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"Senator Samuel Foley dead."

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Died here at Saint Vincent's.

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"At the bedside was political
sidekick Senator Joseph Paine."

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Long distance?

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Joseph Paine speaking. I want
the governor's residence, Jackson City.

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Hello? Oh, Joe!

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Oh, no!
Couldn't have happened at a worse time.

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Call Jim Taylor. Tell him
I'm on a plane for home.

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Yes, Joe, yes. Right away.

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What is it?

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Sam Foley's dead.
Great saints!

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Of all times,
Foley had to go and die on us.

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Who are you calling?
Taylor, my dear.

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What's up, Happy?
Sam Foley died tonight.

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That's too bad.

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Well, don't get excited.
Is Paine coming?

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Yes, Jim. Yes, Jim.

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Yes, Jim.

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He'd drop dead
if you ever said no.

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No, my dear, this is no time for jokes.

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I've got to appoint a new senator.
The governor will see all committees.

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Tell him I won't wait any longer.
Yes, Mr. Edwards.

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Probably got Taylor in there,
telling him what to do.

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HOPPER:
Tell them to wait.
I'll see them immediately.

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I've got to see those citizens,
I can't put them off.

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They'll want something to say about
who takes Foley's place.

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Ten to one they've got a man.
Relax, Happy.

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Stop having kittens.

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Go and tell Jim Taylor and Joe Paine,

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I give them one minute
to make up their minds.

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You go tell Jim Taylor.

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I will tell him.

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It's high time I told Jim Taylor
a thing or two.

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If you and Joe gab any longer
about this appointment,

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I'll see those committees.
You'll see them when we're finished.

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Yes, Jim. But hurry, will you?
Yes, we'll hurry. We'll hurry.

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That's telling him, Happy, old boy.

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Jim, with this Willet Creek Dam
coming up,

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the man who takes Foley's place

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can't ask any questions
or talk out of turn.

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Got to be absolutely sure.
That's why I say Horace Miller.

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He'll take orders all right.

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Suppose we don't try to go through
with this dam.

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Suppose we postpone it
until next session of Congress.

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Or drop it altogether.
That'd be a crime, Joe.

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After all the work we put in on it?

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Getting it buried in this Deficiency Bill
as nicely as you please.

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Having it approved.
It's rolling along.

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Like taking candy from a baby.

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Is it worth the risk of a scandal,
with a new man in the Senate?

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Worth the risk?

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What's the matter with you?

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Where you're concerned,
I wouldn't take the slightest risk,

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especially with your great reputation
in the Senate.

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Here, look.

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Look at the campaign
I started for you
in all my papers.

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A little obscure,
isn't it?

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I don't know. Maybe.

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[CHUCKLES]

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But after all,
you're the logical man
from the West

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for the national ticket.

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At the convention,
anything can happen.

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Jim, if what you say is possible,

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why not do as I say
and drop things like this dam?

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We can't do it, Joe.

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We've been quietly
buying all the land
around that dam

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and holding it in dummy names.

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If we drop it now,
it'll bring about an investigation.

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It'll show that we're going to sell it
to the state

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under phony names.

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The smartest thing for us to do

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is to push this dam through

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and get it over with.

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All right, appoint Miller.
If you're sure he'll take orders.

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Don't worry. He'll take orders.

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Come on.

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HOPPER:
Just a minute.
Just one more minute!

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We've got your man.

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Horace Miller.
Horace Miller?

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A born stooge!

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Horace will perform like a trained seal.

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What did I tell you?

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If I throw a party man like Miller...

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For reasons I can't go into,
it's got to be him.

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Do you understand?
Now make out your ticket.

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Come on.

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But I've got to see those
angry committees first.

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Work for harmony. Harmony!

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In considering candidates
who might have the high qualifications

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of U.S. senator,

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one name shone out like a beacon,

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the Honorable Horace Miller.

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[CROWD PROTESTING]

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A party man. He's Taylor's stooge!
Please!

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New Citizens Committee
won't stand for this!

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So they named
their own candidate, eh?

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Who?

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You won't like him.
Come on, who?

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Henry Hill.
Henry Hill, that crackpot?

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You should've killed that so fast...

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I couldn't.

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Those men were...
Never mind.

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You forget about them.

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That bunch is out
for blood. If I...

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I said forget about them.

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Horace Miller goes to the Senate,
and that settles it.

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I won't send Horace Miller.

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You won't?
No, I won't.

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I won't let you callously
wreck my whole political future.

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Your political future?

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I bought it for you as a present.

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I can grab it back so fast
it'll make your head swim.

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You've got a nerve to sit and worry
about your future

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when we're in a spot
like this.

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The man is Miller.

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Hello, Dad.

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[CHILDREN CHATTERING]

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What's the matter?
Is it getting you down?

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Is what getting me down?
You're in a deuce of a pickle.

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Looks like Henry Hill or else.

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It's Horace Miller or else.
Peter!

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I wouldn't appoint a twerp like Miller,
Taylor or no Taylor.

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May I ask
what Taylor has to do with this?

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He's still running the show, ain't he?

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I won't have conversation of this sort
carried on at dinner.

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Why don't you listen to them
for a change?

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No doubt they can make
this appointment for me with ease.

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That's easy. Jefferson Smith.
I beg your pardon?

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Jefferson Smith.
He's the only senator to have.

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He ought to be President.

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I like Jeff Smith.
Me too.

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You too?
Now everybody's been heard from.

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Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know
him from a hole in the ground.

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Gosh, head of the Boy Rangers!
Oh, a boy?

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No, Dad. Jeff's a man. Jeff Smith.

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Biggest expert we got in wild game...

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Right now he's the greatest hero
we ever had.

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It's all over the headlines.

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Didn't you see about the forest fire
all around Sweetwater?

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I did. What about it?

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Jeff put that out himself.
Himself?

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If you really want a senator...
I do not want a senator.

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I do not want any more nonsense.
He's the greatest American we got.

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He can tell you
what George Washington said, by heart.

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And Stuff has the swellest stuff in it.
What "stuff"?

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Boys' Stuff. The name of Jeff's paper.
He prints it. Look, here's one.

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It's great. Everybody reads it.

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All the kids in the state.
A million of them. Let me read...

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I'm in no mood
to listen to childish prattle.

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CHILDREN: Prattle?
You're all wet.

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You couldn't do better.

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Better than what?
Jeff for senator.

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Emma, if you please!
Want to get out of a pickle, don't you?

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Always looking for votes, aren't you?

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Here's 50,000 kids, two folks each,
and they vote.

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If you want to do some good
in this state...

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If you're ever going to stand up
like a man...

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That settles it!

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I won't be belittled by my own children
in my own home.

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All my nerves are strained
to the breaking point!

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EMMA: Oh, Shubert.
Henry Hill...

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Horace Miller...

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Miller? Hill?

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Hill? Miller?

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Heads, Hill.

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Tails, Miller.

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[COIN DROPS]

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That's good enough for me.

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[MARCHING MUSIC
PLAYING LOUDLY]

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Good evening.
Oh.

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Is Jefferson Smith at home?

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Won't you step in?

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A Boy Ranger to the U.S. Senate?
Listen.

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The simpleton of all times.
A big-eyed patriot.

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Knows Lincoln
and Washington by heart.

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Stands at attention
in the governor's presence.

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Collects stray boys and cats.

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He does what?

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You know, a perfect man.

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Never in politics in his life.

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Wouldn't know what it's all about
in 2 years, let alone 2 months.

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The important thing,

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this was the genius of the stroke,

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it means votes.

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The hero of 50,000 boys
and 100,000 parents.

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Look over those congratulations
pouring in.

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I tell you, gentlemen...

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You made this appointment
without asking me.

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When lightning strikes...

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You didn't ask me.
Oh, Jim!

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Now wait a minute, Jim.

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Happy may have
hit on something here.

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There, you see?

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Do you really think you can
handle him in Washington?

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Do you think it's all right?

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I think it's all right.

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A young patriot,

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recites Lincoln and Jefferson,

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turned loose in our nation's capitol.

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Yeah, I think it's all right.

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Chick.

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Turn the ballyhoo boys loose.
It's the greatest appointment ever made.
Give a banquet and declare a holiday.

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A star-spangled banquet!
Wow.

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[THE "STAR-SPANGLED BANNER"
PLAYING]

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[AUDIENCE CHEERING
AND APPLAUDING]

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HOPPER:
And how did your governor
confer that honor?

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Did he give it to some wealthy
citizen, merely to curry favor?

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CROWD: No!
HOPPER: No!

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Did he give it to some
unworthy political hireling?

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CROWD:
No!

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HOPPER:
No! What did he do?

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He went down

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among the people.

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And there he found...

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a nugget.

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[CROWD APPLAUDING]

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It is in that spirit
that we're here tonight

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to acclaim and wish Godspeed
to Senator...

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Jefferson Smith.

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[CROWD APPLAUDING
AND BAND PLAYING]

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Thank you.

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Uh...

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I can't help feeling

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that there's been a big mistake
somehow.

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[CROWD LAUGHING]

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Of course, I never could see

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why we needed two senators
from this state

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when we have a man like
Joseph Harrison Paine

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representing us.

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[CROWD APPLAUDING]

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He doesn't remember me.

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He knew my father very well.

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Clayton Smith.

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They...

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went to school together.
They were very good friends.

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[JEFF MUMBLING]

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Just to sit here with him

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is a very great honor for me

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because I remember Dad
used to tell me that

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Joe Paine was the finest man
he ever knew.

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[CROWD APPLAUDING
AND CHEERING]

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Go on, get up. Take a bow!

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I don't think I'll be much help to you
down there in Washington, senator.

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[CROWD LAUGHING]

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I'll do my best.

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Although with all my might,

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I can promise you one thing:

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I'll do nothing to disgrace
the office of

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United States Senate.

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[CROWD CHEERING
AND MARCHING BAND PLAYING]

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[BLOWS WHISTLE]

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[CROWD APPLAUDING]

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[BLOWS WHISTLE]

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Senator Jefferson Smith,

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the Boy Rangers are very proud

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to take this opportun...

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Occasion!

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We are happy to take this opportunity...

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To present...
To resent this

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small token
of our affection and esteem

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to the best...
Friend.

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Friend!

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Aww. Heck. It's a briefcase, Jeff.

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We all pitched in.

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BOY:
For to carry your laws
when you get to Washington.

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[CROWD SINGING
"AULD LANG SYNE"]

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♪ Should auld acquaintance
be forgot ♪

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♪ And never brought to mind ♪

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[TALKING INDISTINCTLY]

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♪ Should auld acquaintance
be forgot ♪

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♪ And days of auld lang syne ♪

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♪ For auld lang syne,
my dear ♪

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♪ For auld lang syne ♪♪

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It isn't much,
but if you insist, here's this week's.

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Boys' Stuff.
Why, printer's ink runs in your veins.

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You're just like your father.

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Thank you, sir.
Even to the hat.

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Same old dreamer too.

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One look at you and I can see him,

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back at his roll-top desk,
hat and all, getting out his paper.

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Always kept his hat on
so as to be ready to do battle.

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Clayton Smith, editor and publisher.

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And champion of lost causes.

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Dad used to say the only causes
worth fighting for were the lost causes.

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You don't have to tell me.

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We were a team, the two of us.

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Struggling editor
and the struggling lawyer.

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The twin champions of lost causes,
they called us.

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Ma's told me about it a thousand times.

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His last fight was his best, Jeff.

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He and his little four-page paper

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against that mining syndicate.

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All to defend the right of one
small miner who stuck to his claim.

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They tried everything.

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Bribery,

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intimidation.

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And then...

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[MUTTERS]

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Ma found him slumped over his desk
that morning.

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Shot in the back.

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I was there.

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I can see him.

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At that old roll-top desk.

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Still with his hat on.

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[♪♪♪]

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Still with his hat on.

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I know.

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I suppose, Mr. Paine,

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when a fellow bucks up
against a big organization like that,

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one man by himself
can't get very far, can he?

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No.

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Washington, huh?

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Yes, senator, for the fifth time.
Washington.

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I'd better see about my pigeons.

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The porter has them.

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Just a second.
I'd better make sure.

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Joe, my head's like a balloon.

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Two whole days! I never knew
there was so much American history.

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They're all right.

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That's fine. That ends that crisis.

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Come along, senator.

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Hello, Father! Ha-ha-ha.

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WOMAN 1: I saw!
WOMAN 2: He's mine!

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Oh, let me get to him.
Let me get to him.

326
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Susan, this is...

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I don't care to meet him
till I get my money.

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A dollar each, please,
for the milk fund.

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That's $5.
Yes.

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You've got $5, haven't you?

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Can't seem to find anything
except keys.

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Jeff, this is my daughter Susan
and her friends.

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Not the new senator?
He's marvelous.

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What have you got there, senator?
They're pigeons.

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To carry messages back to Ma.
It's just for fun.

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The one that makes it home
in the best time
I'll enter in the Nationals.

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MAN 1: Joe!
MAN 2: Hello, Chick.

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Hello, Joe.
Carl, how are you?

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Glad to see you, Bill.

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Jeff, come here.

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Meet Cook and Griffith,
from State Headquarters.

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Great pleasure.
You'll do the old state proud.

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Welcome. The wildlife here is
different from what you're used to.
They wear high heels.

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[MEN LAUGHING]

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We must see a lot of you

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and your little feathered friends.
Thank you very much.

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Come on, Father.
Oh, yeah.

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Uh, uh, Chick.

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I've got him. We'll be along.

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Good luck, senator.

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WOMAN:
Goodbye.

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Things sure happen fast
around here.

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You'll have to get yourself
out of low gear.

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Let's get these bags and livestock.

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Okay, Chick.

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Look, there it is!

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Who? What?

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The Capitol dome.

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Yes, sir, big as life.

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Been there a long time now.

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Yes, sir.

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This way, senator.

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We thought we'd
meet him in short pants

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with hatchets.

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Taxi.

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[BLOWS WHISTLE]

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What's he bringing pigeons for?
What for?

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Suppose there's a storm.
The lines are down.

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How you going to get messages
back to Ma?

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This way, senator.

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Where is he?

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Senator?

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I told that Cookie to...

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Let's find him. Senator!

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Senator Smith?

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Positively not in the station.
What happened?

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Did you look in the...?
Yeah.

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I'll brain that guy.

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Call Paine. Call Saunders.

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Call the Marines. Call somebody!

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Saunders? McGann.

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Has Smith showed up
at his office there yet?

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What do you mean, the slip?
What's so funny?

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Nothing.
Why don't you try a butterfly net?

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If he does show up, Paine's waiting
at the hotel with newspapermen.

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Let him know right away.
Understand?

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I'll hang a light in the belfry.
One if by land and two if by sea.

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Diz? What do you think?
DIZ: Yeah.

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Daniel Boone's lost.
No.

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Lost in the wilds of Washington.

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If your boyfriend's going to blaze trails,
I'm going to the press club.

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He might want us to
put on short pants and go hiking.

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You wouldn't want to miss the exercise.

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When I think of exercise, I lie down
until the feeling leaves me.

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Wouldn't it be funny if he was lost?
The Boy Ranger?

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Oh, he'll show up.
He must have a compass with him.

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Where would I go
if I were a Boy Ranger?

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Boy, am I tired. I'm all in!

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Call all the hospitals.
And get me a bed while you're at it!

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Boss, will you hold this a minute?

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Thank you, sir.

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Here! Come back here!

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[♪♪♪]

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[RINGING]

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[♪♪♪]

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BOY:
- that from these honored dead
we take

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increased devotion that
that cause for which they

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gave the last full measure
of devotion,

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that we here highly...

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MAN: Resolve.
BOY: Resolve

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that these dead
shall not have died in vain.

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That this nation,

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under God,
shall have a new birth of...

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Freedom.

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BOY:
Freedom.

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And that government, of the people,

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by the people, for the people,

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shall not perish from the earth.

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[♪♪♪]

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[RINGING]

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Why don't they try the police?

422
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Call out some bloodhounds,

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or Indian guides.

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One place he knows
is the Senate office.
You stay there and wait.

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All right, another half-hour.

426
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Just one half-hour. Goodbye.

427
00:24:36,225 --> 00:24:38,184
Oh, why don't I quit?

428
00:24:38,394 --> 00:24:40,728
Eight to five,
little boy blue's plastered.

429
00:24:40,938 --> 00:24:42,856
When Foley died,
why didn't I clear out?

430
00:24:43,065 --> 00:24:46,151
How many times have I said
I'm fed up with politics and I...

431
00:24:47,027 --> 00:24:49,988
No, I let them talk me into staying.

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Secretary to a leader of little squirts.

433
00:24:54,076 --> 00:24:57,453
Why? Because I need the job
and a new suit of clothes.

434
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Would you settle for a husband?

435
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I sure would. Heh.

436
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Huh?
You know my old standing offer.

437
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Diz Moore,
poet of Washington correspondents.

438
00:25:09,383 --> 00:25:12,385
Oh, that again.
I'd cherish you,

439
00:25:12,595 --> 00:25:13,928
and I'd stay sober.

440
00:25:14,138 --> 00:25:16,890
Diz, you're a wonderful egg.

441
00:25:17,433 --> 00:25:22,187
I don't know, maybe if I saw you once
with your hair combed or something...

442
00:25:22,771 --> 00:25:24,772
I don't think even that would do it.

443
00:25:25,566 --> 00:25:28,109
No point in combing
my hair for nothing.

444
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"Honorary appointment."

445
00:25:30,070 --> 00:25:33,239
Scratch this and you'll find they need
a dope here for a couple of months.

446
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[KNOCK ON DOOR]

447
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Yes?

448
00:25:37,161 --> 00:25:38,494
Yes!

449
00:25:40,164 --> 00:25:41,247
What do you want?

450
00:25:41,457 --> 00:25:44,042
Office of Jefferson Smith?
No.

451
00:25:46,128 --> 00:25:47,629
The man downstairs said...
No!

452
00:25:56,805 --> 00:25:59,599
They sure must have
picked the prize dummy...

453
00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:01,434
Say, wait a minute!

454
00:26:01,644 --> 00:26:03,853
That wouldn't be Daniel Boone?

455
00:26:05,314 --> 00:26:08,483
Say, mister, what's your name?
Jefferson Smith.

456
00:26:08,692 --> 00:26:12,445
Oh, yes, please, come right in,
Mr. Smith. This way.

457
00:26:12,655 --> 00:26:16,199
Come in. Now, hold everything.
Stay there. Now, don't move!

458
00:26:17,284 --> 00:26:19,369
Helen! Get me the Madison.
Senator Paine.

459
00:26:19,578 --> 00:26:21,079
Hurry up, will you?

460
00:26:21,914 --> 00:26:24,624
Is anything the matter?
Oh, no. No.

461
00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:26,042
My dear senator,

462
00:26:26,252 --> 00:26:29,045
it may be customary out on
the prairie to take leave of people

463
00:26:29,255 --> 00:26:30,880
and not show up for five hours...

464
00:26:31,090 --> 00:26:33,716
I'm very sorry about that, Miss Sau...

465
00:26:33,926 --> 00:26:35,718
You are Miss Saunders, aren't you?

466
00:26:35,928 --> 00:26:38,179
Yes, and this is Mr. Moore,
member of the press.

467
00:26:38,389 --> 00:26:41,641
Mr. Moore, meet the senator.
I'm very happy to know you.

468
00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:44,936
Well, I see you cut your way
through that forest.

469
00:26:48,315 --> 00:26:49,649
Senator Paine. We've got him!

470
00:26:49,858 --> 00:26:52,277
Came in on his own power,
and he's sober.

471
00:26:52,903 --> 00:26:55,947
Next thing on the schedule,
I'll have him over there.

472
00:26:56,156 --> 00:26:58,533
Now...
I'm awfully sorry.

473
00:26:58,742 --> 00:27:01,661
It wasn't until I was well along
on the bus that...

474
00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:03,037
Did you say bus?

475
00:27:03,247 --> 00:27:05,873
It was one of those
sightseers, you know?

476
00:27:06,083 --> 00:27:07,333
And, uh,

477
00:27:09,753 --> 00:27:13,006
I've never been called
absent-minded before

478
00:27:13,757 --> 00:27:16,426
but there it was, all of a sudden.

479
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,595
It was staring at me
through the station doors.

480
00:27:19,805 --> 00:27:21,097
There what was?

481
00:27:21,307 --> 00:27:23,599
The dome. The Capitol dome.

482
00:27:24,184 --> 00:27:28,146
As big as life, sparkling away
under the old sun out there.

483
00:27:28,731 --> 00:27:29,897
And I...

484
00:27:30,649 --> 00:27:31,941
I just

485
00:27:32,151 --> 00:27:34,319
started to go toward it.

486
00:27:34,528 --> 00:27:36,237
There was a bus outside and...

487
00:27:36,447 --> 00:27:38,197
I just naturally got aboard.

488
00:27:38,407 --> 00:27:41,451
Most natural thing in the world.
Yeah.

489
00:27:42,453 --> 00:27:45,246
I don't think I've ever been so
thrilled in my whole life.

490
00:27:45,497 --> 00:27:47,665
And that Lincoln Memorial!

491
00:27:48,917 --> 00:27:50,793
Gee whiz!

492
00:27:51,503 --> 00:27:53,963
Why, Mr. Lincoln, there he is.

493
00:27:55,632 --> 00:27:59,594
He's looking right straight
at you as you come up those steps.

494
00:28:01,638 --> 00:28:05,266
Just sitting there, like he was
waiting for somebody to come along.

495
00:28:05,476 --> 00:28:08,102
Yeah. Well, he's got nothing on me.

496
00:28:08,312 --> 00:28:09,729
Oh, I'm sorry.

497
00:28:10,314 --> 00:28:12,482
If you're ready, we'll go to the hotel.

498
00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:14,817
Senator Paine's waiting for you.

499
00:28:15,569 --> 00:28:16,986
Uh-huh.

500
00:28:24,870 --> 00:28:26,079
This is my office?

501
00:28:26,288 --> 00:28:28,873
No, you'll have a private office.

502
00:28:29,583 --> 00:28:30,958
In there.
Private office?

503
00:28:31,126 --> 00:28:32,627
Uh-huh.

504
00:28:33,587 --> 00:28:34,837
In there?

505
00:28:37,966 --> 00:28:39,384
Right in this door?

506
00:28:45,682 --> 00:28:47,266
All right, now, senator...

507
00:28:47,476 --> 00:28:50,019
Where is he? Has he gone out again?
No, no.

508
00:28:50,229 --> 00:28:51,646
He's in there.

509
00:28:51,855 --> 00:28:53,147
I'll see you later.

510
00:28:53,357 --> 00:28:56,025
I got to go out
and drink this over.

511
00:28:59,071 --> 00:29:00,655
Whose statue's that?

512
00:29:00,864 --> 00:29:02,490
I wouldn't know, in the daytime.

513
00:29:02,699 --> 00:29:04,492
You wouldn't? Oh, look!

514
00:29:04,701 --> 00:29:07,620
Look at the Capitol dome!
It's all lighted up.

515
00:29:07,871 --> 00:29:11,791
You better relax, senator.
You'll get yourself plum wore out.

