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What did they offer?
Censure?
Yeah.
History forgets these things.
Presidents don't.
They never get over it.
This one won't.
I don't think it's such a good idea
to be casual about the truth.
Neither do I.
Why can't you pick up a phone and say
"Would you like to go out sometime?"
PRESIDENT: No one in government
takes responsibility for anything anymore.
I'm to blame.
I was wrong.
PRESIDENT: We stand at a critical point--
a time of choosing.
If we take the hard course, the right course
there is no limit to what we can achieve.
There is no limit to what we will achieve.
( applause )
The dials go from zero to 100.
They dial up if they like what he's saying.
They dial down if they don't.
All the numbers lead to a central computer.
Like the Nielsens.
Yeah.
They're behind a screen somewhere?
The people with the dials--
they're behind a screen somewhere?
They're in Macomb Country, they're in Portland
in Los Feliz, California, Norman, Oklahoma.
Joey puts together a decent snapshot.
Which one's Joey?
Kenny!
Can we get Joey a second?
When did you pick that up?
I just said thanks.
Could he go easy with the pictures?
You said it wouldn't be a problem.
When did I say that?
C.J. Cregg said it wouldn't be a problem.
Joey, this is Lisa Sherborne.
She's doing a piece for Vanity Fair.
I don't have a lot of time right now.
What do the different lines mean?
Red's for Republicans, blue's for Democrats
and green's for Independents.
When we say something liberal, like...
"Death is bad."
Right-- blues go up and reds go down.
When we talk about values, reds and greens go up.
You're usually lucky to break 65.
I got to get back now.
I have abiding respect for the Speaker of the House
and the Majority Leader.
They are men of fundamental decency
and public servants of purpose.
LISA: How much of this did you write?
We don't really talk about that.
You think there's anything you're going to talk about
or is this going to be
an extraction?
...to the men and women of both chambers
who have labored to shed the weight of partisanship
and donned the cloak of progress.
The lines don't seem to be doing much.
Hang on.
It may be said that in the last half century
America won the Cold War
and modeled freedom for a waiting world.
Breaking out the greatest hits, huh?
Now, in a new century
when we meet and master
new forms of aggression and hatred, ignorance and evil
our vigilance in the face of oppression
and global terror will be unequaled
by any moment in human history.
( applause )
Now you're cooking.
And to the enemies of freedom
the enemies of democracy, the enemies of America
the enemies of humanity itself
we say here tonight with one voice
there is no corner of this earth so remote, no cave so dark
that you will not be found
and brought to light and ended.
( applause )
That's a numbers spike.
Hey, crank that up.
You broke 65 on all the lines.
We nearly had one almost as big.
What?
I said we nearly
had one almost as big.
What was it?
We almost cured cancer.
Really.
This close.
What happened?
Just one of those things.
Can I help you, ma'am?
Glass of chardonnay, please.
Hey, Amy.
Are you talking to me?
Yes.
What did I say about that?
You said not to talk to you.
Yet, you're doing it anyway.
You're doing it again.
You're still doing it.
I'm walking away now.
Ice and ***, please.
MAN: Sam Seaborn!
( applause )
Thank you.
Thank you.
I am at Ha Ha's in Cleveland on the 16th
and tip your waitresses.
Sam.
Congratulations.
Hey, you, too.
So far so good, huh?
The dials are what we thought.
We'll wait for the overnights.
Josh.
Still trying to get waived into Generation X?
Still a pompous ***?
Oh, you betcha.
See you later.
Tell me about the cancer thing.
It got cut.
Jack Daniels.
You were going to cure cancer?
We were going to say we were going to cure cancer.
Curing it is someone else's department.
How does that work?
How does what work?
Deciding what you're going to say?
You mean, writing the State of the Union?
Yeah.
It's a long story.
I'm writing a long story.
Do you do any kind of preparation
before you come to report...
I prefer to...
Hang out at Moomba?
