sprang up overnight.
2158
01:44:27,072 --> 01:44:29,302
And tonight, in more than
400 American cities,
2159
01:44:29,408 --> 01:44:32,844
men and women are gathered together
in the American way in halls, tents,
2160
01:44:32,945 --> 01:44:34,572
town squares,
in their own homes...
2161
01:44:34,646 --> 01:44:36,079
Where's Grant Matthews?
2162
01:44:36,148 --> 01:44:37,775
Where's our next president?
2163
01:44:39,084 --> 01:44:40,176
Who are you?
2164
01:44:40,285 --> 01:44:42,310
They have contributed
their dimes and their dollars
2165
01:44:42,388 --> 01:44:44,049
to pay for this telecast.
2166
01:44:44,123 --> 01:44:46,990
This is their program. This
is, in truth, the voice...
2167
01:44:47,092 --> 01:44:49,686
Where's your speech?
Right here.
2168
01:44:49,795 --> 01:44:53,162
Relax, fella. All you gotta
worry about is a third term.
2169
01:44:53,265 --> 01:44:55,358
Where's Mary?
She's in the library.
2170
01:44:56,335 --> 01:44:58,030
Hello, everybody!
Sam.
2171
01:44:58,137 --> 01:44:59,331
Late as usual.
2172
01:44:59,438 --> 01:45:00,598
Mary.
Sam.
2173
01:45:03,275 --> 01:45:05,470
I could eat you
with a spoon.
2174
01:45:05,677 --> 01:45:08,703
Nobody told me not to dress.
Isn't that what you're after, Bill?
2175
01:45:08,814 --> 01:45:13,012
Put evening clothes on labor and
let the rest of us go without.
2176
01:45:13,118 --> 01:45:14,642
Gosh, no.
Don't give me anything.
2177
01:45:14,720 --> 01:45:17,416
I have been celebrating
all afternoon.
2178
01:45:17,489 --> 01:45:21,289
Great gosh Almighty. Do we
have to listen to Ed Lauterback?
2179
01:45:22,561 --> 01:45:25,359
That's better.
Hello, Miss Thorndyke.
2180
01:45:25,464 --> 01:45:27,432
Where did you get to
that night in Detroit?
2181
01:45:27,499 --> 01:45:29,990
I looked all over
the banquet hall for you.
2182
01:45:30,068 --> 01:45:31,296
I didn't go to the banquet.
2183
01:45:31,370 --> 01:45:34,305
I thought that's why you were in
Detroit, to hear Grant's speech.
2184
01:45:34,373 --> 01:45:36,204
Were you in Detroit
when we were there, Kay?
2185
01:45:36,275 --> 01:45:39,403
You must've seen her, Mary. She
was on her way up to your suite.
2186
01:45:39,645 --> 01:45:40,976
I'd just left you, remember?
2187
01:45:41,046 --> 01:45:43,514
No, I didn't
see Kay in Detroit.
2188
01:45:43,882 --> 01:45:47,283
You must've dropped in to talk to
Grant about his speech on big business.
2189
01:45:47,352 --> 01:45:50,879
Well, what Grant said about big
business that night was all right.
2190
01:45:51,156 --> 01:45:54,148
Especially about high
tariff, eh, Bill? Yeah.
2191
01:45:55,093 --> 01:45:57,459
So you changed Grant
in Detroit?
2192
01:45:58,730 --> 01:46:00,994
Sam, did you get that
finance report I sent you?
2193
01:46:01,066 --> 01:46:02,363
Yes, and it's a rotten job.
2194
01:46:02,434 --> 01:46:04,868
You let me handle
money matters from now on.
2195
01:46:04,937 --> 01:46:07,701
Hello, Judge. You drinking
with both hands now?
2196
01:46:07,773 --> 01:46:10,139
Hello, Sam.
These are for Lulubelle.
2197
01:46:10,609 --> 01:46:12,167
Sam, you're on.
How am I doing?
2198
01:46:12,244 --> 01:46:15,941
I am so hungry for some good
Republican talk I brought you two.
2199
01:46:16,048 --> 01:46:18,016
Jeff,
you're an angel.
2200
01:46:18,283 --> 01:46:20,683
I'll take one of those, Judge.
2201
01:46:33,398 --> 01:46:35,457
Mary, what are you
doing with that?
2202
01:46:35,567 --> 01:46:39,333
If we're going to have a high tariff, I
might as well get a little high myself.