516
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,044
Gee whiz! So many things
happening all at once.

517
00:29:16,255 --> 00:29:18,714
Miss Saunders,
what time does the Senate...

518
00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:20,758
Convene?
Convene. Convene. What time?

519
00:29:20,968 --> 00:29:23,386
Twelve noon.
Twelve noon, huh?

520
00:29:23,637 --> 00:29:26,013
Oh, boy, that'll be something!

521
00:29:26,223 --> 00:29:27,849
You know what I better do
in the morning?

522
00:29:28,058 --> 00:29:29,642
No, what had you better?

523
00:29:29,852 --> 00:29:32,061
I think I better go out
to Mount Vernon.

524
00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:34,439
Be sort of a fine thing to do.

525
00:29:35,274 --> 00:29:38,192
Visit Washington's home before walking
into the Senate for the first time.

526
00:29:38,402 --> 00:29:41,737
Think it's a good idea?
Wonderful! Puts you right in the mood.

527
00:29:41,905 --> 00:29:43,489
Uh-huh.

528
00:29:43,782 --> 00:29:47,034
What's that? What's that? Oh.

529
00:29:47,369 --> 00:29:49,036
Movie houses.

530
00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:53,374
Hi, Saunders.

531
00:29:53,584 --> 00:29:55,376
I'm still asking myself, what is he:

532
00:29:55,586 --> 00:29:58,254
Animal, vegetable or mineral?
Maybe an oyster.

533
00:29:58,464 --> 00:30:03,050
When I think of myself playing straight
for that phony, patriotic chatter. Me!

534
00:30:03,260 --> 00:30:06,596
Carrying bibs for an infant
with little flags in his fists.

535
00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:09,182
I can't take it, Diz.
I quit. I'm through.

536
00:30:09,391 --> 00:30:12,351
Now take it easy.
Simmer down. Here.

537
00:30:12,561 --> 00:30:13,728
Take this.

538
00:30:15,439 --> 00:30:18,191
Know what he's doing tomorrow
before taking the Senate seat?

539
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:19,942
Going up to Mount Vernon

540
00:30:20,152 --> 00:30:23,571
to get in the mood. A warm-up.
Who? Your boss?

541
00:30:23,780 --> 00:30:26,491
A nut! I knew there was
a story in him. I smelled it!

542
00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:28,284
Go chase an ambulance.

543
00:30:28,494 --> 00:30:31,037
It's meat and drink to me.
Let me at him five minutes.

544
00:30:31,246 --> 00:30:33,831
I'll make it right with you.
What do you mean "right"?

545
00:30:34,041 --> 00:30:36,626
I'll tell you what I'll do.
World Series. A pass!

546
00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:39,212
In a month it'll be worth 15 bucks.

547
00:30:39,421 --> 00:30:41,214
Well!
You're not talking to this guy.

548
00:30:41,423 --> 00:30:43,508
Eh. What do you say?
Nothing. Beat it.

549
00:30:43,717 --> 00:30:45,676
How would your pals
like to get in on this?

550
00:30:45,886 --> 00:30:47,345
Hey, I want a scoop.
Beat it!

551
00:30:47,554 --> 00:30:51,224
That's out. Either it's lots of
reporters and tickets, or...

552
00:30:51,433 --> 00:30:54,060
Better call him before
I change my mind.

553
00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:56,854
Okay. I'll see you right here.

554
00:30:58,774 --> 00:31:00,066
What are you going to do?

555
00:31:00,275 --> 00:31:03,110
Get my whole fall outfit
and quit this job in style.

556
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,197
You've got more sense
than to put Nosey on to that guy.

557
00:31:06,406 --> 00:31:09,408
MAN 1: That's it!
MAN 2: Open your eyes! Open your eyes!

558
00:31:09,576 --> 00:31:10,993
[MEN CLAMORING]

559
00:31:11,161 --> 00:31:12,453
MAN 3:
Tell us about yourself.

560
00:31:12,663 --> 00:31:14,830
MAN 4:
I hear you got a boys' club, senator.

561
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,457
Any special ax to grind?

562
00:31:16,667 --> 00:31:17,792
Ax?
You know.

563
00:31:18,001 --> 00:31:20,253
Pet idea. Save the buffaloes,
pension bill.

564
00:31:20,462 --> 00:31:23,548
You must have one idea that would
be good for the country.

565
00:31:23,757 --> 00:31:25,258
Well, I have got one idea.

566
00:31:25,467 --> 00:31:27,051
That's what we want.

567
00:31:27,261 --> 00:31:29,554
For the last couple years,
I've thought it would be

568
00:31:29,763 --> 00:31:33,432
a wonderful idea to have
a national boys' camp in our state.

569
00:31:33,642 --> 00:31:35,101
MAN 5:
Boys' camp? Sure. Very good!

570
00:31:35,310 --> 00:31:37,687
If we could get
poor kids off the streets,

571
00:31:37,896 --> 00:31:40,773
out of the cities for
a few months in the summer

572
00:31:40,983 --> 00:31:43,317
and let them learn something
about nature,

573
00:31:43,527 --> 00:31:44,694
American ideals...

574
00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:45,945
Marvelous.

575
00:31:46,154 --> 00:31:47,697
What would it
cost the government?

576
00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:49,949
Nothing. Nothing at all.
You see,

577
00:31:50,158 --> 00:31:53,202
the government just
lends us the money for the camp,

578
00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:55,329
and then the boys

579
00:31:55,539 --> 00:31:58,958
pay it back by sending pennies,
nickels, nothing more than a dime.

580
00:31:59,167 --> 00:32:00,710
MAN 6:
That's really something.

581
00:32:00,919 --> 00:32:04,255
Oh, no, no. Government's got
enough on its hands already...

582
00:32:04,464 --> 00:32:06,382
The government's
putting too much dough

583
00:32:06,592 --> 00:32:08,092
in too many places now, boys.

584
00:32:08,302 --> 00:32:10,219
Well, now, senator, tell me,

585
00:32:10,512 --> 00:32:13,097
what do you think of
the girls in this town?

586
00:32:13,307 --> 00:32:15,016
Down at the station, four of them

587
00:32:15,225 --> 00:32:16,684
kissed me when I got off the train.

588
00:32:16,852 --> 00:32:18,352
[ALL LAUGH]

589
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,771
Were they pretty?
Pretty?

590
00:32:20,981 --> 00:32:22,315
That Miss Susan Paine

591
00:32:22,524 --> 00:32:24,358
is about the prettiest I ever saw.

592
00:32:24,568 --> 00:32:26,861
Senator,
you got a good eye!

593
00:32:27,112 --> 00:32:28,738
MAN 7:
How about some more pictures?

594
00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:30,323
You're a nature lover,

595
00:32:30,532 --> 00:32:32,033
can you handle sign language?

596
00:32:32,242 --> 00:32:33,284
I could manage, if...

597
00:32:33,493 --> 00:32:35,953
What about birdcalls?
You know any?

598
00:32:36,163 --> 00:32:38,914
Can you make a sound like an eagle?
How about a bobwhite?

599
00:32:39,124 --> 00:32:41,167
Here's one.
I'm the only one in the state

600
00:32:43,545 --> 00:32:44,545
[TRILLING]

601
00:32:44,713 --> 00:32:46,255
[REPORTERS CHATTERING]

602
00:32:47,716 --> 00:32:49,717
[♪♪♪]

603
00:33:07,152 --> 00:33:09,236
His "First 'Whiff' of Washington"?

604
00:33:11,573 --> 00:33:12,865
Do I actually see this?

605
00:33:13,075 --> 00:33:14,992
What is it?

606
00:33:17,037 --> 00:33:20,039
Did you want to see me?
What's this I hear about your quitting?

607
00:33:20,248 --> 00:33:22,958
I'm not a nurse.
Stop being funny.

608
00:33:23,168 --> 00:33:26,337
How'd this happen?
I haven't the slightest idea.

609
00:33:26,546 --> 00:33:29,548
Yes, you have. How'd it happen?
I merely took him home.

610
00:33:29,758 --> 00:33:32,551
I didn't tuck him in.
That's McGann's job.

611
00:33:32,761 --> 00:33:36,013
McGann just phoned.
Smith's gone again.
Do you know where?

612
00:33:36,223 --> 00:33:39,183
He went to Mount Vernon
to give himself a patriotic address.

613
00:33:39,393 --> 00:33:40,643
That's fine.

614
00:33:40,852 --> 00:33:43,145
Now you go back to Smith's office

615
00:33:43,355 --> 00:33:45,398
and get him to the Senate by 12:00.

616
00:33:45,607 --> 00:33:47,441
Senator, I wasn't given a brain

617
00:33:47,651 --> 00:33:51,028
just to tell a Boy Ranger the time.
Don't be a fool.

618
00:33:51,238 --> 00:33:52,488
If certain things happen,

619
00:33:52,698 --> 00:33:55,449
you'll get one of the biggest jobs
in Washington.

620
00:33:55,659 --> 00:33:59,370
When I came here, my eyes were
big blue question marks.

621
00:33:59,579 --> 00:34:01,414
Now they're big green dollar marks.

622
00:34:01,623 --> 00:34:02,707
Smart girl, eh?

623
00:34:03,125 --> 00:34:05,960
Finish this job properly
and you'll get a bonus.

624
00:34:06,169 --> 00:34:07,545
I mean, keep Smith away

625
00:34:07,754 --> 00:34:10,339
from anything that
smacks of politics.

626
00:34:11,091 --> 00:34:13,259
Including Willet Creek Dam?

627
00:34:15,095 --> 00:34:16,637
Including Willet Creek Dam.

628
00:34:16,847 --> 00:34:18,597
Now go back to your work.

629
00:34:24,479 --> 00:34:26,147
This is it, senator.

630
00:34:26,356 --> 00:34:28,899
The United States Senate.
Uh-huh. Come on.

631
00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:33,904
Mr. Carson,
Senator Smith.

632
00:34:34,114 --> 00:34:35,948
How do you do?
How do you do, senator?

633
00:34:36,158 --> 00:34:38,576
Page! Glad to see you.
Thank you.

634
00:34:38,785 --> 00:34:42,246
Show Senator Smith to his seat.
Yes, sir. Right this way, sir.

635
00:34:42,456 --> 00:34:44,457
Well, goodbye.
Oh.

636
00:34:44,624 --> 00:34:46,041
Wish me luck.
Sure.

637
00:34:46,251 --> 00:34:47,460
Bye.
Bye.

638
00:35:14,404 --> 00:35:15,654
So that's
the boy wonder?

639
00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:18,365
I don't know
what the Senate's coming to.

640
00:35:20,786 --> 00:35:21,994
Hi, Diz.
DIZ: Hello, Saunders.

641
00:35:22,204 --> 00:35:24,079
Daryl, Sweeney.
Hi, Saunders.

642
00:35:24,289 --> 00:35:26,290
I see you got Daniel Boone
in all right.

643
00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:28,042
Daniel in the lion's den.

644
00:35:28,251 --> 00:35:31,462
Nice job you and the
ambulance chasers did
in the papers this morning.

645
00:35:31,671 --> 00:35:32,880
Did you like it?
Great.

646
00:35:35,967 --> 00:35:37,176
BOY:
Here you are, Senator.

647
00:35:37,385 --> 00:35:38,719
Not a bad desk, either.

648
00:35:38,929 --> 00:35:40,846
Daniel Webster used to use it.

649
00:35:41,056 --> 00:35:42,389
Daniel Webster sat here?

650
00:35:42,599 --> 00:35:43,682
Holy mackerel!

651
00:35:43,934 --> 00:35:47,144
Give you something to shoot at,
if you figure on doing any talking.

652
00:35:47,354 --> 00:35:50,981
I'm just going to sit and listen.
That's the way to get re-elected.

653
00:35:51,191 --> 00:35:53,442
This is the calendar for the day.

654
00:35:53,693 --> 00:35:55,778
You'll find this
and a manual, in here.

655
00:35:55,987 --> 00:35:58,322
Anything else you want,
just snap for a page.

656
00:35:58,532 --> 00:36:01,325
Where's the majority leader?
Majority leader?

657
00:36:01,535 --> 00:36:04,203
Right over there. Senator Agnew.

658
00:36:04,996 --> 00:36:07,081
That's Senator Barnes,
the minority leader.

659
00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:08,582
Where's the press gallery?

660
00:36:08,792 --> 00:36:11,210
There,
above the vice president's chair.

661
00:36:11,419 --> 00:36:14,255
Those in the front row
represent the big news services.

662
00:36:14,464 --> 00:36:15,506
What's up there?

663
00:36:15,715 --> 00:36:17,550
That's for guides and sightseers

664
00:36:17,759 --> 00:36:20,803
who come in for five minutes
at a time to rest their feet.

665
00:36:21,388 --> 00:36:24,056
That section is reserved
for the senators' friends.

666
00:36:24,432 --> 00:36:27,351
Front row, the empty one,
is for the President and his guests.

667
00:36:27,561 --> 00:36:28,727
JEFF:
Oh. I see.

668
00:36:28,937 --> 00:36:31,313
Over the clock
is the diplomatic section.

669
00:36:34,401 --> 00:36:37,194
They and the pageboys
are the only real class we have here.

670
00:36:37,404 --> 00:36:40,155
Thanks so much.
I'll take your hat to the cloakroom.

671
00:36:40,365 --> 00:36:42,199
I'd like to give you
a Boy Ranger button.

672
00:36:42,409 --> 00:36:43,492
Swell!

673
00:36:43,702 --> 00:36:45,202
What's your name?
Richard Jones.

674
00:36:45,412 --> 00:36:46,662
Thanks ever so much.

675
00:36:46,872 --> 00:36:49,707
Good luck, senator.
Keep your left up.

676
00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:52,585
See you in the White House, Joe.
You're not kidding!

677
00:36:52,752 --> 00:36:53,794
[ALL LAUGHING]

678
00:36:53,962 --> 00:36:55,087
Jeff.
Hello, senator.

679
00:36:55,297 --> 00:36:57,590
I was in committee.
That's all right, sir.

680
00:36:57,799 --> 00:37:00,467
I see you had a little publicity.
Hmm?

681
00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:03,721
Have you got your credentials?
Oh...

682
00:37:03,889 --> 00:37:05,806
Miss Saunders gave them to me.

683
00:37:06,141 --> 00:37:07,182
Is that right?

684
00:37:09,227 --> 00:37:10,352
That's fine.

685
00:37:10,562 --> 00:37:12,438
When the vice president
calls you,

686
00:37:12,647 --> 00:37:15,065
I'll meet you in the center aisle.
Center aisle.

687
00:37:15,275 --> 00:37:16,317
Good luck.
Uh-huh.

688
00:37:16,526 --> 00:37:18,402
This is Daniel Webster's desk.
Did you know that?

689
00:37:18,570 --> 00:37:20,654
Mm-hm. He won't mind.

690
00:37:38,173 --> 00:37:39,673
Well.

691
00:37:51,227 --> 00:37:53,020
PRESIDENT:
The Senate will come to order.

692
00:37:53,229 --> 00:37:55,147
Chaplain will pray.

693
00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:58,651
CHAPLAIN:
Oh, God, our Heavenly Father,

694
00:37:58,860 --> 00:38:00,152
in these critical days

695
00:38:00,362 --> 00:38:04,198
when our beloved country labors
with such grave problems,

696
00:38:04,407 --> 00:38:05,699
look upon us

697
00:38:05,909 --> 00:38:09,328
and give us the strength
to be just and merciful

698
00:38:09,537 --> 00:38:11,497
so we may best serve our people

699
00:38:11,706 --> 00:38:13,832
and our fellow men everywhere.

700
00:38:14,042 --> 00:38:15,626
Amen.

701
00:38:23,259 --> 00:38:24,259
[GAVEL BANGS]

702
00:38:24,427 --> 00:38:25,844
PRESIDENT: Clerk will read...
Mr. President,

703
00:38:26,012 --> 00:38:29,515
I ask unanimous consent the reading
of the journal be dispensed with.

704
00:38:29,724 --> 00:38:31,058
Is there objection?

705
00:38:31,810 --> 00:38:33,060
Journal stands approved.

706
00:38:33,269 --> 00:38:34,561
Mr. President.

707
00:38:34,771 --> 00:38:37,690
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
PRESIDENT: Clerk will call the roll.

708
00:38:37,899 --> 00:38:39,692
CLERK: Mr. Agnew.
AGNEW: Here.

709
00:38:39,901 --> 00:38:40,943
CLERK: Mr. Albert.
ALBERT: Here.

710
00:38:41,152 --> 00:38:42,361
CLERK: Mr. Alfred.
ALFRED: Here.

711
00:38:43,113 --> 00:38:46,824
88 senators have answered
to their names, all as present.

712
00:38:47,033 --> 00:38:48,701
Mr. President.
Senator Paine.

713
00:38:48,910 --> 00:38:51,704
I present the credentials
of Honorable Jefferson Smith

714
00:38:51,913 --> 00:38:54,748
who has just been appointed
by the governor of my state.

715
00:38:54,958 --> 00:38:56,542
The designate is present.

716
00:38:56,751 --> 00:38:59,545
I ask that the oath of office be
administered at this time.

717
00:38:59,754 --> 00:39:02,131
The senator designate
will present himself.

718
00:39:02,590 --> 00:39:04,550
The oath will be administered.

719
00:39:21,735 --> 00:39:23,360
Mr. President,

720
00:39:23,570 --> 00:39:26,155
I rise to a question of order.
Here it comes.

721
00:39:26,322 --> 00:39:32,578
I seek to ascertain if the gentleman
about to be sworn in is aware
of the responsibilities of his office.

722
00:39:32,787 --> 00:39:34,997
I refer to his
shameless performance

723
00:39:35,206 --> 00:39:36,290
for the newspapers.

724
00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:38,625
A versatile performance,
I grant you,

725
00:39:38,835 --> 00:39:41,211
and one that his party,
no doubt, will applaud.

726
00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:43,505
[CROWD LAUGHING
THEN GAVEL BANGING]

727
00:39:43,673 --> 00:39:45,090
But one that brings his rank

728
00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:47,301
to the level
of a sideshow entertainer

729
00:39:47,510 --> 00:39:50,262
and reflects on the sincerity,
if not the sanity,

730
00:39:50,472 --> 00:39:53,015
of the highest body
of lawmakers in the land.

731
00:39:53,224 --> 00:39:56,351
I seek to learn if this
is the gentleman's conception

732
00:39:56,561 --> 00:39:58,979
of the nature of his office.
I don't understand.

733
00:39:59,189 --> 00:40:02,858
The designate has no voice here
until taking the oath of office.

734
00:40:03,068 --> 00:40:05,319
Mr. President,
I will answer the gentleman.

735
00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:07,946
My colleague was innocent
in this matter.

736
00:40:08,156 --> 00:40:09,656
He was completely misquoted.

737
00:40:09,866 --> 00:40:13,327
I know Jefferson Smith, and I will
personally vouch for him.

738
00:40:13,536 --> 00:40:15,537
He has the greatest respect
for his office

739
00:40:15,705 --> 00:40:18,040
and for these gentleman.
Mr. President.

740
00:40:18,208 --> 00:40:19,291
[GAVEL BANGS]

741
00:40:19,459 --> 00:40:22,878
The swearing in of the senator
designate is the order of business.

742
00:40:23,088 --> 00:40:25,339
The gentleman will raise
his right hand.

743
00:40:25,548 --> 00:40:26,757
Do you swear to support

744
00:40:26,966 --> 00:40:29,843
and defend the Constitution
of the United States

745
00:40:30,053 --> 00:40:32,721
against all enemies,
foreign and domestic,

746
00:40:32,931 --> 00:40:36,558
and that you will bear true faith
and allegiance to the same?

747
00:40:36,768 --> 00:40:38,894
That you take this obligation freely,

748
00:40:39,104 --> 00:40:42,064
without mental reservation
or purpose of evasion,

749
00:40:42,273 --> 00:40:47,194
and that you will faithfully
discharge the duties of this office,

750
00:40:47,612 --> 00:40:49,279
so help you God?

751
00:40:49,781 --> 00:40:51,031
I do.

752
00:40:51,741 --> 00:40:54,118
Senator, you can talk
all you want to now.

753
00:40:54,369 --> 00:40:56,370
[CROWD MURMURING]

754
00:40:57,413 --> 00:41:00,082
PAINE:
Meet the majority leader.
He'll be a good friend to you.

755
00:41:00,291 --> 00:41:01,416
How do you do, sir?

756
00:41:01,626 --> 00:41:04,169
Any friend of Joe's
is a friend of mine.

757
00:41:04,379 --> 00:41:06,922
Don't worry about the others,
they're just senators.

758
00:41:07,090 --> 00:41:08,632
[CHUCKLES]

759
00:41:09,217 --> 00:41:11,385
MACPHERSON: Mr. President.
PRESIDENT: Senator MacPherson.

760
00:41:11,553 --> 00:41:14,096
MACPHERSON:
The shameless way the
Deficiency Bill has been delayed

761
00:41:14,305 --> 00:41:16,098
is nothing short of criminal.

762
00:41:16,307 --> 00:41:20,394
Government agencies are
in desperate need of these funds.

763
00:41:20,603 --> 00:41:24,606
The prime business of this body
is the immediate passage...

764
00:41:24,774 --> 00:41:26,775
[♪♪♪]

765
00:41:27,527 --> 00:41:29,027
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

766
00:42:04,522 --> 00:42:07,816
Hello, Nosey. Who let you in here?
Why aren't you chasing ambulances?

767
00:42:08,026 --> 00:42:10,986
Smith's punching everybody
he meets. I just got away.

768
00:42:11,196 --> 00:42:13,322
Uh-oh. Tarzan!

769
00:42:13,656 --> 00:42:16,533
[CHATTERING]

770
00:42:22,540 --> 00:42:24,333
Boys, meet Senator Smith.

771
00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:25,834
[ALL LAUGHING]

772
00:42:26,002 --> 00:42:27,711
You act like
something's on your mind.

773
00:42:27,921 --> 00:42:29,755
Why don't you tell the people
the truth?

774
00:42:29,964 --> 00:42:31,590
MAN: The truth?
MEN: He wants the truth!

775
00:42:31,799 --> 00:42:33,008
The man wants the truth.

776
00:42:33,218 --> 00:42:35,219
"'What is the truth? '
said jesting Pilate,

777
00:42:35,428 --> 00:42:37,137
and would not stay for an answer."

778
00:42:37,347 --> 00:42:39,431
How do you want it?
Dished out or in a bottle?

779
00:42:39,766 --> 00:42:42,100
People pick up their papers,
and what do they read?

780
00:42:42,310 --> 00:42:46,521
This morning they read that
a clown arrived in Washington,

781
00:42:46,731 --> 00:42:48,607
parading like
a member of the Senate.

782
00:42:48,775 --> 00:42:51,860
[MEN LAUGHING & CHATTERING]

783
00:42:52,028 --> 00:42:55,572
If you thought as much about being
honest as you do about being smart...

784
00:42:55,782 --> 00:42:58,784
We're the only ones who can
be honest in what we tell the voters.

