Here's the president's speech.
Put this
in the Library of Congress.
Folk music section, 1930.
Right away, please.
Get it in
the Library of Congress now.
Oh, God.
Who's seeing
the CBS guy tonight?
Tonight, you remember some song
from the folk song days...
about a good old shoe.
Tonight?
You're with him watching
the president's speech...
What if he's busy?
- Lure him.
- What are you saying?
I don't have to be
your confessor, darling.
Tell him you've got info
on the sex scandal...
it's on your conscience.
He'll drop whatever he's doing.
This is a shitty business.
It needs no ghost from the grave
to tell us that...
but, Lord willing,
eight days from now...
I'm gonna take you
into the second term.
Wait till you hear the speech.
The 303 speech. Great.
Where's that Fad King?
I'll get him.
Could we go now?
A good plan today is better
than a perfect plan tomorrow.
How are they doing
on Sergeant Schumann?
They're working on him,
they're finding him.
Good. It's working.
It's all happening.
It's taking place around us.
It is in the works.
It is being addressed.
We are being proactive.
We are going out with what
may be the finest example...
Get me an update on the army,
the Pentagon.
Get this guy Schumann.
Have him standing by.
I gotta tell you,
I see a lot of glum faces.
Please don't be disconsolate.
This is politics at its finest.
This is where the rubber
meets the road.
We've got a leader
going out tonight...
to 95 million American homes.
He's gonna turn
this thing around.
You think this is tough?
I was 4 months into production
on The Song of Solomon...
found out I didn't
have the rights.
Turn it up. It's our spot.
Tough? This is nothing.
Will you look at that shit?
'Cause you don't change
horses in midstream.
Don't change horses.
This speech is good.
We're kinda locked into it,
Mr. President.
For the future
of our families...
The music.
Where did they get that?
- Pain in the ass.
- What?
He won't do the speech.
What do you mean?
What choice does he have?
He won't do the speech?
He says it's corny.
It's what? It's corny?
Of course it's corny.
We wouldn't have him say it
if it wasn't.
It's not a question.
This is the center
for rest of the thing.
Don't tell me it's corny.
We're locked into the speech,
right?
We're locked in.
We are playing way past this.
We are past this.
This is what I need.
Get me 30 secretaries
and put them in an office now.
I need to see the president.
I need 5 minutes.
Know what this reminds me of?
Years ago, when I first
went out to Hollywood...
they said,
"It's too theatrical."
I was from the theater.
Everything was over their heads.
He thinks it's corny.
Don't tell me it's corny.
Tell him I'm comin'.
My fellow Americans,
I thank a merciful God...
and I am sure
each and every one of us...
will thank that Supreme Power...
whatever we conceive
that power to be...
that peace is at hand.
The threat of nuclear terrorism
has been quelled.
Mr. President, I'm using
a little more projection...
because I think this speech
needs a little umph.
Bear with me.
Beautiful.
Thank you so much.
That was so moving.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
I felt very much at home
in there.
Simple quirk of fate.
I could have gone this way.
It's all a change in wardrobe.
Was it too much?
I'll tell you.
You did it.
You jumped in there...
and saved the thing
when the thing needed saving.
It wasn't too much?
Personally?
Maybe it was.
The president doesn't
have to say it that way.
It's like Plato once said.
It doesn't matter
how you get there...
as long as you get there.
He said that?
What is