2203
01:46:39,404 --> 01:46:41,304
For Pete's sake,
those are liquid dynamite.
2204
01:46:41,373 --> 01:46:43,068
Too bad I didn't
have some in Detroit.
2205
01:46:43,141 --> 01:46:44,403
Jim,
there's something I want...
2206
01:46:44,476 --> 01:46:46,842
Jeff, darling, make me
another one right away.
2207
01:46:46,912 --> 01:46:49,472
Yes, honey. Would you make
another one for me, too?
2208
01:46:49,581 --> 01:46:51,208
Yes, sugar.
I mean, ma'am.
2209
01:46:52,518 --> 01:46:54,816
My, my. They're very strong,
aren't they?
2210
01:46:54,953 --> 01:46:55,977
Surely.
2211
01:46:56,054 --> 01:46:57,885
What's in them?
I don't know.
2212
01:46:59,625 --> 01:47:02,890
You've been drinking these for years
and you've no idea what's in them?
2213
01:47:02,961 --> 01:47:06,055
Never bothered to ask, but it makes
you feel good. That's all I know.
2214
01:47:07,599 --> 01:47:10,568
I do hope Mr. Matthews
is including those paragraphs
2215
01:47:10,736 --> 01:47:12,567
I gave him about the Italians.
2216
01:47:12,638 --> 01:47:14,503
Their vote is so important.
2217
01:47:14,606 --> 01:47:18,007
If you favor Italy, won't that
loose you the Abyssinian vote?
2218
01:47:18,110 --> 01:47:21,773
There are about 17 Abyssinians
in the United States.
2219
01:47:21,847 --> 01:47:23,678
And only three of them vote.
2220
01:47:23,782 --> 01:47:28,014
Good. Then we don't need to worry
about justice for the Abyssinians.
2221
01:47:28,921 --> 01:47:31,515
Abyssinia?
That's up north, isn't it?
2222
01:47:37,930 --> 01:47:39,830
Where did those come from?
2223
01:47:40,132 --> 01:47:42,657
Mary, remember you have to
go on the air.
2224
01:47:43,168 --> 01:47:47,628
If this weren't my house, I could tell
her some place she has to go to, too.
2225
01:47:51,176 --> 01:47:55,636
Of course, in this election, the
Polish vote will be the most important.
2226
01:47:55,714 --> 01:47:58,148
I thought the Poles
voted in Poland.
2227
01:47:58,216 --> 01:48:00,377
We are talking
about Polish-Americans.
2228
01:48:00,485 --> 01:48:02,180
Can you be both?
2229
01:48:04,022 --> 01:48:05,546
More power to you, honey.
2230
01:48:05,624 --> 01:48:06,750
Thank you. They are
full of it, aren't they?
2231
01:48:06,825 --> 01:48:07,917
Surely.
2232
01:48:07,993 --> 01:48:10,553
For Grant Matthews
has long known and loved
2233
01:48:10,662 --> 01:48:13,631
the clean, rich smell
of fresh turned Earth.
2234
01:48:14,032 --> 01:48:16,125
His hands have labored
in the soil.
2235
01:48:16,201 --> 01:48:18,567
And helped it bear rich fruit.
2236
01:48:18,670 --> 01:48:22,731
Grant Matthews, like another
great Republican, Abraham Lincoln,
2237
01:48:22,841 --> 01:48:25,207
is of the earth
and of the people.
2238
01:48:25,310 --> 01:48:27,301
He has not forgotten either.
2239
01:48:27,379 --> 01:48:31,907
He knows that a prosperous and
protective and productive agriculture...
2240
01:48:32,651 --> 01:48:34,243
All right, Mrs. Draper,
here's your big moment.
2241
01:48:34,319 --> 01:48:36,651
We're ready.
2242
01:48:36,722 --> 01:48:38,690
Anyway, for president.
2243
01:48:38,924 --> 01:48:40,983
Mary, have a heart.
You've to be ready.
2244
01:48:41,059 --> 01:48:42,356
You're gonna miss Grant
on the air.
2245
01:48:42,427 --> 01:48:46,591
I am different from Grant. I'd
rather be tight than be president.
2246
01:48:47,399 --> 01:48:50,425
You're on a spot. You have to be
ready to do some quick thinking.
2247
01:48:50,535 --> 01:48:52,730
Don't worry about me.
I'm a very thick quinker.