785
00:42:58,993 --> 00:43:02,412
We don't have to be re-elected,
like politicians.

786
00:43:02,622 --> 00:43:05,874
We tell them when phonies and
crackpots come here to make their laws.

787
00:43:06,084 --> 00:43:08,210
If you want the truth,
why are you in the Senate?

788
00:43:08,419 --> 00:43:10,879
What do you know
about making laws?
Or what the people need?

789
00:43:11,089 --> 00:43:13,632
I don't pretend to know.
Then what are you doing in the Senate?

790
00:43:13,841 --> 00:43:16,134
What's he doing?
Why, honorary appointment!

791
00:43:16,302 --> 00:43:17,594
[ALL LAUGHING]

792
00:43:17,762 --> 00:43:21,890
When the country needs men who know
and have courage as it never did before.

793
00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:25,185
He's going to decorate a chair
and get honored.

794
00:43:25,395 --> 00:43:28,814
MAN:
But he'll vote! Just like
his colleague tells him to.

795
00:43:29,023 --> 00:43:31,733
Like a Christmas tiger,
he'll nod his head and vote

796
00:43:31,943 --> 00:43:34,319
ALL:
"Yes!"

797
00:43:34,529 --> 00:43:36,154
You're not a senator.

798
00:43:36,364 --> 00:43:39,866
You're an honorary stooge.
You ought to be shown up.

799
00:43:40,076 --> 00:43:42,869
Have a drink, senator?
MAN: It'll taste better than the truth.

800
00:43:43,037 --> 00:43:45,038
[ALL LAUGHING]

801
00:43:53,214 --> 00:43:54,381
Hey, senator.

802
00:43:55,758 --> 00:43:57,009
Don't let it get you down.

803
00:43:57,218 --> 00:44:00,095
A hundred years from now,
nobody'll know the difference.

804
00:44:00,972 --> 00:44:02,723
JEFF:
The point is, sir, they're right.

805
00:44:02,932 --> 00:44:05,517
I'm just sitting in the Senate,
decorating a chair.

806
00:44:05,727 --> 00:44:09,896
If I'm going to vote, I ought
to study the bills that are coming up.

807
00:44:10,106 --> 00:44:11,315
The bills?

808
00:44:11,524 --> 00:44:15,944
Yes, sir. Otherwise, I'm just
a Christmas tiger, like they said.

809
00:44:16,154 --> 00:44:20,449
These bills are put together
by legal minds after long study.

810
00:44:20,658 --> 00:44:24,328
I can't understand half of them
myself, and I was a lawyer.

811
00:44:24,537 --> 00:44:28,373
Come on. Forget it. When the time
comes, I'll advise you how to vote.

812
00:44:28,583 --> 00:44:30,459
I know you will. That's the point.

813
00:44:30,668 --> 00:44:32,711
There's no reason
for me to be here.

814
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:37,549
Didn't you say something
about wanting to create
a national boys' camp?

815
00:44:37,759 --> 00:44:40,260
You were in earnest, weren't you?
Yes, I was.

816
00:44:40,470 --> 00:44:42,596
Why don't you do it?
There's a job for you.

817
00:44:42,805 --> 00:44:44,931
Get a bill started.
Present it to Congress.

818
00:44:45,141 --> 00:44:46,558
It will be great experience.

819
00:44:46,768 --> 00:44:50,145
Senator Paine,
I've been aching to mention it to you.

820
00:44:50,355 --> 00:44:53,940
If I could do that one thing
while I'm here, I'd feel...

821
00:44:54,150 --> 00:44:56,610
What's to stop you?
Saunders will help you.

822
00:44:56,819 --> 00:44:58,820
Well, I'll do it. I will!

823
00:44:59,030 --> 00:45:01,573
I knew if anyone could help me,
you could.

824
00:45:01,783 --> 00:45:04,409
Thank you again for your time.
Good night.

825
00:45:04,619 --> 00:45:06,286
Where are you running off to?

826
00:45:06,496 --> 00:45:09,623
I'm anxious to get back to the office.
SUSAN: Father.

827
00:45:12,085 --> 00:45:13,919
Oh. The man on the front page!

828
00:45:14,128 --> 00:45:17,255
He just dropped in for a minute.
How do you do, senator?

829
00:45:17,465 --> 00:45:18,924
How do you do,
Miss Paine?

830
00:45:19,133 --> 00:45:20,425
I'm on my way to the office.

831
00:45:20,635 --> 00:45:22,302
How are the pigeons?
They're fine.

832
00:45:22,512 --> 00:45:24,137
I miss the dear little things.

833
00:45:24,347 --> 00:45:27,099
I released one this morning with a letter.

834
00:45:27,308 --> 00:45:31,144
He flew right straight up in the air
to get his bearings.

835
00:45:31,354 --> 00:45:35,440
He went around the Capitol dome,
then headed west, like a bat out of...

836
00:45:35,650 --> 00:45:37,359
Just like a rifle shot.

837
00:45:37,568 --> 00:45:39,778
I suppose by about this time,

838
00:45:39,987 --> 00:45:42,030
he's probably over Kentucky.

839
00:45:42,240 --> 00:45:43,990
Isn't that wonderful,
Father?

840
00:45:44,492 --> 00:45:46,493
And was the letter
to your girl?

841
00:45:47,161 --> 00:45:50,205
No, I don't have a girl.

842
00:45:50,415 --> 00:45:52,249
Don't you think I'd better
hold this for you?

843
00:45:52,458 --> 00:45:54,334
No, I think I'd better go.

844
00:45:54,544 --> 00:45:55,961
Good night.

845
00:45:58,464 --> 00:46:00,590
Doggone!

846
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,175
It's all right, sir.

847
00:46:02,385 --> 00:46:04,928
That's all right, my boy.
Don't bother.

848
00:46:11,769 --> 00:46:13,311
Gee, I'm sorry.

849
00:46:13,521 --> 00:46:15,605
Good night.
Good night, Jeff.

850
00:46:15,815 --> 00:46:17,399
SUSAN:
Good night.

851
00:46:26,951 --> 00:46:28,034
[LAUGHS]

852
00:46:28,202 --> 00:46:29,369
Oh, Father!

853
00:46:30,037 --> 00:46:33,123
Dear me!
At the expense of some of the furniture,

854
00:46:33,332 --> 00:46:36,418
you've made another conquest.
Not old Honest Abe!

855
00:46:36,627 --> 00:46:38,837
And with Honest Abe's ideals.

856
00:46:39,797 --> 00:46:42,299
A rare man these days, Susan.

857
00:46:44,051 --> 00:46:46,803
We're going ahead with it.
Ahead with what?

858
00:46:47,013 --> 00:46:50,098
My bill for a national boys' camp.
Where's my briefcase?

859
00:46:50,308 --> 00:46:53,185
Do I understand
that you're going to present a bill?

860
00:46:53,394 --> 00:46:55,353
Senator Paine and I decided...

861
00:46:55,563 --> 00:46:57,105
Senator Paine decided with you?

862
00:46:57,315 --> 00:46:59,524
I should have
been the one to think of it.

863
00:46:59,734 --> 00:47:03,820
My dear senator, have you the faintest
idea how to get a bill passed?

864
00:47:04,030 --> 00:47:06,031
No. You're going to help me.

865
00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:07,532
If I were triplets I could.

866
00:47:07,742 --> 00:47:09,743
Senator Paine said you'd help me.

867
00:47:09,952 --> 00:47:11,453
What do we have to have?

868
00:47:11,662 --> 00:47:13,371
Look, do you mind

869
00:47:13,581 --> 00:47:16,333
if I give you a rough idea
what you're up against?

870
00:47:16,542 --> 00:47:17,709
No, go ahead.

871
00:47:18,586 --> 00:47:22,672
Well, a senator has a bill in mind,
like your camp, right?

872
00:47:22,882 --> 00:47:24,466
Right.
Fine. What does he do?

873
00:47:24,675 --> 00:47:26,384
He has to sit down and write it.

874
00:47:26,594 --> 00:47:28,929
The why, when, where,
how and everything else.

875
00:47:29,138 --> 00:47:31,640
That takes time.
But this one is so simple.

876
00:47:31,849 --> 00:47:33,433
Oh, I see. This one's simple.

877
00:47:33,643 --> 00:47:35,769
And with your help...
Oh, I'm helping.

878
00:47:35,978 --> 00:47:40,607
Simple, and I'm helping, so we knock it
off in record time, say three or four days.

879
00:47:40,816 --> 00:47:42,317
Oh, a day.

880
00:47:42,527 --> 00:47:44,694
A day?
Yes, just tonight.

881
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,865
Tonight. I don't want to complain

882
00:47:49,075 --> 00:47:52,744
but in civilized countries
there's an institution called "dinner."

883
00:47:52,954 --> 00:47:55,163
Oh. I'm sort of hungry myself.

884
00:47:55,373 --> 00:48:00,293
Couldn't we have some stuff brought
in on trays, like big executives?

885
00:48:00,503 --> 00:48:01,836
Oh, sure. Mm-hm.

886
00:48:02,046 --> 00:48:04,923
Dinner comes in on trays.

887
00:48:05,132 --> 00:48:06,424
We light into this...

888
00:48:06,634 --> 00:48:08,969
And we finish the bill before morning.

889
00:48:09,178 --> 00:48:10,220
It's dawn.

890
00:48:10,429 --> 00:48:13,848
Your bill is ready. You introduce it.
How?

891
00:48:14,058 --> 00:48:17,477
You get to your feet, take a breath,
and start spouting.

892
00:48:17,687 --> 00:48:21,606
Not too loud. A couple of
the senators might want to sleep.

893
00:48:21,816 --> 00:48:23,984
A curly-headed pageboy
takes it to the desk

894
00:48:24,193 --> 00:48:27,529
where a clerk reads it,
refers it to a committee...

895
00:48:27,738 --> 00:48:29,656
Committee, huh? Why?
Committee.

896
00:48:30,992 --> 00:48:35,287
Committees. Small groups
of senators have to sift a bill down,

897
00:48:35,496 --> 00:48:37,706
study it,
and report to the Senate.

898
00:48:37,915 --> 00:48:39,749
Can't take a bill
nobody ever heard of

899
00:48:39,959 --> 00:48:42,544
and discuss it among 96 men.
Where would you get?

900
00:48:42,753 --> 00:48:43,837
I see that.

901
00:48:44,547 --> 00:48:46,756
Good. Now, where are we?

902
00:48:46,966 --> 00:48:48,425
Some committee's got it.

903
00:48:48,634 --> 00:48:50,594
Days are going by, senator.

904
00:48:50,803 --> 00:48:52,596
Days, weeks!

905
00:48:53,556 --> 00:48:55,640
Finally, they think it's quite a bill.

906
00:48:55,850 --> 00:48:58,268
It goes to the House of Representatives
for a vote

907
00:48:58,477 --> 00:49:01,021
but waits its turn on the calendar.
Calendar?

908
00:49:01,230 --> 00:49:02,856
That's the order of business.

909
00:49:03,065 --> 00:49:05,108
Your bill has to stand back in line

910
00:49:05,318 --> 00:49:07,944
unless the steering committee...
What's that?

911
00:49:08,154 --> 00:49:09,904
Steering committee?

912
00:49:12,908 --> 00:49:15,285
Do you really think
we're getting anywhere?

913
00:49:15,494 --> 00:49:17,370
Tell me, what's
the steering committee?

914
00:49:17,663 --> 00:49:19,497
Committee of the majority party leaders.

915
00:49:19,707 --> 00:49:23,126
They decide when a bill is important
enough to be at the head of the list.

916
00:49:23,336 --> 00:49:24,544
Well, this is.

917
00:49:24,754 --> 00:49:26,713
Pardon me. This is.

918
00:49:27,798 --> 00:49:29,549
Where are we now?
Over in the House.

919
00:49:29,759 --> 00:49:30,884
Oh, yeah. House.

920
00:49:31,093 --> 00:49:34,220
More amendments, more changes,
and the bill goes back to the Senate.

921
00:49:34,430 --> 00:49:37,515
The Senate doesn't like
what the House did;
they make more changes.

922
00:49:37,725 --> 00:49:40,185
The House doesn't like
those changes. Stymied.

923
00:49:40,394 --> 00:49:41,436
So?

924
00:49:41,646 --> 00:49:43,855
So they appoint men from each House
to go into a huddle

925
00:49:44,065 --> 00:49:45,982
called a conference,
and they battle it out.

926
00:49:46,192 --> 00:49:49,694
Finally, if your bill is still alive
after all this vivisection,

927
00:49:49,904 --> 00:49:51,738
it comes to a vote.

928
00:49:52,531 --> 00:49:55,867
Yes, sir!
The big day finally arrives

929
00:49:56,077 --> 00:49:57,577
and Congress adjourns.

930
00:50:01,415 --> 00:50:03,166
Catching on, senator?

931
00:50:03,751 --> 00:50:05,210
Uh-huh.

932
00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:08,922
Shall we start right away
or order dinner first?

933
00:50:09,131 --> 00:50:11,424
Pardon me?
I said, shall we start...

934
00:50:11,634 --> 00:50:12,759
Oh, sure.

935
00:50:12,968 --> 00:50:14,219
Why not?

936
00:50:14,428 --> 00:50:16,846
Do you mind if I take the time
to go get a pencil?

937
00:50:17,056 --> 00:50:19,599
Go right ahead!
Thank you very much.

938
00:50:19,809 --> 00:50:22,185
Go right ahead.
And lots of paper too.

939
00:50:22,395 --> 00:50:24,688
Now, the... Doggone it!

940
00:50:24,897 --> 00:50:27,982
Ever have so much to say about
something, you just couldn't say it?

941
00:50:28,192 --> 00:50:30,777
Try sitting down.
I did. I got right back up.

942
00:50:31,445 --> 00:50:33,154
Let's get down to particulars.

943
00:50:33,364 --> 00:50:35,073
How big is this thing? Where is it?

944
00:50:35,282 --> 00:50:36,866
How many boys will it accommodate?

945
00:50:37,076 --> 00:50:39,077
You've got to have all that
in it, you know?

946
00:50:39,286 --> 00:50:41,121
Yeah. And something else,
Miss Saunders.

947
00:50:41,330 --> 00:50:45,625
The spirit of it. The idea.

948
00:50:45,835 --> 00:50:47,502
How do you say it?

949
00:50:50,172 --> 00:50:52,382
That's what's got to be in it.
What?

950
00:50:52,591 --> 00:50:53,842
The Capitol dome.

951
00:50:54,802 --> 00:50:55,844
On paper?

952
00:50:56,053 --> 00:50:58,805
I want to make that come to life
for every boy in this land.

953
00:50:59,014 --> 00:51:01,641
Yes, and all lighted up
like that too.

954
00:51:02,435 --> 00:51:05,770
You see, boys forget
what their country means

955
00:51:05,980 --> 00:51:08,732
by just reading
"the land of the free" in history books.

956
00:51:08,941 --> 00:51:11,609
They get to be men
and forget even more.

957
00:51:12,653 --> 00:51:16,489
Liberty is too precious a thing
to be buried in books, Miss Saunders.

958
00:51:17,074 --> 00:51:21,077
Men should hold it up in front of them
every single day of their lives and say,

959
00:51:21,287 --> 00:51:22,829
I'm free

960
00:51:23,706 --> 00:51:25,415
to think and to speak.

961
00:51:25,833 --> 00:51:28,126
My ancestors couldn't. I can...

962
00:51:28,919 --> 00:51:30,587
and my children will.

963
00:51:32,173 --> 00:51:34,674
Boys ought to grow up
remembering that.

964
00:51:35,342 --> 00:51:38,636
And that steering committee,
they've got to see it like that.

965
00:51:38,846 --> 00:51:41,973
I know Senator Paine will do
all he can to help me, because...

966
00:51:42,183 --> 00:51:44,184
He's a wonderful man, isn't he?

967
00:51:44,769 --> 00:51:47,937
He knew my father real well.
He did?

968
00:51:48,147 --> 00:51:52,442
We need a lot more like him.
His kind of character, his ideals.

969
00:51:52,651 --> 00:51:54,903
Um... Let's get on with this.

970
00:51:55,112 --> 00:51:57,822
Oh, yes.
This camp's out in your state?

971
00:51:58,032 --> 00:52:01,534
About 200 of the most beautiful
acres that ever were.

972
00:52:01,744 --> 00:52:03,870
Ever been out in that country?
No.

973
00:52:04,079 --> 00:52:07,540
I've been over every single foot of it.
You have to see it yourself.

974
00:52:07,750 --> 00:52:11,961
I don't know. The prairies,
and wind leaning on the tall grass,

975
00:52:12,171 --> 00:52:14,047
lazy streams down in the meadows,

976
00:52:14,256 --> 00:52:16,966
angry little midgets of water
up in the mountains.

977
00:52:17,176 --> 00:52:20,303
Cattle moving down the slope,
against the sun.

978
00:52:20,513 --> 00:52:22,055
Campfires

979
00:52:22,264 --> 00:52:24,224
and snowdrifts...

980
00:52:25,267 --> 00:52:28,770
Everybody ought to have some
of that, sometime in his life.

981
00:52:28,979 --> 00:52:30,647
My dad had the right idea.

982
00:52:30,981 --> 00:52:32,732
He had it all worked out.

983
00:52:33,025 --> 00:52:34,943
He used to say to me, "Son,

984
00:52:35,152 --> 00:52:37,612
don't miss the wonders
that surround you.

985
00:52:37,905 --> 00:52:41,741
Because every tree, every rock,
every anthill, every star

986
00:52:41,951 --> 00:52:44,452
is filled with
the wonders of nature."

987
00:52:45,704 --> 00:52:47,247
He used to say to me:

988
00:52:47,456 --> 00:52:50,416
"Did you ever notice how grateful
you are to see daylight

989
00:52:50,626 --> 00:52:53,586
after coming through
a long, dark tunnel?"

990
00:52:54,547 --> 00:52:58,049
"Well," he'd say, "always try to see
life around you

991
00:52:58,259 --> 00:53:00,260
as if you just came
out of a tunnel."

992
00:53:04,598 --> 00:53:06,099
Where did you come from?

993
00:53:06,851 --> 00:53:09,310
I guess I've always lived
in a tunnel.

994
00:53:09,854 --> 00:53:10,895
You mean here?

995
00:53:11,438 --> 00:53:13,231
Baltimore. Pure city dweller.

996
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:14,858
Have you always had to work?

997
00:53:15,067 --> 00:53:16,651
Since I was about 16.

998
00:53:16,861 --> 00:53:19,904
Sixteen?
I take it your parents couldn't...

999
00:53:20,114 --> 00:53:21,447
No, Father was a doctor.

1000
00:53:21,657 --> 00:53:24,075
He thought more of ethics
than he did of collections.

1001
00:53:24,285 --> 00:53:26,870
Speaks well for Father,
but it wasn't so...

1002
00:53:27,371 --> 00:53:29,789
Now, look, we'd better get back to this.

1003
00:53:30,207 --> 00:53:31,499
Hasn't been easy, has it?

1004
00:53:31,709 --> 00:53:32,834
No complaints.

1005
00:53:33,502 --> 00:53:35,920
For a woman, you've done awfully well.

1006
00:53:36,505 --> 00:53:38,089
Have I?

1007
00:53:39,300 --> 00:53:43,595
I've never known anyone as capable
and intelligent...

1008
00:53:46,599 --> 00:53:49,934
I don't know where I'd be in this
bill if it wasn't for your help.

1009
00:53:51,061 --> 00:53:53,187
I don't know where you are with it.

1010
00:53:53,397 --> 00:53:55,523
Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Now.

1011
00:53:55,733 --> 00:53:58,109
Gee whiz, we've got to get
going with this.

1012
00:53:58,319 --> 00:54:00,194
All right, now, let's see.

1013
00:54:02,031 --> 00:54:05,116
Everybody calls you just plain
"Saunders." Why can't I?

1014
00:54:05,326 --> 00:54:07,535
Go right ahead.
Saunders.

1015
00:54:07,745 --> 00:54:09,120
Oh. That's much better.

1016
00:54:09,330 --> 00:54:11,706
"Hello, Saunders."
"Good morning, Saunders."

1017
00:54:13,083 --> 00:54:16,210
"How's the bill coming, Saunders?"
Terrible, thank you.

1018
00:54:16,420 --> 00:54:19,297
Anyway, I got that "Saunders" business
straightened out.

1019
00:54:19,506 --> 00:54:21,883
All right, now! I...

1020
00:54:22,092 --> 00:54:23,676
What's your first name?

1021
00:54:24,053 --> 00:54:25,094
Why?

1022
00:54:25,721 --> 00:54:27,722
Everybody calls you
just "Saunders."

1023
00:54:27,932 --> 00:54:29,682
I also answer to whistles.

1024
00:54:29,892 --> 00:54:31,100
You've got a first name?

1025
00:54:31,310 --> 00:54:33,895
Yes, but we just better forget about it.

1026
00:54:34,104 --> 00:54:35,605
All right, all right.

1027
00:54:35,898 --> 00:54:38,900
Uh... I was just curious.

1028
00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:42,779
A picture popped into my mind of
a pump without a handle or something.

1029
00:54:44,323 --> 00:54:47,116
Uh... Of course, I know what it is.
Violet.

1030
00:54:47,326 --> 00:54:48,326
[LAUGHS]

1031
00:54:48,494 --> 00:54:50,453
No, it isn't.
Abigail?

1032
00:54:50,663 --> 00:54:52,497
No.
Letitia?

1033
00:54:52,706 --> 00:54:54,540
No.
Lena?

1034
00:54:54,750 --> 00:54:56,834
No. Now, stop it.
You might as well tell me.

1035
00:54:57,044 --> 00:54:59,796
I've got a lot more.
All right. You win.

1036
00:55:00,005 --> 00:55:01,047
It's Clarissa.

1037
00:55:01,632 --> 00:55:02,840
Clarissa.

1038
00:55:04,343 --> 00:55:05,843
Uh-huh.

1039
00:55:07,554 --> 00:55:09,514
All right, Saunders, let's go!

1040
00:55:11,517 --> 00:55:14,102
Now, Susan's an awfully
pretty name, isn't it?

1041
00:55:14,311 --> 00:55:17,480
Susan? Susan Paine?
Oh, it's beautiful.

1042
00:55:18,482 --> 00:55:20,108
She's a beautiful woman, isn't she?

1043
00:55:20,317 --> 00:55:25,405
Isn't she a beautiful girl?
I think she's about the most beautiful...

1044
00:55:26,615 --> 00:55:29,617
We've got to get started on this,
or we'll never get it finished.

1045
00:55:29,827 --> 00:55:32,870
Get set, because I'm going to talk
much faster than you can write.

1046
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:34,414
Okay. You ready?
Yup.

1047
00:55:34,623 --> 00:55:37,792
The location of this camp.
About 200 acres

1048
00:55:38,002 --> 00:55:40,211
situated in Ambrose County,
Terry Canyon.

1049
00:55:40,421 --> 00:55:43,006
Running a quarter mile on
either side of Willet Creek.

