:22:01
the position of our aircraft
all over the country.
:22:05
I don't want our planes lined up
wingtip to wingtip
:22:07
the way they were before Pearl Harbor.
:22:10
I can assure you they're not,
Mr. President.
:22:12
The aerial -
:22:16
the aerial photographs
I had taken yesterday
:22:18
showed that our entire Air Force
was a sitting duck.
:22:23
Is been corrected, sir.
:22:25
Yes?
:22:27
The Essex helicopters have flown
into position,
:22:30
they're preparing to attack.
:22:32
Admiral Ward is in direct command.
:22:38
You've done everything possible
to anticipate this, Mr. President.
:22:46
Have I?
:22:49
Yes, you have.
:22:59
Seven aircraft carriers and
the nuclear carrier Enterprise,
:23:02
and some 90 other ships
carrying 50,000 Marines,
:23:06
156 American ICBMs are at
combat readiness,
:23:10
not including the
Polaris Submarine Strike Force.
:23:14
The strategic air command is
at maximum alert.
:23:28
Mr. President,
I have a report that seems to indicate
:23:31
that some of the Russian ships
have stopped dead in the water.
:23:33
Stopped, are you certain?
:23:36
Which ones?
:23:37
I'm getting some sort of
confirmation here.
:23:39
Is it true, dammit?
:23:41
Six Soviet vessels appear to have slowed
:23:42
or have turned back to the Soviet Union.
:23:44
Which ships?
:23:45
The situation is confused.
:23:46
Some ships are dead in the water,
some have turned,
:23:49
a few are continuing but
they're far off the line.
:23:51
The Gagarin and the Komiles
have put about.
:23:53
They're eyeball to eyeball,
:23:55
and I think the other fellow
just blinked.
:23:58
Mr. President, is terribly important