2248
01:48:52,838 --> 01:48:54,328
Oh, brother.
2249
01:48:56,274 --> 01:48:59,243
Honey, you got twisted
up on that one. I did?
2250
01:48:59,344 --> 01:49:01,005
Sure.
I didn't.
2251
01:49:01,079 --> 01:49:04,276
What did I say?
You said "thick quinker".
2252
01:49:05,283 --> 01:49:08,047
I think I presented the
farmers' case if I do say so.
2253
01:49:08,120 --> 01:49:11,521
Indeed. Who can speak for the farmer
better than you, Mr. Lauterback.
2254
01:49:11,590 --> 01:49:13,285
Thank you, Mrs. Matthews.
Not at all.
2255
01:49:13,392 --> 01:49:16,520
Who else could make hay
in the Capitol lobby?
2256
01:49:23,201 --> 01:49:25,260
I thought it was funny, too.
Oh, my dear.
2257
01:49:25,370 --> 01:49:29,204
I haven't enjoyed myself so
much since Huey Long died.
2258
01:49:40,218 --> 01:49:42,209
What's the matter, honey?
2259
01:49:42,287 --> 01:49:45,654
Oh, Lulubelle, I don't know
what's the matter with me.
2260
01:49:46,625 --> 01:49:49,253
I don't want to do any more.
2261
01:49:55,067 --> 01:49:57,001
I just want him...
2262
01:49:57,469 --> 01:49:59,232
Kay,
you better get in this.
2263
01:49:59,304 --> 01:50:00,464
Bill's holding
a pistol at my head.
2264
01:50:00,539 --> 01:50:01,938
What do you mean?
He's welching.
2265
01:50:02,007 --> 01:50:03,133
I am not welching.
2266
01:50:03,208 --> 01:50:05,802
You want me to go on that
radio to support Matthews?
2267
01:50:05,877 --> 01:50:07,606
Certainly.
Then I name the labor members
2268
01:50:07,679 --> 01:50:08,941
of the National Labor Board.
2269
01:50:09,014 --> 01:50:10,174
Grant made no such deal.
2270
01:50:10,282 --> 01:50:12,512
Jim and I did. We did
not. You misunderstood me.
2271
01:50:12,617 --> 01:50:14,482
I said you could
veto the appointments.
2272
01:50:14,553 --> 01:50:17,784
You're next, Mr. Hardy. Not till
I get this settled, get Matthews.
2273
01:50:17,856 --> 01:50:19,153
Never mind Matthews.
2274
01:50:19,224 --> 01:50:22,216
You can't have that. Labor as a
whole must make those appointments.
2275
01:50:22,327 --> 01:50:25,854
If I support Matthews, I am labor
as a whole as far as he is concerned.
2276
01:50:25,931 --> 01:50:28,559
If Hardy gets what he wants,
then I name Agriculture.
2277
01:50:28,633 --> 01:50:29,964
Hold on,
I've got a stake here.
2278
01:50:30,035 --> 01:50:32,196
Butt out, Parrish. We don't
need kibbitzers. Kibbitzers?
2279
01:50:32,304 --> 01:50:35,034
I am raising the money
here, and money still talks.
2280
01:50:35,140 --> 01:50:36,334
Hardy, one minute to go.
2281
01:50:36,408 --> 01:50:38,672
You better get Matthews
in here. Hold it, Spike.
2282
01:50:38,744 --> 01:50:41,838
You wouldn't be here if you could've
made a better deal anywhere else
2283
01:50:41,913 --> 01:50:43,642
and you're staying
until the end of the ride.
2284
01:50:43,715 --> 01:50:45,410
When the time comes,
I'll take care of the details.
2285
01:50:45,484 --> 01:50:47,577
I want to hear that from
Matthews. He's the candidate.
2286
01:50:47,686 --> 01:50:50,883
As far as you're concerned, I'm
the candidate. You'll do as I say.
2287
01:50:50,989 --> 01:50:53,583
So help me, I'll break
you in my newspapers.
2288
01:50:53,692 --> 01:50:54,818
Twenty seconds.
2289
01:50:54,893 --> 01:50:56,690
Make up your mind.
2290
01:50:58,430 --> 01:50:59,863
All right.
2291
01:50:59,931 --> 01:51:01,421
I'll go. I'll go.
2292
01:51:02,501 --> 01:51:05,061
As for the rest of you,
you'll stick to your bargains.