The process begins six weeks beforehand with budget meetings.
Why budget meetings?
'Cause if we're introducing a new idea
people are going to want to know
how we pay for it.
Memos are written--
they come from everywhere.
Every agency, department
senior advisor, outside notable.
What's an outside notable?
Former presidents, Henry Kissinger
Bill Gates, Jesse Jackson--
Mr. Rogers wants to write us a memo, we'll read it.
We'll pass some of them on to the President
and he'll start making notes in the margins.
Then we have the "President's First Thoughts" meeting.
That's when we all want to kill ourselves.
Why?
'Cause that's when the President
tells us we're nowhere.
Why?
'Cause we're nowhere.
So we try to figure out what people want to hear
and that's when anybody
who didn't want to kill themselves before
has certainly been converted to the cult.
Why is it so hard?
'Cause it's a white piece of paper.
How high are the stakes?
How high can you count?
So what do you do?
Whatever it takes to get started.
And we read new memos, and we try new themes
and we hear new slogans and we test new lines
and after a few weeks of that...
we've still got a white piece of paper.
So it's hard.
Hmm?
It's hard.
It's hard under the best of circumstances.
Obviously, it got a little harder two weeks ago.
What happened two weeks ago?
Congress censured the President.
Yes.
Good morning.
What's going on?
Late last night, early this morning, the President
reached an agreement with the Leadership
to accept a Congressional Censure.
C.J.: How's he feeling?
Hmm?
How's he feeling?
Fine. It's over.
Joint Resolution?
Yeah. A Concurrent Resolution, actually.
It'll take a couple of days
for the lawyers to get together on the language.
We should leak it in the meantime
Yeah.
He's all right?
He's about to be censured
and then he's going to deliver the State of the Union
and then he's going to run for re-election.
My guess is that there are some things on his mind.
It's over.
That's all.
Thank you.
This is like the Civil War.
When's the last time
Congress rebuked a sitting president?
The Civil War.
And now, how do you...
Yeah.
Should we postpone the State of the Union?
What are the rules on that?
He's required to give Congress information
on the State of the Union.
If he buys Congress
a subscription to the Wall Street Journal
he's fulfilled his Constitutional...
Postponing or canceling's an admission of defeat.
He's accepting a censure.
That is defeat, and you don't ask
the school bully out to lunch
the day after he stole your lunch money.
You don't go on a starvation diet, either.
And we can spin
the censure as a bipartisan...
You can't spin a formal denunciation
from the legislative branch-- it spins itself.
I don't...
It's our biggest press hit of the year
our biggest pre-convention campaign exposure.
I don't know how you make a formal report to Congress
when Congress just called you a liar.
I say we strap a polygraph onto the TelePrompTer.
Humor-- to lighten the load.
I recommended that he take the censure
and if any of you had been on the inside
you'd have recommended it, too.
How does he deliver
the State of the Union in two weeks?
He's the President of the United States.
When he walks into the House Chamber
they're all going to stand up.
Anyone here not believe
this President can take it from there?
I still got my lunch money.
Toby? Sam?
You got to dig in.
Anything else?
( chuckling )
All right.
Hey, Sam.
Yes?
Well argued.
Yeah.
What do you want?
C.J....
Vanity Fair's pitching my office a story on you.
What's the angle?
They want to do a profile
and they want to start the reporting
on the night of the State of the Union.
Why don't they just cover the State of the Union?
This is their way of doing that.
The thing is... you know the writer.
Lisa Sherborne.
That's funny, 'cause I used to be engaged
to someone named Lisa Sherborne.
Isn't it funny?
I'd like you to.
What happened to rule number one on staff profiles
being that we don't do staff profiles?
When did we have that rule?
We should have that rule.
Keep the focus on the President.
People should think he writes the State of the Union.
I think people know about speechwriters.
Then there's no more story to tell.
In the past-- you tell me--
did it help or hurt that the campaign
had a youthful and energetic energy?
