![]() Christopher Todd: That could easily mean another place.Colonel William "Mutt" Henderson: We seem to spend more time training for seizure than for prevention, like the Commies already had the stuff, and we had to get it back.The people don't believe the Russians're going to take those bombs apart on July 1st, and neither do I. Senator Frederick Prentice: Ah, it's as simple as this: the President trusts Russia, and the American people don't.I'll make you two promises: a very good steak, medium rare, and the truth, which is very rare.He was a man I worked for and admired until he disgraced the four stars on his uniform. ![]() But I'm not going to make matters worse by getting drunk on the job. Jordy Boy, right now, short of a Confederate miracle, you're going to be walking in a parade with both your legs cut off.Say, uh, you got a dime to stop a revolution with? Tell you what, friend: when this is over you can take off your girdle and have yourself a real good cry. There are just a handful of men that can prevent it. All you've got to know is this: right now the government of the United States is sitting on top of the Washington Monument, right on the very point, tilting right and left and ready to fall off and break up on the pavement.He doesn't have many principles, but he's loyal to his friends. And bought and paid for with the lives of other men. Those mistakes are delivered to us C.O.D. Every 20 years or so we have to pick ourselves up off the floor bleeding and pay for that mistake. I sometimes wonder why we haven't learned that lesson by now. There hasn't been a single piece of paper written in the history of mankind that could serve as a deterrent to a Pearl Harbor.And now we're asked to believe that a piece of paper will take the place of missile sites and Polaris submarines, and that an enemy who hasn't honored one solemn treaty in the history of its existence will now, for our convenience, do precisely that. We've stayed alive because we've built up an arsenal, and we've kept the peace because we've dealt with an enemy who knew we would use that arsenal. I think the signing of a nuclear disarmament pact with the Soviet Union is at best an act of naivete, and at worst an unsupportable negligence.
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