2293
01:51:05,170 --> 01:51:08,196
Grant's not to be bothered. If
you've any problems, come to me.
2294
01:51:08,273 --> 01:51:10,503
I'll say one thing for you,
Kay.
2295
01:51:10,575 --> 01:51:13,009
You have the courage
of your convictions.
2296
01:51:13,078 --> 01:51:15,774
You've had a wonderful evening,
wise-cracking, clowning,
2297
01:51:15,881 --> 01:51:17,872
but now, you've got to get
a grip on yourself.
2298
01:51:17,949 --> 01:51:18,973
Get some black coffee.
2299
01:51:19,050 --> 01:51:22,213
In a few minutes, you have to
introduce your husband to the country.
2300
01:51:22,287 --> 01:51:23,447
Mom!
2301
01:51:23,555 --> 01:51:25,921
Come on in. The man said
we make our speeches next.
2302
01:51:26,024 --> 01:51:28,788
He said not to be nervous.
I'm not nervous, Mom. Are you?
2303
01:51:28,894 --> 01:51:30,191
Judge, your big moment.
Okay.
2304
01:51:30,262 --> 01:51:32,730
Relatives listening.
Grandpappy staying up to hear.
2305
01:51:32,798 --> 01:51:35,198
Put the children to bed.
They're not making any speech.
2306
01:51:35,267 --> 01:51:37,360
But Mommy? What are you talking about?
2307
01:51:37,435 --> 01:51:38,868
Wait a minute.
2308
01:51:38,937 --> 01:51:40,370
Great gosh Almighty, Mary.
2309
01:51:40,438 --> 01:51:41,598
They're not going on.
2310
01:51:41,706 --> 01:51:43,606
Mary, what's the matter?
What's happened here?
2311
01:51:43,708 --> 01:51:45,767
And I am not going on either.
What?
2312
01:51:45,844 --> 01:51:47,436
I am not tight, Kay.
Not anymore.
2313
01:51:47,512 --> 01:51:50,572
Not after watching you vultures
picking at Grant's dead body.
2314
01:51:50,649 --> 01:51:53,641
And if that wasn't enough to sober
me up, the sight of my children did.
2315
01:51:53,718 --> 01:51:55,117
Mary...
I am not going on. I can't.
2316
01:51:55,187 --> 01:51:57,178
To millions of people
I am suppose to say
2317
01:51:57,289 --> 01:51:59,883
I know my husband to be honest,
uncompromising, fearless.
2318
01:51:59,958 --> 01:52:02,290
I could've said that once
and meant it, but not anymore.
2319
01:52:02,527 --> 01:52:05,428
Not after he met up with you, Jim
Conover, and you, and you, and you,
2320
01:52:05,497 --> 01:52:06,987
and you, Kay Thorndyke.
2321
01:52:07,065 --> 01:52:08,930
You and your mad ambition.
2322
01:52:09,034 --> 01:52:11,525
Catering to his conceit,
dealing and double-dealing.
2323
01:52:11,603 --> 01:52:13,696
You were going to make
a big man of him, weren't you?
2324
01:52:13,772 --> 01:52:15,535
You couldn't see
that he was a big man.
2325
01:52:15,607 --> 01:52:16,631
You killed him.
2326
01:52:16,741 --> 01:52:18,936
That won't be Grant Matthews
those people hear tonight.
2327
01:52:19,044 --> 01:52:23,242
It'll be a shadow, a ghost, a stooge
mouthing words that aren't yours,
2328
01:52:23,315 --> 01:52:24,612
thoughts that aren't your own.
2329
01:52:24,716 --> 01:52:28,208
You've killed Grant Matthews, and
he's a party to his own murder.
2330
01:52:28,286 --> 01:52:29,719
Well, I won't be.
2331
01:52:29,788 --> 01:52:31,449
You wanted a cause,
you've got one.
2332
01:52:31,556 --> 01:52:34,286
A cause of lies, fear,
and corruption.
2333
01:52:40,732 --> 01:52:42,256
Hallelujah.
2334
01:52:42,567 --> 01:52:43,932
There goes the ball game.
2335
01:52:44,002 --> 01:52:46,800
She's gone crazy!
2336
01:52:46,872 --> 01:52:48,430
She called us a lot of crooks.
2337
01:52:48,506 --> 01:52:50,440
What did you expect her
to say? It's the truth.