1050
00:55:43,257 --> 00:55:46,634
Uh... What?
Willet Creek. W-l-L-L-E-T.

1051
00:55:46,844 --> 00:55:49,012
It's a little stream.
In Terry Canyon?

1052
00:55:49,221 --> 00:55:52,640
You don't know it, do you?
No.

1053
00:55:52,850 --> 00:55:55,226
You've never been there, you said.

1054
00:55:55,436 --> 00:55:58,855
You've discussed this with
Senator Paine, haven't you?

1055
00:55:59,064 --> 00:56:00,732
No, no. Why?

1056
00:56:00,941 --> 00:56:02,817
Nothing. It doesn't matter.

1057
00:56:03,027 --> 00:56:05,653
There's no reason
to talk it over with him.

1058
00:56:05,863 --> 00:56:09,073
"A quarter of a mile on
either side of Willet Creek."

1059
00:56:09,283 --> 00:56:13,494
And the land to be bought
by the contribution of the boys,

1060
00:56:13,704 --> 00:56:17,040
the money to be loaned to us
by the United States.

1061
00:56:18,876 --> 00:56:21,753
Excuse me. Pardon me.

1062
00:56:24,506 --> 00:56:26,591
What did you get me
out of bed for?

1063
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:28,634
Sit tight.
The show's about to commence.

1064
00:56:28,844 --> 00:56:31,763
Mind telling me what's going on?
Certainly.

1065
00:56:31,972 --> 00:56:34,640
There's the principal
actor in our little play.

1066
00:56:34,850 --> 00:56:37,393
"Don Quixote" Smith, Man With Bill.

1067
00:56:37,603 --> 00:56:39,854
Here, one of the supporting characters.
DIZ: Who?

1068
00:56:40,064 --> 00:56:42,190
That gorilla in man's clothing,
McGann.

1069
00:56:42,357 --> 00:56:44,233
Oh. You mean Puss-in-Boots?
Yeah.

1070
00:56:44,443 --> 00:56:47,278
Mostly Puss. Uh-huh.

1071
00:56:47,529 --> 00:56:50,823
Another prominent character
in our play, the Silver Knight.

1072
00:56:51,033 --> 00:56:52,533
Soul of honor on a tightrope.

1073
00:56:52,743 --> 00:56:54,869
You wouldn't be a little goofy,
would you?

1074
00:56:55,079 --> 00:56:59,415
Diz, Don Quixote will stand up in a
minute and speak two important words,

1075
00:56:59,625 --> 00:57:00,708
"Willet Creek."

1076
00:57:00,918 --> 00:57:03,669
Then the Silver Knight
will fall off his tightrope

1077
00:57:03,879 --> 00:57:06,547
and "Puss" will jump out of his boots.

1078
00:57:07,382 --> 00:57:08,883
PRESIDENT:
It is so ordered.

1079
00:57:10,135 --> 00:57:11,552
Introduction of new bills

1080
00:57:11,762 --> 00:57:13,346
and joint resolutions.

1081
00:57:14,556 --> 00:57:16,265
Mr. President!

1082
00:57:16,475 --> 00:57:18,351
[CROWD MURMURING]

1083
00:57:24,566 --> 00:57:29,695
The chair recognizes the rather
strong-lunged junior senator,

1084
00:57:29,905 --> 00:57:32,073
Mr. Smith.

1085
00:57:32,699 --> 00:57:34,117
I'm sorry. I have a bill...

1086
00:57:34,326 --> 00:57:36,327
PRESIDENT:
You may speak a little louder.

1087
00:57:36,537 --> 00:57:38,037
But not too loud.

1088
00:57:38,205 --> 00:57:39,622
[ALL LAUGHING]

1089
00:57:41,750 --> 00:57:43,251
I have a bill to propose.

1090
00:57:43,460 --> 00:57:44,627
[ALL LAUGHING]

1091
00:57:48,215 --> 00:57:49,757
Order, gentlemen.

1092
00:57:50,384 --> 00:57:53,719
Our junior senator
is about to make a speech.

1093
00:57:53,929 --> 00:57:55,638
[ALL LAUGHING]

1094
00:57:59,143 --> 00:58:00,601
You may proceed.

1095
00:58:07,151 --> 00:58:11,404
[VOICE BREAKING]
"Be it enacted by the Senate
and the House of Representatives

1096
00:58:12,322 --> 00:58:14,824
that there be appropriated
as a loan

1097
00:58:15,033 --> 00:58:19,203
a sum sufficient to create
a national boys' camp

1098
00:58:19,454 --> 00:58:22,290
to be paid back
to the U.S. Treasury

1099
00:58:22,499 --> 00:58:25,168
by contributions
from boys of America.

1100
00:58:26,086 --> 00:58:27,211
This camp

1101
00:58:27,421 --> 00:58:30,464
to be situated
on land at and adjacent to

1102
00:58:30,674 --> 00:58:33,384
the headwaters of a stream
known as Willet Creek

1103
00:58:33,594 --> 00:58:35,553
in Terry Canyon

1104
00:58:37,681 --> 00:58:41,851
for the purpose of bringing together
boys of all walks of life

1105
00:58:42,644 --> 00:58:45,563
from various parts of the country.

1106
00:58:46,190 --> 00:58:49,984
Boys of all creeds,
kinds and positions.

1107
00:58:50,194 --> 00:58:55,072
To educate them in American ideals
and to promote mutual understanding.

1108
00:58:55,282 --> 00:58:57,658
To bring about a healthful life

1109
00:58:57,868 --> 00:59:00,786
to the youth of this
great and beautiful land."

1110
00:59:00,996 --> 00:59:02,997
[CHILDREN CHEERING]

1111
00:59:35,364 --> 00:59:37,365
[GAVEL BANGING
AS APPLAUSE CONTINUES]

1112
00:59:43,497 --> 00:59:47,124
Our senator will make a good orator
when his voice stops changing.

1113
00:59:47,376 --> 00:59:49,377
[ALL LAUGHING]

1114
00:59:50,337 --> 00:59:54,340
I'm getting leery of him. We call him
dumb, but he keeps getting in our hair.

1115
00:59:54,549 --> 00:59:58,636
When he finds out a dam is going up
where he wants his boys' camp,

1116
00:59:58,845 --> 01:00:01,097
he's going to ask questions.

1117
01:00:01,306 --> 01:00:03,391
Be quiet. I'm trying to think.

1118
01:00:04,476 --> 01:00:06,644
This Deficiency Bill
will be read tomorrow.

1119
01:00:06,853 --> 01:00:07,895
Tomorrow?

1120
01:00:08,105 --> 01:00:11,565
He'll hear that section
on the Willet Dam. He can't be there.

1121
01:00:11,775 --> 01:00:15,695
I'll take him to see monuments, even if
I have to hit him on the head with one.

1122
01:00:15,904 --> 01:00:16,988
That won't work.

1123
01:00:17,197 --> 01:00:19,282
This boy's honest, not stupid.

1124
01:00:20,325 --> 01:00:21,784
Susan.

1125
01:00:22,619 --> 01:00:25,621
My daughter won't carry out
assignments like that for anybody.

1126
01:00:25,914 --> 01:00:27,915
[JEFF WHISTLING]

1127
01:00:40,137 --> 01:00:41,679
Excuse me.
Beg pardon.

1128
01:00:43,098 --> 01:00:46,434
Senator!
If you let me handle your publicity...

1129
01:00:46,643 --> 01:00:47,893
[ALL CLAMORING]

1130
01:00:48,061 --> 01:00:49,979
Down, everybody!

1131
01:00:56,403 --> 01:00:57,653
Who are those people?

1132
01:00:57,946 --> 01:00:59,947
Phonies, office seekers, cranks.

1133
01:01:00,157 --> 01:01:01,949
"Get my son in or out of West Point..."

1134
01:01:02,159 --> 01:01:06,620
This machine creates a fever 10 miles
away. It'll make you a fortune.

1135
01:01:07,205 --> 01:01:08,748
Long-distance fevers.

1136
01:01:08,957 --> 01:01:11,751
A woman wrote a song to replace
"The Star-Spangled Banner."

1137
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:13,544
Want to hear it?
Not today.

1138
01:01:13,754 --> 01:01:16,756
I feel like a house afire.
Even went to see Mr. Lincoln.

1139
01:01:16,965 --> 01:01:18,674
How did I do?
Uh... Great.

1140
01:01:18,884 --> 01:01:21,510
My heart was right up to here
all the time.

1141
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:24,013
What do you think Paine thought?
Tickled pink.

1142
01:01:24,222 --> 01:01:25,723
Oh, boy! I hope so.

1143
01:01:26,767 --> 01:01:29,894
What's all this?
From boys who read about your camp.

1144
01:01:30,103 --> 01:01:31,729
Already? All these letter...

1145
01:01:31,938 --> 01:01:35,066
Those are only local. Wait till they
start pouring in from all over.

1146
01:01:35,275 --> 01:01:39,528
You mean... I'd better open one up.
Let's see what they say here.

1147
01:01:41,365 --> 01:01:43,991
Look, there's money.
Let me see.

1148
01:01:45,619 --> 01:01:47,119
"Dear Senator Smith,

1149
01:01:47,329 --> 01:01:50,539
I'd like to come to camp.
I shine shoes at the station.

1150
01:01:50,749 --> 01:01:54,377
Here's 9 cents."
Isn't that wonderful?

1151
01:01:54,586 --> 01:01:58,297
And he signs it, "Yours truly,
Stinky Moore."

1152
01:01:58,507 --> 01:02:00,132
Isn't that marvelous?

1153
01:02:00,342 --> 01:02:04,678
If there's money in each one of these,
what will we do with it?

1154
01:02:05,263 --> 01:02:06,972
A bank! That's perfect.

1155
01:02:07,182 --> 01:02:11,519
You can see how important
this bill will be. Is there any paper?

1156
01:02:11,728 --> 01:02:13,187
Second drawer.

1157
01:02:13,438 --> 01:02:15,981
That's fine. I'll be pretty busy tonight.

1158
01:02:16,191 --> 01:02:19,235
Not another bill?
Oh, no.

1159
01:02:19,444 --> 01:02:21,737
Letters. I'm busting with news!

1160
01:02:21,947 --> 01:02:23,739
I introduced a bill.
Me, Jeff Smith!

1161
01:02:23,949 --> 01:02:25,449
I spoke in the Senate!

1162
01:02:25,659 --> 01:02:29,161
Want to dictate them?
The letters? I couldn't talk letters.

1163
01:02:29,371 --> 01:02:31,580
I'll sit here and scratch them down.

1164
01:02:31,790 --> 01:02:33,541
Oh. And say,

1165
01:02:33,875 --> 01:02:36,377
I'm going to tell Ma all about you.

1166
01:02:36,586 --> 01:02:41,215
And if I tell it right, you'll get the
best jar of preserves you ever tasted.

1167
01:02:41,425 --> 01:02:44,135
Thank you very much.
Oh, and Saunders.

1168
01:02:44,886 --> 01:02:48,222
Gee whiz, I forgot to thank you.

1169
01:02:48,432 --> 01:02:51,308
Aww. Don't mention it.
No, no.

1170
01:02:52,269 --> 01:02:54,895
Without you, I couldn't have, I mean...

1171
01:02:55,105 --> 01:02:57,106
[PHONE RINGING]

1172
01:02:58,817 --> 01:03:00,317
Hello?

1173
01:03:00,902 --> 01:03:01,986
Who?

1174
01:03:02,195 --> 01:03:03,237
Susan Paine.

1175
01:03:03,822 --> 01:03:06,866
How do you do?
Yes, I can talk. Go right ahead.

1176
01:03:07,075 --> 01:03:09,952
I'm sorry to bother you,
but you've got to help me.

1177
01:03:10,162 --> 01:03:13,330
I'm elected to snatch Mr. Smith
from the Senate tomorrow.

1178
01:03:17,502 --> 01:03:18,544
You're what?

1179
01:03:18,753 --> 01:03:22,465
Mm-hm. I'm to turn
my glamour on for him.
You sympathize, don't you?

1180
01:03:22,716 --> 01:03:23,799
Awkward, isn't it?

1181
01:03:24,009 --> 01:03:26,969
Take him out and buy him
a suit of clothes that fits

1182
01:03:27,179 --> 01:03:29,388
and a hat that he can hang on to.

1183
01:03:29,598 --> 01:03:32,683
And a manicure and a haircut
wouldn't do any harm.

1184
01:03:32,893 --> 01:03:36,479
As one woman to another,
I hate to ask you to do this, but...

1185
01:03:36,688 --> 01:03:38,606
As one woman to another, of course.

1186
01:03:38,815 --> 01:03:39,940
Thanks, and...

1187
01:03:40,150 --> 01:03:41,400
Just a minute.

1188
01:03:42,110 --> 01:03:43,444
Miss Paine.

1189
01:03:45,447 --> 01:03:46,906
Susan Paine?

1190
01:03:48,617 --> 01:03:50,868
She wants to talk to me?
Yeah.

1191
01:03:51,119 --> 01:03:52,495
What does she?

1192
01:03:54,498 --> 01:03:55,998
Holy mackerel.

1193
01:03:57,042 --> 01:03:58,501
Hello?

1194
01:03:59,377 --> 01:04:02,379
Hello, Miss Paine.
How are you? Uh...

1195
01:04:02,589 --> 01:04:04,298
Yes.

1196
01:04:04,966 --> 01:04:07,635
Fine. Uh...

1197
01:04:08,053 --> 01:04:11,013
What? Uh, uh...

1198
01:04:13,058 --> 01:04:14,683
What? Escort you?

1199
01:04:17,938 --> 01:04:19,355
Yes.

1200
01:04:19,981 --> 01:04:22,274
I'd be delighted.

1201
01:04:22,484 --> 01:04:23,984
Yeah, all right.

1202
01:04:24,653 --> 01:04:25,986
Reception for a princess?

1203
01:04:26,613 --> 01:04:29,698
She wants me to...
Goodbye, Miss Paine.

1204
01:04:30,492 --> 01:04:31,659
Goodbye.

1205
01:04:31,868 --> 01:04:34,370
What do you know?
A reception for a princess.

1206
01:04:34,579 --> 01:04:36,789
Can you imagine?
Get your hat.

1207
01:04:36,998 --> 01:04:38,165
We have a lot of shopping to do

1208
01:04:38,333 --> 01:04:40,543
before tomorrow.
Wow.

1209
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:43,170
Where are your bitters?

1210
01:04:43,380 --> 01:04:46,340
In the thing there. Behind the thing.

1211
01:04:46,550 --> 01:04:49,635
I don't mind who gets licked
in a fair fight.

1212
01:04:51,763 --> 01:04:54,640
It's these clouts below the belt
I can't take.

1213
01:04:54,849 --> 01:04:59,144
Siccing that horrible dame on him
when he's goofy about her.

1214
01:05:00,188 --> 01:05:02,273
What dame?
Paine.

1215
01:05:02,482 --> 01:05:04,525
[PLAYS DISCORDANT NOTES]

1216
01:05:05,151 --> 01:05:06,485
Better be nice to her.

1217
01:05:06,695 --> 01:05:09,238
Her dad's the party choice
for the White House.

1218
01:05:09,447 --> 01:05:12,324
She may be the next
First Lady of the land.

1219
01:05:12,951 --> 01:05:16,745
Imagine reading "My Day"
by Susan "Paine-In-The-Neck."

1220
01:05:17,622 --> 01:05:21,083
He isn't going to be hurt enough.
She has to twist a knife in him too.

1221
01:05:21,293 --> 01:05:22,918
The regal jackass.

1222
01:05:23,128 --> 01:05:25,337
"I'll turn my glamour on him,"
she says.

1223
01:05:25,547 --> 01:05:26,630
What's it to you?

1224
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:28,591
Nothing. I'm just saying...

1225
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:30,426
Then stop worrying.

1226
01:05:30,635 --> 01:05:33,304
I told you, the dopes
will inherit the earth.

1227
01:05:33,513 --> 01:05:38,017
I wonder if this Don Quixote
hasn't got the jump on all of us.

1228
01:05:38,310 --> 01:05:41,854
If it isn't a curse to go
through life wised up like you and me.

1229
01:05:42,063 --> 01:05:46,275
If you're going to wonder,
let's go down and do it over a steak.

1230
01:05:46,735 --> 01:05:49,403
Come on, snap out of it. Drink up!

1231
01:05:49,613 --> 01:05:51,447
Here's to bigger and better dopes.

1232
01:05:52,365 --> 01:05:54,366
And to Don Quixote.

1233
01:05:55,702 --> 01:05:57,202
[SLURRING]
Do you know how I felt?

1234
01:05:57,412 --> 01:05:59,330
How did you feel? Quick.

1235
01:06:00,123 --> 01:06:02,166
I felt just like a mother.

1236
01:06:03,001 --> 01:06:06,629
Sending her kid off to school
for the first time.

1237
01:06:07,547 --> 01:06:12,426
Watching the little fellow
toddling off in his best bib and tucker.

1238
01:06:13,011 --> 01:06:15,929
Hoping he can stand up
to the other kids.

1239
01:06:20,935 --> 01:06:23,020
Say, who started this?

1240
01:06:24,856 --> 01:06:27,107
I'm just waiting for a streetcar.

1241
01:06:28,026 --> 01:06:29,777
Well, cut it out, see?

1242
01:06:31,363 --> 01:06:32,613
Who cares, anyway?

1243
01:06:34,032 --> 01:06:35,282
I apologize.

1244
01:06:35,492 --> 01:06:36,575
All right, then.

1245
01:06:38,703 --> 01:06:42,247
After all, what's it to me?
So they drop him out of a balloon.

1246
01:06:42,457 --> 01:06:44,875
All I care is,
I don't want to be around.

1247
01:06:45,085 --> 01:06:47,670
I'm squeamish, see?
That's what I am.

1248
01:06:48,338 --> 01:06:49,672
[SIGHS]

1249
01:06:49,839 --> 01:06:51,256
No, sir.

1250
01:06:51,466 --> 01:06:54,343
I don't have to take it.
I won't be party to murder.

1251
01:06:54,552 --> 01:06:56,470
I'm going to quit. I'm through.

1252
01:06:56,680 --> 01:06:59,056
Again? It's a good idea.

1253
01:07:04,020 --> 01:07:05,437
[HICCUPS]

1254
01:07:08,650 --> 01:07:11,485
Uh, Diz?
Yeah.

1255
01:07:11,695 --> 01:07:13,612
Let's get married.

1256
01:07:13,905 --> 01:07:15,656
It's a good idea.

1257
01:07:16,282 --> 01:07:18,575
When?
Anytime.

1258
01:07:19,411 --> 01:07:21,495
Tonight?
Okay.

1259
01:07:21,705 --> 01:07:23,497
You don't mind?

1260
01:07:23,707 --> 01:07:25,124
I'd cherish you.

1261
01:07:25,750 --> 01:07:27,292
Ha, ha. Gee...

1262
01:07:28,044 --> 01:07:29,503
You're a good egg, Diz.

1263
01:07:29,713 --> 01:07:30,963
I know.

1264
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:34,216
Maybe we could clear
out of this town.

1265
01:07:34,426 --> 01:07:36,593
Get to feel like people.

1266
01:07:38,096 --> 01:07:40,764
Live like we just got out of a tunnel.

1267
01:07:41,474 --> 01:07:44,101
Tunnel?
A tunnel.

1268
01:07:45,353 --> 01:07:47,813
You've never seen prairie grass

1269
01:07:48,022 --> 01:07:51,358
with the wind leaning on it,
have you, Diz?

1270
01:07:51,568 --> 01:07:54,319
Does the wind get tired out there?

1271
01:07:56,448 --> 01:07:58,907
Or angry little mountain streams,

1272
01:08:00,118 --> 01:08:03,871
or the sun moving
against the cattle?

1273
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:07,458
You've never seen anything like that,
have you, Diz?

1274
01:08:08,334 --> 01:08:11,003
Have you?
No.

1275
01:08:11,838 --> 01:08:13,130
Hmm.

1276
01:08:14,382 --> 01:08:16,800
Do we have to?

1277
01:08:17,719 --> 01:08:19,928
I can't think of anything more sappy.

1278
01:08:20,138 --> 01:08:22,222
Okay, then let's get going.

1279
01:08:22,432 --> 01:08:23,849
Where?

1280
01:08:24,517 --> 01:08:25,934
We're getting married.

1281
01:08:26,144 --> 01:08:28,061
Oh, yes, that's right.

1282
01:08:29,814 --> 01:08:33,942
In case you don't know, I want to
give you a chance to back out.

1283
01:08:34,152 --> 01:08:36,904
What?
My first name's Clarissa.

1284
01:08:37,113 --> 01:08:38,739
I know. It's okay.

1285
01:08:39,032 --> 01:08:42,951
Oh-ho. Don't say "okay."
Say you think it's beautiful.

1286
01:08:43,161 --> 01:08:44,953
Okay. I mean...

1287
01:08:45,163 --> 01:08:49,082
You don't know any name offhand
that you like better, do you?

1288
01:08:49,292 --> 01:08:50,626
Not offhand.

1289
01:08:50,835 --> 01:08:53,086
Nothing like "Susan" or anything?

1290
01:08:53,296 --> 01:08:56,215
Susan? Nah.

1291
01:08:56,925 --> 01:08:58,509
I won't take it, see?

1292
01:08:58,885 --> 01:09:00,928
I won't be party to murder, see?

1293
01:09:01,137 --> 01:09:05,724
Steering a poor dope up blind alleys
for that Taylor mob is low enough,

1294
01:09:05,934 --> 01:09:08,602
but helping that dame
cut him in little bits,

1295
01:09:08,812 --> 01:09:11,814
nobody's going to make me do that!
No, sir.

1296
01:09:12,023 --> 01:09:13,190
You said it.

1297
01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:16,318
I'm going to get out of there right now.
Right now.

1298
01:09:16,528 --> 01:09:19,321
Bonus or no bonus. I'm clearing out.

1299
01:09:19,531 --> 01:09:22,741
Everything I own.
My extra hat, everything.

1300
01:09:22,951 --> 01:09:26,411
Wait a minute. We're getting married!
Right now, everything.

1301
01:09:26,621 --> 01:09:28,205
See you later.

1302
01:09:32,335 --> 01:09:34,753
[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]

1303
01:09:34,921 --> 01:09:37,840
Saunders? Saunders?

1304
01:09:44,222 --> 01:09:45,389
What do you want?

1305
01:09:45,598 --> 01:09:48,058
You should have been there.
I know.

1306
01:09:48,268 --> 01:09:51,186
It was a wonderful party,
and your suit went over big,

1307
01:09:51,396 --> 01:09:53,146
and she looked beautiful.

1308
01:09:53,398 --> 01:09:55,107
And when you left she said:

1309
01:09:55,316 --> 01:09:56,984
"Thank you, Mr. Smith."

1310
01:09:57,193 --> 01:10:01,446
But it was the way she said it.
You nearly fell through the floor.

1311
01:10:01,656 --> 01:10:02,865
Horseradish.

1312
01:10:11,749 --> 01:10:15,127
What are you looking at?
You didn't think I was a lady, did you?