I'm not sure you can say "energetic energy."
It helped.
Do we need help right now?
Do young women read Vanity Fair?
So let them cover the President.
They do cover the President.
Right now, they want you
and I want to give you to them.
It's got to be Lisa Sherborne?
Hey, is the reason you guys didn't get married
'cause her name would've been Lisa Sherborne Seaborn?
Yeah, that's the reason.
I could do this for a living.
Do you have anything?
No.
I don't believe you.
I don't have anything.
If you didn't have anything you wouldn't be down here
at the party.
I like parties.
What do you have?
I have the first 20 minutes.
Okay.
You don't want the first 20 minutes.
Why?
Sam... hi.
Hi.
I just need a minute, okay?
I can wait.
I need you to wait over there.
Okay.
Why don't I want the first 20 minutes?
It's what we expected it would be.
Tell me.
It was the censure-- people saw it...
Just tell me.
Democrats, low to mid 50s.
Republicans, high 30s.
Independents?
Low 40s.
You are kidding me.
Low 40s?
We knew the first 20 minutes...
Ten minutes-- you said ten minutes and not this bad.
Wait for the rest of the dials.
We did Internet commerce in the first 20 minutes.
We did child asthma...
He wasn't the President in the first 20 minutes.
Wait for the rest of the dial groups.
Top line, cross-tabs, whatever you get
I've got a bad feeling about tonight.
Were those polling numbers?
No.
What was that about?
It was polling numbers
but it was... it was nothing.
How does it look?
It's too early to tell.
( people conversing )
( chuckling ): Sam.
You, too.
Ed, Larry, this is Lisa Sherborne from Vanity Fair.
Which one's Ed, which one's Larry?
ED AND LARRY: Doesn't matter.
Joey went back to the office.
Thank you.
You don't have to introduce me
as Lisa Sherborne from Vanity Fair.
I like to let them know they're talking to a reporter.
You really are uncomfortable with me being here, right?
You're not just, you know, being you?
I don't know what that means.
How did curing cancer get cut from the State of the Union?
Curing cancer?
Hey, we had to cut a section about making government manuals
easier to read, so curing cancer can take a number.
Why are you pissed at me?
I'm not pissed at you. I'm working.
You're done working.
I'm not done working.
You're confused because you see Absolut Cosmopolitans
and famous people.
( laughs softly )
A section on government manuals.
Yeah?
Can you get me the most recent memo from the DPC
on the welfare-to-work initiatives?
Yeah.
I'm seeing Amy again tonight.
A second date?
First date, really.
Last night was more of a, you know...
Yeah.
Good, 'cause the second date's usually
where the wheels come off the wagon for you.
That is so false.
A late drink.
Wilson's.
I like that place.
Why?
Well, for one thing, the piano player only seems to know one song.
Which song?
"Little things with fur better hurry..."
"Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry"?
"Surrey With the Fringe on Top."
Whatever. It's like I'm on a hay ride.
What are you doing?
I'm trying to figure out if you have to pay
for the plane ticket to Phoenix.
It was official travel.
Yeah, well, that doesn't really...
What does the rule say?
( sighs )
"An employee may not use
"contract airline/rail passenger service
"provided under the contract
"with the General Services Administration--
see part 301-15, subpart B, of this chapter."
What's the problem?
Let's set aside that there's no subpart B.
The rest of it uses a sentence structure
with which I'm not familiar.
No. See?
I think that's what this is designed to do.
I think it's designed to break a person's spirit.
And damn it, that's my job.
We're getting beat by the system.
We suck.
Yes. I need the welfare-to-work memo.
How many words
in the Gettysburg Address?
266.
And the Ten Commandments?
173.
So you really wouldn't think you'd need 6,000
to discover how a plane ticket gets reimbursed.
No.
What's going on?
Welfare-to-work.
I was happy when you said this morning
that you recommended the censure.
I'm thinking about the speech.
Don't ask me how it's going.