2338
01:52:50,508 --> 01:52:53,170
What do you mean... We don't
have to kid ourselves, do we?
2339
01:52:53,278 --> 01:52:56,213
She has the right to say what she
thinks. That's how I want her to be.
2340
01:52:56,314 --> 01:52:57,781
I'm going after
the nomination.
2341
01:52:57,849 --> 01:52:59,544
That's what we've all
been working for.
2342
01:52:59,618 --> 01:53:00,812
Where's Mary?
The kids are on next.
2343
01:53:00,886 --> 01:53:02,285
The kids aren't going on.
Neither is Mary.
2344
01:53:02,354 --> 01:53:04,618
Tell that quartet to sing
again. Come on, sit down here.
2345
01:53:04,689 --> 01:53:07,658
You're going on in Mary's
place. One of the kids is sick.
2346
01:53:07,726 --> 01:53:09,091
You're a friend of the family.
Emergency.
2347
01:53:09,160 --> 01:53:11,822
You've stepped in
to read Mary's speech.
2348
01:53:11,897 --> 01:53:13,865
Change the word... here.
2349
01:53:16,935 --> 01:53:19,233
Don't let Kay take your place
now. Leave me alone, Spike.
2350
01:53:19,337 --> 01:53:22,067
You love Grant Matthews. That
big mug is your whole life.
2351
01:53:22,173 --> 01:53:23,435
You know you do.
2352
01:53:23,541 --> 01:53:26,101
If you don't get in there now,
you're going to lose him.
2353
01:53:26,211 --> 01:53:27,735
Spike? Spike?
2354
01:53:28,046 --> 01:53:30,606
Mary, take it from a guy
who knows his horseflesh.
2355
01:53:30,682 --> 01:53:33,651
Grant Matthews loves you.
Deep down, he loves you.
2356
01:53:33,718 --> 01:53:36,209
He's just run into
a blind spot, that's all.
2357
01:53:36,288 --> 01:53:38,051
Spike MacManus.
2358
01:53:38,156 --> 01:53:39,316
Kay's being stupid.
2359
01:53:39,391 --> 01:53:41,188
She's trying to put Grant
into the White House.
2360
01:53:41,293 --> 01:53:42,760
The one place
she can't follow him.
2361
01:53:42,928 --> 01:53:44,919
And you, you're trying
to keep him out of it.
2362
01:53:44,996 --> 01:53:47,897
Out where the hunting is open,
out where Kay can grab him.
2363
01:53:47,999 --> 01:53:49,364
Be smart, Mary.
2364
01:53:49,467 --> 01:53:52,334
If Grant is elected, you'll be the
first lady in more ways than one.
2365
01:53:52,404 --> 01:53:54,167
Are you going to throw that
out of the window?
2366
01:53:54,239 --> 01:53:56,002
It's too late, Spike.
2367
01:53:57,309 --> 01:53:58,742
Okay, Mary.
2368
01:53:59,044 --> 01:54:01,774
I had the idea you were still
in love with him.
2369
01:54:01,880 --> 01:54:05,646
Looks like the old MacManus
crystal ball finally cracked.
2370
01:54:06,084 --> 01:54:07,108
All right, read it.
2371
01:54:07,185 --> 01:54:09,449
Like any mother, Mrs.
Matthews thinks a sick child
2372
01:54:09,521 --> 01:54:10,783
more important
than any broadcast.
2373
01:54:10,855 --> 01:54:12,254
She's remaining upstairs
with her daughter.
2374
01:54:12,324 --> 01:54:14,121
Her speech will be read
by a friend and neighbor.
2375
01:54:14,192 --> 01:54:15,955
This is what Mary Matthews
wanted to say.
2376
01:54:16,027 --> 01:54:18,860
Great, every woman in America
will be bawling.
2377
01:54:18,964 --> 01:54:21,432
Grant, you follow me.
Give it everything you've got.
2378
01:54:21,499 --> 01:54:22,989
Does anybody
listen to me?
2379
01:54:23,101 --> 01:54:25,695
Ladies and gentlemen,
Mrs. Grant Matthews.
2380
01:54:25,804 --> 01:54:27,499
"This is Mary Matthews.
2381
01:54:27,605 --> 01:54:30,631
"I am prejudiced in my
husband's favor naturally.
2382
01:54:30,709 --> 01:54:32,301
"Though I know
he has his faults.
