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President and the Director of the CIA -- if the nukes are

sent -- they’ll be up in airplanes flying high while you and

the senators will sent to bunkers six stories down -- SIX

STORIES DOWN -- sure, you may survive and you won’t

be pushing up daisies ‘cause daisies won’t grow for

another hundred thousand years! Talk about the

President burying the Congress! -- Not literally, of course.

SPEAKER MANNING : You know... you know I find this

quite remarkable. It could actually work.

ARTHUR : ItalreadyISworking.AtfourA.M.President

Anderson will lose military protection and the protection

of the Secret Service on orders from the Treasury. He'll no

longer be a lame duck but a cooked goose!

(holds up his index finger)

It’s the finger on the button of doomsday, that’s what

we’re deciding here -- whose finger do we trust to push or

not to push the button to human oblivion -- a great hero

like General Red Dog Sorkin, trustworthy and American,

or a president who is incommunicado.

Speaker Manning looks at his nuke-button finger in the

firelight.

Both men turn at the SOUND OF THE FRONT DOOR

CLOSING.

Arthur's ASSISTANT PUBLIC RELATIONS AID ushers in

the diminutive REVEREND BROUGHAM "BRO"

MAYBERRY and his overly made up, large- busted,

blonde-wigged wife, KITTY MAYBERRY.

Arms wide open, crossing the polished floor towards

Manning: