:05:03
During the war, he couldn't go fast enough.
:05:06
"Get on that beachhead, through the
tank traps, across the Rhine. Step on it."
:05:10
Faster, 100 miles an hour,
24 hours a day through burning towns.
:05:16
Then one day the war is over.
:05:18
You expect him to jam on those brakes
and stop like that.
:05:21
Everybody can't stop like that!
:05:23
Sometimes you skid, sometimes you go
into a spin and smash into a tree
:05:27
and bash your fenders and scrape those
fine ideals you brought from home.
:05:32
It's time such wrecks
were hauled into a garage.
:05:34
- Anyone who forgets he's American...
- Don't forget he's also human.
:05:38
What would you know about that?
:05:42
Von Schlegel, von Schlittenheim...
:05:44
The loneliness is stored up right down
to his boots and it's driving him crazy.
:05:48
One day a pair of
open-toed shoes come along.
:05:51
You want him to ask questions?
Party affiliation? Social Security number?
:05:55
Yes, I want him to make sure
he's not doing something subversive.
:05:58
Are you qualified to call the pitch on this?
What's your life, anyway?
:06:03
Committees and sessions
and adjournments
:06:05
and budget cuts and appropriations.
:06:07
What do you do for laughs? What do you
do for tears for that matter?
:06:13
For tears... for tears I cry, Captain Pringle.
:06:17
It may interest you to know
I once cried for a man
:06:19
till my eyes were
half washed out of my head.
:06:22
Not really.
:06:24
I was on an important subcommittee.
One was a Southern Democrat.
:06:28
His convictions
were utterly different from mine.
:06:31
I hated everything he stood for.
I despised his politics.
:06:35
But I loved him... insanely.
:06:39
I loved the Southern syrup in his voice.
:06:43
His mint julep manners.
:06:45
The way he'd look at me
through his long thick eyelashes
:06:49
when I was vetoing an amendment.
:06:52
He'd put his arm around me,
just kind of lazy, like.
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Lean his head against my cheek.