2383
01:54:32,377 --> 01:54:34,971
"He likes the morning paper
all to himself at breakfast
2384
01:54:35,046 --> 01:54:37,105
"and a toothache
becomes a world crisis.
2385
01:54:37,182 --> 01:54:39,275
"I guess he's much
like all husbands in that."
2386
01:54:39,351 --> 01:54:40,511
She's marvelous, Grant.
2387
01:54:40,618 --> 01:54:43,052
"But all in all, he's
quite a man, Grant Matthews.
2388
01:54:43,154 --> 01:54:44,849
"A good father
and a good husband,
2389
01:54:44,956 --> 01:54:46,287
"but I see in him
more than that.
2390
01:54:46,358 --> 01:54:48,485
"I see a man who is honest,
uncompromising,
2391
01:54:48,560 --> 01:54:51,654
"fearless, a man of great
vision and enormous courage."
2392
01:54:51,730 --> 01:54:52,958
Mary?
"Above all, my Grant...
2393
01:54:53,031 --> 01:54:54,623
Mary, stop it!
Stop it! Stop it!
2394
01:54:54,699 --> 01:54:56,860
What happened to you?
What changed you?
2395
01:54:57,035 --> 01:54:59,230
I thought you were
going to stay honest.
2396
01:54:59,304 --> 01:55:01,101
we'll resume
from the Matthews' home...
2397
01:55:01,172 --> 01:55:03,140
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is Grant Matthews.
2398
01:55:03,208 --> 01:55:06,473
I am sorry to interrupt but
I can't take any more of this.
2399
01:55:06,544 --> 01:55:09,069
Don't you shut me off. I am
paying for these broadcasts.
2400
01:55:09,180 --> 01:55:11,580
Don't cut him off. Give him a
chance. It'll cost me my job.
2401
01:55:11,683 --> 01:55:13,173
Ladies and gentlemen,
2402
01:55:13,251 --> 01:55:15,617
that speech you just heard
Mrs. Matthews make,
2403
01:55:15,687 --> 01:55:17,416
she doesn't believe
a word of it.
2404
01:55:17,489 --> 01:55:19,423
When she told you
I was a good husband,
2405
01:55:19,491 --> 01:55:21,652
a man of courage
and the rest of that tripe,
2406
01:55:21,726 --> 01:55:23,887
the words were choking
in her throat.
2407
01:55:23,995 --> 01:55:26,691
A few minutes ago, she told me
what she really thought of me.
2408
01:55:26,765 --> 01:55:28,096
She called me a coward
2409
01:55:28,199 --> 01:55:32,363
and said that I had sold out my ideals
to a gang of corrupt politicians,
2410
01:55:32,437 --> 01:55:33,665
and she was right.
2411
01:55:33,872 --> 01:55:36,033
Then she was telling
me the truth. Stop him.
2412
01:55:36,107 --> 01:55:39,304
I have as much right to run
for president as a gutter rat.
2413
01:55:39,377 --> 01:55:41,436
Cut him off! Cut him off!
2414
01:55:48,520 --> 01:55:50,010
Let him talk!
2415
01:55:50,088 --> 01:55:53,114
That squealing you hear,
that's from the politicians.
2416
01:55:53,224 --> 01:55:56,716
Those fearless patriots you heard
supporting me on the air tonight.
2417
01:55:56,795 --> 01:55:58,023
Now, they are hurt.
2418
01:55:58,096 --> 01:56:00,690
They are hollering.
They are trying to shut me up.
2419
01:56:00,765 --> 01:56:01,891
And I don't blame them.
2420
01:56:01,966 --> 01:56:04,434
You can't call me corrupt
and get away with it.
2421
01:56:04,536 --> 01:56:06,128
Your dirty company union fake.
2422
01:56:06,237 --> 01:56:09,400
Give me that microphone!
There it is. Go on. Take it.
2423
01:56:09,474 --> 01:56:13,433
Tell them how you bragged you could deliver
those 700,000 union votes of your men
2424
01:56:13,545 --> 01:56:15,240
if I made you
the big shot of labor.
2425
01:56:15,313 --> 01:56:17,281
Go on, your men will be
interested to hear that.
2426
01:56:17,382 --> 01:56:20,613
Tell them I was sucker enough to
believe that you could deliver any votes.
2427
01:56:20,718 --> 01:56:22,618
Wait until I get through
with your plants.
2428
01:56:22,687 --> 01:56:24,314
You won't do a thing
to my plants.
2429
01:56:24,389 --> 01:56:26,152
Put him on the front page,
boys.
2430
01:56:30,762 --> 01:56:32,821
Are there any
of the rest of you characters
2431
01:56:32,931 --> 01:56:36,662
who'd like to use this microphone
to speak a little truth into it?
2432
01:56:38,436 --> 01:56:40,666
You any better than they are?
2433
01:56:43,775 --> 01:56:45,572
A man just
stepped up and asked me
2434
01:56:45,643 --> 01:56:46,837
if I was any better
than the rest of them.
2435
01:56:46,911 --> 01:56:50,403
No, I am not. As a matter of
fact, I am worse than they are.
2436
01:56:50,482 --> 01:56:53,110
They're after all they can
grab. They're one-way guys.
2437
01:56:53,218 --> 01:56:54,378
But not me.
2438
01:56:54,452 --> 01:56:57,421
I was going to play both ends
against the middle.
2439
01:56:57,489 --> 01:56:59,548
I sold out to them,
but get this straight,
2440
01:56:59,624 --> 01:57:01,854
I am no lamb
led to the slaughter.
2441
01:57:01,926 --> 01:57:03,393
I ran to it.
2442
01:57:04,095 --> 01:57:07,462
I had the right idea when I started
to talk to you people of America.
2443
01:57:07,565 --> 01:57:10,796
The idea that you voters, you farmers,
you businessmen, you working men,
2444
01:57:10,902 --> 01:57:13,166
you ordinary citizens
of whatever party
2445
01:57:13,271 --> 01:57:17,332
are not the selfish scum that venal
politicians make you out to be.
2446
01:57:17,442 --> 01:57:20,434
I thought I could speak my
piece straight out and forward.
2447
01:57:20,512 --> 01:57:24,073
I thought I could tell you that this
country of ours is young. It's not old.
2448
01:57:24,149 --> 01:57:25,912
That we've just begun to grow.
2449
01:57:25,984 --> 01:57:27,645
That all we need is courage.
2450
01:57:27,752 --> 01:57:31,916
And from out of that courage will come
a greatness greater than we ever dreamed.
2451
01:57:31,990 --> 01:57:35,517
I wanted to tell you that we
Americans are the hope of the world.
2452
01:57:35,627 --> 01:57:38,596
And the secret of our
great plenty is freedom.
2453
01:57:38,663 --> 01:57:41,131
And we've got to share
that secret and that plenty
2454
01:57:41,199 --> 01:57:43,599
with the other nations
of the world.
2455
01:57:43,668 --> 01:57:46,159
And I wanted to tell you
that we face a great problem.
2456
01:57:46,271 --> 01:57:49,365
Because when people are
cold and hungry and scared,
2457
01:57:49,474 --> 01:57:51,999
they gather together
in panicky herds,
2458
01:57:52,110 --> 01:57:54,840
ready to be led
by communists and fascists
2459
01:57:54,946 --> 01:57:57,005
who promise them
bread for freedom
2460
01:57:57,115 --> 01:57:58,980
and deliver neither.
2461
01:57:59,884 --> 01:58:02,444
Those are the things
I wanted to say you.
2462
01:58:02,987 --> 01:58:04,682
But I lost faith in you.
2463
01:58:04,789 --> 01:58:06,814
I lost faith in myself.
2464
01:58:07,292 --> 01:58:09,954
I was afraid
I wouldn't become president.
2465
01:58:10,395 --> 01:58:14,991
I forgot that the one thing you've got
to do is speak your piece no matter what.
2466
01:58:16,568 --> 01:58:20,004
So with the help
of this gang of parasites,
2467
01:58:20,071 --> 01:58:23,234
I convinced myself that the way
to be elected was to play down
2468
01:58:23,341 --> 01:58:27,471
to your lowest common denominator
instead of up to your highest.
2469
01:58:27,579 --> 01:58:31,140
To cater to the hatred
of every class and race.
2470
01:58:31,216 --> 01:58:34,208
To appeal to the worst in you,
not the best in you.
2471
01:58:36,087 --> 01:58:39,523
I used my wife,
my kids, my friends.
2472
01:58:40,391 --> 01:58:42,916
My whole campaign was a fraud.
2473
01:58:44,262 --> 01:58:47,254
This is no simple
fireside broadcast
2474
01:58:47,665 --> 01:58:49,997
paid for by your dollars
and dimes.
