Seven Days in May (1964) Poster

Edmond O'Brien: Sen. Raymond Clark

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  • Senator Raymond Clark : Ah, don't get your nanny up; you knew there'd be some dislocations. You can't gear a country's economy for war for 20 years, then suddenly slam on the brakes and expect the whole transition to go like grease through a goose. Hmph. Doesn't work out like that. And think how the whole psychology of the thing's been screwed up from the outset. We've been hating the Russians for a quarter of a century. Suddenly we sign a treaty that says in two months they're to dismantle their bombs, we're to dismantle ours, and we all ride to a peaceful glory. This country will probably live as if peace were just as big a threat as war.

    President Jordan Lyman : Dammit, Ray, we could've had our paradise. Yes, by God, we could've had full employment, whopping Gross National Product, nice cushy feeling that we've got a bomb for every one of theirs. But just as sure as God made the state of Georgia, there'd've come one day when they'd've blown us up, or we'd've blown them up. My doctor worries about my blood pressure. You know who that gentleman is down there with the black box. There are five of them... you know that one of them sits outside my bedroom at night? You know what he carries in that box: the codes. The codes by which I, Jordan Lyman, can give the orders sending us into a nuclear war. Instead of my blood pressure, Horace should worry about my sanity.

  • Bar Girl : You want to dance?

    Senator Raymond Clark : No, thank you, honey. I just had a hernia operation.

  • Senator Raymond Clark : Jordy Boy, right now, short of a Confederate miracle, you're going to be walking in a parade with both your legs cut off. But I'm not going to make matters worse by getting drunk on the job.

  • Senator Raymond Clark : 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, tipping right and left and ready to fall off and break up on the pavement. There are just a handful of men who can prevent that. And you're one of them.

  • Senator Raymond Clark : You stay put right here... I'm going to phone the White House. Tell you what, friend: when this is over you can take off your girdle and have yourself a real good cry. Say, uh, you got a dime to stop a revolution with?

  • Senator Raymond Clark : I presume, General, that an alternative to the treaty that would meet with your approval would be continuing to build bombs. Bigger bombs, better bombs, more bombs. Until at some given instant, a trigger-happy idiot presses the button and we all go down the drain waving the American flag!

  • Senator Raymond Clark : I think you should see this Miss Holbrook. If she's got something on Scott, we want it. There are all sorts of ways of protecting the President of the United States.

  • [Watching the bar girl rummage through her huge purse] 

    Senator Raymond Clark : Do you rent space in that thing?

  • Senator Raymond Clark : Mr. Secretary, you saw Scott's performance on television last night. That was no apolitical military officer. That was a dedicated politician.

    Christopher Todd : We've always known that, Senator; but, that's no proof of this military junta you're suggesting.

  • Colonel William "Mutt" Henderson : I hope you'll be comfortable. Could I get you a drink?

    Senator Raymond Clark : Those part of your orders, Colonel?

    Colonel William "Mutt" Henderson : I don't understand, sir.

    Senator Raymond Clark : To get me snoggered?

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