1313
01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:17,129
A lady wouldn't work for this outfit.

1314
01:10:17,338 --> 01:10:19,965
Even I can't take it anymore. I quit.

1315
01:10:20,174 --> 01:10:22,175
There's a lot I can't take.

1316
01:10:22,385 --> 01:10:24,177
Can't take a simple...

1317
01:10:27,390 --> 01:10:29,433
Why don't you go home?

1318
01:10:29,767 --> 01:10:33,520
Tell your little streams about your camp
and the land of the free.

1319
01:10:33,730 --> 01:10:36,899
This is no place for you.
You're halfway decent.

1320
01:10:37,108 --> 01:10:38,275
Now go home!

1321
01:10:38,818 --> 01:10:41,194
That's all I wanted to tell you.

1322
01:10:42,113 --> 01:10:44,072
Meet the man I'm going to marry.

1323
01:10:46,784 --> 01:10:48,160
That's me.

1324
01:10:49,829 --> 01:10:52,706
Say something.
Don't just stand there like a...

1325
01:10:54,542 --> 01:10:55,876
Wait a minute.

1326
01:10:56,127 --> 01:10:58,337
Why don't I do this right?

1327
01:10:58,838 --> 01:11:02,299
So you want to be a senator?
Build a camp on Willet Creek?

1328
01:11:02,508 --> 01:11:05,093
See this? Deficiency Bill.

1329
01:11:05,303 --> 01:11:09,306
Section 40. A dam going up where you
think your camp will be.

1330
01:11:09,515 --> 01:11:11,725
Ever hear of it? No.

1331
01:11:11,935 --> 01:11:15,312
They read about it in the Senate today,
but you weren't supposed to hear.

1332
01:11:15,521 --> 01:11:17,981
That's why that ritzy dame
took you in tow.

1333
01:11:18,191 --> 01:11:22,486
That's why they sent you here.
You don't know a dam from a bathtub.

1334
01:11:22,695 --> 01:11:24,696
Go ahead. Be a senator.

1335
01:11:24,906 --> 01:11:27,824
Try and mess up
Mr. Taylor's little graft.

1336
01:11:28,034 --> 01:11:29,576
But if you can't,

1337
01:11:29,786 --> 01:11:32,746
and you can't in 9 million years...

1338
01:11:33,373 --> 01:11:37,417
Go home! Don't stay around here
making people feel sorry for you.

1339
01:11:38,878 --> 01:11:40,212
Come on, Diz.

1340
01:11:45,593 --> 01:11:47,177
Hey! This way.

1341
01:11:51,182 --> 01:11:54,434
Come on, kid.
We'll dig up a preacher. Hm?

1342
01:11:54,602 --> 01:11:55,811
[SOBS]

1343
01:11:55,979 --> 01:11:57,688
We're going to get married.

1344
01:11:58,648 --> 01:12:00,232
Oh, yeah.

1345
01:12:00,400 --> 01:12:02,401
[SOBBING]

1346
01:12:04,612 --> 01:12:06,446
Okay.

1347
01:12:06,990 --> 01:12:08,907
Come on, I'll take you home.

1348
01:12:17,375 --> 01:12:21,253
There are 100 other places in the state
that really need the water.

1349
01:12:21,462 --> 01:12:25,465
Kenneth Allen owns some land there.
He didn't mention a dam.

1350
01:12:25,675 --> 01:12:28,802
There's something wrong here.
I know there is.

1351
01:12:29,012 --> 01:12:31,972
I won't vote on it till I get
some questions answered.

1352
01:12:32,181 --> 01:12:34,641
Jeff, you're fighting windmills.
I am?

1353
01:12:34,851 --> 01:12:38,478
Trying to understand everything about
a project that took two years to set up.

1354
01:12:38,688 --> 01:12:42,149
The reasons, the benefits.
The benefits? Who is Taylor?

1355
01:12:42,525 --> 01:12:44,735
What?
What's he got to do with this?

1356
01:12:44,944 --> 01:12:47,696
What makes you think
he's got anything to do with it?

1357
01:12:47,947 --> 01:12:51,199
I've heard that this is all
his idea to get graft.

1358
01:12:53,870 --> 01:12:55,746
Do you know
what you're saying?

1359
01:12:55,955 --> 01:12:59,750
You're accusing me of framing a bill
for one individual's benefit.

1360
01:12:59,959 --> 01:13:02,878
Of helping to put through
a scheme for graft.

1361
01:13:03,796 --> 01:13:05,005
Long distance?

1362
01:13:05,214 --> 01:13:07,424
Get me James Taylor, Jackson City.

1363
01:13:07,717 --> 01:13:10,218
Boy Ranger, eh? Answer to a prayer?
Manna from heaven.

1364
01:13:10,428 --> 01:13:12,220
Didn't even know how to tell time.

1365
01:13:12,430 --> 01:13:14,556
Will you tell me
exactly what he's done?

1366
01:13:14,766 --> 01:13:17,642
He's about to blow the machine
to smithereens, and you with it.

1367
01:13:17,852 --> 01:13:19,519
Me, Jim? How?

1368
01:13:19,729 --> 01:13:21,605
You wouldn't understand that.

1369
01:13:21,814 --> 01:13:25,025
Listen to me, Mr. Ten-Thumbs,
I'm on my way to Washington.

1370
01:13:25,234 --> 01:13:29,905
No matter what happens, I'm all ready
for that Boy Ranger of yours.

1371
01:13:30,114 --> 01:13:32,199
Take your instructions
from Ken Allen.

1372
01:13:32,408 --> 01:13:34,785
I wouldn't trust you to lick a stamp.

1373
01:13:34,994 --> 01:13:37,621
Use your high office to help Alan
get things done.

1374
01:13:37,830 --> 01:13:40,040
Do you understand?
Yes, Jim.

1375
01:13:40,249 --> 01:13:42,042
I doubt it. Come on, Alan.

1376
01:13:42,251 --> 01:13:46,546
I haven't been able to show him a single
monument. Not even one that high.

1377
01:13:46,756 --> 01:13:50,008
No, he's been on our tail.
You've got to keep this guy off of us.

1378
01:13:50,218 --> 01:13:54,221
Ever since he found out we represent
the Creek, he's been running us ragged.

1379
01:13:54,430 --> 01:13:57,933
I told you I'd handle him.
I object to you coming here like this.

1380
01:13:58,142 --> 01:13:59,851
McGANN:
You proved how you can handle him.

1381
01:14:00,061 --> 01:14:01,895
You're the one that started him
writing bills.

1382
01:14:02,063 --> 01:14:03,188
[DOORBELL BUZZES]

1383
01:14:03,356 --> 01:14:04,481
Chick, let him in.

1384
01:14:04,690 --> 01:14:08,610
You didn't ask Smith here?
What do you think?

1385
01:14:08,820 --> 01:14:12,572
Don't open that door.
Jim, you can't do this.

1386
01:14:13,241 --> 01:14:14,741
Let him in, Chick.

1387
01:14:15,076 --> 01:14:16,618
All right, Jim.

1388
01:14:16,828 --> 01:14:18,286
You can count me out.

1389
01:14:21,666 --> 01:14:24,167
Good morning, senator.
Come right in.

1390
01:14:30,383 --> 01:14:32,634
What did you mean, count you out?

1391
01:14:32,885 --> 01:14:35,804
You can't come here
and pull that steamroller stuff.

1392
01:14:36,013 --> 01:14:37,764
Your methods won't do here.

1393
01:14:37,974 --> 01:14:40,559
He's a senator.
However it happened, he's a senator.

1394
01:14:40,768 --> 01:14:41,977
This is Washington.

1395
01:14:42,186 --> 01:14:45,856
Steamroller stuff?
My methods don't go in Washington?

1396
01:14:46,065 --> 01:14:47,482
They've done well by you.

1397
01:14:47,692 --> 01:14:51,403
That's beside the point.
This boy's different. He's honest.

1398
01:14:51,612 --> 01:14:54,072
He thinks the world of me.
We can't do it!

1399
01:14:54,282 --> 01:14:58,034
What am I supposed to do? Stand
around and let that drooling infant

1400
01:14:58,244 --> 01:15:01,872
wrap that Willet Creek Dam
appropriation around my neck?

1401
01:15:02,081 --> 01:15:04,541
Not me. Ha-ha-ha.

1402
01:15:04,709 --> 01:15:07,085
Either he falls in line with us,

1403
01:15:07,295 --> 01:15:11,047
or I'll break him so wide open
they'll never find the pieces.

1404
01:15:11,257 --> 01:15:13,967
Jim, I won't stand for it.

1405
01:15:14,177 --> 01:15:15,719
You won't stand for it?

1406
01:15:15,928 --> 01:15:19,014
I don't want any part
of crucifying this boy.

1407
01:15:19,265 --> 01:15:21,641
Oh. I see.

1408
01:15:22,226 --> 01:15:27,647
Our steamroller methods are too hard
for your sensitive soul. Is that it?

1409
01:15:28,107 --> 01:15:31,109
The Silver Knight
is getting too big for us.

1410
01:15:32,612 --> 01:15:35,572
My methods have been all right
for the past 20 years.

1411
01:15:35,781 --> 01:15:38,450
Since I picked you
out of a flyspecked hole-in-the-wall

1412
01:15:38,659 --> 01:15:40,785
and blew you up
to look like a senator.

1413
01:15:40,995 --> 01:15:42,829
And now you can't stand it?

1414
01:15:43,039 --> 01:15:45,415
Maybe you don't have to stand it.

1415
01:15:45,625 --> 01:15:48,793
Maybe we can fix it so you and the boy
can go home together.

1416
01:15:49,003 --> 01:15:52,797
You don't have to...
Oh. It's all right, it's all right.

1417
01:15:54,133 --> 01:15:58,261
Seems a shame, though, to part
company like this after all these years.

1418
01:15:58,471 --> 01:16:02,474
Especially now, with a national
convention coming up.

1419
01:16:03,851 --> 01:16:06,603
Joe, I put everything I have
behind you.

1420
01:16:06,812 --> 01:16:08,897
And so did all of our friends.

1421
01:16:10,149 --> 01:16:11,775
I guess we'll survive.

1422
01:16:12,151 --> 01:16:15,737
We'll just find somebody else
who's got a little more sense.

1423
01:16:15,947 --> 01:16:20,659
In the meantime, you go in and
explain to Mr. Smith about Willet Dam.

1424
01:16:20,868 --> 01:16:23,286
It's your bill. It's your reputation.

1425
01:16:23,496 --> 01:16:26,039
If he can't find enough facts
to break you with,

1426
01:16:26,249 --> 01:16:29,334
send him to me.
I'll give him a couple of good ones.

1427
01:16:29,669 --> 01:16:33,630
I'm taking the next plane home.
So long.

1428
01:16:36,717 --> 01:16:38,760
Jim.
Yeah?

1429
01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:42,055
Come here, will you?

1430
01:16:51,732 --> 01:16:53,900
It's just that I like the kid.

1431
01:16:54,735 --> 01:16:57,070
I don't want to see you
get too rough on him.

1432
01:16:57,280 --> 01:16:58,530
[CHUCKLES]

1433
01:16:58,698 --> 01:17:00,824
I'm glad you came to your senses.

1434
01:17:01,033 --> 01:17:03,576
You had me scared there for a minute.

1435
01:17:03,786 --> 01:17:07,497
Go back to your office. I'll call you
when I get through with Smith.

1436
01:17:08,416 --> 01:17:09,833
Okay.

1437
01:17:19,385 --> 01:17:20,385
[SCOFFS]

1438
01:17:20,553 --> 01:17:22,554
"The Silver Knight."

1439
01:17:28,686 --> 01:17:29,853
Hello, senator.

1440
01:17:30,062 --> 01:17:33,231
I was just passing through.
I thought I'd like to meet you.

1441
01:17:33,441 --> 01:17:35,817
Sit down. You met all
the boys here, I suppose.

1442
01:17:36,027 --> 01:17:38,778
They say you've been
on your toes since you got here.

1443
01:17:38,988 --> 01:17:40,488
That's fine.

1444
01:17:40,656 --> 01:17:44,326
Heh. You know, some people told me
that you were dumb.

1445
01:17:44,535 --> 01:17:46,036
I think you're smart.

1446
01:17:46,245 --> 01:17:48,663
You're smart enough
to understand a situation

1447
01:17:48,873 --> 01:17:51,082
when it's explained to you.
Like what?

1448
01:17:51,292 --> 01:17:52,959
Well, for instance,

1449
01:17:53,169 --> 01:17:54,961
building a dam on Willet Creek.

1450
01:17:55,171 --> 01:17:58,256
Just what's your interest in this?
What's my interest?

1451
01:17:58,424 --> 01:18:00,675
[ALL LAUGH]

1452
01:18:00,843 --> 01:18:04,054
Anything that benefits the state
is mighty important to me.

1453
01:18:04,263 --> 01:18:07,724
Owning a lot of its industry,
newspapers and other odds and ends.

1454
01:18:07,933 --> 01:18:11,770
If I felt you had the welfare
of the state at heart like I have,

1455
01:18:11,979 --> 01:18:15,398
I'd say you were a man to watch.

1456
01:18:15,608 --> 01:18:18,401
Now, what do you like? Business?

1457
01:18:18,611 --> 01:18:22,530
If you do, you can pick any job
in the state and go to the top.

1458
01:18:22,740 --> 01:18:24,491
Or politics. Huh?

1459
01:18:24,700 --> 01:18:28,787
If you like being senator, there's
no reason why you can't come back

1460
01:18:28,996 --> 01:18:31,081
and stay there
as long as you want.

1461
01:18:31,290 --> 01:18:33,124
If you're smart.

1462
01:18:33,334 --> 01:18:35,627
Now, you take the boys here,
or Joe Paine.

1463
01:18:35,836 --> 01:18:37,420
They're doing all right.

1464
01:18:37,630 --> 01:18:39,381
They don't have to worry about

1465
01:18:39,590 --> 01:18:41,674
being re-elected or anything else.

1466
01:18:41,884 --> 01:18:44,803
They're smart. They take my advice.

1467
01:18:46,263 --> 01:18:49,015
You tell these men
and Senator Paine what to do?

1468
01:18:49,225 --> 01:18:50,392
Why, yes.

1469
01:18:50,601 --> 01:18:53,728
Joe Paine has been taking my advice
for the past 20 years.

1470
01:18:56,148 --> 01:18:57,607
You're a liar.

1471
01:19:06,992 --> 01:19:08,785
I've got to see Senator Paine.

1472
01:19:08,994 --> 01:19:10,703
Senator Paine
is out of town.

1473
01:19:10,913 --> 01:19:12,914
Out of town? He couldn't be.

1474
01:19:14,917 --> 01:19:16,167
Oh.

1475
01:19:17,086 --> 01:19:18,711
PAINE:
Hello, Jeff. Come in.

1476
01:19:19,588 --> 01:19:22,215
Well, did you have a talk with Taylor?

1477
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:24,884
He said he's told you
what to do for 20 years.

1478
01:19:25,094 --> 01:19:26,970
I called him a liar.

1479
01:19:27,805 --> 01:19:29,681
Come over here and sit down.

1480
01:19:29,890 --> 01:19:31,933
I don't feel like sitting down.

1481
01:19:32,309 --> 01:19:34,269
Oh, I know how you feel.

1482
01:19:35,771 --> 01:19:38,231
I was hoping you'd be
spared all this.

1483
01:19:38,899 --> 01:19:40,733
I was hoping that you would

1484
01:19:40,943 --> 01:19:44,154
see the sights, absorb some history,
and go back to your boys.

1485
01:19:44,363 --> 01:19:47,907
You've been living in a boy's world.
For heaven's sake, stay there.

1486
01:19:48,117 --> 01:19:49,242
This is a man's world.

1487
01:19:49,452 --> 01:19:51,286
It's brutal, and you've no place in it.

1488
01:19:51,495 --> 01:19:55,248
You'll only get hurt. Take my advice.
Forget Taylor and what he said.

1489
01:19:55,458 --> 01:19:57,375
Forget you ever heard
of Willet Creek Dam.

1490
01:19:57,585 --> 01:19:59,752
But you still haven't
answered me, sir.

1491
01:19:59,962 --> 01:20:04,174
Can a man like Taylor tell you
and those other men what to do?

1492
01:20:04,383 --> 01:20:08,052
Now, listen, Jeff, please,

1493
01:20:08,262 --> 01:20:10,138
and try to understand.

1494
01:20:10,347 --> 01:20:13,141
I know it's tough to run
head-on into facts.

1495
01:20:13,350 --> 01:20:16,728
This is a man's world,
and you got to check your ideals

1496
01:20:16,937 --> 01:20:19,522
outside the door,
like you do your rubbers.

1497
01:20:19,815 --> 01:20:23,485
Now, 30 years ago
I had your ideals.

1498
01:20:24,445 --> 01:20:25,737
I was you.

1499
01:20:26,113 --> 01:20:29,699
I had to make the same decision
you were asked to make today.

1500
01:20:29,909 --> 01:20:31,201
And I made it.

1501
01:20:32,328 --> 01:20:34,662
I compromised. Yes.

1502
01:20:34,872 --> 01:20:39,792
So I could sit in that Senate and
serve the people in 1000 honest ways.

1503
01:20:40,336 --> 01:20:42,045
You got to face facts.

1504
01:20:42,463 --> 01:20:44,380
I've served our state well, haven't I?

1505
01:20:44,590 --> 01:20:48,176
We have the lowest unemployment
and the highest federal grants.

1506
01:20:48,802 --> 01:20:50,595
But I've had to compromise.

1507
01:20:50,804 --> 01:20:53,431
I've had to play ball.
You can't count on people voting.

1508
01:20:53,641 --> 01:20:56,017
Half the time they don't vote, anyway.

1509
01:20:56,227 --> 01:21:00,104
That's how states and empires
have been built since
time began, understand?

1510
01:21:04,318 --> 01:21:06,319
Well, Jeff.

1511
01:21:06,529 --> 01:21:09,572
You can take my word for it.
That's how things are.

1512
01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:14,994
Now, I've told you all this because...

1513
01:21:15,913 --> 01:21:18,122
I've grown very fond of you.

1514
01:21:18,749 --> 01:21:21,751
About like a son, in fact.

1515
01:21:21,961 --> 01:21:24,504
And I don't want to
see you get hurt.

1516
01:21:25,506 --> 01:21:30,385
When that Deficiency Bill comes up
tomorrow, don't say a word.

1517
01:21:30,594 --> 01:21:33,846
Great powers are behind it,
who'll destroy you before you start.

1518
01:21:34,056 --> 01:21:35,557
For your own sake,

1519
01:21:36,058 --> 01:21:39,060
and for the sake of
my friendship with your father,

1520
01:21:39,270 --> 01:21:40,979
please...

1521
01:21:41,188 --> 01:21:43,398
don't say a word.

1522
01:21:50,823 --> 01:21:53,408
Owing to the urgency
of the Deficiency Bill,

1523
01:21:53,617 --> 01:21:55,827
there is a unanimous
consent agreement

1524
01:21:56,036 --> 01:21:59,330
that no one will speak more than once
or longer than five minutes

1525
01:21:59,540 --> 01:22:01,916
on any section of the bill.

1526
01:22:02,209 --> 01:22:04,127
Clerk will read.

1527
01:22:04,878 --> 01:22:09,132
"The bill for deficiency appropriations
for the fiscal year, Section One.

1528
01:22:09,341 --> 01:22:10,592
On emergency relief:

1529
01:22:10,801 --> 01:22:13,303
To create and erect
public improvements on rivers,

1530
01:22:13,512 --> 01:22:15,972
harbors and roadways, $150 billion.

1531
01:22:16,682 --> 01:22:20,768
Section 40: An appropriation to divert
and impound Willet Creek

1532
01:22:20,978 --> 01:22:23,688
to the natural basin
of Terry Canyon, $5 million."

1533
01:22:23,897 --> 01:22:25,273
Mr. President?

1534
01:22:25,482 --> 01:22:28,109
PRESIDENT:
Senator Smith desires
to be heard on Section 40?

1535
01:22:28,319 --> 01:22:29,485
JEFF:
I do, sir.

1536
01:22:29,695 --> 01:22:32,280
PRESIDENT:
The senator understands
he's limited to five minutes?

1537
01:22:32,489 --> 01:22:33,906
JEFF:
Yes, sir.

1538
01:22:34,116 --> 01:22:35,533
PRESIDENT:
You may proceed, sir.

1539
01:22:36,744 --> 01:22:40,163
Mr. President, this section of the bill,
this dam on Willet Creek

1540
01:22:40,372 --> 01:22:42,290
is nothing but...
Mr. President.

1541
01:22:42,499 --> 01:22:45,251
Does Senator Smith
wish to yield to his colleague?

1542
01:22:46,712 --> 01:22:47,712
Why, yes, sir.

1543
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:49,297
PRESIDENT:
You may proceed, senator.

1544
01:22:49,506 --> 01:22:50,757
Mr. President,

1545
01:22:50,966 --> 01:22:53,343
I have risen to a difficult task

1546
01:22:53,552 --> 01:22:56,346
to say from evidence
that has come to my attention,

1547
01:22:56,555 --> 01:22:59,557
I consider Senator Smith
unworthy to address this body.

1548
01:22:59,767 --> 01:23:01,476
[CROWD MURMURING]

1549
01:23:01,644 --> 01:23:04,520
You boys go out and get the senators.
BOYS: Yes, sir.

1550
01:23:05,814 --> 01:23:08,191
Something going on inside, come on.

1551
01:23:12,112 --> 01:23:15,323
The senator will suspend
until order is restored.

1552
01:23:15,866 --> 01:23:18,493
BOYS:
All senators are
wanted on the floor, please.

1553
01:23:18,702 --> 01:23:20,703
[CHATTERING]

1554
01:23:23,832 --> 01:23:25,875
What's going on?
I don't know.

1555
01:23:26,085 --> 01:23:27,669
[BANGING GAVEL]

1556
01:23:38,347 --> 01:23:39,514
You may proceed.

1557
01:23:39,723 --> 01:23:40,973
I refer to the bill

1558
01:23:41,183 --> 01:23:44,936
he has introduced for
the creation of a national boys' camp.

1559
01:23:45,145 --> 01:23:48,231
He named a portion of land
to be dedicated to that purpose

1560
01:23:48,440 --> 01:23:52,485
and to be bought by contributions
from boys all over America.

1561
01:23:52,695 --> 01:23:53,778
Senators,

1562
01:23:54,488 --> 01:23:59,158
I have evidence to prove my colleague
owns the land described in his bill.

1563
01:23:59,368 --> 01:24:02,036
[CROWD MURMURING
THEN GAVEL BANGING]

1564
01:24:04,039 --> 01:24:06,791
He bought it the day after
his appointment to the Senate

1565
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:08,042
and is holding it

1566
01:24:08,252 --> 01:24:11,671
using his privileged office
for his own personal profit!

1567
01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:13,881
[CROWD MURMURING
THEN GAVEL BANGING]

1568
01:24:18,095 --> 01:24:19,721
Boy Ranger had a wreck.