It's in the larva stage.
You can't rush these things.
It's not like putting a hammer to a nail.
I need some pie.
You should go get some.
Come with me.
Okay.
But don't ask me about the speech.
Wouldn't do it.
How'd it end up going last night.
Yeah.
Very, very well.
Thank you.
You know Amy's seeing somebody.
I do know that.
You know who?
No, and I don't want to know.
Yes, now that you mention it, who?
Really?
Yeah.
Yes.
Interesting.
Interesting, and I'll tell you why.
Why?
Because John Tandy is a...
Why?
'Cause they started seeing each other
shortly after Nan Lieberman announced
she was going to make a primary challenge in the 20th district.
Yeah.
Ah-so.
I don't think he's courting Amy Gardner;
I think he's courting women.
Why?
Really?
No, it's not ridiculous.
Of course you're right.
( sighs )
Hey, who's the President having dinner with tonight?
Friends of Abbey.
Good, 'cause when you're in his kind of mood
having dinner with your wife's friends
is just what you're hoping for.
( chamber music playing )
WOMAN: It's molecular pathology.
S.T.I.
That's the Signal Transduction Inhibitor.
I'm sorry?
S.T.I.-- stands for Signal Transduction Inhibitor.
Abbey just went to take a phone call.
WOMAN: We've tested it on 12 patients.
It is, yeah.
Where are you with the FDA?
The FDA just ruled they can use higher doses.
WOMAN: This they did.
MAN: I'm telling you, we're ten years, $25 billion
and a good luck charm away from curing human cancer.
More than $25 billion, but the point is...
Two, three more breakthroughs in molecular targeting...
Which is what the Signal Transduction Inhibitor is all about.
What did you just say?
Bobby, what did you just say?
We're talking about a new drug
which is a Signal Transduction Inhibitor.
Sphingosine kinase was identified recently
as the enzyme believed to control
all the signal pathways
to cancer growth.
This new drug can act as a kind of... guided missile.
Yeah.
That destroys cancer cells
without killing the healthy ones.
Right. The part I understood was Bobby saying
we could cure cancer in ten years.
Not cure it, but... make it chronic.
In other words
make it so that people could live with it?
Yeah.
What is standing between us and that happening?
I don't know.
Who at this table knows?
How much money would it cost?
Nobody knows that, either.
It's cancer.
Nobody knows anything.
He just said ten years.
I want to hear
about this from the beginning.
Talk to me like I'm not an oncologist.
I'm not messing around.
This isn't barbecue night.
I'm the Commander in Chief.
Put your *** in the chairs.
I'm out of pie.
We'll get some more.
So, how's it going on the, uh...
What are you doing?
The economy. I'm getting somewhere.
I can look at it when you're ready.
About another two hours.
Lisa's going to do a piece?
It wasn't my idea.
I wouldn't think so.
C.J. asked me if the reason we didn't get married
was because her name would have been Lisa Sherborne-Seaborn.
That's funny.
Yeah.
So, why didn't you get married?
Hmm?
Why didn't you?
She didn't like me very much.
Ah.
Good evening, Mr. President.
Good evening, sir.
I want to call everybody in.
I've just had dinner
with some of Abbey's friends.
They're all oncologists.
I think in the State of the Union
I can announce that I'm directing our researchers
to have a cure for cancer in ten years.
Call everyone in.
This is about the censure.
( piano playing "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" )
What did you just say?
I said it for your own good.
Did you?
I did. I like you.
I hate you.
Let's look at the facts.
Okay.
He was polling at 69% among Democrats.
And that's all Tandy's got in his district.
Congressman Tandy.
All right.
He had a 69% favorability rating with women.
You need 93% favorability among men to beat that
and Mahatma Gandhi doesn't get that in the Florida 20th.
Somebody's been studying.
When Nan Lieberman announces
that she might challenge him in the primary
his favorability goes down to 52%.
You know why?
'Cause you're an idiot?
