Page 23 - RICHERT VS. SORKIN THEFT OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT AND THE WEST WING

SOLVANG Keeps ne honest.
The- three men step up to the Security cuaril, open theii jackets to sho\r their picture IDs on their shi;ts, though their faces ale familiar to rnillions.
The Sergeant lets them through and they head along the walkway to the Executive Office auilding opposite the White House -
INT. PRESIDENTIS OUARTERS. EXECUTTVE OFFICE BUILDING. DAY.
TvTo rather nodest adjoining rooms constitute the 1ittle- known "other" office a11ot€ed the president in the
building designed in 1916 to acconmodate the growing White House staff.
One of the roons is like a library, books anal papers strewn about, over and unaler the coffee table, a; if a graduate student lrere at work.
In the other room is an enornous desk, an elaborate telephone console, a nap of the world on one entire wall
-- and, on the other three walls, hand-ilrawn cartoon ca!icatures of President San Anderson collected anal frameal from a twenty-year political
Here is SAM no\r, sittiDg at his desk, staring straight ahead at the wall in flont of hin, almost as-if making an address frorn a tel eprohpter.
HErS WATCHING: A caricature of hinself, riding a fonahalik
missile, it sticking penis-like flom between his 1e9s like
a wick with a canille being ignited by a match which reads like Lewis Carrollr fiLIGHT ME.n
HIS FACEr Impa$sive, his eyes move.
SECOND CARICATURE: Itrs Hawthorne StaI.
him twenty years ago frorn the
Heis got a youthful grin and a glass of irine at a spiffy table in the drak'ing -- but his plate is a smal1 bale oi bay and the caption reaals I ILET TI{EM EAT STRAI.I? "
SAMiS EYES: Sn'itch again as Solvang, Hovernann and Cyrus ente! the aloorway, folloi.'ed by a MARINE SERGEANT. Seeing them acknowledged by the presiatent,s glance, the l4arine steps out.
SOLVANG Mr. President -- -
tife.
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