1569
01:24:19,930 --> 01:24:21,431
This doesn't make sense.

1570
01:24:23,392 --> 01:24:24,767
Accordingly,

1571
01:24:24,977 --> 01:24:26,477
I offer a resolution,

1572
01:24:26,687 --> 01:24:29,856
an inquiry by the Committee
of Privileges and Elections

1573
01:24:30,065 --> 01:24:33,651
as to the fitness of my colleague
to continue to sit in this chamber.

1574
01:24:34,528 --> 01:24:36,112
Mr. President, I...

1575
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:38,156
[CROWD BOOING]

1576
01:24:40,325 --> 01:24:41,492
Order!

1577
01:24:42,327 --> 01:24:45,371
Chairman, clear the galleries
unless order is restored.

1578
01:24:49,918 --> 01:24:52,670
Flash! Ranger senator
branded by colleague.

1579
01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:55,131
Flash! Paine brings charges
to expel Smith.

1580
01:24:55,340 --> 01:24:57,508
Where's Saunders?
She'll have the lowdown.

1581
01:24:57,718 --> 01:25:00,470
I wish I knew.
She left town in that jalopy of hers.

1582
01:25:00,679 --> 01:25:05,057
Paine accuses Smith of introducing
a boys' camp built for his own profit.

1583
01:25:05,267 --> 01:25:06,517
Give me a cigarette.

1584
01:25:06,727 --> 01:25:09,520
Paine's asked for a hearing
before the Committee.

1585
01:25:12,524 --> 01:25:14,609
Well, frankly, my dear senators,

1586
01:25:14,818 --> 01:25:17,737
the morning that Mr. Allen
burst into my office

1587
01:25:17,946 --> 01:25:21,657
bringing proof that Smith
had the deed to that campsite,

1588
01:25:21,867 --> 01:25:23,117
I was dumbfounded!

1589
01:25:23,327 --> 01:25:26,996
Pardon me, what did you do when
this was brought to your attention?

1590
01:25:27,206 --> 01:25:30,041
I consulted with the head
of the Department of Records,

1591
01:25:30,250 --> 01:25:31,709
Mr. Arthur Kim.

1592
01:25:32,085 --> 01:25:35,046
MAN:
Mr. Kim, do you remember
recording such a deed?

1593
01:25:35,255 --> 01:25:39,509
Yes. On the date set forth here,
Mr. Allen came before me

1594
01:25:39,718 --> 01:25:41,093
to record this deed,

1595
01:25:41,303 --> 01:25:44,472
setting over 200 acres
in the name of Jefferson Smith.

1596
01:25:44,681 --> 01:25:47,558
How long have you known
Senator Smith, Mr. Allen?

1597
01:25:47,768 --> 01:25:49,685
Oh, a good many years.

1598
01:25:49,895 --> 01:25:54,106
He used my land by Willet Creek
every summer for his Boy Rangers.

1599
01:25:54,316 --> 01:25:57,693
Seemed like a mighty nice fellow.
One day he made a proposition.

1600
01:25:57,903 --> 01:26:01,322
Said he had a chance to sell
that land for at least $500 an acre.

1601
01:26:01,532 --> 01:26:04,909
I'd be glad to get 25 for it.
So we set it up like this:

1602
01:26:05,118 --> 01:26:07,995
I deeded him the land,
and he gave me a contract

1603
01:26:08,205 --> 01:26:10,706
guaranteeing me half,
if he made the sale.

1604
01:26:10,916 --> 01:26:14,544
Mind you now, the whole thing
sounded fishy at the time.

1605
01:26:14,753 --> 01:26:18,214
That contract you mentioned,
have you got that document?

1606
01:26:18,423 --> 01:26:20,716
That land wouldn't be
in his name if I didn't.

1607
01:26:20,926 --> 01:26:23,052
Yes, sir. Signed and delivered.

1608
01:26:23,262 --> 01:26:26,472
I never signed any such contract!
He certainly did!

1609
01:26:26,682 --> 01:26:28,140
Just a moment, please.

1610
01:26:28,350 --> 01:26:30,351
[CROWD MURMURING]

1611
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:36,107
After a long study of this signature,
it is my professional opinion

1612
01:26:36,316 --> 01:26:40,027
that it is definitely in
Jefferson Smith's own handwriting.

1613
01:26:40,237 --> 01:26:42,113
As an expert on handwriting,

1614
01:26:42,322 --> 01:26:46,701
I'd say the name of Jefferson Smith
on this contract has been forged.

1615
01:26:46,910 --> 01:26:50,788
I would stake my whole 20 years
professional career

1616
01:26:50,998 --> 01:26:54,250
on the fact that this is not a forgery

1617
01:26:54,459 --> 01:26:58,087
but is Mr. Smith's own signature.

1618
01:26:58,297 --> 01:27:00,673
This is a very painful duty for me.

1619
01:27:00,883 --> 01:27:02,925
This boy's the son
of my very best friend.

1620
01:27:03,135 --> 01:27:06,053
I sponsored him in the Senate.
I helped frame his bill.

1621
01:27:06,263 --> 01:27:08,848
When he presented it,
I went to congratulate him

1622
01:27:09,057 --> 01:27:11,434
but pointed out
a dam was already going up

1623
01:27:11,643 --> 01:27:14,186
on the very site
he'd chosen for his camp.

1624
01:27:14,396 --> 01:27:16,981
There are other
good campsites nearby

1625
01:27:17,190 --> 01:27:19,150
so I suggested he choose another.

1626
01:27:19,443 --> 01:27:20,693
He became furious.

1627
01:27:20,903 --> 01:27:22,612
He said, "Move the dam."

1628
01:27:22,821 --> 01:27:25,823
I was amazed at his violent reaction.
I couldn't understand.

1629
01:27:26,033 --> 01:27:30,077
Until the evidence came to me that
he owned those very 200 acres.

1630
01:27:30,287 --> 01:27:31,412
And as you have heard,

1631
01:27:31,622 --> 01:27:34,790
had carefully laid plans
to make an enormous profit

1632
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:39,837
out of the nickels and dimes scraped
together by the boys of this country.

1633
01:27:40,172 --> 01:27:41,339
Faced with that,

1634
01:27:42,424 --> 01:27:45,217
regardless of my
personal feelings for the boy,

1635
01:27:45,427 --> 01:27:49,055
my sense of duty told me
his expulsion from the Senate

1636
01:27:49,264 --> 01:27:51,098
was the only possible answer.

1637
01:27:51,308 --> 01:27:53,351
Beautiful, that Taylor machine.

1638
01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:55,561
[ALL MURMURING]

1639
01:27:57,773 --> 01:27:59,440
MAN:
Senator Smith, please.

1640
01:28:03,528 --> 01:28:05,029
Will you take the chair, please?

1641
01:28:16,708 --> 01:28:20,211
The Committee is ready
to hear you now, Senator Smith.

1642
01:28:28,303 --> 01:28:29,887
MAN:
Keep your seats, gentlemen!

1643
01:28:30,138 --> 01:28:32,098
Committee is not adjourned yet.

1644
01:28:32,307 --> 01:28:34,183
Quiet! Please!

1645
01:28:34,643 --> 01:28:37,186
[BAND PLAYING & MEN LAUGHING]

1646
01:28:37,354 --> 01:28:41,565
That Ranger never knew what struck
him when Jim Taylor opened up on him.

1647
01:28:41,775 --> 01:28:43,401
Which one of you girls wants this?

1648
01:28:43,568 --> 01:28:45,736
[WOMEN CHATTERING]

1649
01:28:45,904 --> 01:28:47,029
Eenee, meenie, minie, mo.

1650
01:28:47,197 --> 01:28:49,198
Do you want it?
WOMAN: Oh, yes.

1651
01:28:57,040 --> 01:28:59,041
[♪♪♪]

1652
01:30:01,396 --> 01:30:03,397
[JEFF SOBBING]

1653
01:30:23,502 --> 01:30:26,337
Oh... Oh.

1654
01:30:29,633 --> 01:30:32,134
You know, I had a hunch
I'd find you here

1655
01:30:32,344 --> 01:30:33,969
when you weren't anyplace else.

1656
01:30:37,974 --> 01:30:39,266
How've you been, Saunders?

1657
01:30:39,476 --> 01:30:40,684
Oh, all right.

1658
01:30:41,770 --> 01:30:43,229
Your husband. How's he?

1659
01:30:43,438 --> 01:30:45,022
My...? Oh.

1660
01:30:45,232 --> 01:30:47,149
Old Diz. We're not married.

1661
01:30:48,068 --> 01:30:49,527
Oh.

1662
01:30:51,905 --> 01:30:55,574
Good thing I got back just when I did.
You know what I found waiting for me?

1663
01:30:55,784 --> 01:30:58,953
No.
Jar of preserves from your mother.

1664
01:30:59,162 --> 01:31:00,246
Oh, you did?

1665
01:31:01,832 --> 01:31:04,458
What was it, strawberry?
Uh-huh.

1666
01:31:04,793 --> 01:31:06,544
That's the best kind.

1667
01:31:06,878 --> 01:31:08,629
Well, I...

1668
01:31:08,922 --> 01:31:11,882
I see by the papers
you certainly got to be a senator.

1669
01:31:13,844 --> 01:31:16,637
You sure had the right idea
about me, Saunders.

1670
01:31:16,847 --> 01:31:20,933
You told me to go back home and
keep filling those kids full of hooey.

1671
01:31:22,561 --> 01:31:25,312
Just a simple guy, you said,
still wet behind the ears,

1672
01:31:25,522 --> 01:31:28,315
lot of junk about American ideals.

1673
01:31:28,900 --> 01:31:31,569
That's certainly a lot of junk, all right.

1674
01:31:31,778 --> 01:31:34,697
Now look, senator...
I don't know,

1675
01:31:35,115 --> 01:31:37,366
this is a whole new world to me.

1676
01:31:39,661 --> 01:31:41,495
What are you going to believe in...

1677
01:31:42,581 --> 01:31:46,000
when a man like Senator Joseph Paine
gets up and swears

1678
01:31:46,209 --> 01:31:49,670
that I've been robbing
kids of nickels and dimes?

1679
01:31:50,630 --> 01:31:53,674
A man I've admired
and worshiped all my life.

1680
01:31:53,884 --> 01:31:55,134
I don't know.

1681
01:31:55,802 --> 01:31:57,428
A lot of fancy words in this town.

1682
01:31:57,637 --> 01:32:00,431
Some of them are carved in stone,
some of them...

1683
01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:02,933
Guess the Taylors and Paines
put them up there

1684
01:32:03,143 --> 01:32:04,894
so suckers like me can read them.

1685
01:32:05,562 --> 01:32:08,314
Then when you find out
what men actually do...

1686
01:32:08,857 --> 01:32:11,442
Well, I'm getting out
of this town so fast,

1687
01:32:11,651 --> 01:32:15,571
away from all the words and the
monuments and the whole rotten show.

1688
01:32:16,448 --> 01:32:17,573
I see.

1689
01:32:18,992 --> 01:32:21,577
When you get home,
what will you tell those kids?

1690
01:32:21,786 --> 01:32:23,954
Well, I'll tell them the truth.

1691
01:32:24,164 --> 01:32:26,665
Might as well find it out now as later.

1692
01:32:28,001 --> 01:32:30,252
I don't think they'll believe you.

1693
01:32:30,962 --> 01:32:34,423
They're liable to look up at you
with hurt faces and say:

1694
01:32:34,633 --> 01:32:36,884
"Jeff, what did you do? Quit?

1695
01:32:37,093 --> 01:32:38,844
Didn't you do something about it?"

1696
01:32:39,346 --> 01:32:42,014
Well, what do you expect me to do?

1697
01:32:42,224 --> 01:32:44,266
An honorary stooge like me against

1698
01:32:44,476 --> 01:32:48,145
the Taylors and Paines
and machines and lies.

1699
01:32:48,521 --> 01:32:51,482
Your friend Mr. Lincoln
had his Taylors and Paines.

1700
01:32:51,691 --> 01:32:55,527
So did every other man who tried
to lift his thought up off the ground.

1701
01:32:55,737 --> 01:32:59,281
Odds against them didn't stop them,
they were fools that way.

1702
01:32:59,491 --> 01:33:01,617
All the good that ever came
into this world

1703
01:33:01,826 --> 01:33:04,578
came from fools with faith
like that. You know that.

1704
01:33:05,163 --> 01:33:08,332
You can't quit now. Not you.

1705
01:33:08,667 --> 01:33:10,918
They aren't all Taylors and Paines
in Washington.

1706
01:33:11,127 --> 01:33:14,255
That kind just throw big shadows,
that's all.

1707
01:33:14,756 --> 01:33:18,384
You didn't just have faith in Paine,
or any other living man.

1708
01:33:18,593 --> 01:33:20,719
You had faith in something bigger.

1709
01:33:20,929 --> 01:33:24,765
You had plain, decent,
everyday common rightness

1710
01:33:24,975 --> 01:33:27,810
and this country
could use some of that.

1711
01:33:28,561 --> 01:33:32,064
So could the whole cockeyed world.
A lot of it.

1712
01:33:33,066 --> 01:33:34,858
Remember the first day
you got here?

1713
01:33:35,068 --> 01:33:36,777
Remember what you said
about Mr. Lincoln?

1714
01:33:36,987 --> 01:33:39,822
That he was waiting for
someone to come along?

1715
01:33:40,031 --> 01:33:41,073
You were right.

1716
01:33:41,283 --> 01:33:45,619
He was waiting for a man who could
see his job and sail into it.

1717
01:33:45,829 --> 01:33:49,498
Who could tear into the Taylors
and root them out into the open.

1718
01:33:49,708 --> 01:33:51,959
I think he was waiting for you.

1719
01:33:52,168 --> 01:33:55,212
He knows you can do it. So do I.

1720
01:33:55,422 --> 01:33:57,047
What? Do what, Saunders?

1721
01:33:57,257 --> 01:34:00,551
You make up your mind
you won't quit,
and I'll tell you what.

1722
01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:03,095
Been thinking about it
all the way back here.

1723
01:34:03,305 --> 01:34:07,641
It's a 40-foot dive into a tub of water,
but I think you can do it.

1724
01:34:14,941 --> 01:34:16,734
Clarissa,

1725
01:34:16,985 --> 01:34:18,402
where can we get a drink?

1726
01:34:18,611 --> 01:34:19,778
Now you're talking.

1727
01:34:19,988 --> 01:34:22,323
Come on over to my place.

1728
01:34:22,532 --> 01:34:24,533
[♪♪♪]

1729
01:34:34,377 --> 01:34:36,045
CLERK:
Mr. Dearborn.

1730
01:34:36,254 --> 01:34:37,755
Mr. Dernell.

1731
01:34:37,964 --> 01:34:39,798
Mr. Dwight.
DWIGHT: Here.

1732
01:34:40,008 --> 01:34:41,884
They're going to expel Smith
today, eh?

1733
01:34:42,093 --> 01:34:44,178
Where are the drums?
Where's the guillotine?

1734
01:34:44,387 --> 01:34:45,721
In fact, where's Smith?

1735
01:34:45,930 --> 01:34:48,557
Hasn't stopped running
since he left the Committee.

1736
01:34:48,767 --> 01:34:49,892
Mr. Singleton.
SINGLETON: Here.

1737
01:34:50,060 --> 01:34:52,311
Mr. Smith.
Here!

1738
01:34:52,520 --> 01:34:53,854
[ALL MURMURING]

1739
01:34:57,108 --> 01:34:59,485
[GAVEL BANGING]

1740
01:35:00,904 --> 01:35:02,071
That guy's batty.

1741
01:35:02,280 --> 01:35:04,782
The clerk will continue
with the roll call.

1742
01:35:06,326 --> 01:35:08,494
CLERK: Mr. Williams.
DIZ: Here comes Saunders.

1743
01:35:15,126 --> 01:35:16,418
Is this some of your
shenanigan?

1744
01:35:16,586 --> 01:35:17,628
Shh.

1745
01:35:17,796 --> 01:35:20,464
What's the matter?
Pray, Diz, if you know how.

1746
01:35:20,673 --> 01:35:24,093
Did you have anything to do
with bringing that guy in here?

1747
01:35:24,302 --> 01:35:26,345
Are you crazy?

1748
01:35:28,181 --> 01:35:30,891
Ninety senators have answered
to their names.

1749
01:35:31,101 --> 01:35:32,768
Quorum is present.

1750
01:35:32,977 --> 01:35:34,895
Proceeding now to the regular order.

1751
01:35:46,991 --> 01:35:49,785
Mr. President.
PRESIDENT: Senator MacPherson.

1752
01:35:49,994 --> 01:35:53,372
I desire to call up the report
of the Committee

1753
01:35:53,581 --> 01:35:56,792
on the expulsion of Jefferson Smith.

1754
01:36:00,004 --> 01:36:01,755
PRESIDENT:
Clerk will read the report.

1755
01:36:02,590 --> 01:36:04,633
"The Committee on Privileges
and Elections reports

1756
01:36:04,843 --> 01:36:07,261
it appears to the satisfaction
of the Committee

1757
01:36:07,470 --> 01:36:09,513
after hearing a number of witnesses,

1758
01:36:09,722 --> 01:36:11,932
that justice requires that Smith

1759
01:36:12,142 --> 01:36:14,393
no longer continue
a member of this body.

1760
01:36:14,978 --> 01:36:18,647
They report this resolution with
recommendation that the same do pass.

1761
01:36:18,857 --> 01:36:23,152
Resolved: That Jefferson Smith be
expelled from his seat in the Senate."

1762
01:36:25,029 --> 01:36:26,488
[MOUTHING]
Wait.

1763
01:36:28,283 --> 01:36:29,783
Mr. President.

1764
01:36:29,993 --> 01:36:32,578
I move for the immediate
adoption of the resolution.

1765
01:36:32,787 --> 01:36:34,455
[MOUTHS] Now.
JEFF & SENATOR: Mr. President!

1766
01:36:34,622 --> 01:36:36,748
I addressed the chair first.
I have the floor.

1767
01:36:36,958 --> 01:36:38,834
I'm asking for
a roll call on the passage

1768
01:36:39,043 --> 01:36:40,878
of the resolution
without further delay.

1769
01:36:41,087 --> 01:36:43,964
The senator can have
nothing to say that would not...

1770
01:36:44,174 --> 01:36:45,340
[BANGS GAVEL]

1771
01:36:45,508 --> 01:36:48,760
However, Senator Smith
is still a member of this body

1772
01:36:48,970 --> 01:36:52,264
and has an equal claim
on the attention of this chair.

1773
01:36:52,474 --> 01:36:55,726
You were about to recognize me.
That was merely your impression.

1774
01:36:55,935 --> 01:36:57,227
Let him speak!

1775
01:36:57,395 --> 01:36:58,687
[CROWD CLAMORING]

1776
01:36:58,897 --> 01:37:00,898
[GAVEL BANGING]

1777
01:37:02,233 --> 01:37:04,067
Before proceeding further,

1778
01:37:04,277 --> 01:37:08,530
I remind the visitors in the gallery
they are here as our guests

1779
01:37:08,740 --> 01:37:10,657
and should conduct
themselves as such.

1780
01:37:10,867 --> 01:37:13,911
And I might add that their sentiments
in no way will affect

1781
01:37:14,120 --> 01:37:16,413
the judgment of this chair.

1782
01:37:22,086 --> 01:37:23,670
The chair recognizes...

1783
01:37:25,757 --> 01:37:27,132
Senator Smith.

1784
01:37:27,300 --> 01:37:29,635
[ALL MURMURING]

1785
01:37:29,802 --> 01:37:32,304
Thank you, sir.
Diz, here we go.

1786
01:37:32,889 --> 01:37:36,725
I guess the gentlemen are
in a tall hurry to get me out of here.

1787
01:37:37,310 --> 01:37:40,354
The way the evidence is piled up
against me, I can't blame them much.

1788
01:37:40,563 --> 01:37:43,524
And I'm willing to go
when they vote it that way,

1789
01:37:43,733 --> 01:37:46,610
but before that happens,
I've got a few things to say.

1790
01:37:46,819 --> 01:37:49,947
I tried to say them once before and I
got stopped colder than a mackerel.

1791
01:37:50,156 --> 01:37:52,074
I'd like to get them said this time.

1792
01:37:52,283 --> 01:37:54,868
I'm not going to leave
until I do get them said.

1793
01:37:55,078 --> 01:37:56,578
Will the senator yield?

1794
01:37:56,788 --> 01:37:59,456
Senator yields?
No, sir, I'm afraid not!

1795
01:38:00,208 --> 01:38:01,333
No, sir.

1796
01:38:01,793 --> 01:38:05,629
I yielded the floor once before, and
I was practically never heard of again.

1797
01:38:05,838 --> 01:38:07,130
No, sir.

1798
01:38:07,674 --> 01:38:10,801
And we might as well all get together
on this "yielding" business

1799
01:38:11,010 --> 01:38:12,427
right off the bat now.

1800
01:38:12,637 --> 01:38:14,638
[CROWD LAUGHING]

1801
01:38:15,223 --> 01:38:17,808
I had some good coaching
last night, and I find

1802
01:38:18,017 --> 01:38:21,853
that if I yield only for a question,
point of order or personal privilege

1803
01:38:22,063 --> 01:38:25,065
that I can hold this floor
almost until doomsday.

1804
01:38:25,275 --> 01:38:29,278
In other words, I've got a piece
to speak and blow hot or cold,
I'm going to speak it.

1805
01:38:29,487 --> 01:38:30,737
Will the senator yield?

1806
01:38:30,947 --> 01:38:32,656
PRESIDENT: Will Senator Smith yield?
Yield how?

1807
01:38:32,865 --> 01:38:34,783
Will he yield for a question?
All right.

1808
01:38:34,993 --> 01:38:38,579
I wish to ask my junior colleague,
this piece he intends to speak,

1809
01:38:38,788 --> 01:38:41,915
does it concern Section 40
of that bill, the dam on Willet Creek?

1810
01:38:42,125 --> 01:38:45,043
Every aspect of this matter,
everything

1811
01:38:45,253 --> 01:38:47,421
was dealt with in committee.
Mr. President?

1812
01:38:47,630 --> 01:38:51,383
I ask my distinguished colleague,
has he one scrap of evidence
to add now

1813
01:38:51,593 --> 01:38:54,094
to the defense he did not give
at that same hearing?

1814
01:38:54,304 --> 01:38:57,889
I have no defense against forged papers!
PAINE: The committee ruled otherwise!

1815
01:38:58,099 --> 01:39:00,934
The gentleman stands guilty
as charged.

1816
01:39:01,144 --> 01:39:02,853
I believe I speak for every member

1817
01:39:03,062 --> 01:39:06,732
when I say that no one cares to hear
what a man of his condemned character

1818
01:39:06,941 --> 01:39:10,527
has to say about any section
of any legislation before this House!

1819
01:39:10,737 --> 01:39:12,988
Order, order, gentleman!
JEFF: Mr. President,

1820
01:39:13,197 --> 01:39:16,867
I stand guilty as framed
because Section 40 is graft.

1821
01:39:17,076 --> 01:39:19,536
And I was ready to say so.
I was ready to tell you

1822
01:39:19,746 --> 01:39:22,247
that a certain man in my state,
Mr. James Taylor,

1823
01:39:22,457 --> 01:39:24,875
wanted to put through this dam
for his own profit.

1824
01:39:25,084 --> 01:39:28,045
A man who controls
a political machine

1825
01:39:28,254 --> 01:39:30,756
and controls everything else
in my state.

1826
01:39:30,965 --> 01:39:33,258
A man even powerful enough
to control congressmen.

1827
01:39:33,468 --> 01:39:36,136
I saw three of them in his room
the day I went to see him.

1828
01:39:36,346 --> 01:39:38,555
PAINE: Will the senator yield?
I will not yield!

1829
01:39:42,226 --> 01:39:44,311
This same man,
James Taylor, came down here

1830
01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:47,481
and offered me a seat
in this Senate for the next 20 years

1831
01:39:47,690 --> 01:39:51,360
if I voted for a dam that he knew
and I knew was a fraud,

1832
01:39:51,569 --> 01:39:54,071
but if I dared to open
my mouth against that dam,

1833
01:39:54,280 --> 01:39:55,864
he promised to break me in two.

1834
01:39:56,074 --> 01:39:58,742
I got up here
and I started to open my mouth

1835
01:39:58,951 --> 01:40:01,328
and the long and powerful arm
of Mr. Taylor

1836
01:40:01,537 --> 01:40:05,165
reached into this sacred chamber and
grabbed me by the scruff of the neck...

1837
01:40:05,375 --> 01:40:07,668
PAINE: Mr. President, a point of order.
JEFF: Mr. President?

1838
01:40:07,835 --> 01:40:09,252
PRESIDENT:
Senator Paine will state it.

1839
01:40:09,462 --> 01:40:11,630
It was I who rose in this
chamber to accuse him.

1840
01:40:11,839 --> 01:40:14,758
He's saying that I was carrying out
criminal orders on falsified evidence.

1841
01:40:14,967 --> 01:40:17,928
He has imputed to me conduct
unworthy a senator, and I demand

1842
01:40:18,137 --> 01:40:19,930
that he yield the floor.

1843
01:40:20,139 --> 01:40:23,100
I did not say that Senator Paine was
one of the congressmen in that room!

1844
01:40:23,309 --> 01:40:24,351
I was in that room!

1845
01:40:24,519 --> 01:40:26,103
[ALL MURMURING
THEN GAVEL BANGING]

1846
01:40:26,270 --> 01:40:29,314
PRESIDENT:
Order, gentlemen. Order, gentlemen.

1847
01:40:29,524 --> 01:40:31,233
PAINE:
I accuse this man.

1848
01:40:31,442 --> 01:40:34,027
By his tone,
by his careful denials,

1849
01:40:34,237 --> 01:40:37,447
he is trying to plant
damaging impressions on my conduct.

1850
01:40:37,657 --> 01:40:39,700
I'll tell you why
we were in that room.

1851
01:40:39,909 --> 01:40:42,703
Because Mr. Taylor,
a respected citizen of our state,

1852
01:40:42,912 --> 01:40:45,080
had brought with him
the evidence against this man

1853
01:40:45,289 --> 01:40:47,124
and we were urging him to resign.

1854
01:40:47,333 --> 01:40:51,086
Why? To avoid bringing disgrace
upon a clean and honorable state.

1855
01:40:51,295 --> 01:40:53,672
But he refused!
Mr. President...

1856
01:40:53,881 --> 01:40:56,007
PAINE:
There is only one answer
to a man like him.

1857
01:40:56,217 --> 01:40:59,928
The truth, which I rose
and gave to this body.

1858
01:41:00,138 --> 01:41:01,596
Mr. President,

1859
01:41:01,806 --> 01:41:04,975
he is trying to blackmail this
Senate as he tried to blackmail me.

1860
01:41:05,184 --> 01:41:08,645
To prevent his expulsion, he'll even try
to hold up this Deficiency Bill,

1861
01:41:08,855 --> 01:41:11,690
vital to the country,
which must be passed immediately!

1862
01:41:11,899 --> 01:41:13,734
Have I the floor?

1863
01:41:14,026 --> 01:41:17,070
I have lost all patience
with this brazen character.

1864
01:41:17,280 --> 01:41:19,948
I apologize to this body
for his appointment.

1865
01:41:20,158 --> 01:41:23,660
I regret I ever knew him. I'm sick
of this contemptible young man.

1866
01:41:23,870 --> 01:41:26,913
And I refuse to stay here
and listen to him any longer.

1867
01:41:27,123 --> 01:41:30,041
I hope every member
of this body feels as I do.

1868
01:41:30,251 --> 01:41:32,419
SENATORS:
Get off the floor! Yield the floor!

1869
01:41:32,628 --> 01:41:34,254
[ALL CHATTERING
AND GAVEL BANGING]

1870
01:41:34,422 --> 01:41:38,717
Gentlemen! Gentlemen,
please address the chair!

1871
01:41:38,926 --> 01:41:41,595
Mr. President, what does
the gentleman want of this body?

1872
01:41:41,804 --> 01:41:42,971
I'll tell you, sir!

1873
01:41:43,181 --> 01:41:45,557
I want a chance to talk to people
who'll believe me.

1874
01:41:45,767 --> 01:41:48,435
The people of my state, they know me
and they know Mr. Taylor.

1875
01:41:48,644 --> 01:41:50,604
When they hear my story,
they'll rise up

1876
01:41:50,813 --> 01:41:53,398
and kick Taylor's machine
to kingdom come.

1877
01:41:53,608 --> 01:41:56,067
I want one week to go back there
and bring you proof.

1878
01:41:56,277 --> 01:41:58,528
In the meantime,
I want this Senate's promise

1879
01:41:58,738 --> 01:42:01,656
that I won't be expelled
and this bill will not be passed.

1880
01:42:01,866 --> 01:42:03,700
Will the senator yield?
JEFF: For a question.

1881
01:42:03,910 --> 01:42:08,497
Has the gentleman the effrontery
to stand, convicted and in disgrace
and try to force postponement

1882
01:42:08,664 --> 01:42:10,707
of the Deficiency Bill?
For one week.

1883
01:42:10,875 --> 01:42:13,710
Mr. President!
I appeal to the senator.

1884
01:42:13,920 --> 01:42:17,214
Is he fully aware that this bill
has been months in both Houses,

1885
01:42:17,423 --> 01:42:19,090
delayed and delayed?

1886
01:42:19,300 --> 01:42:21,218
Millions will be
without food and shelter.

1887
01:42:21,427 --> 01:42:24,971
Public works will be at a standstill!
Will we keep relief from the country?

1888
01:42:25,181 --> 01:42:28,475
The people of my state need relief
from crooked men riding their backs!

1889
01:42:28,684 --> 01:42:31,853
Mr. President, if the Senate yields
to this sort to blackmail,

1890
01:42:32,021 --> 01:42:33,438
it'll become a laughingstock.

1891
01:42:33,648 --> 01:42:35,816
It is an insult to this body
to have to listen.

1892
01:42:36,025 --> 01:42:38,068
An insult to our colleague,
Senator Paine.

1893
01:42:38,277 --> 01:42:40,445
I, for one, will follow
the senator's example

1894
01:42:40,655 --> 01:42:44,449
and refuse to remain in this chamber
as long as that man holds the floor!

1895
01:42:44,659 --> 01:42:46,409
[ALL MURMURING
THEN GAVEL BANGING]

1896
01:42:55,294 --> 01:42:56,878
Order, gentlemen!

1897
01:42:58,256 --> 01:43:01,925
I guess I'll have to speak to
the people of my state from right here!

1898
01:43:03,511 --> 01:43:04,553
I'll tell you,

1899
01:43:04,762 --> 01:43:07,097
wild horses won't drag me
off this floor until those

1900
01:43:07,306 --> 01:43:10,642
people have heard everything
I've got to say, if it takes all winter!

1901
01:43:10,852 --> 01:43:12,894
[ALL MURMURING
THEN GAVEL BANGING]

1902
01:43:16,816 --> 01:43:18,441
Filibuster!

1903
01:43:32,415 --> 01:43:34,958
Well, Mr. President,
we seem to be alone.

1904
01:43:35,167 --> 01:43:36,960
[CROWD CHUCKLING]

1905
01:43:37,169 --> 01:43:40,505
I'm not complaining
for social reason, it's just...

1906
01:43:40,715 --> 01:43:44,801
I think it'd be a pity if these
gentlemen missed any of this. And...

1907
01:43:49,682 --> 01:43:50,682
And uh...

1908
01:43:57,398 --> 01:43:59,274
[RATTLING]

1909
01:43:59,442 --> 01:44:02,402
I call the chair's attention to...

1910
01:44:04,113 --> 01:44:07,782
to Rule Five
of the Standing Rules of the Senate.

1911
01:44:07,992 --> 01:44:10,160
Section... Section Three.

1912
01:44:10,369 --> 01:44:12,913
"If it shall be found that
a quorum is not present,

1913
01:44:13,122 --> 01:44:15,749
a majority of
the senators present..."

1914
01:44:16,459 --> 01:44:18,084
And that looks like me.

1915
01:44:18,294 --> 01:44:20,921
[CROWD LAUGHING
THEN GAVEL BANGS]

1916
01:44:21,088 --> 01:44:24,424
"...may direct the sergeant at
arms to request, and if necessary

1917
01:44:24,634 --> 01:44:27,636
compel the attendance
of the absent senators."

1918
01:44:28,429 --> 01:44:30,764
Well, Mr. President, I so direct.

1919
01:44:30,932 --> 01:44:34,059
[CROWD MURMURING
THEN GAVEL BANGING]

1920
01:44:35,436 --> 01:44:38,480
The absence of a quorum
being suggested.

1921
01:44:39,815 --> 01:44:41,983
Bring the call to quorum.
Call to quorum.

1922
01:44:43,152 --> 01:44:46,237
There's no hurry, Mr. President.
I got plenty of time.

1923
01:44:47,114 --> 01:44:49,032
[BOYS SHOUTING IN DISTANCE]

1924
01:44:50,451 --> 01:44:53,161
BOYS:
Quorum call! Call to quorum!

1925
01:44:56,207 --> 01:44:59,501
[BELL BUZZING]

1926
01:45:00,795 --> 01:45:02,796
BOY:
All senators wanted on the floor!

1927
01:45:03,214 --> 01:45:05,632
[ALL MURMURING
THEN GAVEL BANGING]

1928
01:45:05,800 --> 01:45:07,717
PRESIDENT:
Clerk will call the roll.

1929
01:45:07,927 --> 01:45:09,928
CLERK: Mr. Agnew.
AGNEW: Here.

1930
01:45:10,137 --> 01:45:11,596
CLERK:
Mr. Albert.

1931
01:45:11,806 --> 01:45:12,931
Mr. Alfred.

1932
01:45:13,140 --> 01:45:14,724
Mr. Ashman.
ASHMAN: Here.

1933
01:45:15,309 --> 01:45:18,812
Joe, get this! Smith got
the floor and is holding it.

1934
01:45:19,021 --> 01:45:22,148
Just as they were about to kick him out!
He did it, Diz. It's wonderful!

1935
01:45:22,358 --> 01:45:23,775
It was terrific!

1936
01:45:23,985 --> 01:45:27,237
A filibuster! This is the miracle
I wanted. What a yarn!

1937
01:45:27,446 --> 01:45:29,614
Get everything
he says back to that home state.

1938
01:45:29,824 --> 01:45:32,951
It's a pleasure!
They're going to hear this in Patagonia.

1939
01:45:33,160 --> 01:45:35,787
In protest,
the whole Senate body walked out!

1940
01:45:35,997 --> 01:45:37,789
Not that straight stuff. Kick it up.

1941
01:45:37,999 --> 01:45:39,958
Get on his side.
Fight for him, understand?

1942
01:45:40,167 --> 01:45:41,668
You love this monkey, don't you?

1943
01:45:41,877 --> 01:45:44,879
What do you think?
Now go to work. Do as I tell you.

1944
01:45:45,172 --> 01:45:47,966
Take this: This is the most
titanic battle of modern times.

1945
01:45:48,175 --> 01:45:50,635
A David without even a slingshot
rises to battle

1946
01:45:50,845 --> 01:45:52,846
against the mighty Goliath,
the Taylor machine,

1947
01:45:53,055 --> 01:45:55,223
allegedly crooked inside and out.

1948
01:45:55,433 --> 01:45:58,268
Yeah. For my money
you can cut out the "allegedly."

1949
01:45:58,477 --> 01:46:00,270
We're bringing everybody up
from headquarters.

1950
01:46:00,438 --> 01:46:03,398
Where are they?
Come on, get these telegraphs moving!

1951
01:46:04,900 --> 01:46:06,609
You get Hendricks?
They're looking for him.

1952
01:46:06,819 --> 01:46:08,319
"They're looking for him." An editor.

1953
01:46:08,529 --> 01:46:10,280
Why isn't he at his desk,
where he belongs?

1954
01:46:10,489 --> 01:46:12,657
Don't you think you
better get back to that Senate?

1955
01:46:12,867 --> 01:46:14,701
The boy's talking to that state.

1956
01:46:14,910 --> 01:46:16,995
If he can raise public opinion
against us...

1957
01:46:17,204 --> 01:46:19,039
He'll never get started.

1958
01:46:19,248 --> 01:46:22,667
I'll make public opinion within 5 hours.
I've done it all my life.

1959
01:46:22,877 --> 01:46:24,878
I'll blacken this punk so...

1960
01:46:25,463 --> 01:46:26,921
Leave public opinion to me.

1961
01:46:27,131 --> 01:46:30,675
Now, go back into the Senate
and keep those senators lined up.

1962
01:46:30,885 --> 01:46:33,595
I hit him from the floor
with everything I knew.

1963
01:46:35,097 --> 01:46:37,182
I haven't got
the stomach for it anymore.

1964
01:46:37,391 --> 01:46:41,853
If he convinces those senators,
you might as well blow your brains out.

1965
01:46:42,063 --> 01:46:43,271
This is the works, Joe!

1966
01:46:43,481 --> 01:46:45,982
Either we're out of business
or we're bigger than ever.

1967
01:46:46,192 --> 01:46:49,778
We can't stop at anything
until we smash this yokel...

1968
01:46:49,987 --> 01:46:52,697
MAN: Hendricks on the phone.
Go back to the Senate, will you?

1969
01:46:52,907 --> 01:46:55,533
Hello, Hendricks.
Well, the chips are down.

1970
01:46:55,743 --> 01:46:59,496
Keep everything that Smith says,
or any other pro-Smith stuff

1971
01:46:59,705 --> 01:47:01,956
out of all our newspapers.
Understand?

1972
01:47:02,166 --> 01:47:04,751
And all the others
you can line up in the state.

1973
01:47:05,961 --> 01:47:09,881
Those broken-down opposition papers,
who won't play ball with us,

1974
01:47:10,091 --> 01:47:12,759
I want you to tie up for 24 hours.

1975
01:47:13,552 --> 01:47:16,971
Stall their deliveries.
Push them off the street. I don't care!

1976
01:47:17,181 --> 01:47:19,557
Bury them for 24 hours.
That'll give me plenty of time.

1977
01:47:19,767 --> 01:47:22,727
And you defend the machine.
Hit this guy!

1978
01:47:22,937 --> 01:47:26,189
Oh. The usual thing.
Criminal, and blocking a relief bill,

1979
01:47:26,398 --> 01:47:27,899
and starving the people.

1980
01:47:28,109 --> 01:47:30,360
Joe, will you get back
into that Senate?

1981
01:47:33,197 --> 01:47:35,198
And Hendricks,
get the hoi polloi excited.

1982
01:47:35,407 --> 01:47:38,451
Have them send protest letters,
wires, anything you like.

1983
01:47:38,661 --> 01:47:41,746
Buy every minute you can
of every radio station in the state

1984
01:47:41,956 --> 01:47:43,873
and keep them
spouting against Smith.

1985
01:47:44,083 --> 01:47:45,750
I don't care what it costs. Pay out.

1986
01:47:45,960 --> 01:47:47,752
Get moving.
Get the whole state moving!

1987
01:47:47,962 --> 01:47:49,963
[♪♪♪]

1988
01:47:53,384 --> 01:47:56,261
This filibuster is a cowardly attempt
to turn your attention

1989
01:47:56,470 --> 01:47:59,180
from the true facts
which are beyond question.

1990
01:47:59,390 --> 01:48:02,392
Jefferson Smith was caught
red-handed, stealing from boys.

1991
01:48:02,601 --> 01:48:05,186
Relief will be stopped.
Men thrown out of jobs.

1992
01:48:05,396 --> 01:48:07,397
[♪♪♪]

1993
01:48:15,406 --> 01:48:18,575
I've seen filibustering, but...
Smith can't go on. It's ridiculous.

1994
01:48:18,784 --> 01:48:20,869
We've got to get him off the floor.

1995
01:48:21,078 --> 01:48:24,581
As long as Mr. Smith
holds that floor legitimately,

1996
01:48:24,790 --> 01:48:26,499
he's going to continue to hold it.

1997
01:48:26,709 --> 01:48:29,127
If you ask me,
that fellow's making sense.

1998
01:48:29,336 --> 01:48:32,005
Sense?
You call blackmail sense, Henry?

1999
01:48:32,214 --> 01:48:34,841
Joe, I didn't like
this boy from the beginning.

2000
01:48:35,050 --> 01:48:36,801
But we feel that
no man who wasn't sincere

2001
01:48:37,011 --> 01:48:39,053
could fight like this
against these odds.

2002
01:48:39,263 --> 01:48:41,097
I'm very glad to know that, Martin.

2003
01:48:41,307 --> 01:48:44,726
After 20 years, I'm very glad to know
you'd take his word against mine.

2004
01:48:44,935 --> 01:48:46,853
Yes, that's what it means!

2005
01:48:47,062 --> 01:48:49,022
If he's that much right,
then I'm wrong.

2006
01:48:49,231 --> 01:48:51,608
Joe, can't we work out some deal

2007
01:48:51,817 --> 01:48:55,028
to pull that Willet Dam out
and let the Deficiency Bill go through?

2008
01:48:55,237 --> 01:48:56,905
It isn't a question of Willet Dam.

2009
01:48:57,114 --> 01:48:59,324
It's a question of my honor
and reputation.

2010
01:48:59,533 --> 01:49:03,620
The integrity of the Committee,
the integrity of the Senate itself.

2011
01:49:03,829 --> 01:49:05,914
If you want to throw out
Section 40, go ahead.

2012
01:49:06,123 --> 01:49:09,125
I'll resign.
Now, wait a minute, Joe.

2013
01:49:09,335 --> 01:49:11,002
This is a lot of nonsense.

2014
01:49:11,212 --> 01:49:13,671
Joe's right. A deal is impossible.

2015
01:49:13,881 --> 01:49:15,340
We've got to go on with this.

2016
01:49:15,549 --> 01:49:17,425
Break him, keep him talking.

2017
01:49:17,635 --> 01:49:20,762
No relief. Maintain a quorum in relays.

2018
01:49:20,971 --> 01:49:23,264
Is that how you feel, John?
I agree with you.

2019
01:49:23,474 --> 01:49:25,058
It's time to relieve the floor.

2020
01:49:25,267 --> 01:49:28,102
SENATOR 1:
How a man that green
knows as much as he does...

2021
01:49:28,312 --> 01:49:29,479
SENATOR 2:
Can't go on much longer.

2022
01:49:29,688 --> 01:49:33,233
JEFF:
"...that they're entitled by their creator
with certain inalienable rights.

2023
01:49:33,442 --> 01:49:36,319
And that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of..."

2024
01:49:39,406 --> 01:49:41,824
Well, looks like
the night shift's coming on.

2025
01:49:42,034 --> 01:49:44,577
[CROWD LAUGHING
THEN GAVEL BANGING]

2026
01:49:44,828 --> 01:49:48,248
PRESIDENT:
Senator will please suspend
until order is restored.

2027
01:49:48,666 --> 01:49:50,875
[GAVEL BANGING]

2028
01:49:56,757 --> 01:49:58,424
This is H.V. Coltenborn speaking.

2029
01:49:58,634 --> 01:50:01,427
Half of official Washington is here
to see democracy's finest show,

2030
01:50:01,637 --> 01:50:04,430
the filibuster:
The right to talk your head off.

2031
01:50:04,640 --> 01:50:07,767
The American privilege of free speech
in its most dramatic form.

2032
01:50:07,977 --> 01:50:09,936
The least man in that chamber,

2033
01:50:10,145 --> 01:50:12,563
once he gets and holds that floor,
by the rules,

2034
01:50:12,773 --> 01:50:15,775
can hold it and talk as long
as he can stand on his feet.

2035
01:50:15,985 --> 01:50:18,778
Providing always
that he does not sit down

2036
01:50:18,988 --> 01:50:22,156
and that he does not leave
the chamber or stop talking.

2037
01:50:22,366 --> 01:50:23,658
The galleries are packed.

2038
01:50:23,867 --> 01:50:27,287
In the diplomatic gallery are
the envoys of two dictator powers.

2039
01:50:27,496 --> 01:50:30,123
They have come here to see
what they can't see at home,

2040
01:50:30,332 --> 01:50:31,749
democracy in action.

2041
01:50:31,917 --> 01:50:34,836
JEFF:
Ahh. "...life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness

2042
01:50:35,045 --> 01:50:38,256
and to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among men,

2043
01:50:38,465 --> 01:50:41,467
deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed,

2044
01:50:41,677 --> 01:50:45,471
that whenever any form of government
becomes destructive to these ends,

2045
01:50:45,681 --> 01:50:49,225
it is the right of the people
to alter or abolish it."

2046
01:50:49,685 --> 01:50:51,019
How am I doing?

2047
01:50:51,437 --> 01:50:53,354
[CROWD LAUGHING]

2048
01:50:54,356 --> 01:50:56,691
Quit stalling and move!
Clark, Jim.

2049
01:50:56,900 --> 01:50:58,651
Oh, Clark...
MAN: Mr. Taylor?

2050
01:50:58,861 --> 01:51:00,069
Yes, wait a minute.

2051
01:51:00,279 --> 01:51:01,863
Phone Senator Paine about it.

2052
01:51:02,072 --> 01:51:05,325
This is Jim Taylor in Washington.
About this Smith filibuster.

2053
01:51:05,534 --> 01:51:09,454
Newspapers in the Southwest must
realize that this bill he's trying to block

2054
01:51:09,663 --> 01:51:11,331
will affect your section as well as any.

2055
01:51:11,540 --> 01:51:13,333
It's the patriotic duty of every
newspaper...

2056
01:51:13,542 --> 01:51:14,876
Wait a minute. Yes?

2057
01:51:15,085 --> 01:51:16,586
WOMAN: Jackson City calling.
Hold them!

2058
01:51:16,754 --> 01:51:19,339
We've got to keep hammering
at this man until we smash him!

2059
01:51:19,506 --> 01:51:23,760
Uh... I get a great kick out of that part
of the Declaration of Independence.