'Cause women started going over to Lieberman.
Women's groups
started hedging saying there aren't enough women in Congress.
Tandy needs women.
NOW hasn't endorsed him yet.
It's January.
Yeah, still, when did he start going out with you?
A week after Lieberman announced.
How do you know when we started going out?
I know everything.
And you are the door to women.
The WLC put $9 million in the hands
of pro-choice candidates.
You narrowed the gap in the House
from 14 to nine in one election.
You bring home the bacon.
You think John's worried about losing women?
He runs and Emily's List practically makes a wire transfer.
He crushed his last opponent in Lauderhill--
I don't even remember his name--
but he was a moderate, pro-choice Republican
and there was a 29% gender differential.
You think he's going around with me
'cause he's afraid of Nan Lieberman?
I do.
( chuckles )
Well, I've never been so flattered in my life.
I don't think I'm getting enough credit
for saying this for your own good.
Don't talk to me.
Look...
Don't talk to me.
We'll change the...
You're talking to me.
Don't talk to me.
I should just sit here?
Yes.
Not talk to me.
Amy...
I have wit, I have charm, I have brains
I have legs that go
all the way down to the floor, my friend.
You don't have to...
Don't talk to me.
( cell phone rings )
Hello?
TOBY: Josh?
Yeah.
You got to come back.
Why?
The President thinks he can cure cancer.
Well, that's some good news, I guess.
Yeah. See you in a few minutes.
JOEY: Did he find a cure for cancer?
'Cause if he found a cure for cancer
I'd think that would be interesting.
I'd think that was something we should share.
Yeah.
But he didn't.
He wants to find a cure for cancer
and he wants to say that in the State of the Union.
You know what my response would be?
Me, too.
But is this the first time you had that thought?
Sign "union" again. That was cool.
No. It must have been a different word.
Is he serious about this?
That's not my department.
I get you to the meeting.
Right.
Joey?
Yeah?
How high are the stakes for the speech?
They're high.
But a magic trick isn't going to help.
How high?
High.
How high?
Well, you don't win anything in January.
You only lose.
If he doesn't park the State of the Union--
and I mean deep--
it'll be his last one.
All right.
You're in the Oval Office.
Hey, did I hear Toby right on the phone?
Could be worse, you know.
How?
He could have cancer.
Do the two of you ever go anywhere separately?
It's weird, isn't it?
A little weird, yeah.
What's going on?
What was that phone call?
We're going to meet and talk.
How did it go?
Not at all well.
You know whose fault it is?
No.
Yours.
Let's go.
Leo, is he serious?
He's on his way down.
Totally your fault.
I'm just, you know...
I'm just the guy who does the thing.
What?
We've run out of pie.
Good evening.
Thanks for being here so late.
ALL: Good evening, Mr. President.
A President stood up, he said we will land a man on the moon
before the end of the decade.
You know what we knew when he said that?
Nothing. We didn't know anything.
We didn't know about the lunar surface.
We didn't know how to land one of these things.
All we'd ever done is crash it into the ocean
and God knows, if we could figure out
how to land soft, we didn't know how to blast off again.
But a President said we're going to do it, and we did it.
So I ask you
why shouldn't I stand up
and say we are going to cure cancer in ten years?
I'm really asking.
Well, how close are we to really being able to do this?
Nobody knows.
Toby?
It'll be seen as a political ploy.
It can be seen--
Excuse me.
It can be seen
as self-serving.
How?
Using cancer
to deflect attention from MS.
You think people with cancer care what my motives are?
You think their families do?
I'm saying...
Joey?
I agree with everything
that's been said
except I don't think they'll see it as deflecting the M.S.
I think they'll see it as deflecting the censure.
Once again...
Everybody cares about motives, Mr. President.
I didn't...
She said, "Everybody cares about motives."
Sam?
Yes, sir?
Why shouldn't I do it?
I think you should.
I think ambition is good.
I think overreaching is good.
