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contribution to our country from you humble beginnings

is about to be recognized, my friend.

SPEAKER MANNING: (emotional; almost teary) My

beginnings were very humble, you’re right.

Arthur nods in commiseration, then Speaker Manning

rises as if to a great honor, then sinks to reconsider.

SPEAKERMANNING : Whatifthisblowsupinourfaces

and we are the ones tried for treason?

ARTHUR : Mister Speaker. You have not conspired with

either the Air Force or the Marines. When the President

and the Vice President are removed to custody -- and this

can be as simple as having the President walk across the

lawn to the Executive Office Building, away from the

White House -- You are next in succession and you will

have to be called upon in the chaos that will ensue most

certainly -- at that point MUST govern the country and

then will do so during the trial. You will agree of course to

step down should the President be found innocent of

treason.

(leans forward, sympathetic)

And what choice do you really have? Those missiles at

Rockland Air Force Base are being redirected to our

major cities at this very moment. And the Marines at Fort

Briggs are preparing a blackout of the entire East Coast.

Stability must be maintained, and you alone can provide

that.

SPEAKER MANNING: Stability must be provided...

:
ARTHUR FAIRFIELDThink of it, Mister Speaker -- the

high handed entitlement of it -- the President and the Vice