2475
01:58:50,568 --> 01:58:53,935
This is an elaborately staged
professional affair.
2476
01:58:55,406 --> 01:58:58,842
I have spent $200,000
in exploitation and publicity
2477
01:58:58,910 --> 01:59:01,344
on "Matthews for President"
campaigns.
2478
01:59:02,280 --> 01:59:05,408
I thought I could hijack
the Republican nomination.
2479
01:59:05,717 --> 01:59:09,380
I became an Al Capone of
politics, but I forgot one thing.
2480
01:59:10,255 --> 01:59:12,086
I forgot how quickly
the Americans
2481
01:59:12,156 --> 01:59:14,852
smell out the double dealers
and the crooks.
2482
01:59:14,926 --> 01:59:16,553
My wife knew,
2483
01:59:17,028 --> 01:59:18,859
and I knew tonight.
2484
01:59:19,264 --> 01:59:22,358
When I attended a meeting
right here in Greatwood.
2485
01:59:22,433 --> 01:59:24,458
They were all
my friends there.
2486
01:59:24,569 --> 01:59:27,629
People who had known me
for years and liked me.
2487
01:59:27,739 --> 01:59:29,764
But they didn't
like me anymore.
2488
01:59:29,874 --> 01:59:31,273
They were on to me.
2489
01:59:31,376 --> 01:59:33,469
They knew I was a phony.
2490
01:59:36,281 --> 01:59:39,375
Well, I guess that's the
story, ladies and gentlemen.
2491
01:59:40,251 --> 01:59:43,220
And it certainly isn't
one I am proud of.
2492
01:59:44,956 --> 01:59:47,584
I am the guy who screamed
2493
01:59:48,726 --> 01:59:50,751
for a warrior's courage
2494
01:59:51,162 --> 01:59:54,654
to face the simple private
battles of everyday life.
2495
01:59:56,434 --> 01:59:59,267
I am the guy they meant
when they said,
2496
02:00:00,271 --> 02:00:02,432
"Physician, heal thyself."
2497
02:00:05,576 --> 02:00:08,909
And so, here and now
I withdraw
2498
02:00:08,980 --> 02:00:11,278
as a candidate for any office,
2499
02:00:11,349 --> 02:00:14,682
not because I am honest,
but because I am dishonest.
2500
02:00:17,522 --> 02:00:19,513
I want to apologize
2501
02:00:20,358 --> 02:00:22,758
to all the good,
sincere people
2502
02:00:25,263 --> 02:00:28,494
who put their faith in me.
2503
02:00:31,169 --> 02:00:32,500
And
2504
02:00:34,105 --> 02:00:35,629
I want to
2505
02:00:37,208 --> 02:00:39,267
apologize to my wife.
2506
02:00:43,214 --> 02:00:44,545
Grant.
2507
02:00:52,457 --> 02:00:54,550
This is where I came in.
2508
02:00:55,793 --> 02:00:57,658
About that job, Kay,
2509
02:00:57,729 --> 02:00:59,356
still win or lose?
2510
02:01:00,665 --> 02:01:02,496
Then I lose, Jim.
2511
02:01:02,900 --> 02:01:05,801
I saw a man on the cover of
Newsweek that I think you and I...
2512
02:01:05,870 --> 02:01:07,963
Mr. Matthews, Republican
headquarters called.
2513
02:01:08,039 --> 02:01:10,303
They want to know if this
means you're out of politics.
2514
02:01:10,375 --> 02:01:12,673
No, I am just
getting into politics.
2515
02:01:12,744 --> 02:01:15,178
I am going
to the Republican Convention
2516
02:01:15,246 --> 02:01:17,578
and I am going
to the Democratic Convention.
2517
02:01:17,682 --> 02:01:21,641
I am going to open doors, break
down windows, let in fresh air.
2518
02:01:21,719 --> 02:01:24,586
I am going after every
candidate who compromises
2519
02:01:24,689 --> 02:01:27,556
and I am going after every
lazy voter who doesn't vote.
2520
02:01:27,658 --> 02:01:30,149
Take that gosh darn microphone. Maizie!
2521
02:01:40,938 --> 02:01:42,565
Fired?
Fired.
2522
02:01:43,674 --> 02:01:45,198
Hired?
Hired.
2523
02:01:53,084 --> 02:01:55,484
Matthews is our man!
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