I think giving people a vision of government
that's more than Social Security checks
and debt reduction is good.
I think
government should be optimistic.
I'm sorry, I know it's late
but I want to start seeing drafts of a new section
in the next few hours.
C.J., I want a sense
of a media overview, too.
Now.
ALL: Yes, sir. Thank you.
I just want to look at some drafts.
I don't have an hour and half to spend on this.
I can do it.
You don't have an hour and a half to spend on it either.
Why are you opposed to this?
Stopping what we're doing to write about curing cancer?
Yeah.
'Cause it's never going to be in the speech.
How do you know?
What resources do we have to devote?
I don't know.
How much money is it going to cost?
I don't know.
That's how I know.
The man's about to get a Congressional censure.
He's trying to pull a rabbit out of his hat.
What are you doing humoring him?
I'm not humoring him.
I don't want you spending more
than an hour and a half.
You're a pollster.
Yes.
You don't think this would poll well?
Do I think people are in favor
of curing cancer? Yes, I do.
So?
The federal government
shouldn't be directing scientific research.
Why?
Because you stink at it.
If it was up to the NIH
to cure polio through a centrally directed program
instead of an independent investigator driven discovery
you'd have the best iron lung in the world
but not a polio vaccine.
When did you get an MD?
I was just quoting Samuel Broder.
Who's he?
The former director of the National Cancer Institute.
The speech is going to work fine.
Don't overreact to the censure.
There is no speech yet.
There will be.
I have to work now.
The President's asked me to try this.
I'll be in my office.
( soft music playing, people conversing )
Listen...
when the hell are we getting numbers?
You are a pleasure to work for.
I hear that a lot. When are we getting numbers?
When I say so.
So many women, so little charm.
What in God's name could you possibly want right now?
Let me tell you something.
Making government manuals easier to read?
Yeah.
Would have been a winner.
AMY: Come with me.
Excuse me.
( whispering ): He happens to be more feminist
than the White House.
I have no idea what you just said.
I said he happens to be more feminist
than the White House.
Feminine?
Feminist.
He wrote the amendment to the HHS appropriations bill
that made violence near abortion clinics a Federal crime
while you guys were seeking legal commentary.
Forgive us for talking to lawyers about the law.
He almost single-handedly
beat back three parental consent bills
and, on two of them, he ran his own damn whip operation
'cause they weren't Leadership priorities.
The Minority Whip doesn't work for us.
And he ties the Violence Against Women Act
Amy...
over White House objection.
I'm not quarreling with his credentials
as a lover of women.
I happen to know he excels in that area.
Look who's talking.
I'm just saying...
That he's using me.
I was saying that.
I was saying it two weeks ago.
Now I'm not saying anything in the vicinity of that.
Hey...
Hey.
Congressman.
Josh. Great night for us.
We'll see.
Amy, we're doing some pictures
with the President in the Mural Room.
You don't want to do them yourself?
No, come on.
Go ahead.
Photo-op.
Amy?
Yeah.
Congratulations.
We'll see.
( knocking )
PRESIDENT: Yeah.
Come on in.
Good evening, Mr. President.
You got it?
Yeah.
This is good.
You know we can't do it.
Yeah.
We'd need to line up experts
who can face the press, and in just two weeks.
Yeah.
Sloan-Kettering...
Dana-Farber...
The Cleveland Clinic, UCLA.
We'd want to include
the Society of Clinical Oncology.
And the NCI.
The OMB would have to score it.
We haven't identified the offsets to pay for it
and we can barely tell them what the it is.
Clinical trials under Medicare and Medicaid...
Science and Technology Democrats...
the pharmaceutical companies...
( sighs )
It was a good idea, though.
We have other good ideas.
So we don't get water from a rock.
We just do our thing and take our chances.
I think so.
We're going to have to do it awfully well this time.
We've done that before.
Anything else?
Thank you, Mr. President.
( partygoers conversing )
C.J.
Would you excuse me?