2060
01:51:24,219 --> 01:51:27,388
You're not going to have a country
that can make these rules work,

2061
01:51:27,598 --> 01:51:30,683
if you haven't got men that have
learned to tell human rights

2062
01:51:30,893 --> 01:51:32,477
from a punch in the nose.

2063
01:51:32,686 --> 01:51:34,687
[CROWD APPLAUDING]

2064
01:51:37,149 --> 01:51:38,649
That's good for a headline.

2065
01:51:38,859 --> 01:51:41,235
It's a funny thing about men, you know.

2066
01:51:41,445 --> 01:51:43,321
They all start life being boys.

2067
01:51:44,907 --> 01:51:47,617
I wouldn't be surprised
if these senators were boys once.

2068
01:51:47,826 --> 01:51:49,952
That's why it seemed like a good idea

2069
01:51:50,162 --> 01:51:51,913
to get the boys out of crowded cities

2070
01:51:52,122 --> 01:51:54,874
and stuffy basements for a
couple of months out of the year

2071
01:51:55,084 --> 01:51:57,627
and build their bodies
and minds for a man-sized job

2072
01:51:57,836 --> 01:52:00,588
because they're going to be
behind these desks someday.

2073
01:52:01,673 --> 01:52:04,759
It seemed like a good idea,
getting boys from all over the country.

2074
01:52:04,968 --> 01:52:08,471
Boys of all nationalities
and ways of living.

2075
01:52:08,680 --> 01:52:10,223
Getting them together,

2076
01:52:10,432 --> 01:52:13,142
let them find out what makes
different people tick.

2077
01:52:13,352 --> 01:52:16,479
Because I wouldn't give you 2 cents
for all your rules,

2078
01:52:16,688 --> 01:52:21,109
if behind them they didn't have
a little ordinary everyday kindness

2079
01:52:21,318 --> 01:52:25,071
and a little looking out
for the other fellow too.

2080
01:52:25,280 --> 01:52:28,157
[CROWD APPLAUDING]

2081
01:52:33,372 --> 01:52:35,832
That's pretty important, all that.

2082
01:52:37,501 --> 01:52:40,378
It's just the blood and bone
and sinew of this democracy

2083
01:52:40,587 --> 01:52:43,589
that some great men handed down
to the human race, that's all!

2084
01:52:43,799 --> 01:52:47,009
But if you've got to build a dam
where that boys' camp ought to be

2085
01:52:47,219 --> 01:52:51,556
to pay off some political army,
that's a different thing. Oh, no!

2086
01:52:51,765 --> 01:52:55,059
If you think I'm going back
and tell those boys in my state:

2087
01:52:55,269 --> 01:52:57,145
"Fellows, forget about it.

2088
01:52:57,354 --> 01:53:01,232
All I've been telling you about
the land you live in is a lot of hooey.

2089
01:53:01,442 --> 01:53:05,695
This isn't your country. It belongs to
a lot of James Taylors." No, not me.

2090
01:53:05,904 --> 01:53:09,282
Anybody here that thinks I'd do that,
they got another thing coming!

2091
01:53:13,829 --> 01:53:15,496
[WHISTLES]

2092
01:53:15,706 --> 01:53:17,373
[CROWD CHUCKLING]

2093
01:53:18,667 --> 01:53:21,586
I just wanted to
find out if you still had faces.

2094
01:53:21,879 --> 01:53:23,379
[CROWD LAUGHING]

2095
01:53:27,009 --> 01:53:28,050
[GAVEL BANGING]

2096
01:53:28,218 --> 01:53:30,470
Oh, I'm sorry, gentlemen.

2097
01:53:31,889 --> 01:53:35,933
I know I'm being disrespectful
to this honorable body.

2098
01:53:36,143 --> 01:53:40,396
A guy like me should never be allowed
to get in here in the first place.

2099
01:53:40,606 --> 01:53:44,942
And I hate to stand here and
try your patience like this, but I...

2100
01:53:45,152 --> 01:53:47,862
Either I'm dead right or I'm crazy!

2101
01:53:48,071 --> 01:53:51,365
You wouldn't care to put that
to a vote, would you, senator?

2102
01:53:51,575 --> 01:53:53,451
[CROWD LAUGHING
THEN GAVEL BANGING]

2103
01:53:53,660 --> 01:53:56,412
Will the senator yield for a question?
I yield.

2104
01:53:56,622 --> 01:53:59,332
In view of the gentlemen's touching
concern for the senators,

2105
01:53:59,541 --> 01:54:02,335
and the fact that he's been
talking for 7 and one half hours

2106
01:54:02,544 --> 01:54:04,587
and must be very, very tired,

2107
01:54:04,796 --> 01:54:07,131
would he permit a motion to recess
until the morning,

2108
01:54:07,341 --> 01:54:11,719
at which time he may better continue
with his profound babblings.

2109
01:54:11,929 --> 01:54:13,554
No. No, don't!

2110
01:54:17,017 --> 01:54:18,059
Ask him!

2111
01:54:18,602 --> 01:54:20,019
[SAUNDERS WHISPERING]

2112
01:54:25,859 --> 01:54:28,611
Mr. President,
what happens in the morning,

2113
01:54:28,820 --> 01:54:30,279
I mean, about my

2114
01:54:30,489 --> 01:54:33,616
having this floor
to go on with my "babblings"?

2115
01:54:33,825 --> 01:54:36,619
If the senator permits
this motion for a recess,

2116
01:54:36,828 --> 01:54:40,331
he won't have the floor in the morning
to babble with or anything else,

2117
01:54:40,541 --> 01:54:44,293
unless he is recognized first
by this chair.

2118
01:54:47,923 --> 01:54:49,423
Uh-huh.

2119
01:54:52,052 --> 01:54:53,511
As I was saying, gentlemen,

2120
01:54:53,679 --> 01:54:54,762
[CROWD LAUGHING]

2121
01:54:54,930 --> 01:54:56,973
I'm either dead right or I'm crazy,

2122
01:54:57,182 --> 01:54:59,016
and I feel fine.

2123
01:54:59,226 --> 01:55:01,310
What have you got, Dick?
From Miss Saunders.

2124
01:55:01,478 --> 01:55:02,520
Oh.

2125
01:55:28,422 --> 01:55:30,423
Is the senator yielding the floor?

2126
01:55:32,593 --> 01:55:35,886
Yield? Oh, no. Oh, no!

2127
01:55:36,096 --> 01:55:38,389
I feel fine!

2128
01:55:40,475 --> 01:55:43,436
The Constitution of the United States.

2129
01:55:43,645 --> 01:55:45,646
[ALL MURMURING
THEN GAVEL BANGING]

2130
01:55:49,776 --> 01:55:52,445
Page one, top left-hand corner.

2131
01:55:52,904 --> 01:55:56,532
"We the people of the United States
in order to form a more perfect union..."

2132
01:55:56,742 --> 01:55:58,618
Yeah? Well, buy it or wreck it!

2133
01:55:59,202 --> 01:56:02,663
Brady's column too? Holy smokes!
What's the matter?

2134
01:56:02,873 --> 01:56:05,124
This is murder, you got to call him off.

2135
01:56:05,334 --> 01:56:07,293
He's getting nowhere.
What are you talking about?

2136
01:56:07,502 --> 01:56:09,837
Not one word of what he says
is being printed in that state.

2137
01:56:10,047 --> 01:56:11,255
Oh, no!

2138
01:56:11,465 --> 01:56:13,758
Taylor has practically every paper
in the state lined up

2139
01:56:13,967 --> 01:56:15,551
and he's feeding them
doctored-up junk!

2140
01:56:15,761 --> 01:56:18,846
One man muzzling a whole state?
And how!

2141
01:56:19,097 --> 01:56:21,182
Freedom of the press!

2142
01:56:23,101 --> 01:56:25,311
Wait a minute! I've got an idea!

2143
01:56:26,605 --> 01:56:29,607
Jeff has a paper there,
Boy Stuff, right?

2144
01:56:30,108 --> 01:56:31,525
Terrific!
Look.

2145
01:56:31,735 --> 01:56:34,487
They aren't letting what Jeff says
get printed in the state.

2146
01:56:34,696 --> 01:56:36,781
If I give you a raft
over the phone now...

2147
01:56:36,990 --> 01:56:38,783
Write me a front-page raft, Diz.

2148
01:56:38,992 --> 01:56:40,451
Can you print it out

2149
01:56:40,661 --> 01:56:42,953
and spread a billion copies of it?

2150
01:56:43,163 --> 01:56:44,455
Swell!

2151
01:56:44,665 --> 01:56:46,499
Get ready to take it down,
will you, Mrs. Smith?

2152
01:56:46,792 --> 01:56:47,958
All right.

2153
01:56:48,168 --> 01:56:51,003
Boys, everything about Jeff.
Get pencils and paper, quick!

2154
01:56:51,213 --> 01:56:52,421
[♪♪♪]

2155
01:56:52,589 --> 01:56:54,048
All right, here we go!

2156
01:56:54,257 --> 01:56:58,010
All ready, Clarissa.
She called me Clarissa!

2157
01:56:58,679 --> 01:57:00,554
Okay, Ma!

2158
01:57:01,556 --> 01:57:03,724
"Jeff Tells Truth.

2159
01:57:04,101 --> 01:57:05,476
Shows Up Taylor."

2160
01:57:05,686 --> 01:57:08,312
I want the whole morning edition.
Push him off the floor!

2161
01:57:08,522 --> 01:57:10,523
[OVER PHONE]
Start your campaign for protests.
Wired!

2162
01:57:10,732 --> 01:57:14,110
"Willet Dam is a fraud to
line the pockets of the Taylor machine."

2163
01:57:14,319 --> 01:57:17,071
Here's your front-page editorial. Wait!

2164
01:57:17,280 --> 01:57:20,449
"A convicted thief
representing you holds the floor
of the United States Senate."

2165
01:57:20,659 --> 01:57:22,243
All right, boys. Hurry up!

2166
01:57:22,452 --> 01:57:24,704
BOY:
She said rush! Get cracking now!

2167
01:57:24,913 --> 01:57:26,914
[♪♪♪]

2168
01:57:33,839 --> 01:57:35,965
Come on! Bring on the paper!

2169
01:58:14,254 --> 01:58:17,673
JEFF:
"...charity wanteth not itself

2170
01:58:18,258 --> 01:58:19,800
is not propped up...

2171
01:58:22,512 --> 01:58:25,639
and now abideth faith,

2172
01:58:25,849 --> 01:58:28,934
hope, charity,

2173
01:58:29,144 --> 01:58:30,728
these three.

2174
01:58:32,898 --> 01:58:35,733
The greatest of these is charity."

2175
01:58:37,402 --> 01:58:39,403
[♪♪♪]

2176
01:58:43,074 --> 01:58:45,075
[BOYS CHATTERING]

2177
01:58:56,546 --> 01:58:58,255
[ROOSTER CROWING]
[PLAYS FANFARE]

2178
01:59:09,476 --> 01:59:11,477
[DOGS BARKING]

2179
01:59:13,480 --> 01:59:15,481
[BOY SHOUTING]

2180
01:59:18,026 --> 01:59:19,068
Read about Jeff.

2181
01:59:19,277 --> 01:59:21,654
Boy's Stuffcirculars.
Peddled by 9 million kids.

2182
01:59:21,863 --> 01:59:25,282
What are you standing there for?
Get the boys out! Kill it!

2183
01:59:25,534 --> 01:59:27,535
[♪♪♪]

2184
01:59:28,620 --> 01:59:31,163
[TALKING INDISTINCTLY]

2185
01:59:39,339 --> 01:59:41,507
Get these papers out of here.

2186
01:59:47,138 --> 01:59:49,974
Read all about it!
Jeff Smith lies in Senate!

2187
01:59:50,225 --> 01:59:52,226
[MARCHING BAND PLAYING
AND CROWD CLAMORING]

2188
02:00:00,443 --> 02:00:02,444
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]

2189
02:00:02,946 --> 02:00:05,531
MAN ON BULLHORN:
Wire Congress!

2190
02:00:05,824 --> 02:00:07,491
[BELL RINGING]

2191
02:00:10,745 --> 02:00:14,540
Are we going to let a man like Jeff
throw mud at a man like Joe Paine?

2192
02:00:14,749 --> 02:00:16,250
[CROWD YELLING]

2193
02:00:16,459 --> 02:00:17,751
Are you for Joe Paine?

2194
02:00:17,961 --> 02:00:19,962
[ALL CHEERING]

2195
02:00:21,339 --> 02:00:23,257
Hurray for Jeff Smith!

2196
02:00:26,136 --> 02:00:28,137
[MARCHING BAND PLAYING]

2197
02:00:29,806 --> 02:00:32,641
[BOYS YELLING
AND TRUMPET PLAYING FANFARE]

2198
02:00:37,188 --> 02:00:38,564
[BOYS SCREAMING]

2199
02:00:38,732 --> 02:00:40,608
Children hurt all over the city.

2200
02:00:40,817 --> 02:00:41,901
Tell Jeff to stop!

2201
02:00:42,110 --> 02:00:44,528
Yes. Yes, all right.

2202
02:00:44,738 --> 02:00:46,780
Yes. Goodbye.

2203
02:00:48,700 --> 02:00:52,161
"Senator Smith has now talked
for 23 hours and 16 minutes.

2204
02:00:52,370 --> 02:00:55,122
The most unusual and spectacular
thing in the Senate annuls.

2205
02:00:55,332 --> 02:00:58,542
One lone and simple American
holding the greatest floor in the land.

2206
02:00:58,752 --> 02:01:01,587
What he lacked in experience,
he's made up in fight.

2207
02:01:01,796 --> 02:01:04,298
But those tired Boy Ranger legs
are buckling.

2208
02:01:04,507 --> 02:01:06,258
Bleary-eyed, voice gone.

2209
02:01:06,468 --> 02:01:09,261
He can't go on much longer.
And all official Washington

2210
02:01:09,471 --> 02:01:11,347
is here to be in on the kill."

2211
02:01:12,265 --> 02:01:14,725
JEFF [IN HOARSE VOICE]:
There's no compromise with truth.

2212
02:01:14,935 --> 02:01:18,103
That's all I got up on this floor to say.

2213
02:01:18,313 --> 02:01:19,813
When was it?

2214
02:01:20,732 --> 02:01:21,982
A year ago, it seems like.

2215
02:01:22,192 --> 02:01:24,777
Terrible things are happening.
I've got to stop him.

2216
02:01:24,986 --> 02:01:26,946
They're listening to him.
Anything might happen now.

2217
02:01:27,155 --> 02:01:30,574
Just get up off the ground.
That's all I ask.

2218
02:01:30,784 --> 02:01:34,078
Get up there with that lady
that's on top of this Capitol dome.

2219
02:01:34,287 --> 02:01:36,413
That lady that stands for liberty.

2220
02:01:37,248 --> 02:01:40,376
Look at this country through her eyes
if you want to see something.

2221
02:01:41,711 --> 02:01:43,671
But you won't just see scenery.

2222
02:01:43,880 --> 02:01:46,674
You'll see the whole parade of what
man's carved out for himself

2223
02:01:46,883 --> 02:01:48,926
after centuries of fighting.

2224
02:01:49,386 --> 02:01:52,096
Fighting for something better
than just jungle law.

2225
02:01:52,430 --> 02:01:56,225
Fighting so he can stand on
his own two feet, free and decent,

2226
02:01:56,434 --> 02:01:57,893
like he was created.

2227
02:01:58,103 --> 02:02:00,854
No matter what his race,
color or creed.

2228
02:02:03,191 --> 02:02:04,775
That's what you'd see.

2229
02:02:06,069 --> 02:02:08,237
There's no place out there for graft

2230
02:02:08,446 --> 02:02:10,280
or greed or lies

2231
02:02:10,490 --> 02:02:13,200
or compromise with human liberties.

2232
02:02:13,410 --> 02:02:16,829
If that's what the grownups
have done with this world,

2233
02:02:17,038 --> 02:02:18,998
we better get those
boys' camps started fast

2234
02:02:19,207 --> 02:02:21,250
and see what the kids can do.

2235
02:02:22,085 --> 02:02:23,919
It's not too late.

2236
02:02:24,421 --> 02:02:27,214
Because this country
is bigger than the Taylors

2237
02:02:27,424 --> 02:02:29,550
or you or me or anything else!

2238
02:02:31,344 --> 02:02:34,221
Great principles don't get lost once
they come to light.

2239
02:02:34,431 --> 02:02:36,390
They're right here!

2240
02:02:36,599 --> 02:02:39,059
You just have to see them again.

2241
02:02:42,439 --> 02:02:45,774
Mr. President.
Will the senator yield for a question?

2242
02:02:46,234 --> 02:02:48,235
PRESIDENT:
Will Senator Smith yield
to his colleague?

2243
02:02:48,445 --> 02:02:50,696
Yes, I yield for a question.

2244
02:02:50,905 --> 02:02:54,408
The senator has said he is speaking
to the people of his state.

2245
02:02:54,617 --> 02:02:57,578
He has been waiting,
as he so fancifully puts it

2246
02:02:57,787 --> 02:03:00,247
for them to come
marching here in droves.

2247
02:03:00,498 --> 02:03:03,625
Would the gentlemen be interested
in what those people have to say?

2248
02:03:03,835 --> 02:03:05,419
Here it comes.

2249
02:03:05,628 --> 02:03:07,337
JEFF:
Yes, sir, you bet I would.

2250
02:03:08,840 --> 02:03:11,675
Mr. President.
Have I permission to bring in

2251
02:03:11,885 --> 02:03:13,927
evidence of the response
of my state?

2252
02:03:14,137 --> 02:03:15,888
Is there objection?

2253
02:03:17,140 --> 02:03:19,224
You may proceed, senator.
Pageboys!

2254
02:03:19,434 --> 02:03:21,185
Come on, boys, on your feet.

2255
02:03:31,738 --> 02:03:34,406
[COUGHING]

2256
02:03:55,220 --> 02:03:58,806
I can't stand it. I can't stand
to see him hurt like this.

2257
02:03:59,015 --> 02:04:00,474
MAN:
Public opinion made to order.

2258
02:04:00,683 --> 02:04:02,309
Taylor-made.

2259
02:04:02,519 --> 02:04:06,313
PAINE:
There it is.
There's the gentleman's answer.

2260
02:04:06,523 --> 02:04:08,899
Telegrams. 50,000 of them

2261
02:04:09,109 --> 02:04:10,651
demanding that he yield this floor.

2262
02:04:10,860 --> 02:04:12,402
I invite the Senate to read them.

2263
02:04:12,654 --> 02:04:14,363
I invite my colleague to read them.

2264
02:04:14,572 --> 02:04:17,366
The people's answer
to Mr. Jefferson Smith.

2265
02:04:48,481 --> 02:04:50,357
[LETTERS RUSTLING]

2266
02:05:01,327 --> 02:05:03,245
Stop, Jeff! Stop!

2267
02:05:48,208 --> 02:05:51,710
I guess this is just another
lost cause, Mr. Paine.

2268
02:05:56,925 --> 02:06:00,219
All you people don't know
about lost causes.

2269
02:06:00,845 --> 02:06:02,387
Mr. Paine does.

2270
02:06:04,557 --> 02:06:08,060
He said once they were
the only causes worth fighting for.

2271
02:06:08,561 --> 02:06:10,646
He fought for them once.

2272
02:06:11,147 --> 02:06:14,733
For the only reason that any man
ever fights for them.

2273
02:06:15,235 --> 02:06:16,693
[COUGHS]

2274
02:06:17,987 --> 02:06:21,406
Because of just one plain, simple rule:

2275
02:06:22,242 --> 02:06:23,408
Love thy neighbor.

2276
02:06:25,203 --> 02:06:27,371
In this world today full of hatred,

2277
02:06:27,580 --> 02:06:30,749
a man who knows that one rule
has a great trust.

2278
02:06:30,959 --> 02:06:33,585
You know that rule, Mr. Paine.

2279
02:06:34,170 --> 02:06:37,297
And I loved you for it,
just as my father did.

2280
02:06:37,548 --> 02:06:40,968
And you know you fight for lost causes
harder than for any others.

2281
02:06:41,511 --> 02:06:43,762
Yes, you even die for them.

2282
02:06:45,515 --> 02:06:48,100
Like a man we both knew, Mr. Paine.

2283
02:06:51,312 --> 02:06:53,105
You think I'm licked.

2284
02:06:55,358 --> 02:06:56,775
You all think I'm licked!

2285
02:06:58,653 --> 02:07:00,570
Well, I'm not licked!

2286
02:07:00,780 --> 02:07:03,865
I'm going to stay right here
and fight for this lost cause!

2287
02:07:04,075 --> 02:07:07,661
Even if this room gets
filled with lies like these

2288
02:07:08,496 --> 02:07:12,958
and the Taylors and all their armies
come marching into this place.

2289
02:07:14,127 --> 02:07:16,295
Somebody will listen to me.

2290
02:07:21,217 --> 02:07:23,468
[SAUNDERS SCREAM
THEN CROWD MURMURING]

2291
02:07:24,679 --> 02:07:26,179
Oh, Jeff!

2292
02:07:39,819 --> 02:07:42,070
He's okay. He just fainted.

2293
02:07:45,241 --> 02:07:47,075
Okay.

2294
02:07:50,663 --> 02:07:52,039
[GUNSHOT
THEN PEOPLE SCREAMING]

2295
02:07:52,206 --> 02:07:53,832
[GUNSHOTS]

2296
02:07:54,000 --> 02:07:55,625
Let me go!
What's the matter, Joe?

2297
02:07:55,835 --> 02:07:58,086
I'm not fit to be a senator!
I'm not fit to live!

2298
02:07:58,296 --> 02:08:01,173
Expel me! Expel me, not him!

2299
02:08:01,382 --> 02:08:04,843
Willy Taylor's a fraud! It's a crime
against the people who sent me here.

2300
02:08:05,053 --> 02:08:07,554
I committed it!
Every word that boy said is the truth!

2301
02:08:07,764 --> 02:08:09,765
Every word about Taylor
and me and graft

2302
02:08:09,974 --> 02:08:12,309
and the rotten political
corruption in my state!

2303
02:08:12,518 --> 02:08:14,978
Every word of it is true!
I'm not fit for office!

2304
02:08:15,188 --> 02:08:17,189
I'm not fit for
any place of honor or trust!

2305
02:08:17,398 --> 02:08:19,274
Expel me, not that boy!

2306
02:08:19,484 --> 02:08:21,485
[CROWD CHEERING]

2307
02:08:28,451 --> 02:08:30,285
We did it! We did it!

2308
02:08:34,874 --> 02:08:37,000
Order gentlemen! Please!

2309
02:08:45,760 --> 02:08:47,010
[YELLING]

2310
02:08:47,178 --> 02:08:49,596
He did it!
Let go of me!

2311
02:08:53,434 --> 02:08:55,936
Yahoo!

2312
02:08:57,230 --> 02:08:59,231
[CHEERING CONTINUES]

2313
02:09:02,902 --> 02:09:04,903
[♪♪♪]