They are very unforgiving people.
Toward you or the Black Tigers?
- Toward us, Mr. Booker. "We" is us.
- Perhaps.
Interesting document.
Morgan, you're gonna pick up that phone
and call the White House.
Sudden personal problems
are going to prevent you...
...from accepting the nomination
as Secretary of State.
If you don't,
the news media is going to have...
...one hell of a time with that letter.
I understand, Maj. Booker,
that you were quite a jungle fighter.
This is my kind of jungle, Major.
No, I just don't think it would be...
...expedient for me to resign at this time.
Expedient?
Just like it was expedient
to send us on that POW raid?
Expedience built this country, Maj. Booker.
It was expedient for this great democracy
to have legal slavery for half its existence.
And it was expedient to keep the vote
from women for 150 years.
Expedient to declare war on Spain
and Mexico and to invade Cambodia.
From the halls of Montezuma,
Maj. Booker, to the shores of Tripoli...
And it was expedient, goddamn it,
to get rid of the Black Tigers.
The end still justifies the means.
I don't buy that.
It occurs to me that most of those
who follow your logic end up in places...
...like Elba and San Clemente.
Come now...
Check your history.
Most of our expedient wars
ended up in failure.
Our successes didn't just happen
because they were expedient.
Those Americans you spoke of
gave up their lives willingly.
Does that really make such a difference?
It makes all the goddamn difference.
People like you never could see that
and maybe they never will.
It's not that you don't deserve
to be Secretary of State.
You don't deserve to live.
That's an interesting philosophy, but...
But philosophy is bullshit, right, Morgan?
That letter isn't.
I tell you what.
You take this letter over to
the Washington Post with my best regards.
But tell them they're gonna have
a hard time verifying that with Harolds...
...because visitors are not allowed
in the Bethesda Hospital psychiatric ward.
Yes, it was a shame.
They found him crawling on the floor...
...and howling like a banshee.
Took four men just to put him
into the straitjacket.
Nervous disorder, they called it,
but actually, he's quite mad.
Hello? I'd like to check on
the condition of a...
...Mr. Harolds, Edgar J.
Thank you.
A letter written by a madman is...
...hardly what they call prime evidence.
Is it, Mr. Booker?
As I told you,
I have a rather busy day ahead of me.
So if you'll excuse me,
I'm sure you can find your own way out.
By the way, Mr. Booker.
Tragic news about your lady friend.
Margaret, was it?
All that information she had
must have been irreplaceable.
Tragic.
You bastard!
Wait a minute.
Accelerator pedal working all right today?
Work for Morgan?
Do you?
We're running a little late, Franklin.
Secretary of State Morgan will become
one of the youngest men ever...
... to achieve this high office.
He's described as one of the new breed
of diplomats for the '70s.
Although still in his early 40s...
... Morgan has had
a long and distinguished career...
... as one of America's leading diplomats.
His skill at top-level negotiations
has made him...
... one of the few
State Department leaders to...
Franklin, where are we going?
I said, "Where are we going?"
What the hell is this?
Good morning, Mr. Secretary.
Booker.
Just what in the hell
do you think you're doing?
You said I was a good jungle fighter.
I'm also a fast learner.
All right, now, you stop this car, you fool.
Relax, Morgan, we're just going to talk.
All right, go ahead. Talk!
What you said about expedience
made a hell of a lot of sense.
I see there's only one way to deal with
people like you: expediently.
You won all the battles, Morgan,
but you're gonna lose this war.
How would you like to be an MIA?
What're