Well.
Something happened at the half-hour mark.
What?
They remembered
why they liked him in the first place.
The breakdowns are being handed around
but the really good news are the panel backs.
16 Democrats, 16 Republicans
and 12 Independents
were asked identical questions two days ago and one hour ago.
Two days ago
48% said he was able to handle his job effectively.
Tonight that number's 59.
"Trustworthy"
60%, up from 41.
Give us the real one.
"Strong leader..." 69%.
( whooping )
We're back! Yes!
Yes!
Somebody get these guys some pie.
( laughter )
Joey is there an extra copy of the panel backs?
I didn't get one.
I got one.
C.J.
Dance with me.
Hang on. I'm just going to toss this in my office.
Congratulations, boss.
Nice job.
Take the rest of the night off.
Yeah. It's 1:00 in the morning.
Well, you earned it.
Sam, Sam, the sunshine man.
Get on the couch. I'm going to do you right now.
Sorry, I was still talking to Carol.
What is wrong with you?
We really don't know.
Lisa mentioned that it wasn't going that well tonight.
You've still got a couple of weeks with her, you'll...
Yeah, I wish we hadn't started tonight.
Why? It was a shining moment.
It got the job done
but it's ironic
that a thing, a sort of a thing between us
is-- I'm supposed to know the difference
between flash and substance.
Sometimes a little flash
is what's required.
You said that to me.
I say that when I don't have anything to say.
It wasn't a Vegas act-- it was stirring.
And I wouldn't hang your head
when you say it got the job done.
That job was impossible and it had to be done.
There aren't ten guys in the country
who could write that speech.
I'll bet the Cancer Committee
can't wait to buy me a beer.
Hey, I'm just... You know.
Anyway, congratulations-- and if you're serious
about that thing with Carol
I can just sit in the corner
Get out.
SAM: Sorry, I was just getting some numbers.
Can you tell me what they were?
They're internal numbers.
CNN/USA Today will have something in a little while.
Anyway...
this is my office over here.
Sam
I'm going to give my notes from tonight
to someone else and let them finish the reporting
over the next few weeks.
You're obviously not comfortable with this.
They're internal numbers, Lisa, I can't...
Yeah, whatever.
I'm going to give my notes to someone else.
Anyway.
This is my office.
It's nice.
C.J. asked me a couple of weeks ago
if the reason we didn't get married
is because your name would be Sherborne-Seaborn.
That's exactly why we didn't get married.
Why didn't we get married?
Why do you think?
'Cause I don't know
what the cool restaurant is and I don't care.
When I get hungry, I want to eat
and I don't know where the Tommy Hilfigger party is
and I don't know what to do once I get there.
You're full of crap.
I was never cool enough for you.
You're full of crap and you think too little of me
and I didn't leave you-- you left me
and you did it to do this.
The reason you're pissy is 'cause I'm here
looking at you and writing about you
and you're wondering if I'm going to think
you've been doing anything at all.
Often it's not clear to me whether or not I have.
You have.
How would you know?
I don't know.
Here's something interesting.
In 1940, our armed forces weren't among
the 12 most formidable in the world, but obviously
we were going to fight a big war
and Roosevelt said the US would produce
50,000 planes in the next four years.
Everyone thought it was a joke
and it was, 'cause it turned out we produced
Gave the Air Force an armada that would block the sun.
Do you still have what you wrote that night?
About curing cancer?
Yeah.
Read it to me.
"Over the past half century, we've split the atom
"we've spliced the gene and we've roamed Tranquillity Base.
"We've reached for the stars
"and never have we been closer to having them in our grasp.
"New science, new technology is making the difference
"between life and death, and so we need
"a national commitment
"equal to this unparalleled moment of possibility.
"And so I announce to you tonight that I will bring
"the full resources of the Federal Government
"and the full reach of my office to this fundamental goal:
We will cure cancer by the end of this decade."
That was nice.
I'll pass the notes along.